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Feb 4 2020 08:41am
Quote (Thor123422 @ 4 Feb 2020 15:37)
Anything less than "steaming pile of feces and human organs has developed cancerous growth" is too generous.


I still wouldnt rejoice over the news that he has lung cancer...

offtopic, but it cant be said enough: FUCK cancer!! :angry:
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Feb 4 2020 08:44am
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ive never understood the lefts need to elevate characters like Rush. he's not saying anything you wont hear over coffee at our trap/skeet club when the 60+ year old white dudes all get to chirping.

then again, pretending a large part of the US doesnt exist, or are deplorable, (and losing elections with halfcocked feelgood strategies) is about all the modern left is capable of.


I listened to a lot of right talk radio. I don't have the same feelings about Hannity or Beck or Levin. They largely just get an eye roll from me. Rush is just a genuinely terrible person among them.
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Feb 4 2020 08:48am
Quote (Thor123422 @ Feb 4 2020 08:44am)
I listened to a lot of right talk radio. I don't have the same feelings about Hannity or Beck or Levin. They largely just get an eye roll from me. Rush is just a genuinely terrible person among them.


those guys are only winking at it, Rush told it like a lot of americans felt. i dont agree with him, at all, but labeling him as human feces is just alienating more voters. didnt work in 2016.

and you're free to do it all day long, you're not a DNC chair or candidate. but when they do it i just roll my eyes.
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Feb 4 2020 08:56am
Quote (Thor123422 @ Feb 4 2020 08:44am)
I listened to a lot of right talk radio. I don't have the same feelings about Hannity or Beck or Levin. They largely just get an eye roll from me. Rush is just a genuinely terrible person among them.


Funny, I feel that way about Hannity.
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Feb 4 2020 09:08am
Quote (Black XistenZ @ 4 Feb 2020 14:48)
in this podcast:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-what-to-expect-from-the-iowa-caucuses/

polling expert Nate Silver from 538 rails into the Des Moines Register/CNN/Seltzer & Co people for cancelling their final Iowa poll over the reported issues, saying that it seems like a drastic overreaction to him, and like the pollster gave in to pressure from the client or the public -which is basically the same thing I was saying all along.

also, the preliminary and uncomplete results we saw from Iowa yesterday seem to be in line with the results from this unpublished poll, with Sanders winning, Buttigieg doing really well and Biden doing very poorly.


well, afaik it was ONE participant that made a complaint to the buttigieg campaign, which then lead to the whole poll release / national reporting about it on CNN being canceled.

my question is if that is an even borderline proportionate response, how big of an impact would this specific alleged mistake potentially have had, and if i believe that the same would have happened if one of the interviewers had printed out their questionaire in slightly larger font and accidentally dropped bernie sanders name from the list when asking participant about their likely choice - and that is just incredibly difficult for me to imagine given everything i know about the DNC.

on its face i don't think you can fault the decision. assuming the complaint was genuine and true, and the investigation of it confirmed there was a real issue, you could always claim it's just hyper principled and fair to quite literally 'stop the presses' - but this just reeks of the establishment being the establishment. it's just the beginning of a long uphill fight of the people's vote against the dirty political tricks and mechanisms in place to keep washington in the grasp of the donor class.
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Feb 4 2020 09:20am
Quote (Santara @ Feb 4 2020 08:56am)
Funny, I feel that way about Hannity.


I can't take Hannity seriously enough to have strong feelings about him. He's acknowledged as a shill for the Republican party even among other right-talk radio hosts. He's out to get paid and keep his cushy gig on Fox, and while he might be a sellout he's at least not usually personally malicious.

I actually think Beck is a good person at heart. I mean, he's really dumb and crazy as hell, but he's at least a good person behind all that. Actually while typing this I realized Beck reminded me a lot of a few Mormon friends, and googled it and I guess he's a Mormon too? I can't really tell from the quick summaries I'm getting. Either way he's the perfect target for Mormonism. A good person who's easily manipulated by grandiose BS.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Feb 4 2020 09:21am
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Feb 4 2020 09:26am
I bet that app cost a fortune as well. I hope it was designed for idempotency, probably not though given that output. At least its not a full blown stack trace O.o
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Feb 4 2020 09:28am
Quote (thesnipa @ Feb 4 2020 07:34am)
lol i came here just to see your response. what a fucking mess. its like starting a horse race and all of them trip out of the gates.



It’s actually awesome and terrible at the same time

I am pretend mad at my wife that we wasted so much time caucusing for yang. Honey u wasted 4 hours of both our time how do you feel about this

On the flip side and what is extremely unfortunate

Quote (Bazi @ Feb 3 2020 09:36pm)
I’m so happy I don’t gotta fall asleep listening to yang interviews after tonight

Been a long couple months lmao


She still in denial and still thinks he still has a shot
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Feb 4 2020 09:35am
Quote (Black XistenZ @ 4 Feb 2020 06:40)
So... I dont want to come across like an Alex Jones tinfoil hat type of guy, but - if you're rooting for Biden and/or against Sanders, wouldnt it be awfully convenient if the final results werent coming out on Tuesday morning or noon and instead became delayed until shortly before the SOTU speech tonight, so that they get overshadowed immediately?


I think the caucus system just sucks. Also, the DNC sucks. I don't know why we give Iowa this huge event every presidential election. Every state should be switched to a primary system, and the first primary vote should be Super Tuesday or something.
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Feb 4 2020 09:40am
Quote (fender @ 4 Feb 2020 16:08)
well, afaik it was ONE participant that made a complaint to the buttigieg campaign, which then lead to the whole poll release / national reporting about it on CNN being canceled.

my question is if that is an even borderline proportionate response, how big of an impact would this specific alleged mistake potentially have had, and if i believe that the same would have happened if one of the interviewers had printed out their questionaire in slightly larger font and accidentally dropped bernie sanders name from the list when asking participant about their likely choice - and that is just incredibly difficult for me to imagine given everything i know about the DNC.

on its face i don't think you can fault the decision. assuming the complaint was genuine and true, and the investigation of it confirmed there was a real issue, you could always claim it's just hyper principled and fair to quite literally 'stop the presses' - but this just reeks of the establishment being the establishment. it's just the beginning of a long uphill fight of the people's vote against the dirty political tricks and mechanisms in place to keep washington in the grasp of the donor class.


yup. and as a follow-up, there is this:

and


https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/iowa-might-have-screwed-up-the-whole-nomination-process/



How "convenient". :rolleyes:

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