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trump floating the idea of defaulting on the national debt Reminder that the 2nd place GOP nominee and a sizeable minority of their House representatives are also totally on board with this "crash the world economy" plan.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 5, 2016 -> 04:03 PM) sigh. It will only get better /worse from here

Activities where Greg finds sexual attraction to be relevant: using the bathroom, eating sandwiches.

Trump "not ready to support speaker Ryan's agenda" https://mobile.twitter.com/sahilkapur/statu...341469350744066

he was talking about the Trump Tower Grill taco bowl

I imagine it's too late for him to get primaried at this point, and his seat is pretty heavily gerrymandered. Look at what he's saying though. He's saying he can't back Trump...yet. It's a move to get some sort of policy or position concessions from Trump. My guess is that Ryan comes around in the end. For maximal chaos hopes, Ryan is the chairman of the convention and must certify the nomination votes. Hypothetically, could he refuse to certify?

It is perfection. There are so many layers. Benny ✔ ‎@bennyjohnson Donald Trump is eating a taco salad on top of a bikini-clad photo of his ex-wife, Marla Maples.

This cracked me up, he makes twitter into an artform: Donald J. Trump ✔ ‎@realDonaldTrump Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics! https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/posts/...7008375200725:0 … 1:57 PM - 5 May 2016

One effect this is having: Puerto Ricans leave in record numbers for mainland U.S.

Argentina's had a debt problem for over a decade, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_debt_restructuring

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 5, 2016 -> 02:56 PM) That is plenty offensive to the transgendered, Greg. And yea, I do blame you for being so bigoted that you cant even stand in line next to a transgendered person long enough to order a sandwich. Pretty sad, man. Might not have even been a transgendered person but just a dude in drag, which are not the same thing. QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 5, 2016 -> 02:57 PM) It's like how a large population of straight men are afraid of homosexuals because they think they are going to go after them upon sight. I mean if every woman in the world isnt trying to f*** you, every gay guy isnt either, probably less actually. Different is just scary. And how often does that turn out to be insecurity with their own sexuality and/or self-hatred for their own feelings?

How similar is the situation in PR to the situation Argentina has been going through for a while?

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 5, 2016 -> 02:44 PM) Exactly. Psychos will do whatever to be satisfied. It's like the crime of exposing oneself. Some people have this weird urge to do it and cops will tell you it's a crime that WILL occur every night in every community. Let me get this straight. People are going to boycott states that pass the restriction law, yet this law will allow me to walk into a women's restroom at a movie theatre and go right up to the sink and start using it and looking around. I don't have to be dressed as a woman; when I'm caught by the usher doing it I say, "I recently began the transition to being a woman; I have a legal right to be in here!!" Seems a harsh penalty to states that want to keep me in this scenario in the men's room. p.s. No offense to the transgendered, really, but do any of you blame me for not walking in the Subway restaurant when I was in my car and saw the man wearing women's high heels and miniskirt walking in? He would have been in line ahead of me and eating there and sorry, I'm human, he grossed me out. What exactly do you think you'd see just looking around a women's restroom? You should definitely check out a drag show some time!

i.e. Goldwater lost huge in '64, Reagan lost the nomination in '76, but Reagan won in 80 and ushered in a generation of right wing governance.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ May 5, 2016 -> 11:16 AM) Yeah, I might be mixing up the book and the show. For some reason I thought once she left the hound she was near a dock and remembered she had the coin. I didn't remember her thinking out that she should go to Bravos to get trained. She just did it because of the circumstances. That's sort of what happened in both the book and the show. She had the coin and knew Jaqen was from Braavos. It was a last-chance desparate move to get passage on the boat and sort of just snowballed from there. She's always been on the murderous revenge path so it was a natural fit. Thinking about it a bit, though, that may have been what was driving her to find passage to Braavos in the first place. She knew who Jaqen was and what that coin represented.

There was a referendum a couple of years ago. If I remember correctly, it was worded pretty poorly and didn't really give the full spectrum of options.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ May 5, 2016 -> 11:10 AM) Sure but what's it matter when both are very small minorities compared to the majority that are being affected by the rule? One is a real-world issue faced by a small minority not out to harm anyone, the other is a hypothetical fantasy. Codifying that it's okay means that it's okay without question. Otherwise it's a guessing game of "where can I pee in public?" with violence as a very real possibility. I don't think the hypothetical of a guy changing his legal identification to make prosecution for taking photos in bathrooms infintesimly harder is actually a legitimate concern

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 5, 2016 -> 11:07 AM) What I've learned from this whole public debate is that a much larger percentage of people than I originally thought assume that other people think of public restrooms as some kind of erotic playground where they have to check sexual urges. I dunno, man. I go in there to s***. Some of that's playing on stereotypes/bigotry of transexuals as sexual deviants, just like the beliefs that gay men are all pedophiles.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ May 5, 2016 -> 11:03 AM) He's willing to go into a bathroom and take pictures of women pooping. If that gets him off, yeah, I think it'd probably be worth it to them. But the idea that this would give him some sort of loophole doesn't make any sense. It's still illegal for a woman to do what he was doing in the bathroom, just as it'd be illegal for a man to take those pictures in the men's room.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ May 5, 2016 -> 10:58 AM) Isn't that what this whole issue is about? We're "protecting" an extreme fringe of people to the potential detriment/comfort of significantly more people? Transgendered people are a small minority, true. Creep-o's who stalk bathrooms but would go to the length of legally changing their sex on their drivers licenses to give very minimal plausibility when they're called out for creeping in bathrooms are a much, much smaller minotiry. As far as the discomfort, you've probably shared a public restroom with a transgendered person without knowing. Which is sort of the point! Unless you're up to some weird stuff yourself (see greg assuming that they just must be thinking sexual thoughts when they go into a public restroom), nobody's looking at each other's junk in the washroom. But this example shows that all of the panic about "creep-o's in the ladies room!" is silly because there's nothing that stops it from happening now.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ May 5, 2016 -> 10:54 AM) So why do we need laws in either direction? I don't support the NC law, but the laws/ordinances that are being passed that give transgendered people the right to be in certain places just invites more problems than it's worth IMO. Codifies that it's not okay to physical assault transgendered people for using the 'wrong' restrooms or for them to be thrown out and largely foreclosed from public facilities, which is a thing that happens.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ May 5, 2016 -> 10:30 AM) Didn't she also escape from The Hound and then happen upon the boat heading to Bravos? She left him to die by the tree (fan theories say he might still be alive, possibly the gravedigger on that monk island). She then went to Saltpans where she found a ship heading to Bravos. That's the book version, I know in the show she also leaves him to die, don't remember if she goes to a town or just stumbles upon a random boat though.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ May 5, 2016 -> 10:50 AM) What's stopping the creep-o guy we're talking about here from being able to designate that he's a female? It's not like you can perform a test to determine your gender identity. Writing law around extreme edge case hypotheticals to the detriment of significantly more people seems like a bad idea imo. If a creep-o guy wants to troll womens' restrooms, that seems like an awful lot of hurdles to jump through to have some sort of really tenuous legal standing.

There's more documented cases of Republican men trolling bathrooms for on-the-down-low gay sex than transgendered people stalking womens restrooms. Keep in mind that the laws now sort of defacto allow transgendered people to use the bathroom of their preference, and this does not appear to have actually caused any issues. Laws like NC explicitly change the status quo.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 5, 2016 -> 10:38 AM) I would love to see Gregs reaction if a trans man who identified as a woman walked into the bathroom he was using and used it because she was forced to. Im sure he would be very accepting That's the thing with these laws--a fully transitioned FtM person would be forced to use the women's restrooms and locker rooms because that's what their birth certificate says. The law itself is incoherent and basically unenforceable, it's just signaling "hey we're terrible people who want to openly harass transgendered folks because we can't harass gay people anymore."