The September 2019 US Politics Thread is great Great GREAT GR8

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please stop doing that you tiresome self-parody

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/459943-trump-displays-map-with-dorians-original-path-extended-toward-alabama
trump's big map that he found with a sharpy circle extending to Alabama

jesus, sorry for repost

I humbly apologise for being curious to read Steveo's link but also for not wanting to fund a company that is actively undermining free elections around the world

the Irish Times?

Unsurprisingly, fears of Brexit have been a positive for foreign direct investment in Ireland, as the preferred English-speaking portal to Europe.

the Irish Times?

Facebook, if I'm parsing that argument correctly

yes but stevo's link is from the Irish Times

Post the link without the tracking hash. Then people can use what you post rather than thinking your posts suck?

ah now I get it

Laura Loomer coming off like a C-Team Kardashian in that pic upthread.

Post the link without the tracking hash. Then people can use what you post rather than thinking your posts suck?

I mean let's get real, if we didn't want to be smarmy knowitalls none of us would be here

tombot that's what i said but without the effing and jeffing, please try not to swear.

honest/ignorant question: if you don't have facebook, what does the tracking hash do

I just cut and paste from the address bar. I tend to ignore that guy anyway cos I can't stand the level of utter self righteousness.

Sounds like sic’s theory is that it results in the publisher paying Facebook for the traffic (regardless of whether you’re logged in?).

I’m only tangentially in the industry but my understanding is that is wrong.

It does allow Facebook to report higher traffic numbers but they lie about those anyway so who gives a shit.

I mean let's get real, if we didn't want to be smarmy knowitalls none of us would be here

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, September 4, 2019 2:04 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

new board desc for the love of god

I still can't figure out how to change the text of a link and still make it active, though (like, for example, Sanpaku did above). right clicking on it doesn't bring up any "edit link" function for me

my theory is that Facebook sell the data to their own advertisers & other third parties, thus also undermining the entire industry of journalism which they have also already gutted

what the fuck you guys on about?

Dan S - bbcode [ url= ] text [ /url ]

without spaces

Plop

sic doesn't need to cut out the shtick, it's hilarious

some of y'all fuckers post AMP links too and that's just as unconscionable

honest/ignorant question: if you don't have facebook, what does the tracking hash do

If you click a link with it and don't have a Facebook account, it creates a version of you that only exists in a secret government/Facebook database that accrues government benefits to which you don't have access. In order to avoid legal responsibility for your digital clone's activities, you must fill out all government forms going forward with "*NFB*" (including the asterisks) as your middle name or as a prefix to your surname, which indicates that you are a sovereign human person and Not of FaceBook.

sounds like a plan

The September 2019 US politics thread truly is great.

xxp thanks, sic!

By "edit link," I think people just mean paste the link into the address bar (or Notepad or whatever), delete all the FB cruft, and copy what's left before posting onto ILX.

If you just paste all the FB cruft into a "hidden" link, I think you will still make sic mad.

I mean if you post like this:

This link is bad

This link is good

amusingly the way their CMS works you can chop the URL all the way down to https://www.irishtimes.com/1.4006979 but that's neither here nor there

any url containing how-mike-pence-shat-on-the-new-carpet is fine, really

Sensenbrenner (R-WI) out at the end of this term.

A 5th TX rep is also out. Something is really brewing here.

xp also thank you DJI for that!

Can’t find the tweet now but I saw a local Texas journalist say they knew of two more republicans planning to retire and he was surprised to see this latest retirement wasn’t one of them. That would make 7?!

The parallel with the quitting Tories is kind of epic, if you can spare the time to keep up between the two games afoot

Almost all the TX quitters are in safe GOP districts

Counterpoint: a lot less of TX is safe for the GOP than you think

Yeah but those guys’ districts in particular are mostly ruby red

Perhaps they have polling data that you don't. They can't all have just gotten unpleasant news from their urologists.

If all the people quitting are quitting safe districts that seems ... weird. Simpler explanation is they’re not all safe districts. Maybe not like they’re going to flip. But like “oh shot I actually have to raise money and campaign, this is not a sinecure any more”.

They may just hate being in congress and want to make some $$$ rather than be sidelined by Pelosi for two more years

Those are definitely not all safe GOP districts. They are districts that have been gerrymandered to shit and can absolutely be turned.

Look their districts up on the Cook Report for the last election

shakey did you check? 3/5 of these races are competitive.

ok a democrat is not taking mike conaway's seat in midland or flores's in waco, but.

will hurd's district tx-23 is i think literally the most vulnerable republican seat in congress. he won by a few hundred votes in 2018. they're absolutely going to lose it to gine ortiz-jones who was already raised over $1m for 2020 (more than any other democratic congressional challenger iirc).

ken marchant won his district by 33% in 2014, but 17% in 2016 and 3% (!) in 2018.

pete olson won by 35% in 2014, then ran unopposed in 2016, then won by 5% in 2018.

blue wave papi