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He was probably combining something like "destroy Obamacare" with something like "fix the healthcare system"?
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/845386061949915142

Those priorities
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

More like invest it!
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Secret of Mana is pretty good, but it certainly can't carry a year!
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Pure spite? He pulled the ads that the government had already paid for this year.
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Something tells me this spin isn't going to play:
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/325707-trump-blames-democrats-for-obamacare-defeat

I am worried about the possibility of him undermining the ACA from within, though (gutting enforcement of the mandate, refusing to advertise sign ups, etc).
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Monster
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Maybe it's because it's a mobile link? Or because of your browser or something?

Basically they findthat upon informing people of the details of the AHCA (presumably a Dem biased explanation, but given how bad the bill is I doubt they had to spin much) they were able to decrease net approval by 33% (36% in districts Trump won!), even though uninformed approval of the bill was already pretty bad. They then further found that for districts with a Republican incumbent, this decreased those same people's support for reelecting them against a generic Dem challenger by a net of 13(!) points.
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Oh oops didn't realize there was another page and that had already been mentioned!
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

CaptainOfCrush posted...

I guess blood moons are pretty glitched? They definitely aren't supposed to be occurring that frequently.

I tried cooking during one last night and confirmed that food heals more. I didn't noticed a change in affects (like how long you get an attack bonus from a mighty food).

And I know we're all overpowered in this topic and don't need it, but I'm pretty sure the best food combo in the game is Durian + any meat. Durians are super plentiful in Faron, and a single Durian with one piece of beef/bird meat (regardless of quality), is an automatic Full Heal +4. Unless you're facing enemies that can one-shot you, you never even need to bother with defense boosting foods.

You can get the same thing by just cooking a durian by itself! They're easy to farm north of the Faron tower, too; they're basically my exclusive healing source.
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Anyway, in the US at least I think a defining aspect of "whiteness" is that you can, if you choose, generally go through life without considering your race to be a critical part of of your identity.
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I wouldn't consider you white

Santa looks white as f*** though
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Not sure how good/unbiased this polling is (performed by a Dem super PAC), but if it's anything close to accurate the GOP dodged a huge f***ing bullet here: https://mobile.twitter.com/gdebenedetti/status/845237041155772416
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Oh yeah I for sure would not trade the ACA for GOP political damage. That bill would be bad for everyone (for varying reasons).

Anyway, https://mobile.twitter.com/SenatorMenendez/status/845363015222542336
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Peace___Frog posted...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/697182075045179392


Not even two months old. Is it safe to say that he's pissed away a good chunk of whatever political clout he had?

2016 tweet, actually

transcience posted...

this is completely embarrassing but I doubt people will care that much in 2-3 months

Not sure that's quite true, but I agree in general that this dumpster fire of a bill failing is actually the least bad outcome for Trump/the GOP politically.
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Ana
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

I can't get past the fact that Ray is working as a defense attorney, but not in his client's interests. So bad.
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Oh man, FF5, DQ3-5, and ALttP? Stacked year for me! (Even though having 3 DQs here is just a quirk of your year rules I guess)
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

I knew Gregory wouldn't let me down...!
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Got my guardian armor set! Now to farm guardians to upgrade it.

Luckily I'm getting better with my reflection timing.
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

HaRRicH posted...

https://mobile.twitter.com/kwcollins/status/845037196142940160

A metaphor.

#finetunedmachine
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

He's f***ed either way with healthcare. The GOP made a deal with the devil by lying about the real reason for their opposition to the ACA for years and implying that they had a better idea. In the short term this benefitted them greatly, but now they have all the power, are out of excuses, and the time has come to pay the price.
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Yes
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Oh wow didn't know about the Roger/Rajah part
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Well, Trump doesn't actually care about healthcare policy at all (besides probably lowering taxes in himself I guess). He's looking at this bill purely in a political sense; he wants a "win" (though I don't think he appreciates that the victory would be pyrrhic once voters start getting hurt by it and turning on him).

I don't think he's really saying "well f*** it then" as much as he's just trying to go all in in order to force the HFC to vote for the bill.
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Enjoyed the topic, and I appreciate you compiling he relevant games!
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Sounds good to me!

(Unless it actually works in which case gross)
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

The pun for Retinz is indeed "ratings." While I was playing I couldn't figure it out, and thought it was supposed to be a play on "retina" because his camera is like an eye or... something

Also I'm like 98% sure his design was based on Johnny Depp
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

GTO
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

New CBO score is in for the AHCA:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/23/news/economy/obamacare-cbo-republican-bill/index.html

Still will lead to 24 million uninsured, but now cuts less than half as much debt as before
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Monster
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

The idea that the important thing to do here is to pass something, regardless of whether it's better or worse than Obamacare, just to deliver on a campaign promise is, frankly, disgusting. They're playing with peoples' lives.

(I'm sure some of them actually think the bill would be an improvement, but that's clearly not what's driving people like Trump who obviously doesn't care what's in the bill as long as it passes).
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BR_n0jwFkxP/

....what
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

The history of SMB2 is actually pretty interesting!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EUYSN5aFcE
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Welp, here's to hoping the AHCA crashes and burns in the House
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Tag
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Guess I was right about which of my noms would fall first! I think there were a few better tracks from Live a Live but I was too lazy to figure out which so I just went with the one I remembered.

Great obscure SNES RPG, though!
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

So I'm guessing that's referring to the Freedom Caucus's desire to get them to kill the ACA's requirements for what must be included in any heathcare plan. From what I understand this would likely not Be something that they can do through reconciliation, but pieces of s*** like Ted Cruz are calling for them to just ignore the Senate parliamentarian if she says that the bill violates the Byrd rule (which outlines what can be passed through reconciliation). This would be a f***ing terrible idea as it totally undermines the filibuster (if you can pass whatever you want by reconciliation then what's the point?)

It would also be hypocritical AS f*** given the bulls*** Republican talking points about how the ACA was "rammed through"
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Jakyl25 posted...

Okay, they showed up once out of the last 10 times.

Nah the incumbent party losing in the midterms is the long term trend. Exceptions: W in 02 (9/11), Clinton in 98 (impeachment charges that the public didn't buy), and I think one other post WW2 but I can't remember which atm.
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It's true though. Hillary used to act "authentically" back when Bill was governor and got raked over the coals for defying gender stereotypes. Things are somewhat different today (due, in part, to Hillary herself paving the way for women in politics), but if she did just "be herself" she still would have run into th double standard and be labeled "a b****" for being tough, "weak" for being emotional, etc etc.
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Jakyl25 posted...

On_The_Pence posted...

Anyway, Dems have the political ammunition to actually win in 2018. They have not indicated that they know how to use it this far, and therefore I predict they get smoked.

Win what? The House? The Senate? Neither of those is in play unless Republicans really, really keep failing at their current rate for another 18 months.

Obama lost like 60 seats in the Housr in 2010. That definitely could be in play if the Dems play their cards right, especially if the GOP ends up passing some dumpster fire healthcare bill (even more so if the conservatives get their way about kicking people off of Medicaid before the elections). I agree that the Senate is very unlikely due to the map.
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Objective reality isn't even a part of how Trump sees the world. He's truly a master of the craft of lying.

Or in the words of George Costanza: "remember Jerry, it's not a lie if you believe it."
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

I do think the Dems should avoid trying to bring the Russia stuff into unrelated issues (trying to use it as an excuse to delay the Gorsuch vote, for example, is a losing move). However, we absolutely need to ensure that Russia doesn't pull this s*** again.

It's looking like healthcare is going to be the albatross around the GOP's neck in 2018.
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Be careful, all that straw is pretty flammable
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Yeah stamina upgrades do make a pretty huge difference... with max stamina I can usually just spam jump to climb anything without even switching to climbing gear.
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Imo probable alternative timeline results were

Clinton > Cruz, Rubio
Cruz, Rubio, Kasich > Bernie

Not sure on Trump v Bernie or Kasich v Clinton.
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

The House Freedom Caucus seem to be succeeding somewhat in throwing even more gasoline on this dumpster fire of a healthcare bill. I really hope that if they succeed in satisfying enough tea partiers that enough moderates will be turned off to stop it.
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Hell, conservative rags like the Washington Times were running pro-Bernie articles to damage Clinton. My best guess of how a Bernie v Trump election would have gone is that he would have picked up Michigan and Wisconsin and lost Virginia and/or Nevada. There are too many variables to make any definitive conclusions, though.
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

It was actually more like 80000 votes after all of the provisional ballots were counted

I'm pretty sure one or two others were also closer. I want to say Kennedy/Nixon was?
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!

Monster
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Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit!