Fenderputty
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Who gives a shit about middle aged white men? Old ass people, who reliably vote R, are being fucked here harder than anyone and the AARP will mobilize them.
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PoliGAF 2017 |OT3| 13 Treasons Why
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Oh don't worry when millennials get to be that age they gonna be voting R. The Gen Z generation and the one after will be here to bail us out.
Hooligan69
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I've already been seeing AARP commercials here in Colorado saying to vote against the healthcare bill. They're well done too.
Playlist of said AARP ads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih7pTh20N5k&feature=youtu.be&list=PLErIJrtiGWSxXgW6DlpLFXeJhtc5e7oSa
"You're both over 50?"
"It's an age tax"
"Get charged 5x more for healthcare"
"Pre-existing conditions?"
It's got it all.
Fenderputty
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That voting block wouldn't have the same clout as the boomers though. In 2015 both generations were about equal with regards to population sizes.
not sure if it was posted already, but good Politico piece on whether or not Dems should give up on gun control. I'm tempted to say it's the one issue worth throwing away in the name of winning. The political costs are so fucking high, forcing the potential impact on gun violence from each tiny, incremental piece of gun control legislation to be imperceptibly low.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/24/democrats-guns-rob-quist-215186
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/24/democrats-guns-rob-quist-215186
BoogieWoogie
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Ryan and Associates. LOL
Tranqueris
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Generation Z will probably be advocating for a goddamn purge and they'll get one when they elect President JonTron.
@BenjySarlin 3m
Ben texted me the tweet is serious. Gianforte is the GOP candidate in the House special election in Montana.
Fenderputty
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There's gotta be witnesses if not.
BoogieWoogie
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Macho Madness
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Ben apparently has audio and the cops were called
Aaron Strife
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I will commit sudoku when that happens.
JonTron being removed from Yooka-Laylee will be the 21st century equivalent to Hitler getting rejected from art school.
Fenderputty
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In a perfect world, Gianforte watches his loss from a jail cell.
BoogieWoogie
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Literally the day before the vote, this is unbelievable.
Poodlestrike
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He probably makes bail instantly, but it'd be really awesome if his mugshot was all over the news the day of the election.
Aaron Strife
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This Gianforte business swinging the election would be fucking nuts.
Bet he still wins, but I want to believe.
Iirc there was an NC representative who punched a reporter or something in the run-up to the 2010 elections. Bob Etheridge I think? He was a Democrat.
Bet he still wins, but I want to believe.
Iirc there was an NC representative who punched a reporter or something in the run-up to the 2010 elections. Bob Etheridge I think? He was a Democrat.
balladofwindfishes
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The poor widdle baby is probably afraid he's going to lose to a country music singer in an R+20 district and lashed out
On the one hand, he's a foreigner and part of the liberal media, so this might encourage Gianforte supporters.
On the other hand, it's assault by a guy who supported the AHCA (privately, while publicly being two-faced about it) on the day before the election and the same day that the CBO score for that bill comes out.
On the other hand, it's assault by a guy who supported the AHCA (privately, while publicly being two-faced about it) on the day before the election and the same day that the CBO score for that bill comes out.
Aaron Strife
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This just occurred to me. If Quist wins they can write it off as a fluke because Gianforte was a bad candidate, ignoring the underlying factors that made it competitive in the first place.
Because if Gianforte started out leading by 20 and this happened, he'd probably still win by double digits. If he's only ahead by 2-4 points as the GOP has been saying, he can't afford something like this.
Part of me is happy that the "body slam" is gonna look terrible for the GOP candidate, part of me is happy it happened to a reporter from The Guardian.
¯\_(ツ_/¯
Don't like The Guardian?
Thaedolus
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Employer of Glenn Greenwald and pusher of Russian propaganda? Not really, no.
That's The Intercept, no?
Basileus777
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Greenwald hasn't been at the Guardian in years. Hell he only worked for them for like a year.
cartoon_soldier
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Part of me is happy that the "body slam" is gonna look terrible for the GOP candidate, part of me is happy it happened to a reporter from The Guardian.
¯_(ツ
Ben is a good reporter.
If Dems win tomorrow in Montana I will buy two people here pizza delivered to your home.
He worked for The Guardian a long way back, when they and several other papers were publishing WikiLeaks material, before we knew their real endgame to be honest.
For someone to single one newspaper out or somehow mitigate physical assault because of that is a bit dickish.
Thaedolus
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OrangeGrayBlue
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broz0rs
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Witness account of the Gianforte attack from a journalist
https://twitter.com/alexis_levinson/status/867522985086910464
https://twitter.com/alexis_levinson/status/867522985086910464
BlastProcessing
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@existentialfish
NEW: I traced the the Seth Rich conspiracies back to the beginning. http://mm4a.org/2qQeya2
@existentialfish
The first mainstream publication to publish Seth Rich conspiracies was Heat Street, run at the time by ... Louise Mensch
NEW: I traced the the Seth Rich conspiracies back to the beginning. http://mm4a.org/2qQeya2
@existentialfish
The first mainstream publication to publish Seth Rich conspiracies was Heat Street, run at the time by ... Louise Mensch
Of course.
Sounds about right
Was Mensch a Bernienite who hates the DNC and Hillary?
Nope. A conservative from across from the UK I believe.
Spoiled Milk
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aspiegamer
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I'd be pretty pissed off if I was at risk of losing a R+20 seat, but this is a whole new tier of hilarious. Having a POTUS part of the WWE hall of fame is clearly paying off down ballot.
Oh, Twitter.
ShadowSwordmaster
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That is awful to hear.
Fenderputty
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That tweet to Nate is pure gold
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