US PoliEra 2019 |OT3| YOU WERE AT MY WEDDING, DENISE

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I think the threat of this alone is reason not to have him as the nominee.
I mean this threat is an issue for any Dem nominee who is a straight male let’s be honest.

Betos punk rock days in the 90s. Bernie in his youth in the 60s. Etc. Post me too it’s hard to have blind trust in straight male politicians with an ego.

Part of why I would feel more comfortable with Kamala at the top of the ticket in a lot of ways.
 
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The videos are always painful to watch and weird I don’t know how you can instantly jump to him sexually assaulting? I mean if you want to assume the videos are sexual then would you also call him a pedophile since it is usually with kids rather than adults?

Accusing someone of sexual assault with no rumors or accusations of sexual assault doesn’t make sense to me. Al Franken was accused, Trump was, Bill was, and on and on. Biden has never been. If he ever gets accused of it burn him alive but he has never been once in his career as far as I can ever tell.
thats another problem. you shouldn't burn anyone over a simple accusation that could end up being false.
 

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I mean this threat is an issue for any Dem nominee who is a straight male let’s be honest.

Betos punk rock days in the 90s. Bernie in his youth in the 60s. Etc.

Part of why I would feel more comfortable with Kamala at the top of the ticket in a lot of ways.
I think the less years behind you the less chance there is a legitimate accusation. People will absolutely hold dems to a different standard than grab the pussy trump if there is an accusation.
 

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Another Parkland student committed suicide.


Miami Herald: Second Parkland shooting survivor commits suicide, police confirm
A second Parkland shooting survivor killed himself, Coral Springs police confirmed on Sunday.
Investigators told the Miami Herald that a current Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student died in “an apparent suicide” on Saturday night.
Police are still investigating.
Though police could not confirm the age of the student, Coral Springs police spokesman Tyler Reik said the student was a juvenile. Sources say the student was a male sophomore. His name has not been released.
Oh fuck me.

This is absolutely terrible. :(
 

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I mean this threat is an issue for any Dem nominee who is a straight male let’s be honest.

Betos punk rock days in the 90s. Bernie in his youth in the 60s. Etc. Post me too it’s hard to have blind trust in straight male politicians with an ego.

Part of why I would feel more comfortable with Kamala at the top of the ticket in a lot of ways.
Yep. Another excellent reason to have a woman nominee. Thought so in late 2017 and think so now.
 

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Wearing clothing that looks like the American flag is not a flag code violation.
Wearing an American flag as clothing is a flag code violation.

I understand that. My point is if you love the flag and think that it is a sacred symbol of your country it seems odd to wear clothing, which gets dirty, that has a flag pattern. It is poor fashion sense in my opinion as well - nothing says “I am trying too hard to prove my patriotism” than wearing a bunch of things with the stars and stripes on it.
 

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Been playing Sekiro since just after the report was delivered.

Any confirmation that Barr is definitely talking to Congress today?
 

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Just the thought of the attack ads featuring Biden's creepy ass, touchy-feely moments makes me cringe. They'll have wall to wall coverage of those incidents on a loop on Fox News and there will be massive Russian bot campaigns spreading it all across Facebook and Twitter. Even CNN will be perpetuating the "Biden is a sleazy creep" angle.

Don't see how he really washes that stench off of himself or explains it away.
This is my fear too. My only hope is that it happens before the primaries and not after
 

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I believe that it has to do with the image Putin tries to portray, and what the actual reality is.

This is an aside, but a huge problem with just about all journalism worldwide is that, due to the advent of 24 hour technology availability, most journalism has been replaced with varying experts giving opinions. What this means is that to truly figure out what is going on and cut through the bullshit, you need to rely on local sources and local news. For all the crap that it gets (and it deserves a lot of crap), Twitter is actually very good at allowing a local source to gain a small, but global audience.

Some of the folks I've seen on the ground in Russia tell that it's actually worse than we think. Huge inflation issues, food shortages in certain places, Saturday morning cartoon levels of corruption leading to some horrific inefficiencies, the lack of any real unifying vision of Russia after Putin, the disastrous population crisis (the Russians are literally dying out as a people), the various hardened criminals who are allied with one another only due to Putin keeping them fabulously rich at the expense of the Russian people. These are just a few examples.

Russia is very similar to Venezuela in that it's essentially a kleptocracy. Only this state has thousands of nuclear warheads.
This response is a tad late, but just wanted to point out that my final political science class in undergrad was a seminar on the last century of Russian politics...in 2009.

And that class was bleak when we looked at Russia’s future. You aren’t kidding about the population crisis. By 2040 or so they could literally have half the current population. And the health issues within the country are simply staggering.
 

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If something happens to Putin, or when he dies of old age... You wanna talk about a massively failed state, with various warlords all competing for power? You think what's happening in Venezuela is rough?

Oh, and there's thousands of nuclear ballistic missiles involved. Shit's gonna be BAD.
 

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If something happens to Putin, or when he dies of old age... You wanna talk about a massively failed state, with various warlords all competing for power? You think what's happening in Venezuela is rough?

Oh, and there's thousands of nuclear ballistic missiles involved. Shit's gonna be BAD.
Combine that with the fight over resources resulting from the ongoing climate change catastrophe (oil in a defrosted arctic, lack of fresh water, proxy countries in ME/Asia going bust due to disasters, etc.), and you have a gigantic Clancy Brown fever dream.

Unfortunately I'm not really seeing a future where this can be avoided.
 

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Combine that with the fight over resources resulting from the ongoing climate change catastrophe (oil in a defrosted arctic, lack of fresh water, proxy countries in ME/Asia going bust due to disasters, etc.), and you have a gigantic Clancy Brown fever dream.

Unfortunately I'm not really seeing a future where this can be avoided.
You mean Tom Clancy, right?
 

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You guys aren’t Q’ing hard enough. The donuts mean Hillary is in custody and that’s who was on the DOJ plane

Edit: ^^ there we go now we are cooking Tamanon
 

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Been playing Sekiro since just after the report was delivered.

Any confirmation that Barr is definitely talking to Congress today?
I'm not sure if I should get it. I love soulsborne and NiOh but I never make it out of boss battles one on one. I must summon someone for assist. If Sekiro doesn't have online features AND the boss battles are just as hard (if not more so), then yeah I will never finish the game.
 

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I HATE talking about "the other thread" no matter what it is about, because it makes this thread look like some sort of refuge. I would hope that if anyone here was posting either falsehoods or disingenuous trash about how awesome Obama or Bernie were, or Pizzagate level lies about Trump, that they'd be shitcanned out of the site.

But reading what I assume are grown adults who either somehow managed to avoid knowing, or are dogpiling into the thread to deliberate muddy waters about:

1. The massive number of indictments, confessions, cooperation agreements, sentences and evidence directly connected to Russian activity and the Trump whitehouse is astonishing. Literally people saying, "See it was nothing!"
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This response is a tad late, but just wanted to point out that my final political science class in undergrad was a seminar on the last century of Russian politics...in 2009.

And that class was bleak when we looked at Russia’s future. You aren’t kidding about the population crisis. By 2040 or so they could literally have half the current population. And the health issues within the country are simply staggering.

Some of the things I've read about basic infrastructure outside of the city hubs is uh... shocking.
 
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I HATE talking about "the other thread" no matter what it is about, because it makes this thread look like some sort of refuge. I would hope that if anyone here was posting either falsehoods or disingenuous trash about how awesome Obama or Bernie were, or Pizzagate level lies about Trump, that they'd be shitcanned out of the site.

But reading what I assume are grown adults who either somehow managed to avoid knowing, or are dogpiling into the thread to deliberate muddy waters about:

1. The massive number of indictments, confessions, cooperation agreements, sentences and evidence directly connected to Russian activity and the Trump whitehouse is astonishing. Literally people saying, "See it was nothing!"
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Some of the things I've read about basic infrastructure outside of the city hubs is uh... shocking.
Modern Russia best resembles Japan on steroids (that is, Japan if there were no sense of civic responsibility to hold everything together). Population decline, government overly cozy with corporate interests, and a country with basically 2 cities that everyone with a dream of a better life wants to live in while the rest of the country is left to rot.
 

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I’m going to say the report stops short of calling for Trumps indictment, and regardless of what it says, Trump and Republicans are just going to say it’s bullshit anyway.
 
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