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Your Boy Fancy posted:I thought Al Qaeda translated to The List. Wikipedia goes into it in detail. 'The List' isn't wrong but it's more often translated as 'The Base'. quote:Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook wrote that the word al-Qaeda should be translated as "the database", because it originally referred to the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen militants who were recruited and trained with CIA help to defeat the Russians.[109] In April 2002, the group assumed the name Qa'idat al-Jihad (قاعدة الجهاد qāʿidat al-jihād), which means "the base of Jihad". According to Diaa Rashwan, this was "apparently as a result of the merger of the overseas branch of Egypt's al-Jihad, which was led by Ayman al-Zawahiri, with the groups Bin Laden brought under his control after his return to Afghanistan in the mid-1990s. 
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Sometimes Trump makes me think of a driver of bus who threatens to crash it every time he is forced to do his job, or doesn't get his way. Bus Driver Trump: I wanna go to a strip club and beat some strippers People on bus: You can't do that. You have to stay on the route and make sure we get home safe BDT: If you don't let me go to a strip club and beat some strippers I am going to drive this bus off a cliff and it will be your fault. POB:.....
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JasonV posted:Wikipedia goes into it in detail. 'The List' isn't wrong but it's more often translated as 'The Base'. What's wrong with that turkey?
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Ogmius815 posted:What's wrong with that turkey? Your expectations.
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Ogmius815 posted:What's wrong with that turkey? Those are just the ripe turkey berries, ready to be plucked.
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Madkal posted:Sometimes Trump makes me think of a driver of bus who threatens to crash it every time he is forced to do his job, or doesn't get his way. Abuser logic does, unironically, encapsulate most conservative acts and impressions these days.
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Ogmius815 posted:What's wrong with that turkey? Nothing, those are perfectly healthy nodules! quote:Both sexes have blue heads with some orange or red nodules, which are more pronounced on males. The males also have a fleshy blue crown covered with nodules, similar to those on the neck, behind the snood. During breeding season this crown swells up and becomes brighter and more pronounced in its yellow-orange color. The eye is surrounded by a ring of bright red skin, which is most visible on males during breeding season.
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Can't wait till the Dems get some teeth... https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1065966796262510593?s=19
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Taerkar posted:Lolling at all the comments there trashing her for not supporting Barbara Lee. I'm ok with keeping Pelosi for now, but please give us Hoyer's head on a pike, I don't think that's too much to ask. (Yeah I'm still bitter about him trying to interfere in CO)
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Womp Womp https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1066026904191492096
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this was always basically a joke, they didn't have a leg to stand on trump's lawyers made arguments like "this should be done in federal court because those judges are better at interpreting federal law" except... all the allegations are about violations of new york state law?
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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1066016381408301056
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Just a reminder that NY is weird and a "Supreme Court" is basically a county-level court and there are two state court levels above them for this case to be appealed to. Not that they will be likely to have any luck there.
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I will say that it never fails to amuse me just how badly Trump hosed up his own grifting schemes (to say nothing of that of a lot of the GOP's own schemes) just by being so goddamn egotistical. If he hadn't won none of this would be happening. He'd be grifting away and the GOP would be doing their evil poo poo undercover and we'd all just be  at the injustice of it all.Instead Trump threw the covers off and shined a bright big light on everything because of his egotistical demands for constant attention, and although they're still doing a lot of terrible things, the machinery's been exposed and (as the midterms showed) a LOT of people aren't happy with what they're seeing. 
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Major Trump administration climate report says damages are ‘intensifying across the country’
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Does that ^^ literally just say "No." ? Like that's what the SCOTUS is saying to Trump? Or is that like a "Number" abbreviation where a docket number would go or something?
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Yeah, I think that's just like an unfilled in space for a case number.
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Data Graham posted:Does that ^^ literally just say "No." ? Like that's what the SCOTUS is saying to Trump? I like your first idea better. I went back and looked again and immediately laughed.
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enraged_camel posted:Yes. Life in border cities such as El Paso would basically come to a grinding halt. And given that we're in winter now, green stuff will disappear from grocery store produce departments almost immediately. What remains will soar in price.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Major Trump administration climate report says damages are ‘intensifying across the country’ Major Trump Administration climate report is then hastily shoved into the bottom bin of an unmarked basement closet in the hopes that maybe nobody saw it, maybe everyone will just forget about it.
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Gritty is truly the hero America needs in these dire times.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...51d2_story.htmlquote:The Trump administration has won the support of Mexico’s incoming government for a plan to remake U.S. border policy by requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims move through U.S. courts, according to Mexican officials and senior members of president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s transition team.
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This is going to be a clusterfuck of epic proportions.
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Their generosity spurned, the migrants have outraged common Mexicans & AMLO must act.
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RBG retiring or dying under Obama wouldn't have mattered as Scalia made apparent. Not as long as McConnell remains Senate Majority Leader. Would have been the same situation, he wouldn't give a poo poo if there were only 7 justices on the court as long as he gets to pick the next 2. She would have had to predict during his first two years that the GOP was going to seize the senate and power grab and strategically retire in 2009.
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Kale posted:RBG retiring or dying under Obama wouldn't have mattered as Scalia made apparent. Not as long as McConnell remains Senate Majority Leader. Would have been the same situation, he wouldn't give a poo poo if there were only 7 justices on the court as long as he gets to pick the next 2. She would have had to predict during his first two years that the GOP was going to seize the senate and power grab and strategically retire in 2009. People wanted her to retire before 2014, before they lost the Senate. They kept the Senate until then.
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evilweasel posted:People wanted her to retire before 2014, before they lost the Senate. They kept the Senate until then. They would've had to end the filibuster to do so which didn't happen until 2013. How much of a factor would that have been? I'm not sure there would have been the will for it in 2010.
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evilweasel posted:People wanted her to retire before 2014, before they lost the Senate. They kept the Senate until then. It feels like GOP has had the senate a lot longer somehow. Didn't realize it was only the house in 2010. I remember the narrative at the time being about how the electorate was "pissed off" at Obama, but not about anything specific which I took to mean Fox News had been hard at work and successfully so.
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EdithUpwards posted:shitlibs flinched and refused to support the leader of the party and that greatly depressed turnout. Running from Obamacare after spending most of two years working to pass it instead of digging in and fighting for it may have been the dumbest move in the history of modern politics.
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The Lundgren Grimes senate campaign in Kentucky was about 5 times more cringeworthy than Hillary's 2016 bid. Her clumsy attempts to attack McConnell while maintaining distance from the Pres. he existed in direct opposition to were laughably awful.
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Kale posted:RBG retiring or dying under Obama wouldn't have mattered as Scalia made apparent. Not as long as McConnell remains Senate Majority Leader. Would have been the same situation, he wouldn't give a poo poo if there were only 7 justices on the court as long as he gets to pick the next 2. She would have had to predict during his first two years that the GOP was going to seize the senate and power grab and strategically retire in 2009. People literally wanted her to retire in 2008 when the dems had a massive mandate and she could hand pick a successor like Kennedy got to with the rapejudge.
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JasonV posted:Can't wait till the Dems get some teeth... don't hold your breath, there's no way the current democratic party is anywhere near bold enough to make big changes to the US-Saudi relationship, they're the cornerstone of current US middle east policy. the most believable part of this is that they're going to examine how stable the current house of saud is.
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yea the Obama administration gave the saudis tons of weapons to do evil things with too (remember when Trump announced one of the big deals and a bunch of ~resistance~ types tried to own him with 'ACTUALLY Obama put that deal in motion  '? Yea that went to genocide too.)Almost none of the current political types, R or D, will go against Saudi Arabia as our key ally in the Muslim world. At best they'll say MBS himself is the problem.
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Stexils posted:don't hold your breath, there's no way the current democratic party is anywhere near bold enough to make big changes to the US-Saudi relationship, they're the cornerstone of current US middle east policy. the most believable part of this is that they're going to examine how stable the current house of saud is. I can't believe we live in a time where the answer to the question who does the U.S see as it's key ally in the Middle East isn't automatically Israel.
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Kale posted:I can't believe we live in a time where the answer to the question who does the U.S see as it's key ally in the Middle East isn't automatically Israel. Israel has always been our vassal state there, them being our 'ally' is meaningless. They gently caress around with their narrow chunk of the region and we dump weapons on their heads like gatorade. Saudi Arabia is the ally that matters to neocon logic because they're the only force there that can check Iranian power without dragging us into war when they do.
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sexpig by night posted:Israel has always been our vassal state there, them being our 'ally' is meaningless. They gently caress around with their narrow chunk of the region and we dump weapons on their heads like gatorade. Saudi Arabia is the ally that matters to neocon logic because they're the only force there that can check Iranian power without dragging us into war when they do. Wait, what? There are people who think a Saudi Arabia-Iran war won't involve the US? Am I reading this correctly?
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