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You don't need to like Baron-Cohen's style or humor to appreciate poo poo like loving with Sarah Palin and getting Dick Cheney to sign a "commemorative waterboarding kit".
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Jul 11, 2018 14:28
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He posed as a disabled Iraq vet to get that interview so that might earn him some flak. I on the other hand am all for it. I used to think SBC would have to move onto the next phase of his career because nobody would be stupid enough to fall for his ambushes ever again. How wrong I was.
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Jul 11, 2018 14:29
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Dick Cheney has fallen for him what...four times now?
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Jul 11, 2018 14:31
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Dennis Pennis was getting away with it for years, hitting the same red carpets over and over. Still, it's not quite the same, surely these people have staffers and assistants to check this stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v654Jh5Z9uI
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Dick Cheney has fallen for him what...four times now? I think Dick Cheney just doesn't care.
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Jul 11, 2018 14:45
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One theory as to why we latch onto stories like the Thai cave rescue to the exclusion of other stories: there’s no villain. Only heroes and maybe some dumb people on sidelines. That’s less taxing and argumentative than discussing separated children or a civil war or climate change or whatever.
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Jul 11, 2018 15:35
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THANKSL YOD THOSE CHILDREN ARE SAFE Now back to our regularly scheduled programming of separating children from their families and bombing people indiscriminately
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CNN has a piece about Congress signing a resolution like 97-2 reaffirming commitment to NATO. Nice little poke in Hair Furor's eye but also sadly necessary. We're going to have to do an apology tour of epic proportions on the world stage if we ever get our poo poo straight as a nation. Or Democrats can keep loving the milquetoast centrism approach chicken all the way to the current Trump brand gold-plated Zyklon B shower heads conclusion. Either or I guess. Edit: Also round two of Diaper Donnie's trade war announced with more tariffs. I'd say it's amazing they're still letting him get away with the "national security" excuse for tariffs when it's dumb poo poo like washing machines and the nation is pretty insecure when the economy collapses but  the GOP is a cult of personality and he's gonna demagogue his way through the rest of his term.
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Jul 11, 2018 15:55
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bird food bathtub posted:CNN has a piece about Congress signing a resolution like 97-2 reaffirming commitment to NATO. Nice little poke in Hair Furor's eye but also sadly necessary. We're going to have to do an apology tour of epic proportions on the world stage if we ever get our poo poo straight as a nation. It was a non-binding resolution so it's all for show. Call me when they actually censure him for this poo poo.
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Jul 11, 2018 15:57
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Who was a nay on that vote? Rohrabacher? Edit: They should introduce a vote to censure near the fall. Could make lots of attack ads for critters that refuse to sign on. Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Jul 11, 2018 |
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Jul 11, 2018 16:05
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Casimir Radon posted:Who was a nay on that vote? Rohrabacher? Senate vote, so Rohrabacher wasn't voting on this. Paul and Lee were the two no votes.
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Jul 11, 2018 16:08
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Smash the system currently in place, then go on a worldwide apology tour. One brave soul will regrettably have to give oral to Merkel.
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Jul 11, 2018 16:13
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mlmp08 posted:One theory as to why we latch onto stories like the Thai cave rescue to the exclusion of other stories: there’s no villain. Only heroes and maybe some dumb people on sidelines. I'm pretty sure that the alt-right has villains (it's us), and if not I'm pretty sure most/all posters here see them as villains.
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EBB posted:Smash the system currently in place, then go on a worldwide apology tour. One brave soul will regrettably have to give oral to Merkel. Is there a place to sign up for that?
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bird food bathtub posted:CNN has a piece about Congress signing a resolution like 97-2 reaffirming commitment to NATO. Nice little poke in Hair Furor's eye but also sadly necessary. We're going to have to do an apology tour of epic proportions on the world stage if we ever get our poo poo straight as a nation. This is one of those cases where the Senate is a good idea. A lot more than 2% of Americans probably agree with Trump about NATO because they are idiots who do not understand how the world works.
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Is there a place to sign up for that? Got a thing for old powerful ladies? That’s cool.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Senate vote, so Rohrabacher wasn't voting on this. Paul and Lee were the two no votes.
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Dance Officer posted:I'm pretty sure that the alt-right has villains (it's us), and if not I'm pretty sure most/all posters here see them as villains. What are you talking about? The alt-right didn’t throw Thai kids in a cave.
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Stultus Maximus posted:This is one of those cases where the Senate is a good idea. A lot more than 2% of Americans probably agree with Trump about NATO because they are idiots who do not understand how the world works. Sure, good in theory. In practice it's, uhh, having some issues. They basically wagged their finger sternly at Trump and then went into the other room and very deliberately ignored exactly what he's doing. Much like having ceeded control of this tariffs thing to Trump, over the decades they've signed over their powers and responsibilities as a check and/or balance. Now we have a completely unhinged demagogue that has turned the majority political party into a cult of personality and de-fanged Congress' ability to resist him lest the frothing racist cultists crucify them for wrong-think. He just loving declared that Germany is a Russian puppet-state and our real enemy by selling out to the Russians right before he's going to slob away on Putin's knob and declare Russia our bestest friend in the world and that dumb resolution will be the sum total of push back on this incoherent bullshit.
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 Time : What if NATO defense expenditure increasing is part of Russia's plan to bankrupt the EU? That's part of why the Soviet Union collapsed.
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As Nero Danced posted:That's the actually next on my list now that I've watched Threads, thanks for the link. From what I've heard it's even heavier. It's as close to a nuclear war simulation as you can get. They pulled all of it's info from public sources, and it was so hosed up the BBC banned it until 1996.
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BigDave posted:It's as close to a nuclear war simulation as you can get. They pulled all of it's info from public sources, and it was so hosed up the BBC banned it until 1996. As Nero Danced posted:That's the actually next on my list now that I've watched Threads, thanks for the link. From what I've heard it's even heavier. It was really depressing, so true to life.
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CommieGIR posted:
Nah, I think you could argue that the Soviet Union was going to collapse regardless of how much they spent on their military in the 80's. It just accelerated that collapse, it didn't initiate it. The EU will be fine and if it collapses, increased military spending won't be the likely culprit. I'm too lazy to look now but IIRC there were some historians arguing that Gorbachev instituting Glasnost and Perestroika because of how stagnant things had become not because military spending was crushing everything else.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Nah, I think you could argue that the Soviet Union was going to collapse regardless of how much they spent on their military in the 80's. It just accelerated that collapse, it didn't initiate it. The EU will be fine and if it collapses, increased military spending won't be the likely culprit. I said 'Part of why', it was never the sole reason, but it certainly helped: https://nintil.com/2016/05/31/the-soviet-union-military-spending/
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CommieGIR posted:
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CommieGIR posted:I said 'Part of why', it was never the sole reason, but it certainly helped: Ah my bad, my brain skipped past the "part of why" part. Mostly because I've run into people who argue that military spending was the sole reason behind the collapse thanks to Ronnie Raygun and nothing else.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Ah my bad, my brain skipped past the "part of why" part. Mostly because I've run into people who argue that military spending was the sole reason behind the collapse thanks to Ronnie Raygun and nothing else. Oh no, there was a closet full of reasons for the collapse, agreed. Spending, not just military, was one of many.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Ah my bad, my brain skipped past the "part of why" part. Mostly because I've run into people who argue that military spending was the sole reason behind the collapse thanks to Ronnie Raygun and nothing else.
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Mr. Nice! posted:By militarizing the nato countries to a greater extent, Russia will have justification to push further into Ukraine/elsewhere to defend itself from NATO hostilities. Oh god...
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They were doing what now? https://twitter.com/southerncenter/status/1017067637187203072?s=21
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Jul 11, 2018 17:39
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:They were doing what now? Alabama law stated that Sheriffs were personally liable for prisoner meals to ensure that they were actually fed. Because of this, money for the prisoner's food went into a personal account in the acting sheriff's name. This was typically used to, you know, feed people. One particularly enterprising sheriff (that inherited an account deeply in the negative from his predecessor iirc) found the best way to cut costs down to the bare minimum and legally pocketed over a million dollars during his tenure.
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Jul 11, 2018 17:43
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Stuff like that is always a mystery on how in lasted this long.
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Mr. Nice! posted:By militarizing the nato countries to a greater extent, Russia will have justification to push further into Ukraine/elsewhere to defend itself from NATO hostilities. Because of course Russia would never dream of such a thing otherwise...
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LingcodKilla posted:Stuff like that is always a mystery on how in lasted this long.
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Lol 4% on military. Does trump think every country has a hundred bases setup around the world and we all need stealth fighters?
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Hey Paul. Paulie. Paul. Paul. You're in jail. THEY LITERALLY RECORD EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOUR CALLS YOU DUMB IDIOT HOW loving STUPID ARE YOU https://twitter.com/johnson_carrie/status/1017091415204159491?s=19
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