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Biff Tannen

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  1. 5 hours ago, bolverk said:

    In fact, if it weren't for these features, Rhode says, the top of the building might sway up to a foot and a half in each direction. Not exactly a comfortable feeling if you're living inside the building.

    Then how do buildings in other places that are way taller deal with sway?  I've always thought being at the top of this building in Manhattan would be fucking terrifying.  That shit has to sway a ton right?

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  2. 7 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    i've mentioned the article on here a few times, but someone did some good analysis with his numbers and found that the standard deviation of his approval rating was the lowest all time, meaning no one ever changes their mind on him.  And it is something like half of the standard deviation of the president with the 2nd smallest.   

     

    The two facebook friends anecdote.  The highest numbers in a long time.  They could both be true.  But they are meaningless in any larger scale because these changes we're talking about in either direction are microscopic.

    This is why I think I'm leaning towards not going for the moderate Rs.  

    If you're stupid enough to not understand that he is a threat to this country, I'm not sure why we should be trying to win you over.

    Every person I see who is saying that the current D candidates are "too far left" are basically putting forth R talking points and saying they would vote for a D, but only if they cater to their "moderate" R positions.

    Um, screw that.

    You don't get to hold a party hostage by essentially threatening to vote for pure evil if you don't get your way.

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  3. 3 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    It will work with the 40%

    Quoting myself to add:

    I think about 20% will know this is full of shit, but they just don't care and are the full on racist shitgibbons.  The other 20%, like my inlaws, don't pay enough attention, but have decided all media is fake news and therefore twitter probably is "lying".  Either way, both groups are fucking morons.

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  4. 54 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

    Just so I understand you correctly, you would support the previous humane FCMP policy for asylum seekers the OIG deemed extremely successful, that cost less than half per person to administer and that was terminated unilaterally by Trump's executive order, but only if it was a component of more comprehensive Immigration Reform that offered more resources, such as the bipartisan 2013 Senate Immigration Reform Bill that Boehner refused to bring up for a House vote, or the 2006 bipartisan Senate Immigration Reform Bill killed by Hastert?

     

    But just as a stand-alone revert back to the previous policy before it was replaced by Trump, you're opposed? Just want to make sure I understand you correctly.

    Whoa whoa whoa. That’s...that’s a lot of words. I’m not. I don’t know. That’s a lot of words. Lot of strands in ol Duder’s head. 

  5. 1 hour ago, BradInATX said:

    There is so much opportunity just to pummel Trump for having 58 coal plants close on his watch. Repeated enough you could brand him the destroyer of blue collar America. The rich NYC socialite who played golf while our blue collar workers with intangibles watched their livelihood fall apart.

    The odds of them focusing there instead of on reparations or who hates guns more is zero, give or take a few zeroes.

    Well yeah, but the Democrats because of the myth of global warming.  Seriously, there is no outcome they will not blame on the democrats.  That is how 30 years of brainwashing works.  

  6. 1 hour ago, F250 said:

     

     

     

    First comment on the tweet, which I consistently see from people who claim that they are only concerned with following the law.  Of course when you dig deeper they fall back on the exact reasons from this article:

    Replying to @CatoInstitute

    Actually most people are OK with LEGAL immigration. It's the illegal immigration that we are all against. #IllegalImmigration #BorderCrisis

  7. 1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

    And the younger Trumpkins, many of them are angry at losing jobs, or at jobs that never materialized (such as a steady, blue-collar living), or at being outsourced, and all they want to do is drive down to the corner store, buy their smokes and their PBR, go home, flip on the TV on, catch some WWF or some Fast and Furious, or whatever.  

    Perhaps later, they will catch a few minutes of Hannity and listen to how Donnie is going to magically help them limp home to the finish line (retirement).

    That's all they want - you look at their signs and hear what they are saying, and many are living very unhappy lives full of uncertainty, and all they want is to reach that retirement, because The Man is trying to fuck them out of what they believe is rightfully their's.

    Hell, many of them don't mind Mexicans too much, just the Mexicans that are trying to take their non-existent jobs or horn in on their SNAP benefits.  They don't even turn the station when Jennifer Lopez comes on the TV, and they love them some John Cena movies, and they enjoyed that Dave Bautista guy in Guardians of the Galaxy, because he was a wrestler like Cena, so he's alright.

    One thing they and their elders don't want, is for things to change too much.  They just want to limp home to the retirement finish line after spending 45 years at the factory or whatever job they have.

    I could not have said this better.  There are so many white people in rural America that live this life and have no further goals.  I've seen it in East Texas and Wyoming this year alone.  

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  8. Dude, you can hate Hillary all you want and several of your points about her are valid, but to not understand how trump not only meets, but exceeds most of the things you are bemoaning about her and the system is silly.

  9. 1 hour ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Hillary Clinton was everything wrong with our political system in one candidate. Her entire career has been one smoking gun of behind the door scandal, and she bought the DNC which had no issues with her as long as they won. Party uber alles.  People like her should never be allowed to attain office.

    Trump was an outsider, something our government is sorely in need of. Parties are for parties and nothing else. He wasn't the candidate I wanted, but he beat that POS, and for that yes, a bullet was dodged for damn sure. Rewarding Hillary with the office she would do, and did do anything she could do to attain it, illegally in many instances through out her time in Washington would set the precedence for more like her.

    Trump is like chemotherapy, bad medicine that will be survived. I want more outsider candidates (why I liked AOC's victory). If we're going to survive as a functioning democratic republic we better get more of them running before the parties bury us in their own self interests, that have nothing to do with actual honest governance.

    The whiplash from sentence to sentence here is astounding. 

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  10. 1 hour ago, miguelito said:

    It's nice that the M's were able to participate (?) in such a truly special night for the Angels.

    Christ, when I read the headline this morning, I didn't even make the connection that we were the ones they no hit.  Sigh.

  11. The idea that the president "doing his job" or Americans "doing their jobs" equals concentration camps and ripping kids away from their parents, in many cases FOREVER, is fucking horrifying.  If you think this is what America stands for you are a bad person.  

    These are human beings looking for a better life.  They are by and large hard working people who will contribute to our society.  We have room for them and should be working to welcome them and have them start being a part of our great experiment.

    We've gone through these times of fear before and I hope we will look back on this time like we do the rest.  Dissenting people were spurred on by fear, but were ultimately proven wrong.  I just wish social media weren't such a good propaganda tool for those dissenters.

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