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GodEmperorDune

12:34 AM

@TimStone it's intentional so you lol at the name instead of taking them seriously as a threat

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Tim Stone

4:16 AM

The public by a broad 53-35% trusts the Democratic Party more than the Republicans to handle health care, and 82% call it highly important in their vote. http://abcn.ws/2CHuYc4

Tweeted by evanmcmurry on October 14, 2018 at 4:10 AM

I dunno what's up with the economy answer, honestly, given the taxes answer and the fact the Republicans are openly gutting the CFPB

Like maybe if you really, really think "the economy" is the stock market, even if it means companies are screwing you? idk

murgatroid99

My guess is that the economy just isn't very well understood, so people default to believing whatever the party or their chosen pundit says about it

Tim Stone

Seems likely enough

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Tim Stone

3:28 PM

On FTN, Rubio defends Trump's refusal to disrupt Saudi arms sales over Khashoggi: "If you don't sell arms, they're gonna buy them anyways. And then in the future, when you want to influence Saudi behavior on another topic, you're not gonna have anything to threaten them with."

Tweeted by saletan on October 14, 2018 at 2:59 PM

Galaxy brain

4 people are dead and another is injured after an argument escalated into gunfire at a Texas toddler's birthday party. https://bit.ly/2ydpcuQ

Tweeted by KOAA on October 14, 2018 at 11:38 AM

jfc

Unionhawk

motion to temporarily suspend the rule preventing me from posting an answer to the periodic "I want to help people in Florida but don't want to give my money to the red cross" problem

@TimStone wait didn't he just say that we shouldn't sell to bad people like yesterday

Tim Stone

Probably, it's Rubio

Unionhawk

That got put up side by side with him being friendly with Honduras

Tim Stone

But "We can't use it as a deterrent now because how will we be able to use it as a deterrent later?" is just...whew

Unionhawk

Who regularly kills environmental activists

I mean that's consistent at least

Nevermind that tracks

Tim Stone

3:32 PM

It's also worth noting that obviously they can't really buy arms from somewhere else in the short term because that's stupid

"Once you've flown one fighter jet you've flown them all" is not a thing, likewise for missile launch platforms and the like

Unionhawk

Current status: dusting off my League account, which hasn’t been touched since the campaign started 😂👾 Bronze V, here we come

Tweeted by Ocasio2018 on October 14, 2018 at 2:01 AM

lmao hell yeah

Take that Duncan Hunter Jr.

Tim Stone

.@NYGovCuomo directing @nyspolice to join investigation into Proud Boys and Antifa violence. Also calling on @FBI to assist. Declines to criticize NYPD response which some are characterizing as inadequate. Cuomo puts blame squarely on @realDonaldTrump and @ChairmanEdCox

Tweeted by ZackFinkNews on October 14, 2018 at 3:26 PM

lol, yes, let's blame those two people so that once they're gone we can pretend that there's no problem

NEW INVESTIGATION: Ivanka & Jared are part of a quasi-religious movement that claims to teach magic powers to adherents ... including the ability to fly. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ivanka-trumps-gurus-say-their-techniques-can-end-war-and-make-you-fly

Tweeted by NoahShachtman on October 14, 2018 at 1:44 PM

Alright, first off this only has to do with Javanka in a tangential sense

It's just rich people meditating

But I did not know this about Transcendental Meditation, why does someone always have to go "Look, meditation, it's good...but, what if we made it weird?"

If nothing else though check out the video of the "yoga flying competition" which is just people bouncing around with crossed legs on mattresses because it's pretty great

user15026

4:10 PM

@TimStone Okay that video was....something else especially when they tried to explain how it was helping the world

Tim Stone

Right? I mean, cooler heads will prevail is technically in furtherance of those goals, just, not at all how they described. But I'm not sure what the jumping has to do with any of it

It does look kind of fun, but not a kind of fun I could take seriously :P

user15026

Saaaame

Nzall

7:42 PM

Belgium local election results are in

short version: not much changed apparently

unlike earlier elections, there weren't really any parties that had landslide victories or crushing defeats. Maybe you can say the Green party won this election because they gained votes in a lot of municipalities

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GodEmperorDune

9:38 PM

@Unionhawk hell yeah

@TimStone yeah i feel this is an accurate but misleading way to describe TM

which has been around for decades and weird but not really harmful

just get celebrities and rich people to meditate in a fancy way

(protip: all of the fancy techniques have been freely available for centuries, they are just repackaged by TM)

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