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mcmagic
Jul 1, 2004

If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!

Bubbacub posted:

That's the district that includes a tiny sliver of Austin and a huge swath of rural land to balance it out.

It's a R+10 district and Dear Leader is on the ballot. If she wins, Texas goes blue.

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Tuxedo Gin
May 21, 2003

Classy.

The CIA "spies" are almost certainly local assets that were bribed, blackmailed, or coerced into working for a CIA handler. I doesn't sound like they picked up any actual officers.

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/1153294144476995584?s=19

mcmagic
Jul 1, 2004

If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!

This is so loving tiresome.

Taerkar
Dec 7, 2002

kind of into it, really

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Language barrier, transport barrier, etc.

Big Water.

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

BigBallChunkyTime posted:

This thread: "The death penalty is barbaric."

Also this thread: "CIA spies are getting executed by Iran! :circlefap:"

It's literally different people positing those opinions. I know we're posting in the same thread, but still, somehow you and I and Rent-A-Cop are three different people with separate brains

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything
https://twitter.com/gatewaypundit/status/1152949997085835265

quote:

Dumbest man on the internet

Hieronymous Alloy
Jan 30, 2009


Why! Why!! Why must you refuse to accept that Dr. Hieronymous Alloy's Genetically Enhanced Cream Corn Is Superior to the Leading Brand on the Market!?!




Morbid Hound
https://twitter.com/gin_and_tacos/status/1153292046016425985

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


Ah, cool, I see The Gateway Pundit has measured Ilhan Omar's skull and found that she's got Criminal Earlobes.

Hieronymous Alloy
Jan 30, 2009


Why! Why!! Why must you refuse to accept that Dr. Hieronymous Alloy's Genetically Enhanced Cream Corn Is Superior to the Leading Brand on the Market!?!




Morbid Hound

Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Jul 22, 2019

Critical
Aug 23, 2007

Junior G-man posted:

Ah, cool, I see The Gateway Pundit has measured Ilhan Omar's skull and found that she's got Criminal Earlobes.

You joke but I wouldn't be surprised an iota if one if those rags pulled out phrenology as evidence for some of this poo poo.

Critical fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Jul 22, 2019

CuddleCryptid
Jan 11, 2013

Things could be going better


Also the love lines in her hand are short so she's clearly a terrorist.

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


Critical posted:

You joke but I wouldn't be surprised an iota if one if those rags pulled out phrenology as evidence for some of this shot.

It already is. It's just got a Miami Vice 'COMPUTER ANALYSE' frame over it.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1152953650756689922?s=20
https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1153293610382700547?s=20

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018

CuddleCryptid posted:

Also the love lines in her hand are short so she's clearly a terrorist.

She has such little love for her country

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

bobjr posted:

Did that group who shut down the ICE center get any mainstream attention? Even if they were framed as the bad guys, I can see how they wouldn’t focus too much because it shows how stuff like that works

Lol no, the entire thing was a giant waste of their time and accomplished nothing

ewiley
Jul 9, 2003

More trash for the trash fire

Ah yes, *virtual* polygraphs which are I'm sure more reliable than their famously unimpeachable real versions.

e: fixed obvious mistake

Mind_Taker
May 7, 2007



Robviously posted:

Sorry if this is too local of news but Rep. Richard Neal(D-MA1) is getting primaried.

https://twitter.com/AlexBMorse/status/1153252997297844225?s=20

This had been a rumor for the last couple weeks and it seemed inevitable in the last few days. Morse was elected mayor at 22, won 4 terms, and has done a hell of a lot to revitalize my city. He's brought big ideas to poor and working class neighborhoods and I'm looking forward to seeing what he has for a policy lineup.

Is there an ActBlue or similar where I can split my donation to a bunch of good primary challengers like him? This is the good stuff.

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017




The 6% of Americans who know the tweets were racist, but just didn't loving care and felt they were appropriate to say POC Congresswomen are terrorists

Mahoning
Feb 3, 2007
drat this is good.

quote:

It will get worse because the media learned absolutely nothing from 2016, and every time Trump kicks the ball a gaggle of a hundred reporters chase it, overanalyzing it, giving Both Sides a chance to opine on it, and asking customers in Ohio diners how they’d like to see the ball kicked next time. It will get worse because the default media frame for covering racism is, “Was this racism?” and because they still believe that congressional Republicans will surely turn on Trump with the next outburst because Republicans are people of honor and integrity, because the entire worldview of legacy media requires that to be true.

It will get worse because the House majority for which so many people fought so hard in 2018 has already signaled that impeachment is off the table, so even the pretense of accountability or oversight is gone. Instead, the House intends to hold endless “hearings” and point desperately to the Mueller Report like the losing coaches point to the rule book in Air Bud, gesticulating wildly as the dog dunks on them over and over, and the crowd loves the dog with all its heart and looks at the losing team with the contempt reserved for such demonstrations of learned helplessness, while the very voters to whom Democrats most desperately want to appeal don’t know or care about rules but sure do notice that one team managed to lose a basketball game to a loving dog.

edit: and this is the best, succinct case for "economic anxiety" and racism not being mutually exclusive:

quote:

[Regarding Schumer's lovely “for every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia.” line] Except they didn’t, and they won’t, and now they want the Blue Collar Guy back. He will never come back, because the stereotypical “white working class” media caricature has lost his job and watched his city disintegrate and has no future, so whiteness is his last remaining asset, and he likes the candidate who promises to protect it. After all, implicit in every musing about Trump-loving whites “losing ground” is that being white means, and should mean, being comfortably ahead. It is the simplest explanation for why every racist outburst, far from being the one that turns Trump supporters away, makes them love him even harder. He knows what they want, and he will give it to them in the increasing doses needed to achieve a buzz over time, and if it gets more people killed in a synagogue or driven over at a rally, that’s mere collateral damage to people whose worldview is already based on the idea that every victim had it coming.

Mahoning fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Jul 22, 2019

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

Neo Rasa posted:

Pretty sure that's why.

Nailed it.

I said it last night, but I'll say it again: Puerto Ricans know how to protest. Shut the country down, dudes.

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

I found out this morning that evangelicals were upset about Trump's rally racist chants...just kidding they were upset he said "goddamn"

https://twitter.com/DhhuizarDebbie/status/1151663021359607815
https://twitter.com/deana_causey/status/1151668844559306753
https://twitter.com/huskersmith1/status/1151672739771617283
https://twitter.com/StarkeyShelly/status/1151862060600504320
https://twitter.com/GregM32581300/status/1151703809003048960
https://twitter.com/CarolJShaw1/status/1151866987833769986
https://twitter.com/SherriSevert5/status/1151665673837453312
https://mobile.twitter.com/tonide7153/status/1151672671140114433

Ruminahui
Mar 3, 2019

by FactsAreUseless

BigBallChunkyTime posted:

Also this thread: "CIA spies are getting executed by Iran! :circlefap:"

Those plucky little CIA spies! All they want is peace on earth :smith:

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

Ruminahui posted:

Those plucky little CIA spies! All they want is peace on earth :smith:

Maybe quote my entire post next time?

Darko
Dec 23, 2004

mcmagic posted:

This is so loving tiresome.

It's actually a really good timeline of events/provides a lot of the surrounding stuff that many people are still unaware of that shows how sneakily the Right Wing set that thing up with their normal tricks that will be used again in this election cycle. (Use small extreme-wing sources to report on something inaccurately without verifying it, then use mainstream sources to report ON the report to dodge doing their own verification, amplifying it ridiculously in the public eye). There's like a 100% chance this would be done with Biden if nominated, who has the exact same issue as Franken (greeting everyone with too friendly touches/kisses) but without the propensity to stop doing that when handlers tell him to stop, unlike Franken, so it's pretty relevant.

Rent-A-Cop
Oct 15, 2004

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

Gripweed posted:

somehow you and I and Rent-A-Cop are three different people with separate brains
A spurious, and quite frankly, slanderous, accusation.

friendbot2000
May 1, 2011


Alright, which one of you wrote this?

Ruminahui
Mar 3, 2019

by FactsAreUseless

BigBallChunkyTime posted:

Maybe quote my entire post next time?

CIA is evil, bud, and the people that work for it are evil too. There's no other way to slice this cake....

Jealous Cow
Apr 4, 2002

by Fluffdaddy

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

I found out this morning that evangelicals were upset about Trump's rally racist chants...just kidding they were upset he said "goddamn"

<crumbling gold-painted calf>

lol I wonder if Christians have always been like this.

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018
Man I would love if Trump quadrupled down on saying "goddamn" and all the fundies had to further abase themselves in hypocrisy to claim that to be a good Christian you must break yet another Commandment

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

Ruminahui posted:

CIA is evil, bud, and the people that work for it are evil too. There's no other way to slice this cake....

I'm in no way defending the CIA. But there's evil people in prison who shouldn't be executed. Why should one subset of evil people be imprisoned and another subset executed?

Obama 2012
Mar 28, 2002

"I never knew what hope was until it ran out in a red gush over my lips, my hands!"

-Anne Rice, Interview with the President

Do we get him back then?

I'm still salty that, as a Minnesota voter, I didn't even get the chance to weigh-in before my Senator was forced out just so they could reclaim the narrative against Roy Moore and Kirsten Gillibrand could polish her own brand for 2020.

friendbot2000
May 1, 2011

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1153311991186018304

DandyLion
Jun 24, 2010
disrespectul Deciever


Alright super-sleuth goons, time to find out with racehorse stud-fee is 35k.

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


Gripweed posted:

The CIA guys were in there plotting to overthrow the government, sell off everything of value in the country, and create new markets where Peter Thiel can buy Iranian child blood for cheap, putting American child blood farms out of business, it's absolutely OK and good for Iran to own them to a permanent end.

Realistically aren't these people mostly just paid informants for the CIA?

LeeMajors
Jan 20, 2005

I've gotta stop fantasizing about Lee Majors...
Ah, one more!


Space Cadet Omoly posted:

This dude is going to end up dead.

I’m generally anti-violence but like at some point people in power have to face some consequences. You can only gently caress your constituents so hard before they rise up against you.

I wonder what our breaking point might be here?

Slowpoke!
Feb 12, 2008

ANIME IS FOR ADULTS

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

I found out this morning that evangelicals were upset about Trump's rally racist chants...just kidding they were upset he said "goddamn"

[snip]

This is both bizarre and totally expected

Ruminahui
Mar 3, 2019

by FactsAreUseless

BigBallChunkyTime posted:

I'm in no way defending the CIA. BUT...

Nice, I see what you did here

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

CuddleCryptid
Jan 11, 2013

Things could be going better

LeeMajors posted:

I’m generally anti-violence but like at some point people in power have to face some consequences. You can only gently caress your constituents so hard before they rise up against you.

I wonder what our breaking point might be here?

What these idiots don't understand is that we name and shame them because that is the more civil of our two ways to change the government. If they are so blatantly shameless then people are going to take the other option, and once they do it stays on the table.

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BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

Ruminahui posted:

Nice, I see what you did here

Yes, I'm arguing against people being executed. Glad a smart guy like you was able to pick up on that.

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