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05-02-2017, 12:32 PM
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I am beyond a rank!
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Re: Fighting for our meals, out here in the fields.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
His opponent would've been Trump. (Micdrop here?)
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So the one thing we actually learned on Nov. 9 is that Trump is actually a fairly effective campaigner.
It sounds like garbage to us, but a significant segment of voters actually likes him (because he hammers away on Fox News-style talking points). |
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05-02-2017, 12:57 PM
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Re: Fighting for our meals, out here in the fields.
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Originally Posted by Adder
So the one thing we actually learned on Nov. 9 is that Trump is actually a fairly effective campaigner.
It sounds like garbage to us, but a significant segment of voters actually likes him (because he hammers away on Fox News-style talking points).
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YMMV, but I've concluded it's a lot easier for a dumb guy to play smart than for a smart cat to dumb it down. Trump and Biden are just sophisticated enough to impress Joe Sixpack without seeming "elite."
If you tried to dumb it down, they'd see right through you and become suspicious. I think it has a lot to do with vocabulary.
(One brilliant exception is Austin Goolsbee. He can expound on complex economic theory while sounding like a trucker talking traffic. It's fucking genius.)
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05-02-2017, 12:28 PM
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Re: Fighting for our meals, out here in the fields.
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Originally Posted by Adder
I like Uncle Joe, but I'm not sure why we've collectively forgotten that he's a gaffe machine.
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Because that's been proven to matter by Frederick Douglass and Andrew Jackson.
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05-02-2017, 12:33 PM
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I am beyond a rank!
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Re: Fighting for our meals, out here in the fields.
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Because that's been proven to matter by Frederick Douglass and Andrew Jackson.
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You and I think those are gaffes. The Trump voter does not. |
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05-02-2017, 12:52 PM
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Re: Fighting for our meals, out here in the fields.
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You and I think those are gaffes. The Trump voter does not.
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Right. Or they don't care. Trump is sui generis, as the lawyers say. I'm too tired to list the million things he's said or done ("grab them!" Trump Univeristy, etc) that would have ended the career of anyone other than Trump.
Doesn't mean that Biden couldn't have beat him. But his gaffes would matter. And you can be sure that Trump would have been ranting about "Cheatin' Joe" - who maybe had an issue at Syracuse and definitely stole Neil Kinnock's speech. |
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05-02-2017, 12:52 PM
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Re: Fighting for our meals, out here in the fields.
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You and I think those are gaffes. The Trump voter does not.
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Did we switch subjects? Isn't this my point?
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12-14-2017, 12:38 PM
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Is it bad
to refer to your coworkers as "Hey retard" in emails?
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12-14-2017, 01:06 PM
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Re: Is it bad
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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
to refer to your coworkers as "Hey retard" in emails?
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I used to hate fucktard and asshat, but I've come around to those as well.
It's a classic. Long may it run.
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12-14-2017, 01:39 PM
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Re: Is it bad
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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
to refer to your coworkers as "Hey retard" in emails?
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Our HR suggests "slow adult" as an alternative.
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08-09-2017, 06:05 PM
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Steaming Hot
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Red Notice
Has anyone on here read "Red Notice" (about Sergei Magnitsky)? I heard an interview with the author (Magnitsky's client) yesterday and the interview was fascinating and also super-depressing. Seems like a good follow-up to Man without a Face.
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08-21-2017, 12:06 PM
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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11-01-2017, 09:05 AM
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Why I never take Uber
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11-02-2017, 07:19 PM
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Friend of mine is real pissed.
When he just got wind of the Brett Ratner story after Halloween. For the price of buying a shrimp cocktail (and ditching his pants) he could’ve had a Halloween costume.
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11-02-2017, 09:47 PM
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Rigged? Sen. Warren: Yes
I’d like a three or four party system, and that looks like where we’re headed: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/...clinton-244487
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11-03-2017, 12:46 PM
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Re: Rigged? Sen. Warren: Yes
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On both sides, changes in campaign finance and information technology have weakened the institutional role of the parties. It doesn't mean that a third (or fourth) party is going to come into being. It means that the parties are weak. They don't control the money, or much of anything else.
Where is the point where a Republican or Democrat should rationally walk away from their party to join a third party if he or she wants more clout? Um, never? The ability to influence the choice of one of the top two people on the ballot is much more valuable than the ability to influence the choice of the third (or fourth) person on the ballot.
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