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triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



Yinlock posted:

this whole coup is just people saying maduro isn't president anymore and him being like nah

it's the :decorum: war

they should do the same thing, but for trump

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Solarin
Nov 15, 2007

Nick Soapdish posted:

Sean's tie is hideous
Sean's hideous

he looks like a ghost made of dough

dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


FactsAreUseless posted:

but also lmao that American diplomats are being left to die to justify an invasion of Venezula

didn't russia send nukes to venezuela

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


triple sulk posted:

they should do the same thing, but for trump

trump actually is illegitimate lol

garbage pundit
Apr 10, 2008

We're on our way home now, duckie!

Nae! posted:

so speaking of my badass job, one of my arizona coworkers made a purchase from a nice lady in sedona and i thought youd all like to see a commercial for her products:

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

George "trying to get laid in a bar started Watergate 2" Papadopolis

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011



seems pretty smart

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Solarin posted:

she's basically a ghoul that cannot be reasoned with and just needs to be removed from power

I'm hoping.

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


Shageletic posted:

George "trying to get laid in a bar started Watergate 2" Papadopolis

don't worry, he paid his debt to society. all seven days of it.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

dont be mean to me posted:

didn't russia send nukes to venezuela
I have no faith in Russia to actually do things rather than just talk about them, so I doubt it. Russia's government, its economy, and its military are basically held together with tape. Projecting the appearance of a functioning nation is something Putin is good at. What he's not good at - what dictators are never good at - is running a country.

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice

:pisstape:

jigokuman
Aug 28, 2002


Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.

this but with a single rose in each mouth

for valentine's day

Solarin
Nov 15, 2007

Nichael posted:

trump actually is illegitimate lol

and he is obese

dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


FactsAreUseless posted:

I have no faith in Russia to actually do things rather than just talk about them, so I doubt it. Russia's government, its economy, and its military are basically held together with tape. Projecting the appearance of a functioning nation is something Putin is good at. What he's not good at - what dictators are never good at - is running a country.

i unironically hope you're right

ex post facho
Oct 25, 2007
https://mobile.twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1088258844269178880

:waycool:

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice
The guy who almost beat King is making an announcement soon and I'm hoping it's that he's planning on running against Ernst. Because he's pretty good and also knows how to run outside of the states metro areas unlike every other candidate that the state party has put forward in the last decade.

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice

Nichael posted:

don't worry, he paid his debt to society. all seven days of it.

idk having nite crew tom arnold sex ur girl on molly while in the slammer prob fkn sux but alas hes oblivious

Log082
Nov 8, 2008


Mumpy Puffinz posted:

how the gently caress do you make sure you wake up when your stop comes? I could never do that when I took the train

Practice combined with the fact that I'm a light sleeper

sapphomoric
Dec 26, 2016

jigokuman posted:

yesterday i was furious that each day is getting stupider but today i am insanely pumped for the same reason

who can explain it?

I dunno but give me a slice. even trumps rotting applesauce brain doesn’t reach me lately

lol if you
Jun 29, 2004

I am going to remove your penis, in thin slices, like salami, just for starters.

:drat:

lol if you
Jun 29, 2004

I am going to remove your penis, in thin slices, like salami, just for starters.
Ernst/Miller 2020

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

dont be mean to me posted:

i unironically hope you're right
Russia is in really, really bad shape. The only reason there aren't more protests is that Putin is a dictator and thus violently cracks down on them. There is a lot of opposition to his government, he's not actually that popular except with the hard religious right. Russia has kept control largely through his connections to organized crime - it's essentially a mob state.

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice

the only hope for saving him is to be sprayed down w/ a Supersoaker full of LSD

That DICK!
Sep 28, 2010

kamala can't stop talking about how horrible it is to have workers that aren't paid on her msnbc interview lmao

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008


miller is somehow getting even balder every time i see him

Duscat
Jan 4, 2009
Fun Shoe
tgujmrgmp

Dammerung
Oct 17, 2008

"Dang, that's hot."



How about 95%? We could set a new historic record.

bebop esq
Apr 17, 2006

hi boys

Yinlock posted:

miller is somehow getting even balder every time i see him

and even creepier, somehow

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

FactsAreUseless posted:

I have no faith in Russia to actually do things rather than just talk about them, so I doubt it. Russia's government, its economy, and its military are basically held together with tape. Projecting the appearance of a functioning nation is something Putin is good at. What he's not good at - what dictators are never good at - is running a country.

Does Putin really care anymore? He is the richest person in the world. He won. If he dies in nuclear hellfire he gets to say he did it, he hosed up democracy

That DICK!
Sep 28, 2010

kamala harris is the hosed up freak you'd get if you shoved obama and hillary into the The Fly teleporter

lol if you
Jun 29, 2004

I am going to remove your penis, in thin slices, like salami, just for starters.
i feel like nothing short of george clinton and the p-funk shooting miller with a cosmic raygun of chill has any chance of saving his soul from the path he has set for it

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



hint: that gop strategist was rick wilson

sullat
Jan 9, 2012

Yinlock posted:

eh there was probably a lot of dumb poo poo we never learned about

the more i learn about history the more I learn that it was actually just as stupid as now

So, let's see. I guess we can start with the end of the Punic Wars. Rome is master of the western Mediterranean, and has conquered Greece. Well-connected Romans set up vast slave-run estates in the provinces. Back in Italy, though, small-time tenant farmers find themselves unable to compete and are being squeezed out by large landowners. Although you can't enslave a Roman citizen, you can evict them, and take their land. Thousands flee to the city.

The Gracchi brothers are elected as tribunes and try to propose laws to stop this from happening. Naturally, the landlord's faction, 'The optimates' have them assassinated. Evictions of small-time farmers continue.

These farmers make up the bulk of the army. Soldiering is expensive (they have to provide their own gear), and suddenly nobody can afford to be in the army. Marius decides that he'll let any citizen join the army, and the state (or the general) will pay for their weapons. Now there's an army loyal only to the generals. He goes off, wins a bunch of battles, and tries to pass laws letting the veterans have land. The Optimates assassinate a bunch of his friends and supporters, so he fucks off to his vast estates elsewhere..

Mithritades declares war on the Romans, kills a bunch of Roman colonists, and gets his rear end handed to him by Sulla. Sulla goes back to Rome, becomes consul, and finally, a compromise is reached. Instead of taking land from the Roman landlords, they'll take land from the Italian Allies and give it to the veterans. Problem solved...

At this point, Italy is a patchwork of Roman colonies, and Roman allies. The allies are nominally independent, but agreed to be subordinate to Rome insofar as declaring war & stuff. They send auxiliaries and tribute to Rome. Once Rome starts seizing land from their citizens, however, they rise up and demand... full Roman citizenship! The Social War drags on for a few years before Sulla agrees to their demands. Now everybody in Italy is a Roman citizen. Sulla takes his army out into the provinces to hunt pirates.

Marius comes back and he's pissed. At Sulla for taking all the credit for defeating Mithritades, at the Optimates for assassinating his friends, and at the gods because he's old and senile. He kills a bunch of Sulla's supporters, before finally dying of old age. Sulla comes back and murders all of Marius's family & friends, plus all his supporters in the Senate, his clients, his loyal patrons, etc. Well, all of them except Marius's lazy nephew Julius Caesar, but he's useless, he'll never amount to anything. This process is known as 'proscription' where enemies of the consul are put on a list, and are allowed to be killed on sight, with the killer taking half their stuff (the rest goes to the state). The guy who gets super-rich off this is Sulla, of course, but also his lieutenant Crassius. Sulla retires to his luxurious estate with his boyfriends and gluttons himself to death.

SPARTACUS! He loses. Crassius and Pompey take over after putting down the slave revolt. Somehow, this kid Julius Caesar convinces them to share power with him. Hijinks ensue. Cicero has Marc Anthony's father killed for treason. Caeser becomes Pontifex Maximus, and then governor of southern gaul. Pompey subjucates Judea and interferes in Egyptian politics. Crassius invades Iran, doesn't return. Julius invades northern Gaul, and returns. Watch ROME for more details, it's pretty good.

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

nah miller likes em dead in the morgue

dont kinkshame gop

gregday
May 23, 2003

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1088260329610625024

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Yinlock posted:

miller is somehow getting even balder every time i see him

Remember several thousand years ago, around New Years, when he wore spray on hair for a TV interview?

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
https://twitter.com/TSSteinbacher/status/1088264171391717376

Serf
May 5, 2011


Dammerung posted:

How about 95%? We could set a new historic record.

100% imo

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Solarin
Nov 15, 2007

FactsAreUseless posted:

Russia is in really, really bad shape. The only reason there aren't more protests is that Putin is a dictator and thus violently cracks down on them. There is a lot of opposition to his government, he's not actually that popular except with the hard religious right. Russia has kept control largely through his connections to organized crime - it's essentially a mob state.

it's like looking 20 years into the future of the us

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