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Kentucky has a Democratic governor. If Biden puts McConnell in his cabinet does the governor get to pick his Senate replacement? -- nm - Dano Oct 20, 15:50 11
- Would McConnell have to accept a cabinet position? -- nm - zunkskunk scared stupid Oct 20, 15:57 5
  - Crash & zunk. Great minds think alike. -- nm - zunkskunk scared stupid Oct 20, 15:58 4
    - We appreciate Led Zeppelin IV -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 16:01 3
      - who doesn't? - mud Oct 20, 16:02 2
        
        Those who voted Rumors over it. Though in total transparency I put Born To Run #1 because I felt it needed the points. -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 16:05 1
        
        It's not about voting Rumours above. It's about total votes. - 👽Scully👽 Oct 20, 16:11
- you can turn down a Cabinet appointment, and since there is no Secretary of Dark Money, I don't think Mitch wants an appointment. -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 15:57
- Secretary of Barncleaning -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 20, 15:56 1
  - Secretary of Testudinology -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 20, 16:01
- Unless the legislature passes a law saying he can’t. -- nm - znoooooooo!!! Oct 20, 15:52
- lol thats funny. but yes he would. -- nm - Jovian Oct 20, 15:50
whoa, Ben Wheatley?! gotta see this -- (link) - mud Oct 20, 15:49
LYC: So today at work, interviewing a possible internal candidate for a transfer - Strongbad Oct 20, 15:47 5
- Okay, if you are going to post a story like that, someone (I guess it is me) is going to have to ask what was the question? -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 16:01 4
  - The question - Strongbad Oct 20, 16:03 3
    - Yeah. She had an abusive supervisor. -- nm - 👽Scully👽 Oct 20, 16:10
    - okay, there is probably a very sad story in there so I won't go any further - thanks -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 16:06 1
      - Yeah. It's pretty bad. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 20, 16:12
Something about having a wife in the ICU concentrates the mind and keeps you from getting worked up over a political discussion. - crash davis Oct 20, 15:47 6
- I'm not worked up either, since I have less than zero influence on this - Reagen Oct 20, 15:52 3
  - but pardon me if I don't accept your numbers since you won't recognize 9 bar is distinct from one. -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 15:55 2
    - in this house, we use mathematical precision - Reagen Oct 20, 15:58 1
      - I am an old man. I fear I might not live long enough to see some new great mathematician vindicate me. -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 16:04
- so, definitely Less Filling, and not Tastes Great, right? -- nm - 🧛 pfm in a Frog Thor mask 💀 Oct 20, 15:48 1
  - I mean I want the Seahawks to win the NFC West, but if the Eagles somehow came over and won it, I don't think I can stop that. -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 15:56
so, The Mandalorian is just releasing 1 episode a week? not all at once? bastards! -- nm - Boooooker Oct 20, 15:44 1
- This is the way. - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 20, 15:57
The lovely Kaitlan Collins -- (link) - Jovian Oct 20, 15:42 1
- she's the best. -- nm - mud Oct 20, 15:44
Some things that I just noticed: No Arctic Monkey nom in 00's. No Kenny Rogers nom in 70s/80s. -- nm - ty97 Oct 20, 15:27 2
- in the 70s, I feel Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson was a more significant country album than what Kenny Rogers did, jmo -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 15:40 1
  - Kenny gets hurt cause his huge songs are on different albums for the most part -- nm - Boooooker Oct 20, 15:45
Regardless of what you think about their political positions can you say that Jeff Flake and John Kasich just went along with Trump? -- nm - Dano Oct 20, 15:24 6
- No you can not say that about Kasich. You can point to times that Flake definitely did -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 15:38
- Are there not Democrats who can fill the spots they could? - Reagen Oct 20, 15:27 4
  - You can pin that on a Senator like Flake. Kasich was a Governor. -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 15:37 2
    - Look at Ohio and tell me Kasich isn't responsible for much of the same shit Trump is. Voter suppression - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 15:46 1
      - There is a dark side of Trump that Kasich, Romney, and others don't approach. The pandemic, the executions, the kids in cages, all that goes beyond - crash davis Oct 20, 15:54
  - This. -- nm - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 15:32
does this mean former MM VJ "JD" Roberts will drift even further to the right? -- (link) - mud Oct 20, 15:24
heh. UPDATE: Lesley Stahl=mean to me -- (link) - mud Oct 20, 15:17 2
- Poooooooor little Donnie. -- nm - 👽Scully👽 Oct 20, 15:26
- "Whiny Asshole 2020" -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 15:19
We are about to collect samples from an asteroid. -- (link) - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 14:56 3
- smh ;p -- nm* - crash davis Oct 20, 15:05 1
  - I suppose I should explain that. I was teasing about you not reading what I post. - crash davis Oct 20, 15:13
- ~Don't wanna close my eyes~ -- nm - Strongbad Oct 20, 15:00
"For those of you just joining us, the games start at 7 and we expect promptness." -- nm - Doc Emerick Oct 20, 14:52 1
- ha! -- nm - 🧛 pfm in a Frog Thor mask 💀 Oct 20, 15:10
David Crosby's latest: Beach Boys co-founder Mike Love has no talent and should retire -- (link) - PumpkinheadPete Oct 20, 14:43 1
- Love co-wrote most of the Beach Boys biggest hits. He's an asshole, but he's not untalented - Mr. Havens Oct 20, 14:49
Steve Winwood statement on passing of Spencer Davis. -- (link*) - loosilu Oct 20, 14:38
Meant to mention yesterday, Costco has Tequila gift packs again similar to the one we got for CY last year. This one has four smaller bottles rather - 👻MonsterMeg💀 Oct 20, 14:25 2
- Been getting my Kirkland Signature on now I've newed the Membership -- nm - Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 20, 14:32 1
  - Every year I say it's not worth renewing. Every year I do 🙄 -- nm - 👻MonsterMeg💀 Oct 20, 15:03
ICYMI: I have a new podcast episode, highlighting the 35th anniversary of To Live and Die in L.A. - Mr. Havens Oct 20, 14:24 2
- Really hopeful for the 25th of Escape from LA -- nm* - Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 20, 14:36 1
  - Maybe a 40th for Escape from New York next July, being an 80s movie podcast and all - Mr. Havens Oct 20, 14:44
Is anyone else a Verizon Up customer that can grab me a Pokémon Go code? (Thanks already to decline) - spamlet Oct 20, 14:07
Fuck, Joe, have you learned nothing? Stop with this now. - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 14:06 76
- This seems like something you should be silent on until the election and then mention as a way to mitigate buyer's remorse. - Max Oct 20, 17:45
- Remember the negotiations for Healthcare. In order to try to get *anything* done we took their plan, got their input, they still scorch earthed it -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 20, 15:52
- Democrats—always trying to play fair and take the high road. Fucking never works -- nm - Flav/Shower Inspector 👩 🚿 🔪 🩸 Oct 20, 14:57 4
  - Never works? -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 15:09 1
    - I'm simply refusing to let Lucy trick me into trying to kick the football. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 15:25
  - The lesson elected Republicans seem to have learned from the last 50 years is "OK, 4-8 years, but next time we'll do it *worse*." -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 15:06 1
    - The Grand Overton Party -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 20, 15:10
- I thought about replying in this thread with a coherent response, then changed my mind. - Strongbad Oct 20, 14:47 17
  - "This place" = "the world", surely.. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 20, 15:18
  - I don't disagree with your IM - Reagen Oct 20, 14:50 13
    - It is all about winning and expanding your base. A hardliner who rejects Cindy McCain's hand is going to have a tougher time in Arizona than one who - crash davis Oct 20, 14:56 11
      - That doesn't mean you need to give them a seat at the table. If they want to change parties and recognize the error of their ways, sure - Reagen Oct 20, 15:00 10
        
        No ones giving out seats yet. - znoooooooo!!! Oct 20, 15:12
        
        Where do you draw the line here? Exclude all non-Democrats? -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 15:07 8
        
        To wit: -- (link) - Reagen Oct 20, 15:18 1
        
        I believe that is a totally flawed analysis. You don't pick GOP members to be in your cabinet to curry favor with ELECTED members of the GOP. - crash davis Oct 20, 15:36
        
        as much as humanly possible until they are held to account. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 15:12 1
        
        but there's no monolithic "they"!! just wait, the no-trumpers will come out of the woodwork and take over, or start a new party. It'll be great! -- nm* - mud Oct 20, 15:13
        
        this whole thread is silly, and moo. the Biden admin. will do what they do, ain't nothing to do about it. -- nm - mud Oct 20, 15:10 2
        
        now I want a glass of chocolate milk -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 15:11
        
        "Like a cow's opinion." -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 20, 15:11
        
        From the cabinet? Sure. Maybe with a small number of exceptions. -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 20, 15:09
    - That IM is pretty much my point put muchmuchMUCH more succinctly - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 14:52
  - Does this make this reply your incoherent one? -- nm* - Qale Oct 20, 14:49 1
    - Yes. Very incoherent. And evil. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 20, 14:55
- Democrats attacking other democrats? It is where Democrats are Viking! -- nm - Qale Oct 20, 14:44 3
  - Democrats appeasing the GOP are why we are where we are in no small part. - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 14:47 2
    - Centrist Democrats are the only ones who are attacked by both the Left and Right and Far Right. It is exhausting. -- nm - Qale Oct 20, 14:51 1
      - 'struth -- nm - mud Oct 20, 15:18
- I’ll be disappointed if he follows through, but right now he needs to give persuadable moderate voters every possible reason not to vote for Trump -- (edited) - znoooooooo!!! Oct 20, 14:29 4
  - I say voters, though it’s really about keeping persuadable people with money on the sidelines, instead of them being left thinking they have no option -- (edited) - znoooooooo!!! Oct 20, 14:52
  - There are precious few persuadables at this point. Like, literally under 2 or 3%. And any "moderate" who's having difficulty with a Trump/Biden - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 14:33 2
    - People with poor critical thinking skills votes count the same as yours and mine. -- (edited) - znoooooooo!!! Oct 20, 14:35 1
      - Not when the EC is involved, they don't. - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 14:40
- Promise them everything. Give them nothing. -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 20, 14:26 1
  - All about the dangles, ferda. -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 20, 14:42
- There's nothing wrong with Joe's team TALKING to some GOP people. - Mr. Havens Oct 20, 14:18
- All Republicans aren't evil (though most of the ones mentioned in the article are meh). - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 20, 14:13 7
  - If you support the GOP you're evil. If you've voted for a GOP candidate, you're evil. At the very least, you're fine with evil holding power -- nm - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 14:19 6
    - I explained it to my Dad simply like this the other day. When I see a MAGA sign. I see a swastika. -- nm - Jovian Oct 20, 14:27 5
      - When I see a MAGA hat, I see a white hood. -- nm - 💀 Skully 💀 Oct 20, 14:27 4
        
        It's damn frustrating that this is viewed as hyperbole when you can draw tight parallels between the rise of Naziism and the rise of Trumpism. - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 14:30 2
        
        its been happening here for 4 years, and if this tyrant and his regime stay in power, its all over. -- nm - Jovian Oct 20, 14:36
        
        the parallels are with 1929-33 Nazism, not 1934-45 Nazism. This distinction is lost with most. The danger of what can come is the same. -- nm - mud Oct 20, 14:35
        
        But my lifelong racist father with a 9th grade level education says I am being silly. So. -- nm - Jovian Oct 20, 14:30
- I mostly agree, but one must consider that there will be split on the right as has never been seen in a party. The GOP is done. - mud Oct 20, 14:11 3
  - what am I, chopped liver? -- nm - mud Oct 20, 15:02 2
    - call someone a motherfucker, maybe. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 15:12 1
      - is this that "gaslighting" I keep hearing about? - mud Oct 20, 15:59
- Not everything is politics...there are several Republicans I would trust as Secretary of Defense, head of the CIA, etc -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 14:09 25
  - I wouldn't trust ANY Republican at any level after the last 4 years. Ever godammed one of them supported a GOP playbook that led to Trump and they - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 14:12 7
    - Agreed! -- nm - Krusty Oct 20, 14:17
    - oferchristsakes - you honestly think people like say a Jim Mattis have nothing to offer this country? -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 14:17 5
      - When someone like Tom Nichols is saying "vote all of them out and make them wander in the wilderness", I think we can rest easy in our position - Reagen Oct 20, 14:48
      - Yes. After watching him hold his tongue during too much of the Trump presidency, I do. -- nm - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 14:20 3
        
        yeah, all of Clinton and Obama's SecDefs were encouraged to put in their two cents on tax, immigration, and other social policies -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 14:23 2
        
        All that's necessary for evil to triumph, etc., etc., etc. -- nm - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 14:27 1
        
        All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for everyone to become a hardline fanatic. -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 14:28
  - and I am tired of some "Progressives" being unwilling to compromise one goddamned bit -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 14:12 16
    - You do not compromise with people who think it's okay to debate who gets to even be people. The GOP is racist, misogynistic, nationalist, etc. etc. If - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 14:18
    - I'm tired of the democrats being the only ones to try and compromise while the republicans dig in their heels on every single issue. -- nm - Krusty Oct 20, 14:17 14
      - Wouldn't a Republican becoming a part of a Democrat President's team be... checks notes... a compromise? -- nm - Mr. Havens Oct 20, 14:21 13
        
        Obama and Clinton both had Republican Secretaries of Defense. But Obama and Clinton are evidently bad guys. -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 14:25 6
        
        I'm sure you've noticed the current context is much different. -- nm - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 14:28 5
        
        Absolutely not. We used to have bipartisan consensus on national security concerns in this country. It is a great place to start building it back -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 14:29 4
        
        Why? Why give the GOP any say after they've fucked everything up over the past 4 years? Are there no qualified Dems to hold these positions? - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 14:36 3
        
        Would you rather persuade people of the justness of your cause or dictate terms to them? And when you're dictating, - crash davis Oct 20, 14:43 2
        
        Right now, dictate. We don't need Trump voters to win. - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 14:45 1
        
        If the electoral college was abolished, you would have a correct statement. Until then.... -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 14:48
        
        By the democrats. They're the ones who would be offering up a position to the other party. Sure, it goes both ways but the democrats are always the - Krusty Oct 20, 14:25 5
        
        I've been a Dem my entire life, even as I was surrounded by "Libertarians." I know how bad we can be as pushovers. - Mr. Havens Oct 20, 14:34 4
        
        Right now the "best person" can't be anyone who supports the GOP that created Trump. If someone still identifies with the GOP as "their party" they - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 14:44 3
        
        OR... and I cannot stress this enough... they know Trumpism was always temporary, and that the end of Trumpism starts in 15 days - Mr. Havens Oct 20, 14:48 2
        
        Silence is cowardice. -- nm - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 20, 14:54 1
        
        Silence can be cowardice, but it's sometimes strategic. Why speak if no one is going to listen at the moment? - Mr. Havens Oct 20, 15:00
- bad idea jeans right there. -- nm - Pippy's Brew Oct 20, 14:08
Agent Orange walked out of his interview with 60 Minutes. Now attacking Stahl on twitter. -- nm - Jovian Oct 20, 14:05 4
- "Boy, that escalated quickly" -- nm - 45 Oct 20, 14:30
- I'm sure they just won't mention it at all on the show. -- nm - 💀 Skully 💀 Oct 20, 14:20
- Oh, that's gonna be fun. -- nm - David Oct 20, 14:15
- This morning while watching Fox And Friends, I listened to him bitch about Savannah Guthrie, Chris Wallace, Scully of C-Span, the debate commission... -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 14:07
yeah, "typo" isnt right when you don't know the word - spelling, meaning or context. -- nm - mud Oct 20, 14:04
a 2000 year old Greek Snake Alter has been found in Turkey -- (link) - PumpkinheadPete Oct 20, 14:04
speaking of david's below (or b2) post, I want to buy a forehead thermometer. do we have an official one? (didn't want to LIR) -- nm - amanda Oct 20, 14:02 10
- We got one at Costco, $20, rub it across your forehead -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 20, 15:55
- We got one for Waze a while ago, and it's on Amazon now for like $30. We use it (each) at least twice daily. -- (link) - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 20, 14:08 3
  - Just bought it. -- nm - 💀 Skully 💀 Oct 20, 14:25
  - ha ha I like the look of this one best. I'll just get it. ("does it work?" "it's cute.") -- nm - amanda Oct 20, 14:21
  - That’s the one we got as well. Seems accurate-ish. -- nm - spamlet Oct 20, 14:09
- I like the digital with handle and trigger that you don't actually have to touch to the skin -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 14:06 3
  - now you tell me! - Pippy's Brew Oct 20, 14:45 1
    - I never thought about that, but yeah, it would help there for sure. I am so sorry to hear about your mom. -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 15:45
  - Yup. We got one on Amazon for like $60. -- nm - David Oct 20, 14:15
- The basic ones work great—Some on Amazon, Target, Walmart for $15 -- nm - Flav/Shower Inspector 👩 🚿 🔪 🩸 Oct 20, 14:05
Gtfo here yankee! -- nm - mud Oct 20, 14:01

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