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Dana Loesch: The media loves mass shootings
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/966685826242539520

Wayne LaPierre: The Democratic Party is infested with saboteurs who hate America
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/966691798361010176

Wayne LaPierre: socialists like Cory Booker and Andrew Cuomo have taken over the Democratic Party
https://twitter.com/jeneps/statuses/966693338568183809

Dan Schneider has opinions on socialism
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/966680178683457537
(guessing it's a different Dan Schneider)
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[Citation needed]
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Classes canceled tomorrow
https://twitter.com/NewsroomJake/status/966477697449897984
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An increase in teacher suicides are probably the most likely outcome here.
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http://buffalonews.com/2018/02/21/how-tops-debt-grew-and-grew-and-grew/

This story doesn't go into too much detail, but I'm reminded of these stories on similar tactics in retail

https://www.wsj.com/articles/creditors-put-toys-r-us-debt-under-microscope-1512685210

The creditors are investigating whether any transactions could be cause for any claims against the company, court papers show. The creditors also said that while Toys R Us has already provided some of the requested information and documents and made two executives available for two hours to answer questions, they are still waiting on a substantial number of key documents.

Between 2013 and 2017, Toys R Us went through a number of intercompany debt transactions, including several 2016 transactions in which the company created at least five new entities, transferring equity interests from one to the other and issuing nearly $583 million of new debt.

The creditors also said in court papers they planned to investigate the many fees Toys R Us paid to its private-equity owners, which were well in excess of $100 million for advisory services, transaction fees, and lease payments in the five years before the bankruptcy filing.
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The chapter 11 filings of other private-equity-backed retailers this year, including Payless ShoeSource Inc. and True Religion Apparel Inc., have cast a spotlight on the role that leveraged buyouts have played in accelerating the distress of these companies, as debt-servicing payments, fees paid to owners and dividend recapitalizations siphon off cash.

http://www.businessinsider.com/brick-and-mortar-retail-private-equity-debt-financing-lbo-2017-8

Nearly every retail chain caught up in the brick & mortar meltdown is an LBO queen - acquired in a leveraged buyout by a private equity firm either during the LBO boom before the Financial Crisis or in the years of ultra-cheap money following it. During a leveraged buyout, the PE firm uses little of its own capital. Much of the money needed to buy the retailer comes from debt the retailer itself has to issue to fund the buyout, which leaves the retailer highly leveraged.

The PE firm then makes the retailer issue even more junk bonds or leveraged loans to fund a special dividend back to the PE firm. Come hell or high water, the PE firm has extracted its money.

Then the PE firm charges the retailer hefty management fees on an ongoing basis.

This form of asset stripping removes cash from the retailer and leaves it struggling under a load of debt. It works wonderfully until it doesn't - until booming online sales started eating their lunch, sending these overleveraged retailers, one after the other, into bankruptcy court, where creditors learn what it means to end up holding the bag.

Since 2010, retail chains owned by PE firms have issued $91 billion in junk bonds and leveraged loans just to raise the money for the special dividends paid to their PE owners, according to data by LCD of S&P Global Market Intelligence, cited by the Wall Street Journal. This does not include debt piled on retailers during the LBO itself. And it does not include drug stores and food retailers - such as PE-firm-owned Safeway-Albertsons, caught up in the middle of the meltdown.

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Capn Circus posted...

Sorry you hate me so much.

There are things you could do to receive less criticism from me.
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Kazi1212 posted...

CruelBuffalo posted...

Kazi1212 posted...

Look at all these people upset because Trump wanted to meet with the families affected by this awful tragedy. CEs main take away was TC was mistaken about his claim Obama didnt meet the families, so lets all turn this into a topic where we can all pounce on the TC. And they say they actually care about victims more than their hate for Trump

Glad you see TC was full of it

I dont care if the TC is full of it. The fact is TC made a topic about something good Trump did for the victims of this tragedy and you guys are making it more about how wrong one of TCs claims is. But hey, if you care more about proving someone wrong instead of caring more about empathizing with the victims go for it

If he's going to make a false claim, he's going to be criticized for it. This topic isn't a fucking safe space.
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Capn Circus posted...

But it pales in comparison to Trump inviting families of victims and survivors to the White House to hear them speak specifically on the recent attack.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/04/08/obama-sandy-hook-air-force-one/2063331/
http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-sandy-hook-shooting-victims-photos-2012-12
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/26/the-presidents-devotional_n_4158485.html
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-brown-declares-state-of-emergency-in-san-bernardino-20151218-story.html
https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/16/politics/obama-visit-orlando-shooting/index.html

Stop posting.
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https://www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/politics/obama-executive-action-gun-control-town-hall/index.html
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1. It is not
2. people have decided that mistreatment of women is a more serious issue than they once viewed it as. That's not some hypocrisy, it is changing values.
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Anteaterking posted...

r4X0r posted...

Takes only a brief glance at the sampling data to figure out this poll is fake news.

https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us02202018_demos_ugbw51.pdf/

PARTY IDENTIFICATION QUESTION WORDING - Generally speaking, do you consider yourself a
Republican, a Democrat, an Independent, or what?
REGISTERED VOTERS
PARTY IDENTIFICATION
Republican 22%
Democrat 33
Independent 39
Other/DK/NA 6

They polled 22% Republicans and 33% Democrats. This is called "oversampling" and it was a big subject when the Democrats got caught doing it after the John Podesta email dump from WikiLeaks. If you want a poll that shows the Democrats winning, no problem, just don't poll as many Republicans. The results do not show the Democrats leading the race for Congress. It shows that among this group of 1,249 people which in no way reflect the American public at large, the Democrats are leading the race for Congress.

Since this came up 100 times during the election season, I think it's worth stating again that you don't quota sample with the parameter that you're trying to test. You're just assuming your conclusion.

What's more: there's a general trend of fewer people are identifying as Republicans
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-scaring-voters-republican-affiliation-dips-year-election-poll-730604
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/12/11/a-lot-of-americans-spent-2017-bailing-on-the-republican-party/
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I read the title as bias and was gonna go on this big rant
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https://twitter.com/blagojevism/status/966384833705529349

Happy black history month, folks
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Now realizing I forgot to include it on that big racetrack chart
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This stuff is crossing a line: https://twitter.com/WamsuttaLives/status/966337964312809473
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/374812-texas-school-district-threatens-to-suspend-students-who-protest

A superintendent in a Texas school district is warning that students will be suspended if they cause any disruptions to protest gun violence.

Needville Independent School District (ISD) Superintendent Curtis Rhodes said in a letter that was sent to families and posted on social media that students would be suspended for three days if they took part in the protests happening following the deadly Florida high school shooting, The Houston Chronicle reported.

In the statement, Rhodes said that Needville ISD is "very sensitive" to violence in schools.

"Please be advised that the Needville ISD will not allow a student demonstration during school hours for any type of protest or awareness!!" Rhodes said.

"Should students choose to do so, they will be suspended from school for 3 days and face all the consequences that come along with an out of school suspension."

Life is about choices, Rhodes said, adding that "every choice has a consequence whether it be positive or negative."

"We will discipline no matter if it is one, fifty, or five hundred students involved," the statement said.

"All will be suspended for 3 days and parent notes will not alleviate the discipline."

He said a school is a place to learn and grow "educationally, emotionally and morally" and pledged that the school district would not tolerate disruptions.

"Respect yourself, your fellow students and the Needville Independent School District and please understand that we are here for an education and not a political protest," the statement said.

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No.
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Very_Unreliable posted...

Look how angry they are at the suggestion...

Sometimes when everyone says you're wrong, it's just because you're wrong and not proof of some broad conspiracy against you.
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Arm the Chicago Teacher's Union
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r4X0r posted...

Conflict posted...

Trump's disastrous run seems to be ensuring that won't happen. Repubs are losing in historically red states like f'ing Alabama lol. You tried tho

A Democrat only narrowly beat an unrepentant pedophile. That's how undesirable the Democrats are there.

This is a weird argument to make in defense of a guy who got fewer votes than Hillary Clinton
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Bump
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The Admiral posted...

A batting average in baseball is not predictive, so the comparison is horrendous. Actual chance of a hit in any particular at-bat is highly situational.

Right; it's a bit different. It'd be equivalent to picking a past at-bat at random, and not a future one.
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You know this is CE, right?
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KingCrabCake posted...

But thats horrible in basketball. Such a bad analogy

Yes, in basketball you would want a player who shoots better than .286 from the floor. But that player would still be hitting more than one out of every four shots. Better than I could do. Kobe shot .250 in Game 7 against the Celtics in 2010.

In football, you would want a QB with better than 28.6% completion. But the probability is the exact same.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/durham-confederate-monument-charges-dismissed/553808/

Let me be clear, no one is getting away with what happened.

That was Durham County Sheriff Mike Andrewss warning on August 15, 2017. The day before, a protest had formed on the lawn outside the county offices in an old courthouse. In more or less broad daylight, some demonstrators had leaned a ladder against the plinth, reading, In memory of the boys who wore the gray, and looped a strap around it. Then the crowd pulled down the statue, and it crumpled cheaply on the grass. It was a brazen act, witnessed by dozens of people, some of them filming on cell phones.

Andrews was wrong. On Tuesday, a day after a judge dismissed charges against two defendants and acquitted a third, Durham County District Attorney Roger Echols announced the state was in effect surrendering, dismissing charges against six other defendants.

Acts of vandalism, regardless of noble intent, are still a violation of the law, Echols said during a brief news conference at the county courthouse. But he said the unfavorable decisions on Monday made clear the state would not be successful. For my office to continue to take these cases to trial based on the same evidence would be a misuse of state resources. Additional trials had been scheduled for April 2.

As a legal matter, these dismissals reflect the specifics of this case, especially the shockingly weak case brought by the Durham County Sheriffs Office and the DAs office. As a political matter, their effect could be wider. Actors on all sides portrayed the Durham case as an important one. Activists viewed the destruction of the statue as a blow against white supremacy and the hundreds of monuments that dot the country, paying tribute to a rebellion that sought to preserve the enslavement of African Americans. Their opponentsincluding President Trumpargued that the monuments represented a piece of history, and warned that allowing such destruction would sanction anarchy. The failure of the attempt to prosecute the guerrilla action in Durham shows how activists maintaining a united front can stare down a government divided over the proper approach to the controversial matter of Confederate monumentsand it may offer encouragement to activists elsewhere in the country, including in places where government cannot or will not act, to take monument removal into their own hands.

The destruction of the statue in Durham came two days after violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, left one dead, and it helped galvanize the effort to tear down Confederate monuments and statues across the country.
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When I spoke to Qasima Wideman, one of the erstwhile defendants, Tuesday evening, she was still in disbelief. She said she was proud of what the movement had done.

After the events of Charlottesville a lot of us were feeling like we were beat, she said. People were physically beaten, and murdered, in Charlottesville. Folks felt like the brave people of color and their allies who were on the right side of history were outnumbered. That was a really scary idea to entertain. This victory proves that thats not true.

Outside of court, protesters never seriously denied taking down the statue. Doing so would have been absurd, given the widespread coverage. Instead, they argued that they were following a higher law.

I did the right thing, Takiyah Thompson said the day after the protest, minutes before she was arrested. Everyone who was therethe people did the right thing. The people will continue to keep making the right choices until every Confederate statue is gone, until white supremacy is gone. That statue is where it belongs. It needs to be in the garbage.

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voldothegr8 posted...

LOL why are liberals trying to compare poll results with baseball stats?

The projections made by 538 and outlets like NYT and Huffpo are not poll results; they're based on formulas that take aggregated poll results into account.

A poll =/= a polling average =/= a projection

Probability is probability. FiveThirtyEight gave Trump a 28.6% chance of winning, which is equivalent to a .286 hitter's chance of getting a hit in any given at bat. It's about 2 in 7
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https://twitter.com/samknight_one/status/966345505553965056
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voldothegr8 posted...

Genocet_10-325 posted...

voldothegr8 posted...

Remember when Hillary was 90% to win? LOL polls.

Hillary had a 2% lead in the polls and she won the popular vote by 2%

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/

.286 would be a very respectable batting average in baseball, only some sort of innumerate moron would pretend that player had no chance of getting a hit.
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The Republican opponent was the wife of the lawmaker who killed himself after being accused of sexually assaulting a 17 year old girl.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/21/587509178/kentucky-democrat-wins-special-election-to-reclaim-seat-after-lawmakers-suicide

The wife of Kentucky state Rep. Dan Johnson, who killed himself last year amid allegations of sexual assault, has lost a bid to succeed her late husband. The special election returned the seat to Linda Belcher, whom Dan Johnson had unseated.

Belcher the Democrat who lost to Johnson in a Trump wave that swept Republicans into office statewide in 2016 easily won the special election for Kentucky's 49th District. She garnered 68 percent of the vote to Rebecca Johnson's roughly 32 percent, member station WFPL reports.

Johnson's wife announced a day after his death that she would seek the state House seat.

According to The Hill, "The Kentucky district is the 18th formerly Republican-held district to fall into Democratic hands in a special election since Trump won election, a growing trend Democrats see as proof of their party's momentum heading into the midterm elections. In 2018 alone, Democrats have won Republican-held state legislative districts in Missouri, Wisconsin and Florida."

As we reported in December, Dan Johnson, 57, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on a bridge over the Salt River in Mount Washington. His suicide followed a report by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting outlining a number of accusations against him, the most serious of which was the alleged sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl in the basement of the church where he served as pastor. KyCIR is an initiative of Louisville Public Media, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation that operates three NPR member stations WUOL, WFPK and WFPL.

The day before Johnson took his own life, he spoke from the pulpit at his Heart of Fire Church in the Fern Creek neighborhood of Louisville to denounce the allegations, calling them "fake news." He blamed NPR by name, although the network neither investigated the initial story nor aired or published it.

The Associated Press notes: "Rebecca Johnson denied the allegations against Dan Johnson, claiming he was a victim of "an assault from the left." But the allegations were backed up by an on-the-record interview from the victim, plus pages of police documents that were published by [KyCIR] after months of reporting."

This is a district that voted 72% for Trump, though given the circumstances I don't think you can extrapolate this to other races. The incumbent had only won a narrow victory in 2016.
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voldothegr8 posted...

Remember when Hillary was 90% to win? LOL polls.

If I told you had a 90% chance of surviving the next 24 hours, would you take those odds?
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It's been good on the whole, despite that time I asked out a girl who then told me she had a girlfriend.
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*poop emoji*
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27_Sandman_40 posted...

So she allowed this to be posted making her look like an idiot?

Journalistic practice typically does not allow subjects oversight of whether a story goes up or not.
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Let's be clear: Russia did not make Americans incredibly stupid and prone to believing nonsense about shootings and their victims.
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prettyprincess posted...

this seems shitty

It does; their coverage seems out of proportion for what actually took place here
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Should be 500 topic.

Will be 30 at most.

You need a healthy argument for 500. Who's really gonna come in here to defend this?
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https://twitter.com/CNN/status/966134015337140229
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https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-finds-courts-nationwide-ordering-consumers-be-arrested-and-jailed-bidding-private-debt

In the first-ever report on the extent and impact of cooperation between courts and the private debt collection industry nationwide, the American Civil Liberties Union found courts in 26 states and Puerto Rico in which judges issued arrest warrants for alleged debtors at the request of private debt collectors.

This practice violates the many state and federal laws as well as international human rights standards that prohibit the jailing of debtors. It worsens their financial struggles by subjecting them to court appearances, arrest warrants that appear on background checks, and jail time that interfere with their wages, their jobs, their ability to find housing, and more.

The private debt collection industry uses prosecutors and judges as weapons against millions of Americans who cant afford to pay their bills, said Jennifer Turner, author of A Pound of Flesh: The Criminalization of Private Debt, and principal human rights researcher at the ACLU. Consumers have little chance of justice when our courts take the debt collectors side in almost every case even to the point of ordering people jailed until they pay up.

An estimated one in three adults in the United States has a debt that has been turned over to a private collection company, according to the Urban Institute. More than 6,000 of these companies operate in the U.S. At the bidding of the private debt collection industry, courts issue tens of thousands of arrest warrants every year when people dont appear in court to deal with unpaid civil debt judgments.

They had a warrant for my arrest and I asked them for what, he didnt say what it was for. He said, Hell tell you later, recalled Tracie Mozie of Dickinson, Texas. Two armed U.S. marshals had entered her bedroom in 2014 to arrest her for failing to appear in court over a $1,500 federal student loan she took out in 1986 to pay for truck driving school. The loan had grown to more than $13,000 with interest and fees, an amount Mozie cant afford because she is unemployed and subsists on disability benefits. She has a prosthetic leg that she wasnt wearing, but the marshals shackled her feet and waist after she put it on. She was jailed overnight. Im scared someone is going to come to my door and get me again.

A Pound of Flesh includes dozens of stories of people who, like Mozie, have been jailed or threatened with jail by the debt collection industry with help from prosecutors and judges, including:

A mother of three in Indiana was jailed for missing hearings over medical bills for her cancer treatment. She was physically unable to climb the stairs to the womens section of the jail, so she was held in a mens mental health unit.

A Georgia woman was arrested while caring for her terminally ill mother. A debt collection company had bought a 6-year-old rental debt her landlord claimed she owed after evicting her from her trailer home. She was jailed overnight. Her mother died two days later.

In Missouri, a single mother of a toddler took out a high-interest payday loan of $425. She wasnt able to pay it back, and the creditor sued. She didnt go to court and was arrested and jailed for three days.

The tyranny of the private debt collection industry causes financial ruin for people already struggling to make ends meet, and courts are willing to routinely violate peoples due process rights to do debt collectors dirty work, said Turner. Our courts have become mills for these companies, approving without evaluating scores of arrest warrants, wage garnishments, property seizures, default judgments, and other legal actions against consumers accused by debt collectors of owing money.

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https://twitter.com/RCPress_Sean/status/966336216315637761
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I for one am shocked to find that the guy whose recent involvement in politics began with spouting baseless accusations on Twitter would have a son who approves of spouting baseless accusations on Twitter.
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https://www.gtplanet.net/kunos-reveals-assetto-corsa-competizione-official-blancpain-gt-game-coming-summer/

It's a licensed game for the Blancpain GT Series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Blancpain_GT_Series

*shrug*
@Chill02
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