Yeah, but the last president was black.
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These fucks also see Oslo etc as Slick Willie selling out their pals. It’s interesting to see the evolution of someone like PJ O’Rourke who I think I remember as once being vaguely sympathetic to the fuckedness of Palestinians to a frothing Israel advocate. And now pro life to an equally frothing extent. Even if the egregious fucker says he’s not for Trump, he’s gone full onboard the Culture War bus. I’m guessing the u-turn on abortion is that old saw of looking down at your first born... and then refusing to look at the issue objectively ever again.
Fuck sake I must have been some snotty Liam Fox cunt that six months or so I was soaking up his books. What evil you can get away with I’ve you’ve got comic timing in print.
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From the article:
Pirro is a longtime friend of Trump, but a recent New York Times’ report indicates that her hyperbolic rants get to be too much even for him. "Even Mr. Trump eventually tired of Ms. Pirro’s screed and walked out of the room," the Times reported
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the conservative case against Moore
That question is not whether the people of Alabama should vote for a great man with a serious flaw, but whether the people of Alabama should vote for a terrible man who lacks any redeeming virtue. In fact, Moore is so terrible that the most likely outcome of his elevation to the Senate is direct and important harm to the causes most Alabama Republicans claim to support. Before Americans learned one single thing about Moore’s alleged mistreatment and sexual assault of young girls, they had more than enough information to know that he was unfit for higher office.
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Part of me wants him to win so we can enjoy the subsequent congressional car crash as the GOP tries to hide him whilst still needing to drag him out of his isolation ward for tight votes. Who would want to find themselves in the same photo as Moore, for example, knowing it could then be used by the Dems in future campaigns?
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I was surprised to discover today, that 73 US Senators are older than president Obama.
I was less surprised to find that the median age of a US senator is 63 years old, and that 45 of them are senior citizens. 19 of them were born during the Roosevelt administration. nearly one in five are too old to be baby boomers. Roy Moore is a mere 71 years old and narrowly misses out on being an FDR baby.
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I found this Nate Silver piece on polling to be interesting, not so much for what it says about this race (which is impossible to call) but rather the inherent biases of different polling methods.
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View PostI was surprised to discover today, that 73 US Senators are older than president Obama.
I was less surprised to find that the median age of a US senator is 63 years old, and that 45 of them are senior citizens. 19 of them were born during the Roosevelt administration. nearly one in five are too old to be baby boomers. Roy Moore is a mere 71 years old and narrowly misses out on being an FDR baby.
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Postheh HP a lot of these senators are nearly 60 when they're elected. A number of them were over 65 when first elected to the senate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...s_by_seniority
It's more a problem in the house, where most races are noncompetitive. Though getting rid of gerrymandering would probably help more on that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior...epresentatives
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostA number of them have been there 20 years or more. Orrin Hatch has been there for 40fuckingyears.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...s_by_seniority
It's more a problem in the house, where most races are noncompetitive. Though getting rid of gerrymandering would probably help more on that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior...epresentatives
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Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View PostWe've got lots of safe seats (even when Blair won in 1997, the majority of incumbents won). Oldest MP, in a now not particularly safe seat, is Denis Skinner, who is 85. Another MP, David Winnick, lost his seat in 2017. aged 83.
The upshot is that even the most outlandish gobshite in the Dail has a fundamental understanding of how the EU works, essentially because they engage with it to get stuff for their constituency. The UK manages to get the very worst of the List system without the proportionality associated with that way of going about things.
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