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with dismay and surprising optimism. he would 100% be confirmed because garland is, by all accounts, completely qualified and as politically moderate/middle of the road as it gets

this hypothetical is an exceptionally weak gotcha attempt for somebody who fancies himself as such a deep thinking intellectual

04-05-2017 , 08:11 PM

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425kid

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Pretty sure if Trump nominated Garland to fill RBGs seat Ted Cruz would be more likely to vote against him than any democrat regardless of the timeline we're in or the context

04-05-2017 , 08:13 PM

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DrChesspain

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Originally Posted by 57 On Red

And you need it. We've got nothing like the Aryan Nations, nothing like the KKK, and we've never elected anyone like Donald Trump. But then our nation wasn't founded by paedophile slave-owners like Thomas Jefferson, who rebelled against the Crown solely because of Lord Mansfield's ruling in the Somerset case. (The Lord Chief Justice's opinion was that slavery was not, and never had been, lawful in England, because it was so odious that only positive statute, which was never in place, could permit it. That drove racist plantation owners like Jefferson literally killing mad and made them start an internecine civil war. The 'country' they founded still bears that homicidally racist character.)

Amanda Knox says "Hi."

04-05-2017 , 08:25 PM

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Rococo

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Originally Posted by David Sklansky

My presumption is that Kushner will be a major part of the negotiations, not just Trump's Jewish friend. Has there ever been an Orthodox Jew leading the American side in the past? This could help not only because Israel would trust him more and would like to see credit be given one of their own, but also because Kushner might have a better feel for what issues Israel could be persuaded to relent on.

This is either a joke or a wildly naive take on Israeli politics.

04-05-2017 , 08:36 PM

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DrChesspain

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This is like Bruce Z level bigotry. Aside from your ignorance in assuming that most Israeli Jews are Orthodox (which they aren't), you also just assume that because Kushner is an Orthodox Jew he somehow has secret insight into the mind of "Average Israeli"?

You really are a ****ing embarassment.

04-05-2017 , 08:38 PM

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Max Cut

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Originally Posted by David Sklansky

And if Scalia did not die and if Ginsburg died after the inauguration, how would the Democrats react if Trump nominated Garland?

Not sure. What do you think?

Followup: How do you think the Democrats would react if Trump pulled off a toupee to reveal an actual halo and the levitated of the ground?

04-05-2017 , 08:38 PM

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Clovis8

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David, stop posting. You are really embarrassing yourself.

It's also grossly racist that you think all it takes to fix a century old conflict among deeply entrenched sides is have a Jew use their secret Jew handshake with other Jews.

04-05-2017 , 08:47 PM

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ScreaminAsian

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sometimes i think that everyone around trump is very very stupid and incompetent because of that + inexperience.

then i think about what if they're just pretending to be dumb

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/s...79961401659395

04-05-2017 , 08:51 PM

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Dominic

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I'm a college English Professor. Gorush is guilty of plagiarism. There is no leeway there. Even if he copied and pasted "facts," (as someone mentioned), it's still plagiarism if he does not cite his source. If he paraphrases the source and doesn't cite it, that's plagiarism, too.

Anything that isn't isn't his own idea, if it isn't cited, is plagiarism. No matter where he got it.

04-05-2017 , 08:58 PM

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Clovis8

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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

sometimes i think that everyone around trump is very very stupid and incompetent because of that + inexperience.

then i think about what if they're just pretending to be dumb

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/s...79961401659395

They are not pretending. They are stupid.

04-05-2017 , 09:00 PM

#24611

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Originally Posted by David Sklansky

And if Scalia did not die and if Ginsburg died after the inauguration, how would the Democrats react if Trump nominated Garland?

With champagne bottles. Republicans would be busy trying to make him the next Harriet Miers.

04-05-2017 , 09:01 PM

#24612

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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

sometimes i think that everyone around trump is very very stupid and incompetent because of that + inexperience.

then i think about what if they're just pretending to be dumb

Her answer was fine.

04-05-2017 , 09:08 PM

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technically, dems should filibuster repubs until their party brings some moderates to the table. Don't allow the extreme wing of the party to hurt our country.

Gorsuch lives in Boulder. I've spent a lot of time there and haven't run into too many right wing extremists.

04-05-2017 , 09:13 PM

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Best thing in the fly article is how stupid Democrats are in somehow underestimating how popular their agenda is. Hey dumbasses, maybe make the (very easy to explain) case for UHC instead of abandoning it for phantom "moderates" who will oppose anything you do 100 percent of the time?

04-05-2017 , 09:13 PM

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Rococo

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Wait. You have held jobs as both a porn director and a college English professor. You might be the only person in the world to have held both jobs.

04-05-2017 , 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by campfirewest

Gorsuch lives in Boulder. I've spent a lot of time there and haven't run into too many right wing extremists.

Great point! I grew up in Alabama.

Keep the non-stop quality posts coming

04-05-2017 , 09:15 PM

#24617

Chips Ahoy

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His films had real depth

04-05-2017 , 09:17 PM

#24618

Loki

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Quote:

Originally Posted by campfirewest

Gorsuch lives in Boulder. I've spent a lot of time there and haven't run into too many right wing extremists.

In a thread where sklansky has recently made blindingly moronic posts, this post manages to out-stupid sklansky's.

Good job.

04-05-2017 , 09:18 PM

#24619

DrChesspain

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Originally Posted by Chips Ahoy

His films had real depth

04-05-2017 , 09:19 PM

#24620

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Also,

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If you go on the arXiv, you will find many math papers with substantial text overlap. From einbert's perspective, this would imply a huge crisis of academic integrity in math. But what it actually is is people copying definitions of complex mathematical quantities, using the exact wording so as to avoid potentially subtle errors.

This is still plagiarism. I mean, unless it's something very well known like Maxwell's equations if you're using a formula or definition you found elsewhere the source should be cited.

04-05-2017 , 09:20 PM

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so it turns out bannon getting off the NSC was just symbolic and meant nothing

damnit

04-05-2017 , 09:24 PM

#24622

Jbrochu

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Originally Posted by DrChesspain

That's no way to talk to an imaginary Nobel prize winner!

04-05-2017 , 09:39 PM

#24623

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Originally Posted by wheatrich

so it turns out bannon getting off the NSC was just symbolic and meant nothing

damnit

It was more misdirection I think; a distraction from other changes made to the NSC, namely adding the energy secretary Rick Perry. I don't know the entire significance of it or anything (something about bringing our nuclear stockpile into the fold). Just parroting what I read earlier.