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A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012


facialimpediment posted:

It gets better.

https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/842700142692241408

Dude with the camera is a Best Korean. Only American reporter with Tillerson is from a right-wing site that has published birther poo poo and the reporter hasn't even said a thing at all during the whole trip.

lollin' here

Secretary Tillerson Signs Wall in Dining Facility on Camp Bonifas by U.S. Department of State, on Flickr
Secretary Tillerson Signs Wall in the Dining Facility on Camp Bonifas by U.S. Department of State, on Flickr

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not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
I remember reading about how if North Korea was absorbed by South Korea that there was a significant chance that their economy could NEVER recover.

Never is a long time.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

East Germany's economy is still hosed, so yeah that's probably true to the extreme.

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012


Speaking of East Germany, Angela Merkel is meeting Trumpy today.

quote:

Mrs Merkel, who is said to have been studying Mr Trump's speeches and even an old interview with Playboy magazine, appears to have concluded that the way to the president's heart is through business.
She is taking the chief executives of BMW and Siemens and the manufacturer Schaeffer along with her.

Merkel meets Trump: A defining moment for US and Germany

The Playboy interview they claimed she has looked at is the one from 1990 where he said some fun stuff about nukes

quote:

What would be some of President Trump’s longer-term views of the future?
I think of the future, but I refuse to paint it. Anything can happen. But I often think of nuclear war.

Nuclear war?
I’ve always thought about the issue of nuclear war; it’s a very important element in my thought process. It’s the ultimate, the ultimate catastrophe, the biggest problem this world has, and nobody’s focusing on the nuts and bolts of it. It’s a little like sickness. People don’t believe they’re going to get sick until they do. Nobody wants to talk about it. I believe the greatest of all stupidities is people’s believing it will never happen, because everybody knows how destructive it will be, so nobody uses weapons. What bullshit.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

not caring here posted:

I remember reading about how if North Korea was absorbed by South Korea that there was a significant chance that their economy could NEVER recover.

Never is a long time.

It wouldn't.

East/West Germany isn't exactly a fair comparison to make. East Germany at least had an industrial base and the entire population did not follow a cult of personality. Their population hadn't undergone physiological changes due to decades of malnutrition. The East Germans did not view the West Germans as their mortal, eternal enemies. And still, reunifying East and West has cost trillions of dollars.

North/South Korea will be much, much worse. Oh and not to mention the majority of defectors from the North come across the Chinese border, not the Korean border. So we'd either have;

1) A flood of humanity streaming across the Yalu, which the Chinese will love
2) A flood of humanity attempting to cross the most heavily mined and defended land on the planet.

Both are bad options.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD
East Germany is still lagging behind West Germany to this day so yeah the world trying to uplift NK would be a disaster

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
We will reach Pyongyang in 3 days

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

No blood for soju

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Good Job Cole

https://twitter.com/CarolCNN/status/842751367424892928

Apparently this Cole guy is close to Paul Ryan. Donnie also went on a long rant today about how awesome the healthcare bill is.

Genocide Tendency
Dec 24, 2009

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


unbutthurtable posted:

"Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church, and transporting a minor for prostitution/lewdness, according to the Cleveland County District Attorney's office."

How is that, specifically, a crime? Yeah, prostitution in general I get, but not the church part.

No idea if it applies directly to that city's/state's law against it but...


Thats actually a fairly common law when it comes to sex/drug crimes and not because of minorities. For most of our nation's history, churches were community center points. Everything revolved around the local church. So it was a point where families, specifically children congregated. Those laws were designed to deter crime away from kids in the same way that "within x feet of a school" laws are.

bird food bathtub posted:

I've done zero research on it and have no evidence at all but I'm just gonna go ahead and guess it's a way to screw over minorities that much harder somehow. That's generally a safe bet for any kind of "what the gently caress?" laws you come across.

Contrary to what D&D says, not every law is crafted to specifically gently caress over minorities. Its a loving stupid narrative and you should stop pushing it.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Lsyodpdyydlygxlyylcy hfxktydclughcxylpdlhcc jfmggdf

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/842753615265775617

NJ SKKTSKSTKTLXYCY

loving christ.

Genocide Tendency
Dec 24, 2009

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


facialimpediment posted:

Lsyodpdyydlygxlyylcy hfxktydclughcxylpdlhcc jfmggdf

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/842753615265775617

NJ SKKTSKSTKTLXYCY

loving christ.

You did understand when he was elected that he was going to completely dismantle veterans care and compensation right?


Because thats exactly what he will do.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

MA-Horus posted:

It wouldn't.

East/West Germany isn't exactly a fair comparison to make. East Germany at least had an industrial base and the entire population did not follow a cult of personality. Their population hadn't undergone physiological changes due to decades of malnutrition. The East Germans did not view the West Germans as their mortal, eternal enemies. And still, reunifying East and West has cost trillions of dollars.

North/South Korea will be much, much worse. Oh and not to mention the majority of defectors from the North come across the Chinese border, not the Korean border. So we'd either have;

1) A flood of humanity streaming across the Yalu, which the Chinese will love
2) A flood of humanity attempting to cross the most heavily mined and defended land on the planet.

Both are bad options.

Maybe we could use NK as a threat against China.

"Either you agree to 10% import tariffs, or 2 million screaming refuges are gonna smash across the Yalu, and you can kiss your GDP goodbye. Your choice."

FastestGunAlive
Apr 7, 2010

Dancing palm tree.
Trump should develop some sort of consolidated area for the branches of government and various agencies and departments could be conveniently located near each other so he wouldn't have to hold meetings in mar a lago every weekend

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

FastestGunAlive posted:

Trump should develop some sort of consolidated area for the branches of government and various agencies and departments could be conveniently located near each other so he wouldn't have to hold meetings in mar a lago every weekend

Except he does it because he's a dumbass.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

FastestGunAlive posted:

Trump should develop some sort of consolidated area for the branches of government and various agencies and departments could be conveniently located near each other so he wouldn't have to hold meetings in mar a lago every weekend

Capitol idea! But that sounds like something that we'd have to build up over a couple hundred years and staff with thousands of experts in dozens of departments.

Better just ask the nice guys at the club what they think instead!

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
JOE BIDEN ALERT

https://twitter.com/JillBidenVeep/status/842759806557609985

GUYS IT WASN'T AN APOLOGY DONNIE PLEASE DON'T HURT ME

https://twitter.com/stevenportnoy/status/842756302510219264

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

:sigh: I miss you, Uncle Joe.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


A German is the leader of the free world right now.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
So was the Mosque hit a pure miss (wrong target or malfunction), or was it full of assholes who just happened to be in a Mosque?

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

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

Casimir Radon posted:

A German is the leader of the free world right now.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/the-leader-of-the-free-world-meets-donald-trump-214924


:lol:

An actual headline in our day and age.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Probably just the obvious evolution of wedding strikes.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

LingcodKilla posted:

Probably just the obvious evolution of wedding strikes.

"We're...GOOOOOOING to the moooosque and we're....GOOOONNNNNNA get drone striked!"

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Genocide Tendency posted:

You did understand when he was elected that he was going to completely dismantle veterans care and compensation right?


Because thats exactly what he will do.

Hopefully someone nuts up and takes a shot.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

I hope this drives the fat orange gently caress into a rage and he has a debilitating stroke. Nothing that kills him, he needs to be alive to suffer. I want 100% paralysis of one side of the body. Let the fucker try the art of the deal with the reaper. I want the stunning hypocrisy of him talking about how good his healthcare plan is in email or Twitter form only while he drools from one side of his mouth and is never again able to attend one of his precious god drat rallies because he's terrified of everyone laughing at him. It happens all the time to good people, let's catch a break and have some evil fuckers get what's coming to them.

US Berder Patrol
Jul 11, 2006

oorah

Genocide Tendency posted:

You did understand when he was elected that he was going to completely dismantle veterans care and compensation right?


Because thats exactly what he will do.

the repubs on our facebooks will line up to defend it even if they lose their own benefits because of all the shammers out there drawing va benefits

watch

US Berder Patrol
Jul 11, 2006

oorah
They're overburdening the system!

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer

DownByTheWooter posted:

the repubs on our facebooks will line up to defend it even if they lose their own benefits because of all the shammers out there drawing va benefits

watch

Good

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
The White House really needs to open and read articles before saying HEY READ THIS

https://twitter.com/ElaheIzadi/status/842771853575970817

https://twitter.com/MrAusnadian/status/842768049476317185

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

DownByTheWooter posted:

the repubs on our facebooks will line up to defend it even if they lose their own benefits because of all the shammers out there drawing va benefits

watch

Well they didn't *really* earn those benefits like I did. I worked hard and sacrificed for our nation. Some of these guys got out on weak poo poo like mental health because they were faking it and didn't want to do their jobs. I would know, I saw them all the time.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Holy gently caress I laughed like a little girl at this: https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/842775869823377409

Edit: what in the gently caress https://twitter.com/AnnieLowrey/status/842780510489362432

Edit2: WHAT IN THE gently caress

https://twitter.com/ElizLanders/status/842785546867036161

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Mar 17, 2017

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

bird food bathtub posted:

Well they didn't *really* earn those benefits like I did. I worked hard and sacrificed for our nation. Some of these guys got out on weak poo poo like mental health because they were faking it and didn't want to do their jobs. I would know, I saw them all the time.

*is a 350lb government contractor with Gadsden plates living in Manassas*

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012


Press conference soon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7HIFCwnPXQ

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/842788571803213828

I forgot all about this :laffo:

Solaris 2.0
May 14, 2008

facialimpediment posted:

Holy gently caress I laughed like a little girl at this: https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/842775869823377409




I really want to know what she told him, because Trump looks PISSED.

Which is good. I like Merkle and if she managed to put Trump in his place and piss him off more power to her.

*edit*
LOL he's a literal 5 year old.

Merkle

(Do you want a handshake?)

TRUMP:
*pouts* and keeps hands at side

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

It may also be the fact that she's a woman, and we all know that Dongle doesn't respect women in the slightest

Especially not women who are more respected than he is.

Mike-o
Dec 25, 2004

Now I'm in your room
And I'm in your bed


Grimey Drawer
So whenever I'm at work or school or anything where anyone expects me to be an adult can I just say gently caress YOU LOL the loving president of the united states is a giant manbaby, I don't have to do poo poo! Because I've seriously been tempted to do that.

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

So, two things. The first thing, which is ridiculous:



The second thing, which is ridiculous and loving frightening.

https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/842790114635997184
https://twitter.com/jeffpeguescbs/status/842773968608251905

It keeps coming

https://twitter.com/jeffpeguescbs/status/842777047244177408

ded redd fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Mar 17, 2017

Slim Pickens
Jan 12, 2007

Grimey Drawer

MA-Horus posted:

It may also be the fact that she's a woman, and we all know that Dongle doesn't respect women in the slightest

Especially not women who are more respected than he is.

I wonder what Donnie's version of the "unfuckable pig" remark will be.

Don't let us down now, WH aides!

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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Office Pig posted:

So, two things. The first thing, which is ridiculous:



The second thing, which is ridiculous and loving frightening.

https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/842790114635997184
https://twitter.com/jeffpeguescbs/status/842773968608251905

I wonder what his secret service name is?

"Golden Child"?

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