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June LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

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

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

12 20.34%

John Kelly

4 6.78%

Jared Kushner

2 3.39%

Wilbur Ross

2 3.39%

Ben Carson

3 5.08%

Rudy Giuliani

9 15.25%

Scott Pruitt

9 15.25%

Kellyanne Conway

1 1.69%

Rod Rosenstein

8 13.56%

Write-in

9 15.25%

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06-05-2018 , 01:39 PM

#101

Namath12

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It seriously never ****ing ends with Pruitt.

06-05-2018 , 01:43 PM

#102

Namath12

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Keith Ellison resigning from the House to run for AG of MN

06-05-2018 , 03:03 PM

#103

suzzer99

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DudeImBetter

All but a few Eagles refuse to go to White House to celebrate their win, Trump tantrums and cancels the event with less than 24 hours notice lolololol

And the ****ing media takes him at his word and runs headlines like: "Trump cancels Eagles White House visit over anthem protests."

That is not what happened you lazy access-whores.

06-05-2018 , 03:05 PM

#104

Namath12

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06-05-2018 , 03:06 PM

#105

suzzer99

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dth123451

Dennis Miller is part of a strange, oddly common phenomenon: the rich and famous comedian who has never been funny.

He had his moment. It has long passed. I liked that he could rattle off stuff like the entire lineup of Grand Funk Railroad on a dime. I met someone who was The Dennis Miller Show's research assistant. Basically he read every newspaper and periodical looking for tidbits for the show. One of those jobs that I had no idea was an actual job.

06-05-2018 , 03:08 PM

#106

suzzer99

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Originally Posted by ChrisV

I am coming to your wretched, hellbound country in July. Have to be in Vegas 6th-17th and then have 18th-29th free to do whatever. I made a Travel thread seeking ideas here if anyone wants to comment.

WSOP?

06-05-2018 , 03:09 PM

#107

suzzer99

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Originally Posted by microbet

I'm up for any SoCal meetup. Maybe NorCal. Maybe LV.

I just got my shipping date back to the US. Looks like I'll be back in LA around July 10ish if all goes well.

06-05-2018 , 03:11 PM

#108

Oroku$aki

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Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

He had his moment. It has long passed. I liked that he could rattle off stuff like the entire lineup of Grand Funk Railroad on a dime. I met someone who was The Dennis Miller Show's research assistant. Basically he read every newspaper and periodical looking for tidbits for the show. One of those jobs that I had no idea was an actual job.

They're still working the bugs out of the funny news seeking algorithm.

06-05-2018 , 03:57 PM

#109

OneEyedPoker

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I mean it’s pretty amazing that Pruitt has survived this long, he has to have some big money backers keeping him in there, I just don’t see what good he does with all these scandals constantly coming forward. Although it does help that his scandals probably stay in the news cycle for a few hours before Trump does/says something stupid

06-05-2018 , 05:03 PM

#110

champstark

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this seems like a huge step down for someone who is as well-known nationally as Ellison

06-05-2018 , 05:14 PM

#111

goofyballer

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Yeah, kinda, but it's also a decent holding pattern spot while he waits for senate/governor or something - not a lot of places you can jump to straight from the House.

18 months ago, Kamala Harris was just an attorney general, now people are talking about her running in 2020.

06-05-2018 , 05:28 PM

#112

champstark

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

CA vs MN tho

06-05-2018 , 05:56 PM

#113

wheatrich

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Originally Posted by OneEyedPoker

It's because Trump's doing the same thing. As long as Pruitt is getting away with it, so will he. Also the pruitt scandals don't hurt trump whatsoever, nobody who voted for him cares about those things. suck it libtards.

06-05-2018 , 06:08 PM

#114

uDevil

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Poof. She was never here. Well maybe she delivered coffee once.

Quote:

Kelly Sadler, the White House communications aide who made a imprudent comment about Republican Sen. John McCain's health last month, no longer works in the administration, three sources with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/polit...use/index.html

06-05-2018 , 08:14 PM

#115

ChrisV

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Originally Posted by microbet

I'm up for any SoCal meetup. Maybe NorCal. Maybe LV.

Yeah cool. Haven't booked flights yet so I'll get into LA a couple days early and see if we can work something out.

06-05-2018 , 08:28 PM

#116

uDevil

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I have a hard time focusing enough to get through a book these days. Today I did manage a book review though. The review of What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics, by Adam Becker, starts with this:

Quote:

People are gullible. Humans can be duped by liars and conned by frauds; manipulated by rhetoric and beguiled by self-regard; browbeaten, cajoled, seduced, intimidated, flattered, wheedled, inveigled, and ensnared. In this respect, humans are unique in the animal kingdom.

Aristotle emphasizes another characteristic. Humans alone, he tells us, have logos: reason. Man, according to the Stoics, is zoön logikon, the reasoning animal. But on reflection, the first set of characteristics arises from the second. It is only because we reason and think and use language that we can be hoodwinked.

Not only can people be led astray, most people are. If the devout Christian is right, then committed Hindus and Jews and Buddhists and atheists are wrong. When so many groups disagree, the majority must be mistaken. And if the majority is misguided on just this one topic, then almost everyone must be mistaken on some issues of great importance. This is a hard lesson to learn, because it is paradoxical to accept one’s own folly. You cannot at the same time believe something and recognize that you are a mug to believe it. If you sincerely judge that it is raining outside, you cannot at the same time be convinced that you are mistaken in your belief. A sucker may be born every minute, but somehow that sucker is never oneself.

We're so stupid because we're so smart!

http://bostonreview.net/science-natu...-defeat-reason

06-06-2018 , 01:22 PM

#117

Trolly McTrollson

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Meanwhile in Ohio, we all decided to let a charter school rob the state blind to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Report details how much money school districts lost to ECOT

http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local...s-lost-to-ecot

Quote:

“What I could have done over the last eight years with that money,” said George Wood, the superintendent of Federal Hocking Local Schools in Athens County. “It’s a teacher and an aide. It’s three times what we spend on textbooks. It’s a new bus every year and it all went to a school district that didn’t even exist called ECOT.”

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06-06-2018 , 01:50 PM

#118

iron81

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I've seen too many dog Youtubez to believe humans are the only species that can be fooled.

06-06-2018 , 02:13 PM

#119

bobman0330

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The ECOT logo has the O looking like both an apple and a computer power button. How could you not automatically give them half a billion dollars?

06-06-2018 , 02:24 PM

#120

Trolly McTrollson

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Biggest heist in Ohio’s history. ofc eveyyone will still vote straight ticket R for the rest of their lives thanks to tribalism.

06-06-2018 , 02:42 PM

#121

TrollyWantACracker

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bobman0330

The ECOT logo has the O looking like both an apple and a computer power button. How could you not automatically give them half a billion dollars?

Also looks like an old-timey bomb with a lit fuse.

06-06-2018 , 03:09 PM

#122

uDevil

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Quote:

Originally Posted by iron81

I've seen too many dog Youtubez to believe humans are the only species that can be fooled.

We cannot escape ourselves. And sometimes the cat door... is closed.

06-06-2018 , 03:13 PM

#123

otatop

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Meanwhile in Ohio, we all decided to let a charter school rob the state blind to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.

I always wondered what the right's endgame with charter schools was, I should have known it was as simple as money.

06-06-2018 , 04:13 PM

#124

uDevil

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Two Pruitt aides disappeared under the bus today. He's trying to save himself.

https://twitter.com/EricLiptonNYT/st...50726557507587

06-06-2018 , 06:20 PM

#125

suzzer99

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wat

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