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Author Topic: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: T+0  (Read 1421861 times)

WealthyRadish

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Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Judgement Day
« Reply #10110 on: November 08, 2016, 04:13:39 pm »

I'll clarify the question. Is there enough meat on the VRA to get a new case to overturned the decision and get back the protections it gave originally or does it need a new law for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_County_v._Holder

Looks like everything would be hunky dory if congress passed a bill with a new formula, but by the time that's possible the point will be moot, since the sun will have exploded.
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Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Judgement Day
« Reply #10111 on: November 08, 2016, 04:52:44 pm »

I, for my part, will be employing either an American or Gasden flag for my End Of The Republic celebration.
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I have voted! GLORIA IN EXCELSIS POTUS! GLORIA IN AETERNUM CLINTON IMPERATRIX!

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Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Judgement Day
« Reply #10112 on: November 08, 2016, 04:54:21 pm »

don't forget she's still going to be fighting a near, or even exactly 50/50 senate to get judges in.
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Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Judgement Day
« Reply #10113 on: November 08, 2016, 04:55:29 pm »

I, for my part, will be employing either an American or Gasden flag for my End Of The Republic celebration.
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I have voted! GLORIA IN EXCELSIS POTUS! GLORIA IN AETERNUM CLINTON IMPERATRIX!

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It stopped being blank when I accepted the cookies.  But www.mibbit.com works fine, just have to put in "irc.sorcery.net" for server.
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Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American (\{mainiac})
« Reply #10114 on: November 08, 2016, 05:11:04 pm »

Also, you might want to talk with Tiruin about Duterte, because she has a lot of info on him, to quell any highlighted bad-things.
I've seen what Tiruin has had to say on the matter in the dedicated thread, but I've always been of the opinion that intent and goals don't justify the means of achieving them -- he may mean well, but meaning well and encouraging murder of drug users is still encouraging murder of drug users
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Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Judgement Day
« Reply #10115 on: November 08, 2016, 05:31:53 pm »

Here's my official prediction for the election: one of the candidates wins; we all lose.

On a side note, god damn, that POTUS ballot. In addition to the Dems and Reps, we had the Greens and Libs (as expected), and two or three other candidates from other third parties. With any luck the mainline party that loses will be so salty that they try to kill FPTP and amend the Constitution for ordered-list runoff elections. That alone would be a massive step towards fixing the system.

And here's the sad thing. We wouldn't even be talking about this election as an uncertain thing if the Dems had nominated almost anyone else, or even if Clinton's campaign and supporters hadn't been so goddamn arrogant and entitled. I know I would have sucked it up and voted for her if there hadn't been that air of "well of course she's going to be president, it's her turn" or the constant bullying and browbeating of the left wing of the Democratic party by the center-right fuckers.
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Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Judgement Day
« Reply #10116 on: November 08, 2016, 05:41:17 pm »

Here's my official prediction for the election: one of the candidates wins; we all lose.

On a side note, god damn, that POTUS ballot. In addition to the Dems and Reps, we had the Greens and Libs (as expected), and two or three other candidates from other third parties. With any luck the mainline party that loses will be so salty that they try to kill FPTP and amend the Constitution for ordered-list runoff elections. That alone would be a massive step towards fixing the system.

And here's the sad thing. We wouldn't even be talking about this election as an uncertain thing if the Dems had nominated almost anyone else, or even if Clinton's campaign and supporters hadn't been so goddamn arrogant and entitled. I know I would have sucked it up and voted for her if there hadn't been that air of "well of course she's going to be president, it's her turn" or the constant bullying and browbeating of the left wing of the Democratic party by the center-right fuckers.

Yeah I never really liked Clinton, somehow I always get the feeling that she says what she thinks people expect her to say. She is just way too much in line with the general social trends in what she says, which makes her sounds like a parrot.

Trump on the other hand is just an arrogant asshole. Basically everything he does screams I am an asshole and proud of. As an example I am going to name the video in which Trump said the grab em by the pussy thing. The most appalling thing about that video wasn't that he was disrespectful, it was that he was fucking proud of abusing the position of power he had over those people. Why anyone would vote for such a person is beyond me.
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Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Judgement Day
« Reply #10117 on: November 08, 2016, 05:52:01 pm »

That's not new for Clinton, yeah. She was a Goldwater Girl back in the day, now she's popular with the left, and she's taken the easy and politically expedient positions every step along the way. No principles except self-promotion.

But, as you say, Trump is absolute scum, the sort of person that... well, suffice to say that if I had much less to live for and he won, I'd be buying myself a gun and heading to D.C. Ironic, that. :|

That has only the slightest tinge of kidding to it. It's beyond "I can't respect this person" and "this person has terrible, harmful policy positions" to "Global Thermonuclear War when?"
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Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Judgement Day
« Reply #10118 on: November 08, 2016, 05:52:55 pm »

You know it is at 2:00 PM that your brain goes "Alright you know we've had a really good run here, we've done good work and I feel good about this. It's been about eight hours now, and that's a full work day, and so its time to wrap it all up and head home." It's 4:00 PM when you think "Well you know it's been a long day, just one of those days you know. I'm tired, and I'll be pretty sore tomorrow, but I'm sure glad it's over." It's 6:00 PM when your brain goes "This ends soon, right? Please? Please..."  It's also around the time you start looking at the clock more often. 7:00 is when it gets compulsive.

I swear to god half my work could be achieved by a sign twice as tall and twice as large as our current signs. People just need directions on everything! People don't trust themselves to put in the damn paper, they need instructions on explicitly how to do it. And every single time, they ask "Does it matter what side?" No it doesn't matter, backward forwards upside down or whatever, I assure you I've seen people do it your way 100 times in the last hour. But no, gotta do that, and gotta do the hard work of constantly connecting people with the line they need to be in. It's like some sick twisted bureaucracy sim, called "Line Manager 2016" with the Election DLC. And there's never any payoff: you get one person out, but another takes their place. One group goes, another enters. For hours. At least the lines seemed to have chilled out for now. Most people are at or coming home from work, although the six-o-clock wave is coming. It's nice. The scanners haven't had a line in 15 minutes.

You folks want my gossip for the evening? I saw Tiffany Trump today (she's a runway model, his only daughter with Marla Maples). Emphasis on saw. My first realization that something was up was a quick blur of pink and blonde go past me, followed by a brief but overwhelming wave of perfume. For what it's worth (and it ain't worth much) I can say that she is pretty attractive, but not, like, amazing. Not even the most attractive person I've seen today. Again, your source for useless gossip coming at you live from on the streets of Manhattan.

Here's my official prediction for the election:
Here's mine: I work until 11:00 PM  taking shit from every self-entitled nutter in the Upper East Side, briefly go home to check who won (surprise, Hillary), take a train ride to my dorm, and pass out on my bed.

I'ma go now. Gotta get dinner while I can.
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Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Judgement Day
« Reply #10119 on: November 08, 2016, 05:59:11 pm »

Reminder that the IRC is up at
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With a very special guest star (;

On a side note, god damn, that POTUS ballot. In addition to the Dems and Reps, we had the Greens and Libs (as expected), and two or three other candidates from other third parties.
You had a Green option?  I might be misremembering (I voted on the 30th or so) but I thought it was only Libertarian, Dem, and Rep.
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Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Judgement Day
« Reply #10120 on: November 08, 2016, 06:05:50 pm »

Stein was on mine, at least. Johnson and one or two other non-major party folks, too. Two, now that I check the online sample ballot. Castle and De La Fuente.
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Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Judgement Day
« Reply #10121 on: November 08, 2016, 06:08:56 pm »

Funnily, stein is on the top of the ballot for me. Besides the big two, I got stein, Johnson, and la riva.

Anyways, I have voted now. :)

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« Reply #10122 on: November 08, 2016, 06:11:07 pm »

Godspeed, misko. It's hellish work, but someone's gotta do it. And there's only so many retirees to go around =P
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Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Judgement Day
« Reply #10123 on: November 08, 2016, 06:36:12 pm »

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On a side note, god damn, that POTUS ballot. In addition to the Dems and Reps, we had the Greens and Libs (as expected), and two or three other candidates from other third parties. With any luck the mainline party that loses will be so salty that they try to kill FPTP and amend the Constitution for ordered-list runoff elections. That alone would be a massive step towards fixing the system.

HAHAHAHAAahaha, ohhh you crack me up. I'm certain you know that's never going to happen. Even if the Dem/Rep reivalry wasn't just fabricated partisanship for the sake of dividing, distracting, and controlling the populace, they'd never do that because it would negatively affect their careers too.
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Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Judgement Day
« Reply #10124 on: November 08, 2016, 06:36:31 pm »

Goddamnit. Shots fired near (though not in, or at) a LA polling station, at least two victims en-route (or at, by now) the hospital. No word on if it's politically motivated or not, but still something we could do without :-\
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