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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Os Trigonum, Jan 31, 2019.

  1. Falcons Talon

    Falcons Talon Contributing Member

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    Don't get too excited. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
     
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    It's actually a "broken watch" dummy.
     
  3. JuanValdez

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    It was good showmanship. I think AOC would be better served showing a little winsomeness.
     
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    Yeah no...not going to waste any more time with this.
     
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    Very ironic.
     
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  10. Falcons Talon

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    No pun intended.
     
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    Spent another minute in the interest of education.

    https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/09/02/stopped-clock/

    In 1880 a novel called “Pious Frauds” by Albany de Grenier Fonblanque included a concise instance: 6

    Even a stopped clock is right, we know, twice in the twenty-four hours.

    Sometimes the saying referred to a watch instead of a clock. In 1915 “The National Druggist” presented an elaborate simile with clerks, a slow watch, and a stopped watch: 7
     
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    This thread sure is going places...
     
  13. SamFisher

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    It's "go IN places" dummy.
     
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    Had to actually look up that word good one.

    I think she has a no win situation of she tried to winsome she would just be thought of as an attractive lightweight if she tracks the other way she is shrill and out her depth.

    You could tell in that clip she was measuring her words carefully not wanting to commit a malaprop.

    It kind of ruined her momentum.

    Still like her energy and she is needed in the political discourse of today.
     
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    Yeah, I'm sure its all very hard to balance, and I know I couldn't do as good a job of it as her. It's probably good for her to err on the side of being humorless for now, but I hope when she's more settled she'll learn to take a joke.
     
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    I agree I can't imagine being under the microscope she is after being a bartender a year ago.

    She seems to have a sense of humour though.
     
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    I agree that the Democrats here didn't look good and that McConnell won this round of politics. @biff17

     
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    Continuously Sad.
     
  19. Os Trigonum

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    just trying to keep you in the loop about my comings and goings
     
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    AOC's think tank is struggling a little bit:

    . . . it remains unclear what would actually be in a Green New Deal. While a handful of candidates have released their own attempts at a Green New Deal, the tight network of progressives most closely linked to the plan have offered little new detail. In particular, the think tank known as New Consensus—ostensibly in charge of turning the Green New Deal into real policy—has published almost nothing substantial about it.

    “I think they’ve done a pretty good job of compiling the scope, the scale, and the goals of the Green New Deal,” Corbin Trent, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez, told me. “I think we’re still in the process of getting people to imagine what we’re talking about.” But in the current informational vacuum, the plan’s supporters have sometimes faltered, allowing pundits, lobbyists, and other politicians to rush in and define the Green New Deal’s terms. “One reasonable summary of what has happened is that everybody except the people who say they are doing the Green New Deal are doing the Green New Deal,” said an activist who asked not to be named to avoid damaging relationships with New Consensus.​

    https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/06/whats-green-new-deal-nobody-knows/591391/
     

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