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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Vasudus posted:

five bucks says it's marc thiessan

I had Ed Rogers, but you won :mad:

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Crakkerjakk
Mar 14, 2016


redneck nazgul posted:

I'm sorry that you can recognize it that quickly.

Who hurt you, Vas?

.... I would guess Marc Thiessen.

He must be real popular at work mandatory fun.

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


Vasudus posted:

five bucks says it's marc thiessan

:omarcomin:

Serjeant Buzfuz
Dec 5, 2009

I'd like a way to filter out 'opinion' and 'op-ed' articles from my day to day internet ok thanks bye

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
Former speechwriter for George W. Bush? Who the gently caress gave this guy a job after being a part of that global catastrophe? Shouldn't he be painting the ghosts of Iraqi children?

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING
https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1087812167641034754?s=21

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Didn't he get kicked off of his contributor jobs last time he said something really stupid?

Woodchip
Mar 28, 2010

:what:

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

hes on morning joe sometimes still

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

Kawasaki Nun posted:

Former speechwriter for George W. Bush? Who the gently caress gave this guy a job after being a part of that global catastrophe? Shouldn't he be painting the ghosts of Iraqi children?

Im not sure if you're up on current events but literally no one suffered a single ill effect to their career in either W's admin or the media while pushing his bullshit

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene


motherfucker looking like if aaron sorkin was being played by philip seymour hoffman

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
An Army Of One (Fewer JLTVs)

It Took The Army 4 Years To Field The JLTV. It Took Soldiers 4 Days To Total One


quote:

Soldiers with the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart in Georgia received the first of its 500 JLTVs on Jan. 14.

A few days later, a photo surfaced on U.S. Army WTF! Moments showing what appeared to be one of the Raider Brigaide's brand new vehicles on its side in the aftermath of a rollover, hood open and parts spilling onto the pavement.

Luckily, nobody was injured in the rollover, which occurred during Operator New Equipment Training on the tank trails at Fort Stewart, 1st ABCT public affairs officer Maj. Pete Bogart told Task & Purpose on Tuesday.

Even better: the JLTV involved in the rollover doesn't even belong to the 1st ABCT.According to Bogart, it's a loaner vehicle from Oshkosh sent to Fort Stewart along with the ABCT's current fleet of 8-10 JLTVs explicitly for master drivers and senior NCOs to get a feel for it. 

Vasudus
May 30, 2003
I routinely look at the WaPo OpEd section because I hate myself, and often enough when it's all about one subject it's like this:

THING BAD, TRUMP IS hosed - Greg Sergeant
THING...BAD
THING IS BAD, HERE'S HOW IT SHOULD BE LESS BAD - Jennifer Rubin
THING BAD LMAO!
THE EDITORIAL BOARD AGREES, THING BAD
THING IS GOOD - Marc Thiessan

OpEds are a relic from a time long past when people actually gave a poo poo and some old fucker from the political world could actually inform people on a topic. Now they're just exposing people as being the loving morons we already knew they were.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Marc Thiessen is about the closest thing to what CHUDS would otherwise call a diversity hire. Every other opinion writer openly hates Trump, so he’s the one they can point to and say “NUH UH WE’RE NOT BIASED! #democracydiesindarkness #resist” while counting on him to generate outrage clicks and ad views.

Best be ignoring him like you would any other op-ed.

Crakkerjakk
Mar 14, 2016


Radley Balko (author of Rise of the Warrior Cop, covers police fuckery and criminal justice politician fuckery) is a legit good op-ed writer for WaPo, but you will literally never see any of his pieces on the front page, you have to go digging for them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/11/12/jeff-sessions-the-doughty-bigot/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.92df70c4288e

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please

Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Hnnnnnng. Oh that's the good stuff. I'm gonna need a towel if the NRA is burned to the loving ground like the piece of poo poo organization they are.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

I know prosecuting rich white people is all about what you can prove beyond even the slightest shred of doubt but for gently caress's sake they played roach motel to russian plants, dropped more than its combined spending in all races during the 2008 and 2012 presidential election cycles on Trump and only Trump, the one candidate who was favored by the russian government and aided by multiple russian intelligence operations.

Sure maybe it's a coincidence and it just looks like the russian state corruption apparatus infiltrated a major political party via its most prominent allied organization and has been using that party cordyceps-style to obstruct any investigation of how the russian state corruption apparatus' favored presidential candidate benefited nearly exclusively from multiple russian intelligence operations conducted against his opposition party and the american people at large.

Acebuckeye13
Nov 2, 2010

Against All Tyrants

Ultra Carp

Icon Of Sin posted:

Hey so maybe that NPS job I interviewed for in Dec will finally get back to me about when/if I can sta-hahaha pissbaby is going to reject this one too and drag us further down :suicide:

I should be rehired in April for my job and I'm increasingly concerned that somehow the shutdown's gonna gently caress everything up.

Really hope this doesn't effect your position, the hiring process is so absurdly hosed as it is

Acebuckeye13 fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Jan 22, 2019

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING
https://twitter.com/nickrobinsearly/status/1087836908523319296?s=21

loving Republicans wasting tax payer money on stupid chud shi-

*is handed a note*

loving succdems I swear to Christ.

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



This just rolled across the ticker on CNN

Rudy Giuliani says "I've been through all the tapes" followed by "I shouldn't have said tapes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1o3koTLWM

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

The deep state is real and Rudy works for them

Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



Vincent Van Goatse posted:

oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please



🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Seeing David Clarke get wrapped up in this NRA/Russia deal would warm my dead little heart. Bonus if it's connected to the Trump campaign.

Flying_Crab fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Jan 23, 2019

Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

https://twitter.com/nickrobinsearly/status/1087836908523319296?s=21

loving Republicans wasting tax payer money on stupid chud shi-

*is handed a note*

loving succdems I swear to Christ.

I think it's reasonable to think that Russian bots/troll farms pushed this.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/nra-republicans-campaign-ads-senate-josh-hawley/

NRA and a bunch of chud pols including trump were buying ads through literally the same person

quote:

In at least 10 instances across the Missouri, Montana, and North Carolina races, FCC records show that ad purchases for both the NRA and the Senate campaigns were authorized by National Media chief financial officer Jon Ferrell.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015


if this was true i'd be okay with it

but it's not and that guy is an idiot

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

colachute posted:

if this was true i'd be okay with it

but it's not and that guy is an idiot

That wouldn't be how you say that even if it were true.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
Trans people are somehow like 0.5% of the population and just don’t want to get shamed, denied healthcare, and murdered, but they are perpetually occupying the primal fear lobe of conservatives.

And British comedians, for some loving reason.

Slim Pickens
Jan 12, 2007

Grimey Drawer
part of transitioning means you go from a handsy-uncle centrist to a woke socialist, who knew :shrug:

LongDarkNight
Oct 25, 2010

It's like watching the collapse of Western civilization in fast forward.
Oven Wrangler
Is that the gay agenda?

Hexyflexy
Sep 2, 2011

asymptotically approaching one

LongDarkNight posted:

Is that the gay agenda?

I’m the gay agenda, so yes.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
https://twitter.com/peterwelch/status/1087829080316301313?s=21

:thunk:

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

mlmp08 posted:

Trans people are somehow like 0.5% of the population and just don’t want to get shamed, denied healthcare, and murdered, but they are perpetually occupying the primal fear lobe of conservatives.

And British comedians, for some loving reason.

Shitheads lost the gay marriage argument pretty decisively in both public opinion and in court decree. Trans people are the ever-so-slight shifting of all that hatred on to a convenient target that doesn't take much explaining why suddenly there's a new face in the two minutes hate. Same people pushing the same message to the same audience for the same goals, different target.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Oopsie.

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT
Also pls don't conflate trans issues to gay and bi issues.

They are different and gay people consistently are just as lovely to members of the trans community as their cishet counterparts.

It's really lovely to be a minority.

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

DoktorLoken posted:

I think it's reasonable to think that Russian bots/troll farms pushed this.

Saw a Moony Times article that claimed there was a Brazilian pretending to be an American tweeting some of the original video material but :shrug:

It worries me a bit how the bot/troll farms are sinking into the zeitgeist since half the time they're just picking up on regular news stories and spamming them out, either to help establish their 'legitimacy' or because they fit with whatever narrative they're attached to. A story ends up getting discounted as 'fake news' after a bunch of twitter bots help propel it into the wider public discourse, even if the story itself is still in and of itself completely factual. And unlike with liberal/conservative media divide, accusations of secretly being troll farm propaganda is something that's can be used to cut within party lines like with some of the BLM/BDS stuff among the Liberals and the Left. It feels like it's harder and harder to even come to an agreement on factual events, much less what opinions people might have about them.

Brute Squad
Dec 20, 2006

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race


Least he apologized pretty quickly, but drat.

https://twitter.com/PeterWelch/status/1087857790901735426

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

I meant for us bourgeoisie

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Time Crisis Actor
Apr 28, 2002

by Hand Knit
Jacob Wohl is already starting the birtherism call - this time on Kamala Harris.

https://twitter.com/JacobAWohl/status/1087736259517108224

I know that Jacob doesn't actually believe this (it's super easily disproven) and he's just trying to drum up social media attention for his grift, but be aware that this will be a convo topic amongst your dumber Facebook friends in the future.

quote:

Kamala Harris is NOT eligible to be President. Her father arrived from Jamaica in 1961—mother from India arrived in 1960

Neither parent was a legal resident for 5 years prior to Harris’s birth, a requirement for naturalization

Kamala was raised in Canada

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