StrangeSox

potential bipartisan solution is dead

check out the paragraphs immediately after the one I quoted! the article is mostly about looking at the dem's overall message/messaging via analyzing the mailers, not about the importance of the mailers themselves.

ANATOMY OF A PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 19, 2017 -> 03:47 PM) One of the other tricks is that the "moment magnitude" number does not translate to "intensity of shaking". You have to worry about the local geology and the distance/depth of the earthquake as well. When I'm writing a post on a major earthquake I've stopped leading with the magnitude number and I always immediately transition to a different scale - the Mercalli scale - which is a measurement of shaking at the surface. Mexico City is a far worse geologic setting for earthquakes than Chile. In mountain ranges, rocks are folded and metamorphosed and seismic waves pass through pretty easily. Mexico city is sitting on lake sediments in a rift zone. Those type of sediments capture seismic energy and just sort of reverberate back and forth during an earthquake, increasing the damage. Maybe it's too early to have any idea, but is this quake related to the one from a couple of weeks ago at all?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 19, 2017 -> 03:46 PM) Balta, Yeah I dont know anything about construction. But when you look at the 2 videos, you notice in the first nothing (not trees, etc) are moving at all. You also will notice in the top right hand corner their is a flash which would suggest a controlled demolition. Obviously hard to tell, but just trying to suggest not to believe everything on the internet. Here's another building collapsing in a similar manner https://twitter.com/mark_tarello/status/910239593555021825 Would have been weakened by the quake, and then if it's a brick/block construction, failure would be very rapid compared to steel or reinforced concrete. The flash in the first building could have been solar flare or an electrical short as things ripped apart. It'd be a weird place to put a charge (why would you need to weaken the top of the building?) and you only see one.

someone actually managed to catch the earthquake happening on video, look at that building sway https://twitter.com/BreakWatcher/status/910222780968439808

I can read enough Spanish to get by. There are some people questioning and some journalists asking if the uploader shot the video and if they can have permission to use it, but nothing definitive. From the high rise video I posted earlier, you can see widespread damage so it's not inconceivable that someone managed to capture a building falling down.

https://twitter.com/XEVATabasco/status/910223441877487618 video of a whole building just falling down after the quake https://twitter.com/mcantu06/status/910221789619527680 explosions

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 19, 2017 -> 02:07 PM) wasnt there a really large earthquake off the coast of Mexico when the hurricanes were hitting a few weeks ago? Yeah, down south in Oaxaca and also Guatamala. 100 people died. http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/08/americas/ear...xico/index.html

Video from a high rise shortly after the quake: https://twitter.com/dlprager/status/910213018566328320 I think Mexico is supposed to have pretty strong building codes, so hopefully the damage is minimized.

An interesting feature of Graham-Cassidy is how it takes money from states that actually took Medicaid expansion and redistributes it to states that didn't. Cassidy said it's "unfair" that states that took the expansion get more money. Hmm, I can't think of a really simple way to fix this, unfortunately... e: Ron Johnson also chimes in with the "it's unfair that states that voluntarily took more money get more money than states that did not" hot take

That is the most likely implication from Trump's claims, but honestly, you never know with him. Probably really did mean that Obama himself was personally wiretapping the phones just like he rejected the 'clarification' that he meant Obama metaphorically founded ISIS [via neglect in the ME or whatever], insisting instead that no, Obama literally founded ISIS.

I think it's fair to take "Obama did [x]" to mean "The Obama administration did [x]" rather than a claim that Obama personally did it himself. That doesn't make the rest of Trump's claim, which have been directly refuted by the DoJ and FBI, any less ridiculous. I don't think ss2k5 was an apologist for the warrantless wiretapping under Bush or the surveillance state in general, but this is not that. Paul Manafort was under FBI surveillance two full years before he became associated with Trump. Michael Flynn was recorded while talking to a Russian diplomat and suspected spy. Carter Page initially came under suspicion for contacts with suspected Russian agents back in 2013. I'm really struggling to see any sort of undue partisan influence or an overly broad surveillance state issue with any of these guys.

Foreign nationals, especially foreign diplomats and suspected spies, are routinely surveilled, and some Trump associates were overheard while talking to these people. This is routine and normal intelligence gathering. A few specific Trump associates were surveilled with the appropriate warrants in place going as far back as 2014 due to suspected illegal activity. What part of that is supposed to be bad or concerning?

Lisa Madigan announced the other day that she's not going to run for AG again. Some speculation on what she might want to run for instead (Durbin's seat? Gov, even though she's said previously she wouldn't while her dad was in charge of the House?), but there has been a mad rush of people throwing their hat into the ring for AG.

This is basically "Why North Korea, and maybe Iran again, want nuclear weapons: The Speech" speech was chock full of American nationalism, too

It's basically been a campaign rally speech. This sort of speech to the UN usually comes from tinpot dictators everyone just ignores, not the head of the largest military in the history of the world.

War Today War Tomorrow War Forever e: just an absolutely bonkers speech all around. don't know how the US ever recovers from this level of international embarrassment.

manafort and Trump are not actually the same person and the FBI probe was open before manafort joined Trump's campaign. Those are all still good and correct posts. The DoJ confirmed just a few weeks ago that Trump's claim about Trump tower being wiretapped was false. http://www.newsweek.com/trump-russia-inves...bi-obama-658888 And we already knew about fisa court warrants for other Trump associates like Carter Page at least back in the spring.

We've got $700B to dump into the military, but we could never possibly have universal healthcare or free public college education

Pharma companies have discovered this one neat trick to have their patents never expire so generics can never come on the market and reduce costs. Transfer patent ownership to tribal nations where it can't be challenged and then exclusively lease the rights for a bargain. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-allergan...y-idUSKCN1BP31A

QUOTE (ptatc @ Sep 18, 2017 -> 03:08 PM) Derek carr played in 43 games in college with a pro style offense. Trubiskey played 13 and didn't know how to take a snap from under center properly because of the spread offense he used in college. Big difference between the two players. Just when I was thinking "at least the Trubiskey pick makes the bears potentially interesting at some point this year," you remind me of why I hated it back when it was made.

‘Rapidly Intensifying’ Hurricane Maria Takes Aim at Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands

He's got a good eye for football and likes what he's seeing.