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The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

ReindeerF posted:

img-tim-kaine-daily-show-doorknocker

please, it was a keychain

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Falstaff
Apr 27, 2008

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.

VitalSigns posted:

the choice between two mass murderers

Trump wasn't a mass murderer at the time, unless you know something about him I don't.

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

Falstaff posted:

Trump wasn't a mass murderer at the time, unless you know something about him I don't.

Generally speaking, every one who becomes president or desires to can be safely categorized under that label, eventually, if they win.

Is there a president that presided over no foreign intervention of any kind or otherwise directly caused mass death a la. Native American removal/wars? Other than Harrison I suppose.

Maybe Chester A. Arthur?

I would argue Lincoln might deserve a pass except I know he did lovely things to Native Americans. :smith:

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Falstaff posted:

Trump wasn't a mass murderer at the time, unless you know something about him I don't.

He wasn't shy about his plans. He proposed committing deliberate war crimes on the campaign trail.

Falstaff
Apr 27, 2008

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.

True, he was pretty pro-torture and advocated targeting non-combatant families and the like, which was disgusting. I guess it's silly to split hairs, but I think there is an arguable difference between "plans to do stuff" and "has already, provably done stuff."

But I feel kind of gross getting into this, so I guess I'll drop it and concede to the spirit of your point.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

VitalSigns posted:

🎶I cried on September Eleventh, as though I'd lost a brother of mine,
And I marched when Bush bombed Baghdad, his great international crime,
But those Yemeni kids got what was comin', they got what they asked for this time!

Love me love me love me, I'm a liberal.

I cheered when Obama was chosen, my faith in the system restored
And I'll never forgive old Ralph Nader for stealing two thousand from Gore.
If I can look up to the White House, then I don't see what's wrong with the wars

So love me love me🎵, etc etc

want a full version of this someday

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Freakazoid_ posted:

want a full version of this someday

Your wish is granted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNfucKAftB0

The Kingfish
Oct 21, 2015


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqNxne97ubc

This one is even better.

E: the last verse is a real body blow

The Kingfish fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Oct 31, 2017

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

VitalSigns posted:

🎶I cried on September Eleventh, as though I'd lost a brother of mine,
And I marched when Bush bombed Baghdad, his great international crime,
But those Yemeni kids got what was comin', they got what they asked for this time!

Love me love me love me, I'm a liberal.

I cheered when Obama was chosen, my faith in the system restored
And I'll never forgive old Ralph Nader for stealing two thousand from Gore.
If I can look up to the White House, then I don't see what's wrong with the wars

So love me love me🎵, etc etc

goddamn

The Kingfish
Oct 21, 2015


https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/925729127197487104

gently caress Chuck.

Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod



oh what the gently caress chuck

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer
I see the logic of what Schumer's staffer was going there for, but they should've focused on "why do you attack Muslims immediately after this but said nothing after Vegas?" It's a better talking point that doesn't require rehabilitating W.

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

The other tweet is even worse:

https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/925729532295942144

I agree and am also v. disappointed that Trump isn't starting a war over this.

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer
Oh dear, that's much worse.

They're trying to get out in front of the "WORST TERROR ATTACK IN NEW YORK SINCE 9/11" talking point and floundering.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
because as the senator from the NYPD chuck has precisely two core principles: 1. pay raises for Wall Street 2. extermination of the musselman wherever he might draw breath

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer
I see that Schumer's Twitter staffer got the memo.

https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/925703236568473601

The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Ytlaya posted:

The other tweet is even worse:

https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/925729532295942144

I agree and am also v. disappointed that Trump isn't starting a war over this.

tbf cuck schumer voted for the illegal war so of course he prefers bush's leadership

Willie Tomg
Feb 2, 2006
I remember the evening of the 9-11 attacks when the resounding phrase that was supposed to roust the nation into action was a limply bleated "today america saw evil" by the terrified second son heading a cabinet of Nixonian and Reaganite apparatchiks and even as a teenly schween, facepalming because who the gently caress writes that badly, let alone gets inspired by it?

Now I know. Thanks, Chuck Schumer. Thumer.

Oh Snapple!
Dec 27, 2005

Willie Tomg posted:



Thanks, Chuck. Thuck.

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


https://twitter.com/jstein_vox/status/925867592841158661
https://twitter.com/jstein_vox/status/925868402761183232

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

This is valuable information as we can calculate to 5 significant figures how mindbogglingly stupid Clinton's team had to be to lose to a Russian bot farm.

|$Clinton – $Russians|
⸺⸺⸺⸺⸺⸺⸺
$Russians
 
 
 
|1,184,100,000 – 1342.07|
⸺⸺⸺⸺⸺⸺⸺     = Clinton is 882,290 times stupider than Russia's social media guy. :wow:
1342.07

Heck Yes! Loam!
Nov 15, 2004

a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.
Those are some good false equivalencies you have there. It's especially rich since it was revealed today that Twitter sold 15% of it's political advertising to RT for something like 50 million dollars.

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo
Anyone have any good politics podcasts they like?

Mia Wasikowska
Oct 7, 2006

Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

Those are some good false equivalencies you have there. It's especially rich since it was revealed today that Twitter sold 15% of it's political advertising to RT for something like 50 million dollars.

twitter offered to, but RT refused.people need to read the freakin articles

C. Everett Koop
Aug 18, 2008

Zas posted:

twitter offered to, but RT refused.people need to read the freakin articles

Even Russian propagandists know how stupid it is to dump money into tech.

Mia Wasikowska
Oct 7, 2006

really though, it'd be so gratifying to see half as much anger directed at silicon valley libertarians and our loving campaign industrial complex as we direct at the dang ruskies

Heck Yes! Loam!
Nov 15, 2004

a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

Zas posted:

really though, it'd be so gratifying to see half as much anger directed at silicon valley libertarians and our loving campaign industrial complex as we direct at the dang ruskies

I can get behind this.

Rent-A-Cop
Oct 15, 2004

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

Azhais posted:

Anyone have any good politics podcasts they like?
Chapo Trap House & Street Fight Radio.

Redneck Revolt's isn't bad but it's only once a month and very much a DIY effort.

Rent-A-Cop fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Nov 2, 2017

Heck Yes! Loam!
Nov 15, 2004

a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

Azhais posted:

Anyone have any good politics podcasts they like?
My favorite is whistlestop by John Dickerson. Great political history

Unbelievably Fat Man
Jun 1, 2000

Innocent people. I could never hurt innocent people.


Zas posted:

twitter offered to, but RT refused.people need to read the freakin articles

What did end up happening? From where I'm looking it feels like Twitter sold out to Stormfront.

Torpor
Oct 20, 2008

.. and now for my next trick, I'll pretend to be a political commentator...

HONK HONK

Unbelievably Fat Man posted:

What did end up happening? From where I'm looking it feels like Twitter sold out to Stormfront.

excuse me, they defend freedom of speech!

Shbobdb
Dec 16, 2010

by Reene

Unbelievably Fat Man posted:

What did end up happening? From where I'm looking it feels like Twitter sold out to Stormfront.

"Americans are easily and cheaply trolled"

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Azhais posted:

Anyone have any good politics podcasts they like?

The Daou of Politics

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

This seems marginally relevant

https://twitter.com/AmirAminiMD/status/925810690518147072

JeffersonClay
Jun 17, 2003

by R. Guyovich

Bot tweets or all tweets?

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


https://twitter.com/rtyson82/status/926032759679840256

JeffersonClay/Fulchrum/Slashie I demand your heads.

The Kingfish
Oct 21, 2015


Post! You cowards!

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
The Most Qualified Candidate With The Best Analytics And The Most Competent Advisors

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

steinrokkan posted:

The Daou of Politics

I thought we didn't like Verrit on this forum, or was that just the meme thread?

Anyway, thanks for all the suggestions!

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Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
So much loving grift they sabotaged their own campaign. Imagine if Hillary actually got into power.

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