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  1. If those behaviors are good enough for a President not to be impeached, what exactly do you think Clinton will do that's worse than that?
  2. I'm specifically asking what has she verifiably done that is worse than the Iran-Contra scandal, or the Iraq invasion, or the bombing of Yugoslavia.
  3. What exactly makes Clinton more unsuitable for the job than W, or her husband, or Obama, or Reagan?
  4. The tendency there is today to discredit any media that doesn't agree with one's views is quite worrying. Basically, the standard position seems to be "why have facts when I have something in writing that agrees with me?". For instance, the need to do something about climate change is being sold down the river, in part due to this mentality. If no one is to be trusted or respected, facts become relative, and Breitbart holds the same level of truthiness as Snopes, regardless of citations or empirical data provided. An example in these very threads is the whole "Clinton has laughed at a rape victim" statement, which is easy to debunk, and has been debunked here, but that doesn't stop everyone and their mother of rolling out that utterly baseless statement again and again. It's all an extension the talking head syndrome of TV journalism, as well, that has been repeatedly used in "balanced" reporting. You have an issue like climate change or vaccines or whatever, and the TV networks will report on it by providing two talking heads with opposing viewpoints. It appears balanced, but in fact it's one guy defending normal scientific discourse against a nutter who believes time traveling lizard people are behind it all. And supposedly this is ok because Einstein was once believed to be wrong or something.
  5. The collusion of lamestream media:
  6. I´d say the genre is kind of dead right now of overexposure? World War Z and Walking Dead would be the pinnacle of said overexposure.
  7. I got an e-mail from Amazon today telling me the game has been delayed to the 15th. I assume this is just for the retail version.
  8. Probably not as the blights are just minor.
  9. I feel the same way about ketchup.
  10. Isn't Gromnir a lawyer?
  11. Yeah, you might abolish slavery or get people on the Moon. God forbid, that! Both of which were done with President's of one party and at least one house of Congress controlled by a different party. The things that everyone agrees on still get done. But when there is no power behind the political opposition you get bad things like the Patriot Act and the ACA. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Presidents_and_control_of_Congress The graph here isn't the most parseable thing, but it sure seems to me that in both 1863 and 1961 only one party controlled both houses and the presidency.
  12. Yeah, you might abolish slavery or get people on the Moon. God forbid, that!
  13. Contact Ship Naked, here. They should get back to you in a couple of days.
  14. What? He asked Johnson sensible questions, and Johnson didn't have answers. This is the sort of thing that should happen at the big debates and usually doesn't. Often the candidates aren't challenged when they respond with no substance to policy questions. Johnson was pressed and he couldn't handle it.
  15. I'll see doctor strange in a couple of hours, but the villain is a strange choice, unless you are deliberately setting things up for the sequel. If it pays off, the villain in the sequel could be awesome.
  16. As Zoraptor explained, if you have unlimited income the hospitals and doctors are great. You might notice that the vast majority of people don't have unlimited income.
  17. The system is broke and healthcare providers are villains because private citizens pay more money out of pocket for healthcare than about any other western country, and in addition to that the government spends more per capita on healthcare than about any other country in the world with free healthcare. At the same time Americans also have the worst health outcomes of the western world by a significant margin.
  18. He has filed the application, but it got stuck somewhere in the corridors at the ministry of Truth & Broadcasting. Rumors are abound that he probably breached the independent thought protocol and now the big club is petty over their supposed Golem not being one at all. Source: http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/WikiLeaks-Clinton-Promote-Carson/2016/10/11/id/752705/ Is anyone supposed to be surprised or outraged by that?
  19. Would you say someone who uses his money, fame and connections to get away with repeatedly breaking the law, getting gigantic tax rebates, and sexually assaulting women is someone who has "transcended privilege-checking"?
  20. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B They are the ones who have trancended privilege-checking. Like, say, for example Trump.
  21. "I hate the elites who've been screwing me over for over the past 40 years so I'm going to vote for one of them"
  22. Is this a case of Michael Bays Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles did not happen. Nor did the sequel? Those sentences are just a jumble of words connected in an unmeaningful way, to me.
  23. That's not Elias Koteas.
  24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doEk7ajI9sY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_BTODUEhPk
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