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| Topic | AOC to Endorse Bernie Sanders for POTUS |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/16/19 1:40:07 PM #70 | Balrog0 posted... Omar has officially endorsed Sanders I'm not surprised she's holding back, for a number of reasons, the biggest probably being what you stated: she has her eyes on Warren's Senate seat and doesn't want to alienate her(or the Mass Democratic Party) by endorsing an out-of-state Senator. It also bears mentioning Rep. Pressley is more conventional on Israel than the rest of The Squad and was a relatively conventional Democratic politician until she sought the endorsement of the Justice Democrats for her primary challenge of a conventionally-progressive incumbent. |
| Topic | Can we talk about Joe Biden making up new words during last nights debate |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/16/19 1:28:06 PM #12 | FursonaNonGrata posted... https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/1182476097033781248?lang=en Wow, that's like, a hot-take from the 4th-century. |
| Topic | Can we talk about Joe Biden making up new words during last nights debate |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/16/19 11:58:49 AM #2 | But, CNN told me he had a great night! |
| Topic | Pelosi Won't Hold House Vote on Impeachment |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/16/19 11:47:50 AM #24 | Good. The worst thing they could do is rush a vote. Mitch is just going to punt it anyway: make him punt a mountain of dirt closer to election, let the polling trends continue and see if any of the softer Republican Senators get antsy. Continue crushing Susan Collins and Corey Gardner between a rock and a hard place. |
| Topic | Post Boss Music here |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/16/19 9:28:37 AM #111 |  Apparently, it's in 7/4 time, which is unusual. But then, so is a brain in a jar that shoots lasers. |
| Topic | AOC to Endorse Bernie Sanders for POTUS |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/15/19 11:30:34 PM #23 | muchdran posted... The 4 horsewoman of the apocalypse. Sure, if the Twilight Zone twist is that they were sent to save us from the apocalypse. Oh, I learned this today: Ilhan Omar is nicknamed Half-life by her family because shes ridiculously tiny. |
| Topic | CNN has confirmed: The BUTT and KLOBU KLOB has won the DNC debate tonight! |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/15/19 11:27:34 PM #4 | I guess Amy Klobuchar is an avatar of Midwestern America to the punditocracy(mostly because shes white, superficially folksy, and is centrist all the way down.) Mayor Pete is easier to understand: hes their platonic ideal of a smart person(even more so than Warren). |
| Topic | AOC to Endorse Bernie Sanders for POTUS |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/15/19 11:15:10 PM #8 | The rumor is that Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib will as well. The former is particularly unsurprising, as she's partnered with Sen. Sanders on a lot of his legislative proposals. |
| Topic | Debate Topic 10/15 on CNN |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/15/19 11:08:38 PM #154 | Antifar posted... Mostly I'm pissed that that was the final question. Motherfucking three people expressed respect for John McCain. I'm disappointed Bernie did, when he could have named Ross Perot: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/ross-perot-excalibur-sword-bernie-sanders.html I mean, c'mon, he gave Bernie a sword. |
| Topic | Florida Man sees porn star at Dolphins Stadium and calls her a fucking w****. |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/15/19 11:02:54 AM #27 | eston posted... iPhone_7 posted...Guy was an a-hole. Yeah, there are way shadier and more annoying things happening at your typical football game than that. Also, you generally shouldn't shout at people in public, let alone to demean them. |
| Topic | Columbus Day vs Indigenous people's day |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/14/19 11:19:36 PM #7 | IShall_Run_Amok posted... I like the indigenous people better. They actually lived here. Yeah, they weren't total jerks. Well, at least, not to the same extent as Columbus. If we *have* to celebrate a foreigner, Bartolome de las Casas would be a way better one. |
| Topic | This Media Bias Chart is Art |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/14/19 11:07:40 PM #22 | shockthemonkey posted... lmfao @ Jacobin being in the same column as MSNBC, CNN, and NYT You heard it here first: the New York Times opinion section(featuring David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, and Bretbug Stevens), CNN, MSNBC, Mother Jones, Huffington Post, *and* the Jacobin are the same. No differences at all! Part of the problem is that their rating system is far too simplistic to be of any value. Another issue: where do you draw the line between reporting and opinion for a given news website? Because they're both produced by the same organization. Because this "chart" treats these separate components of a given news site as existing in a vacuum entirely separate from each other, and that is...puzzling, to say the least. |
| Topic | This Media Bias Chart is Art |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/14/19 5:06:50 PM #1 | https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EG3GLvnXYAANQ6g?format=jpg&name=medium This organization is run by a dude named John Gable, a former Republican operative who worked for George H.W. Bush, Sen. Mitch McConnell, and the Republican National Committee. I think my favorite part is that he considers the New York Times opinion section to be "extreme left-wing". |
| Topic | Tulsi Gabbard will not be boycotting tomorrow's debate |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/14/19 3:36:19 PM #12 | Antifar posted... Just thinking about how bad this 12 person debate is gonna be I'm sure we'll rehash Medicare for All again, which will be a bunch no-hopers trying to suicide bomb it while Bernie gets thirty seconds to respond and Warren suddenly remembering she likes it because she's on national television. Then they'll ignore Bernie for the next hour while Biden flubs soft-balls and Tom Steyer gets a bunch of time because the moderators inexplicably love him and think he brings an important perspective to the table. The only intrigue is how many people will go after Warren and how badly they screw it up. I bet Kamala will try, but she'll fail because Warren isn't senile. |
| Topic | Tulsi Gabbard will not be boycotting tomorrow's debate |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/14/19 2:54:07 PM #9 | What a shame. |
| Topic | Tulsi WILL be attending the debate. |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/14/19 12:14:46 PM #2 | Bestoffuture posted... https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/10/14/dem-debate-tulsi-gabbard-attend-after-considering-protest/3973563002/ Honestly, that would have been best for everyone involved. |
| Topic | ABC broadcasts Syria bombing footage that's actually from Kentucky |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/14/19 12:13:38 PM #9 | Pathetic. |
| Topic | Is the thirst equal in women as in men? |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/14/19 11:35:51 AM #7 | Women are plenty thirsty, they just have to be more cautious, generally speaking. |
| Topic | Republican Dad gets really offended when I don't wanna watch Fox. |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/13/19 10:26:30 PM #9 | sabin017 posted... All of cable news is a dumpster fire. |
| Topic | I'm watching House's Head and Wilson's Heart |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/13/19 9:40:13 PM #5 | That one-two punch is great television and definitely the shows finest (two) hour(s). Im fond of Last Temptation, myself. |
| Topic | NBC News chief Andy Lack preyed on female employees for sex |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/12/19 4:15:57 PM #8 | Godnorgosh posted... Ironic, because he's the one who sent out the memo for Matt Lauer's termination. He also helped quash Ronan Farrows investigation of Harvey Weinstein, IIRC. (Farrow, to his credit, brought the story to the New Yorker, which handled it appropriately) |
| Topic | Are leftists gonna call Andrew Gillium a loser for failing to win purple Florida |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/10/19 8:22:17 PM #19 | CruelBuffalo posted... ElatedVenusaur posted...Gillum is fine and was sunk in part because Nelson apparently barely campaigned at all(and probably some of what he did was counter-productive). Name recognition? Racism? I thought you liked him? |
| Topic | Are leftists gonna call Andrew Gillium a loser for failing to win purple Florida |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/10/19 8:12:05 PM #16 | Gillum is fine and was sunk in part because Nelson apparently barely campaigned at all(and probably some of what he did was counter-productive). The Florida Democratic Party is apparently a real horror show, or so I've heard. |
| Topic | 'Hundreds' of young trans people seeking help to return to their original sex |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/10/19 6:59:51 PM #13 | So, what fraction of a percent is that? |
| Topic | Imagine being Regigigas |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/10/19 4:22:05 PM #12 | Orochi_ posted... Skill Swap Huge Power You could only do that in Doubles, because Regigigas can't mitigate its ability itself. You're still gambling that you can safely pull that off and that Regigigas won't get phazed or burned or killed. |
| Topic | All this climate change/environmental activism seems hopeless |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/10/19 3:08:05 PM #2 | I'm sure they'll all just wake up some day and decide to save the planet if we just wait patiently. Certainly there has never been a successful movement ever. |
| Topic | Weird how China became communist again |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/10/19 9:25:47 AM #34 | It's impossible to say what Lenin would think, but he also wanted to be cremated and lamented the increasingly authoritarian nature of the Soviet Union on his death bed(granted, he had a hand in that). And his economic policies were very different from what ultimately became the norm for communist countries. |
| Topic | Elizabeth Warren will not being doing big-money fundraising if nominated. |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/10/19 9:19:56 AM #33 | https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/blog/meet-press-blog-latest-news-analysis-data-driving-political-discussion-n988541/ncrd1064346 Well, the hair-splitting has already begun: she'll still do big money fundraisers, but only for the DNC. |
| Topic | Omg. I just had a "middle-eastern" / "Mexican" fusion place |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/09/19 8:24:20 PM #15 | 16-BITTER posted... Two great food cultures join forces to bring you the ultimate in diarrhea A price well worth paying. |
| Topic | Omg. I just had a "middle-eastern" / "Mexican" fusion place |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/09/19 8:20:36 PM #11 | That sounds like a really cool fusion. |
| Topic | Elizabeth Warren will not being doing big-money fundraising if nominated. |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/09/19 8:19:55 PM #31 | Onions are fine for me(well, not raw), but cilantro tastes like some awful sour soap and it blows. Unrelated, but dill tastes even worse to me. Like, I can tolerate a small amount of cilantro, but dill just ruins anything and everything in even trace amounts. In any case, I'm glad Sen. Warren has come around, and hope she adheres to the spirit and text of her pledge. It's worth noting that Bernie was always in the right position. |
| Topic | Someone (Warren) is ahead of Biden in aggregated polls for the first time |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/09/19 8:17:05 PM #8 | Balrog0 posted... of course this means that the centrist hovering around 2-4 percent have a strong incentive to go after her in the next debate It'll be interesting to see how she handles it, considering how nice everyone's been to her so far. |
| Topic | At least we can't have a presidential successor worse than Trump |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/08/19 3:11:41 PM #18 | Guide posted... DevsBro posted...That's what we thought with Clinton, Bush 2 and Obama. I mean, he was better than what came before and what came after, but that's about as low a bar as there is. |
| Topic | Communist China gets Hearthstone player banned for a year for Liberation of HK |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/08/19 3:02:53 PM #30 | Wewillrocku posted... not sure what your obsession with communism is but this debate is kind of an old one. people are beginning to see that you don't need to be communist just to avoid being an imperialist war machine. I think the biggest takeaways from the last century are: 1) Authoritarianism never works, no matter what ideology animates it. 2) Imperialism can be perpetrated by all states(even if some are bigger offenders than others) 3) Corporations will gladly aid and abet censorship and authoritarian regimes if it is profitable for them to do so. |
| Topic | The Hill goes off on China-Hunter Biden Scandal with the facts of the case. |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/08/19 11:42:48 AM #10 | I wouldn't mind firing Biden into the sun too, TBH. |
| Topic | Communist China gets Hearthstone player banned for a year for Liberation of HK |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/08/19 11:41:40 AM #2 | Weird how you want to talk about the PRC and not the corporation carrying water for it. |
| Topic | White House announces that Turkey will be invading Northern Syria |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/08/19 12:54:32 AM #42 | https://jacobinmag.com/2019/08/kurdish-freedom-struggle-joey-lawrence-portraits Here's a neat photo series. |
| Topic | White House announces that Turkey will be invading Northern Syria |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/07/19 11:09:42 AM #37 | treewojima posted... US forces in the area are literally the only thing preventing Turkish forces from pushing into the area and "wiping out the last remnants of ISIS", aka Kurdish forces and any civilians in the area that are historically viewed as parasites and rabble rousing separatists by ethnic Turks All while the thousands of actual ex-ISIS members escape from Rojavan jails in the chaos. |
| Topic | Jared Leto tried so hard to be a good Joker lol |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/06/19 7:09:38 PM #10 | jackgunney posted... I thin he tried hard with the shit lines he was given and the terrible character design made FOR him. About the only scene I liked with him was when his helicopter is going down in flames and he says, "This is bird is cooked", like your helicopter crashing is just a minor inconvenience. What did that movie have against helicopters, anyways? |
| Topic | NFL Week 5 |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/06/19 6:48:04 PM #22 | Josh Allen completed 71.9% of his passes and they finally put Zay Jones on the bench. Wonderful. |
| Topic | Post Boss Music here |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/06/19 6:44:52 PM #77 |  They, umm, they certainly chose the right Pokemon to feature in the graphic with Cynthia. |
| Topic | Would you date a girl who is bipolar? |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/06/19 2:38:00 PM #38 | As long as she had the condition under control with therapy and any necessary meds. |
| Topic | most BORING sport to watch? |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/06/19 12:59:04 PM #17 | Southernfatman posted... How can anyone pick anything other than golf? They have an axe to grind. NFL football game flow is becoming increasingly compromised, because the NFLs thirst for ad money is unslakeable and its ability to draw up clear rules that are enforced in a roughly uniform manner is virtually nonexistent. The actual game is even more dynamic now though. |
| Topic | NFL Week 5 |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/06/19 11:14:49 AM #2 | Josh Allen has cleared the concussion protocol and will probably play 2-3 bad quarters and 1-2 good-to-great quarters, but one of those good quarters is always the 4th, so I feel good. The defense should be able to handle the Titans offense all day. They are; however, still the Bills, so losing in some predictable or insanely implausible fashion is always in the cards. They could beat the Patriots and lose to the Dolphins. |
| Topic | Just say you are the villain and just demolished the hero publicly |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/05/19 11:14:07 PM #12 | You gotta monologue. If you're smart, you already have everything tied up, Ozymandias-style, you've earned that satisfying self-indulgent monologue. Gotta treat yourself! |
| Topic | Tostitos : Hint of Lime |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/05/19 10:20:38 PM #13 | fenderbender321 posted... Dip them in that tostitos nacho cheese dip they sell right by the chips. It's like crack mixed with meth. The chemicals they put in that weird gooey sludge must be addictive, because I love that stuff. |
| Topic | Blue shells are horrible game design and that's a fact. |
| ElatedVenusaur 10/05/19 9:55:31 PM #14 | The biggest problem is that they often crop-up for players who wont be able to take advantage of them: they prioritize punishing first place over helping those trailing. Blue shells wouldnt be half-bad if the only cropped up for players in places 2-5, had a large AOE(including while in transit!), and werent anymore punishing than a red shell. They would then be agents of chaos without being uniquely punishing to first-place. |
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