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pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Ba-dam ba-DUMMMMMM


Ah, good ol' Lake Oswego, aka Lake No-Negro, so called because it's like 99.7% white and rich as gently caress.

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Genocide Tendency
Dec 24, 2009

I get mental health care from the medical equivalent of Skillcraft.



What do you call competing rallies/protests where its just autistic screeching at each other?


LingcodKilla posted:

TSA pat down is one of the few ways I get human contact...

Same.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

Genocide Tendency posted:

What do you call competing rallies/protests where its just autistic screeching at each other?

The new American dream.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Genocide Tendency posted:

What do you call competing rallies/protests where its just autistic screeching at each other?

Congress.


Content edits: New York Daily News going there https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/838204927579160577

Benjy Sarlin of NBC News noted something: Official Washington DC didn't say much of anything about all of this. NOBODY believes Donnie and they're sick of the wild claim / outrage firestorm / backfilled excuses / realization that Donnie's full of poo poo cycle.

https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/838230077741678592

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Mar 5, 2017

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

Genocide Tendency posted:

What do you call competing rallies/protests where its just autistic screeching at each other?

Army/Navy Game

Genocide Tendency
Dec 24, 2009

I get mental health care from the medical equivalent of Skillcraft.



I want to know what is going to happen to that Aid in the second bullet.


Also:

FrozenVent posted:

The new American dream.



Keep them coming.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

Genocide Tendency posted:

What do you call competing rallies/protests where its just autistic screeching at each other?

The Kashmir region.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Genocide Tendency posted:

I want to know what is going to happen to that Aid in the second bullet.

Simple. The aide will leak poo poo to the New York Times.

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/838244192954503169

Donnie's convinced he's right, so it's going to be an interesting week.



Edit: Here's some stuff from Fake News CNN. It's all loving pornographic. http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/04/politics/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-reince-priebus/index.html

quote:

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is extremely frustrated with his senior staff and communications team for allowing the firestorm surrounding Attorney General Jeff Sessions to steal his thunder in the wake of his address to Congress, sources tell CNN.

"Nobody has seen him that upset," one source said, adding the feeling was the communications team allowed the Sessions news, which the administration deemed a nonstory, to overtake the narrative.

When the President returned to the White House Thursday evening from a day trip to Virginia, there were "a lot of expletives." The source said for more than a week Trump had been lamenting that his senior staff "just keep getting in their own way."

Trump is upset because he doesn't believe he is getting credit he thinks he deserves for his time office so far because of self-inflicted wounds and missteps, the source said. An informed presidential ally outside government but close to the President said Trump was really angry about having a "mini disaster" a week. The President's mood is adding to tremendous pressure inside the West Wing and aides have been seen in tears in recent days at multiple meetings.

OH MY GOD THIS QUOTE: "They hate me because they hate you." https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/838245405959782400

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EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Genocide Tendency posted:

I want to know what is going to happen to that Aid in the second bullet.

Fired out of a cannon

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

Genocide Tendency posted:

What do you call competing rallies/protests where its just autistic screeching at each other?

German intercourse.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


More like I hate them because they're your hand picked best people, who are almost entirely the worst people for the job. A few of them, Bannon and Gorka for instance, are even loving worse than you as strange as that sounds.

Genocide Tendency
Dec 24, 2009

I get mental health care from the medical equivalent of Skillcraft.


How long until people in the administration start revolting.

And do they just quit then dump the dirt out in the press or stage a full on coup?




Oh my god this could be amazing. :flashfap:

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
New thread title please: they hate me because they hate pee

Piell
Sep 3, 2006

Grey Worm's Ken doll-like groin throbbed with the anticipatory pleasure that only a slightly warm and moist piece of lemoncake could offer


Young Orc

Genocide Tendency posted:

How long until people in the administration start revolting.

I dunno they've always seemed pretty revolting to me

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Genocide Tendency posted:

How long until people in the administration start revolting.

And do they just quit then dump the dirt out in the press or stage a full on coup?




Oh my god this could be amazing. :flashfap:

is this gonna be the week it explodes

i give it until May tbh

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

the fact that there could have been a FISA warrant for Jeff Sessions and therefore a secret investigation already in place during the campaign is like spotting a periscope peeking out of the water

i cant wait to find out whats going on

Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



https://twitter.com/gaywonk/status/838243781514309634

:allbuttons::allbuttons::allbuttons::allbuttons::allbuttons::allbuttons::allbuttons::allbuttons::allbuttons::allbuttons:

KirbyKhan
Mar 20, 2009
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!
Soiled Meat
Edit: wrong thread

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit

Presidential

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013
What in the wide world of gently caress? Who is that guy?

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

What in the wide world of gently caress? Who is that guy?
He has a tattoo of Nixon's face on his back.

Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



Longtime Republican operative and now Trump advisor, including during the campaign. He teased about upcoming Clinton related e-mail dumps from Wikileaks. And now he just publicly admitted to having contact with Julian Assange during that time period.

You think he's scared at the moment?

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

What in the wide world of gently caress? Who is that guy?

Roger Stone is an old Dirty Tricks super-skeezy Republican, one of the original Clinton-haters back to the 90s. So naturally, he informally shacked up with Donnie and they've talked back and forth about dirty tricks-type stuff.

He heavily implied in the past that he had a direct line to Julian Assange, or at least dropped hints to it, but never to this extent.

I believe Roger Stone was also one of those that was checked out by the FBI for all of the Russia poo poo and that investigation may not be over. With his blabbing, it sort of makes a direct throughline from Donnie, to Roger, to Julian Assange/Wikileaks, to Russia. Still not *really* clear, but if Roger Stone had a line to Julian Assange and Donald Trump at the same time, there's your hook between the Trump campaign and Russia.

It still won't end up mattering because Stone was never a true part of the Trump campaign and a lot of this poo poo really isn't illegal. Stone could probably play dumb and snake his way out of legal trouble, the same way that Sessions would (well dang gum it, I just plum forgot!).

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013
So why is he posting this poo poo on twitter? :confused:

Third World Reagan
May 19, 2008

Imagine four 'mechs waiting in a queue. Time works the same way.
twitter is where you post things now

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

So why is he posting this poo poo on twitter? :confused:

Narcissism, combined with being angry, combined with forgetting 'oops, everything on the internet is permanent', combined with being a dumbfuck.

Sort of how a lot of thieves get caught nowadays, they just ABSOLUTELY MUST tell a friend how awesome their robbery was HEY WHY DID YOU CALL THE COPS :downs:

Genocide Tendency
Dec 24, 2009

I get mental health care from the medical equivalent of Skillcraft.


Deadpool 2 teaser is out.


CE needs something uplifting.

Svartvit
Jun 18, 2005

al-Qabila samaa Bahth

That video clip embodies the essence of American politics today. It's so beautiful.

FastestGunAlive
Apr 7, 2010

Dancing palm tree.
When Trump fires all his staff/they all quit, he will just start bringing in the random crazies throughout the country who still support him. He could hold a contest on twitter or even a reality show where they compete to get a job. He can claim that was the plan all along; drain the swamp by bringing in regular Joes like you and me. Catch phrase "your hired" as a fun little play on his old classic. It'll be like watching the experience-less governing of the tea party and, well, his current administration, but worse. They can pump out all sorts of EOs, investigations into pizzerias, and finally get to work on locking up crooked Clinton and the press. Great ratings though. The best ratings.

Genocide Tendency
Dec 24, 2009

I get mental health care from the medical equivalent of Skillcraft.


FastestGunAlive posted:

When Trump fires all his staff/they all quit, he will just start bringing in the random crazies throughout the country who still support him. He could hold a contest on twitter or even a reality show where they compete to get a job. He can claim that was the plan all along; drain the swamp by bringing in regular Joes like you and me. Catch phrase "your hired" as a fun little play on his old classic. It'll be like watching the experience-less governing of the tea party and, well, his current administration, but worse. They can pump out all sorts of EOs, investigations into pizzerias, and finally get to work on locking up crooked Clinton and the press. Great ratings though. The best ratings.

If you think for more than two seconds that Congress won't oust him you are joking yourself.


So thats totally what he is trying to work out in Mar-a-lago right now.

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012


Germany shows symptoms of Nazi revival, Erdoğan says

quote:

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed Germany on Sunday for its practices reminiscent of the Nazi era after Germany barred Turkish ministers and government officials from attending rallies gathering Turkish citizens in that country, organized within the framework of the constitutional reform referendum scheduled on April 16.

"Germany has gone astray from the path of democracy, its current practices have nothing to do with democracy and even comparable with those of the Nazi regime,'' the Turkish president also said.

"We used to believe that Germany had left its Nazi experience aside, but revivalists prove us wrong. We don't want to see the resurgence of the Nazism,'' Erdoğan added.

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pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Ba-dam ba-DUMMMMMM

I can't find a copy of it so I dunno if it's online, but apparently Erdogan's party put out a promo video about him that features a scene where he actually jumps into a well and saves a little girl's puppy that had fallen in. It seems like it was basically the Turkish version of this:
https://youtu.be/hKu0TVlumcc

Also Lindsay Lohan is basically treating him like he's her new daddy, which is totally not creepy at all.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006


This article is really sparse on the backstory. Are they specifically banning Turkish officials from political speech in Germany, or is it a broad measure against foreign officials?

AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Mar 5, 2017

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012


AreWeDrunkYet posted:

This story is really sparse on the backstory. Are they specifically banning Turkish officials from political speech in Germany, or is it a broad measure against foreign officials?

I'm not sure what the specific case is in Germany, but it I assume it is similar to the case in Austria. They have banned Turkish officials from campaigning in support of the referendum among Turks living there.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

A Handed Missus posted:

I'm not sure what the specific case is in Germany, but it I assume it is similar to the case in Austria. They have banned Turkish officials from campaigning in support of the referendum among Turks living there.

That seems even weirder, why ban foreign officials from discussing foreign politics among foreign nationals on your soil? Like what is the risk to Germany/Austria they're trying to get in front of.

aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009


AreWeDrunkYet posted:

This article is really sparse on the backstory. Are they specifically banning Turkish officials from political speech in Germany, or is it a broad measure against foreign officials?

Two Turkish government ministers tried to hold politicial rallies in Germany. They were denied by the municipalities - federal government claims to have nothing to do with it - because they allegedly mischaracterized the size and nature of the rallies when applying for the permit. There is a bit of a mess going on rn because Turkey detained a high-profile Turko-German journalist for "promoting terrorism", i.e. reporting from Turkey, and there has been a bit of a scandal with DITIB officials (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish-Islamic_Union_for_Religious_Affairs) spying on Kurds and dissidents etc. in Germany.

Turkish government influencing Turkish heritage people in Germany is a thorny issue, the Turkish government has at times made statements to the tune of them not being supposed to feel German etc., and Germans are unthrilled by the occasional clashes between Turks and Kurds here etc. There's a Turkish fascist organization, the Grey Wolves, that also pops up every once in a while. There are a bunch of people who have both Turkish and German, or only Turkish, passports in Germany, and they are apparently an important voting bloc for Turkish elections.

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Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

quote:

President Donald Trump is asking Congress to look into whether the Obama administration abused its investigative powers during the 2016 election, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement Sunday.

"Reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling," Spicer said, posting the statement on Twitter. "President Donald J. Trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into Russian activity, the congressional intelligence committees exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016.
"Neither the White House nor the President will comment further until such oversight is conducted," he added.
Spicer did not provide further details on the President's request of Congress.
The statement comes a day after Trump accused former President Barack Obama, without providing evidence, of wiretapping his phones in Trump Tower in the weeks before the November election.

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?
That, along with this tweet, seems to be his new strategy. Smokescreening and "BUT OBAMA"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/838353481526312961

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
No YOU!!!

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Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
No puppet, no puppet, you're the puppet.

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