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FizFashizzle posted:uh trump just said "I feel like Steve has made a great sacrifice..." Uh Trump uses great to mean good, so it was probably some primo human sacrifice
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evilweasel posted:hopefully in 2020 I don't know. I'm a little worried about GOP replacing Trump on the ticket with someone who hasn't spent the last four years making GBS threads the bed.
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Ogmius815 posted:I don't know. I'm a little worried about GOP replacing Trump on the ticket with someone who hasn't spent the last four years making GBS threads the bed. no president has ever won re-election who faced a primary challenge, i believe and there's no way trumpkins would meekly accept their fuehrer being toppled in a primary
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evilweasel posted:no president has ever won re-election who faced a primary challenge, i believe past performance etc
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evilweasel posted:no president has ever won re-election who faced a primary challenge, i believe There's only been 59 presidential elections total. And only like 20 of those have happened in anything that even remotely resembles the current political environment. It's not a lot of data to draw conclusions from.
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Eltoasto posted:It's a very odd situation with Turkey in NATO but neighbors and now Dictator Bros with Russia. Do you see them leaving NATO at some point? Nah. Turkey has no reason to leave NATO. And the countries have a lot of bad history -- Ottoman Empire fought the Russian empire very frequently. Now, if Erdogan starts becoming closer with Putin that would be a cause for concern. But after recent events (Turks shooting down a Russian plane over contested air space, and Russian ambassador to Turkey being shot and killed at a gala) this is rather unlikely.
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enraged_camel posted:This is CEOs, so it's really 0.01%ers It was a joke that only 1% of CEOs gave him an A
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evilweasel posted:no president has ever won re-election who faced a primary challenge, i believe Depends how you define "serious" primary challenger. Eisenhower and Nixon were both primaried and lost at least one state. That was also before the "modern" primary. Bill Clinton was primaried by Lyndon LaRouche (lol) and actually lost North Dakota to LaRouche.
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PT6A posted:No, rats are much better because they don't jump out in front of cars and wreck them. Do not besmirch the good name of a rat by comparing it to a deer. Can we compare it to a man-eating giant Texas wild pig? 
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The Warmbier thing gives me the loving heebie jeebies. I would support loving up North Korea just for that.
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Pollyanna posted:The Warmbier thing gives me the loving heebie jeebies. I would support loving up North Korea just for that. I would really prefer to not stick our collective dick in the hornet's nest this time
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Pollyanna posted:The Warmbier thing gives me the loving heebie jeebies. I would support loving up North Korea just for that. i want to sympathize with the guy but if you're dumb enough to go to a totalitarian shithole as a tourist, do not break the law while you're there
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Pollyanna posted:The Warmbier thing gives me the loving heebie jeebies. I would support loving up North Korea just for that. I need to know who he and his parents supported/voted for before I spend any of my very limited sympathy. boner confessor posted:i want to sympathize with the guy but if you're dumb enough to go to a totalitarian shithole as a tourist, do not break the law while you're there This too, amazingly white privilege doesn't work everywhere.
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The Glumslinger posted:I would really prefer to not stick our collective dick in the hornet's nest this time I mean, would, not should. Anyone who's looking to me for good policy opinions is an idiot.
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The Idiot has spoken again: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/875438639823675392 quote:realDonaldTrump: Why is that Hillary Clintons family and Dems dealings with Russia are not looked at, but my non-dealings are?
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Pollyanna posted:The Warmbier thing gives me the loving heebie jeebies. I would support loving up North Korea just for that. It makes that jingoistic devil on my shoulder start shouting about dropping precision ordnance in the middle of a courtyard at one of his homes just to remind the Kims that we can. That's the kind of dumb citizen poo poo I used to assume the government was capable of filtering out.
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Pollyanna posted:The Warmbier thing gives me the loving heebie jeebies. I would support loving up North Korea just for that. It's hell on earth. The Warmbier thing would be pretty typical I guess. Place is full of concentration camps.
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Pollyanna posted:The Warmbier thing gives me the loving heebie jeebies. I would support loving up North Korea just for that. Let's invade some prisons and jails at home first.
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Party Plane Jones posted:The Idiot has spoken again:  Man, this guy This loving guy
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You know that "non-" was the last thing he added
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boner confessor posted:i want to sympathize with the guy but if you're dumb enough to go to a totalitarian shithole as a tourist, do not break the law while you're there While the dude certainly made a bone headed mistake, l I don't think 15 years of hard labor is a reasonable punishment for petty theft in any country; let alone clinical brain death.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Depends how you define "serious" primary challenger. Yup. A convicted felon serving 17 years won 40% of the West Virginia primary against Obama in 2012.
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boner confessor posted:i want to sympathize with the guy but if you're dumb enough to go to a totalitarian shithole as a tourist, do not break the law while you're there He might not have even done anything. It's possible the north Koreans just wanted to gently caress with America. He was detained around the same time the U.S. was imposing new sanctions. No American should go to NK without diplomatic immunity.
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Doesn't a non-deal imply he just talked to a bunch of russians and it was all very friendly w/o actually making deals
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stillvisions posted:1) Taunt special prosecutor "What are you gonna do, investigate me for obstruction?" - Man Investigated for Obstruction
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Ogmius815 posted:He might not have even done anything. It's possible the north Koreans just wanted to gently caress with America. He was detained around the same time the U.S. was imposing new sanctions. No American should go to NK without diplomatic immunity. This should destroy their "edgy" little tourist industry.
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Danger posted:While the dude certainly made a bone headed mistake, l I don't think 15 years of hard labor is a reasonable punishment for petty theft in any country; let alone clinical brain death. i agree, which is why if i ever find myself in the unfortunate situation of being in north korea i will make sure i do not engage in anything that remotely resembles petty theft we can talk about how unreasonable it is for a totalitarian shithole to throw small time criminals in an awful gulag but none of that actually matters with regards to "don't go to north korea, and if you do, for fucks sake do not break the law" Ogmius815 posted:He might not have even done anything. It's possible the north Koreans just wanted to gently caress with America. He was detained around the same time the U.S. was imposing new sanctions. No American should go to NK without diplomatic immunity. north korea values their tourism industry more than they value nabbing rando citizens. they're a horrible stalinist state but not evil, crazy, or stupid
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Party Plane Jones posted:
I don't understand what happened here. Would someone mind explaining it?
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What did they even do to Warmbier? I don't understand.
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Michael Scott posted:What did they even do to Warmbier? I don't understand. We will probably never find out, but "beat into a coma" seems a fair bet.
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JohnCompany posted:Yup. A convicted felon serving 17 years won 40% of the West Virginia primary against Obama in 2012. I don't think that guy ran in any state other than West Virginia, though. LaRouche did actually run a "real" primary against Clinton in 1996.
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Just went to Cuba in April. Good thing I did I guess. Besides as another "gently caress Obama" move and Fidel being virulently anti-American (he's dead anyway), why again?
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BarbarianElephant posted:We will probably never find out, but "beat into a coma" seems a fair bet. But physically he looks reasonably normal, which is why it's confusing. The only quote from the US hospital cites a 'neurological injury'
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Sloober posted:Doesn't a non-deal imply he just talked to a bunch of russians and it was all very friendly w/o actually making deals Reminder that the Miss Universe pageant was hosted in Russia in 2013 and a large amount of the Trump Solo article from 1997 details his efforts to get involved in Russia. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/05/19/trump-solo Which gave us this amazing close: quote:I think I did: the only apartment with a better view than the best apartment in the world was the same apartment. Except for the one across the Park, which had the most spectacular living room in the world. No one had ever seen a granite house before. And, most important, every square inch belonged to Trump, who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul. “Trump”—a fellow with universal recognition but with a suspicion that an interior life was an intolerable inconvenience, a creature everywhere and nowhere, uniquely capable of inhabiting it all at once, all alone. ♦ Kramdar posted:I don't understand what happened here. Would someone mind explaining it? Twitter, instead of cracking down on the thousands of jihadists using the platform to spread their message or neonazis sending threats; decided to change profile portraits to be circles instead of squares. Priorities, you see.
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zenguitarman posted:Just went to Cuba in April. Good thing I did I guess. Besides as another "gently caress Obama" move and Fidel being virulently anti-American (he's dead anyway), why again? You answered your own question.
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Michael Scott posted:What did they even do to Warmbier? I don't understand. Kept him in a lovely prison and he contracted botulism, which is a disease that can only be acquired through bacterial infections or injection.
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isn't part of the thrill of going to north korea in the first place the constant low level danger that comes from it being an oppressive orwellian junta? you can't really get that danger tourism experience anywhere else since the collapse of communism
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Michael Scott posted:What did they even do to Warmbier? I don't understand. I'm not sure it's definitely know. From differing reports I've put together that he contracted botulism almost immediately and then overdosed on sleeping pills.
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