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TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017




:lol: If horsefucker and serial suck up Pence gets booted by no loyalty Trump, then goes right to Mueller with everything :getin:

Comedy option: who is Trump's VP pick? Jr.? Hannity?

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ZypherIM
Nov 8, 2010

"I want to see what she's in love with."


Times like this I wish I could draw, so I could do a picture of a lizard carefully applying a beard to his skinsuit with some sort of "stage costumes for dummies" book open next to him.

Jealous Cow
Apr 4, 2002

by Fluffdaddy

ZypherIM posted:

Times like this I wish I could draw, so I could do a picture of a lizard carefully applying a beard to his skinsuit with some sort of "stage costumes for dummies" book open next to him.

I was going to say he looks terrible with a beard.

But

He just looks terrible.

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016


Hey Cruz change your skin suit. This one's starting to mold.

punishedkissinger
Sep 20, 2017


Is he trying to become cooler or something because he almost lost to a "cool guy"?

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



Push El Burrito posted:

Do it for the exposure. Really get your name out there in the goon community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meMMJ3dwtmI

Scipiotik
Mar 2, 2004

"I would have won the race but for that."

kidkissinger posted:

Is he trying to become cooler or something because he almost lost to a "cool guy"?

I saw a photo where it looked like he put on 50 lbs, so it might be trying to cover up additional chins.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe
oh hey remember when Huawei/ZTE was a news topic?
https://twitter.com/LJKawa/status/1070439458007334912

twice burned ice
Dec 29, 2008

My stove defies the laws of physics!

Dad Jokes posted:

Y'all remember when Paul Ryan grew a beard and the right threw a shitfit and accused him of being ISIS?

No, please share though because it sounds hilarious

punishedkissinger
Sep 20, 2017

Scipiotik posted:

I saw a photo where it looked like he put on 50 lbs, so it might be trying to cover up additional chins.

I think the beard is just accenting the chins he already had

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014



i will never understand why guys who can't grow a full beard even try.

Scipiotik
Mar 2, 2004

"I would have won the race but for that."

kidkissinger posted:

I think the beard is just accenting the chins he already had

You are correct, but he is a dumb, vane man.

Skex
Feb 22, 2012

The great thing about the thousands of slaughtered Palestinian children is that they can't pull away when you fondle them or sniff their hair.

That's a Biden success story.

Z. Autobahn posted:

Obama's biggest flaw was that he fundamentally believed in the innate decency of Americans and was obsessed with this idea of ushering in some Sorkinesque bipartisan age with a Team of Rivals and everyone getting along to make America better. He absolutely could have gotten way more done if he'd seen the Republicans for the obvious scum that they are and taken to the bully pulpit to smash through vital reforms and legislation. Obama choose the path of compromise because on a deeply ideological level he valued the abstract idea of compromise, and he didn't realize that you can't compromise with backstabbers until it was way too late.

I'm so sick of people simply ignoring the fact that he never could have gotten away with ruling as left as we wanted him to be nor with just saying gently caress Republicans no matter how loving viscerally satisfying it may have been. As the first BLACK PRESIDENT he had to maintain a much more level demeanor and not get into huge pissing matches with every conservative douche-bag, Christ look at the amount of blow back he got for being mildly centrist and passing Hillary's health plan.

As far as the drone stuff goes, it's not like we weren't killing people prior to that. Believe it or not there are indeed people who are actively trying to harm America, even considering the fact that we actually deserve it, did you see what the 9/11 attacks caused? So yeah preventing future attacks by targeting individuals who are actively trying to repeat that sort of thing is kind of important. Presidents have to make life and death decisions every day, and no matter how they decide someone is getting screwed. It sucks but it's the reality we work under.

You want a President who can run unambiguously left, you have to create an electorate that is unambiguously left and put congresspeople in who are also unambiguously left. Obama wasn't perfect, who the gently caress is? But he was a good competent President who's heart was in the right place and to assume that because he ordered drone strikes means that he's a heartless sociopath ignores the fact that those discussions about strikes, targets and potential collateral damage also included discussions of the potential consequences of inaction with the big potential consequence being another 9/11 style attack which would not only have derailed any sort of legislative agenda he might have but also would have resulted in baying for more blood on the part of the public. If you weren't awake and aware during the run up to the wars post 9/11 you have no concept of what it was like, I was a part of the minority arguing against it and it was like trying to stop a glacier so yeah a few innocent lives is a small cost for potentially saving millions of innocent lives. Which is the kind of decisions that a President has to make.

Basically Obama's problem was that America was surprise surprise , still full of racist assholes.

Jaxyon
Mar 7, 2016
I’m just saying I would like to see a man beat a woman in a cage. Just to be sure.
Trump will stunt-cast someone as VP because he's an idiot and only cares about himself.

He'll bring in a gay or black Republican, or a celebrity, or whatever to try and win an election.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

The Glumslinger posted:

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1070427101445140492

An Op-Ed in the WaPo that eventually argues that we need to legalize heroin to solve the opioid epidemic :psyduck:

there's literally no other sustainable solution to this stuff but I guess we can keep going all Nancy Reagan 'those are BAD drugs though!!!!'

punishedkissinger
Sep 20, 2017

Groovelord Neato posted:

i will never understand why guys who can't grow a full beard even try.

Maybe I'm biased because the first time I tried to grow a beard it came in normally but I completely agree

Stexils
Jun 5, 2008

Skex posted:

As far as the drone stuff goes, it's not like we weren't killing people prior to that. Believe it or not there are indeed people who are actively trying to harm America, even considering the fact that we actually deserve it, did you see what the 9/11 attacks caused? So yeah preventing future attacks by targeting individuals who are actively trying to repeat that sort of thing is kind of important. Presidents have to make life and death decisions every day, and no matter how they decide someone is getting screwed. It sucks but it's the reality we work under.

go gently caress yourself

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


the wildest thing about trump at the funeral is his suit coat is so large it looks like a full length jacket when he's sitting there.

Skex posted:

As far as the drone stuff goes, it's not like we weren't killing people prior to that. Believe it or not there are indeed people who are actively trying to harm America, even considering the fact that we actually deserve it, did you see what the 9/11 attacks caused? So yeah preventing future attacks by targeting individuals who are actively trying to repeat that sort of thing is kind of important. Presidents have to make life and death decisions every day, and no matter how they decide someone is getting screwed. It sucks but it's the reality we work under.

drone strikes created more terrorists than they'll ever kill.

Slowpoke! posted:

His front chin looks patchy as gently caress and he appears to be shaving his cheeks way too low

It looks like he tried to shave without a mirror

yeah i was saying that because of the chin. no matter how long he grows it, that'll never all fill in.

Slowpoke!
Feb 12, 2008

ANIME IS FOR ADULTS

Groovelord Neato posted:

i will never understand why guys who can't grow a full beard even try.

His front chin looks patchy as gently caress and he appears to be shaving his cheeks way too low

It looks like he tried to shave without a mirror

ColonelMuttonchops
Feb 18, 2011



Young Orc

I've seen teenagers who could grow fuller beards. Yeah, fat guys usually look better with beards when it covers up the face fat, but this does a better job of framing it than anything.

Party Plane Jones posted:

oh hey remember when Huawei/ZTE was a news topic?
https://twitter.com/LJKawa/status/1070439458007334912

Lol, of course its about Iran. Why else would our administration try to punish them.

EwokEntourage
Jun 10, 2008

BREYER: Actually, Antonin, you got it backwards. See, a power bottom is actually generating all the dissents by doing most of the work.

SCALIA: Stephen, I've heard that speed has something to do with it.

BREYER: Speed has everything to do with it.

twice burned ice posted:

No, please share though because it sounds hilarious
https://www.instagram.com/p/-uTcuPsQL3/

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/fashion/paul-ryans-beard-triggers-a-style-debate.html

Looks much better than Cruz' imo

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD
Jul 7, 2012

The Glumslinger posted:

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1070427101445140492

An Op-Ed in the WaPo that eventually argues that we need to legalize heroin to solve the opioid epidemic :psyduck:
Step 1: Look at the byline
Step 2: laffo

Shifty Pony
Dec 28, 2004

Up ta somethin'


kidkissinger posted:

Is he trying to become cooler or something because he almost lost to a "cool guy"?

Overweight people often grow beards to hide their lack of a chin-line.


Cruz has put on a few since being elected.

Giggy
Jan 22, 2010

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

Step 1: Look at the byline
Step 2: laffo

Step 3: learn more about opioid addiction and consider the argument if not the author.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

TulliusCicero posted:

:lol: If horsefucker and serial suck up Pence gets booted by no loyalty Trump, then goes right to Mueller with everything :getin:

Comedy option: who is Trump's VP pick? Jr.? Hannity?

Oh, that would be the amazing dream/nightmare scenario. Trump dumps Pence, picks Jr. to be his VP, gets re-elected because LOL AMERICAN VOTER STUPIDITY, dies in office and inept dipshit failson DJTJ becomes POTUS.

Come on America, make it happen. I know you’ve still got plenty of stupid left in the tank. You can do worse.

Shifty Pony
Dec 28, 2004

Up ta somethin'


Party Plane Jones posted:

oh hey remember when Huawei/ZTE was a news topic?
https://twitter.com/LJKawa/status/1070439458007334912

Well that should be enough to stop Donny's trade "truce", if it actually existed in the first place. China is not going to be happy that we aren't accepting their official story of what happened with ZTE.

Z. Autobahn
Jul 20, 2004

colonel tigh more like colonel high

Skex posted:

I'm so sick of people simply ignoring the fact that he never could have gotten away with ruling as left as we wanted him to be nor with just saying gently caress Republicans no matter how loving viscerally satisfying it may have been. As the first BLACK PRESIDENT he had to maintain a much more level demeanor and not get into huge pissing matches with every conservative douche-bag,

He HAD to do it? Or what would've happened? Could it be worse than the Dems losing all three branches of government, thousands of state-level seats, a Supreme Court seat that was rightfully theirs, and on top of it all the President is dementia-addled fascist moron?

The argument "Obama HAD to be mild!" is utter nonsense because being mild gained him nothing. The right-wing media machine portrayed him as a raging, stealth-Muslim, anti-American socialist, and their base swallowed it up. Obama could've personally invited the Republicans to a cookie party every morning, and they STILL would have portrayed him as 'ANTI WHITE BLACK PANTHER KARL MARX" and it would have worked. So the idea that he had to act a certain way lest he be portrayed badly is nonsense because HE WAS ALREADY PORTRAYED BADLY.

There are very few upsides to living in a nation where 40% of the population exists in an informational echo chamber divorced from reality, but one of them is that it actually doesn't matter what you do, because they're going to get their own information no matter what. They're going to call you an angry anti-American socialist no matter what you do, so you might as well play hard and swing big.

Obama CHOSE to be bipartisan and compromising and decorous because those are (or, hopefully, *were*) his values. It was deeply important to him to achieve bipartisan compromise and bridge the gaps in America. It was a mistake.

Z. Autobahn fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Dec 5, 2018

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008

TulliusCicero posted:

:lol: If horsefucker and serial suck up Pence gets booted by no loyalty Trump, then goes right to Mueller with everything :getin:

Comedy option: who is Trump's VP pick? Jr.? Hannity?

Rudy "a noun, a verb and 9/11" Giuliani

Pasty Doughboy
Dec 23, 2006
With red way hair. One day it will all be gone, I’ll go blind from the glare

The 10,000 wasps that live in his skin suit are poking thier stingers out of his face simultaneously.

Seriously, I didn't even know it was possible for him to look worse than his baseline self.

KillHour
Oct 28, 2007


I think he looks better with it. Less greasy. :shrug:

Big Mad Drongo
Nov 10, 2006

Uncle Wemus posted:

I wonder if dumping him would lose him some religious voter support.

Either way itd be great to see a brown nosing sycophant like pence get the boot.

Won't cost him the religious vote, because religious folks are his most hardcore supporters. Don't have the poll showing that on-hand and I'm currently work-posting but it's out there.

That said, I'm curious if the general chaos this would cause would hurt him or help. Folks who voted for Trump are already irrational enough that I could see this going either way.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
I'm the guy who's in 2018 and thinks most of our drone strikes prevented terrorism rather than inspired more.

Joe the Strummer
Jun 14, 2012

KillHour posted:

I think he looks better with it. Less greasy. :shrug:

Same, but he only looks slightly better.

I do agree that he only did it to try look cooler/more handsome. I think that time the protester said "Beto is way hotter than you dude" really struck a chord with Cruz

Mr.Unique-Name
Jul 5, 2002

KillHour posted:

I think he looks better with it. Less greasy. :shrug:

You're not allowed to say anything nice about any right wing person.

Harik
Sep 9, 2001

From the hard streets of Moscow
First dog to touch the stars


Plaster Town Cop

Skex posted:

As far as the drone stuff goes, it's not like we weren't killing people prior to that. Believe it or not there are indeed people who are actively trying to harm America, even considering the fact that we actually deserve it, did you see what the 9/11 attacks caused? So yeah preventing future attacks by targeting individuals who are actively trying to repeat that sort of thing is kind of important. Presidents have to make life and death decisions every day, and no matter how they decide someone is getting screwed. It sucks but it's the reality we work under.
You think turning random wedding guests into chunky salsa decreased the number of people who are motivated by Death to the Great Satan? The drone program was, is, and will forever be a complete failure at anything but recruiting a generation of militants and giving the MIC more money.

There's a lot of issues you can defend obama on. Drones and Banks aren't included.

E:

sexpig by night posted:

I'm the guy who's in 2018 and thinks most of our drone strikes prevented terrorism rather than inspired more.
Exactly.

Ginette Reno
Nov 18, 2006

How Doers get more done
Fun Shoe

KillHour posted:

I think he looks better with it. Less greasy. :shrug:

Yeah. He looks less like an rear end in a top hat, somehow.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


GreyjoyBastard posted:

huh, he actually looks less appalling now

Only because you can see less of him. Doesn't make him actually any better. Gators are invisible in the swamp, but when they breach they're still terrifying. Same idea.

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



Trump's base are a lot of people who "claim to be religous", because their "religion" helps them create their insane world view.

They actually believe in nothing but their own superiority.

Stexils
Jun 5, 2008

Joe the Strummer posted:

Same, but he only looks slightly better.

I do agree that he only did it to try look cooler/more handsome. I think that time the protester said "Beto is way hotter than you dude" really struck a chord with Cruz

cruz won't stop until someone tweets that he makes them come so hard their ankles cramp

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PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010

Reminder that some of the pre Qanon/donnie shits said that Ryan converted to Mooslem and he was going to do The Sharia Law.

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