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deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
we're gonna repeal and replace obamacare, because people had insurance they loved, and it was taken away

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mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin

Nichael posted:

Do the Heptapods from Arrival count?

theyre the only ones i care about

deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
did we win ANYTHING in the last war? ANYTHING??? we're gonna start winning big.

radical meme
Apr 17, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

zegermans posted:

except the ACA repeal, tax reform, and jobs

so like almost everthing

infrastructure improvements, draining a swamp that he just flooded with fresh raw sewage, defeating ISIL,

Just off the top of my head.

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool
he didnt even build the wall yet

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

deadgoon posted:

did we win ANYTHING in the last war? ANYTHING??? we're gonna start winning big.

there were some huge advances in limb prosthesis technology

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

NoneMoreNegative posted:

there were some huge advances in limb prosthesis technology
Republicans want to give veterans a leg up!

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


cumshitter posted:

me too

i tried to do the best i could there. most people dont understand the difference between a lease and a loan

"NO. Do NOT pay extra every month. This is a rental agreement with a purchase option at the end. Would you give extra rent money to your landlord? It's the same idea."

that was the only thing that stuck with them an di was pretty proud when other people at my job were copying that that line

holy poo poo, I guess people literally do not understand what a lease is. Goddamn.

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMIQEWdPaRA

this is already solid gold and im not even watcching the oscars

cumshitter
Sep 27, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
cyclists are really dub and i owuld never get on one

im only getting drunker and i hope youre enjoyin gmy drunk rambling. because here comes THE. TWO. HUNNERT. THOUSAND. PHONE. CALL. story

so i work in private wealth management. the biggest client i deal with is this sweet old lady in her 80s who is rich as balls. has a beachside mansion in sandieogo and a very unique first and last name

some guy keeps blowing my phone up all morning and i ignore it. i listen to his voicemails. he is asking about a client and i dont know him. its probably a crime if i even take his call and say, "Yes, unique name is our client."

eventually i accidentally pick up the phone and its that dude.

"Hello, Private Wealth Management you're speaking with Cumshitter."

"Cumshitter, I don't want you to tell me anything. I was Googling the obituaries last week and I saw that unique name had died. All I want you to do is take down my phone number and current address because I'm pretty sure I moved since she last updated her will."

"Well, OK, guy who shows no remorse at not attending the funeral. I will note that. I can't tell you whether or not she is our client or whether she is alive or dead, but I will make a note of it."

so i start making calls. turns out she is alive. and shes really pissed. it gets relayed to me that she called the dude and asked why they didnt bother to call her to check in and he lost $200,000 in inheritance money from a lady who had less than 5 years of life in her

sullat
Jan 9, 2012

radical meme posted:

infrastructure improvements, draining a swamp that he just flooded with fresh raw sewage, defeating ISIL,

Just off the top of my head.

As far as Isis is concerned, all he has to do is keep doing what Obama was doing, and then take credit for it. And all he needs to do is pass some minor tweaks to Obamacare, rename it Trumpcare, and call it a day.

radical meme
Apr 17, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Bip Roberts posted:

how are the roads the problem?

Pickup trucks, loving pickup trucks.

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

Citizen Tayne posted:

people lease motorcycles now? ahahahhahhaahhahaha

What's wrong with leasing a motorcycle? Seems like a good idea for your estate.

Trash Trick
Apr 17, 2014

Father of Commando Killed in Yemen Refused to Meet Trump posted:


WASHINGTON — The father of the commando killed in a Special Operations raid in Yemen last month said in an interview published this weekend that he had refused to meet with President Trump on the day his son’s body was returned home, and criticized the White House over the mission, saying, “Don’t hide behind my son’s death to prevent an investigation.”

“The government owes my son an investigation,” the father, William Owens, told The Miami Herald, referring to Chief Petty Officer William Owens, 36, a member of the Navy’s SEAL Team 6.

The death of Chief Owens on Jan. 29, in the first Special Operations raid approved by Mr. Trump, came after a chain of miscues and misjudgments that plunged the elite commandos into a ferocious 50-minute firefight with Qaeda militants in a mountainous village in central Yemen. Three other Americans were wounded, and a $75 million aircraft was deliberately destroyed.

In a risky mission where almost everything that could go wrong did, the Pentagon has acknowledged that several civilians, including some children, were also killed. The dead included, by the account of relatives interviewed by human rights groups in Yemen, the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born Qaeda leader who was killed in a targeted drone strike in 2011.`

Raid in Yemen: Risky From the Start and Costly in the End FEB. 1, 2017
The mission’s casualties have raised doubts about the months of detailed planning that went into the operation, initially during the Obama administration, and whether the right questions were raised before its approval, which took place over a dinner Mr. Trump held with top advisers five days after taking office. Senior Trump administration officials said that the Defense Department had conducted a legal review of the mission and that a Pentagon lawyer had signed off on it.

But the comments by Mr. Owens, his first public remarks since his son’s death, cast a new spotlight on whether the mission’s risks — to the American commandos and to Yemeni civilians — had been considered fully enough by Mr. Trump and his top aides.

On Feb. 1, Mr. Trump flew to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to be present as the body of Chief Owens, who was known as Ryan, was returned to the United States. His death was the first in the military on the new commander in chief’s watch.

“I’m sorry; I don’t want to see him,” Mr. Owens recalled telling a chaplain who had informed him that Mr. Trump was on his way from Washington. “I told them I don’t want to meet the president.”

“I told them I didn’t want to make a scene about it, but my conscience wouldn’t let me talk to him,” Mr. Owens said in the interview, which The Herald said took place on Friday at Mr. Owens’s home in Lauderdale-by-the Sea, Fla.

“Why at this time did there have to be this stupid mission when it wasn’t even barely a week into his administration? Why?” said Mr. Owens, who told The Herald that he had not voted for Mr. Trump. “For two years prior, there were no boots on the ground in Yemen — everything was missiles and drones — because there was not a target worth one American life. Now all of a sudden we had to make this grand display?”

The operation was the first known American-led ground mission in Yemen since December 2014, when members of SEAL Team 6 stormed a village in southern Yemen in an effort to free an American photojournalist held hostage by Al Qaeda. That raid ended with the kidnappers killing the journalist and a South African held with him.

Mr. Owens told the newspaper that he was a veteran himself, having served four years in the Navy before joining the Army Reserve in Illinois. Chief Owens’s two half brothers also served in the Navy, one as a member of the SEALs, according to The Herald.

A woman who twice answered the phone at the Owens residence on Sunday and identified herself as Mr. Owens’s wife said he would not be making any statements beyond what he told The Herald.

Shortly after the raid, Trump administration officials called the mission a success, saying that criticisms like those from Senator John McCain of Arizona, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, who called the mission a failure, dishonored Chief Owens’s memory.

“I know that the mission has a lot of different critics, but it did yield a substantial amount of very important intel and resources that helped save American lives and other lives,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the deputy White House press secretary, said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.

Pentagon officials, however, have declined to provide any specific examples of how the information on the cellphones, laptop computers and other materials recovered at the site would help track down terrorists. Officials have said it could take weeks or longer to fully analyze the materials.

When asked if Mr. Trump would support an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Chief Owens’s death, Ms. Sanders said she had not spoken directly to the president about it but added, “I would imagine that he would be supportive of that.”

Col. John J. Thomas, a spokesman for the military’s Central Command in Tampa, Fla., which oversees operations in the Middle East, confirmed in an email on Sunday that the military was conducting an inquiry, as happens anytime there is an American casualty.

“We take this very seriously, and we appreciate the deep desire to find out all we can about the tragic death of Ryan Owens during an operation against terrorists,” Colonel Thomas said.

After initially denying that there had been any civilian casualties, Pentagon officials quickly backtracked after reports from the Yemeni authorities began trickling in and grisly photographs of children purportedly killed in the attack appeared on social media sites affiliated with Al Qaeda’s affiliate there.

The Central Command has acknowledged the likelihood that civilians were killed in the crossfire, but Colonel Thomas offered no new information on the status of the military’s investigation into the allegations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/us/politics/father-of-commando-killed-in-yemen-refused-to-meet-trump.html

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


radical meme posted:

Pickup trucks, loving pickup trucks.

It's really the people driving pickup trucks, they'd be assholes no matter what they drive

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Bip Roberts posted:

What's wrong with leasing a motorcycle? Seems like a good idea for your estate.

When you put it that way I guess it makes sense

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

radical meme posted:

Pickup trucks, loving pickup trucks.

Citizen Tayne posted:

It's really the people driving pickup trucks, they'd be assholes no matter what they drive

don't blame me for my bad choices

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

kimmel just delivered a great response to the overrated streep

deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
is cumshitter one of those bloodsucking consultants the president is complaining about right now

Grem
Mar 29, 2004

It's how her species communicates

quote:

Chief Owens, who was known as Ryan

This is such a weird combination of words.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

Investigations into Bengal zee: a billion million

Investigations into your dead dumbass son: zero


Lmao

Solarin
Nov 15, 2007

sullat posted:

As far as Isis is concerned, all he has to do is keep doing what Obama was doing

:lol:

e; by that I mean he'll do anything but what Obama was doing and then blame obama for the failure

tacodaemon
Nov 27, 2006



Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




MariusLecter posted:

Investigations into Bengal zee: a billion million

Investigations into your dead dumbass son: zero


Lmao

bengal z spinnin jams in the cat rage room

radical meme
Apr 17, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

sullat posted:

As far as Isis is concerned, all he has to do is keep doing what Obama was doing, and then take credit for it. And all he needs to do is pass some minor tweaks to Obamacare, rename it Trumpcare, and call it a day.

I would honestly be thrilled if he did both of those things.

cumshitter
Sep 27, 2005

by Fluffdaddy

deadgoon posted:

is cumshitter one of those bloodsucking consultants the president is complaining about right now

no im just an assistant im not anything fancy

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008





h*ck of a quaff, nice work lady

Der Meister
May 12, 2001


drat

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
The current administration doesn't like soldiers that suck at their job and die. Or get captured like McCain lol.

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

:guinness:

WarMECH
Dec 23, 2004
:jackbud:

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

I'd put a ring on it

shiksa
Nov 9, 2009

i went to one of these wrestling shows and it was... honestly? frickin boring. i wanna see ricky! i want to see his gold chains and respect for the ftw lifestyle

cumshitter posted:

cyclists are really dub and i owuld never get on one

im only getting drunker and i hope youre enjoyin gmy drunk rambling. because here comes THE. TWO. HUNNERT. THOUSAND. PHONE. CALL. story

so i work in private wealth management. the biggest client i deal with is this sweet old lady in her 80s who is rich as balls. has a beachside mansion in sandieogo and a very unique first and last name

some guy keeps blowing my phone up all morning and i ignore it. i listen to his voicemails. he is asking about a client and i dont know him. its probably a crime if i even take his call and say, "Yes, unique name is our client."

eventually i accidentally pick up the phone and its that dude.

"Hello, Private Wealth Management you're speaking with Cumshitter."

"Cumshitter, I don't want you to tell me anything. I was Googling the obituaries last week and I saw that unique name had died. All I want you to do is take down my phone number and current address because I'm pretty sure I moved since she last updated her will."

"Well, OK, guy who shows no remorse at not attending the funeral. I will note that. I can't tell you whether or not she is our client or whether she is alive or dead, but I will make a note of it."

so i start making calls. turns out she is alive. and shes really pissed. it gets relayed to me that she called the dude and asked why they didnt bother to call her to check in and he lost $200,000 in inheritance money from a lady who had less than 5 years of life in her

that lady rules hard

deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
when the president talks about totally obliterating ISIS and eradicating its evil from the face of the earth, he's talking about islam as a whole, isnt he

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...



goddamn that's some skills

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




deadgoon posted:

when the president talks about totally obliterating ISIS and eradicating its evil from the face of the earth, he's talking about islam as a whole, isnt he

he has no idea what hes talking about but thats what bannon means yes

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

deadgoon posted:

when the president talks about totally obliterating ISIS and eradicating its evil from the face of the earth, he's talking about islam as a whole, isnt he

Yes, just as his top adviser Sebastian "Nissan Cube" Gorka

cumshitter
Sep 27, 2005

by Fluffdaddy

shiksa posted:

that lady rules hard

my step grandpa was rich as balls and he made a $50,000 loan to one of his nephews

they never paid him back

he purposely deducted $50K from his inheritance (probly brining it to nothing tbh) and he would brag that he was going to stick it ot that fucker for not paying him back when he died

he did and i got to watch that fucker bitch about it loudly at a family bbq

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radical meme
Apr 17, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

deadgoon posted:

when the president talks about totally obliterating ISIS and eradicating its evil from the face of the earth, he's talking about islam as a whole, isnt he

He never actually knows what the gently caress he's talking about.


edit: drat, beaten by Squizzle.

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