Do We Have A 'Silly Shit Politicians Say' Thread? If Not, Here We Are

[Qalbert]

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/loca...145327079.html

TALLAHASSEE

Miami Republican Sen. Frank Artiles dropped the n-word to a pair of African-American colleagues in private conversation Monday night — after calling one of them a “fucking asshole,” a “bitch” and a “girl,” the two senators said.

Over drinks after 10 p.m. at the members-only Governors Club just steps from the state Capitol, Artiles told Sens. Audrey Gibson of Jacksonville and Perry Thurston of Fort Lauderdale that Senate President Joe Negron of Stuart had risen to his powerful GOP leadership role because “six niggers” in the Republican caucus had elected him.

Artiles later told Gibson and Thurston that he’d used the word “niggas,” suggesting the slang term was not meant to be insulting, Gibson and Thurston said. It’s unclear whom Artiles was referring to, since the only black senators in the state Senate are all Democrats — and none of them backed Negron’s bid to lead the chamber.

[chazzyphizzle]

stay classy florida

[Anoat]

Mike Huckabee going off on Comcast on Twitter yesterday was pretty funny. He went so far as to say he'd rather have Obama back as President than use Comcast, lol

[kuronosan]

You mean Spectrum right? Because changing your name usually helps people who are stupid forget all the terrible shit you do.

[Fiye]

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/329...omcast-service

That shit was funny tho.

[BaneTheBrawler]

You mean Spectrum right? Because changing your name usually helps people who are stupid forget all the terrible shit you do.

Spectrum is not Comcast. Comcast is still Comcast.

[Tyrath]

Spectrum is Charter.

[BaneTheBrawler]

And Time Warner Cable and Brighthouse.

[Anoat]

Xfinity is Comcast. And Cricket Wireless is AT&T.

[Tyrath]

FIOS is Verizon. Mike Huckabee is still an idiot.

[Zealot]

And Einhorn is Finkel.

[kuronosan]

Weird. All over KS they were airing commercials that said Comcast was now called Spectrum.

[Dantrag]

Could be area specific? I've had the TW commercials saying that TW is now Spectrum.

[BaneTheBrawler]

Weird. All over KS they were airing commercials that said Comcast was now called Spectrum.

There are three possibilities here: You misheard the commercial and it actually said Charter, the commercial is wrong, or Comcast and Spectrum traded customers in your area. First or third possibilities seem most likely to me. Like other utility-esque industries, the cable industry is competition-averse and they've been trying to create local monopolies, so it's possible they made an arrangement to trade customers in areas where they directly compete so that each company gets a local monopoly.

They're still separate companies, though.

[Melena]

And Einhorn is Finkel.

Finkel is Einhorn!

[kuronosan]

There are three possibilities here: You misheard the commercial and it actually said Charter, the commercial is wrong, or Comcast and Spectrum traded customers in your area. First or third possibilities seem most likely to me. Like other utility-esque industries, the cable industry is competition-averse and they've been trying to create local monopolies, so it's possible they made an arrangement to trade customers in areas where they directly compete so that each company gets a local monopoly.

They're still separate companies, though.

It's probably the third one, we don't have Charter around here that I know of. The major ones are Comcast (which I don't see their vans here anymore), AT&T, Cox, SureWest, TW, and Google.

[Qalbert]

here the main options are cox and verizon. they keep advertising fios for way cheaper than cox but when I call it's not available in my neighborhood but do I want their 'high speed' 5mbps plan instead? fuck no.

[Byrthnoth]

Oh Jeffy, oh man.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...cific-can-stop

I'm not sure if this is racism (because Hawaiians aren't just really tan white people) or some kind of super-old-man crotchety-ness about Hawaii being a state.


JK it's jeff sessions so it's his unique brand of gnomish white supremacy

[Andalusian girls]

i'm amazed an asshole from a state of racist traitors can become AG but here we are Jeff

[TsingTao]

All part of making America great again.