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user15026
12:29 AM
 
user15026
America, you are broken.
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
It's what happens when you have presidents (plural, x either 44 or 45) who have never had to work
And others
 
user15026
This is the most ridiculous fucking thing
 
user15026
Like I keep thinking "America, you can't possibly find more ways to treat your people like crap" and then....you do
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
Public workers, many living paycheck to paycheck, thrown into turmoil as pawns in a dumb game
Because that's all this is to everyone involved
oh actually the people who can't pay any bills right now want a monument to racism
so its fine
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
12:42 AM
@Unionhawk *drinks from the whine* "i don't get my money because of all those dam immigrants and a wall will stop them"
 
user15026
It frustrates me that right now America is just a bunch of loud tantrums pretending to be a country :/
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Tantrums you say?
Maine governor certifies Dem's win in disputed House race, but calls it "stolen election" http://hill.cm/91ruPeM
Tweeted by thehill on December 29, 2018 at 12:49 AM
Paul LePage has you covered
Thankfully he will no longer be governor in a few days
 
user15026
wtf dude
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
1:02 AM
Also gg The Hill for calling it a "disputed race", I don't think that the losing candidate not liking the democratically passed ranked-choice vote system counts as an actual matter of contention
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
1:15 AM
@TimStone I mean to be fair it did go to court, although by the time this article was released the case was already dismissed (which I know, because the article states it)
Either way GG maine for switching it a slightly less shitty voting system!
> The Press Herald notes that Walker additionally ruled that the Constitution does not mandate that congressional elections be decided by a "plurality" of votes. Walker, who was appointed by President Trump, also ruled that the Constitution gives states the ability to decide how it will run elections
I'm not really sure I understand this at all
Plurality (voting)
A plurality vote (in North America) or relative majority (in the United Kingdom) describes the circumstance when a candidate or proposition polls more votes than any other, but does not receive a majority. For example, if 100 votes were cast, including 45 for Candidate A, 30 for Candidate B and 25 for Candidate C, then Candidate A received a plurality of votes but not a majority. In some votes, the winning candidate or proposition may have only a plurality, depending on the rules of the organization holding the vote. == Versus majority == In international institutional law, a "simple majority"...
Is it saying the losers argument was that any vote that doesn't guarantee someone gets less than 50% of the vote is valid? huh?
Like is that phrasing just shitty on part of the hill, or the candidate?
Like is the loser proposing some reverse ranked choice? Where if someone gets more than 50% of the vote, they get knocked out, and then the next higher candidate wins?!
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
@Wipqozn like how SE votes on Mods?
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
@Memor-X Exactly
I mean and if ranked choice can get people like @TimStone and I elected, then you know it's good!
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
@Wipqozn You were elected in the first round
And therefore by plurality
(plurality and majority gets weird with "elect more than one")
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
1:34 AM
Yeah, it was a galaxy brain argument that the constitution leaves it wholly up to the states to decide how to run elections except also it says they can't do ranked choice 🤔
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
1:50 AM
In a surprising ranked choice result, Paul le page has been banished to the ocean (other options: sea, volcano, sun)
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Larry Klayman, lawyer for Jerome Corsi, tells Senate Intel “we respectfully decline your offer for our client to produce voluminous, overly broad, irrelevant documents — which you can obtain from Special Counsel Robert Mueller in any event — as well as to appear for an interview”
Tweeted by johnson_carrie on December 28, 2018 at 10:02 PM
lmao
The obvious thing to do when you're a person no one has any interest in shielding from consequence is to piss off Senate Intel
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
@TimStone is it a crime to mislead them like it is with congress?
because i so want them to ask Mueller, find out he doesn't have them so that Intel can turn around and go "well, you and your client just fuck yourselves over with that bluff"
 
 
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GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
4:15 AM
@Ash oh crap this is real? i thought it was satire
 
user15026
nope, it's a thing
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
yeah it is an extremely obnoxious thing to say
wow, so out of touch
@TimStone ah good old shifty, smoothie, and d-money
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
5:20 AM
NEW: Gowdy and Goodlatte have sent a letter to AG Whitaker, IG Horowtiz and McConnell summarizing their investigation into FBI/DOJ and concerns about the handling of the Clinton and Trump/Russia probes. Full letter is here https://judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Joint-Investigation-Letter-3.pdf?utm_source=House+Judiciary+Committee+Press+Releases&utm_campaign=6f337e124f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_28_09_32&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_df41eba8fd-6f337e124f-116919945
Tweeted by jeremyherb on December 28, 2018 at 10:42 PM
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
@TimStone ugh i thought we were done with these goofy stunts
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Well, sort of. The key takeaways are that they merely "have concerns", the FBI is bad, but there's still no reason to complain about Mueller
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
@TimStone i'm waiting for nunes to break through the wall with some nonsense
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
I know he hasn't really done anything dumb lately and it must be killing him
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
NEW: Shortly after a Mollie Tibbetts’ body was found, and an undocumented immigrant was charged with murder, the laborers on the farm where he’d worked fled. One immigrant family left their son behind, and soon the boy had a new home - the home of Tibbetts https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/trump-used-her-slain-daughter-to-rail-against-illegal-immigration-she-chose-a-different-path/2018/12/27/084f93a4-e9ce-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html
Tweeted by terrence_mccoy on December 28, 2018 at 12:45 PM
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
6:00 AM
1. NEW: FEC filings released today reveal Cindy-Hyde Smith is NOT honoring requests from corporations for refunds of their campaign contributions. Union Pacific, Boston Scientific, Walmart, Leidos, AT&T, Pfizer, Ernst & Young, Facebook and Walgreens did not get their money back
Tweeted by JuddLegum on December 27, 2018 at 4:49 PM
for context, this is the lady who said she would go to a lynching and tried to play it off as a figure of speech
 
 
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Wipqozn
Wipqozn
1:37 PM
@GodEmperorDune It's slightly more in touch than their comment on personal lawyers.... but only because they didn't tell them "Offer to get credit for part of your rent by getting your maid or butler to offer to do work for your landlord"
 
 
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Mad Scientist
Mad Scientist
3:54 PM
I am in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come on over and make a deal on Border Security. From what I hear, they are spending so much time on Presidential Harassment that they have little time left for things like stopping crime and our military!
Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on December 29, 2018 at 3:52 PM
I think there are more effective ways to negotiate than just staying in the White House and waiting for things to happen
 
Frank
Frank
@MadScientist Any other method would require him to admit there needs to be a compromise, and he'd have to budge on the wall.
 
 
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Wipqozn
Wipqozn
6:15 PM
In related news that Go Fund Me for the Wall has reached $18 million dollars
And supposedly the person who started that go fund me is a huge conspiracy theorist racist: nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/…
BIG SURPRISE
That 'build ladders' go fund me is currently sitting at $155k: ca.gofundme.com/ladders-to-get-over-trump039s-wall
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
7:06 PM
Trump orders pay freeze for federal workers https://wapo.st/2EYdvN1
Tweeted by washingtonpost on December 29, 2018 at 5:52 PM
 
user15026
7:54 PM
Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally. They can’t. If we had a Wall, they wouldn’t even try! The two.....
Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on December 29, 2018 at 6:30 PM
 
user15026
...........
 
user15026
I just....
 
user15026
I just have no words.
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
8:12 PM
@Ash what the fuck bro
i can't even
just what the fuck
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
"Black gamers even say that word" Incredible discussion about the n-word going on here
Tweeted by classiclib3ral on December 29, 2018 at 8:14 PM
My goodness. We have so far to go :/
(the context here was that it was racist to demand that every black person denounce Farrakhan, for anyone curious)
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
8:35 PM
> Of those, about 380,000 have been furloughed, while the rest are still on the job without pay.
Wait what. That's how it works?!
That's literal slave labour. wtf.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
I mean they eventually get paid, just not now
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
> Trump’s order only applies to civilian workers. Military personnel, who are covered under a separate funding measure, will receive a 2.6 percent raise.
Oh of course
@TimStone Ah okay
That makes some actual sense
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Yeah, it's still Extremely Bad, but it's a "quit or work and wait to get paid later" type situation which is how it's legal
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
@TimStone gamer word, u wot m8
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@GodEmperorDune when you mean business
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
8:40 PM
@TimStone I just... I hate people. That's the theme of the decade.
Everyone who defends PewDieRAcist is just no stop. You're just a racist yourself.
Do people lose their cool, and curse and insult in the heat of the moment? Absolutely! We are, after all, human! But does that result in saying some word that wouldn't normally be part of their vocab? Uh, no
No not at all
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
@TimStone i mean you don't have to denounce farrakhan, just don't get upset when people call you antisemitic for supporting a guy that says a lot of antisemitic things
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
So if the thing at the tip of your tongue is a racial slur then sorry (not actually sorry), but you're a racist
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
@Wipqozn nah the literal slave labor is prisoner labor
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@GodEmperorDune (It was more that every black person isn't responsible for Farrakhan just because he happens to be black)
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
@GodEmperorDune Accurate
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
8:44 PM
@Wipqozn I mean plus it entirely glosses over all the other stuff he's done, but minor details, heh
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
@TimStone What else has he done? I know there's been things, but they've all just fallen into one giant racist blur
Mostly because the first thing was enough for me to be like "oh, well look at that"
I vaguely remember something about going on a racist pdocast
or was that jontron...
Actually it may have been both
That's what it was
All these racist youtubers just kind of blend together
> n response, PewDiePie released a follow-up video on December 11 in which he described the incident as an “oopsie” and scoffed at the idea that he was promoting anti-Semitism by merely “recommending someone for their anime review.”
I really wish Youtube would just ban this guy
> PewDiePie also referred to several past incidents that sparked a similar outcry: a video in which he performed a Nazi “heil” salute, and one in which he hired a pair of performers from a freelancer website to hold up a sign reading “Death to all Jews.” He said these examples were satirical, but many observers condemned them as anti-Semitic.
Oh right and then that
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Yeah
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
@Wipqozn how many racist oopsies is one allowed before they need to get in the sea?
@Wipqozn they make a LOT of money from his vids
and his supporters take this kind of thing personally
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
@GodEmperorDune In a normal world or in CRAAAAZY FUN LAND REALITY?
Because sadly we live in the latter :(
@GodEmperorDune Which I'm sure is a great indicator of their character and maturity
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
@Wipqozn a lot of them are literally little kids
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
8:52 PM
@GodEmperorDune Yeah that's why I tossed in that last bit about maturity
It's also all the more horrifying that this guy is a role model for kids
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaah
 
user15026
@TimStone ....a gamer word. WHAT THE HECK
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
@Ash I, for one, don't understand why the gaming community has a poor reputation
Nothing at all could have made that reputaiton
NOPE
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@Ash The inappropriateness of a heated gaming moment in the convenient form-factor of a gaming word
 
user15026
incoherent screaming
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
10:42 PM
@Ash Steve king: hold my beer
GOP Rep. Peter King praised ICE's "excellent record" since "only two children" have died in recent memory. "These are the only two children that have died, certainly in recent memory ... considering what does happen in housing projects ... I think ICE has an excellent record." https://t.co/Y2sMLRY8Eo
Tweeted by kylegriffin1 on December 28, 2018 at 9:20 PM
 
user15026
@GodEmperorDune "considering what happens in housing projects" way to show how racist you are
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
@Ash yeah this guy is likely the most overtly racist US congressperson
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
11:20 PM
Different King
But also yes
Peter King was unseated in November though so bye đź‘‹
He was formerly Chair of the House Homeland Security committee where he held a hearing on the radicalization of US Muslims so while not strictly Steve King racist he's still putting in the hours
FCC launches probe of CenturyLink in wake of nationwide 911 outage https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fcc-launches-probe-centurylink-wake-nationwide-911-outage-n952681
Tweeted by redactedmedic on December 29, 2018 at 5:32 PM
Washington could soon become the first state to legalize human composting. https://nbcnews.to/2CEHWpH
Tweeted by NBCNews on December 29, 2018 at 11:21 PM
> The novel approach, known as “recomposition,” involves placing bodies in a vessel and hastening their decomposition into a nutrient-dense soil that can then be returned to families
It makes sense but I'm not sure "hasten your decomposition!" is the best ad copy 🤔
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
11:43 PM
@TimStone whoops, all the racist kings blur together
> In Wyoming, lottery officials were unable to pull numbers Thursday for their twice-a-week Cowboy Draw game, due to the CenturyLink outage.
Clearly the worst part of the outage
But yeah this is really an industry consolidation problem, companies are going to have outages, but that it’s a single company doing so much of it makes the outage widespread
The 911 system has other issues, like capacity problems and poor treatment of workers
 
user15026
@TimStone yeaaaaaaah not so much
 

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