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Chairslinger

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  1. 1 minute ago, Jason said:

     

     

    I think Republicans have gotten so good at pretending Trump's Twitter feed doesn't exist for political reasons that they've fooled themselves into thinking it doesn't matter for legal reasons.

     

    "It's just something he said on Twitter" doesn't really work here. Trump's diarrhea of the thumbs is a fucking goldmine for criminal intent. It's the kind of minute by minute documenting of state of mind that prosecutors could only dream of a few decades ago.

  2. 10 minutes ago, 2user1cup said:

     

     

    I think it's worth mentioning that the media churn has kind of given the impression that Cohen is mainly the money, fixer, mistress guy.

     

    But remember that the Steele dossier has Cohen in Prague literally paying off Russian hackers. His account of things could go right to the heart of collusion.

  3. 6 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

     

    As @b_m_b_m_b_m noted, this isn’t really about working class people...or even the “kinda working class because they only make 6 figs in the Bay Area” types.

     

     

    I was referring to how this plays in the wider political conversation. 

     

    We talk a lot about Trump parodying himself, but this is the type of thing conservatives dream up to turn people against government regulation.

     

    3 minutes ago, Amazatron said:

    Zuck lost $20B today...

     

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    I am sure that Zuckerberg would say that, like the Holocaust, that number is greatly inflated.

     

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    Borden is one of the supporters of a San Francisco city proposal, announced on Tuesday,that would ban on-site workplace cafeterias

     

    If approved, the measure would alter city planning laws to ban workplace cafeterias in any new developments, but would not be retroactive.

     

     

     

    You going to arrest people for bringing a bag lunch with them to work, too?

     

    I get the large scale communal concerns over this where the company is a vital organ of the community, but it strikes me as the kind of thing that should have been handled when they were settling on things like tax breaks for moving in and such. And now maybe with property or business taxes.

     

    Fucking with people's lunch hour is like a twofer when it comes to working class people who might not be hardcore Dem or Rep who are susceptible to arguments about frivolous government regulation.

  5. 3 minutes ago, legend said:

    Who would have thought. 

     

     

    The Trump era has been exasperating as a skeptic. I believe one should be very dubious about claims of conspiracies, but these morons keep getting caught in them. So I find myself almost gaslighting myself over questioning whether I am being Glenn Beckian over a story that breaks, only to find that yes Cohen really did start that LLC to pay off mistresses. That bank in Chicago really did give Manafort a loan as a bribe. Manafort really did try to change the Republican platform as a favor to Russians.

     

    It occurs to me that maybe this is happening because one side of the aisle now buys in to conspiracy theories so much that they just think that's how things are done.

     

    They tell themselves the Clinton Foundation is an obvious transparent money laundering scheme so what's the problem with the Trump Foundation truly being a transparent money laundering scheme, amirite?

  6. 10 minutes ago, Biggie said:

    Started from scratch last night. Couldn’t figure out how to repair my ship and it had been a long day so I quit. I’ll try again today when I’m not so tired. I do like the third person look. Very nice. I wish there was a way to turn off the sentinels. Fucking things are such pests. 

     

     

    The UI is kind of a pain.

     

    They don't always make it clear whether what you need is a raw material you need to find, something you need to craft, or something that needs to be processed. They throw a lot at you at the beginning.

     

    And the constant depletion of the Hazard Shield doesn't help.

     

    About 2 hours in, I feel like I am starting to get the hang of it. Hopefully it'll become second nature like Minecraft.

     

  7. 5 minutes ago, ort said:

    So sad that this company, which she worked so hard to foster and grow will be forced to shut it's doors.

     

    Seriously, fuck this company and fuck Ivanka Trump. I wonder how much work she actually did. I bet she went to a meeting a month and was like, uh, so, yeah, I see yellows being big next year, let's go for yellows. Now show me a bunch of sketches and work done by actual talented people who have to work for a living and I'll point at the one I like best after thinking about it for 15 seconds. Off to the Hamptons... buh buy! I'm an executive! I'm a big girl business lady!

     

     

    At least she can fall back on the sales of her perfume Complicit.

  8. 3 hours ago, mclumber1 said:

     

     

     

    I think the main takeaway from this is that it means either Cohen has already flipped or he soon will because Trump just signaled no help is coming. Period.

     

    This continues the trend where Trump seems content to let Mueller have the goods while Trump concentrates on the PR.

     

    He's betting that no matter how hard Mueller nails him, it's still a political process he can't lose. And he may be right.

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