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FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

Stultus Maximus posted:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/scaramucci-friend-baselessly-accuses-priebus-affair-article-1.3369153

It's like Game of Thrones, but set in high school and all the characters are dumb as gently caress.

# ? Jul 30, 2017 16:49

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# ? May 28, 2024 10:17

Canemacar: Mar 8, 2008

FrozenVent posted:

It's like Game of Thrones, but set in high school and all the characters are dumb as gently caress.

But you repeat yourself.

# ? Jul 30, 2017 17:09

Cugel the Clever: Apr 5, 2009; I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA

Zeroisanumber posted:

I just don't see a big target like a carrier being practical as missile technology gets better and more ubiquitous. I mean, maybe we can make Star Trek shields or whatever to counter that.

But I'll cop to the fact that I really don't know all that much about running a navy or the shape of future threats, it's just a sense I get from watching what China's been up to.

This, but I also have zero experience in either naval strategy or missile technology. It just seems like swarming, super-accurate ASBMs can't be over 20 years away for China (assuming it doesn't succumb to its internal problems), offering substantial ability to deny carriers the ability to conduct operations against land-based targets at a tiny fraction of the cost it takes to design, build, man, and maintain a carrier battle group.

But I guess we will still have the ability to bomb some technicals in the desert or provide hurricane relief in southeast Asia and that's all we really need.

# ? Jul 30, 2017 17:28

my kinda ape: Sep 15, 2008; Everything's gonna be A-OK; Oven Wrangler

Yeah but in 20 years we'll have battleships with giant laser arrays that can shoot down any number of incoming missiles!

# ? Jul 30, 2017 17:31

Tiny Timbs: Sep 6, 2008

Cugel the Clever posted:

This, but I also have zero experience in either naval strategy or missile technology. It just seems like swarming, super-accurate ASBMs can't be over 20 years away for China (assuming it doesn't succumb to its internal problems), offering substantial ability to deny carriers the ability to conduct operations against land-based targets at a tiny fraction of the cost it takes to design, build, man, and maintain a carrier battle group.

But I guess we will still have the ability to bomb some technicals in the desert or provide hurricane relief in southeast Asia and that's all we really need.

At some point the counter to each individual high tech threat becomes its own Star Wars program so I don't really blame the leadership for focusing technical attention on the forces we can fight without starting WW3 and leaving the rest to diplomacy and economy.

# ? Jul 30, 2017 17:32

Hot Karl Marx: Mar 16, 2009; Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/890495682867585024

its like he's trying really hard to get into twitter comedy and it gets worse every time

# ? Jul 30, 2017 17:32

pantslesswithwolves: Oct 28, 2008

Is that the graveyard where the dog his son tortured and killed is buried?

# ? Jul 30, 2017 17:34

FastestGunAlive: Apr 7, 2010; Dancing palm tree.

I don't even get it. What's the sick burn supposed to be? A reference to the supposed massive number of votes cast by dead people? Hopefully someone calls him on some religious hypocrisy, mocking the deceased like that

# ? Jul 30, 2017 17:35

FastestGunAlive: Apr 7, 2010; Dancing palm tree.

Lmao his exclusive joke writer, chip hinkelman, is in the retweets defending him. Top retweet tho is some dude pointing out how they have a higher voter turnout than the US and other good poo poo

# ? Jul 30, 2017 17:44

The Orgasm Sanction: Dec 30, 2006; Svelte

facialimpediment posted:

He accused Reince of leaking again, then basically said IF YOU KEEP LEAKING I'LL TELL EVERYONE ABOUT YOUR MISTRESS. Someone since got to him and he apologized and deleted everything.

Meanwhile, a National Review writer (weird, I know) thinks Donnie is a weird hybrid of a PUA and the sad character from Glengarry Glen Ross.
http://amp.nationalreview.com/article/449988/donald-trump-cant-close-deal-failing-salesman

That's vicious.

# ? Jul 30, 2017 18:30

Slim Pickens: Jan 12, 2007; Grimey Drawer

FrozenVent posted:

It's like Game of Thrones, but set in high school and all the characters are dumb as gently caress.

It's more like arrested development, but without Michael

# ? Jul 30, 2017 19:05

milk milk lemonade: Jul 29, 2016

Ivankas Michael. Thinks she's good but is just as lovely as the rest.

Barron is def Michael Cera

# ? Jul 30, 2017 19:07

Bolow: Feb 27, 2007

Cugel the Clever posted:

This, but I also have zero experience in either naval strategy or missile technology. It just seems like swarming, super-accurate ASBMs can't be over 20 years away for China (assuming it doesn't succumb to its internal problems), offering substantial ability to deny carriers the ability to conduct operations against land-based targets at a tiny fraction of the cost it takes to design, build, man, and maintain a carrier battle group.

But I guess we will still have the ability to bomb some technicals in the desert or provide hurricane relief in southeast Asia and that's all we really need.

That's why you add ~~ablative armor~~ more surface ships to protect the carrier

# ? Jul 30, 2017 19:07

boop the snoot: Jun 3, 2016

This reality wouldn't be a tv show. It would be rejected by every network for being too stupid.

# ? Jul 30, 2017 19:08

Slim Pickens: Jan 12, 2007; Grimey Drawer

GOB: he called me up and said 'I'm gonna write a story on your meeting with the Russians!'

George: oh no, oh poo poo, ok, I'll call up Barry, we'll start working on denying, or spinning the meeting-

GOB: no dad, it's ok, I took care of it!

George:... How?

GOB: I published the email chain on Twitter!

*George slams head on table*

GOB: Pulled the story right out from under him! That'll show that reporter!

George: I've got the dumbest loving sons

# ? Jul 30, 2017 19:17

M_Gargantua: Oct 16, 2006; STOMP'N ON INTO THE POWERLINES; Exciting Lemon

An hour ago in Venezuela: someone planted a firework IED next to the PNB convoy. (PNB are essentially state police I think)

https://twitter.com/raylilujan/status/891707028690882560

Today's the day of the big vote (where the goverment has told everybody they need to vote to ceade more power to the government)

# ? Jul 30, 2017 19:53

Syncopated: Oct 21, 2010

M_Gargantua posted:

An hour ago in Venezuela: someone planted a firework IED next to the PNB convoy. (PNB are essentially state police I think)

https://twitter.com/raylilujan/status/891707028690882560

Today's the day of the big vote (where the goverment has told everybody they need to vote to ceade more power to the government)

Nice that they immediately start firing gas grenades of some sort into the watching, and applauding tbf, crowd.

# ? Jul 30, 2017 20:10

boop the snoot: Jun 3, 2016

Venezuela is the cover story for The Economist this week. It gives an idea of what is going on with their elections.

quote:

The mess one Marxist makes
Nicol�s Maduro tries to make thugocracy permanent in Venezuela

IT COULD almost be a piece of contemporary art, rather than a tool of political struggle. Overlooked by a mango tree heavy with blushing fruit, a rope is strung across Avenida Sucre as it climbs through a comfortable middle-class area towards the forested slopes of Monte �vila overlooking Caracas. Arranged beneath it are two distressed wooden beams, two pallets placed vertically, a wheel hub, a rusting metal housing for an electric transformer and several tree branches. They form a flimsy barricade watched over by a couple of dozen local residents.

Why are they blockading their own street? �Because we want this government to go,� explained Mar�a Antonieta Viso, the owner of a catering firm. They were taking part in a 24-hour �civic strike� on July 20th, called by the opposition coalition, Democratic Unity (MUD, from its initials in Spanish). Down the hill, across innumerable such roadblocks, the sting of tear gas signalled clashes between demonstrators and the National Guard, a militarised police force. The strike, repeated this week, was part of �Zero Hour��a campaign of civil disobedience aimed at blocking a plan by Nicol�s Maduro, Venezuela�s president, to install a constituent assembly with absolute powers.

Mr Maduro claims that the assembly is the �only way to achieve peace�, to provide Venezuelans with social welfare and to defend the country against what he claims is an �economic war� launched by America (though he provides no evidence of this). �What they are trying to do is to install the Cuban model in this country,� retorts Ms Viso. �We will all be screwed even if we take to the streets. There won�t be private property, my business will go to the state.� The long battle over power and policy in Venezuela that began when Hugo Ch�vez was elected president in 1998 has reached a critical point. Both government and opposition believe that they are fighting for survival against a backdrop of a failing economy, rising hunger and anarchy.

Ch�vez, a former army officer, proclaimed a �Bolivarian revolution�, named for Sim�n Bol�var, South America�s Venezuelan-born independence hero. He, too, summoned a constituent assembly, which drew up a new constitution and which he used to take control of the judiciary and the electoral authority. For much of his 14 years in power he had the support of most Venezuelans, thanks partly to his charismatic claim to represent a downtrodden majority and to the flaws of an opposition identified with an uncaring elite. But above all the soaring price of oil gave him an unprecedented windfall, some of which he showered on social programmes in the long-neglected ranchos (shantytowns). A consumption boom, magnified by an overvalued currency, kept the middle class quiescent. He governed at first through a broad coalition of army officers, far-left politicians and intellectuals.
Angered by opposition attempts to unseat him and influenced by Fidel Castro, Ch�vez pushed Venezuela towards state socialism after 2007. Economic distortions accumulated, along with corruption and debt. Before he died of cancer in 2013, Ch�vez chose Mr Maduro, a former bus driver and pro-Cuban activist, as his successor.

From Ch�vez to Maduro
Mr Maduro, however, lacks Ch�vez�s political skills and popular support. And he has had to grapple with the plunge in the oil price. Years of controls and the takeover of more than 1,500 private businesses and many farms mean that Venezuela now produces little except oil, and imports almost everything else. The government is desperate to avoid defaulting on its debt, since that would lead to creditors seizing oil shipments and assets abroad.

Rather than reform the economy, Mr Maduro has simply squeezed it, applying a tourniquet to imports (see chart 1). The government has no clear strategy for external financing, and the fiscal deficit, mainly financed by printing money, is out of control, says Efra�n Vel�zquez, the president of the National Economic Council, a quasi-official body. The result: �you can�t have growth and will have a lot of inflation.� Between 2013 and the end of this year, GDP will have contracted by more than 35% (see chart 2). What this means for most Venezuelans is penury.

Near Plaza P�rez Bonalde, a leafy enclave in the gritty district of Catia in western Caracas, 100 or so people, mainly women, queue up outside a bakery. They hope to get a ration of eight bread rolls for the subsidised price of 1,200 bol�vares (less than $0.15 at the black-market exchange rate). �At least it�s something, because everything else is so expensive now,� says Sol Cir�, a mother of two. She is unemployed, having lost her job at a defunct government hypermarket. Her fate stems from a change of government strategy.

Generalised price controls had generated widespread shortages and embarrassingly long queues. Instead, the government has put the army in charge of a subsidised food-distribution system, known as CLAP and modelled on Cuba�s ration book. Up to 30% of families get this dole of staple products regularly, reckons Asdr�bal Oliveros of Ecoanal�tica, an economic consultancy. They are chosen not according to need but according to their political importance to the government.

On the breadline
At the same time, the government has relaxed price controls (bread is an exception). In Catia�s main market, which spills into the surrounding streets, food is abundant, but pricey. A chicken costs 7,600 bol�vares and bananas 1,200 a kilo. Most people don�t have dollars to change on the black market: they must live on the minimum wage of 250,000 bol�vares. The result is that four out of five households were poor last year, their income insufficient to cover basic needs, according to a survey by three universities. Medicines remain scarce. Walk down many streets in Caracas and you may be approached by a beggar.

All this has taken a heavy toll on the government�s support. Mr Maduro won only 50.6% of the vote in a presidential election in 2013, a result questioned by his opponent, Henrique Capriles. In a parliamentary election in December 2015 the opposition won a two-thirds majority�enough to censure ministers and change the constitution.

In the government�s eyes, the opposition is bent on overthrowing an elected president�the aim of protests in 2014, after which Leopoldo L�pez, an opposition leader, was jailed on trumped-up charges. In response, it has resorted to legal chicanery. If Ch�vez often violated the letter of his own constitution, Mr Maduro tore it up.

Before the new parliament took over, the government used the old one to preserve its control of the supreme court by replacing justices due to retire. The court then unseated three legislators, eliminating the opposition�s two-thirds majority. Mr Maduro has ruled by decree. The tame electoral tribunal quashed an opposition attempt to trigger a referendum to recall the president�a device Ch�vez put in the constitution. It postponed regional elections due to take place last December.

In March the court issued decrees stripping the parliament of all powers. That seemed to be because foreign investors take more seriously than the government a constitutional provision under which only the parliament can approve foreign loans. Although partially withdrawn, the decrees were the trigger for a confrontation that continues. They opened up fractures in chavismo�notably the public opposition of Luisa Ortega, the attorney-general since 2007 (who had jailed Mr L�pez). Mr Maduro�s announcement on May 1st that he would convene the constituent assembly intensified both trends.
Ch�vez�s constitution was drawn up by a democratically elected constituent assembly, convoked by referendum. Mr Maduro is following a script from Mussolini. He has called the assembly by decree. It will have a �citizen, worker, communal and peasant-farmer� character, he said. What this means is that 181 members will be chosen by government-controlled �sectoral� groups such as students, fishermen and unions. Another 364 members will be directly elected, but in gerrymandered fashion: each of Venezuela�s 340 municipalities will choose one. Small towns are under the government�s thumb; cities, where the opposition is a majority, will get only one extra representative.

Datan�lisis, a reliable pollster, finds that two-thirds of respondents reject the constituent assembly, more than 80% think it unnecessary to change the constitution and only 23% approve of Mr Maduro. At just two weeks� notice, on July 16th almost 7.5m Venezuelans turned out for an unofficial plebiscite organised by the opposition. Almost all of them voted to reject the assembly, to call on the army to defend the constitution and for a presidential election by next year (when one is due).

Few doubt that the assembly will be a puppet-body and the vote on July 30th, which the opposition will boycott, will be inflated. The government counts on the 4.5m people who are employed in the public sector or in communal bodies. Those who fail to turn out risk losing not just their job but their CLAP food rations. Additional pressure to vote in chavista neighbourhoods comes from the colectivos�regime-sponsored armed thugs on motorbikes. Officials have said the assembly will not only write a new constitution but will assume supreme power, sacking Ms Ortega and replacing the parliament, whose building it will occupy. It will give Mr Maduro a slightly larger figleaf than the supreme court for a dictatorship of the minority.
Yet the president will find it hard to make this stick. �How do you govern the country with 75% against you?� asks Mr Capriles. �I think he�s trapped.� For the past four months the opposition has held almost daily protests. These have a ritual quality. To prevent demonstrators reaching the city centre, or blocking the main motorway through Caracas, the National Guard fires volleys of tear gas, buckshot�and occasionally bullets. Younger radicals, known as the �Resistance�, press forward, throwing stones from behind makeshift shields. Similar scenes take place across the country. Looting is commonplace. In these clashes, over 100 people have died. More than 400 protesters are now prisoners, including several opposition politicians. After the parliament named 33 justices to a rival supreme court on July 21st, the government arrested three of them.

Resistance isn�t futile
Mr Maduro has more worries. The first is his own side. Chavista strongholds are wavering. In the bread queue in Catia, several people say they are against the assembly. The opposition managed to set up voting stations for its plebiscite there: at one, a woman died when a colectivo fired on voters. �Some people have left us and gone over to the other side,� admits a local official. �But it�s very difficult for a chavista to support the opposition,� she adds. Ch�vez is still viewed favourably by 53% of Venezuelans, according to Datan�lisis.
Rather, a new movement of �critical� or �democratic� chavistas, including Ms Ortega, several former ministers and recently retired generals, has publicly called for the scrapping of the assembly and the upholding of the constitution. When they held a press conference at a modest hotel on July 21st, some 300 regime supporters outside tried to drown them out with loud music and chants of �traitors�.
Then there is the army. The regime has co-opted it, turning it into a faction-ridden, politicised and top-heavy moneymaking operation, with more than 2,000 generals (where 200 used to suffice). Mr Maduro has given them control over food imports and distribution, ports and airports, a bank and the mining industry. Many generals have grown rich by buying dollars at the lowest official exchange rate of $1=10 bol�vares, intended for food imports, and selling them at the black market rate of 9,000. Others smuggle petrol or drugs.

Murmuring in the ranks
An �undercurrent of muttering� among junior officers is checked by a network of political commissars and snoops installed by Ch�vez, says Jos� Machillanda, of Sim�n Bol�var University in Caracas. At the top, several thousand Cuban security personnel guard Mr Maduro and the 30-40 leaders who form the regime�s core.

But the assembly has tested the army�s loyalty to Mr Maduro. He twice reshuffled senior ranks in the past two months. Caracas is alive with rumours of an impending pronunciamento, in which the army withdraws its support for the regime.
Another acute threat to Mr Maduro is the economy. The rot has spread to the oil industry, Venezuela�s mainstay. According to OPEC, since 2015 the country�s oil output has fallen by 400,000 barrels per day (or around 17%). This is the long-term price of Ch�vez�s decision to turn PDVSA, the once efficient state oil company, into an arm of the welfare state.

Foreign-exchange reserves hover around $10bn, according to the Central Bank. Economists expect the government to make $3.5bn in debt payments due in the autumn, but it will struggle to find the $8.5bn it needs to avoid default next year. China, a big paymaster, is reluctant to lend more. Russia may be Mr Maduro�s best hope, but it worries about getting entangled in possible American sanctions against Venezuela.

The fourth problem Mr Maduro faces is that the region has become less friendly to him. Ch�vez enjoyed the solidarity of other left-wing governments in Latin America. Many are no longer there, or have distanced themselves. Venezuela has been suspended from Mercosur, a trade group; it could be expelled if the assembly goes ahead, says Argentina�s foreign minister. The regime showed that it cares about its standing in the region by the big diplomatic effort it made in June to prevent its suspension from the Organisation of American States.

Many in Caracas assumed that Mr Maduro intended the assembly as a bargaining chip, to be withdrawn in return for concessions by the opposition. If so, he may be trapped by the forces of radicalisation he has unleashed. Diosdado Cabello, a retired army officer who is his chief rival within the regime, appears to see the assembly as his route to power. Back down now, and Mr Maduro risks losing face among his hard-core supporters.

Venezuela thus stands at a junction. One road involves a negotiation that might either fix a calendar for a free and fair election, or that might see Mr Maduro and other regime leaders depart. The opposition is mistrustful after talks brokered by the Vatican and Jos� Luis Rodr�guez Zapatero, a former Spanish prime minister, broke down last year when it quickly became clear that the government was not prepared to restore constitutional rule. Mr Zapatero was a conduit for a move that saw Mr L�pez transferred from prison to house arrest this month. He is in Caracas again this week.

The city hums with rumours of a new mediation effort led by a shifting kaleidoscope of foreign governments. But conditions do not yet seem ripe. �The government sees the cost of leaving power as very high, that they would be destroyed and persecuted,� reckons Luis Vicente Le�n of Datan�lisis. The opposition is suspicious, too. �To return to political negotiations we have to have real signs that the government is prepared to change,� observes Freddy Guevara, the deputy leader of Mr L�pez�s party.

That probably requires a military pronunciamento. But the army �looks at the opposition and doesn�t see any guarantees that they would be able to run the country�, says a foreign diplomat. The MUD has worked well as an electoral coalition, and its plebiscite was impressive. It has published a programme for a government of national unity. But, crucially, it lacks an agreed leader with a mandate to negotiate. �The opposition is stuck together with chewing gum,� says Mr Le�n.
Anomie and anarchy
Barring a negotiation, the other route looks bleak. There is a growing sense of anomie and anarchy. On the opposition side, there is desperation in the self-barricading of its own neighbourhoods, an action which does little to hurt the government. Social media have been vital in undermining the regime�s control of information. But they also spread rumours and undermine moderation. Middle-class caraque�os are reading books on non-violent resistance. But on the streets many protesters express mistrust for the MUD. The �Resistance� is well-organised and trained. It would not be hard for it to take up arms.
For its part, the chavista block is splintering. The National Guard now raids properties in chavista areas at night, because they are being fired on by disgruntled residents. �There�s a growing attitude of �don�t mess with me�,� says Mr Machillanda.
Mr Maduro and his core of civilian leftists admire Cuba but they do not command a disciplined revolutionary state, capable of imposing its will across Venezuela�s vast territory. The 100 or so dead in the protests are fewer than are killed each weekend in lawless poor neighbourhoods. The �Bolivarian revolution� has created a state run by rival mafias and undermined from within by corruption.

�They could try to Cubanise the country,� says Mr Capriles. �But whether Venezuelans accept that is another matter.� Given the intensity of Venezuela�s confrontation, it has suffered remarkably little political violence. Sadly, that may now change. If Mr Maduro shuts down all hope of political change, it may take many more deaths to break the deadlock.

# ? Jul 30, 2017 20:17

BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

The DIA put out a report on Russian military strength, it's pretty comprehensive.

http://www.dia.mil/Portals/27/Documents/News/Military%20Power%20Publications/Russia%20Military%20Power%20Report%202017.pdf

# ? Jul 30, 2017 21:14

facialimpediment: Feb 11, 2005; as the world turns

Stultus Maximus posted:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/scaramucci-friend-baselessly-accuses-priebus-affair-article-1.3369153

When I want to apologize to noted political figures, I always send my apologies to email addresses ending at @mail.com

https://twitter.com/SINON_REBORN/status/891729354652352513

# ? Jul 30, 2017 21:18

shyduck: Oct 3, 2003

BigDave posted:

The DIA put out a report on Russian military strength, it's pretty comprehensive.

http://www.dia.mil/Portals/27/Documents/News/Military%20Power%20Publications/Russia%20Military%20Power%20Report%202017.pdf

There's a small subsection dedicated to online trolls in this. What a time to be alive.

# ? Jul 30, 2017 21:24

Prop Wash: Jun 12, 2010

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/890495682867585024

its like he's trying really hard to get into twitter comedy and it gets worse every time

welp i'm visiting a graveyard in a foreign country, which according to my religion is traditionally a sacred ground and even otherwise is a place of peaceful rest for the bodies of hundreds of people I don't know, time to make a political joke of it

# ? Jul 30, 2017 21:25

UP THE BUM NO BABY: Sep 1, 2011; by Hand Knit

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/890495682867585024

its like he's trying really hard to get into twitter comedy and it gets worse every time

https://twitter.com/prooffreader/status/890638271427915777

# ? Jul 30, 2017 21:34

Handsome Ralph: Sep 3, 2004; Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!

Prop Wash posted:

welp i'm visiting a graveyard in a foreign country, which according to my religion is traditionally a sacred ground and even otherwise is a place of peaceful rest for the bodies of hundreds of people I don't know, time to make a political joke of it

I really hope Norwegians get wind of his stupidity and the whole country stops speaking English to him as a result. Cause that's the meanest I can imagine Norwegians being when you're visiting and you tick them off somehow.

# ? Jul 30, 2017 21:37

BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

shyduck posted:

There's a small subsection dedicated to online trolls in this. What a time to be alive.

DIA Information Confrontation posted:

�Information confrontation,� or IPb (informatsionnoye protivoborstvo), is the Russian government�s term for conflict in the information sphere. IPb includes diplomatic, economic, military, political, cultural, social, and religious information arenas, and encompasses two measures for influence: informational-technical effect and informational-psychological effect.

� Informational-technical effect is roughly analogous to computer network operations, including computer-network defense, attack, and exploitation.

� Informational-psychological effect refers to attempts to change people�s behavior or beliefs in favor of Russian governmental objectives.

IPb is designed to shape perceptions and manipulate the behavior of target audiences. Information countermeasures are activities taken in advance of an event that could be either offensive (such as activities to discredit the key communicator) or defensive (such as measures
to secure Internet websites) designed to prevent an attack.

# ? Jul 30, 2017 22:01

Smiling Jack: Dec 2, 2001; I sucked a dick for bus fare and then I walked home.

page 88

all nazis must die

# ? Jul 30, 2017 22:24

Zeroisanumber: Oct 23, 2010; Nap Ghost

Smiling Jack posted:

page 88 all nazis must die

# ? Jul 30, 2017 22:28

FAUXTON: Jun 2, 2005; spero che tu stia bene

Smiling Jack posted:

page 88 all nazis must die

# ? Jul 30, 2017 22:33

Genocide Tendency: Dec 24, 2009; I get mental health care from the medical equivalent of Skillcraft.

Handsome Ralph posted:

I really hope Norwegians get wind of his stupidity and the whole country stops speaking English to him as a result. Cause that's the meanest I can imagine Norwegians being when you're visiting and you tick them off somehow.

Norway could just kick him out of the country.

How loving funny and how big of a poo poo storm would that set off..

# ? Jul 30, 2017 22:35

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

https://twitter.com/MaxineWaters/status/891483789058289665

# ? Jul 30, 2017 22:44

Mr. Mambold: Feb 13, 2011; Aha. Nice post.

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/890495682867585024

its like he's trying really hard to get into twitter comedy and it gets worse every time

Prop Wash posted:

welp i'm visiting a graveyard in a foreign country, which according to my religion is traditionally a sacred ground and even otherwise is a place of peaceful rest for the bodies of hundreds of people I don't know, time to make a political joke of it

I hope the appropriate Norse god dumps a big landslide on his ignorant rear end.

# ? Jul 30, 2017 22:50

Handsome Ralph: Sep 3, 2004; Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!

Genocide Tendency posted:

Norway could just kick him out of the country.

How loving funny and how big of a poo poo storm would that set off..

They could, but they won't. Honestly, I doubt most of the country cares about a dog killer's fat father visiting their country.

Most Norwegians (at least in the urban areas) speak English pretty well, so at most I could just see the majority of them doing what Shinzo Abe's wife did to Trump.

# ? Jul 30, 2017 23:06