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I'm Not Trying to Suck My Own Coctober LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

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

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

6 9.52%

Stephen Miller

2 3.17%

John Kelly

8 12.70%

Jared Kushner

6 9.52%

Gary Cohn

6 9.52%

Rex Tillerson

23 36.51%

Kellyanne Conway

3 4.76%

Scott Pruitt

3 4.76%

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

3 4.76%

Write-in

3 4.76%

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10-04-2017 , 11:08 AM

#126

Max Cut

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Tilly locks in, not quitting, says he didn't call cheeto a dum dum. Leggo kushy!

edit: Apparently it wasn't an outright denial on his alleged 'cheeto is a moron' comment.

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/915594393494712320

Last edited by Max Cut; 10-04-2017 at 11:17 AM.

10-04-2017 , 12:38 PM

#127

markksman

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I voted other but I would like to petition the powers that be that I nicknamed Tillerson other a long time ago and is how I refer to him. Thus if Tillerson gets fired or resigned my choice of “Other” should count.

For example, “Did you guys hear Secretary Other call President Trump a F@&*( moron”.

10-04-2017 , 12:38 PM

#128

simplicitus

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Gotta read this tweet thread for the twist at the end.

"Gun laws will never change, the NRA is too powerful"
Mother****er, that's fundamentally false. As evidence, I hold up smoking laws.

https://twitter.com/MysteryCr8tve/st...07919660888064

10-04-2017 , 01:29 PM

#129

Huehuecoyotl

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A heart breaking story of elderly abuse by Nevada's guardianship laws. Professional guardians would swoop in with a doctor's note that an elderly person wasn't able to take care of themselves, confiscate all their belongings, and sell them off and then tack on fees to leech the accounts dry. In many cases, they were able to do it with the sanction of judges who would ignore families pleas that the person was able to take care of themselves or the family themselves could take care of them. The families were then barred from seeing their relatives and even arrested.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...e-their-rights

Quote:

A stocky woman with shiny black hair introduced herself as April Parks, the owner of the company A Private Professional Guardian. She was accompanied by three colleagues, who didn’t give their names. Parks told the Norths that she had an order from the Clark County Family Court to “remove” them from their home. She would be taking them to an assisted-living facility. “Go and gather your things,” she said.

One of Parks’s colleagues said that if the Norths didn’t comply he would call the police. Rudy remembers thinking, You’re going to put my wife and me in jail for this? But he felt too confused to argue.

Parks drove a Pontiac G-6 convertible with a license plate that read “crtgrdn,” for “court guardian.” In the past twelve years, she had been a guardian for some four hundred wards of the court. Owing to age or disability, they had been deemed incompetent, a legal term that describes those who are unable to make reasoned choices about their lives or their property. As their guardian, Parks had the authority to manage their assets, and to choose where they lived, whom they associated with, and what medical treatment they received. They lost nearly all their civil rights.

10-04-2017 , 01:38 PM

#130

batair

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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

I didn’t realize that song was written after someone tried to burn down his house. What a baller.

I didn't know this was written for Ike Turner.

10-04-2017 , 02:23 PM

#131

Chips Ahoy

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from 2015: The Pacific Northwest is going to be destroyed by an earthquake + tsunami.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...really-big-one

Quote:

Thanks to that work, we now know that the Pacific Northwest has experienced forty-one subduction-zone earthquakes in the past ten thousand years. If you divide ten thousand by forty-one, you get two hundred and forty-three, which is Cascadia’s recurrence interval: the average amount of time that elapses between earthquakes. That timespan is dangerous both because it is too long—long enough for us to unwittingly build an entire civilization on top of our continent’s worst fault line—and because it is not long enough. Counting from the earthquake of 1700, we are now three hundred and fifteen years into a two-hundred-and-forty-three-year cycle.

Quote:

builders are required only to consult with dogami about evacuation plans. “So you come in and sit down,” Ian Madin says. “And I say, ‘That’s a stupid idea.’ And you say, ‘Thanks. Now we’ve consulted.’ ”

10-04-2017 , 02:27 PM

#132

Riverman

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Without the New Yorker this country would be left with basically zero good long form journalism.

10-04-2017 , 02:41 PM

#133

suzzer99

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Well the good news I guess is as bad as that Pacific NW earthquake would be - it's still like what 1/1000th as bad as WWII was for mainland Europe?

10-04-2017 , 02:45 PM

#134

suzzer99

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Average CEO has to make do with $253,088 in monthly pension payments

Marissa Meyer made $309k per day while running Yahoo into the ground.

Can't raise min. wage though - where oh where would the money ever come from? They'll just raise prices or lay off workers, and you're a naive fool if you think otherwise. Profits and exec salaries only go up, never down.

10-04-2017 , 03:09 PM

#135

SenorKeeed

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Chips Ahoy

from 2015: The Pacific Northwest is going to be destroyed by an earthquake + tsunami.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...really-big-one

Quote:

These lax safety policies guarantee that many people inside the inundation zone will not get out. Twenty-two per cent of Oregon’s coastal population is sixty-five or older. Twenty-nine per cent of the state’s population is disabled, and that figure rises in many coastal counties

The bolded seems, uh, dubious

10-04-2017 , 03:10 PM

#136

ScreaminAsian

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Quote:

Originally Posted by markksman

so your write-in is the most popular choice on the ballot? that’s among the dumbest things i’ve ever heard i hope you lose

10-04-2017 , 03:13 PM

#137

Chips Ahoy

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yeah, not knowing anything I'd say 2.9% disabled is more likely.

10-04-2017 , 03:17 PM

#138

markksman

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Shady pharmaceutical companies keep coming up ways to be shady.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...-mohawk-tribe/

One company has handed their patents off to a Native American tribe so they can try and avoid inter partes review on the grounds the native Americans have sovereign immunity.

I think we have absolutely reached the time where we need to integrate Native American tribe countries into the United States proper. This abuse of sovreignity is become worse and worse. Not to mention it is just doesn’t make sense to have scores or hundreds of tiny sovereign nations within the borders of the United States.

Recently I saw a story where a guy lost out a 1.3 million jackpot he hit at a Native American casino because they claimed malfunction. He spent a lot of time trying to pursue it in the courts but at every level he was denied because the courts concluded they had no jurisdiction due to sovreignity.

I am certainly considerate of the issues and history of native Americans but I see no benefit to them or anyone else by essentially exempting them from American law. We can still implement policies and plans to help support Native American communities. But that is what they should be, Native American communities in the United States not sovereign countries in the United States.

10-04-2017 , 03:35 PM

#139

stinkubus

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According to the Oregon Office on Disability 27.4% of Oregon residents were disabled as of 2014. The figure is one page 14 at:

https://www.ohsu.edu/xd/research/cen...eport-2014.pdf

10-04-2017 , 03:41 PM

#140

SenorKeeed

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wtf are they counting as disabled? That's absurd.

18% of 18-39 year olds are disabled? Bad!

10-04-2017 , 03:44 PM

#141

SenorKeeed

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Quote:

Nearly three quarters (72.5%) of adults with disabilities in Oregon reported participating in physical activities or exercises such as running, calisthenics, golf, gardening, or walking during the past month. Nationally, 60.2% of adults with disabilities reported participating in physical activities or exercise

huh

10-04-2017 , 03:47 PM

#142

Chips Ahoy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SenorKeeed

wtf are they counting as disabled? That's absurd.

18% of 18-39 year olds are disabled? Bad!

The definition provided:

Quote:

In the BRFSS survey, people are considered to have a disability if they answer “Yes” to
one or both of the following questions:
1. Are you limited in any way in any activities because of physical, mental, or
emotional problems?
2. Do you now have any health problem that requires you to use special equipment,
such as a cane, a wheelchair, a special bed, or a special telephone?

and thanks for the link

10-04-2017 , 03:54 PM

#143

SenorKeeed

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So if you have tennis elbow you answer yes?

But fine, whatever. Although that article says 27% of Oregoners "are disabled" which imo has a much stronger connotation than "have a disability".

10-04-2017 , 03:56 PM

#144

spidercrab

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Yeah, that's pretty weird. I hurt my foot about a month ago, so I haven't been running since then. But it would be silly to say I had a disability.

10-04-2017 , 04:01 PM

#145

microbet

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Riverman

Without the New Yorker this country would be left with basically zero good long form journalism.

The Atlantic imo

I don't read Harper's often, but I think that's good too. I wouldn't read Rolling Stone unless something else brought me there, but they have good stuff sometimes.

10-04-2017 , 04:03 PM

#146

SenorKeeed

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10-04-2017 , 04:05 PM

#147

microbet

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Disabled is relative. If it means getting a handicapped placard or something most people over 70 qualify.

10-04-2017 , 04:06 PM

#148

Victor

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

that was really hard to read. ofc the judge gets away scot free.

10-04-2017 , 05:07 PM

#149

SuperUberBob

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

The Atlantic imo

I don't read Harper's often, but I think that's good too. I wouldn't read Rolling Stone unless something else brought me there, but they have good stuff sometimes.

ProPublica and Vox should be included.