USPOL Oct: Trumpelthinskin's spinning wheel: spinning hot takes into gold

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negromancer: Aug 20, 2014; by FactsAreUseless

Majorian posted:

Again, your race isn't why you're being singled out. It's because you're having a meltdown.

Back to the "angry black man" stereotype that I've repeated said to stop trying to use to dismiss my words that you staunchly refuse to do, but also keep wanting to push the idea that you aren't a racist?

Page 1488!

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Nessus: Dec 22, 2003; After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!

gfsincere posted:

Back to the "angry black man" stereotype that I've repeated said to stop trying to use to dismiss my words that you staunchly refuse to do, but also keep wanting to push the idea that you aren't a racist?

I congratulate you on sniping the Hitler number page!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtW1Lq5c04E Here is relevant viewing while we are in this exciting realm of Proximity to :hitler:

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:21

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

DaveWoo posted:

Just talked to my parents, and this whole FBI thing has caused them to go from being reluctant Hillary supporters to being enthusiastic Hillary supporters.

Anyway, there's my anecdote.

Hillary's turnabout has been to try to use this as a partisan rallying cry, basically, as much as to try to get the original headline off the news. She wants her followers pissed about this.

It's working, I am loving pissed off about this mess.

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:22

BearDrivingTruck: Oct 15, 2011; You see the most shocking sights sometimes

Endorph posted:

joe walsh is not an active politician

Was he the guy who got cleaned out by Duckworth?

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:22

Captain Oblivious: Oct 12, 2007; I'm not like other posters

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

Does Arlington, AKA literally Robert E Lee's back yard, count?

Not really because Arlington's placement, while a great "haha gently caress off Confederacy" symbol still isn't a great "haha gently caress off Confederacy, specifically for slavery" symbol.

I mean it's still good but yeah.

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:22

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

Night10194 posted:

Hillary's turnabout has been to try to use this as a partisan rallying cry, basically, as much as to try to get the original headline off the news. She wants her followers pissed about this.

It's working, I am loving pissed off about this mess.

wait

you mean Hillary might have a competent campaign ready to effectively strategize at short notice?

holy poo poo

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:23

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

My 1488 contribution:

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Agrajag: Jan 21, 2006; gat dang thats hot

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS PAGE ALL NIGHT!

Agrajag fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Oct 31, 2016

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:23

Majorian: Jul 1, 2009

Nessus posted:

Yeah there's been this weird downplaying of this by the right wing noise machine. I wonder why.

It's because Trump and his surrogates have become too repulsive, obnoxious, and flat-out stupid for even a lot of right-wing media figures to bear anymore. And it's been an unparalleled pleasure to watch this as it happens.

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:23

Cingulate: Oct 23, 2012; by Fluffdaddy

gfsincere posted:

Yes...keep telling the black man that has traveled to 52 countries how he knows nothing about the world and that Obama is the sole arbiter of progress in the world

He's not, he's just the most prominent person to have a realistic view on that.

gfsincere posted:

tell me what I'm incapable of thinking, because Obama is also the sole arbiter of the black experience, and if he says its not that bad, then hey, wtf are Trayvon Martin's and Tamir Rice's and Eric Garner's families complaining about? Things have never been better so they should shut the hell up

That's quite literally the opposite of what I said.

Majorian posted:

Again, your race isn't why you're being singled out. It's because you're having a meltdown.

From what I can tell, that's how gfsincere is all the time.

Mel Mudkiper posted:

I think what gfsincere is pointing out is that it doesn't matter if a country is better than other countries if it still terrible

It does matter a lot. It tells you about what direction improvement is gonna come from.

Mel Mudkiper posted:

If I lived in a country where every day I was beaten with a stick I would be pissed off if someone told me I should be happy because other countries beat you with a chain.

A terrible situation is not forgivable because other people are worse.

This is a response to "shut up, stop complaining, things are better than in the [18/19]50s so you have zero reason to complain anymore."
Why respond to something nobody is saying?

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Doctor Butts: May 21, 2002

I don't even understand how the emails have anything to do with Clinton's server. How is it even relevant in that case?

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Northjayhawk: Mar 8, 2008; by exmarx

DaveWoo posted:

Just talked to my parents, and this whole FBI thing has caused them to go from being reluctant Hillary supporters to being enthusiastic Hillary supporters.

Anyway, there's my anecdote.

My anecdote: my republican mom who voted for Bill once but otherwise always supports the GOP, was with Hillary before emails. After she saw it was probably nothing, this email non-scandal pissed her off to the point of trying to convert others to vote for Hillary.

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:23

berserker: Aug 17, 2003; My love for you
is ticking clock

Just had to post to say how happy I am that this particular thread made it to page 1488 before the end of this spooktacular month.

Now I just can't wait for it to be loving over because god damnit I'm going to worry until the moment the Associated Press calls the race for Clinton. Even a 0.0000000001% chance of a Trump win is more than I'm comfortable with. Sorry, I'm a pussy.

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:23

skylined!: Apr 6, 2012; THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

Tricky D posted:

My two cents regarding nuclear launch chat and having served on a ballistic missile submarine:

Ballistic missile submarines underway operate in a state of very limited communication with the mainland. All messages to and from the boat come directly through the military controlled messaging service. The result is that the crew would not be aware if the order to launch would be retalitory or not.

In addition, when the boat is 'on alert' (ready to launch on command), we continually drill launches. The drill procedure is a potential launch message which the command staff must authenticate without knowing ahead of time whether it is a real launch order or not.

Also, the targeting data for the missiles is pre-loaded and not actually under the control of the crew.

In the event of a legitimate launch command. The crew would respond exactly the same as if it were a drill only once the codes are verified it's launch time and the missiles go off. The whole system is designed to take crew intervention completely out of the equation.

Welp I posted in like the first hundred pages of this thread - or the last 100 pages of the last one - that there was no way Trump would get a nuke off the ground, because someone would intervene.

Color me wrong as gently caress.

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:23

Nessus: Dec 22, 2003; After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!

Mel Mudkiper posted:

wait

you mean Hillary might have a competent campaign ready to effectively strategize at short notice?

holy poo poo

In the final analysis, the winner of this campaign will come down to who has the most effective campaign, and that person is Hillary Clinton

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:23

thetoughestbean: Apr 27, 2013; Keep On Shroomin

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

Does Arlington, AKA literally Robert E Lee's back yard, count?

I mean, that was a fantastic "gently caress You" but it doesn't exactly bring slavery to mind

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:23

Crazy Ted: Jul 29, 2003

Necc0 posted:

So was this it? Was Comey pulling this stunt finally what blew the crazy-fuse?

Maybe they're FINALLY starting to realize that A) this is only rallying Clinton voters and B) poo poo on Trump & Russia could very easily be leaked,

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:24

spacetoaster: Feb 10, 2014

Trabisnikof posted:

We really need a National Slavery Memorial.

Like come on. That's basic level poo poo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_African_American_History_and_Culture

A national slavery memorial was proposed, but everyone decided to go further and create the museum instead.

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:24

Pakled: Aug 6, 2011; WE ARE SMART

Maybe the right wingnuts don't like this because it discredits the narrative that Comey is in the tank for Killary.

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:24

Nessus: Dec 22, 2003; After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!

Majorian posted:

It's because Trump and his surrogates have become too repulsive, obnoxious, and flat-out stupid for even a lot of right-wing media figures to bear anymore. And it's been an unparalleled pleasure to watch this as it happens.

Maybe they're unwilling to take the Iron Ruble - and know Trump has!

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:24

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

Cingulate posted:

It does matter a lot. It tells you about what direction improvement is gonna come from.

Future improvement is not very meaningful to people suffering now.

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Crazy Ted: Jul 29, 2003

1488 WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:25

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

spacetoaster posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_African_American_History_and_Culture

A national slavery memorial was proposed, but everyone decided to go further and create the museum instead.

Last weekend I went there figuring "Its a Smithsonian museum, you just show up and go in right?"

I was wrong

tremendously wrong

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:25

HannibalBarca: Sep 11, 2016; History shows, again and again, how nature points out the folly of man.

I know that you all hate Chait and think that he's some sort of crypto-Republican, but this is a good read nevertheless:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/the-gops-age-of-authoritarianism-has-only-just-begun.html

"The political scientists Jonathan Weiler and Marc Hetherington found that, as recently as 1992, the Republican and Democratic parties had an equal proportion of voters with an authoritarian personality. By Obama�s first term, authoritarian personalities identified overwhelmingly with the GOP. In its preference for simplicity over complexity, and its disdain for experts and facts, the party has steadily ratcheted down its standard of intellectually acceptable discourse: from a doddering Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle to George W. Bush to Sarah Palin. From this standpoint, Trump is less a freakish occurrence than something close to an inevitability.

It is the tantalizing prospect of crippling the welfare state that has lured Republicans into endorsing a president who has threatened to jail his opponent, go after the business interests of news outlets critical of him, and praised dictators in North Korea, Russia, and China for crushing their opposition. They are willing to give Trump control of the military, the Department of Justice, and the domestic-security apparatus as long as Ryan controls the legislative agenda."

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negromancer: Aug 20, 2014; by FactsAreUseless

Nessus posted:

I congratulate you on sniping the Hitler number page!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtW1Lq5c04E Here is relevant viewing while we are in this exciting realm of Proximity to

LMFAO what the gently caress did I just watch?

Cingulate posted:

He's not, he's just the most prominent person to have a realistic view on that.

This is a response to "shut up, stop complaining, things are better than in the [18/19]50s so you have zero reason to complain anymore."
Why respond to something nobody is saying?

No, hes the person that has a view that you agree with that you can use against other minorities that dare to complain.

And when you're asking who put forth that argument, it was you.

The call was coming from inside the house.

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:25

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Pakled posted:

Maybe the right wingnuts don't like this because it discredits the narrative that Comey is in the tank for Killary.

They were already weird about him before this because on the one hand they liked when he wagged his finger at Hillary and questioned her judgment, but on the other hand he didn't lock her up so he's not their friend.

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:26

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

Fourteen Eighty Chait imo

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:26

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

gfsincere posted:

LMFAO what the gently caress did I just watch?

Guess who's back

movie based on German novel about Hitler being ressurected in modern Germany and everyone thinking he is a brilliant satirist and not actually a dangerous fascist

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:27

negromancer: Aug 20, 2014; by FactsAreUseless

skylined! posted:

Welp I posted in like the first hundred pages of this thread - or the last 100 pages of the last one - that there was no way Trump would get a nuke off the ground, because someone would intervene.

Color me wrong as gently caress.

Yeah, the only 2 people that actually have to be there that could stop him would be the dude who actually carries the nuclear football and the general that relays the order.

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:27

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Mel Mudkiper posted:

Last weekend I went there figuring "Its a Smithsonian museum, you just show up and go in right?"

I was wrong

tremendously wrong

lines?

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:27

Nessus: Dec 22, 2003; After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!

gfsincere posted:

LMFAO what the gently caress did I just watch?

I believe the premise of the program is "Adolf Hitler is found in a stasis pod, revived, and attempts to reintegrate into Modern Germany while being hilarious on account of he's way less scary when he's just some idiot Austrian."

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:27

Captain Oblivious: Oct 12, 2007; I'm not like other posters

spacetoaster posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_African_American_History_and_Culture

A national slavery memorial was proposed, but everyone decided to go further and create the museum instead.

That building looks like an upside down ziggurat.

And not in a bad way???

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:27

Nessus: Dec 22, 2003; After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!

gfsincere posted:

Yeah, the only 2 people that actually have to be there that could stop him would be the dude who actually carries the nuclear football and the general that relays the order.

Well Alexander Haig was willing to plug Nixon to save America, do we have such patriots in this day and age?

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:28

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

emdash posted:

lines?

lines that sell out at 5am

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:28

AmiYumi: Oct 10, 2005; I FORGOT TO HAIL KING TORG

Pakled posted:

Maybe the right wingnuts don't like this because it discredits the narrative that Comey is in the tank for Killary.

I forgot how much that was a thing. Like, can you imagine? Grown adults, who are politically-involved enough to know who Comey even is, and come to the conclusion that he's a secret Hillary operative. 2016, wow.

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:28

Spoondick: Jun 9, 2000

the alt-right is skeptical of supporting comey now because once the fbi goes after the trump campaign for colluding with foreign powers influencing the election they'll need to throw him under the bus

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:29

skylined!: Apr 6, 2012; THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

Has this been posted?

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/791370808945889280

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:29

Crazy Ted: Jul 29, 2003

emdash posted:

lines?

If you're talking about the new African American museum, try "multi-hour long" lines.

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:29

negromancer: Aug 20, 2014; by FactsAreUseless

emdash posted:

lines?

You have to buy tickets for the AfAm Museum WAY the gently caress in advance.

Like, a couple weeks right now.

Black folks are excited to have a museum for ourselves.

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negromancer: Aug 20, 2014; by FactsAreUseless

skylined! posted:

Has this been posted?

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/791370808945889280

Yeah, like weeks ago. Hillary even referenced in in a debate IIRC.

# ? Oct 31, 2016 02:30

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