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white sauce
Apr 29, 2012

by R. Guyovich

rip steve

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eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

Epic High Five posted:

I doubt WalMart will let them cut food stamps tbh, without food stamps WalMart is in real fuckin trouble

TIL cutting food stamps is....*checks notes*...good?!?!??!

TwoStepBoog
Apr 12, 2008

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

RIP Steve Jobs. If only he hadn't tried to cure an orangutan barb to the heart with smoothies and yoga

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



A food price crisis could be staved off with crafty economic handling and things like using federal funds to hire a labor force, but lmao if you think Trump isn't just going to ignore it entirely like every other crisis so far

The Brown Menace
Dec 24, 2010

Now comes in all colors.


Citizen Tayne posted:

You're aware that Trump championed gay rights in the late 1990s (appearing in an issue of The Advocate), and has run for the presidency every cycle since 2000, right? He was a registered Democrat from 2000-2008?

Trump goes where the attention is. That is where his principles begin and end.

yeah and he never even appeared on the political radar until he leveraged the whole "power-hungry rear end in a top hat who delights in lording it over people who are unfortunate enough to be subordinate to him" persona

you're exactly right about trump going where the attention is. and, as i said, for that huge chunk of america, that's where the attention is. and it worked.

Solarin
Nov 15, 2007

Annual Prophet posted:

trump and his entire team seem entirely unaware of the nature of soft power or the consequences of its absence; they're empowering their (and our) enemies all over the world not just by their actions but also by being unable to moderate the things they let come out of their mouths

it's just colossally stupid even in the context of achieving their stated objectives

Mencken was right

they are idiot loving chumps is why and think raising military spending 10% will make everyone cower in fear

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Like, Trump literally says and believes whatever people like him the most for, it isn't that complicated and I can't believe people are assigning ulterior motives for it.

If we lived in Kruschev's Soviet Union and he were elected to the Politburo he'd be un-disappearing the Commissars from every Stalin photo.

I did a thing
Mar 23, 2017

On the chest of a barmaid in Sale, were tattooed the prices of ale. And on her behind for the sake of the blind, was the same information in braille.

Epic High Five posted:

also nobody is talking about it but we're well on our way to our first food price crisis because migrant labor has been massively unavailable and so lots of poo poo hasn't gotten planted, and Spring crops aren't being picked fast enough

Plus, the current favorites to take power in Mexico soon is a party whose entire message basically is, "gently caress Trump and gently caress the USA" and will scale back exports/imports with us in favor of non-Trumpy South American and Chinese alternatives

Half-way through Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America, thanks to whatever poster suggested it. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003F3FJS2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Apparently there has been a growing commodities bubble as well. :shrug: Starting to suspect the entire game is rigged. And if people keep screwing around there going to be nothing left but blood for the blood god.

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

Thatim posted:

Why not? At first he was jusf annoying but about to win. Now he is becomming dangerous.

They probably wont flip now. But i have said since election.. the gop will throw him under the buss if they can profit from it.

They are anchored to him till the end, all-in When the Trump house of cards eventually comes crashing down, the GOP will suffer regardless whether they back him or abandon him.
At least if they stick with their guy now they can try and pass as many tax cuts and regulation repeals as possible along the way.

Malinois
Jun 13, 2003


Hamelekim posted:

I think the entire Trump administration is filled with incels and parents who want to gently caress their kids.

https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/863922055753977856

:banjo:

DaveWoo
Aug 14, 2004

Fun Shoe

Citizen Tayne posted:

I don't think he's ever been a racist

Nah, racism is one of the only things he's ever been consistent on over the last 40 years

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



reminder that Trump sincerely believes that health insurance is like, $15 a month, tops

Red Dad Redemption
Sep 29, 2007

Epic High Five posted:

Trump also advocated for health insurance that everybody could afford that would cover pre-existing conditions

Trump is currently claiming this despite the absolute opposite being the truth

He's not a secret liberal, he's a pathological liar

i thought the deep state was going to take care of this poo poo

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Al! posted:

i saw this one the other day and am a big fan

lmao i'm the sovremenyy class cruiser

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


The Brown Menace posted:

yeah and he never even appeared on the political radar until he leveraged the whole "power-hungry rear end in a top hat who delights in lording it over people who are unfortunate enough to be subordinate to him" persona

you're exactly right about trump going where the attention is. and, as i said, for that huge chunk of america, that's where the attention is. and it worked.

It's also important to realize that a massive proportion of his voters voted for him because they envy him, i.e. they want to be assholes at the center of attention for being assholes.

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Citizen Tayne posted:

I don't think he's ever been a racist

I don't think he's ever been a liberal

I don't think he's ever been anything at all, politically

He is Donald Trump, and he's a Donald Trumpist. He cares about who loves him. He cares about who makes him more money. That is it. No more, no less.

The nineties were a time of social liberalism. He supported gay rights and immigrant rights then because that's what people cheered for him for doing.

2009 was a time when everyone reeled over the black president. That is why he changed party registration and said "I hate black people."

Anyone who has known a single loving thing about Trump for forty years knew he'd do this.

No, his racism has always been there. He has been repeatedly sued over discriminatory housing practices, his continual stance on the central park 5, his dad was a fuckimg klansman.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


DaveWoo posted:

Nah, racism is one of the only things he's ever been consistent on over the last 40 years

Check his late 90s stuff, he was supportive of a path to citizenship for latino immigrants

like he might have thought they were subhuman trash but he supported civil rights for them

that's as much as you can ask for

Ages
Feb 20, 2005

Its just half the puffin juice and the puffin lives and doesnt mind. I promise!
Fun Shoe

I did a thing posted:

Half-way through Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America, thanks to whatever poster suggested it. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003F3FJS2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Apparently there has been a growing commodities bubble as well. :shrug: Starting to suspect the entire game is rigged. And if people keep screwing around there going to be nothing left but blood for the blood god.

*furiously scribbles in notebook*

buy... blood... stock...

The_Raven
Jul 2, 2004

Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved?
Kinda interesting...

New York (CNN)A major US investigation into Russian money laundering has come to an abrupt end.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/13/world/prevezon-settlement/index.html

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



I did a thing posted:

Half-way through Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America, thanks to whatever poster suggested it. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003F3FJS2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Apparently there has been a growing commodities bubble as well. :shrug: Starting to suspect the entire game is rigged. And if people keep screwing around there going to be nothing left but blood for the blood god.

There's soooooo many bubbles right now

I told my mom a little bit ago on the phone that with my new job a house is deffo something I want, but not right now when it's going to lose half its value in a year or two and screw me because the banks are doing all their same dumb bullshit again under this administration. She didn't disagree despite having voted for the man

Pozload Escobar
Aug 21, 2016

by Reene

Annual Prophet posted:

this is actually a p good point. by applying the term socialist so broadly they've normalized it to some degree

perhaps one could say they have "hyper" normalized it

Red Dad Redemption
Sep 29, 2007

Al! posted:

i saw this one the other day and am a big fan

hopefully the interval before we're all incinerated will be long enough for us to enjoy our gigantic warships being sunk by asbms

The Brown Menace
Dec 24, 2010

Now comes in all colors.


Citizen Tayne posted:

It's also important to realize that a massive proportion of his voters voted for him because they envy him, i.e. they want to be assholes at the center of attention for being assholes.

this is exactly my point though? not just being assholes, but assholes with power. assholes who can, and do, destroy people's life on a whim for basically no reason and get away with it.

most people who voted for trump want to be, specifically, trump as he was on the apprentice

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


The Glumslinger posted:

No, his racism has always been there. He has been repeatedly sued over discriminatory housing practices, his continual stance on the central park 5, his dad was a fuckimg klansman.

I think a lot of that was from his dad and he doesn't really understand the ramifications of it.

I seriously don't think he's intelligent enough to understand what racism is.

i.e., the taco bowl incident, which his alt right supporters took as mocking latinos. He doesn't know better.

He pushes button A or B, sees who claps harder, and keeps pushing that button. That's all he knows.

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

Bilirubin posted:

What is she thinking?

"Turnabout is fair play"

I did a thing
Mar 23, 2017

On the chest of a barmaid in Sale, were tattooed the prices of ale. And on her behind for the sake of the blind, was the same information in braille.

The_Raven posted:

Kinda interesting...

New York (CNN)A major US investigation into Russian money laundering has come to an abrupt end.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/13/world/prevezon-settlement/index.html

Someone flipped on Trump?

D O R K Y
Sep 1, 2001

Citizen Tayne posted:

I think a lot of that was from his dad and he doesn't really understand the ramifications of it.

I seriously don't think he's intelligent enough to understand what racism is.

i.e., the taco bowl incident, which his alt right supporters took as mocking latinos. He doesn't know better.

He pushes button A or B, sees who claps harder, and keeps pushing that button. That's all he knows.

That doesn't make him not racist.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



just lmao that Trump spent Mothers Day golfing 3 states away from his nearest current or former wife

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


The Brown Menace posted:

this is exactly my point though? not just being assholes, but assholes with power. assholes who can, and do, destroy people's life on a whim for basically no reason and get away with it.

most people who voted for trump want to be, specifically, trump as he was on the apprentice


I'm not disagreeing with you at all, that's what it is. Americans are not good people and the veil of civility comes off once they think someone who supports who they truly wants to be is there for them.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Annual Prophet posted:

hopefully the interval before we're all incinerated will be long enough for us to enjoy our gigantic warships being sunk by asbms

:ssh: its not ours

DaveWoo
Aug 14, 2004

Fun Shoe

Epic High Five posted:

reminder that Trump sincerely believes that health insurance is like, $15 a month, tops

The whole quote is worth reposting because it's obvious Trump doesn't even understand what health insurance is:

quote:

You're going to have absolute guaranteed coverage. You're going to have it if you're a person going in…don't forget, this was not supposed to be the way insurance works. Insurance is, you're 20 years old, you just graduated from college, and you start paying $15 a month for the rest of your life and by the time you're 70, and you really need it, you're still paying the same amount and that's really insurance.

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

The_Raven posted:

Kinda interesting...

New York (CNN)A major US investigation into Russian money laundering has come to an abrupt end.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/13/world/prevezon-settlement/index.html

Sic transit gloria mundi

Pozload Escobar
Aug 21, 2016

by Reene

Dork457 posted:

That doesn't make him not racist.

I don't thing Tori is saying that

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Dork457 posted:

That doesn't make him not racist.

No, it doesn't, but it isn't an active choice. I seriously think he's too stupid to decide on that level.

Drastic Actions
Apr 7, 2009

FUCK YOU!
GET PUMPED!
Nap Ghost

eonwe posted:

RIP Steve Jobs. If only he hadn't tried to cure an orangutan barb to the heart with smoothies and yoga


That DICK!
Sep 28, 2010

hitler

Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

The_Raven posted:

Kinda interesting...

New York (CNN)A major US investigation into Russian money laundering has come to an abrupt end.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/13/world/prevezon-settlement/index.html
this isn't worrying in the *~greater picture~* because what this means is that russia can't even get their fingers into western finance correctly and have to resort to subverting the american government and one half of the american press to get anything out of their trade deals

i mean it's a nightmare for us but worldwide? lol

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Epic High Five posted:

I tuned into the liberal chat stations when I had my Sirius free trial and they were all trash. I don't want to hear what some toothless sister fucker or what some Gordon Gecko worshiping death cultist has to say. I already know what they think, and yet every other call was from some raving lunatic calling the host a shitlib or whatever and they just nodded and took it

Like how during the general every supposedly liberal network interviewed 27,000 Ordinary Whitemans asking why they were supporting Trump

what stuns me is why dont they do interviews of the people who didn't vote. You know, the real majority in this country. like the democrats would do a lot better trying to get the inactive at least out voting for local stuff then going after some republican diehard who's gonna shout TRUMP as he dies from diabetes when his insulin gets cut off.

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Apr 30, 2005

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