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AceOfFlames posted:Serious question: what are correct non gendered alternatives to "bitch"?" "rear end in a top hat" and "Bastard"? I guess "shithead" works too? Shitlord is nice and gender neutral.
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AceOfFlames posted:Serious question: what are correct non gendered alternatives to "bitch"?" "rear end in a top hat" and "Bastard"? I'm pretty sure rear end in a top hat and bastard are already not gendered. And bitch is really pretty powerless at this point. If you wanna say bitch just say rear end in a top hat instead.
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WampaLord posted:Shitlord is nice and gender neutral.
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Ventana posted:Genuinely curious since I don't know how these things work, how would Comey's testimony screw up the investigation?
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Kilroy posted:Do I call a woman a shitlady, then? you're saying this like you don't know the answer. the answer is yes. E: Comey going all-in would gently caress everything up really bad
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Kilroy posted:Do I call a woman a shitlady, then? Shitbird.
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Ventana posted:Genuinely curious since I don't know how these things work, how would Comey's testimony screw up the investigation? It won't because Comey will spend the whole hearing talking about how irresponsible Hillary Clinton was for her private server.
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Take some time today to read this long and extremely scorching piece in Der Spiegel today, which quotes extensively from the G8 meeting in Sicily and the NATO meeting in Brussels. quote:Still, it is likely that none of the G-7 heads of state and government expected the primitive brutality Trump would stoop to when announcing his withdrawal from the international community. Surrounded by sycophants in the Rose Garden at the White House, he didn't just proclaim his withdrawal from the climate agreement, he sowed the seeds of international conflict. His speech was a break from centuries of Enlightenment and rationality. The president presented his political statement as a nationalist manifesto of the most imbecilic variety. It couldn't have been any worse. quote:His speech was packed with make-believe numbers from controversial or disproven studies. It was hypocritical and dishonest. quote:Merkel's aim is that of creating an alliance against Trump. If she can't convince the U.S. president, her approach will be that of trying to isolate him. In Taormina, it was six countries against one. Should Trump not reverse course, she is hoping that the G-20 in Hamburg in July will end 19:1. Whether she will be successful is unclear. quote:Therein lies the absurdity of Trump's histrionics. Nothing would have been easier for the U.S. than to take part pro forma in United Nations climate-related negotiations while completely ignoring climate protection measures at home -- which Trump has been doing anyway since his election. It's a fine read, and the break between the EU and US with this president will be quite something.
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Ventana posted:Genuinely curious since I don't know how these things work, how would Comey's testimony screw up the investigation? Comey has met with Mueller, anything he's prepared to say at the testimony has been run by him first to make sure the investigation is cleared.
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I want to believe career politicians behind the scenes are doing their best at working with our allies, around the fuckheads in this administration until it is dealt with.
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Captain Invictus posted:I want to believe career politicians behind the scenes are doing their best at working with our allies, around the fuckheads in this administration until it is dealt with. This has pretty much been Mattis' MO since he took the reins of SecDef.
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Grapplejack posted:Comey has met with Mueller, anything he's prepared to say at the testimony has been run by him first to make sure the investigation is cleared. "It would be inappropriate for me to comment on any ongoing investigations, so while I can't say whether Russia hacked the DNC to interfere with the elections or just to erase the evidence that Hillary Clinton was emailing uranium to Putin, I think it's clear that that is something Crooked Hillary would totally do." "Also to my knowledge the FBI has never definitively ruled out the possibility that Hillary did 9/11, I repeat, Hillary did 9/11. Thank you." VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 10:21 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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AceOfFlames posted:Serious question: what are correct non gendered alternatives to "bitch"?" "rear end in a top hat" and "Bastard"? I guess "shithead" works too? Fuckface is good. Gangrenous donkey cock also works.
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Captain Invictus posted:I want to believe career politicians behind the scenes are doing their best at working with our allies, around the fuckheads in this administration until it is dealt with. I'm sure that's happening, but the problem is that Trump and the vocal quarter of his moron squad are doing everything humanly possible to piss off the rest of the world. The dumping of the Paris deal really was a huge slap in the face, and any future administration will have its work cut out for them. The EU just about got over the Bush administration through Obama, but that already loosened transatlantic bonds. This is another order of magnitude.
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Paracaidas posted:To reiterate, since Glenn defense has again become contrarian and thus en vogue: What's the source for this? Not to doubt but I'd like to be able to point people to something if they ask and I don't know how high the impact rating of this dead gay comedy forum is. Also: My worse case prediction for US international relations with Trump was always the US shifting into painting the EU as their primary competitor. The reasoning for this being very simple, Trump is used to dealing people in sycophantic terms. For him the strength of a relationship is based on how much you can enjoy spending time with your opposite number and dictators/demagogues tend to be pretty good at that. On the other hand European leaders and Asian technocrats tend to want to discuss things like details of policies or talk about problems facing them. Dealing with such people for Trump is, ultimately, not much fun. And Trump deals with being made to feel unhappy by lashing out. The result is that aggressive, hard line regimes take the nice treatment as a sign of weakness (KSA actions, though I'd been expecting Russia to be the country taking aggressive actions) while allies are basically forced into confrontation. The result on both sides is greater international instability and damage to the US's ability to actually influence international relations without resorting to bombing poo poo, because your current leaders are children who think US influence equals everyone doing everything the US wants and agreeing with them it's the right thing to do. Edit: Also in terms of international stability, Bush 2 was a significant departure from previous US positions in terms of unilateralism and acting determinedly outside of international norms established by previous US administrations. Countries that went along largely suffered domestically with little or no positive result from siding with the US. Obama persuaded a lot of other countries that that may have been an aberration and the US would return to acting as an international leader. Trump has gone so far past Bush 2 that even if he's replaced with a moderate Republican and then a Democrat as talented as Obama was people are still going to be wary of relying on the US or even entering into significant Trade deals. In WWI Britain went to war in Europe, in part, over a determination to be seen to abide by a century old treaty protecting Belgian independence. Trump has shown a willingness to throw out agreements that are freshly signed or decades old, that kind of poo poo does a lot more damage to international prestige than being respectful to a foreign leader. MrNemo fucked around with this message at 10:30 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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Playstation 4 posted:This has pretty much been Mattis' MO since he took the reins of SecDef.
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Captain Invictus posted:That would be my hope, but didn't he say some kinda stupid poo poo within the last week that made people question his intentions? He made some "I am the one who knocks" type quote, and I think he's been covering for Trump the same way everyone else has (despite it going against his stated principles and whatnot and contradicting his past statements), though I admit I might be confusing him with McMaster.
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It was McMaster I was thinking of, sorry. And I wager if it comes to light that the election was sabotaged, not just influenced, by Russia(hell, if we're hoping for that then let's go further and hope they find evidence of collusion even further back than Trump), I'd hope that the EU would be more willing to make amends since it was the direct interference of a foreign power, perhaps THE foreign power if we're being honest. With Russia interfering with France's election and no doubt many other EU countries, it might be easier to fix things than we're panicking about. I hope. hope is the first step on the road to disappointment
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Captain Invictus posted:It was McMaster I was thinking of, sorry. It highlights a weakness in the US governmental institutions, the problem being not simply Russian interference but that the US political establishment essentially fell in line with such a radical force. That's not to blame everyone who didn't but it's not clear that Russia hacked the Republican primary. Trump winning that and the majority of the party (and all the actual voters) falling behind Trump was required for Trump to win. If Republican officials had organised to oppose Trump or collectively disavowed an unqualified candidate promising stuff he couldn't deliver then he'd never have had the opportunity. The increasingly partisan two party system and poisoning of discourse in the US all contributed to that. If Russia was found to have played a role and Trump gets impeached I can imagine it doing quite a bit to restore confidence but if nothing else obviously changes about the US system it's going to take quite a period of stability before other countries are going to feel confident trusting the US. Basically there seem to be structural issues in the US system currently. If this immediate symptom is dealt with but nothing more then other countries are going to need proof that the system itself isn't as prone to radical changing as it has been (time). If there are some actual steps taken to address those problems (changes to voting structures or even some form of mea culpa and reform in the Republicans as a response to Trump) then you'd see a lot more confidence and willingness to try again.
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AceOfFlames posted:Serious question: what are correct non gendered alternatives to "bitch"?" "rear end in a top hat" and "Bastard"? I guess "shithead" works too? It's possible to be both a pussy and a dick at the same time.
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AceOfFlames posted:Serious question: what are correct non gendered alternatives to "bitch"?" "rear end in a top hat" and "Bastard"? I guess "shithead" works too? Fuckwads general neutral. Likewise with piss baby but that one pertains strictly to Trump supporters.
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So anything scheduled for today related to Trump? I can't keep up with stuff at this point beyond Comey having his bit on Thursday.
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Ramos posted:So anything scheduled for today related to Trump? I can't keep up with stuff at this point beyond Comey having his bit on Thursday. This is "infrastructure week," so naturally we'll hear about privatizing everything that moves at some point. That's why he doesn't like wind power, because ~Gawd~ is a socialist that gives wind away for free, and he'll eventually see the Simpsons episode where Mr. Burns blocks out the sun...
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Morning Joe just now: "Mike Pence  "Wow, subtle, Joe  I catch myself watching Morning Joe a lot early mornings lately; it's not news, it's just a long block of 8 or so people relentlessly making GBS threads on Trump. Don't watch this show.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:This is "infrastructure week," so naturally we'll hear about privatizing everything that moves at some point. That's why he doesn't like wind power, because ~Gawd~ is a socialist that gives wind away for free, and he'll eventually see the Simpsons episode where Mr. Burns blocks out the sun... It's not even something as logical as socialism bad. He hates wind farms because one was put up near his golf course in Scotland and no matter how hard he cried the government wouldn't take it down. So now he hates all wind farms. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/22/trump-british-allies-against-windfarms-golf-courses-scotland
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I can't wait for Donnie to float an idea that could actually help Americans (like rebuilding hilariously old and unsafe bridges) to only have the republicans pull his senile rear end aside and tell him that it's a bad idea because that's money that could be given to billionaires via tax-cuts. By Friday, Donnie will be telling us that the existing infrastructure is fine.
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Ripoff posted:I can't wait for Donnie to float an idea that could actually help Americans (like rebuilding hilariously old and unsafe bridges) to only have the republicans pull his senile rear end aside and tell him that it's a bad idea because that's money that could be given to billionaires via tax-cuts. By Friday, Donnie will be telling us that the existing infrastructure is fine. You mean just offer to sell the bridges well below actual value in exchange for tax incentives to repair bridges?
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Ripoff posted:I can't wait for Donnie to float an idea that could actually help Americans (like rebuilding hilariously old and unsafe bridges) to only have the republicans pull his senile rear end aside and tell him that it's a bad idea because that's money that could be given to billionaires via tax-cuts. By Friday, Donnie will be telling us that the existing infrastructure is fine. Already happened with Obamacare. He said he could fix it instantly, then went 'ah this is hard' and now is telling everyone kids dying of cancer is good for America. Donnie has two objectives in the white house now, one to ruin what Obama has done out of spite, and two to make as much money for himself and his family. FFS he has been selling access to the US for half a million each to the Chinese.
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Junior G-man posted:it makes a nice change from him slobbering all over Trump during the (early) primaries though. Sounds like that just makes him useless for anything but gossip.
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Mustached Demon posted:You mean just offer to sell the bridges well below actual value in exchange for tax incentives to repair bridges? The only bleak hope I have in this seemingly inevitable scenario is that they start charging hilariously high tolls to "maximize shareholder value" and it gets people to stop driving cars to work. Less driving means less pollution!  As well as the collapse of the local economy.
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Flesh Forge posted:Morning Joe just now: "Mike Pence morning joe is the mouthpiece of "centrist" republicans and you can always figure out what they want to get out there by what joe says.
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AceOfFlames posted:Serious question: what are correct non gendered alternatives to "bitch"?" "rear end in a top hat" and "Bastard"? I guess "shithead" works too? dickshitter is gender-neutral
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FizFashizzle posted:morning joe is the mouthpiece of "centrist" republicans and you can always figure out what they want to get out there by what joe says. Yeah the fluff piece on how gosh darn handsome/dignified/whatever Mike Pence is was pretty loud and clear.
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Flesh Forge posted:Yeah the fluff piece on how gosh darn handsome/dignified/whatever Mike Pence is was pretty loud and clear. Republicans are angling for a way to get Trump out that doesn't involve anyone asking Mike Pence some hard questions about what he knew and when he knew it about Mike Flynn. I don't think that's possible. At the very least it's going to come out Pence lied about knowing when a foreign agent was in the white house and said nothing. He's going down too.
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Filthy Hans posted:dickshitter is gender-neutral I... I don't think it is. Also Donald Trump's infrastructure bill is going to involve removing all subsidies for renewable energy because he hates wind farms, lifting restrictions on fossil fuel practices and development and probably privatising bridges and even more roads. Probably combined with slightly lower road taxes that then eats up all the savings and means infrastructure in non-populous areas falls to poo poo because it's not profitable and the federal government no longer has any money to spend on it.
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MrNemo posted:What's the source for this? Not to doubt but I'd like to be able to point people to something if they ask and I don't know how high the impact rating of this dead gay comedy forum is. The affidavit supporting the search warrant https://www.scribd.com/document/350456382/Reality-Leigh-Winner Phoneposting and it's not liking the PDF, but especially 16 and 19.
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Captain Invictus posted:It was McMaster I was thinking of, sorry. It's already been proven that America is not reliable. Regardless of whether Trump is the American's people's fault, the fact is that he did get into power and someone similar could get into power again. As such, all treaties and agreements with the US now have to be considered with an eye to the fact that the US might arbitrarily decide to tear them up at any moment.
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