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It wasn't America who bombed your wedding party, it was the free market.
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Job Truniht posted:Military contractors fighting ISIS should be a reality show, it would be as Bill O'Reilly presents: Grover's War on Terror He hosts from a 'Tool Time' esque set introducing our bold mercenaries on the frontlines
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Sep 24, 2014 03:01
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worthy as a reality show about Grover building houses.
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gently caress how long has O'Reilly been sitting on this plan? Just get some guys together and go kill the terrorists, that's all we gotta do? He could've prevented 9/11!
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Sep 24, 2014 03:08
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I feel like if somebody told Bill O'Reilly about Gurkhas he would get really excited.
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Sep 24, 2014 03:12
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Tender Bender posted:gently caress how long has O'Reilly been sitting on this plan? Just get some guys together and go kill the terrorists, that's all we gotta do? He could've prevented 9/11! I feel like you're unfairly belittling him here a bit. These aren't going to just be "some guys;" we're talking about powerful men trained by the US special forces and NATO. Maybe even with cyber implants depending on whether or not Obama is really committed to defeating ISIS.
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Sep 24, 2014 03:12
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Some guy on Hannity is suggesting that Obama is launching air strikes in such a way as to minimize terrorist casualties, not because of some ulterior motive but because he's "weak." I guess Obama didn't put enough skill ranks in "bomb terrorist".
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Sep 24, 2014 03:22
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vintagepurple posted:Some guy on Hannity is suggesting that Obama is launching air strikes in such a way as to minimize terrorist casualties, not because of some ulterior motive but because he's "weak." I guess Obama didn't put enough skill ranks in "bomb terrorist". What happened to the idea that people are supposed to support the President out of patriotism and a sense of duty? It's a rhetorical question. I know that concept doesn't apply to the other team's President.
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Sep 24, 2014 03:30
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radical meme posted:What happened to the idea that people are supposed to support the President out of patriotism and a sense of duty? It's a rhetorical question. I know that concept doesn't apply to the other team's President. We're at war! You need to stand behind the President in this war against... drugs, and uh... terrorism?
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Sep 24, 2014 03:41
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One of my favorite things about reading Jon Chait are his articles on Paul Ryan. Here's one he wrote today on the boy genius: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/09/paul-ryan-declares-war-against-math.html There was this very brief instance during the 2012 election where the beltway media lost interest in him after he got rocked in the debate by the very un-smart Joe Biden, but it seems the little wunderkind is slowly working his way back into their hearts.
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Sep 24, 2014 03:41
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Tender Bender posted:gently caress how long has O'Reilly been sitting on this plan? Just get some guys together and go kill the terrorists, that's all we gotta do? He could've prevented 9/11! Bill O'Reilly is so loving stupid but this plan is a new level of retarded that I didn't expect to hear from him. Predictably, he won't consider the possibility that he's wrong and has guests on to bloviate at for five minutes without seriously considering anything they have to say.
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Sep 24, 2014 04:08
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McDowell posted:Bill O'Reilly presents: Grover pastes on a fake beard and pretends to be with ISIS, helps build their barracks, and within 2 weeks they're all dead due to collapsed load-bearing drywall, electrical fires, and tripping over the uneven flooring. No F-22s or combat lasers necessary  EDIT: Obligatory 
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Sep 24, 2014 04:22
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Grover pastes on a fake beard and pretends to be with ISIS, helps build their barracks, and within 2 weeks they're all dead due to collapsed load-bearing drywall, electrical fires, and tripping over the uneven flooring. No F-22s or combat lasers necessary Wait I got this: A=L*W...what?
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Sep 24, 2014 04:39
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Ninjasaurus posted:Bill O'Reilly is so loving stupid but this plan is a new level of retarded that I didn't expect to hear from him. Predictably, he won't consider the possibility that he's wrong and has guests on to bloviate at for five minutes without seriously considering anything they have to say. Reminder, Bill O'Reilly literally thought that the tides were a universal mystery.
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Sep 24, 2014 04:41
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Grover pastes on a fake beard and pretends to be with ISIS, helps build their barracks, and within 2 weeks they're all dead due to collapsed load-bearing drywall, electrical fires, and tripping over the uneven flooring. No F-22s or combat lasers necessary
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Sep 24, 2014 04:58
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Reminder, Bill O'Reilly literally thought that the tides were a universal mystery. Has anyone ever laughed in his face about this kind of stuff? Like, has he ever had a guest who just laughs at him for being an idiot for the whole interview while he throws his usual screaming tantrum? Even Stewart talks to him like a he's an adult, which I think is a mistake his guests keep making.
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Sep 24, 2014 05:44
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Reminder, Bill O'Reilly literally thought that the tides were a universal mystery.
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Sep 24, 2014 05:48
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Luminous Obscurity posted:Has anyone ever laughed in his face about this kind of stuff? Like, has he ever had a guest who just laughs at him for being an idiot for the whole interview while he throws his usual screaming tantrum? Even Stewart talks to him like a he's an adult, which I think is a mistake his guests keep making. I don't know the context beyond the video, but I see this get posted a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPjUsu2-QMQ
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Sep 24, 2014 05:48
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Luminous Obscurity posted:Has anyone ever laughed in his face about this kind of stuff? Like, has he ever had a guest who just laughs at him for being an idiot for the whole interview while he throws his usual screaming tantrum? Even Stewart talks to him like a he's an adult, which I think is a mistake his guests keep making. Didn't O'Reilly get burned at one of those press dinners? I have this memory of a shot of him in the audience with a frozen, uncomfortable look on his face. Maybe I'm thinking of Trump.
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Sep 24, 2014 05:52
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beatlegs posted:Didn't O'Reilly get burned at one of those press dinners? I have this memory of a shot of him in the audience with a frozen, uncomfortable look on his face. Maybe I'm thinking of Trump. Or was that the C-SPAN event with Franken?
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Sep 24, 2014 05:54
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Hazo posted:My favorite part of this picture has always been Calm Light-Skinned Arab. He's just chilling in the foreground and looking off into the distance like, "Yeah, everything's all right." He's originally from the bin laden mountain fortress play set graphic. 
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Sep 24, 2014 06:13
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Raskolnikov38 posted:He's originally from the bin laden mountain fortress play set graphic. Luminous Obscurity posted:Has anyone ever laughed in his face about this kind of stuff? Like, has he ever had a guest who just laughs at him for being an idiot for the whole interview while he throws his usual screaming tantrum? Even Stewart talks to him like a he's an adult, which I think is a mistake his guests keep making
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Sep 24, 2014 07:24
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Lowtechs posted:Here is O'Rielly getting smacked down on his own show regarding the "O-Team". It is very funny. gently caress me. Lecturing a Ph.D. from the Naval War College about the history of war. What an ego.
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Sep 24, 2014 07:47
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Don't forget that he's also a sexual predator who bought his victim's silence.
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Sep 24, 2014 11:08
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happyhippy posted:Don't forget that he's also a sexual predator who bought his victim's silence. With Loofahs.
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Sep 24, 2014 11:50
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O'Reilly's comical vision for super spies that fight terrorists is more this than G.I Joe. I still think peak O'Reilly is when he told a college professor that he looked like a cocaine dealer.
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Sep 24, 2014 12:02
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vintagepurple posted:Some guy on Hannity is suggesting that Obama is launching air strikes in such a way as to minimize terrorist casualties, not because of some ulterior motive but because he's "weak." I guess Obama didn't put enough skill ranks in "bomb terrorist". He put all his points into Corps Explosion instead.
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Sep 24, 2014 12:21
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Radish posted:I still think peak O'Reilly is when he told a college professor that he looked like a cocaine dealer. I might say it was when he was completely amazed that black people are in fact normal humans and dont hoot and holler and behave like animals at restaurants.
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Sep 24, 2014 12:33
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vintagepurple posted:Some guy on Hannity is suggesting that Obama is launching air strikes in such a way as to minimize terrorist casualties, not because of some ulterior motive but because he's "weak." I guess Obama didn't put enough skill ranks in "bomb terrorist". Air strikes are well known to cause minimal casualties. Just ask the thousands of Iraqi and Afghani civilians killed by them!
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Sep 24, 2014 12:34
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ReidRansom posted:I might say it was when he was completely amazed that black people are in fact normal humans and dont hoot and holler and behave like animals at restaurants. He just could not process the idea of black people acting like human beings. Blew his mind.
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Sep 24, 2014 12:41
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Lycus posted:Someone I've talked to: "Why don't we just hire Rambo-type people to do this stuff?" Because these people are currently homeless, looked down on if not hated by their fellow Americans and dealing with severe psychological problems while wondering why society lets this happen to them after trusting them with millions of dollars in kit just a few years prior. First Blood is the only real Rambo movie.
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Sep 24, 2014 13:28
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Pope Guilty posted:He just could not process the idea of black people acting like human beings. Blew his mind. Yeah, total genuine shock. It was so mind blowing that he felt the need to excitedly report it to his viewers, thinking (probably rightly given the demographic) that it would be equally shocking and newsworthy to them. Like no one had witnessed it before, a world first, black people in their native habitat and holy poo poo surprise it doesn't look like a loving minstrel show. It was the whitest thing I've ever seen.
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Sep 24, 2014 14:01
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Raskolnikov38 posted:He's originally from the bin laden mountain fortress play set graphic. We really did build Bin Laden up to be a GI Joe villain and then it turned out he was living in the suburbs watching reruns.
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Sep 24, 2014 14:21
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My favorite part of that O'Reilly bit is where he goes "They would be a US trained force operating under the Geneva convention" or something like that. Don't we already have that? Called the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines? Is the summary of his whole argument that our current armed forces are too visible and stuck following the law and we need an elite force that isn't bound by such trivialities?
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Sep 24, 2014 16:06
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LloydDobler posted:My favorite part of that O'Reilly bit is where he goes "They would be a US trained force operating under the Geneva convention" or something like that. Don't we already have that? Called the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines? Mercenaries are forbidden by the Geneva convention anyway.
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Sep 24, 2014 16:19
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Beamed posted:Mercenaries are forbidden by the Geneva convention anyway. Well, that explains why I hardly ever run into Hessian soldiers, these days. Yet another example of burdensome regulation interfering with the free market.
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Sep 24, 2014 16:26
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LloydDobler posted:My favorite part of that O'Reilly bit is where he goes "They would be a US trained force operating under the Geneva convention" or something like that. Don't we already have that? Called the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines? It's surprisingly stupid, even by O'Reilly's standards.
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Sep 24, 2014 16:32
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And besides, we already do have an elite non-uniformed special forces group not really bound by law, the CIA Special Activities Division, and they're probably crawling all over the place there already and are likely at least partially responsible for a lot of the mess that keeps happening in some form or another.
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Sep 24, 2014 16:39
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Centripetal Horse posted:Well, that explains why I hardly ever run into Hessian soldiers, these days. Yet another example of burdensome regulation interfering with the free market. Plus, I think the Hessians are a bit busy shepherding the Euro these days.
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Sep 24, 2014 16:48
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Beamed posted:Mercenaries are forbidden by the Geneva convention anyway. Shadow Company http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xg3n68_shadow-company-documentary_shortfilms 6:20-6:40 "If you look at the UN definition of mercenary, it's a joke. Someone once said, if anybody's ever convicted of being a mercenary under UN law, they should be shot- and their lawyer should be shot with them, because they're incompetent."
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LloydDobler posted:My favorite part of that O'Reilly bit is where he goes "They would be a US trained force operating under the Geneva convention" or something like that. Don't we already have that? Called the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines? His whole argument is that he thinks America is stupid enough to buy into another neocon-led round of dumping blood and money into the ME as long as there's some semantics* that keep anyone from needing to say "Sending our troops to Iraq" *warning: Semantics may include childish GI Joe/Tom Clancy toughman fantasies and naked abandonment of all sense and morals.
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