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WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo

https://twitter.com/LanaDelRaytheon/status/867482632493318144

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Torpor
Oct 20, 2008

.. and now for my next trick, I'll pretend to be a political commentator...

HONK HONK

If only that last tweet could be the title.

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010

Zil posted:

So it is a little past 6 am in Brussels, the orange one should awake soon and bless us with his 140 character long knowledge.

They took his phone away for the whole trip.

And probably pumped full of drugs.

STAC Goat
Mar 12, 2008

Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

Man. Republican candidates are attacking reporters and Fox News is confirming it, Sean Hannity's evil poo poo has become a national story and he's catching poo poo for it, and Covok is temporarily probated. I'm just going to wallow in this for a little while.

Ever since O'Reilly I've been pushing this idea that with him and Kelly gone if Hannity became the face of Fox News it could destroy him because people would finally start noticing the hosed up poo poo he talks about on a nightly basis. I can't believe it might actually be happening. I didn't really believe what I was saying.

Raylen posted:

So uhhh, I didn't see this posted in the thread yet (if it was, sorry!) but it looks like Trump Hotels is not reporting any of the money that foreign governments are paying them to stay in their hotel rooms. Another broken Trump promise!

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-failing-track-foreign-cash-his-hotels-n764061

There was a hilarious Jason Chaffetz interview on CNN today where Wolf asked him about this and Chaffetz basically said "we asked but they said no and I think that's totally fine and the Trumps are bending over backwards for transparency." It somehow managed to shock Wolf out of his usual malaise and he pressed Chaffetz and turned it into a hostile interview. It was bizarre.

Google Butt
Oct 4, 2005

Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

glowing-fish posted:

Arkansas is a southern state (since people insist on that terminology, of course Arkansas is also an Eastern state), and it fought for the confederacy and had a history of plantation agriculture, social stratification, and religious conformity. As well as never having industrial centers.

Montana's early founding was on independent agriculture by mostly self-sufficient farmers, it was never disloyal to the United States, racial animus wasn't a factor, because farmers were independent, they weren't as tied up with social hierarchy as people in a plantation state were. Religion and belonging to a community are not as important as they are in Eastern Southern states like Arkansas. Montana had a lot of industrial development early on. Montana and Arkansas don't have much in common.

Montana isn't very important, it isn't perfect, and there is a good chance the residents of Montana will betray their history by voting in a fascist baby with a short temper tomorrow. But even if that happens, don't treat Montana like it is just part of West Virginia or something. West Virginia is a creature of the East Coast, and yes, parts of West Virginia are (according to the US government) just suburbs of Washington, D.C. Talking about Montana because you've been to suburban Pennsylvania is like if you tried to describe an ostrich after you found a dead pigeon on your doorstep.

My neighbor in Montana, who fought successfully to keep Walmart out of our town, had an emu ranch, btw.

Yeah but do they have mountains?

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

STAC Goat posted:

There was a hilarious Jason Chaffetz interview on CNN today where Wolf asked him about this and Chaffetz basically said "we asked but they said no and I think that's totally fine and the Trumps are bending over backwards for transparency." It somehow managed to shock Wolf out of his usual malaise and he pressed Chaffetz and turned it into a hostile interview. It was bizarre.

Wait, WOLF BLITZER went after someone?

ISeeCuckedPeople
Feb 7, 2017

by Smythe

glowing-fish posted:

Arkansas is a southern state (since people insist on that terminology, of course Arkansas is also an Eastern state), and it fought for the confederacy and had a history of plantation agriculture, social stratification, and religious conformity. As well as never having industrial centers.

Montana's early founding was on independent agriculture by mostly self-sufficient farmers, it was never disloyal to the United States, racial animus wasn't a factor, because farmers were independent, they weren't as tied up with social hierarchy as people in a plantation state were. Religion and belonging to a community are not as important as they are in Eastern Southern states like Arkansas. Montana had a lot of industrial development early on. Montana and Arkansas don't have much in common.

Montana isn't very important, it isn't perfect, and there is a good chance the residents of Montana will betray their history by voting in a fascist baby with a short temper tomorrow. But even if that happens, don't treat Montana like it is just part of West Virginia or something. West Virginia is a creature of the East Coast, and yes, parts of West Virginia are (according to the US government) just suburbs of Washington, D.C. Talking about Montana because you've been to suburban Pennsylvania is like if you tried to describe an ostrich after you found a dead pigeon on your doorstep.

My neighbor in Montana, who fought successfully to keep Walmart out of our town, had an emu ranch, btw.

Arkansas is the southern state with probably the smallest number of plantations and the smallest african american population.

Also parts of it are as much midwest as they are south.

SamuraiFoochs
Jan 16, 2007




Grimey Drawer

Caros posted:

There is a difference between 'nothing matters' and 'I wish we'd kicked his teeth in over policy issues rather than this specific candidate being a douchebag'. The former will scare republicans, the latter will make them laugh, albeit nervously.

Take victories where you can get them, and guess what, if Yertle is to be believed, the Senate IS that scared about the AHCA. It passed the HOUSE by one vote. One. And the Senate by its construction has to be more moderate because Senators don't get gerrymandering.

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://twitter.com/wabermes/status/867598687005966337

illcendiary
Dec 4, 2005

Damn, this is good coffee.
https://twitter.com/wabermes/status/867598687005966337

Arsonist Daria
Feb 27, 2011

Requiescat in pace.
this owns, gently caress you gianforte

Raylen
Aug 1, 2003

You just killed the nice deranged chick from the juice bar that I was gonna score with someday maybe!
Pillbug

STAC Goat posted:

There was a hilarious Jason Chaffetz interview on CNN today where Wolf asked him about this and Chaffetz basically said "we asked but they said no and I think that's totally fine and the Trumps are bending over backwards for transparency." It somehow managed to shock Wolf out of his usual malaise and he pressed Chaffetz and turned it into a hostile interview. It was bizarre.

lol I will have to watch this. The fact that Chaffetz is such a dick and won't even be honest about things while he waits to resign is a symptom of how spineless and weak-willed Republicans are.

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)

Google Butt posted:

Yeah but do they have mountains?

Arkansas? No. Arkansas is almost totally flat, which is why they had plantation agriculture, which is why the people there are weak. Like, isn't this a basic fact that everyone knows?

Areas with mountains mean that communities have to be self-regulating and responsible. The relatively mountainous areas in the south were areas that refused plantation agriculture and the confederacy.

An Eastern state, like Arkansas, is flat, the people grew up to depend on a slave-holding society instead of being individualistic, so they glorify stupidity and conformity.

West Virginia is a flat, suburban area just outside of Washington, D.C. Like, that is so basic I always took it for granted, are there people who look at it differently? Wow.

Crain
Jun 27, 2007

I had a beer once with Stephen Miller and now I like him.

I also tried to ban someone from a Discord for pointing out what an unrelenting shithead I am! I'm even dumb enough to think it worked!

So, what the punishment?

Lemming
Apr 21, 2008

Oooh ma ma that's a spicy meatball

Slow News Day
Jul 4, 2007

STAC Goat posted:

Man. Republican candidates are attacking reporters and Fox News is confirming it, Sean Hannity's evil poo poo has become a national story and he's catching poo poo for it, and Covok is temporarily probated. I'm just going to wallow in this for a little while.

poo poo is so insane. The world got turned upside down twice, first when Trump got elected and nominated a bunch of blatantly evil fuckers to his cabinet, and then a second time when Fox News turned on a Republican nominee literally the night before an election.

I really can't tell what is real anymore. Like, if I suddenly woke up right now and realized the past six months have been a dream, I would start punching myself in the face again to make sure that wasn't a dream.

Lemming
Apr 21, 2008

Crain posted:

So, what the punishment?

House seat

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)

ISeeCuckedPeople posted:

Arkansas is the southern state with probably the smallest number of plantations and the smallest african american population.

Also parts of it are as much midwest as they are south.

Arkansas is an Eastern state. End of story.

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


From a few pages ago.
https://mobile.twitter.com/davidfrum/status/867575067743363072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

ISeeCuckedPeople
Feb 7, 2017

by Smythe
Also Arkansas was had one of the first socialist and marxist colleges in the United States. Orval Faubuses Father was a renknown and influential Socialist for example.

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=10

Just like Oklahoma used to be socialist central.

Google Butt
Oct 4, 2005

Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

glowing-fish posted:

Arkansas is an Eastern state. End of story.

Shut the gently caress up geography goon

pkay
Jan 4, 2005
"You and your ilk just made me vote downticket R in the midterms."
- a black man (- a magachud)
Lol Gianforte and his ilk are a giant pussies. They get physical and tough with women and smaller stature men. It seems to go the other way when they talk to larger men journalist however. These folks are the definition of fake tough guys. Imagine if Trump talked to the construction workers that he contracts out with his tough guy bullshit? He would get smacked in his face and he knows it.

Tim Whatley
Mar 28, 2010

Misdemeanors are basically slap on the wrists. Fuckin A.

Low Desert Punk
Jul 4, 2012

i have absolutely no fucking money
yo guys, freddy vs jason is on syfy right now

goethe.cx
Apr 23, 2014


glowing-fish posted:

Arkansas? No. Arkansas is almost totally flat, which is why they had plantation agriculture, which is why the people there are weak. Like, isn't this a basic fact that everyone knows?

Areas with mountains mean that communities have to be self-regulating and responsible. The relatively mountainous areas in the south were areas that refused plantation agriculture and the confederacy.

An Eastern state, like Arkansas, is flat, the people grew up to depend on a slave-holding society instead of being individualistic, so they glorify stupidity and conformity.

West Virginia is a flat, suburban area just outside of Washington, D.C. Like, that is so basic I always took it for granted, are there people who look at it differently? Wow.

What are the Ozarks? What are the Appalachians? My dude, I'm from the west and I give my Virginian/North Carolinian gf poo poo about growing up next to hills, but you're a goddamn idiot

Wayne Knight
May 11, 2006

enraged_camel posted:

poo poo is so insane. The world got turned upside down twice, first when Trump got elected and nominated a bunch of blatantly evil fuckers to his cabinet, and then a second time when Fox News turned on a Republican nominee literally the night before an election.

I really can't tell what is real anymore. Like, if I suddenly woke up right now and realized the past six months have been a dream, I would start punching myself in the face again to make sure that wasn't a dream.

Don't worry, the world goes back to normal in a few days - the anniversary of harambe's death.

ISeeCuckedPeople
Feb 7, 2017

by Smythe

glowing-fish posted:

Arkansas? No. Arkansas is almost totally flat, which is why they had plantation agriculture, which is why the people there are weak. Like, isn't this a basic fact that everyone knows?

Areas with mountains mean that communities have to be self-regulating and responsible. The relatively mountainous areas in the south were areas that refused plantation agriculture and the confederacy.

An Eastern state, like Arkansas, is flat, the people grew up to depend on a slave-holding society instead of being individualistic, so they glorify stupidity and conformity.

West Virginia is a flat, suburban area just outside of Washington, D.C. Like, that is so basic I always took it for granted, are there people who look at it differently? Wow.

Haha you know nothing about Arkansas

Nearly half of Arkansas is pure mountains or hills. The whole west half

Slow News Day
Jul 4, 2007

this thread has the awesomest derails

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum

Low Desert Punk posted:

yo guys, freddy vs jason is on syfy right now

As a fan of garbage movies, it's not that good. Catch a highlight reel of it on YouTube, but don't spend time watching the whole thing.

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://twitter.com/gdebenedetti/status/867600007762804736

eta: https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/867601296509030400

Lote
Aug 5, 2001

Place your bets

glowing-fish posted:

Arkansas is an Eastern state. End of story.

If Arkansas is such an Eastern state, why was it in the Southwest Conference? Michigan is also another example; they're the champions of the West.

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Tim Whatley posted:

Misdemeanors are basically slap on the wrists. Fuckin A.

Montana felony assault requires a weapon or for it to be aggravated.

Magic Hate Ball
May 6, 2007

ha ha ha!
you've already paid for this

glowing-fish posted:

Arkansas? No. Arkansas is almost totally flat, which is why they had plantation agriculture, which is why the people there are weak. Like, isn't this a basic fact that everyone knows?

Areas with mountains mean that communities have to be self-regulating and responsible. The relatively mountainous areas in the south were areas that refused plantation agriculture and the confederacy.

An Eastern state, like Arkansas, is flat, the people grew up to depend on a slave-holding society instead of being individualistic, so they glorify stupidity and conformity.

West Virginia is a flat, suburban area just outside of Washington, D.C. Like, that is so basic I always took it for granted, are there people who look at it differently? Wow.

I can't tell what's going on in this post.

Bhaal
Jul 13, 2001
I ain't going down alone
Dr. Infant, MD
Sheriff says this rates only as a misdemeanor

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/867601331288248320

StrangersInTheNight
Dec 31, 2007
ABSOLUTE FUCKING GUDGEON
I ARE ANGRY YOU DON'T PLAY INTO MY NARRATIVE, ME BODY SLAM YOU LIKE BIG STRONG ALPHA MALE

Blammo, assault motherfucker! Love it.

EDIT: I wasn't counting on felony so honestly no surprised there. I'm just happy SOMETHING is there that resembles a justice system.

Lightning Lord
Feb 21, 2013

$200 a day, plus expenses

glowing-fish posted:

Arkansas? No. Arkansas is almost totally flat, which is why they had plantation agriculture, which is why the people there are weak. Like, isn't this a basic fact that everyone knows?

Areas with mountains mean that communities have to be self-regulating and responsible. The relatively mountainous areas in the south were areas that refused plantation agriculture and the confederacy.

An Eastern state, like Arkansas, is flat, the people grew up to depend on a slave-holding society instead of being individualistic, so they glorify stupidity and conformity.

West Virginia is a flat, suburban area just outside of Washington, D.C. Like, that is so basic I always took it for granted, are there people who look at it differently? Wow.

Are you drunk by any chance?

FizFashizzle
Mar 30, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 51 minutes!
More like Our Kansas.

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
seems right, whatever

Raylen
Aug 1, 2003

You just killed the nice deranged chick from the juice bar that I was gonna score with someday maybe!
Pillbug

pkay posted:

Lol Gianforte and his ilk are a giant pussies. They get physical and tough with women and smaller stature men. It seems to go the other way when they talk to larger men journalist however. These folks are the definition of fake tough guys. Imagine if Trump talked to the construction workers that he contracts out with his tough guy bullshit? He would get smacked in his face and he knows it.

I'd love to see more special operators become journalists but lol rich people creating private armies and mercenary companies. I guess we can hope more former non-combat veterans say "hey, these dickheads should be held accountable to the press" and gain journalism or political science degrees.

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ISeeCuckedPeople
Feb 7, 2017

by Smythe

Lightning Lord posted:

Are you drunk by any chance?

He keeps mixing up the Western parts of the state of Virginia with the actual state of West Virginia...

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