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Redgrendel2001: Sep 1, 2006; you literally think a person saying their NBA team of choice being better than the fucking 76ers is a 'schtick'

a literal thing you think.

https://twitter.com/Khanoisseur/status/837617067209580544

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:08

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# ? May 16, 2024 16:33

punchymcpunch: Oct 14, 2012

trmp

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:08

white sauce: Apr 29, 2012; by R. Guyovich

19 o'clock posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837633820417482754

Can't be him.

What the gently caress is this

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:08

BAE OF PIGS: Nov 28, 2016; Tup

Canada, Australia!

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:09

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

Also, no one wants to say Le Pen will lose because they will look like giant idiots if she wins after Brexit and Trump. But I'm thinking that maybe this is an Anglo phenomenon? Americans have long had this nationalistic and inward-looking streak and distrust of Europe is deeply rooted in Britain.

France ... I dunno. The memories of the Nazi occupation still linger there and the Le Pen clan is not exactly a new phenomenon. Her dad made it into the runoff years ago and got blown out.

Note I have no idea what I'm talking about!

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:09

ScrubLeague: Feb 11, 2007; Nap Ghost

Sounds like Bannon to me. Also everyone knows Trump hasn't read that book because he's too busy watching television, and also he can't read.

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:12

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

Trump does not loving read books.

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:14

The Brown Menace: Dec 24, 2010; Now comes in all colors.

Tight Booty Shorts posted:

What the gently caress is this

oprah wanted to become more like donald and run for president, but then donald switched the tables on her and founded the donald book club

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:15

Agrajag: Jan 21, 2006; gat dang thats hot

Tight Booty Shorts posted:

What the gently caress is this

someone tryingt o mimic trumps tweet structure or whatev

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:15

white sauce: Apr 29, 2012; by R. Guyovich

Green Card Warrior is about a conservative guy who was "targeted by the obama administration for being conservative"

Trump is saying he's only gonna let conservatives from 1st world countries into the US

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:15

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

Tight Booty Shorts posted:

What the gently caress is this

It means that book publishers are going to work real hard to get their authors on Fox and Friends.

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:16

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

also haha bill burr's netflicks thing is hilarious

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:16

19 o'clock: Sep 9, 2004; Excelsior!!!

Tight Booty Shorts posted:

What the gently caress is this

Apparently it's a book about a brave American Dreamer (TM) who had his green card petition sabotaged by the nefarious Obama administration. His courageous battle for citizenry as a marginalized white conservative pundit serves as an inspiration against the hate and intolerance of Barack Obama.

Man, I really hope Obama doesn't become president.

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:17

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

https://twitter.com/realalexjones/status/762070281238085632?lang=en

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:17

Not a Children: Oct 9, 2012; Don't need a holster if you never stop shooting.

Baloogan posted:

https://twitter.com/realalexjones/status/762070281238085632?lang=en

I can't wait for this man to die of a coronary

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:18

Mad Doctor Cthulhu: Mar 3, 2008

Redgrendel2001 posted:

https://twitter.com/Khanoisseur/status/837617067209580544

Pre-1994, meaning that Russia could have been digging into our government right around the time Clinton took office, meaning that the whole of the current conservative movement could be funded/compromised. Even if this was pre-Putin, the GOP fascination with Russia probably opened a lot of gateways for whatever happened.

Yeah, if this bursts in the right way this takes down the Republican Party big time.

Wikkheiser posted:

Also, no one wants to say Le Pen will lose because they will look like giant idiots if she wins after Brexit and Trump. But I'm thinking that maybe this is an Anglo phenomenon? Americans have long had this nationalistic and inward-looking streak and distrust of Europe is deeply rooted in Britain.

France ... I dunno. The memories of the Nazi occupation still linger there and the Le Pen clan is not exactly a new phenomenon. Her dad made it into the runoff years ago and got blown out.

Note I have no idea what I'm talking about!

What is throwing us all is how the information that Russia is backing right-wing groups because it's an easy way to destabilize the government is now known. With Brexit it wasn't, and even Trump's win looked like a fluke to most of us. But now that France knows that Le Pen is in the pockets of Putin, it's remains to be seen how wide that is known and if it matters to most right-wingers.

ScrubLeague posted:

Sounds like Bannon to me. Also everyone knows Trump hasn't read that book because he's too busy watching television, and also he can't read.

This. It looks like whomever is controlling Trump's twitter is trying to reinvent him as his backers are being chipped away due to more and more allegations. It probably is Bannon, trying to keep his house of cards up.

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:18

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

Not a Children posted:

I can't wait for this man to die of a coronary

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:19

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

Chaos rains

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:22

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Wikkheiser posted:

Also, no one wants to say Le Pen will lose because they will look like giant idiots if she wins after Brexit and Trump. But I'm thinking that maybe this is an Anglo phenomenon?

Pas du tout.

Remember that the French stopped people including the UK joining the EEC because they were worried about ~foreign influences~, still do colonial poo poo all the time nowadays (see Le Pen going to the old colonies and pointedly not wearing a headscarf like she's in fuckin Sex and the City 2, to press applause), and are pretty fiercely nationalistic.

This isn't the r�tonade days of the 1990s where FN guys beat the poo poo out of the arabs in Marseilles or whatever but the French are still a xenophobic and culturally chauvinistic bunch and when your choices are:

- Some fuckin guy with 0 party who wants things to continue as-is (read 0 growth and worsening labour laws)
- The Disgraced Alain Jupp� following on from 48 hour week Fillon presumably with a similar "firings will continue until the economy improves" message.
- Marine le Pen, who is a known quantity of nationalistic garbage
- (Nobody else important)

Marine le Pen looks like a pretty viable candidate

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:22

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

Was there leaks overnight or something

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:23

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

I hope she wins so WWIII will be WWII but reversed

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:24

Tesseraction: Apr 5, 2009

lol whine more

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837638488656920576

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:24

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Baloogan posted:

I hope she wins so WWIII will be WWII but reversed

I hope she doesn't because wars are loving lame

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:24

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

i love that the president trolls on twitter every few days

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:25

JosefStalinator: Oct 9, 2007; Come Tbilisi if you want to live.; Grimey Drawer

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837638488656920576

someone woke up grumpy today

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:25

Vertical Lime: Dec 11, 2004

Tight Booty Shorts posted:

What the gently caress is this

at least this time he's not hiding the fact he's watching tv

JosefStalinator posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837638488656920576

someone woke up grumpy today

russia's the magic word

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:27

The Brown Menace: Dec 24, 2010; Now comes in all colors.

Wikkheiser posted:

Also, no one wants to say Le Pen will lose because they will look like giant idiots if she wins after Brexit and Trump. But I'm thinking that maybe this is an Anglo phenomenon? Americans have long had this nationalistic and inward-looking streak and distrust of Europe is deeply rooted in Britain.

France ... I dunno. The memories of the Nazi occupation still linger there and the Le Pen clan is not exactly a new phenomenon. Her dad made it into the runoff years ago and got blown out.

Note I have no idea what I'm talking about!

lol

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:27

BAE OF PIGS: Nov 28, 2016; Tup

Tesseraction posted:

lol whine more

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837638488656920576

somebody call this man a whaaaambulance.

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:28

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

The Dems control the senate now I guess

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:28

ScrubLeague: Feb 11, 2007; Nap Ghost

Pretty weird how significant minorities in each house and not using any of the parliamentary obstruction rules at their disposal allow the democrats to delay nominations.

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:30

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

Tesseraction posted:

lol whine more

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837638488656920576

It is pretty pathetic. A real president would have actually had the background checks done ahead of time.

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:31

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

i went to moscow once can i join the administration

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:33

THE BIG DOG DADDY: Oct 16, 2013; Rasheed was, with Aliases, the top 7 PvPers in Bone Krew.

No one talks about this.

Truga posted:

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:34

Perfectly Safe: May 30, 2003; no danger here.

Still hundreds of posts back in the thread, but Sessions' press conference kept reminding me of something. Couldn't figure out what it was for ages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-tGV96ceBM

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:35

Kazzah: Jul 15, 2011; Formerly known as
Krazyface; Hair Elf

lets copy literally the worst thing about australia

# ? Mar 3, 2017 13:38

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

quote:

France fluctuates between short spasms of change and longer periods of immobility. It has developed institutional barriers and tacit compromises to hold things steady. Its current Fifth Republic is a �republican monarchy�, with parliament downgraded and a powerful president supposed to unite the nation � a task sadly beyond most politicians. Another, less noticed, institution goes back even further than Enjolras�s fictional death on the barricades: the two-round ballot, designed in the 1820s to prevent hotheads like him from winning elections. It gives voters and politicians a second chance, not so much to reconsider their own choices as to react against the choices of others. In the first round you vote for the person you want; in the second you vote against the person you fear.

This evolved historically into what was called �republican discipline�: in the first round there could be a range of competing candidates of all shades, but in the second round all loyal republicans, from the mildest liberal to the reddest communist, would vote for the candidate best placed to beat the enemy of the republic � usually a royalist or authoritarian nationalist. The apparition of Jean-Marie Le Pen�s Front National in the 1970s, combining traditionalist conservatives, embittered nationalists and nostalgic fascists, met the same response. When Le Pen shocked France by getting through to the second round of the 2002 presidential election, he was crushed by Jacques Chirac, who got 82 per cent of the vote. Good republicans rallied, including those on the far left: �Better a crook than a fascist� said one slogan. The crucial question in this election is whether the republican reflex still operates. If not, Marine Le Pen could win.

Consider the long-term consequences of the two-round voting system. Many British commentators � and indeed some in France � call periodically for a �French Thatcher� to sweep away institutional barriers to economic dynamism. Nicolas Sarkozy was one who briefly claimed this mantle. The latest is Emmanuel Macron, a former economics minister of Blairite tinge in Fran�ois Hollande�s socialist government. But Margaret Thatcher could never have been elected in a French-style second round. The British system not only can but regularly does give power to a united minority over a divided majority. Mrs Thatcher could carry out a peaceful revolution without ever having the clear support of a majority of voters. In a French-style system, she and her parliamentary supporters would inevitably have been defeated in second-round ballots by a combination of Labour and the Liberals: Jim Callaghan would have been triumphantly re-elected.

In short, precisely because of its turbulent political history, France has developed a series of barriers against radical change. A leading sociologist, Michel Crozier, described it in 1970 as a �soci�t� bloqu�e� � a �stalemate society�. Of course, much in France does change: but the price of political stability is that certain fundamental rights and privileges remain untouched.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/02/frances-long-stalemate-is-on-the-verge-of-a-complete-breakdown/