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March LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

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

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

3 5.77%

John Kelly

5 9.62%

Kellyanne Conway

1 1.92%

Rex Tillerson

7 13.46%

Jared Kushner

13 25.00%

Ben Carson

11 21.15%

Gary Cohn

5 9.62%

Ryan Zinke

1 1.92%

Rod Rosenstein

4 7.69%

Write-in

2 3.85%

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03-17-2018 , 04:00 PM

#776

mosdef

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Originally Posted by Jbrochu

I don't think complicated products are against the law. Just take a look at the sleazy world of whole life and annuities.

Also, add churning to your example of things the new rules would hopefully have prevented.

Sure, churning is also ridiculous and should be prohibited.

As an aside, selling insurance is not the same as being an investment advisor under the applicable SEC regulations. The best interest standard wouldn't impact insurance product sales at all I don't think, even when those products have an underlying investments aspect. Someone with more knowledge may correct me if I'm wrong about that. I live and work in Canada so I know the Canadian rules better.

03-17-2018 , 08:56 PM

#777

ChrisV

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Real gem of a paragraph here from Scott Adams:

Quote:

Gun ownership is a safeguard against the government turning on citizens. While the professional military will always have overwhelming firepower compared to citizens, private guns would instantly be turned on the unprotected assets and family members of anyone involved in a coup attempt. That’s a safeguard.

Where do you even start with that?

03-17-2018 , 09:09 PM

#778

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

Real gem of a paragraph here from Scott Adams:

Where do you even start with that?

Private militia supporting Trump. Sounds like Brown Shirts.

03-17-2018 , 10:40 PM

#779

Huehuecoyotl

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

Real gem of a paragraph here from Scott Adams:

Where do you even start with that?

You don't need guns for that.

03-17-2018 , 11:25 PM

#780

AllTheCheese

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America competing with Hungary for who can gin up the most paranoid, anti-Soros sentiment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...6bc_story.html

Quote:

Although Soros has not visited Hungary in years, his craggy face is a constant here, peering out from bus stations and looming over highways as part of a ruling-party advertising campaign. The ads put a dark spin on Soros’s call for a more welcoming approach to refugees, suggesting that the billionaire has a secret plan to flood the nation with migrants.

Quote:

Soros and Orban, perhaps the world’s two best-known living Hungarians, have a history together. Orban was a young democratic activist in the dying days of communist control in the late 1980s. Soros funded a scholarship for him to study at Oxford and even helped with the launch of Fidesz, which began as a liberal student movement.

If Orban — a man whom even critics describe as brilliant, with ego and ambition to match — has felt gratitude to the Budapest-born Holocaust survivor, he has not shown it.

Last summer, the government posted billboards across the country depicting a grinning Soros and the words: “Let’s not allow George Soros to have the last laugh!” Several were defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti.

03-18-2018 , 12:38 AM

#781

markksman

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No wonder why Greece failed. They provoked the world’s power core.

03-18-2018 , 10:27 AM

#782

Max Cut

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CA laying out their defense in a twitter thread. How to spot that they're full of ****:

HA HA HA! Oh, wow.

03-18-2018 , 10:32 AM

#783

Max Cut

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03-18-2018 , 12:57 PM

#784

eyebooger

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https://twitter.com/OnionPolitics/st...67537694167040

03-18-2018 , 02:18 PM

#785

tomdemaine

Just tries harder

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Google and facebook are gonna be in trouble now that its been determined thst advertising doesn't work. Seems odd to spend a trillion dollars a year on it if it doesn't alter behaviour.

03-18-2018 , 09:14 PM

#786

ScreaminAsian

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current mood:

03-19-2018 , 08:58 AM

#787

eyebooger

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Decent article this morning about what the Democrats should do post-Trump.

http://theweek.com/articles/760739/h...op-fix-america

03-19-2018 , 09:45 AM

#788

tomdemaine

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Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 20,065

Obviously I didn't read Hillary's book because lol, but I just saw that she used free ponies as an analogy for unrealistic gov't handouts. I thought that was a 2+2 thing no? I know we invented the slow pony. Is hil a secret 2+2er?

03-19-2018 , 09:53 AM

#789

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Advertising is not coercive
Advertising is not coercive
Advertising is not coercive
Advertising is not coercive
Advertising is not coercive
Advertising is not coercive
Advertising is not coercive

03-19-2018 , 10:00 AM

#790

Louis Cyphre

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Hillary probably isn't a 2+2er but Vermin Supreme might be

Vermin Supreme 2016: Alternative US presidential candidate promises free ponies for all

03-19-2018 , 10:15 AM

#791

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I think "free ponies" is a fairly widespread thing predating 2p2.

03-19-2018 , 10:20 AM

#792

Max Cut

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AP sucks at reporting on kayfabe.

https://twitter.com/AP/status/975432750231687173

03-19-2018 , 11:12 AM

#793

Namath12

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Max Cut

AP sucks at reporting on kayfabe.

https://twitter.com/AP/status/975432750231687173

This is how it's done

03-19-2018 , 11:42 AM

#794

Trolly McTrollson

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Troll of the Week contender:

No California law requiring students learn Arabic numbers

Quote:

SACREMENTO, Calif. – There is no law in California requiring students to use Arabic numbers in schools — because they already do.

A post by the Last Line of Defense claimed Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a requirement that students learn Arabic numerals. But California students, like others around the world, already use the Hindu-Arabic numeral system.

03-19-2018 , 11:47 AM

#795

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In the history of modern constitutions going back to like Oliver Cromwell are there any that do more to push power out of the population centers than the US Constitution what with our Senate?

I looked at the constituencies of the House of Commons for a check and while the biggest is 5 times as populous as the smallest, most are in a fairly narrow range. And still that's nothing compared to our biggest state being 60 times as populous as the smallest.

03-19-2018 , 11:54 AM

#796

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Out of curiosity, do I have it right that the ratio was ~10x around the time the COTUS was ratified?

03-19-2018 , 11:58 AM

#797

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Max Cut

Out of curiosity, do I have it right that the ratio was ~10x around the time the COTUS was ratified?

Yeah. Looks like 8.4. With our current system either the big states should be broken up or some little states combined - but it's a ****ty system. One Person, One Vote!

03-19-2018 , 12:14 PM

#798

Namath12

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Yeah it's incredible in hindsight how this weird system was ever a thing, but it's more understandable when you consider that voting was heavily tied to land back then and "one person, one vote" is a much newer concept.

03-19-2018 , 12:27 PM

#799

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I was just listening to an interview of Lula from Brazil and prepared be sympathetic, but I think there should be a hard and fast rule: referring to yourself in the third person is disqualifying.

03-19-2018 , 12:44 PM

#800

lycosid

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Namath12

The simpler explanation is that the founders devised a system to give outsize influence to slave states. It was never conceived as some theoretical ideal of good governance.

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