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As horrible as Pence is, he’d also be a much more competent president.

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I suspect he’s been mentally measuring the Oval Office curtains for some time now. He must know all he has to do is keep out of the fray, and the presidency will be his.

Where were you in '77?

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Pence has a lot of ties to this business – it just never makes the news because nothing a vice president does is ever newsworthy (short of shooting an old man in the face, natch). If anyone’s measuring any drapes, it’d be Ryan. But I’m honestly hoping for President Hatch, which is one of those sentences that kinda sticks in the throat, but at least I know he’s relatively clean.

Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)

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So, this is going to play out like the Battlestar Galactica reboot, where the education secretary becomes president as nobody else is left?

Where were you in '77?

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At least we’d get our first woman president if that happens.

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On the contrary, the first woman president would be Betsy DeVos.

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Be assured, that was not lost on me.

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Well, she’d probably appoint somebody just like her to be Secretary of Education if she were president.

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I don’t mean to come off as a jerk. I am not trying to score any points. I don’t ask this to annoy anyone or to prove any points. I ask this because I want to learn.

What is institutional racism/sexism?

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Racism or sexism at an institutional level.

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Which is as much of an answer as “ask Google.”

Which to be fair, is a perfectly reasonable answer.

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“Our emails will never be leaked!”

“Crap.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/us/politics/trump-russia-email-clinton.html

The June 3, 2016, email sent to Donald Trump Jr. could hardly have been more explicit: One of his father’s former Russian business partners had been contacted by a senior Russian government official and was offering to provide the Trump campaign with dirt on Hillary Clinton.

The documents “would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father,” read the email, written by a trusted intermediary, who added, “This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”

If the future president’s elder son was surprised or disturbed by the provenance of the promised material — or the notion that it was part of an ongoing effort by the Russian government to aid his father’s campaign — he gave no indication.

He replied within minutes: “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.”

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Matthew Gertz‏Verified account
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Donald Trump Jr. would like you to know that you’re goddamn right he ordered the code red.

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So after the NYT told DJT they had his emails, he decided to go ahead and release them himself.

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Could the NYT also call Trump Jr and tell him they have the piss tape?

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TV’s Frink said:

Which is as much of an answer as “ask Google.”

Which to be fair, is a perfectly reasonable answer.

I was just trying to get the opinions of those here about institutional/systemic racism/sexism is. I was just wondering if I misunderstood what is meant when people on here and others refer to institutional/systemic racism/sexism.

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Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

Which is as much of an answer as “ask Google.”

Which to be fair, is a perfectly reasonable answer.

I was just trying to get the opinions of those here about institutional/systemic racism/sexism is. I was just wondering if I misunderstood what is meant when people on here and others refer to institutional/systemic racism/sexism.

Sorry, you asked what it was, not how people feel about it.

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TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

Which is as much of an answer as “ask Google.”

Which to be fair, is a perfectly reasonable answer.

I was just trying to get the opinions of those here about institutional/systemic racism/sexism is. I was just wondering if I misunderstood what is meant when people on here and others refer to institutional/systemic racism/sexism.

Sorry, you asked what it was, not how people feel about it.

Ok, how do people feel about it?

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Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

Which is as much of an answer as “ask Google.”

Which to be fair, is a perfectly reasonable answer.

I was just trying to get the opinions of those here about institutional/systemic racism/sexism is. I was just wondering if I misunderstood what is meant when people on here and others refer to institutional/systemic racism/sexism.

Sorry, you asked what it was, not how people feel about it.

Ok, how do people feel about it?

Either you think it’s bad or that it doesn’t exist.