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August LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of August?

Mike Pence

1 2.04%

Jay Sekulow

6 12.24%

Jared Kushner

1 2.04%

Steve Bannon

11 22.45%

Kellyanne Conway

2 4.08%

Tom Price

0 0%

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

18 36.73%

John Kelly

2 4.08%

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

1 2.04%

Rex Tillerson

7 14.29%

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08-01-2017 , 12:01 AM

ScreaminAsian

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08-01-2017 , 12:07 AM

ScreaminAsian

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spoiler: ivanka survives because she's incredibly talented and smart; great genes.

08-01-2017 , 03:56 AM

5ive

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voted BASTARD! obv

08-01-2017 , 03:59 AM

AllCowsEatGrass

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08-01-2017 , 04:44 AM

DVaut1

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Venezuela opposition leaders rounded up by Venezuelan intelligence services...posted almost live on Twitter:

The future is something else.

08-01-2017 , 11:01 AM

AllTheCheese

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Sanders introduces amendment to lower the cost of prescription drugs developed with federally-funded research.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0da64e87aaebf

Here's Cenk from Young Turks breaking it down in his usual hilarious fashion.

08-01-2017 , 11:44 AM

Loki

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Is spicer in that OP?

08-01-2017 , 11:58 AM

AllTheCheese

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Followup on the legal prohibition of boycotting Israel. The Zionists weigh in.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...e-free-speech/

Basically, the argument here is that if we allow businesses to boycott Israel as a matter of free expression, then we could never allow sanctions to enforce boycotts, because... not boycotting is as much a political statement as boycotting? I guess?

So in the United States, corporations are people with natural rights, money is speech, but boycotting an oppressive regime of apartheid doesn't count as free expression. Do I have that straight?

08-01-2017 , 12:03 PM

Loki

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Would a SCOTUS challenge to that boycott ban stand?

08-01-2017 , 03:18 PM

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DrModern

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Random thought: The so-called "Bernie wing of the Democratic Party" (spoiler alert: I'm not a registered Democrat) a/k/a the United Soviet Socialist Republic of BernieBros needs to find a way to re-appropriate and re-purpose this banshee-shrieking liberal language of racial and gender injustice (including its God-awful tone), but focused on things that actually matter (like UBI) instead of whether enough queer women of color have been cast as James Bond. Like we need a UBI because not having one would be extremely sexist and racist.

In addition, means testing is really dumb and no lefty should embrace it even as a compromise.

08-01-2017 , 03:21 PM

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uDevil

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Via Podhoretz twitter

08-01-2017 , 03:28 PM

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ScreaminAsian

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i got a good feeling about jay sekulow getting kicked off the island this month. the white house revised their story again, this time directly contradicting sekulow's repeated insistence when he went full ginsburg the sunday after the don jr meeting story broke

if the president lied to him in private, he might resign out of frustration and say he resigned for other reasons, or if he knowingly lied who knows what'll happen. probably nothing lol

08-01-2017 , 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by uDevil

Via Podhoretz twitter

strong

08-01-2017 , 03:43 PM

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DudeImBetter

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Originally Posted by DrModern

instead of whether enough queer women of color have been cast as James Bond.

Not sure you've been paying attention, but outside of Tumblr and college campuses the only people mentioning what roles queer women of color have in feature films are social regressives lamenting the fall of white men as evidenced by them not being protagonists in literally every movie.

08-01-2017 , 03:46 PM

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What's the deal with Chapo? Like, they could only afford two good microphones so matt gets a tin can on a string?

bump

08-01-2017 , 03:47 PM

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This is the first time I've ever agreed with DIB and disagreed with Dr. Modern

08-01-2017 , 03:48 PM

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So us libs need to stop pushing so hard for racial/gender equality and focus on fighting the Real Racism --where have I heard that line before?

08-01-2017 , 03:50 PM

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Trolly McTrollson

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This is the first time I've ever agreed with DIB and disagreed with Dr. Modern

The new lady Dr. Who has broken one of our best posters

08-01-2017 , 03:55 PM

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Every single phrase in this post is fascinating. I feel like the next generation of college students will be writing long dissertations about this post to get their Ph.D.s in Critical Take Theory.

08-01-2017 , 04:51 PM

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08-01-2017 , 04:53 PM

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DrModern

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Of course.

I guess I'm asking why these ideas are so prevalent on Tumblr and college campuses. Will the 18-year-olds get over them at some point or can we expect a shift toward this kind of discourse as demographics shift over time?

If not, I think us BernieBots should perhaps prepare versions of our arguments that use this kind of language if we want to be effective in communicating with "the youth."

08-01-2017 , 04:54 PM

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DrModern

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

The new lady Dr. Who has broken one of our best posters

I'm in favor of lady Dr. Who, to be clear. I'm also in favor of queer black female James Bond.

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobman0330

Every single phrase in this post is fascinating. I feel like the next generation of college students will be writing long dissertations about this post to get their Ph.D.s in Critical Take Theory.

Why thank you!

08-01-2017 , 05:45 PM

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2/325Falcon

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We already have that kind of discourse itf from post-college snowflakes. There's a guy in here who thinks we don't have great public transportation in USA #1 because the Republicans are afraid to ride the bus with brown people.

08-01-2017 , 05:50 PM

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mounting evidence that our reality is a programmed simulation:

Scaramucci’s name comes from the Italian word for a ‘controversy of little importance’

MILAN — There's a Latin proverb that Italians often quote: “Nomen omen” — a person’s destiny lies in his name. That couldn’t be more true than in the case of Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House communications director who lasted just 10 days on the job.

Scaramucci’s name comes from the Italian word “scaramuccia,” which means “brief fight” or “controversy of little importance.” It could be roughly translated as “scuffle” or “skirmish,” but those English terms hardly convey the nuances of the Italian word, which implies gratuitousness, pettiness and, more often than not, clownish behavior.

08-01-2017 , 05:57 PM

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suzzer99

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I feel like Trump is proof we don't live in a simulation. No one could make that up - and if they did they'd be laughed out of the simulation strategy session.

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