Wasabi the J posted:

My favorite podcasters are from Huntington, one of whom still lives there, and they do an annual drive for addiction care for the holidays.

At least they're trying, but yeah it seems pretty hopeless.

LITERALLY SHAKING posted:

Internet Wizard posted:

The McElroy boys are the best thing to come out of that state

psydude posted:

I got cross-leveled to an Army Reserve unit from WV to deploy to Afghanistan. I had a whole year to get acquainted with the social maladies of West Virginians.

My girlfriend's parents live there now, but they're transplants from Virginia who moved there for the affordable mansions and conservative politics. Her dad is building a factory there, but is having a hard time finding people who can pass a drug test.

M_Gargantua posted:

I heard of them from Adventure Zone. Didn't know they were from WV. What else have they done?

Handsome Ralph posted:

So you know how for years you'd get far-left people screaming about how Madeleine Albright and Clinton were war criminals for enforcing the UN Sanctions against Saddam Hussein and Iraq because it resulted in half a million children dying?
Well turns out Saddam was full of poo poo and was doctoring child mortality reports to garner sympathy in hopes of getting the sanctions lifted as well as giving the West a black eye.

Saddam Hussein said sanctions killed 500,000 children. That was “a spectacular lie.”


Though the other side of the coin is that U.S. claims that the invasion and lifting of sanctions improved child mortality are false. The invasion and subsequent events have caused the mortality rate to get worse. all around.

Zeroisanumber posted:

Every single story that I've read about WV talks about the outside employer who comes in to suck up all that cheap labor but can't find employees who can pass a drug test. It's almost a trope by now.

TBeats posted:

Find you someone who laughs with you the way Joe laughs with Barry

Syrian Lannister posted:

WAPO reporting the Secret Service in a tiff with Angry Orange's real estate company.

Non-paywall version

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/se...nB9Q?li=BBnbfcL

Mr. Mambold posted:

Wonder what the Secret Service's code name for him is.

psydude posted:

JUICE.

Missionary Positron posted:

So uh, which lives have the press supposedly put at risk so far?

TBeats posted:

https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/893478138822479872

Find you someone who laughs with you the way Joe laughs with Barry

facialimpediment posted:

Supposedly it's Mogul.

facialimpediment posted:

I don't know what it is for Sessions, but I have some ideas.

facialimpediment posted:

Supposedly it's Mogul.

M_Gargantua posted:

I heard of them from Adventure Zone. Didn't know they were from WV. What else have they done?

Retardog posted:

I grew up in WV and lived in Huntington for about 17 years before ~snip

tastefully arranged labia posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/103158206498476032

WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:

There's a trump tweet for literally everything isn't there

Handsome Ralph posted:

https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/893512139905880064

Whoops. Can't read the whiteboard but I can make out "Withdraw from TPP" and some stuff about EO's.

quote:

Buried in a long story on CNN Thursday recapping the current state of play in the Russia investigation was a reminder that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who is largely out of the spotlight at the moment, may not be for long. Manafort, who had spent years on the political fringes helping dictators and strongmen get elected around the world and then lobbying on their behalf in Washington, came out of nowhere to join the Trump campaign, and then take over the reins when Cory Lewandowski was fired in June 2016. By that time, unusual communications between the Trump campaign and Russian officials had pinged on U.S. intelligence agencies’ radar. As did Trump’s new right hand man.

In the summer of 2016, US intelligence agencies noticed a spate of curious contacts between Trump campaign associates and suspected Russian intelligence, according to current and former US officials briefed on the investigation… CNN has learned that investigators became more suspicious when they turned up intercepted communications that U.S. intelligence agencies collected among suspected Russian operatives discussing their efforts to work with Manafort, who served as campaign chairman for three months, to coordinate information that could damage Hillary Clinton's election prospects, the US officials say. The suspected operatives relayed what they claimed were conversations with Manafort, encouraging help from the Russians.