Idiocracy

[Heroic Shrimp]

I never in a million years would have predicted the day would come that I'd happily take a Leaf loss in exchange for a Democrat senate win in Alabama, and yet here we are.

 

[hockeyfan1]

I never really doubted that Doug Jones had a chance at usurping Moore.  If anything would sway it in Jones' favour, it would have had to be the African-American votes.

Certainly there are many who are still in a somewhat state of disbelief at the results, that that was even possible after 25 years of Republicans representing the state.  Jones and the Democrats should be proud that they pulled off a miracle.

By Moore being defeated, it sends a strong message that Moore types and any others tagged with sexual allegations will soon be an 'endangered species', and won't be (politically) tolerated in an election. At least, hopefully, this is a start.

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/Oatmeal/status/941011340738543616

 

[Kin]

Well, the FCC has just voted to repeal Net Neutrality.

There's a lot of stuff from the US we're immune to but hold onto this one as fairly prominent Conservatives have made noise about doing that up here too.

 

[bustaheims]

Well, the FCC has just voted to repeal Net Neutrality.

There's a lot of stuff from the US we're immune to but hold onto this one as fairly prominent Conservatives have made noise about doing that up here too.

Ugh. Just ugh.

 

[Frank E]

Well, the FCC has just voted to repeal Net Neutrality.

There's a lot of stuff from the US we're immune to but hold onto this one as fairly prominent Conservatives have made noise about doing that up here too.

Which prominent Conservatives?

 

[CarltonTheBear]

It's crazy that five people got to make a decision as insanely important as this. Well, three people really because the vote was 3-2. And if you asked any American who any of those 5 people were 99.9999999% of them wouldn't be able to give you a name.

 

[Kin]

Which prominent Conservatives?

[tweet]939482834762452993[/tweet]

 

[L K]

It's crazy that five people got to make a decision as insanely important as this. Well, three people really because the vote was 3-2. And if you asked any American who any of those 5 people were 99.9999999% of them wouldn't be able to give you a name.

I like that pretty much every AG from the Blue States are planning to sue the FCC.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/948359545767841792

wtf?

 

[bustaheims]

Jeebus. That feels like it's straight out of a modernized version of the oppressive authoritarian playbook.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Jeebus. That feels like it's straight out of a modernized version of the oppressive authoritarian playbook.

Pretty much:

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/948364726903496705
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/948362512315056129

 

[bustaheims]

Oh, good. State sponsored media to call out other media as fake, with POTUS blessing. That's just lovely. Not something an oppressive regime would do, at all. Never would have occurred to the Nazis, to the powers-that-be in Iran and Syria, to the Chinese . . . oh, wait.

 

[Arn]

My big red button is bigger than your's though

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/948355557022420992

 

[Kin]

Yeah, but remember how irresponsible it was to have some emails on a private server? Gotta play both sides.

 

[L K]

Yeah, but remember how irresponsible it was to have some emails on a private server? Gotta play both sides.

Don't forget that she is a warmonger.

 

[bustaheims]

Yeah, but remember how irresponsible it was to have some emails on a private server? Gotta play both sides.

Don't forget that she is a warmonger.

Benghazi! Benghazi! Look what she did in Benghazi! Also, Uranium One! She sold all the uranium herself!

 

[herman]

Anyone catching the slapfight going down between Bannon and Trump today?

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/948620781214367745

Precipitated by Bannon's quotes from a book about the Trumpocracy.

 

[Kin]

For an administration that is so bizarrely clueless, incompetent and petty they've really kicked it up a notch here.

 

[Hobbes]

For an administration that is so bizarrely clueless, incompetent and petty they've really kicked it up a notch here.

I keep feeling waves of wistful nostalgia for the good ol' Nixon days or the relaxed pleasantness of the Cuban Missile Crisis...good times!