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Plavski
Feb 1, 2006

I could be a revolutionary
https://twitter.com/eppyad/status/867932763843960832

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Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

69420 basic bytes free
n/m

Dr. Faustus
Feb 18, 2001

Grimey Drawer
It's not what we wanted, he seemed to be as coherent as he ever gets. Yes, he got up and started to walk away. He had to be called back. You have to see the whole thing in context. It's loving horrible, but not necessarily for the reasons stated.

Have a view from another angle and judge for yourselves:

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

I'm not taking up for Drumpf. Just wanting to condemn the right parts.

Cat Hassler
Feb 7, 2006

Slippery Tilde
More Reagan lols:

1/13/1981

President Reagan is presented with a huge jar of jellybeans at a farewell ceremony in Los Angeles. Reminiscing about passing the jellybean jar around the table during his days as governor, he says, "You can tell a lot about a fellow's character, if a fellow just picks out one color or grabs a handful"

Just what one can tell from this is left unrevealed

1/20/1981

Just before 9 AM Michael Deaver, stunned that the President-elect is still sleeping, enters his bedroom to remind that he's "going to be inaugurated." Says Reagan, "Does that mean I have to get up?"

6/12/1981

President Reagan fails to recognize his only black Cabinet member, Housing Secretary Samuel Pierce, at a White House reception for big-city mayors. "How are you, Mr. Mayor?" he greets him. "I'm glad to meet you. How are things in your city?"

10/19/1982

During a White House meeting with Arab leaders, President Reagan turns to the Lebanese foreign minister. "You know," he says, "your nose looks just like Danny Thomas's." The Arabs exchange nervous glances.

1/30/1983

Congratulating Redskins coach Joe Gibbs in the inevitable post-Super Bowl phone call, President Reagan pays special tribute to MVP John Riggins. "Would he mind," asks the President, "if I changed my spelling so it had an "I", and a couple of "g's" in it?". In fact, the President does not change his name.

Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

69420 basic bytes free

Keith Atherton posted:

More Reagan lols:


This really owns thank you for posting these, please keep going

I have a question for you olds, because I'm too young to know - I'm utterly shocked at how much vitriol is being thrown Trump's way. I mean, GWB got plenty in his time, but holy poo poo it's hard to wrap my mind around how normal we've made calling the president of the united states an obese orange retard. People called GWB an idiot, and a monster, and all sorts of other things, but I don't feel like it approached this level.

My question is this - was it this bad during Nixon's reign? Like, did people openly hate him in the media / public venues like Trump is getting? I get that there wasn't social media at that time [which, to a degree, applies to GWB's term, as it hadn't developed into what it is now], so there weren't the same channels to communicate as there are now, but is it in any way comparable?

my new dog
May 7, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo

Code Jockey posted:

This really owns thank you for posting these, please keep going

I have a question for you olds, because I'm too young to know - I'm utterly shocked at how much vitriol is being thrown Trump's way. I mean, GWB got plenty in his time, but holy poo poo it's hard to wrap my mind around how normal we've made calling the president of the united states an obese orange retard. People called GWB an idiot, and a monster, and all sorts of other things, but I don't feel like it approached this level.

My question is this - was it this bad during Nixon's reign? Like, did people openly hate him in the media / public venues like Trump is getting? I get that there wasn't social media at that time [which, to a degree, applies to GWB's term, as it hadn't developed into what it is now], so there weren't the same channels to communicate as there are now, but is it in any way comparable?

tbf trump is a fat fake tanned rotted brain incestuous populist climate change denier birther fox news fan liar racist con man rapist failed casino owner and possible literal traitor so he deserves every insult that gets thrown his way

bloom
Feb 25, 2017

by sebmojo

Code Jockey posted:

I mean, GWB got plenty in his time, but holy poo poo it's hard to wrap my mind around how normal we've made calling the president of the united states an obese orange retard. People called GWB an idiot, and a monster, and all sorts of other things, but I don't feel like it approached this level.

GWB came across like your hick uncle, who'd say dumb stuff here and there but could keep it together most of the time.

Trump is full on demented grandpa. Not the nice tragic kind either, but the kind who was an rear end in a top hat even before his brain fell apart.

Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

69420 basic bytes free

my new dog posted:

tbf trump is a fat fake tanned rotted brain incestuous populist climate change denier birther fox news fan liar racist con man rapist failed casino owner and possible literal traitor so he deserves every insult that gets thrown his way

oh believe me I didn't mean to imply anything but this


bloom posted:

GWB came across like your hick uncle, who'd say dumb stuff here and there but could keep it together most of the time.

Trump is full on demented grandpa.

I wonder if either Bush touched the orb, maybe it's what melted GWB's brain

Cat Hassler
Feb 7, 2006

Slippery Tilde

Code Jockey posted:

My question is this - was it this bad during Nixon's reign? Like, did people openly hate him in the media / public venues like Trump is getting? I get that there wasn't social media at that time [which, to a degree, applies to GWB's term, as it hadn't developed into what it is now], so there weren't the same channels to communicate as there are now, but is it in any way comparable?

I was too young to really understand what was going on during Watergate but I do remember the hearings preempting everything on TV in the afternoon and being pissed that my cartoons were not on.

I do know Nixon was loving DESPISED during Watergate. There was no Twitter or instant communication so everyone watched the evening news to catch up.

Walter Cronkite on CBS was amazing because he could communicate "this is hosed up and you should be worried about this" just by his tone of voice and choice of words. His report on the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam was a landmark moment in turning public sentiment against the war in the US

my new dog
May 7, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
hey.. hey trump.. hows the wall project going? LOL

Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

69420 basic bytes free

Keith Atherton posted:

I was too young to really understand what was going on during Watergate but I do remember the hearings preempting everything on TV in the afternoon and being pissed that my cartoons were not on.

I do know Nixon was loving DESPISED during Watergate. There was no Twitter or instant communication so everyone watched the evening news to catch up.

Walter Cronkite on CBS was amazing because he could communicate "this is hosed up and you should be worried about this" just by his tone of voice and choice of words. His report on the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam was a landmark moment in turning public sentiment against the war in the US

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw6bqvOe-uE

man, you aren't kidding.

bloom
Feb 25, 2017

by sebmojo

Code Jockey posted:

I wonder if either Bush touched the orb, maybe it's what melted GWB's brain

Nah. They started two wars with Iraq to get the orb away from Saddam, who found it buried in a forbidden temple in the desert, before he could learn its secrets but before the second war Saudi special forces smuggled it out of the country.

Plavski
Feb 1, 2006

I could be a revolutionary

bloom posted:

Nah. They started two wars with Iraq to get the orb away from Saddam, who found it buried in a forbidden temple in the desert, before he could learn its secrets but before the second war Saudi special forces smuggled it out of the country.

IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM

Teriyaki Koinku
Nov 25, 2008

Bread! Bread! Bread!

Bread! BREAD! BREAD!

my new dog posted:

*your vision blurs, a harp plays and you flashback to january of this very year*

these very real documents of which there are many and this is just a piece and which youre not allowed to see detail a very real plan of not using the presidency for personal gain, and by having these documents here on this table i show that there will be no conflict of interest. just look at all the documents, great plan, so amazing & will never forget. being an incompetent demented rotted brain retard with no plan or possibility of even making one for anything, all he has is theater. He presented a goddamn table full of blank paper in unmarked folders. to show that he is honest and good. We

Oh lordy I'm having the vapors again!

And by vapors, I mean :hmbol:

Multilake
Dec 11, 2016

If you're in a jam, a crayon scrunched under your nose makes a good pretend moustache.
I was absent from the internet for two days. Came back and didn't get dissapointed! Thanks Donald.]

Bimmi
Nov 8, 2009


someday
but not today

Keith Atherton posted:

More Reagan lols:

1/13/1981

President Reagan is presented with a huge jar of jellybeans at a farewell ceremony in Los Angeles. Reminiscing about passing the jellybean jar around the table during his days as governor, he says, "You can tell a lot about a fellow's character, if a fellow just picks out one color or grabs a handful"

Just what one can tell from this is left unrevealed

1/20/1981

Just before 9 AM Michael Deaver, stunned that the President-elect is still sleeping, enters his bedroom to remind that he's "going to be inaugurated." Says Reagan, "Does that mean I have to get up?"

6/12/1981

President Reagan fails to recognize his only black Cabinet member, Housing Secretary Samuel Pierce, at a White House reception for big-city mayors. "How are you, Mr. Mayor?" he greets him. "I'm glad to meet you. How are things in your city?"

10/19/1982

During a White House meeting with Arab leaders, President Reagan turns to the Lebanese foreign minister. "You know," he says, "your nose looks just like Danny Thomas's." The Arabs exchange nervous glances.

1/30/1983

Congratulating Redskins coach Joe Gibbs in the inevitable post-Super Bowl phone call, President Reagan pays special tribute to MVP John Riggins. "Would he mind," asks the President, "if I changed my spelling so it had an "I", and a couple of "g's" in it?". In fact, the President does not change his name.

Eight loving years of this bullshit.

Teriyaki Koinku
Nov 25, 2008

Bread! Bread! Bread!

Bread! BREAD! BREAD!

WhyteRyce posted:

Hilary will get pushed again and a significant number of 18-20 year old voters will once again bitch and moan and stay home because Bernie didn't get the nomination and say that because the guy they wanted didn't win then all candidates are equally bad

Dems who push a known failed candidate in the face of all reason deserve to be punished. That onus is on them.

du -hast
Mar 12, 2003

BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT GENTOO

Keith Atherton posted:


1/30/1983

Congratulating Redskins coach Joe Gibbs in the inevitable post-Super Bowl phone call, President Reagan pays special tribute to MVP John Riggins. "Would he mind," asks the President, "if I changed my spelling so it had an "I", and a couple of "g's" in it?". In fact, the President does not change his name.

I don't get this part. Is he making a joke about the word "friend of the family" or...?

girth brooks part 2
Sep 6, 2011

Bush did 911
Fun Shoe

du -hast posted:

I don't get this part. Is he making a joke about the word "friend of the family" or...?

Their names are pronounced similarly. He was asking if he could spell his name like the football man.

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

reagan... riggin... no it's definitely racism

ephex
Nov 4, 2007





PHWOAR CRIMINAL

girth brooks part 2 posted:

Their names are pronounced similarly. He was asking if he could spell his name like the football man.

That's a bad joke, but not as bad as Donald Trump being the POTUS

Revins
Nov 2, 2007





tune the FM in to static and pretend that its the sea
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/868407229380268033

Yes, this is how NATO works, everyone pays their dues to America for our services as WORLD POLICE

ephex
Nov 4, 2007





PHWOAR CRIMINAL

Stink Billyums
Jul 7, 2006

MAGNUM
I'd like to imagine Trudeau and Macron were talking poo poo about Trump in French while he was in the room.

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011


What loving payments, you blabbering fool? What are you even talking about? Jesus Christ, what a loving embarrassment

my new dog
May 7, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Idk much about the inner workings and financing of nato but neither does potus so i dont feel so bad

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Stink Billyums posted:

I'd like to imagine Trudeau and Macron were talking poo poo about Trump in French while he was in the room.

They probably talked about things like on all the various ways in which MILFs own

Son of Rodney
Feb 22, 2006

ohmygodohmygodohmygod

Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:

What loving payments, you blabbering fool? What are you even talking about? Jesus Christ, what a loving embarrassment

He propably just blabbered buzzwords at the Nato leaders, things like "Deal! Payments! More! America deal! You bad! Pay more! Maga!" and they patted his back and said "Yes Orbmaster, we will make more `payments´, yes yes".

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

Donnie Trump and the Philosopher's Orb

Donnie Trump and the Secret of the inner workings of NATO

Serak
Jun 18, 2000

Approaching Midnight.
For actual context:

quote:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/world/europe/nato-trump-spending.html
What is Mr. Trump’s complaint?

“NATO members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their financial obligations, for 23 of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they’re supposed to be paying for their defense,” he said.

Yes and No. NATO has a budget to cover common civilian and military costs, and some NATO-owned assets are also commonly funded when they are used in operations. The United States pays 22 percent of those costs, according to a formula based on national income. None of the NATO allies are in arrears on these contributions.

Mr. Trump is referring imprecisely to a goal NATO has set for each member to spend at least 2 percent of its gross domestic product on its own defense each year. He is correct that only five of the 28 members currently meet that goal, and they are the United States, Greece, Britain, Estonia and Poland.

Are NATO members violating a rule?

No. The 2 percent standard is just a guideline, not a legally binding requirement.

So basically, NATO costs are split by country and allocated based on national GDP (of which the US pays a high share due to huge GDP). On the basis of this cost breakdown, everyone is paid in full.

However they also have an aspiration goal of all countries spending 2% of their own GDP on their own defense, of which most don't meet. This is what Trump is on about, but he's conflating it with the first issue and implying the US pays a higher share because others are shirking their responsibilities, which they don't.

ambient robot
Apr 23, 2014

by Lowtax

Unfinish3d posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/868407229380268033

Yes, this is how NATO works, everyone pays their dues to America for our services as WORLD POLICE

Who can prove that? Heh, another bigly win for Dogald Trumpini.

Also lolin at reports of Banon setting up a war room in the WH to combat Russia allegations. What can they do at this point besides trying to yell HILLARY HILLARY OBAMA SETH RICH over all the news? rofl

Son of Rodney
Feb 22, 2006

ohmygodohmygodohmygod

Donnie Trump and the Government on Fire

Lodin
Jul 31, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
If anything they should send all the NATO-money to Norway since Jens is the boss.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Serak posted:

For actual context:


So basically, NATO costs are split by country and allocated based on national GDP (of which the US pays a high share due to huge GDP). On the basis of this cost breakdown, everyone is paid in full.

However they also have an aspiration goal of all countries spending 2% of their own GDP on their own defense, of which most don't meet. This is what Trump is on about, but he's conflating it with the first issue and implying the US pays a higher share because others are shirking their responsibilities, which they don't.

Europeans couldn't meet their goals since they building even more soccer stadiums.

Raged
Jul 21, 2003

A revolution of beats

Keith Atherton posted:

I was too young to really understand what was going on during Watergate but I do remember the hearings preempting everything on TV in the afternoon and being pissed that my cartoons were not on.

I do know Nixon was loving DESPISED during Watergate. There was no Twitter or instant communication so everyone watched the evening news to catch up.

Walter Cronkite on CBS was amazing because he could communicate "this is hosed up and you should be worried about this" just by his tone of voice and choice of words. His report on the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam was a landmark moment in turning public sentiment against the war in the US

Walter Cronkite was one of America's greatest newsmen. No one today can hold a candle to him.

Catastrophe
Oct 5, 2007

Committed to burn twice as long and half as bright

Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:

What loving payments, you blabbering fool? What are you even talking about? Jesus Christ, what a loving embarrassment

Oh you know the... chief of U.S. banking needs many much money from the "National Admirers of Trump, Org", to pay for golfing weekends' security at Mar-A-L ahahaha whatever who cares anymore

Plavski
Feb 1, 2006

I could be a revolutionary
https://twitter.com/Rubberbandits/status/868429287875117060

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Raged posted:

Walter Cronkite was one of America's greatest newsmen. No one today can hold a candle to him.

There's no one even still plying his trade for comparison

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

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Mackers
Jan 16, 2012

Unfinish3d posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/868407229380268033

Yes, this is how NATO works, everyone pays their dues to America for our services as WORLD POLICE

Just getting cringe flashbacks of him giving his giant novelty bill to Merkel He's loving retarded. :psyduck:


Guaranteed he was told a million times thats not how it works but he is loving incapable of learning

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