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Caution999 posted...

I mean, Hillary did say most Trump supporters were a basket of deplorables ;)

Do you think she should have been PC about that and hidden her true feelings? I think it's good that she spoke her mind.
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Wow, getting fired for political views? Smh, whatever happened to free speech?
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This is a middle aged dad sports take
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leviamon2 posted...

moving 4.5 million people is hard.

At least the history of forced relocations is very good and effective.
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Is that a thing people are looking forward to?
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>implying Antifar isn't just one of Vegy's alts
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Richest people in the world:
The guy who made the program all our PCs run on
The guy who made the place we all buy everything from
The guy who, uh...what does Ripple do?
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Do you think this reflects worse on global warming believers or those who oppose "big government?"
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masticatingman posted...

his 7th and 8th are better objectively.

I do really like the 8th
https://www.youtube.com/embed/zfP29uN33L8

The 7th is dark in a way I haven't come to appreciate just yet
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I can't, obviously
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Like, I'm a few feet behind him and it sure looked like a woman in a red thong with redness/bruises from spanking

My mom is here washing dishes; I know it didn't come from her.
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Antifar posted...

TRUMP: Its the biggest turnaround. West Virginia, their average, their G.D.P. is the biggest turnaround after Texas. Texas [inaudible]. The second percentage gain in G.D.P. [Inaudible.] And I won that state by 43 points against crooked Hillary Clinton. And Ill tell you, I think Joe, ah. I think theres a lot of talk. A lot of talk. I think we have four or five senators that [inaudible]. Just so you understand, Alabama. I wasnt for him. I was for Strange.

His ability to finish thoughts is great, believe me
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Should the media be equally kind to people who are unequally deserving of it?
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I can't imagine why a teenage girl wouldn't accuse the DA of sexual assault in the South in 1978
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I know this is a thing some CEfolks believe, but I'm curious as to what the mechanism is that helps people?
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Leviamon posted...

Bill Kristol is trash too you know.

Oh absolutely. But it was a different brand of trash, not this wink-wink "I'm not really a Nazi" bullshit.
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I fear we'll be seeing this more often. There's also that NH lawmaker who is behind the literal red pill subreddit. 4chan is responsible for more Republicans under 30 than, like, Bill Kristol or whoever the conservative intellectuals are.
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We're gonna be saying "my wife" in the Borat voice again. Folks, it's gonna be great
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I use dialectical materialism to figure out what happened
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7 words: Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet Band
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bumpo
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This topic is not helping with my difficulty telling OP and poster #7 apart.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

It sure didn't take long for Democrats to go from cataclysmic epic embarrassment to smug overconfidence.

*Looks at the president*
Why not both?
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This is Bill Koch's son
https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/943368771988795392
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I would like to thank Trump for ridding us of the scourge of political correctness. Finally, people are speaking what's on their minds, like "the president drinks water the same way a raccoon eats garbage" without fear of being harassed and bullied into silence.
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CE 90% of the time: whoa now we can't go around believing every woman who accuses a man of rape! Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
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*people point out that it is not true*
"Okay, but you have to admit it's gotten pretty bad when I could even take this seriously."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/17/donald-trump-epa-mining-pollution-rules?CMP=share_btn_tw

When the Zortman Landusky gold and silver mine, located upstream from Montanas enormous Fort Belknap reservation, went bankrupt in 1998, the cost of the cleanup fell on the US taxpayer. The costs keep growing.

Toxic pollution from the Zortman Landusky mine has contaminated nearly a dozen streams in the Little Rocky mountains and harmed the Assiniboine and Gros Ventre tribes that live downstream, Bonnie Gestring, a staffer with Earthworks, a member of the Western Mining Action Network, said.

In order to stop future such abuses, the Obama administration moved to require hard rock mining operations to prove they had the financial means to clean up future pollution. The rule, published just three days after Obama left office, was meant to aid cash-strapped Superfund cleanups of areas contaminated by hazardous waste and was aimed at an industry with a long history of polluting streams and groundwater and leaving taxpayers to foot the cleanup bill.

Now the Trump administration cheered by mining firms has moved to transfer the cost of cleaning up back to federal and state agencies.

Last week Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, dropped the Obama-era rule, claiming modern mining practices, as well as other state and federal requirements, made the financial responsibility rule superfluous. Additional financial assurance requirements are unnecessary and would impose an undue burden on this important sector of the American economy and rural America, where most of these mining jobs are based, he said.

The move was lauded by the Western Governors Association which said states already had financial responsibility requirements in place and received support from the governors of Arizona, Idaho and Nevada and from the National Mining Association.

Critics of the rule reversal, including a host of community and state-level activist groups, are adamant that the move has left taxpayers wide open to exploitation.

The draft rule, which was issued in December 2016, clearly documented that toxic and hazardous releases continue to occur, despite current mining practices, Gestring said. The Trump administration simply chose to ignore that data in making its decision to abandon these taxpayer protection regulations for mining.

Elimination of the rule is a big about-face for the federal government, which had before Donald Trump took office expressed alarm that funding for the cleanup of contaminated sites had outstripped the cost of cleanup.

The Western Organization of Resource Councils has been pushing for mining law reform for years because, it says, when money for cleanup isnt available from mining companies, the taxpayer-funded EPA assumes financial responsibility. But if Trump gets his way, the agency will have its budget cut by about $2.5bn for fiscal year 2018, leaving fewer resources available for oversight and cleanup should the unforeseen occur.

These rules are essential because the liabilities covered by the EPA program such as spills, natural resource damages and health risk assessments are generally not covered by other state and federal land management financial assurance programs, Gestring said. Pruitts decision has nothing to do with toxic cleanup and everything to do with his industry-first agenda. It makes a mockery of Pruitts pledged prioritization of Superfund.

Reform of hard rock mining regulation most of which was set by a bill signed into law by President Ulysses Grant, in 1872, and has remained unchanged since then has for years been an uphill battle.

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Aristoph posted...

Considering the party currently in power does everything it possibly can to deny facts and evidence at every conceivable moment, no, it doesn't teach us anything. Or rather, it teaches intelligent people a lot, but those aren't the ones who can actually do anything because they're the minority and stupidity always breeds stupidity, so it's an uphill battle to get the intelligent ones in charge.

The Republicans in power aren't stupid; they have entirely different goals and desires, aims which are opposed to the goals and desires of most.
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ollie89 posted...

There are tons and tons of studies (non-partisan ones) that show that trickle down economics does not work.

Depends on how you define working
if "working" means "materially improving the lives of a majority of people" then no, it does not work.
if "working" means "making rich people richer," then trickle-down is a tremendous success.
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Back?
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You wouldn't mind if southern states had more power to oppress groups you claim to care about?

Gotta say, that's not my view.
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person

Note: I expect this to be too long for most CE folks to do more than skim, but maybe you'll surprise me.
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If someone has a second home, is it unethical to stay in the one they aren't using?
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How do you react?
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...why did he suspect the guy stole a tomato?
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Giblet_Enjoyer posted...

TIL only democrats think that they're right

Personally, I think all my beliefs are wrong.
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Giving your benefit of the doubt to Roy Moore seems like a mistake to me, IMO.
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Antifar posted...

Recommend some symphonies, guys

Tchaikovsky's 6th
Brahms' 2nd
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We need to take a Great Leap Forward in how we treat women
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

Forlorn_Ass posted...

On Coinbase what is the difference between using your credit bard vs linking your bank account?

credit card = higher fees but instant access
bank account - slower fees but slower access

But let's say you purchase $100.00 right now but it takes 4 days to transfer. Do gain the value if it increased during that 4 days?

Yes. You just can't sell it within that frame
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yoshifan1 posted...

A Christian extremist

Are we still talking about Donald Trump?
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usually when it crosses a threshold like that it drops back down a few hundred the next day. Sell some now, buy it again after it drops
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"Yo Donald, it's your cousin, Marvin Trump! You know that new sound you've been looking for? Well listen to this!"
*holds phone up to Bernie Sanders speech*
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BLAKUboy posted...

Are we winning yet? I was told there would be winning.

Depends on how you define "we".
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Antifar posted...

He works in law enforcement,

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Pepys Monster posted...

What do you expect when you have kids who barely made it through high school putting on masks, calling themselves "Antifa," and trying to fight supposed "fascists," which are really just anyone who isn't all the way to the left of the political spectrum?

Do you think increasing the concentration of wealth might produce more people with those views?
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https://twitter.com/Halalcoholism/status/937166753100001280
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