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LorneReams posted:That's funny, I didn't think that type of grift was actually illegal. Yeah it's another class warfare thing. If you're rich enough to get them a new building or whatever it's totally fine to buy your kid's way in, but a lousy 15k kickback is illegal. This is a joke 
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LorneReams posted:That's funny, I didn't think that type of grift was actually illegal. They didn't go about the bribery the normal way.
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Chilichimp posted:sometimes I type poo poo instead of this. Actually, it's loving constantly. It's been a real problem in the workplace. Come on, that's just lazy and mean. Stickman fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Apr 8, 2019 |
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Using "Making America Great Again" is probably his best option, but he won't do it because it implies he hasn't already accomplished everything he set out to do, and I don't think his fragile ego can handle that reminder being around him all the time.
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Dude doesn't want to invalidate his cash cow. OTOH, "Keep America Great" is going to look hilarious next a crashed economy and declining global influence.
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Pakled posted:Using "Making America Great Again" is probably his best option, but he won't do it because it implies he hasn't already accomplished everything he set out to do, and I don't think his fragile ego can handle that reminder being around him all the time. I don't think he realizes how much of his support is based on theorized things people imagine he will do for them.
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https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1115292883425214470 that's an edit of the chirstchurch shooter.
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Has "Keep America Great" been registered yet or can someone steal it before he decides?
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So would MAGA Chuds be KAG Chuds...?
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LorneReams posted:That's funny, I didn't think that type of grift was actually illegal. What, bribery and fraud? Of course that poo poo is illegal, it's juts ~also~ not generally punished. What she's sorry about is getting caught.
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InsertPotPun posted:Has "Keep America Great" been registered yet or can someone steal it before he decides? pretty sure they registered that the day after he won his election.
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Groovelord Neato posted:https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1115292883425214470 I know that Nazi Pepes are now identifying as clowns because they've embraced the futility of life, but I still don't get this.
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Ague Proof posted:I know that Nazi Pepes are now identifying as clowns because they've embraced the futility of life, but I still don't get this. That's what gets me too, almost as much as the horrific ideology underpinning the creation of that kind of meme. It just seems... pointless?
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Ague Proof posted:I know that Nazi Pepes are now identifying as clowns because they've embraced the futility of life, but I still don't get this. it's a bizarre way for them to deal with trump being an absolute embarrassment and failure.
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LorneReams posted:That's funny, I didn't think that type of grift was actually illegal. Huffman and Macy were not bribing anyone. That $15k was for someone to go in and take their kid’s ACT for them. Still bad, but maybe not as bad and they probably didn’t commit tax fraud by calling it a charitable donation. I’m guessing she’s pleading guilty because she got a deal with no jail time. The parents who aren’t pleading guilty were not offered a good deal. Sorry Aunt Becky.
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DrNutt posted:Yeah it's another class warfare thing. If you're rich enough to get them a new building or whatever it's totally fine to buy your kid's way in, but a lousy 15k kickback is illegal.
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well that explains alot. i am guessing the border closing is coming at some point.
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I hope you like crime because I have some more crime for you... https://twitter.com/justinjm1/status/1115345630719877120
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Inferior Third Season posted:Yeah, but it's really not a joke. The truly wealthy are never prosecuted or punished for doing equal and oftentimes much worse things than the lower classes, which include the rich-but-not-"wealthy" set. But the average person doesn't make a distiction between the millionaire Hollywood celebrities that are basically just harmless rear end in a top hat narcissists, and the billionaire hedge fund class that purposefully undermines democracy. By going after Martha Stewart and Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, the public thinks the authorities are actually going after the well-to-do and that the system is just, but the ones behaving the worst escape all scrutiny. Stewart is actually up there. She's not the real problem but she's absolutely done evil capitalist stuff, you don't get to $300 million over nothing. Somewhat rich actors less so.
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Apr 8, 2019 21:23
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Well that's hilariously terrifying. Pour one out for all my homies in Logistics.
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Groovelord Neato posted:https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1115292883425214470 Nazis wearing clown clothes and mocking people for calling people in clown clothes Nazis.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:well that explains alot. i am guessing the border closing is coming at some point. Pretty sure it's a given now. Now that Miller/Trump have cleaned all the people willing to tell them it's a REALLY bad idea, he's gonna torch our economy just for a few extra points with his base. Where did the Secret Service head fit into the succession order? Also, I'm trying to find the details, but I saw somewhere that Claire Grady (probable legal successor to the job) is being shuffled around prior to Wednesday to gently caress with it more.
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I have noticed the clown thing too - is it literally another "we can make liberals call X thing racist and make them look stupid" thing? I can't be bothered to dig around for the answer. Do you guys remember how the NPC meme was the one that was gonna go big time?
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haveblue posted:I take it back, secret service USB key guy was probably just dumb. Absolutely incredible. I work at a 3 star hotel and they covered this in my training, I am aghast at how stupid cops are.
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Retro42 posted:Pretty sure it's a given now. Now that Miller/Trump have cleaned all the people willing to tell them it's a REALLY bad idea, he's gonna torch our economy just for a few extra points with his base. he hasn't purged fully yet, but that's loving coming soon. USSS head was probably fired for not kissing his rear end.
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skylined! posted:Actually no, neither bush or Obama had a blanket separation policy like the zero tolerance policy jeff sessions signed. Both prior administrations separated some families when they couldn’t confirm the relationship of the adult to the kid, but neither were doing the ‘cruelty for cruelty’s sake’ anywhere near the scale happening right now. Without the 1996 law, which drastically expanded deportation authority and detainment requirements, many of these people wouldn't even have been detained at all. theflyingorc posted:Specifically, here God drat it, Bernie.
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Deified Data posted:I have noticed the clown thing too - is it literally another "we can make liberals call X thing racist and make them look stupid" thing? I can't be bothered to dig around for the answer. Nazi Pepes and grifter Nazis are depressed because electing Trump hasn't improved their lives, he's a joke, and he's not fascist enough. They've become nihilistic because they think the left will take over the world and enforce white genocide. Some have abandoned Trump and moved on to Yang so they can get $1000 a month to play video games - they have nothing else to hope for so they might as well get some money - and others have tried to embrace the absurdity of the world in a cringeworthy Joker way, by becoming clowns. It's mixed up with going out in a blaze of glory and idolizing spree shooters because  .I think that's it. It's loving stupid. Ague Proof fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Apr 8, 2019 |
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Lightning Knight posted:Absolutely incredible. I work at a 3 star hotel and they covered this in my training, I am aghast at how stupid cops are. Hmm, I'm starting to think cops may not be the best and brightest.
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LorneReams posted:That's funny, I didn't think that type of grift was actually illegal. So what exactly were the crimes these folks were charged with? Is it all related to donating money to a fake charity? I can't imagine that it's actually illegal to cheat on the SAT.
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Solkanar512 posted:So what exactly were the crimes these folks were charged with? Is it all related to donating money to a fake charity? I can't imagine that it's actually illegal to cheat on the SAT.
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Retro42 posted:Pretty sure it's a given now. Now that Miller/Trump have cleaned all the people willing to tell them it's a REALLY bad idea, he's gonna torch our economy just for a few extra points with his base. I don't think the USSS head is in the succession order since it's not a cabinet level position.
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gently caress SNEEP posted:I don't think the USSS head is in the succession order since it's not a cabinet level position.
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haveblue posted:The line of succession after the VP and heads of Congress is only the various Secretary of _________ (plus the attorney general). If we ever have to go beyond that list we will have way bigger problems.
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Solkanar512 posted:So what exactly were the crimes these folks were charged with? Is it all related to donating money to a fake charity? I can't imagine that it's actually illegal to cheat on the SAT. mail fraud and honest services fraud
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