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Happy Passover from the Shitgibbon administration! Today you're getting press secretary Sean Spicer first saying that Hitler didn't use chemical weapons, and then 'clarifying' that he didn't use them on "his own people". Because I guess we didn't count as "his own people".

I don't think I actually possess the vocabulary to describe my loathing of these people. This is much more eloquent than I would have been, though, so here:

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Okay, look.

Sean Spicer is ridiculous and inept;
But let's not lose track of the fact that
Words still mean things
And those things matter.

"His own people."
Did that scare you?
It should.
Because painting your victims as other
Is the first step of genocide.

This isn't just one buffoon tripping over facts.
This isn't just a gaffe.
This is an old and dangerous song
And it matters
And talking about it matters
And how we talk about it matters
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edit: it's even worse than that, actually




The Anne Frank Center is calling for Spicer to be fired, and I agree with them. I'm not even willing to extend them the benefit of the doubt that this was an accident; this is the administration that erased us from Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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:whatthefuck:

Just... what.

You know though, I think this is a statement that ISIS would agree with the Trump admin about.

Nancy Pelosi has also put out a statement demanding that Spicer lose his job.
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Old 04-12-2017, 03:58 AM
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Seems like the special election in KS-04 wound up roughly R+5.8%. For context, the shitgibbon went +27% in the same district (and there’s that number again). A 21-point collapse in support for Republicans nationwide would almost certainly result in Democratic control of the House in 2018. It also looks like this election received very little attention from the national media or the national Democratic Party (Thompson raised around $400k); it seems like this was mostly the work of Kansas Democrats.

Similarly, people point to Brownback in 2014 as ‘evidence’ that Kansas is hopeless, while neglecting the fact that his support, similarly, collapsed by about 20 points. To me, the obvious lesson is that we should be fielding candidates everywhere.

Ossoff’s upcoming election (April 18) in GA-06 will be another good test case. If he also performs competitively (GA-06 is also deep-red and he’s also polled competitively so far), that will bode awful signs for Republicans’ upcoming electoral prospects, and will also provide further evidence suggesting that the rule is not that off-year elections advantage Republicans, but instead that off-year elections advantage the political opponents of the president’s party.

And the president* is particularly awful and polarising. The fact that this occurred within the first hundred days of his presidency – typically the honeymoon period – is astonishing. The shitgibbon is bigly unpopular.
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I see we made redundant posts. Whoops.
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So in the end the Republican wins KS-04 by about 7 pts.

On the other hand, Trump won the district by about 27 pts (I believe) and Mike Pompeo (the Republican who vacated the seat to take a job in the Trump admin) won by about 30 pts.

So this is bad news for the Republicans. Losing the seat would've been an apocalyptic omen for the GOP, but if this result is repeated I think it would still qualify as catastrophic.

A 20 pt national swing should give the Democrats a significantly larger House majority than they had in 2009, and might even deliver the Senate. In the Senate, Nevada and Arizona are the only obvious pickup opportunities, which is not enough to get to 51 seats. But a 20 pt swing would even put Nebraska and Texas into play. While I don't see any other plausible wins in an optimistic scenario, I could see an anti-Trump conservative/Republican winning Utah (either Romney or McMullin), although it would probably require Hatch to be out of the picture (not inconceivable given that he's in his 80s).

I doubt we'd see a wave of that proportion, but even a 8-10 pt swing would probably give us the House.
To expand on the bolded sentence... the gains could be larger than expected for the national swing.

The thing about a lot of politicians is that they don't like losing, or to a lesser extent, being in the minority party. And if they look likely to lose or to wind up in the minority, they often retire. And when they retire, they make their seat even easier to win for the other party.

So an intimidating national environment will likely deliver the Democrats a few additional seats due to Republicans retiring in the face of a Democratic wave.
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Meanwhile, Jeff Sessions makes a brilliant move to dramatically reduce the number of wrongful convictions based on scientifically unsound forensic methods: simply stop independent inquiry into forensic methods! And he will have the numbers to back that up: the number of people released because the forensic methodology used to get them convicted turned out to be scientifically unsound will drop dramatically!

Applause and cigars for everyone!

Seriously, this administration of you merkins seems to really hate scientists. It doesn't just not respect what they have to say, but it actually wants them to STFU.

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Well, it's not like we were doing so hot in that field anyway.
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They're still mad about science killing Jesus.
Well, Trumps not, he thinks america has the best science for killing mexicans.
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Seriously, this administration of you merkins seems to really hate scientists. It doesn't just not respect what they have to say, but it actually wants them to STFU.
Scientists of one sort or another - forensic, economic, environmental, and especially statistical - are those who end up overseeing whether anyone's pet project or policy can be considered a success or failure, whether it serves the public good, the government's own interests, or whether it did anything for anyone's good at all. You can spin the numbers however you want, but what if the numbers don't exist?

The staticians were the first against the wall when the Canadian conservative block seized control, and as a result, we're still trying to figure out just how badly that government screwed us over. We do know they managed to somehow spend more money while removing almost every program and environmental legislation of worth, but what that did to our country? We don't know.
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Happy Passover from the Shitgibbon administration! Today you're getting press secretary Sean Spicer first saying that Hitler didn't use chemical weapons, and then 'clarifying' that he didn't use them on "his own people".
Speaking of Nazi lovers, Bayer - the illustrious history of which includes financing torture in Nazi concentration camps - is fixin' to merge with Monsanto. Donnie Dump approves, which means that silliness like the Sherman Act is just more liberal, namby pamby, cuck bullshit that needs to fall away in the interest of making America great again.

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What is it with conservatives hating trains. It's really fucking weird. They just despise trains. :shrug:
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It even works with natural gas, at least for the abu-dhabi.

Abu Dhabi plant to produce region's cheapest electricity from solar | The National

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As the need for electricity grows alongside projected growth in economies and population, solar energy has become the cheapest form of new power generation.


BNEF estimates that the price of generating power from a combined cycle natural gas plant in the Middle East is at least 3 cents per kWh, assuming a gas price of US$2 per million British thermal units (Mmbtu). The Sweihan plant represents, based on these calculations with adjustments for inflation, a 2 to 19 per cent decreasecompared to building a new gas plant.
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I have flashes about how this administration will end, and it ain't pretty:


But, I think it may just be hopeful delusions about 'history repeating itself'.
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For anyone keeping track at home, at $300m to design and $16m a piece the bomb that killed 36 alleged ISIS members only cost us between $440K and $8.7M per dead ISIS member. What a steal!
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At an estimated $200m to fix, my new government unit of currency is the Flint Water System. The moab cost 1.5 flint water systems to develop, then sat dormant for 14 years.
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Didn't there used to be some gimcrack aphorism about never getting involved in a land war in Asia?
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Trump White House will not make logs of visitors available to public | US news | The Guardian

Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "Why is @BarackObama spending millions to try and hide his records? He is the least transparent President--ever--and he ran on transparency."

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Why did they name the bomb after Israel's ancient enemy, Moab, if they didn't intend to drop it on Israel?
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With Trump, every accusation is a confession.

You can probably predict a lot of things he will do by looking through his attacks on Clinton and Obama - the nefarious motives he imputes to them are because that's what he would be motivated by.
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