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{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
January 04 2018 18:28 GMT
#192621
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
Mohdoo
Profile Joined August 2007
United States15689 Posts
January 04 2018 18:32 GMT
#192622
Why exactly are all these people quitting? Is it looking like they were gonna lose re-election or something?
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
January 04 2018 18:39 GMT
#192623
Hmm...

"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
zlefin
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
United States7689 Posts
January 04 2018 18:40 GMT
#192624
On January 05 2018 03:32 Mohdoo wrote:
Why exactly are all these people quitting? Is it looking like they were gonna lose re-election or something?

some probably are. also by all accounts congress is a really lousy place to work right now.
some of it is just that it creates a narrative by talking about all these people quitting, which lets people imply somethin that may not be the case.
we'd have to look at the baseline quitting rates (and when those quittings are announced); after all with 535 congressfolk you'd expect quite a few to resign every election cycle.
Great read: http://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-2016-general-election/ great book on democracy: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10671.html zlefin is grumpier due to long term illness. Ignoring some users.
KOFgokuon
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States14893 Posts
January 04 2018 18:53 GMT
#192625
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-republicans-are-leaving-the-house-and-who-might-be-next/
Ayaz2810
Profile Joined September 2011
United States2763 Posts
January 04 2018 19:18 GMT
#192626
On January 05 2018 03:32 Mohdoo wrote:
Why exactly are all these people quitting? Is it looking like they were gonna lose re-election or something?


I can't help but think the worst. They got their bullshit tax plan passed, made their money, and now it's time to gtfo. Some of them anyway.
Vrtra Vanquisher/Tiamat Trouncer/World Serpent Slayer
A3th3r
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
United States319 Posts
January 04 2018 19:27 GMT
#192627
congress isn't like what anybody can see on C-SPAN. It is like the House of Lords - very chaotic & very noisy & there are a ton of committees and debates going on simultaneously
stale trite schlub
TheTenthDoc
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States9561 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-01-04 19:40:29
January 04 2018 19:40 GMT
#192628
I think it's also slightly reading tea leaves to look at who's retiring without contrasting it to past seasons-which can be really hard to find good data on. I'd love to see how many Democrat House folks retired going into 2010, for example, but my google-fu fails me.
zlefin
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
United States7689 Posts
January 04 2018 19:46 GMT
#192629
On January 05 2018 04:27 A3th3r wrote:
congress isn't like what anybody can see on C-SPAN. It is like the House of Lords - very chaotic & very noisy & there are a ton of committees and debates going on simultaneously

have you actually watched much c-span?
cuz I have, and it's very chaotic, very noisy, with tons of committees doing stuff simultaneously; and that is very evident from the viewing of such. so it seems odd that you'd say it's different from cspan, then describe how it does indeed appear on cspan.
Great read: http://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-2016-general-election/ great book on democracy: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10671.html zlefin is grumpier due to long term illness. Ignoring some users.
Kickboxer
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Slovenia1308 Posts
January 04 2018 19:47 GMT
#192630
I swear Sessions is the biggest cretin in US politics. He's either insanely evil or a complete and utter idiot. He should be fed hash oil intravenously while a mix of vodka and mushrooms is pumped into his shriveled anus
zlefin
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
United States7689 Posts
January 04 2018 19:53 GMT
#192631
On January 05 2018 04:47 Kickboxer wrote:
I swear Sessions is the biggest cretin in US politics. He's either insanely evil or a complete and utter idiot. He should be fed hash oil intravenously while a mix of vodka and mushrooms is pumped into his shriveled anus

if you're talking about the marijuana issue, idiot. on some others it'd be the evil.
and we've got a lot of cretins in US politics, I'm doubtful he'd reach the "biggest" level.
Great read: http://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-2016-general-election/ great book on democracy: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10671.html zlefin is grumpier due to long term illness. Ignoring some users.
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
January 04 2018 19:53 GMT
#192632
On January 05 2018 04:47 Kickboxer wrote:
I swear Sessions is the biggest cretin in US politics. He's either insanely evil or a complete and utter idiot. He should be fed hash oil intravenously while a mix of vodka and mushrooms is pumped into his shriveled anus


He's a neo confederate. AKA a hardline conservative racist.
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
Kickboxer
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Slovenia1308 Posts
January 04 2018 20:02 GMT
#192633
There are only two possible scenarios for his stance on marijuana:

1) he's taking 8-figure bribes from the legal opiate industry for which he should be executed via guillotine. First a small one for his little dick, then a big one for his ugly head
2) he's hellbent on keeping black people in prison for nothing so they can work as slaves for the corporate-prison industry for which he should be raped by Francis Ngannou while Alistar Overeem is powerfucking his face

I'm positively enraged when politicians specifically act against the economic, existential and medical interests of the community just because they are corrupt little shits. Off with his head!

User was temp banned for this post.
a_flayer
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Netherlands2826 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-01-04 20:09:47
January 04 2018 20:06 GMT
#192634
On January 05 2018 05:02 Kickboxer wrote:
There are only two possible scenarios for his stance on marijuana:

1) he's taking 8-figure bribes from the legal opiate industry for which he should be executed via guillotine. First a small one for his little dick, then a big one for his ugly head
2) he's hellbent on keeping black people in prison for nothing so they can work as slaves for the corporate-prison industry for which he should be raped by Francis Ngannou while Alistar Overeem is powerfucking his face

I'm positively enraged when politicians specifically act against the economic, existential and medical interests of the community just because they are corrupt little shits. Off with his head!

I enjoyed this post thoroughly.

I think both are true to some extent (lesser or greater, I don't know), so it is only fair he should receive both punishments, right?

There are probably other crimes as well. More punishments are needed. Build up from something small like fingernails.
When you came along so righteous with a new national hate, so convincing is the ardor of war and of men, it's harder to breathe than to believe you're a friend. The wars at home, the wars abroad, all soaked in blood and lies and fraud.
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
January 04 2018 20:07 GMT
#192635
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
Liquid`Drone
Profile Joined September 2002
Norway28667 Posts
January 04 2018 20:09 GMT
#192636
or he's just a conservative old guy with old values and he learned back in the day that marijuana is bad. I'm guessing a majority of white men his age are opposed to legalization, no corruption is required.
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GreenHorizons
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States23231 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-01-04 20:13:59
January 04 2018 20:12 GMT
#192637
On January 05 2018 05:02 Kickboxer wrote:
There are only two possible scenarios for his stance on marijuana:

1) he's taking 8-figure bribes from the legal opiate industry for which he should be executed via guillotine. First a small one for his little dick, then a big one for his ugly head
2) he's hellbent on keeping black people in prison for nothing so they can work as slaves for the corporate-prison industry for which he should be raped by Francis Ngannou while Alistar Overeem is powerfucking his face

I'm positively enraged when politicians specifically act against the economic, existential and medical interests of the community just because they are corrupt little shits. Off with his head!


It's early, but this is my favorite for post of the year.

Not sure why more people don't feel this way yet.

On January 05 2018 05:09 Liquid`Drone wrote:
or he's just a conservative old guy with old values and he learned back in the day that marijuana is bad. I'm guessing a majority of white men his age are opposed to legalization, no corruption is required.


Corruption is probably the more favorable explanation rather than him being so staunchly opposed to facts and science, but you're right that rank stupidity is probably more likely.
"People like to look at history and think 'If that was me back then, I would have...' We're living through history, and the truth is, whatever you are doing now is probably what you would have done then" "Scratch a Liberal..."
Kickboxer
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Slovenia1308 Posts
January 04 2018 20:29 GMT
#192638
On January 05 2018 05:09 Liquid`Drone wrote:
or he's just a conservative old guy with old values and he learned back in the day that marijuana is bad. I'm guessing a majority of white men his age are opposed to legalization, no corruption is required.


Have you had a look at the track record of the "war on drugs"? It's the dumbest war in the history of the universe. It's bad for the people, it's bad for the economy, it's terrible for Mexico, blacks, browns, hippies, artists, children, dogs, the elderly. It puts hundreds of thousands of innocent people in prison, out of jobs, on a downward spiral. It makes people live in pain and suffer from debilitating illnesses that could be addressed for like 10$ a day in sunny Colorado.

Weed is the best medicine you can take for roughly 10% of human problems. Everything from treating chemo symptoms to having good sex to exercising with focus. It's also fucking delicious. I want to roll Sessions up like a blunt and smoke his vile snollygostering soul Shang Tsung style
crms
Profile Joined February 2010
United States11933 Posts
January 04 2018 20:31 GMT
#192639
Weed really is a miracle, it's something for me and Kickboxer to agree about politically. :D
http://i.imgur.com/fAUOr2c.png | Fighting games are great
Kickboxer
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Slovenia1308 Posts
January 04 2018 20:36 GMT
#192640
Cheers!
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