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PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

watch zuckerfuck ross perot the next election.

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McNally
Sep 13, 2007

Ask me about Proposition 305


Do you like muskets?
Fun fact: Bill Clinton never won a majority of the popular vote.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

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

This is the only way the next president could be worst.

Please don't prove me wrong, America. Please.

Chichevache
Feb 17, 2010

One of the funniest posters in GIP.

Just not intentionally.

FrozenVent posted:

This is the only way the next president could be worst.

Please don't prove me wrong, America. Please.

At least we aren't limited to 140 characters on his social media. Sad!

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

zuckerberg would be willing to just buy twitter in order to ban trump from it though which would be funny

Seriously though if zuckerberg runs independent and pours a lot of money into his campaign we might be hosed. Our democracy depends on only having two viable candidates because if there are 3 then two of them are only loving each other over.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Trumpcare has made things very, very weird.

https://twitter.com/DanEggenWPost/status/841455331301572608

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


Sooooooooooooo here's a thing

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/841486126292557824
https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/841489159772598274

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
With the Breitbart poo poo and how terrible the healthcare rollout has been, I wonder if Ryan has the votes to remain Speaker of the House.

I think we will find out soon.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
Welp, Breitbart just went off script. poo poo's about to get weird.

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


I think the WH knows the bill is going fail, so this is them not just throwing Ryan directly under the bus, but telling everybody that he jumped

FrozenVent posted:

Welp, Breitbart just went off script. poo poo's about to get weird.
No, I think they're on script, it's just that Bannon is the one writing it

shyduck fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Mar 14, 2017

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus
How is this 'trumpcare'. Has he had any involvement at all with the bill? Other than saying how great it is and how he will insure everyone :lol:

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

shyduck posted:

I think the WH knows the bill is going fail, so this is them not just throwing Ryan directly under the bus, but telling everybody that he jumped
No, I think they're on script, it's just that Bannon is the one writing it

Unless it passes anyway.

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

ded posted:

Other than saying how great it is and how he will insure everyone :lol:

This is it, this is all it is. He heard about it and slapped his name on it.

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/841493832676048896

"Trump ally Rand Paul"

edit: yo the end of that loving paragraph, holy poo poo

shyduck fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Mar 14, 2017

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

ded posted:

How is this 'trumpcare'. Has he had any involvement at all with the bill? Other than saying how great it is and how he will insure everyone :lol:

You answered your own question! He decided to own the poo poo bill, so it shall forever be Trumpcare. It's probably closer to Ryancare/Republicare, but calling it Trumpcare would piss Donnie off, so it's Trumpcare.

In happier news, Boaty McBoatface is about to launch. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39232973

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



facialimpediment posted:


In happier news, Boaty McBoatface is about to launch. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39232973

At least not everything on this lovely earth is bad. :shobon:

Arc Light
Sep 26, 2013



Parliament just cleared the last legal hurdle for Prime Minister May to trigger Article 50 and bounce out of the European Union. While it could legally happen on Tuesday, Downing Street is expected to wait until month's end.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39262081

No brakes on the pain train, indeed.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Arc Light posted:

Parliament just cleared the last legal hurdle for Prime Minister May to trigger Article 50 and bounce out of the European Union. While it could legally happen on Tuesday, Downing Street is expected to wait until month's end.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39262081

No brakes on the pain train, indeed.

I still can't believe that they're actually going through with it.

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Arc Light posted:

Parliament just cleared the last legal hurdle for Prime Minister May to trigger Article 50 and bounce out of the European Union. While it could legally happen on Tuesday, Downing Street is expected to wait until month's end.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39262081

No brakes on the pain train, indeed.

"If your friends told you to jump off a bridge would you do it? Yes, yes we would"

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

Zeroisanumber posted:

I still can't believe that they're actually going through with it.

It's either do what most of them believe is right for the country, or keep their political majority, so obviously it wasn't a very tough decision.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Arc Light posted:

Parliament just cleared the last legal hurdle for Prime Minister May to trigger Article 50 and bounce out of the European Union. While it could legally happen on Tuesday, Downing Street is expected to wait until month's end.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39262081

No brakes on the pain train, indeed.

i hope it doesn't cause anything bad, but....

Arc Light
Sep 26, 2013



Two Finger posted:

i hope it doesn't cause anything bad, but....

Me either, but I can't foresee any way it ends well for every group involved. As best I can tell, it's a zero sum game. Either the UK is crippled, or else they remain financially solvent and thus prove that the Brexit voters were correct and EU membership was only a hindrance to their economy. This would all but guarantee the eventual dissolution of the EU.

It also gives the rest of the EU a very real reason to try to screw the UK over in trade agreements. They can't make it look easy or painless for a nation to leave.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Getting rid of Paul Ryan is getting up there with getting rid of Sessions. Even if you get rid of Trump and friends you'd have Tea Party shitbags, and outright death cultists like Ryan continuing to do damage. Ryan at least seems like the upper limit of crazy for what the electorate will accept. There's nobody who I see sliding into his place that will be as successful as he's been.

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

Ryan wants to actually pass legislation, so personally I'd be happy if they shiv him to spend the next 2 years accomplishing nothing.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Best Friends posted:

Ryan wants to actually pass legislation, so personally I'd be happy if they shiv him to spend the next 2 years accomplishing nothing.

Boehner has got to be laughing until it hurts every day since the election.

SquirrelyPSU
May 27, 2003


Best Friends posted:

Ryan wants to actually pass legislation, so personally I'd be happy if they shiv him to spend the next 2 years accomplishing nothing.

Pretty okay with this as well.

Agree with the sentiment that the Trump machine is turning on Ryan.

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012


:ghost:Brazilian President Michel Temer moves out of official residence because of 'ghosts':ghost:

quote:

The acting president of Brazil has reportedly moved out of his official residence because of “ghosts”.

Michel Temer, who has been running the country since Dilma Rousseff was impeached last year, told a Brazilian news magazine that he and his family were leaving the Alvorada Palace because they found it spooky.

He told Veja magazine: "I felt something strange there. I wasn't able to sleep right from the first night. The energy wasn't good."

"Marcela felt the same thing. Only Michelzinho, who went running from one end to the other, liked it."

He joked that they had even started to wonder whether there were ghosts in the modernist palace which was inaugurated in 1958.

The 76-year-old’s move comes as he is facing mounting pressure as the ongoing corruption scandal facing the Brazilian political elite continues.

Mr Temer is himself facing allegations that he benefited from illegal donations when he and Ms Rousseff ran on the same ticket in 2014.

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
Somali pirates are back:

https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/841589153888362496

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Pornhub wants to help clear your snow.

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/841608083122057217

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Ate you sick of winning yet?

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Its rather sad, because the Pirates are a symptom of foreign fishing fleets raiding and diminishing Somali fish stocks. Piracy is almost all they have left.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Watch Trump try to one up the Mearsk Alabama raid and get a bunch of people killed.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

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

CommieGIR posted:

Its rather sad, because the Pirates are a symptom of foreign fishing fleets raiding and diminishing Somali fish stocks. Piracy is almost all they have left.

The fish stock depletion is part of the problem, but they also don't have any options for employment ashore. Fix Somalia and the piracy problem goes away.

Of course, fixing Somalia is not exactly a simple thing.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

FrozenVent posted:

The fish stock depletion is part of the problem, but they also don't have any options for employment ashore. Fix Somalia and the piracy problem goes away.

Of course, fixing Somalia is not exactly a simple thing.

I'd be OK with keeping Somalia the way it is as long as we deported every "taxation is theft" style slack-jawed dumbfuck or Ayn Rand worshiping waste of oxygen boot-strappy ubermensch there so they can see the end result of their beliefs.

Outside of that, yeah the place could use some help.

SquirrelyPSU
May 27, 2003


bird food bathtub posted:

I'd be OK with keeping Somalia the way it is as long as we deported every "taxation is theft" style slack-jawed dumbfuck or Ayn Rand worshiping waste of oxygen boot-strappy ubermensch there so they can see the end result of their beliefs.

Outside of that, yeah the place could use some help.

You sound fun.

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/841323469379846144

And something to cheer everyone up:

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/841311395547250688

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
A vibrator manufacturer got caught tracking their users and had to pay $4m to customers.

It's also controllable via Bluetooth and/or a cell phone app and the security is non-existant.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/we-vibe-vibrator-tracking-users-sexual-habits

Missionary Positron
Jul 6, 2004
And now for something completely different

facialimpediment posted:

A vibrator manufacturer got caught tracking their users and had to pay $4m to customers.

It's also controllable via Bluetooth and/or a cell phone app and the security is non-existant.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/we-vibe-vibrator-tracking-users-sexual-habits

Maybe I'm turning into a luddite who doesn't get It Anymore, but I really don't understand why poo poo like vibrators, beds, and lamps need internet connectivity.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

Missionary Positron posted:

Maybe I'm turning into a luddite who doesn't get It Anymore, but I really don't understand why poo poo like vibrators, beds, and lamps need internet connectivity.

Lamps I can understand so you can set them to timers and poo poo or turn the on/off remotely. But what possible use would anyone have for an internet connected vibrator?

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ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus

psydude posted:

Lamps I can understand so you can set them to timers and poo poo or turn the on/off remotely. But what possible use would anyone have for an internet connected vibrator?

'Vibrates on tips'

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