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Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

WE ARE SMART

mcmagic posted:

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/892860332955369472

You've got to be kidding me with this poo poo.

Which set of data are they sharing, the publicly available data or the set that includes social security numbers? I don't think the article makes it clear.

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Too Shy Guy
Jun 14, 2003


I have destroyed more of your kind than I can count.



FizFashizzle posted:

duke is the worst place in the world

i toured their school a long time ago, and while showing us the cafeteria during lunch time, someone slipped and dropped their tray.

the entire lunchroom got up, pointed, and laughed. like the poor guy just left his food and ran.

it's nothing but antisocial poo poo lords who rework their own pitiful social hierarchy once they get among their kind.

:nws: Even their athletes get poo poo on. :nws:

I had a military history professor at Chapel Hill who would spend one entire class every year explaining how important the annual UNC/Duke football game was in literal good versus evil terms.

Sinistral
Jan 2, 2013

Cabbit posted:

I'm legit curious as to whether the website had a typo, if this dude's brain has a typo and he blurted out race trader instead of race traitor, if he thinks the phrase is legitimately is race trader, or if race trader is some new phrase somebody's trying to coin.

There's so many possible layers to this idiocy.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/02/politics/kfile-sam-clovis-blog-posts/index.html

TLDR: It's both! Race traders are what he calls black leaders who have the temerity to aknowledge that racism exists, but he does use the term race traitor to describe white progressives too.

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

mcmagic posted:

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/892860332955369472

You've got to be kidding me with this poo poo.

Primary Cuomo. (I know he doesn't have any control over this, but I stand by the sentiment.)

Revelation 2-13
May 13, 2010

Pillbug

mcmagic posted:

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/892860332955369472

You've got to be kidding me with this poo poo.

I'm guessing this data will be used to analyze the most efficient gerrymandering patterns, which probably was the main idea behind collecting it - at least it can be used as such, once it 'accidentally' gets shared with certain conservative analytics firms. Hopefully Trumps incompetence will somehow lead to loving it up in a catastrophic manner.

Da Mott Man
Aug 3, 2012


NoEyedSquareGuy posted:

Watching CNN right now and Miller responded to one of Jim Acosta's questions by saying it was "one of the most ridiculous, absurd, hurtful, nonsensical questions I've ever heard" or something like that, so he's one of those loving adjective guys on top of everything else wrong with him.

I love how the guys that are the quickest to toss "Liberal snowflake" in your face are the quickest to be offended about the stupidest made up poo poo possible. Everything they accuse everyone else of they themselves are doing/are.

DaveWoo
Aug 14, 2004

Fun Shoe
Looks like it's Trade War time:

https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/892865609846984704

trickybiscuits
Jan 13, 2008

yospos
God, it's finally Friday! This week seemed so long.

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

Guess he decided to drop a big old 'gently caress you' before going on vacation.

Ringo Star Get
Sep 18, 2006

JUST FUCKING TAKE OFF ALREADY, SHIT
I wish Trump wouldn't tilt his head up like that, his neck folds look like an old pornstars vagina.

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything
How long before he fires Sessions?

I'm going to wake up the news one day, I can feel it in my bones.

Do it already fat.

Covok
May 27, 2013

Yet where is that woman now? Tell me, in what heave does she reside? None of them. Because no God bothered to listen or care. If that is what you think it means to be a God, then you and all your teachings are welcome to do as that poor women did. And vanish from these realms forever.

Ringo Star Get posted:

I wish Trump wouldn't tilt his head up like that, his neck folds look like an old pornstars vagina.

Why do you know what an old pornstars vagina looks?

fsif
Jul 18, 2003


Is this as bad as I think it is?

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything

Covok posted:

Why do you know what an old pornstars vagina looks?

From porn I imagine.

Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

OMBUDSMAN
POSTERS LOCAL 42069




Clapping Larry

Pakled posted:

Which set of data are they sharing, the publicly available data or the set that includes social security numbers? I don't think the article makes it clear.

The politico article it quotes makes it clear it's all publicly available. Any of us could petition and receive the same information, not a huge deal beyond the *~optics~* so we can stop freaking out.

Covok
May 27, 2013

Yet where is that woman now? Tell me, in what heave does she reside? None of them. Because no God bothered to listen or care. If that is what you think it means to be a God, then you and all your teachings are welcome to do as that poor women did. And vanish from these realms forever.

fsif posted:

Is this as bad as I think it is?

Worse.

boner confessor
Apr 25, 2013

by R. Guyovich

fsif posted:

Is this as bad as I think it is?

nah, trump is just flailing around in panic trying to look like an effective, strong leader instead of a hopelessly confused moron in over his head. his directives will be ignored or watered down and it will be business as usual except trump can put a gold star next to "put the nips in their place" on his check sheet of big boy presidential accomplishments

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

lmao its evil fat col sanders

Cefte
Sep 18, 2004

tranquil consciousness

Randbrick posted:

loving Stephen miller.

He looks like the phrase "well actually" got trapped in the menswear section of a jc penny the night they drove old Dixie down

His forehead looks like he's trying to kidnap a fetal Athena

God slapped a widows peak on a thumb so hard the brains flew out then that creature put on a suit and went slouching out to Bethlehem to warn us that Mexico exists

After years of a gentle melancholy, I now discover the cause was a lack of Randbrick posts.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Ague Proof posted:

How long before he fires Sessions?

I'm going to wake up the news one day, I can feel it in my bones.

Do it already fat.

probably won't until something russia-related heats up again

i imagine it was the don jr stuff that made him mad about mueller again

vaginadeathgrip
Jun 18, 2003

all them bitches can't handle my sassy ass mouth

Ague Proof posted:

How long before he fires Sessions?

I'm going to wake up the news one day, I can feel it in my bones.

Do it already fat.

IMO never because he loves making GBS threads on Sessions and Sessions does nothing about it while getting to live his wildest dreams of oppressing people.

If Sessions ever bit back then maybe.

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

Randbrick posted:

loving Stephen miller.

He looks like the phrase "well actually" got trapped in the menswear section of a jc penny the night they drove old Dixie down

His forehead looks like he's trying to kidnap a fetal Athena

God slapped a widows peak on a thumb so hard the brains flew out then that creature put on a suit and went slouching out to Bethlehem to warn us that Mexico exists

I like Jon Lovett's nickname for him, "C+ Santa Monica Fascist Stephen Miller"

botany
Apr 27, 2013

by Lowtax

fsif posted:

Is this as bad as I think it is?

without any details about what's to come that question is impossible to answer. could be nothing, could be real bad. probably will be something in-between.

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything

vaginadeathgrip posted:

IMO never because he loves making GBS threads on Sessions and Sessions does nothing about it while getting to live his wildest dreams of oppressing people.

If Sessions ever bit back then maybe.

I thought he was only making GBS threads on Sessions to get him to quit.

Same Great Paste
Jan 14, 2006





Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?
Hope no one was planning on a vacation in North Korea.

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/892869477385326592

AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012

Synthbuttrange posted:

lmao its evil fat col sanders



Goddamn it, I didn't see the text ABOVE the pic so I was getting ready to make a Colonel Sanders joke and you ruined it. Thanks a lot. :mad:

Paradoxish posted:

Hope no one was planning on a vacation in North Korea.

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/892869477385326592

Drew Scanlon is going to have people pesting him with "so what's it like being one of the last Westerners to visit North Korea" until his dying day.

AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Aug 2, 2017

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Kekekela posted:

I'm from VA and grew up hearing that Duke was populated with assholes from NJ.

This is honestly true of any mid-Atlantic private university.

Kale
May 14, 2010

Synthbuttrange posted:

lmao its evil fat col sanders



Here to introduce my pick for Secretary of Agriculture, it's Mr. Creosote. But who will step in Monsieur's bucket?

Also

Rex: "I swear Xi just kidding we're good..."
Don: "NOPE!"

Obviously they knew what Rex was saying was bullshit but I have my answer in less than 24 hours as usual. White House strategy is to claim one thing we all know is bullshit becuase it sounds to rational than immediately do the lovely thing we all know they are going to do. They could skip the first step for efficiency sake already.

Kale fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Aug 2, 2017

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
NSC’s Senior Intelligence Director Ezra Cohen-Watnick Fired

quote:

Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior intelligence director for the White House’s National Security Council, was fired Wednesday.

A White House official confirmed that Cohen-Watnick “left the National Security Council” at National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster’s behest.

“He has determined that, at this time, a different set of experiences is best-suited to carrying that work forward,” the official said in a statement. “General McMaster is confident that Ezra will make many further significant contributions to national security in another position in the administration.”

Cohen-Watnick, dubbed “the man McMaster couldn’t fire,” was a protégé of ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and ally of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.

McMaster reportedly tried to fire him in March after replacing Flynn, but Bannon and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, intervened in Cohen-Watnick’s favor.

Cohen-Watnick was the latest casualty in a string of firings at the NSC. McMaster (pictured above) replaced Fox News commentator K.T. McFarland as his deputy in May, reportedly without seeking White House approval first. He also reportedly fired Rich Higgins, a staffer who worked in the council’s strategic planning office on July 21, after Higgins authored a memo claiming Trump was under attack by “globalists and Islamists” and “cultural Marxists.” McMaster also fired Derek Harvey, Trump’s top Middle East adviser, in late July.

In mid-March, Cohen-Watnick was reportedly involved in the summary dismissal of the CIA’s liaison to the White House. Later that month, he reportedly played a role in providing House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) with classified intelligence reports purportedly demonstrating that Trump and members of his transition were incidentally caught up in U.S. surveillance of foreign nationals.

THANK GOD.

I'm pretty glad that McMaster is in there right now.

the talent deficit
Dec 20, 2003

self-deprecation is a very british trait, and problems can arise when the british attempt to do so with a foreign culture





Giggy posted:

I know part of Russia's 'plan' was to undermine American's faith in their democracy, institutions, etc. But it really seems like their leaders have no clue how the government works and genuinely thought Trump could strong arm everything.

e: You would think after 70+ years of hostility there would be a general understanding.

putin is a big fan of house of cards and thinks it's realistic

AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012

the talent deficit posted:

putin is a big fan of house of cards and thinks it's realistic

Except Season 3. He wasn't a big fan of that one for some reason. :-P

Shifty Pony
Dec 28, 2004

Up ta somethin'


Is there something especially galling about the recent rounds of sanctions that has particularly pissed off Russia?

I read that article about how Putin gets 50% of the spoils from the oligarchs in exchange for letting them loot the country but I didn't really get a good feeling for why these sanctions in particular upset that balance. Have we actually gone around freezing their money stashes or disrupting their money laundering systems in any meaningful way, or has the mere threat of us doing so been enough to cause the oligarchs to semi-panic?

BetterToRuleInHell
Jul 2, 2007

Touch my mask top
Get the chop chop

Paradoxish posted:

Hope no one was planning on a vacation in North Korea.

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/892869477385326592

Who would purposely plan a vacation to North Korea in the first place?

Spun Dog
Sep 21, 2004


Smellrose

BetterToRuleInHell posted:

Who would purposely plan a vacation to North Korea in the first place?

"Hold my (warm)beir"

paternity suitor
Aug 2, 2016

By trade war he means tweet a bunch of poo poo and do nothing

Combed Thunderclap
Jan 4, 2011



BetterToRuleInHell posted:

Who would purposely plan a vacation to North Korea in the first place?

Idiots who then gently caress up and get thrown in jail and we have to go beg for them back for years (or they get murdered in detention).

Slow News Day
Jul 4, 2007

Mozi posted:

NSC’s Senior Intelligence Director Ezra Cohen-Watnick Fired


THANK GOD.

I'm pretty glad that McMaster is in there right now.

Whoa.

Whoa.

Quick, someone ask Trump how come McMaster has fired more people than he has.

Lote
Aug 5, 2001

Place your bets

Spun Dog posted:

"Hold my (warm)beir"

Otto boy! That's a nice pun

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NoEyedSquareGuy
Mar 16, 2009

Just because Liquor's dead, doesn't mean you can just roll this bitch all over town with "The Freedoms."

Shifty Pony posted:

Is there something especially galling about the recent rounds of sanctions that has particularly pissed off Russia?

I read that article about how Putin gets 50% of the spoils from the oligarchs in exchange for letting them loot the country but I didn't really get a good feeling for why these sanctions in particular upset that balance. Have we actually gone around freezing their money stashes or disrupting their money laundering systems in any meaningful way, or has the mere threat of us doing so been enough to cause the oligarchs to semi-panic?

The first few paragraphs are about the Trump Jr. meeting with that Russian lawyer, but it's worth reading this recent Taibbi article for context about the Magnitsky act and why Russia has reason to care about it.

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