Current Events August 2017: A Song of Tweets and Fire

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Gobbeldygook: May 13, 2009; Hates Native American people and tries to justify their genocides.

Put this racist on ignore immediately!

TBeats posted:

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/893542984817418240

I'm impressed they got a conviction when no one he defrauded actually lost money.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 20:01

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# ? Jun 1, 2024 00:44

psydude: Apr 1, 2008

Gobbeldygook posted:

I'm impressed they got a conviction when no one he defrauded actually lost money.

Yes, but the world lost the Wu Tang album.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 20:05

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!

'Pharma bro' Martin Shkreli found guilty of 3 of 8 charges, including securities fraud

a tiny tiny morsel of justice in 2017

# ? Aug 4, 2017 20:21

Proud Christian Mom: Dec 20, 2006; READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

Gobbeldygook posted:

I'm impressed they got a conviction when no one he defrauded actually lost money.

He's a sacrificial lamb

# ? Aug 4, 2017 20:25

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

Gobbeldygook posted:

I'm impressed they got a conviction when no one he defrauded actually lost money.

So am I, actually. I remember that the prosecution's star witness actually made over a million dollars from his scheme.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 20:26

Defenestrategy: Oct 24, 2010

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.

I was curious about what that book was about, and it reads like a fictional "What if the history of the Democrat and Republican parties stopped right at the American Civil War and the southern strategy never existed." I thought what kind of an rear end in a top hat would try to pass this off as non fiction

Wikipedia posted:

Dinesh Joseph D'Souza (born April 25, 1961) is an Indian American political commentator, author, filmmaker, and felon.

Oh, I see.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 20:27

Gobbeldygook: May 13, 2009; Hates Native American people and tries to justify their genocides.

Put this racist on ignore immediately!

KildarX posted:

I was curious about what that book was about, and it reads like a fictional "What if the history of the Democrat and Republican parties stopped right at the American Civil War and the southern strategy never existed." I thought what kind of an rear end in a top hat would try to pass this off as non fiction

Oh, I see.

Dinesh D'Souza and his entire approach to 'research' was the subject of an absolutely brutal own in the Economist.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 20:51

Slim Pickens: Jan 12, 2007; Grimey Drawer

Wait, isn't that the same dickhead who make that butterymails movie or whatever that bombed hard as gently caress?

# ? Aug 4, 2017 21:21

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

Hillary's America, I believe it was called

# ? Aug 4, 2017 21:31

boop the snoot: Jun 3, 2016

Pesticide20 posted:

Hillary's America, I believe it was called

Yeah. I never saw it but saw a video of some dudes talking about it that review movies. They say they've sat through every movie they've ever went to review. Even some that depicted horrible child rape. But Hillary's America was so bad that they didn't stay til the end.

This video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr2PtuviAJo

# ? Aug 4, 2017 21:33

FastestGunAlive: Apr 7, 2010; Dancing palm tree.

He first became famous with his movie on OBAMAS AMERICA during the 2012 election. no seriously, the title was 2016: Obamas America.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 21:37

Duzzy Funlop: Jan 13, 2010; Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

http://www.themountainmail.com/free_content/article_ccf5440e-76ae-11e7-9a1d-b7701d2c235f.html

There's currently a social media shitstorm brewing in Germany over eight students being detained and subsequently deported at Denver International. The students were there for a program called Rocky Mountain Language Adventure, and expected to be accommodated by host families and do unpaid internships at companies in the area of Salida (?) to get to know American customs and be immersed in American culture or whatever the gently caress.

Before I read the article, I figured there must have been some random red flag raised in the J-1 visa process of one student, and then they all got hosed because they were a group. Bit harsh, and you're not really supposed to detain/turn back groups on the basis of one member's hosed paperwork, but hey.

Then I read the first couple of paragraphs. The students were there on the ESTA waiver program. Holy loving Ell Oh Ell.
At this point, I'm thinking there must have been a missed deadline in the program, and someone hoped to get away with ESTA when J-1 was no longer a timely option.

Nope. Program was operated for five years by some Colorado teacher named Masterson, and she claims ESTA was fine the previous years and this is all just BECAUSE TRUMP, which is a blatant lie.
My guess is the kids were instructed to shut the gently caress up about the internship aspect of their trip at customs, and some kid hosed up.

How loving dumb do you have to be to conceive a program that sends hundreds of kids into the US, but not once check proper regulation OR assume it'll go well forever if the kids just lie?

quote:

Masterson began the exchange program after teaching English at a Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Germany, for 15 years. All students who have come to Salida through the exchange program, including the eight deported from the airport this weekend, have been 18-year-olds from that same Waldorf school and other Waldorf schools in Germany.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 21:38

KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

Duzzy Funlop posted:

http://www.themountainmail.com/free_content/article_ccf5440e-76ae-11e7-9a1d-b7701d2c235f.html

There's currently a social media shitstorm brewing in Germany over eight students being detained and subsequently deported at Denver International. The students were there for a program called Rocky Mountain Language Adventure, and expected to be accommodated by host families and do unpaid internships at companies in the area of Salida (?) to get to know American customs and be immersed in American culture or whatever the gently caress.

Before I read the article, I figured there must have been some random red flag raised in the J-1 visa process of one student, and then they all got hosed because they were a group. Bit harsh, and you're not really supposed to detain/turn back groups on the basis of one member's hosed paperwork, but hey.

Then I read the first couple of paragraphs. The students were there on the ESTA waiver program. Holy loving Ell Oh Ell.
At this point, I'm thinking there must have been a missed deadline in the program, and someone hoped to get away with ESTA when J-1 was no longer a timely option.

Nope. Program was operated for five years by some Colorado teacher named Masterson, and she claims ESTA was fine the previous years and this is all just BECAUSE TRUMP, which is a blatant lie.
My guess is the kids were instructed to shut the gently caress up about the internship aspect of their trip at customs, and some kid hosed up.

How loving dumb do you have to be to conceive a program that sends hundreds of kids into the US, but not once check proper regulation OR assume it'll go well forever if the kids just lie?

ESL in America is 90% scams and primarily function as visa mills.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 22:02

Flying_Crab: Apr 12, 2002

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/04/russia-special-counsel-robert-mueller-using-multiple-grand-juries/540959001/ :munch:

# ? Aug 4, 2017 22:10

Duzzy Funlop: Jan 13, 2010; Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

KirbyKhan posted:

ESL in America is 90% scams and primarily function as visa mills.

Yeah, but it usually involves sustainable business models to exploit students and make stupid amounts of cash.

This case is just :psyduck:

# ? Aug 4, 2017 22:11

Bolow: Feb 27, 2007

shame on an IGA posted:

Nisour Square convictions overturned.

https://news.google.com/news/amp?ca...html#pt0-615372

For some reason your link is hosed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...8db8_story.html

Should have just hung the fucks from a bridge tbh

# ? Aug 4, 2017 22:14

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

DoktorLoken posted:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/04/russia-special-counsel-robert-mueller-using-multiple-grand-juries/540959001/

Good.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 22:27

Riot Carol Danvers: Jul 30, 2004; It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

Bolow posted:

For some reason your link is hosed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...8db8_story.html

Should have just hung the fucks from a bridge tbh

# ? Aug 4, 2017 22:41

BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

Bolow posted:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...8db8_story.html

Should have just hung the fucks from a bridge tbh

# ? Aug 4, 2017 22:46

facialimpediment: Feb 11, 2005; as the world turns

The NRA is completely out of ideas, so they want to "fist the New York Times and find out just what deep rich means to this old gray hag."

Skip to 0:29: https://twitter.com/NRATV/status/893230656125149185

She's now trying to claim that she said "fisk" which she might have but uh.... why?

# ? Aug 4, 2017 22:55

Victor Vermis: Dec 21, 2004; WOKE UP IN THE DESERT AGAIN

quote:

Fisking is a blogosphere slang describing a point-by-point criticism that highlights perceived errors, or disputes the analysis in a statement, article, or essay.[35] The term originated from various blogs which have taken particular issue with Fisk's views. Many of these bloggers have responded by reprinting his dispatches on their blogs, adding their own paragraph-by-paragraph commentary, dissecting and claiming to debunk Fisk's assertions and opinions.[36] According to The Guardian, "fisking" has come to denote the practice of "savaging an argument and scattering the tattered remnants to the four corners of the internet".[37]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fisk

... although the sliver-thin cross-section of NRA members who'd get hype for that video and NRA members who know of Robert Fisk is probably like 3 dudes.

And she said Fist.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 23:12

boop the snoot: Jun 3, 2016

https://twitter.com/ogbobbyjindal/status/893589753412694017

# ? Aug 4, 2017 23:14

Defenestrategy: Oct 24, 2010

So is the NRA trying to whip idiots into a frenzy because now there's no scary brown man to take the guns, and so their donations might plummet?

# ? Aug 4, 2017 23:34

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

KildarX posted:

So is the NRA trying to whip idiots into a frenzy because now there's no scary brown man to take the guns, and so their donations might plummet?

Pretty much.

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if some wingnut shoots up the NYT and/or WaPo offices :/

# ? Aug 4, 2017 23:39

boop the snoot: Jun 3, 2016

https://twitter.com/foxnewspolitics/status/893554455031013378

# ? Aug 5, 2017 00:15

Wasabi the J: Jan 23, 2008; MOM WAS RIGHT

TBeats posted:

https://twitter.com/foxnewspolitics/status/893554455031013378

# ? Aug 5, 2017 00:24

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/jdawsey1/status/893595973074767875

# ? Aug 5, 2017 00:37

Zeroisanumber: Oct 23, 2010; Nap Ghost

Missionary Positron posted:

Pretty much.

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if some wingnut shoots up the NYT and/or WaPo offices :/

They're certainly doing their best to incite mass murder.

# ? Aug 5, 2017 00:55

Fister Roboto: Feb 21, 2008

facialimpediment posted:

The NRA is completely out of ideas, so they want to "fist the New York Times and find out just what deep rich means to this old gray hag."

Skip to 0:29: https://twitter.com/NRATV/status/893230656125149185

She's now trying to claim that she said "fisk" which she might have but uh.... why?

Now that's a sentiment I can get behind.

# ? Aug 5, 2017 01:32

psydude: Apr 1, 2008

TBeats posted:

https://twitter.com/foxnewspolitics/status/893554455031013378

Despite it being Fox News, this is actually a fairly objective and honest assessment of the situation:

quote:

That number matches up almost perfectly to the percentage of Republicans who believe Trump is not interfering. Heck, 30 percent of Republicans said they didn�t even think Russia interfered in the first place; and 70 percent of GOP respondents said they didn�t think Trump had done anything wrong at all.

That�s a pretty massive disconnect. Independent voters overwhelmingly agree Trump Russia interfered and Trump did wrong. While they are divided on the question of whether it constituted a criminal action or simply an unethical one, about 60 percent of unaffiliated voters say Trump did a bad thing vis-�-vis Russia.

You can attribute this disconnect to blind followership, �alternate facts,� or mind-boggling double talk from the administration. But there may be something else at work here: Many of Trump�s supporters wouldn�t care, even if they knew it was true.

One of the reasons the president has fallen back into the habit of demanding criminal prosecution of his vanquished 2016 foe is to force his supporters to climb back down the decision tree and ask themselves again whether they would rather have Hillary Clinton as president.

. . .

The approach is less effective now, of course, because we know that Hillary Clinton won�t become president, no matter what. There will be no do-over on the election, and she couldn�t even win her own party�s nomination if she ran again (again!) in three years. If Trump stops being president, it will be the gentleman from Indiana who succeeds him, not the lady from New York.

. . .

As we hear Trump devotees wail that colluding with a hostile foreign power isn�t a crime or cavil that Mueller & Co. might find other crimes unrelated to Russian disruption, what we are really hearing is their acceptance of wrongdoing. This is the big: �So what?�

The underlying argument is that she probably did something even worse, so if he lied, cheated and maybe even stole the election. For after all, he would have been only beating Democrats at their own game.

Even though this view represents a minority of a minority, it is still pretty strong evidence of an unwell national civic culture. It is also like money in the bank for Trump.

psydude fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Aug 5, 2017

# ? Aug 5, 2017 01:36

bird food bathtub: Aug 9, 2003; College Slice

Fox News posted:

it is still pretty strong evidence of an unwell national civic culture

Yeah well who the gently caress has been fostering that civic culture of manufactured outrage and dehumanization of the other side for ratings and propaganda?

I don't give a poo poo if they're right, they're still responsible.

# ? Aug 5, 2017 01:46

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

Huh. I stopped reading after

quote:

The stock market is up, unemployment is down and the economy seems to be picking up some steam. The streets are mostly safe, the nation is mostly secure and the world is mostly at peace.

# ? Aug 5, 2017 01:47

facialimpediment: Feb 11, 2005; as the world turns

Been a while since I've typed this, but sorry Shim.

Mueller to White House: Give us your Flynn documents, but have a good vacation!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/us/politics/robert-mueller-michael-flynn-turkey.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

quote:

Investigators working for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, recently asked the White House for documents related to former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, and have questioned witnesses about whether he was secretly paid by the Turkish government during the final months of the presidential campaign, according to people close to the investigation.

Though not a formal subpoena, the document request is the first known instance of Mr. Mueller�s team asking the White House to hand over records.

In interviews with potential witnesses in recent weeks, prosecutors and F.B.I. agents have spent hours poring over the details of Mr. Flynn�s business dealings with a Turkish-American businessman who worked last year with Mr. Flynn and his consulting business, the Flynn Intel Group.

The company was paid $530,000 to run a campaign to discredit an opponent of the Turkish government who has been accused of orchestrating last year�s failed coup in the country.

Investigators want to know if the Turkish government was behind those payments � and if the Flynn Intel Group made kickbacks to the businessman, Ekim Alptekin, for helping conceal the source of the money.

The line of questioning shows that Mr. Mueller�s inquiry has expanded into a full-fledged examination of Mr. Flynn�s financial dealings, beyond the relatively narrow question of whether he failed to register as a foreign agent or lied about his conversations and business arrangements with Russian officials.

# ? Aug 5, 2017 02:06

Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Mueller better write a book when this is done

# ? Aug 5, 2017 03:39

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

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

Mueller better write a book when this is done

He's required to report to congress when he gets fired by whatever Rick Perry replaces sessions, so there will be a book one way or another, office budget governs how much can be covered up.

# ? Aug 5, 2017 03:52

Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

Stultus Maximus posted:

Huh. I stopped reading after

Keep reading. It's not what you think it is.

# ? Aug 5, 2017 05:10

Professor Bling: Nov 12, 2008; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

For once listen to the dude with an Alex Jones avatar

# ? Aug 5, 2017 07:14

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/kylegriffin1/status/893647821911408640

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/893634533681221632

# ? Aug 5, 2017 12:37

dubzee: Oct 23, 2008

Hello boys, guess who else is on vacation? :bigtran:

# ? Aug 5, 2017 13:31

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# ? Jun 1, 2024 00:44

bloops: Dec 31, 2010; Thanks Ape Pussy!

USMC Osprey crashed off the Australian coast. 23 of the 26 Marines on board were rescued.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/08/05/us-marine-aircraft-crashes-off-australia-search-and-rescue-effort-underway.html

# ? Aug 5, 2017 14:17

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