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  • #91
    Re: 115th Congress: On Permanent Vacation

    Originally posted by Gurtholfin View Post
    What is the threshold for individual/joint filers where there will be a tax increase.

    I was watching something last night and it seemed that anyone over $70k would see an increase.

    That can't be true...


    Anyone know what it is?
    I expect mine would go up. I am single and my income is near the threshold of the next bracket as-is.

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    • #92
      Re: 115th Congress: On Permanent Vacation

      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
      The pic doesn't bug me so much, as it's obviously over the top idiotic humor, but this does:


      It's not obviously so as we will all see illustrated soon by the amount of people who don't find it funny.

      At minimum, it's incredibly stupid on his part.


      I see it as worse than that and I'm far from a prude. You simply can't do things like this - not in this climate or ANY climate.


      This bums me out as I want(ed) him to be better than this. Even if he has a plausible explanation, this will be used by others to justify supporting their guy coz... "They're all the same."


      Fvck off Al.


      You dumb_ss.

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      • #93
        Re: 115th Congress: On Permanent Vacation

        Originally posted by Gurtholfin View Post
        It's not obviously so as we will all see illustrated soon by the amount of people who don't find it funny.
        Well, to be fair, it being an obvious attempt at humor and it not being funny are not mutually exclusive.

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        • #94
          Re: 115th Congress: On Permanent Vacation

          Originally posted by GrinCDXX View Post
          This one will be "complicated" by the fact that Tweeden is a conservative and there already appears to be some exaggeration on her part. Will be interesting to hear Franken's side of this.
          Is she rabid enough to flat out lie in the quote? Dr. Mrs. (with her Womens Studies PhD (even if it is only from UO (that was a joke))) is convinced that half of sexual harassment situations are miscommunications -- people not being on the same wavelength in the highly ambiguous dance of flirting or just messing about. But the quote is NOT that -- it's black and white, it either happened or it didn't. If it did that's harassment, period. There's no other interpretation. So the only other possibility is she's just flat out lying.

          My first instinct is I believe the woman in these situations. For one thing, I'm not a courtroom so I don't have to observe innocent until proven guilty -- that's law, not reality. But for another this behavior is so ubiquitous and women statistically are so hesitant to come forward that my burden of proof is on the accused. If she's been proven a habitual liar in other situations, fine, she's likely lying now. But if not... then no, I'm going to go with her story if it just comes down to he said/ she said.
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          • #95
            Re: 115th Congress: On Permanent Vacation

            Originally posted by GrinCDXX View Post
            Well, to be fair, it being an obvious attempt at humor and it not being funny are not mutually exclusive.
            Franken has a long history of attempted humor.

            Wish I understood how this was thought to be funny to anyone other than him.

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            • #96
              Re: 115th Congress: On Permanent Vacation

              Originally posted by Gurtholfin View Post
              It's not obviously so as we will all see illustrated soon by the amount of people who don't find it funny.

              At minimum, it's incredibly stupid on his part.


              I see it as worse than that and I'm far from a prude. You simply can't do things like this - not in this climate or ANY climate.
              It's insanely stupid.

              It's very inappropriate.

              But I think it's a (terrible) attempt at humor, he is obviously playing a mad abuser, not being a mad abuser.

              Now -- is he playing a mad abuser as a screen to be a mad abuser? That's certainly possible. That's what the accusations against Louis C. K. are: that his "men are pigs" material, which is amazingly funny, is actually a cover (or reflection) or his actual pigishness.

              The thing that infuriates me about the quote about the kiss is that isn't playing, it's being. That's not a joke, it's abuse.
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              • #97
                Re: 115th Congress: On Permanent Vacation

                Originally posted by Tiggsy View Post
                Franken has a long history of attempted humor.

                Wish I understood how this was thought to be funny to anyone other than him.
                Well, it's probably funny to most adolescent boys--which includes our president.

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                • #98
                  Re: 115th Congress: On Permanent Vacation

                  Yeah, barring evidence that she's a habitual liar, it happened. ****it.

                  Well, don't need to worry about him running for president in 3 years.

                  At least we found out about it now.

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                  • #99
                    Re: 115th Congress: On Permanent Vacation

                    Originally posted by Tiggsy View Post
                    Franken has a long history of attempted humor.

                    Wish I understood how this was thought to be funny to anyone other than him.
                    That's the thing. He's really funny. This stuff is Young Republican level unfunny. His humor instincts are galaxies higher than this.
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                    • Re: 115th Congress: On Permanent Vacation

                      It'd be one thing if he gave her rabbit ears of put a non-offensive prop in a photo while she's sleeping.

                      He's (hopefully) pretending to grab her breasts.

                      I can't imagine how that doesn't cross every line possible.

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                      • Re: 115th Congress: On Permanent Vacation

                        Originally posted by GrinCDXX View Post
                        Well, to be fair, it being an obvious attempt at humor and it not being funny are not mutually exclusive.
                        Well it can be an attempt at humor and still sexual harrassment. The problem is some comedians or even people who watch a lot of comedy don't seem to get that there's a difference between the comedy world and the real world. Especially in this context but even with things like offensive jokes or what have you.

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                        • Re: 115th Congress: On Permanent Vacation

                          Originally posted by unofan View Post
                          Yeah, barring evidence that she's a habitual liar, it happened. ****it.

                          Well, don't need to worry about him running for president in 3 years.

                          At least we found out about it now.
                          Which is another circumstance that suggests she isn't just planting a partisan lie to cause damage. The time to do that would be after the nomination.

                          I don't feel this often, because I don't expect much of celebs, but:

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                          • Re: 115th Congress: On Permanent Vacation

                            Originally posted by GrinCDXX View Post
                            Well, it's probably funny to most adolescent boys--which includes our president.
                            Oh, if (who am I kidding... WHEN) Trump tweets his outrage I hope the whole shelf of sh-t falls on him.
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                            • Re: 115th Congress: On Permanent Vacation

                              Originally posted by trixR4kids View Post
                              Well it can be an attempt at humor and still sexual harrassment. The problem is some comedians or even people who watch a lot of comedy don't seem to get that there's a difference between the comedy world and the real world. Especially in this context but even with things like offensive jokes or what have you.
                              No disagreement there--in fact, I've already said exactly that.

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                              • Re: 115th Congress: On Permanent Vacation

                                Originally posted by GrinCDXX View Post
                                No disagreement there--in fact, I've already said exactly that.
                                Yeah I wasn't trying to imply otherwise, just expanding on it.

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