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Chernobyl baby
Jul 19, 2011
*person asks me, a career politician, how I feel about subject*
Well you see it's quite the can of worms.jpeg you're opening here. If you had asked me before I would have certainly said yes. But you know, the political climate. Things rarely stay the same in a matter of years. I would have said no a few years ago but you have to consider that things can change quite a bit in a few years and it's always important to think of your decisions as things develop.
"Just say yes or no its not that hard"
NO BUT YOU SEE it's quite the connundrum really. I would have said one thing or the other no doubt if you'd asked me sooner but the landscape can evolve and if I had known the impact of the current events I would have considered as such in the current landscape and made the right choice for the people. But it's difficult to know,how things will unfold. And that's why I hav chosen the current choice of actions to insure that the people get what they want and the country gets what they want

TL:DR politics is a farce no matter where it comes from. Eat the rich when

EDIT: I'm sorry I keep sniping the new pages. I'm not really clever or insightful. I'm just really upset

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Avirosb
Nov 21, 2016

Everyone makes pisstakes

Chernobyl baby posted:

I'm sorry I keep sniping the new pages. I'm not really clever or insightful. I'm just really upset

lol

Chernobyl baby
Jul 19, 2011
I came here to have a good :hmbol: and I feel so attacked right now

Nocheez
Sep 5, 2000

Can you spare a little cheddar?
Nap Ghost
Why doesn't Trump pull all public money being used to advertise the military at NFL games?

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

https://twitter.com/KellyannePolls/status/917865369964023808

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

plain blue jacket posted:

I thought Bill just got a consensual extra marital blowjob

Keeping a relationship legitimately consensual with someone in your management chain is ethically fraught to say the least. When it's the President and an intern, it's basically impossible.

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

First one to do it I think...

https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/917874891419987969

Waffle House
Oct 27, 2004

You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.



IT TOOK

*spluttering, rage, shaking*

HILLARYFUCKINGCLINTON

*mouth froths up, rickets set in, eyes roll back in head*

WE


I hope Mueller is anticipating the least cooperative witnesses in legal history.

Chernobyl baby
Jul 19, 2011
WEWEE

Get it like piSSSSS

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

How does Pleading the Fifth work in the US again? Is it when you're waist deep in poo poo and don't want to sink to chest and shoulder height?

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017


so, really, who's the real nazi apologist?? *human being dog smile*

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

his sexually assaults

Waffle House
Oct 27, 2004

You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.


Professor Shark posted:

How does Pleading the Fifth work in the US again? Is it when you're waist deep in poo poo and don't want to sink to chest and shoulder height?

Ye. Correct. "You're not compelled to self-incriminate."

quote:

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

IKillForPie
Jan 13, 2006

Is that a pie in your pocket?
My favorite posts are the real ones by news agencies dunking on Trump. Lol @ the BBC for putting a picture of the back of his dumb head/haircut as the picture for a tagline about the dotards IQ.

Today's LOLs just keep rollin'



"Professor Fred I Greenstein, professor of politics emeritus at Princeton University, lists six qualities that bear on presidential performance.

They are: public communication, organisational capacity, political skill, vision, cognitive style, and emotional intelligence.

"Trump scores low on emotional intelligence, cognitive style, vision, and organisational capacity," says Dr Perry.

"Where he was been superb, in order to win the presidency, is public communication and political skill."

armchairyoda
Sep 17, 2008
Melman

Nocheez posted:

Why doesn't Trump pull all public money being used to advertise the military at NFL games?

lol, that would measure as “he did a thing”, but to the team owners that support(ed) him and keep cityname sportsteam chucklefucks from enlisting.

He knows what ratings are. Source: that bigly smoothbrain.

Tumble
Jun 24, 2003
I'm not thinking of anything!

IKillForPie posted:

My favorite posts are the real ones by news agencies dunking on Trump. Lol @ the BBC for putting a picture of the back of his dumb head/haircut as the picture for a tagline about the dotards IQ.

Today's LOLs just keep rollin'



"Professor Fred I Greenstein, professor of politics emeritus at Princeton University, lists six qualities that bear on presidential performance.

They are: public communication, organisational capacity, political skill, vision, cognitive style, and emotional intelligence.

"Trump scores low on emotional intelligence, cognitive style, vision, and organisational capacity," says Dr Perry.

"Where he was been superb, in order to win the presidency, is public communication and political skill."

I love that Trumps brains busted-rear end thought process is basically "If I could win the election, I'm obviously the best and smartest."

LordSloth
Mar 7, 2008

Disgruntled (IT) Employee

Chernobyl baby posted:

I came here to have a good :hmbol: and I feel so attacked right now

With a name like Chernobyl baby, I'm really hoping for a spectacular meltdown.

As a tangent, radioactive boars are threatening Sweden.

E.P.A. Says It Will Write a New Carbon Rule, but No One Can Say When


NY Times posted:

“We are committed to righting the wrongs of the Obama administration by cleaning the regulatory slate,” Mr. Pruitt added in a statement Tuesday. “Any replacement rule will be done carefully, properly, and with humility, by listening to all those affected by the rule.”

:lol: yeah, Pruitt will try real hard.

Waffle House
Oct 27, 2004

You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.


I've seen people on these very forums frothing excitedly about a potential, "Balkanization of the United States" without taking even a moment to think about the implications of the geographical metaphor they just used, or where that curiously-specific piece of memetic garbage may have originated from.

These same people are probably shut-in enough to have built their entire worldview around the game Fallout: New Vegas.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/russia-pushes-texas-secession-and-white-power-rallies-on-social-media-and-its-still-happening/

"Russia appears to be promoting the breakup of the United States by encouraging larger states like Texas and California to secede."

Nocheez
Sep 5, 2000

Can you spare a little cheddar?
Nap Ghost
Good. The parts of the country no one goes to can enjoy their right wing fascism.

Waffle House
Oct 27, 2004

You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.


Nocheez posted:

Good. The parts of the country no one goes to can enjoy their right wing fascism.

The only targets have been California and I guess now Texas. Places with pre-existing fringe groups whose message you can multiply and amplify by trashposting in the right places on the internet.

Louis J. Marinelli's was the guy spearheading the California effort; his wiki page has been increasingly sanitized over the past few months, but he basically tried to muscle out an existing California independence movement and got caught because he hosed up trade dress, and also used his @mail.ru account to register the infringing marks.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Dunno who this person is but lol if it's accurate (which is very likely):

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/917886115998261249

Nocheez
Sep 5, 2000

Can you spare a little cheddar?
Nap Ghost
No, he was joking when he said that he had a high IQ.

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017

Waffle House posted:

I've seen people on these very forums frothing excitedly about a potential, "Balkanization of the United States" without taking even a moment to think about the implications of the geographical metaphor they just used, or where that curiously-specific piece of memetic garbage may have originated from.

These same people are probably shut-in enough to have built their entire worldview around the game Fallout: New Vegas.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/russia-pushes-texas-secession-and-white-power-rallies-on-social-media-and-its-still-happening/

"Russia appears to be promoting the breakup of the United States by encouraging larger states like Texas and California to secede."


imo carpetnuke russia and fulfill our destiny

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
I cannot imagine a situation where a state succeeds. It'd be civil war two before that, and I can't think up any sequence of events that could get even close.

Unless the federal government became completely... powerless... and... without credibility...

Huh.

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.
http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/is-it-time-for-canada-to-annex-blue-america/

He is (mostly) joking :haw:

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD
The IQ contest happens, the results:
Trump: 80
Tillerson: 79

Trump: "Haha I told you I was smarter you piece of poo poo."

NotWearingPants
Jan 3, 2006

by Nyc_Tattoo
Nap Ghost

SniperWoreConverse posted:

I cannot imagine a situation where a state succeeds. It'd be civil war two before that, and I can't think up any sequence of events that could get even close.

Unless the federal government became completely... powerless... and... without credibility...

Huh.

We're a nuclear power. We can't just split up and leave The Christian Republic of Dumbfuckistan with a full nuclear arsenal.

SilvergunSuperman
Aug 7, 2010

An IQ test being talked about us the funniest thing ever, I hope he somehow doubles down into it.

Mermaid Autopsy
Jun 9, 2001

Trump will then commit seppuku upon an unspoiled copy of The Bell Curve out of shame for having dishonored :biotruths:

ricro
Dec 22, 2008
Does anyone believe Trump wouldn't try to cheat on an IQ test?

Durf
Aug 16, 2017




mobby_6kl posted:

Dunno who this person is but lol if it's accurate (which is very likely):

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/917886115998261249

Trump proudly displays an IQ score signed by Dr. Sexcake M.D.

'A Million Points, Smartest Man Alive!!!!!!'

Durf
Aug 16, 2017





wow the only way this could be worse is if that serial rapist was president

can you imagine

Tumble
Jun 24, 2003
I'm not thinking of anything!
Imagine having to double-down on supporting Trump when he says poo poo like this IQ stuff?

"Well he says he's got a high IQ because he's a genius. It's okay for a genius to say that, because that's what a genius would do."

Imagine how aghast you'd be if your own child said "I'm smarter than you, if you take an IQ test with me it will show you that my IQ is higher than yours"? You would be loving horrified; you'd grab your kid by the arm and scold the hell out of them for being rude.

:hmbol: Trump supporters can't even disagree with a single thing he does, because he always ends up doing something dumber and worse within a few days. They're totally backed into a corner.

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011


Scott Gilmore is staggeringly dumb and no one in Canada wants blue america unless you take alberta or something in exchange.

Waffle House
Oct 27, 2004

You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.


SniperWoreConverse posted:

I cannot imagine a situation where a state succeeds. It'd be civil war two before that, and I can't think up any sequence of events that could get even close.

Unless the federal government became completely... powerless... and... without credibility...

Huh.

Mr Havafap
Mar 27, 2005

The wurst kind of sausage

Chernobyl baby posted:


TL:DR politics is a farce no matter where it comes from. Eat the rich when


To be fair it was a stupid question to ask, and of all the reprehensible thing you can accuse May of refusing to ask a hypothetical question isn't very high on the list, imo.
Ugh, Brexit is like watching a train wreck in ultra slow motion.

IKillForPie posted:


"Professor Fred I Greenstein, professor of politics emeritus at Princeton University, lists six qualities that bear on presidential performance.

They are: public communication, organisational capacity, political skill, vision, cognitive style, and emotional intelligence.

"Trump scores low on emotional intelligence, cognitive style, vision, and organisational capacity," says Dr Perry.

"Where he was been superb, in order to win the presidency, is public communication and political skill."

Really?
Really?

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

flashy_mcflash posted:

Scott Gilmore is staggeringly dumb and no one in Canada wants blue america unless you take alberta or something in exchange.

More like Gil-Less amirite

Oh god he got slammed so bad for another article on native conditions or something or other not too long ago.

Besides the west coast wants to join up together and all the states and provinces to the east of the rockies can gently caress off.

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

flashy_mcflash posted:

Scott Gilmore is staggeringly dumb and no one in Canada wants blue america unless you take alberta or something in exchange.

Can you imagine how many Albertans would love to be part of the States? They'd be the USA's dunce cap

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva

NotWearingPants posted:

We're a nuclear power. We can't just split up and leave The Christian Republic of Dumbfuckistan with a full nuclear arsenal.

This plus our many military bases and federal assets, and entire economy

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jenny jones fan
Dec 24, 2007
https://twitter.com/AnaGasteyer/status/822611962374877184

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