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  1. 1 hour ago, hayden_horn said:

    here's the thing about arguing with the climate deniers: it's actually dogma for them. there is a strong correlation between evangelical and climate science belief. they are not here to take input, they are here for output, to preach the word. i'm 100% serious about this. they will never change their mind.

    and here's the thing about he dishonest way that they frame the debate: we are actually in the middle of the catastrophe. it's not like a high speed car wreck, it's a lot more like a slow moving train wreck. we know our climate is changing. some of it may be due to natural climate fluctuation, but there is no denying that throwing a bunch of carbon into the air isn't affecting the larger trends.

    and beyond that...what's so bad about a green new deal? we know it will create jobs, we know clean air and water are good things. we should aspire to be a better steward of the planet. i mean, shit, that's in the first book of the bible.

    we are polluting our oceans. but the thinking is similar to air pollution: the ocean, like the atmosphere, is so big that certainly we are overstating our role in this, right? wrong. our ecosystem is hardy and flexible, but it is also a fairly delicate balance of things that allow us to eat sushi and farm corn. we should absolutely try to minimize our impact on that, and deal with the planet's changing climate as it happens to the best of our ability, as humans have always done.

    there is finally movement on this front, real international movement. and how anyone wants to shout about "but, this article said this in 1978!" misses the goddamn forest for the trees. we are the frog enjoying the hot bath at the moment. if we don't find a way to turn off the fire, we will be that boiled frog. 

    We're maybe 5 years at most from EMAW and mop and the rest turning around and acknowledging the crisis and becoming eco-fascists. They'll propose decreasing the global population so that their lifestyle can again become sustainable. It'll start off with a full immigration ban and maybe something like China's one-child policy for Americans, but soon enough they'll get around to proposing killing all of the "leeches."  The one constant is and will always be that their comfort is more important than the lives of minorities and liberals.

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  2. 14 minutes ago, scottsins said:

    Dems seeking to impeach Kav (while failing to move swiftly on DJ) would be such a colossally stupid move.

    I fully expect them to do this, of course.

     

    1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

    They don't move the needle because adding perjury #8 to 1-7 seems inconsequential.  That's understandable, especially for someone paying attention.  For John Q. Public?  It's new information regarding a story that had faded from sight.  I think it's important.

    I don't necessarily disagree with these takes, but the Dems are going to have to take a stand at some point if they want to actually stave off fascism. The Dems reducing everything to the optimal political tactic at a specific moment in time (or at least what they think that is) as their entire political strategy is a huge reason we are where we are now.  There is a clear moral case to be argued against the GOP's rampant corruption and complete disregard for American democracy and the rule of law and they need to fucking make it to the American people.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Revolution512 said:

    Witness tampering.....that’s not newsworthy. Dems really should move on from this one.  

    We have to consider the possibility that Brierbart paid her to say this. You know, exactly what they tried to do when the Roy Moore allegations came to light.

  4. 1 minute ago, zork said:

    Why are you fuckers negging mop?  He cares about the topic?  He brings discussion on the topic.  You may not agree with everything or anything he says but he is legitimately attempting to discuss the topic.  Let him talk, or at least don't neg him to bolivia and then, like swam, start talking months later about why he or his ilk aren't here talking with you about xyz.  He says he is a UT grad.  He has great fish stories too about his time on the coast.  Let him talk.

    No he's not.

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  5. Just now, Johnny Sack said:

    I will now show myself out of Texags.com politics West

    What a shame. Please don't go shoving your dick in random women's faces out in that big world though. I know you think guys like you should be able to get away with things like that and that they're just harmless hijinks, but that's frowned upon these days.

  6. 2 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

    How to be a "journalist" in 2019:

    (1) Report a "bombshell"

    (2) Get lots of clicks on your website

    (3) Generate the outrage you are seeking

    (4) Quietly "correct/update" the story with the actual facts so as to cover your ass

    (5) Rinse

    (6) Repeat

    Hey Johnny, how nice of you to show up!

  7. 31 minutes ago, Dr. Beeper said:

    GOP’er here. If I were y’all I’d be embarrassed with anything other than Beto or Biden. Kamala came off well last night. 

    Warren is an embarrassment. That y’all actually have her as a serious candidate is akin to Rick Perry. 

    Elizabeth Warren is comparable to an aggy who got a D in Meats? 

    lol, ok.

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  8. 32 minutes ago, Jhawk said:

    Warren’s tactic is very clear. Any issue that is a core concern for a left of moderate dem is going to be addressed not by making sensible goals but by absolutely attacking the connected industries. 

    Climate change: destroy fossil fuel industry and companies regardless of what it does to the economy. No time to transition. Just destroy ASAP. 

    Bankers didn’t go to jail: destroy banking industry regardless of the harm it will cause every citizen with even a modest amount in the stock market. Cause havoc with inflation because the ends justify the means day one. 

    When you look at her approach to getting what she wants you have to wonder why we even have congress or senate. Of course, you have to wonder the same for about 18 of the last 20 years. I mean at least the worst legislation in the last 50 years went through all chambers. She wants to take “pen and phone” to a level beyond what anyone else has. 

    lol. This fuckin guy.

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  9. 55 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

    It's just hilarious that Giuliani, a grossly overweight old man who has spent his entire adult life working a government office job, thinks he's going to defend anything from anybody.

     



     

    Every one of these schmucks has enormous insecurity problems because they know that they're weak in every conceivable meaning of the word.

  10. 12 minutes ago, triplehorn said:

    There's a House vote tomorrow that should lend some clarity.  It's kind of fruitless to get bogged down in the semantics right now.  Just realize it's too soon - Pelosi, Nadler et. al. know they need Trump financials which realistically won't be available until November at the earliest.  It would make sense for trolls and Russian spawned disinformation to sow American discord over House not impeaching already - before they get to the Trump/Russia financials, and some social media observers familiar with Russian disinformation have taken notice of this activity.

    If the Deutsche Bank/Mazars documents demonstrate Trump to be a career Russian money launderer, bank fraudster and tax cheat, then getting through all the bellyaching right now will have been well beyond worth it.  Top House counsel Doug Letter has also brought on Daniel Goldman (former SDNY deputy chief of organized-crime unit) and Daniel Noble (former SDNY co-chief of the complex frauds and cybercrime unit) to break down Trump's financials when they receive them.  They will know how to analyze it and break it down.

    Until then, Dems have to somehow slow the roll in the face of mass Trump corruption in broad daylight.  Everyone should be asking where the fuck are the Republicans ?  This is mass public corruption in the open and they are AWOL.  

     

     

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  11. The GOP surprise-assaulted American democracy on 9/11.

    Once again, reality is dumber than fiction. This has got to be example 1,000 at least of "if this were pitched by a writer for a fictional story he'd be laughed out of the office for being a talentless hack."

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