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At any rate, that certainly was a three-paragraph, mealy-mouthed, non-committal "We'll see" I got from my congressperson. Also a lead on the next link on the chain, though. There is a Judiciary Committee....
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 20:00:19 UTC from web-
@scribus my congressperson (my new one anyway, the old one got voted out last year) has been pretty consistently open about everything she plans to do... the last one stopped holding town halls because people kept asking questions she didn’t have answers to.
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@mrmattimation Mine's a pretty cookie-cutter Republican. Party line on all major issues.
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@scribus I live in a congressional district that used to split its ballots, Obama won narrowly in 2008, Romney in 2012, and Clinton by 10 points in 2016, with the Republican House candidate winning handily all three of those years as well as every year between (and it was a Republican stronghold before 2008). So the way it USED to be was the congressperson here was a cookie-cutter Republican, but occasionally they’d back Obama (or rebuke Trump) on highly nationalized issues, and that’s how they survived. After 2016 the old Congresswoman got a little comfortable and just became a rank-and-duke Republican... then she lost re-election by 10+ points. Everyone thought it’d be one of the closest races in the country before that - it ended up being one of the first ones called.
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Probably maybe Trevor Noah is the only one on that list who wasn’t famous before Trump.
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 20:50:21 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation He really wasn't. Before Obama's first term he was in Africa. Before Obama's second term he was somewhat active in the stand up community in the States. Aparently that is where Jon Steward actually first met him and propped him up to take over his show.
Sadly, if you look at Trevor's very first stand up routine you can still see all of the elements that make him such a bad comedian today. Most mentionworthy, always laughing at his own jokes before the audience starts to.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Hey, after Trump’s gone, can we please get comedy back to the way it used to be where an offensive joke wasn’t immediately followed with an unironic bout of legitimate hatred
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 19:57:44 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Do I think you are able to get the Trump out of the White House ? yes. There are ways and means to get that done.
But do I think you can get the Trump out of the Comedians ? I have NO idea how you can get that done, especially for those who have done nothing but make non-stop Trump jokes for the past 4+ years.
Tell you what though, after such a long amount of time there is NO doubt on my mind that these people legitimately hate Trump. The bigger the hateboner the bigger the chance that they will never be funny again. Steven Colbert, Trevor Noah, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel & Seth Meyers would be my top list of such 'far gone' 'comedians' that should Trump be removed will in all likelyhood never fully recover. Be it through weakness or through fan-expectations and them caving to 'give the fans what they want'.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony those same comedians made nothing but Bush jokes for eight years, they managed just fine after Bush left office
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@mrmattimation That's not really true, all of the Bush jokes I remember were mostly about him being slow or dumb, so like 95%+ of that repertoire was already written before he appeared on a ballot, and 95%+ of the near same jokes after he left office simply went to Mitch McConnel.
I do not know any Mitch McConnel jokes of before or during the Bush era though. Probably because he was still a whip back then.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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It’s quite inconvenient for someone like me who revels in being an edgelord but also doesn’t actually hate ethnic or sexual minorities
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 19:59:43 UTC from web -
Well, I finally deleted my Facebook. Turns out, as part of their fight against fake news, they refuse to fact-check politicians. Absolute garbage.
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 16:18:34 UTC from web-
@scribus to be fair, the ones that need to be fact checked contribute like 80% of Facebook’s revenue.
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@scribus The divine powers or yet another GNU Social thing ?
... Yeah I know but I could hope...
But seriously, once you figure how to get more people to use a GNU Social instead of facebook, I would be all ears.
There are SO many people in my immediate surroundings who go "Wait, you did not know what, I posted it on Facebook like a month ago". I would call them stupid boomers but some of them are not even 20 yet.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony Hey, whichever comes first, lol. As for getting people to leave the evil empire? No real ideas on that yet.
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if the transcript is the best news for Trump then hoo boy does he have a long weekend ahead.
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 15:16:05 UTC from web -
...did YouTube pass another law further wussifying their monetized videos? People are blurring out guns and like bloody noses and bullFrankerZ?
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 02:26:19 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Does "Jerk it in a lake, I h8 ur feels" count?
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@mrmattimation Well Doc Sweetleaf will never see monetization then.
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it's like... almost exactly identical, actually. Don't fix what ain't broke, you know? http://rainbowdash.net/url/875217
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 04:22:26 UTC from web -
The point of this gag was supposed to be so that I can make topical jokes in cartoons that can’t be topical because they take a few months each to make. All that’s really done is make me go back and change it every few days until release. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875216
Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 20:38:52 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I have to imagine this one is gonna stay in the news for a while so I think this is the final-final one
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I thought maybe if I went to sleep and trump released the Ukraine transcript while I was asleep the whole “impeachment” thing would just silently go away because if he’s offering to release it that means there’s nothing incriminating... right? He can’t be that dumb, right? Anyway I woke up and read the news and now i’m even grumpier.
Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 16:04:10 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Never get online before breakfast. That said, I am overdue for a burrito....
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...and the 80s lasted until, like, 93
Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 05:45:30 UTC from web -
hot take: officially, the decade ends this year, but culturally, the 90s ended in 2001 or 2002 and the 2000s ended in 2008, so like, who REALLY decides when the decade ends?
Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 05:44:35 UTC from web -
At least I finally get to live my dream of being able to parody a Presidential impeachment nine months after the fact because that’s how long animation takes. I’m joining The Simpsons in that feat.
Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 01:52:02 UTC from web -
Every twenty years, like clockwork, stg
Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 00:18:27 UTC from web -
The President is getting impeached and I am MAD about it
Tuesday, 24-Sep-19 22:17:00 UTC from web -
Maybe I will build a recording booth inside an old trailer, and go on the road hunting narrating gigs via Denny's wifi, then working deep in the Hundred Acre Woods on solar panels.
Tuesday, 24-Sep-19 02:11:33 UTC from web- awlxaĺan likes this.
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@scribus I often think about saving up to buy a house in Colorado and just building a small office space in the backyard so I can have an actual professional base of operations but also I don’t have to pay rent on professional space
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@mrmattimation I have similar thoughts, except it's a compound in Nevada or New Mexico.
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i sincerely apologize to anyone who had to talk to me when I was 15, this is just terrible
Tuesday, 24-Sep-19 01:06:49 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Yes it is. I am left thinking about http://rainbowdash.net/url/875214
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goodness me
Tuesday, 24-Sep-19 01:04:16 UTC from web -
Also tbh if you somehow got “Trump is an illegitimate president and Clinton should never have conceded” from a purely numbers-based analysis of what polling looks like right now and how, Actually, they weren’t even wrong last time, then you probably have the total brain development of a baby anyway.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 23:44:55 UTC from web-
@drinkingpony you insisted I said both of those things when I said neither, please learn to read above a kindergarten level
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@mrmattimation Alright, I will bite. I insisted you said what things ?
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@mrmattimation Hold on a minute. Do you believe that I said that you must think that HRC should have never conceded. But where I actually said that HRC did not have her concession speech ready when Trump won because all the polls told her that her win was pretty much a done deal and actual voting would actually just be a formality at that point.
Because if that is the sore spot then I find it extremely hilarious that you think I need to learn how to read.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Oh my. I guess we DID agree on something. Ahwell. Show is over. I do not feel like I have to say to someone who thinks that the 2016 polls were right next to a big hotchpotch of other stuff (*) because it would not register at all. In fact I do not think I could say anything to someone suffering so severely from ( my best guess ) TDS and have, in any way, a worthwile conversation. To make matters worse, the [reply] button is not even used, making it more like a war of passive agressive post it notes by someone who has two mom's ( Believe me, I know ) which is infuriating by itself.
(*) : Just look at the phletora of topics discarded and left unanswered, not to mention that I am kinda forced to assume some things I do not want to assume. Such as is this person in favour of HRC never having written a consession speech ?
TL;DR : Show is over, I will not be playing the politics game anymore, at least for a while, most certainly not with a certain personMonday, 23-Sep-19 18:04:09 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony my goodness you're a baby
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@mrmattimation When you are having a conversation in the open like this, calling your perceived opponent a name or derogatory like that is probably going to end up great for the total tally for those at home keeping score.
Not that I care all that much about being called anything but surely even you have to admit that it does not look good. Heck, any highschooler that has even heard of a debate team knows this. Not that I would know, according to you it would take at least 10 years before I probably even get close to a highschool.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony you're even being a huge baby about me calling you a big baby, man up you big baby
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Trump, I will say, is better than any other Republican before him at energizing his base, but to focus only on his base - which is his public gameplan - would be a fatal mistake, and it’s, again, the same mistake Clinton made. It’s really weird how many Clinton-esque mistakes Trump is making right now.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 17:23:23 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Never interrupt your enemy while they're making a mistake.
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@scribus I think he’s technically my boss, I DID get paid from ads his campaign ran on my YouTube channel a few years back
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@mrmattimation Believe me, one's boss and one's enemy can easily be the same.
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And the 2016 polls weren’t “wrong” either, as I just explained. All results fell within the margin of error except MAYBE Iowa. Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, the results were not as expected by the general public but if you paid attention to the actual polls you could have easily expected the outcome we got. Trump isn’t some magic fifth-dimensional wizard who defies all political science and the suggest otherwise would be making the exact same mistake Clinton made in 2016.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 17:05:31 UTC from web -
(And in the 2017 off-year elections)
Monday, 23-Sep-19 17:02:00 UTC from web -
For what this is worth to somebody who only accepts numbers that confirm his biases, polling was pretty much dead-on in 2018.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 17:01:22 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Wait, so we agree on something ?
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Don’t explain statistics to a Potato Knishesing moron, everyone, he’ll just ignore it.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 16:59:27 UTC from web -
really i just want Trump gone so that I don't feel tempted to ruin Swole Foods by doing a Trump show that everyone hates because it says mean things about the meme president.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 04:25:06 UTC from web -
i also don't wear very thick glasses anymore, those are sitting in a drawer somewhere, i wear very thick contact lenses
Monday, 23-Sep-19 04:21:18 UTC from web -
And, of course, candidates matter. So once the Democrats have found themselves a nominee, it's possible - likely, even - that all of this data will become completely irrelevant before next November.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 04:13:15 UTC from web -
There are so many other things I could go into on the subject because I'm a kiwiing nerd who wears very thick glasses and looks at numbers all day but like, whatever
Monday, 23-Sep-19 04:08:14 UTC from web -
tl;dr facts don't care about your feelings libtards
Monday, 23-Sep-19 04:02:36 UTC from web
