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Wheezle
Aug 13, 2007

420 stop boats erryday
Come on guys, the pope hand thing is obviously a joke on the whole Melania refusing to hold his hand thing.

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Hieronymous Alloy
Jan 30, 2009


Why! Why!! Why must you refuse to accept that Dr. Hieronymous Alloy's Genetically Enhanced Cream Corn Is Superior to the Leading Brand on the Market!?!




Morbid Hound

Crazycryodude posted:

The more I watch that Pope-slap the more real I think it is. The robe on the close-up Pope looks exactly the same, and the table with the statue on it is behind them in both shots.

Or it's really well faked, which is probably the actual answer because I can't imagine that only we have found this gem. Would've been all over the news if it was real.

It's well done but the length of Trump's shirt cuff is way different, and the table is a different wood.

THE BAR
Oct 20, 2011

You know what might look better on your nose?

Wheezle posted:

Come on guys, the pope hand thing is obviously a joke on the whole Melania refusing to hold his hand thing.

But what does your heart tell you?

Cimber
Feb 3, 2014
How much do you bet that Gianforte is going to win the congressional race in Montana even after bodyslamming a reporter, due to all the early mailed in ballots collected. Of the 250,000 received most are probably going to go towards him. I wonder how energized the democratic base is.

Leon Trotsky 2012
Aug 27, 2009

YOU CAN TRUST ME!*


*Israeli Government-affiliated poster
I hate to be all "nothing matters" but how many people were sitting around last night ready to go vote in a special election on a Thursday morning for Gianforte and then decided not to today?

I'd bet a good portion of people won't even read a newspaper today before they vote.

Ramos
Jul 3, 2012


THE BAR posted:

But what does your heart tell you?

That it's a really good joke.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/867720211205681153
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/867718341854679041

Mulva
Sep 13, 2011
It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

I hate to be all "nothing matters" but how many people were sitting around last night ready to go vote in a special election on a Thursday morning for Gianforte and then decided not to today?

I'd bet a good portion of people won't even read a newspaper today before they vote.

24 Hour News is like a religion to conservatives, I wouldn't take that bet if I was you. Now if it changes their minds? That's something else entirely.

Teriyaki Koinku
Nov 25, 2008

Bread! Bread! Bread!

Bread! BREAD! BREAD!

Spaced God posted:

This might've been covered but buried under WWE Summerslam 39 at Bozeman:
https://twitter.com/BBCDomC/status/867637121938583553
Jesus Christ we really do suck don't we

We've always sucked, friend.

Cimber
Feb 3, 2014

Mulva posted:

24 Hour News is like a religion to conservatives, I wouldn't take that bet if I was you. Now if it changes their minds? That's something else entirely.

Fox news - Congressional candidate defends himself from aggressive foreign born reporter.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe
Jesus of loving Christland, this month.

https://twitter.com/tarapalmeri/status/867691771299586048
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/867704436910632961
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/867701782993969152
https://twitter.com/DavidJollyFL/status/867582923289047041
(Jolly is a former Republican congressman from Florida)

Party Plane Jones fucked around with this message at 14:08 on May 25, 2017

Boon
Jun 21, 2005

by R. Guyovich

oliveoil posted:

It sounds like you're saying North Korea isn't much of a threat because they can only hurt a huge amount of people rather than all people. Did I read you wrong?

Yeah, I think you're taking him too literally. But I also disagree with his sentiment.

9/11 has measurably hurt our military and economic capabilities by diverting the majority of our attention to the middle east. It's the idea of an opportunity cost applied to DIME. Obama attempted his 'pivot to the Pacific' where the the real world power lies, but it lost all steam the moment ISIS rose up and was sealed when TPP died. The US is inexorably mired in the middle east since Bush and it has driven a lot of our military acquisitions and material attention. North Korea has kind of shifted this focus quite a bit, which is good from a military preparedness standpoint, but we've lost a lot of time - the LCS program is the epitome of this mindset.

North Korea's impact in that same situation is tough to predict, but the direct impact is a couple of orders of magnitude larger.

Boon fucked around with this message at 14:26 on May 25, 2017

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010


Whenever he says that people should just add, "and how much did you win the popular vote by?"
Macron has shown us he'll crumple.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/JaredRizzi/status/867728253498380288

edit:
https://twitter.com/MatthewNussbaum/status/867728926986129408
https://twitter.com/Billbrowder/status/867713219972001793

Party Plane Jones fucked around with this message at 14:16 on May 25, 2017

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.
Lmao

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


Yeah I wish one foreign leader wouldn't take his poo poo

Martian
May 29, 2005

Grimey Drawer

Al Borland Corp. posted:

Yeah I wish one foreign leader wouldn't take his poo poo

Ok, so what should they do about it?

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

Al Borland Corp. posted:

Yeah I wish one foreign leader wouldn't take his poo poo

Maybe one will body slam him through a table.

There any body builder leaders?

Supremezero
Apr 28, 2013

hay gurl

Martian posted:

Ok, so what should they do about it?

Out Handshake him.

Dr Christmas
Apr 24, 2010

Berninating the one percent,
Berninating the Wall St.
Berninating all the people
In their high rise penthouses!
🔥😱🔥🔫👴🏻

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Whenever he says that people should just add, "and how much did you win the popular vote by?"
Macron has shown us he'll crumple.

I don't think that would phase him. Trump is pretty proud of his ability to force himself on people who don't want him.

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything

Withnail posted:

Its all real and horrifying



I thought Spicer had to stay on the plane?

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


Martian posted:

Ok, so what should they do about it?

When he brings up his electoral victory, laugh at him and say he lost the popular vote by three million and is very unpopular.

Lote
Aug 5, 2001

Place your bets
Rick Wilson ranting about Republicans cheering on political violence towards reporters. What a strange world

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/867729666924269568

Ho boy!

mik
Oct 16, 2003
oh

Supremezero posted:

Out Handshake him.

Trump definitely has a losing % on world-leader handshake battles by now.

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


Don't ask him about the assault. Nail him to the wall on AHCA and the CBO score and try to get him to do it again. Only after you've exasperated him ask about the assault

JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


Someone got a location on Jim Ross?

Lote
Aug 5, 2001

Place your bets

Mustached Demon posted:

Maybe one will body slam him through a table.

There any body builder leaders?

Jesse Ventura

Arnold

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

Lote posted:

Jesse Ventura

Arnold

The Rock wins in 2020 and gives Trump the People's Elbow during the inauguration.

Hieronymous Alloy
Jan 30, 2009


Why! Why!! Why must you refuse to accept that Dr. Hieronymous Alloy's Genetically Enhanced Cream Corn Is Superior to the Leading Brand on the Market!?!




Morbid Hound

I hope they give Chuck one of those padded suits like they use to train dogs

Fangz
Jul 5, 2007

Oh I see! This must be the Bad Opinion Zone!

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

I hate to be all "nothing matters" but how many people were sitting around last night ready to go vote in a special election on a Thursday morning for Gianforte and then decided not to today?

I'd bet a good portion of people won't even read a newspaper today before they vote.

If this news discourages 1 in ten of his voters then he's hosed.

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/867731761324851206

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

Double post

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person


I doubt his lawyer recommended this.


So facts are STDs in this analogy?

Space Gopher
Jul 31, 2006

BLITHERING IDIOT AND HARDCORE DURIAN APOLOGIST. LET ME TELL YOU WHY THIS SHIT DON'T STINK EVEN THOUGH WE ALL KNOW IT DOES BECAUSE I'M SUPER CULTURED.

Do any of the undercard bouts look interesting?

Boon
Jun 21, 2005

by R. Guyovich

Al Borland Corp. posted:

When he brings up his electoral victory, laugh at him and say he lost the popular vote by three million and is very unpopular.

It turns out international politics isn't like high school and the world is getting everything they want out of the US by doing the exact opposite of what you advocate.

mcmagic
Jul 1, 2004

If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!
We're probably going to find out today that Trump was pretty much right in saying he could shoot someone on 5th avenue and not lose any support.

JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


?

https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/867577957124108289

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

mcmagic posted:

We're probably going to find out today that Trump was pretty much right in saying he could shoot someone on 5th avenue and not lose any support.

It's pretty much impossible to detect that without extremely frequent polling of Montana.

Even if Quist loses, we'll have no idea how much of his margin was people who switched votes.

I'd be a lot more confident in Quist if early voting % wasn't so high.

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Paracaidas
Sep 24, 2016
Consistently Tedious!
Permaban everyone who didn't immediately identify the Trump/Pope gif as fake.


Al Borland Corp. posted:

Don't ask him about the assault. Nail him to the wall on AHCA and the CBO score and try to get him to do it again. Only after you've exasperated him ask about the assault

I get that (in the vast majority of cases) healthcare needs to be the main message - but for someone who hasn't voted on the bill or made it a centerpiece of their campaign, pretty sure assaulting a journalist and then immediately lying about it is going to be most effective message and the best way to rile him up.


Fangz posted:

If this news discourages 1 in ten of his voters then he's hosed.
10% of his election day votes (probably) doesn't sink him. Even assuming early returns are favorable to democrats, it's likely that at least half of his vote is already in. The question is if Dems can use this to boost turnout and flip those who don't vote straight ticket (Dem governor while GOP swept statewide races suggests that's a meaningful chunk of MT voters).

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