Booblord Zagats posted:

http://www.wfmj.com/category/179433/video-landing-page?clipId=13238148&autostart=true

Trust fall!

Missionary Positron posted:

How does Spicer still have a job, and how the gently caress did he get the job to begin with?

Booblord Zagats posted:

http://www.wfmj.com/category/179433/video-landing-page?clipId=13238148&autostart=true

Trust fall!

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/JoeMyGod/status/851858019264512000

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

every god drat time

facialimpediment posted:

Spicey put out a third statement after the press conference.

.... he then put out a fourth statement to clean up the third statement.

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/851876109671182337

Booblord Zagats posted:

http://www.wfmj.com/category/179433/video-landing-page?clipId=13238148&autostart=true

Trust fall!

facialimpediment posted:

https://twitter.com/cam_joseph/status/851856989571477505

FastestGunAlive posted:

Trump vacation costs on track to cost taxpayers more in one year than Obama did in eight years combined fyi

TBeats posted:

Missionary Positron posted:

https://twitter.com/ZeddRebel/status/851887239575597056

lmao @ Mattis

quote:

An example of biological (or germ) warfare occurred on October 4, 1940 when a Japanese airplane dropped plague-infected fleas (causing bubonic and other plagues) over Quzhou, a small town in western Zhejiang Province. The first victims died within a few days, and more than 2,000 people in Quzhou died within one year from this plague. In addition, in September 1941 a railway worker brought the plague from Quzhou to the city of Yiwu (about 90 miles east of Quzhou), and within a year, more than 1,000 people in the Yiwu region died from this plague. Another example of germ warfare was a series of anthrax and glanders attacks starting in 1942 on many villages in the Jinhua area of Zhejiang Province (including the one mentioned at the beginning of this article), when at least 6,000 of the 30,000 inhabitants of Jinhua were infected by bacteria caused by biological weapons, and at least 3,000 of them died soon after the infection while suffering extremely painful and miserable lives before they died.

facialimpediment posted:

What do you do when infowars is basically on the correct side?

https://twitter.com/timothywjohnson/status/851883648748048384

Guys seriously, infowars basically called Spicer full of poo poo and dumb for the holocaust thing. And they're right.

What the gently caress do I do now?

facialimpediment posted:

Video posted, it's real

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/851859257490366465

KildarX posted:

Doesn't mean we weren't ready to straight up them if they used them first, or if the Germans successfully landed in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_John_Harvey

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

Not that it hasn't been talked to death, but how in the world could they have thought that it makes more sense to forcibly drag a dude out rather than bumping the incentive until someone takes it?

Dead Reckoning posted:

This is a guess based on my experience with dispatching and large airports: They probably had a scheduled block out time when they were scheduled by the airport to be pushing back from the gate. If they miss that, they lose their slot in the departures queue, and if they can't make up the time en route, they aren't guaranteed their landing slot at the destination either. Airlines will fly empty planes in order to avoid losing their slot times, because once you do, you are at the mercy of the controllers. Given that they were positioning a crew for another aircraft, which seems like a last choice option, that crew was probably right up on the timeline for their flight.

The airline's choices likely boiled down to bumping four customers who already had seats, or a multi-hour delay for a whole plane load of passengers later that day.

It says on the terms you accept for your ticket, and I believe in the FAR itself, that the crew has the final say on who they will or will not transport. They are not obliged to bring their schedule to a halt until they satisfy what a recalcitrant passenger feels they are owed.

I don't have a ton of sympathy for the passenger because, once things have escalated to the point of the police being called, the proper venue to air your grievance is a court of law. If a cop says that you need to leave the aircraft or they are going to remove you, and your answer is "you're gonna have to drag me out", I don't have a lot of sympathy if you get dragged off an airplane. He had his chance to go voluntarily, the crew was within their rights, and he wasn't.

MazelTovCocktail posted:

I seem to think retaliation was a major concern and the Germans thought they were massively behind in CW for avoiding first use of gas.

I've Never gotten a good answer though why neither the Soviets or Nazis didn't go gas happy on the Eastern front.

Duzzy Funlop posted:

The most plausible explanation I've heard is the way that use of chemical weapons would have impeded the pace with which the OKW had planned to breeze through Russia. By the time that idea went south, conditions were apparently too lovely to deploy chemical weapons reliably.

Dead Reckoning posted:

This is a guess based on my experience with dispatching and large airports: They probably had a scheduled block out time when they were scheduled by the airport to be pushing back from the gate. If they miss that, they lose their slot in the departures queue, and if they can't make up the time en route, they aren't guaranteed their landing slot at the destination either. Airlines will fly empty planes in order to avoid losing their slot times, because once you do, you are at the mercy of the controllers. Given that they were positioning a crew for another aircraft, which seems like a last choice option, that crew was probably right up on the timeline for their flight.

The airline's choices likely boiled down to bumping four customers who already had seats, or a multi-hour delay for a whole plane load of passengers later that day.

It says on the terms you accept for your ticket, and I believe in the FAR itself, that the crew has the final say on who they will or will not transport. They are not obliged to bring their schedule to a halt until they satisfy what a recalcitrant passenger feels they are owed.

I don't have a ton of sympathy for the passenger because, once things have escalated to the point of the police being called, the proper venue to air your grievance is a court of law. If a cop says that you need to leave the aircraft or they are going to remove you, and your answer is "you're gonna have to drag me out", I don't have a lot of sympathy if you get dragged off an airplane. He had his chance to go voluntarily, the crew was within their rights, and he wasn't.

EDIT: Although my years working as one of the certified Pax monitors for the unit probably has warped my views of passengers and their requests.

CommieGIR posted:

They did have their mobile gas vans running around on the front.

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Not trying to have a Spicer moment here, I figured he was talking about the use of gas in front line combat, not the Holocaust or what the Einsatzgruppen did.

CommieGIR posted:

No, the choice was for United to deadhead their crew with another airline. They do this all the time without a need to bump paying passengers.

gently caress United, and I'm glad they took such a stock hit from this.

MazelTovCocktail posted:

I seem to think retaliation was a major concern and the Germans thought they were massively behind in CW for avoiding first use of gas.

I've never gotten a good answer though why neither the Soviets or Nazis didn't go gas happy on the Eastern front.

quote:

One reported incident indicates the German army eventually used poison gas on survivors of the Battle of Kerch on the Eastern Crimean peninsula. After the battle in mid-May 1942, roughly 3000 soldiers and civilians not evacuated by sea were besieged in a series of caves and tunnels in the nearby Adzhimuskai quarry. After holding out for approximately three months, "poison gas was released into the tunnels, killing all but a few score of the Soviet defenders."

Harry Potter on Ice posted:

What stock hit?

Radical 90s Wizard posted:

I had no idea about Japan using weaponised plague though, that's fuckin next level even for them.

Harry Potter on Ice posted:

What stock hit?

Radical 90s Wizard posted:

There's some good poo poo about it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_warfare#Nazi_Germany

Basically came down to fear of retaliation and the German armies' reliance on horses. There also was apparently one attack on soviets using gas

ded posted:

It wasn't gas. It was a prototype weapon called a Typhoon. It was basically coal dust that was pumped in then lit on fire. The second version they made of it was a proper FAE that was almost used on the allies when they did the breakout from Normandy.

If the book I read was correct information anyways.

Radical 90s Wizard posted:

I had no idea about Japan using weaponised plague though, that's fuckin next level even for them.