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Serious question: if you’re not a 1% or a gullible/desperate coal miner or steel worker, is there a legitimate reason outside of racism to be currently supporting Donald Trump?

If you believe in trickle down economics, your paycheck should reflect that any day now!

12-19-2018 , 09:23 PM

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Namath12

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We are drowning in corruption

12-19-2018 , 09:24 PM

#132229

Namath12

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DRAIN THE SWAMP THO

****in rubes

12-19-2018 , 09:29 PM

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Matty Lice

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Quote:

Originally Posted by OmgGlutten!

Serious question: how do nuclear codes work? is it possible for Trump to give them to Putin?

The code is probably something like XRMHDIRNVaRV53NNFDI8FNvo2SICRM.

Doubt Trump can do that lol.

12-19-2018 , 09:40 PM

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Clovis8

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Quote:

Originally Posted by OmgGlutten!

Serious question: how do nuclear codes work? is it possible for Trump to give them to Putin?

Short answer no.

They are in something called a biscuit which is a sealed plastic disk. They only work with the football which is a device carried along with the president. Launching also requires a duplicate code to be confirmed by another senior military official.

All actions in a launch require two people, right down to the missle silo.

12-19-2018 , 09:42 PM

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kerowo

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Trump won't be doing any typing FFS. He'll verify his identity and order the launch.

12-19-2018 , 09:45 PM

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Clovis8

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Matty Lice

The code is probably something like XRMHDIRNVaRV53NNFDI8FNvo2SICRM.

Doubt Trump can do that lol.

Today the code is much longer than that but for for decades it was literally 00000000. Imagine that!

There is an awesome, but VERY scary, book called a Command and Control that documents the many times the US has been shockingly close to nuclear detonations on home soil.

They also made it into a documentary.

12-19-2018 , 09:47 PM

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suzzer99

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Hypothetically given free range in Syria now - it would be nowhere near beyond the realm of possibility for Putin to stage, inspire or otherwise enable a bunch of ISIS terrorist attacks leading up to the 2020 election.

12-19-2018 , 09:55 PM

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Matty Lice

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I know the US rallied behind W after 2001, but I think a similar event would backfire today. I mean yea, it would scare up the deplorable base but that was always going to happen.

12-19-2018 , 10:38 PM

#132236

Kevin J

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Quote:

Originally Posted by David Sklansky

At least 40% of those people do not support Trump. (No need to reply "you would know.")

Yet you do?

12-19-2018 , 10:38 PM

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fatkid

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Originally Posted by +rep_lol

nate likes to parade around like he's smarter than he really is because he can weight some averages and ****, but he consistently shows that he's an ignorant dumbass when he talks about actual political issues

Yeah Nate can EAD.

Quote:

Originally Posted by OmgGlutten!

Serious question: how do nuclear codes work? is it possible for Trump to give them to Putin?

Yipes. He keeps em on a note file in his iPhone so all he needs is to airdrop em.

12-19-2018 , 10:56 PM

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alazo1985

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Quote:

Originally Posted by .Alex.

This is excellent and should be stickied in this forum and on twitter.

I don’t think that President Hindenburg Gabe Hitler a chance because he wanted to be tolerant of intolerance, so this gets an F for historical accuracy but I agree with the larger thrust

12-19-2018 , 10:57 PM

#132239

alazo1985

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Quote:

Originally Posted by StoppedRainingMen

Serious question: if you’re not a 1% or a gullible/desperate coal miner or steel worker, is there a legitimate reason outside of racism to be currently supporting Donald Trump?

Brainwashing

12-19-2018 , 10:58 PM

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WichitaDM

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Trump doesn't know how to type. Or use a computer.

12-19-2018 , 11:14 PM

#132241

synth_floyd

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Some people have an authoritarian bent. They probably still support Trump.

12-19-2018 , 11:15 PM

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goofyballer

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bobman0330

More ideologically palatable version of nate's tweet:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...514_story.html

Is it?

Quote:

Laura Ingraham’s advertisers aren’t really staging a boycott. It’s a capital strike.

I'm perfectly fine with doing a capital strike on Laura Ingraham's, or Tucker Carlson's, television shows. Who isn't? Why does that make Nate/Glenn correct to shun all "censorship" (lol) of this nature?

And like, this is not the complaint Nate/Glenn are making, at all:

Quote:

It also foregrounds a key imbalance in our politics: While capital can strike on a whim and effectively shut down a political program or initiative, labor’s ability to similarly assert itself in the public sphere is comparatively limited.

Sorry bobman, I think this is a Bad Post.

12-19-2018 , 11:19 PM

#132243

UsedToBeGood

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It's great that the centrist dem position in 2020 seems to be a proxy war with Russia and nation building in Syria.

12-19-2018 , 11:42 PM

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ChrisV

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Originally Posted by UsedToBeGood

It's great that the centrist dem position in 2020 seems to be a proxy war with Russia and nation building in Syria.

God, they are going to try to be the patriotism party again, aren't they.

12-19-2018 , 11:58 PM

#132245

Grue

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Did not expect 24 hours ago to think significantly less of both Nate and Ted Lieu right now =/

12-20-2018 , 12:04 AM

#132246

microbet

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Grue

Did not expect 24 hours ago to think significantly less of both Nate and Ted Lieu right now =/

What did Ted Lieu do? That he's happy we're pulling out of Syria?

Well, the thing that sucks is that we're probably not really pulling out of Syria.

12-20-2018 , 12:32 AM

#132247

kerowo

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I don’t know if we should be in Syria, but I’m skeptical that whatever we were trying to do there is done because Trump says so.

12-20-2018 , 12:37 AM

#132248

Clovis8

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Originally Posted by kerowo

I don’t know if we should be in Syria, but I’m skeptical that whatever we were trying to do there is done because Trump says so.

Skepticism is too weak a response. One could do a pretty good job as president by simply asking Trump what he would do and then do the most opposite version.

12-20-2018 , 12:44 AM

#132249

SuperUberBob

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If Trump can bring them home without allowing a vacuum to be filled by ISIS, then that'd be a great thing.

Of course, Obama tried that with Iraq and we see how that worked out.

It'll probably be like Niger with special ops acting in a clandestine environment with the world completely unaware of it. Trump gets the credit without removing a whole lot.