August 2019 Current Events Thread: It's Hot and Everything Sucks

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pantslesswithwolves: Oct 28, 2008

Lol the Great Dealmaker is back on his bullshit again

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1158340095608610816

Unless he�s talking about Fox News fanning the flames of the Great Replacement.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:12

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# ? Jun 6, 2024 13:55

Handsome Ralph: Sep 3, 2004; Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!

He's right, they should stop showing his rallies.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:23

Hot Karl Marx: Mar 16, 2009; Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1158346607542362112

drat he really got his rear end kicked

# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:27

BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

Handsome Ralph posted:

He's right, they should stop showing his rallies.

Yeah, and stop showing tape of Sander's press conferences.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:29

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

facialimpediment posted:

Gonna be really, really, really bad.

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1158336028014534656?s=19

It already is, he's using a man shooting at people of Spanish decent as fodder to push anti-immigration bills.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:31

Tiny Timbs: Sep 6, 2008

CommieGIR posted:

It already is, he's using a man shooting at people of Spanish decent as fodder to push anti-immigration bills.

Can�t target them if they�re not here!

# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:33

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006; Can't post for 4 hours!

BigDave posted:

Yeah, and stop showing tape of Sander's press conferences.

She quit over a month ago, though your confusion is warranted since she hadn't given a press conference since March.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:33

facialimpediment: Feb 11, 2005; as the world turns

CommieGIR posted:

It already is, he's using a man shooting at people of Spanish decent as fodder to push anti-immigration bills.

Eh, it ain't all bad.

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1158346607542362112?s=19

Fuckin windbag has less bag to wind with

# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:43

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

facialimpediment posted:

Eh, it ain't all bad.

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1158346607542362112?s=19

Fuckin windbag has less bag to wind with

Someone said it in D&D, but I refuse to believe he hung out with lung damage that long.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:45

FAUXTON: Jun 2, 2005; spero che tu stia bene

facialimpediment posted:

Eh, it ain't all bad.

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1158346607542362112?s=19

Fuckin windbag has less bag to wind with

lol guy's taking a full month off because (assuming here) he's getting some scar tissue removed from one lung.

strong as a bull moose he ain't

# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:48

Handsome Ralph: Sep 3, 2004; Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1158346607542362112

drat he really got his rear end kicked

And that neighbors name, Philip Morris.

I honestly have no idea if he smoked or not, but scar tissue on his lung from an assault over 2 years ago seems odd.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:49

Vasudus: May 30, 2003

Members of congress should have to use the VA.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:50

BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

Vasudus posted:

Members of congress should have to use the VA.

Do we really want Rand Paul back in office but with a painkiller addiction?

# ? Aug 5, 2019 14:01

FAUXTON: Jun 2, 2005; spero che tu stia bene

BigDave posted:

Do we really want Rand Paul back in office but with a painkiller addiction?

He would be far more representative of his constituency.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 14:03

Vasudus: May 30, 2003

BigDave posted:

Do we really want Rand Paul back in office but with a painkiller addiction?

...yes?

He represents Kentucky. It would only be fair.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 14:03

Defenestrategy: Oct 24, 2010

Be a shame if both Senators from Kentucky contracted pneumonia in the hospital.

Thoughts and prayers.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 14:18

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Why did the senator from Kentucky go to a Tennessee hospital? Sounds like treason to me

# ? Aug 5, 2019 14:32

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

Defenestrategy posted:

Be a shame if both Senators from Kentucky contracted pneumonia in the hospital.

Thoughts and prayers.

Or Hepatitis, or a good MRSA infection

# ? Aug 5, 2019 14:35

Vasudus: May 30, 2003

I got a letter in the mail from the New Haven VA a few years ago about how anybody that had surgery there from 2010-2012 may have been exposed to CJD. Which yeah, I get it, it's very hard to kill and you have to specifically be aware of it. But why was I getting the letter in 2016 is a better question.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 14:40

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

hobbesmaster posted:

Why did the senator from Kentucky go to a Tennessee hospital? Sounds like treason to me

His original surgery was in Canada.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 14:41

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1158346607542362112

drat he really got his rear end kicked

He's getting his rear end kicked still

# ? Aug 5, 2019 14:44

Vasudus: May 30, 2003

If I lived in the area I would make it a point to go to that doctor's practice. If people asked who my doctor was, I would say 'it was the guy that kicked Rand Paul's rear end' as a point of pride.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 14:52

NAPALM STICKS TO: Jun 22, 2005

WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:

His av is a kid, finishing his screen name which is NAPALM STICKS TO [picture of a kid].

It was probably made during the heyday of the CURE/S screen names.

my name was DRONES CURE HAJI last i recall, i dont remember why i changed it cause thats a fuckin great name

# ? Aug 5, 2019 14:59

Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

i miss my old one of PLANES CURE TOWERS

# ? Aug 5, 2019 15:02

Riot Carol Danvers: Jul 30, 2004; It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

NAPALM STICKS TO posted:

my name was DRONES CURE HAJI last i recall, i dont remember why i changed it cause thats a fuckin great name

Is it?

# ? Aug 5, 2019 15:10

Handsome Ralph: Sep 3, 2004; Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!

I didn't see it but apparently President Cheesebrain got the wrong city when he gave his remarks. Said Toledo.

:psyduck:

# ? Aug 5, 2019 15:26

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

All the really great names were wasted on Ironic War Criminal reregs

# ? Aug 5, 2019 15:26

Flikken: Oct 23, 2009; 10,363 snaps and not a playoff win to show for it

Handsome Ralph posted:

I didn't see it but apparently President Cheesebrain got the wrong city when he gave his remarks. Said Toledo.

That's an easy mistake to make tbf.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 15:39

Vasudus: May 30, 2003

The bar is low enough that it's honestly impressive he even knows the name of one city in Ohio unprompted.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 15:51

Best Friends: Nov 4, 2011

I wonder how him saying white supremacy and video games are bad are playing with his younger supporters.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 15:53

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

Best Friends posted:

I wonder how him saying white supremacy and video games are bad are playing with his younger supporters.

They know he doesn't mean the first one and doesn't plan to do anything about the second so why would they care?

# ? Aug 5, 2019 15:57

golden bubble: Jun 3, 2011; yospos

Outside of the US, It's the end of Article 370: India strips disputed Kashmir of special status

quote:

What is Article 370?
In 1949, a special provision was added to India's constitution providing autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir. Article 370 allows the state to have its own constitution, a separate flag and independence over all matters except foreign affairs, defense and communications. Another provision later added under Article 370 - 35A - gives special privileges to permanent residents, including state government jobs and the exclusive right to own property in the state.

So why is India's move controversial?
The move by the Hindu nationalist BJP government prompted outrage in parliament, and some legal experts have called it an attack on the constitution.
Critics fear the move is designed to change the demographic make-up of India-administered Kashmir - by giving people from the rest of the country to right to acquire property and settle there permanently.

How did the government make the change?
India's government announced a presidential order revoking all of Article 370 apart from one clause which says that the state is an integral part of India.
The order was met by massive protests from the opposition - but has now been signed into law by President Ram Nath Kovind. The government also proposed dividing the state into two regions ruled by the central government, and a bill to that effect passed the upper house on Monday and will now go to the lower house where the BJP has a majority.

What has been happening in Kashmir?
Indian-administered Kashmir is in a state of lockdown. Curfew-like conditions have been imposed, and orders preventing the assembly of more than four people have been introduced. Tens of thousands of Indian troops were deployed to the region ahead of Monday's announcement and tourists were told to leave under warnings of a terror threat. In the hours before Monday's announcement, two of the state's former chief ministers - Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti - were placed under house arrest, and internet and phone access has been cut across the region.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 16:27

BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

golden bubble posted:

Outside of the US, It's the end of Article 370: India strips disputed Kashmir of special status

Great so Pakistan and India can finally bust the murder nut they've had since 1947.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 16:36

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

golden bubble posted:

Outside of the US, It's the end of Article 370: India strips disputed Kashmir of special status

This is totally not a prelude to genocide

# ? Aug 5, 2019 17:02

golden bubble: Jun 3, 2011; yospos

I doubt it. India somehow managed to ninja another 35k-150k soldiers into the region before major opposition noticed what was going on. Combined with the existing garrison, that's a lot of soldiers on high alert in Kashmir.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 17:03

Chichevache: Feb 17, 2010; One of the funniest posters in GIP.

Just not intentionally.

CommieGIR posted:

It already is, he's using a man shooting at people of Spanish decent as fodder to push anti-immigration bills.

I'm not trying to start a huge derail in race, because I'm pretty sure you phrased it the way you did to try and be polite, but a lot of Central and South Americans in general, and Mexicans in particular, would probably be offended by being called "people of Spanish descent".

# ? Aug 5, 2019 17:15

brains: May 12, 2004

golden bubble posted:

Outside of the US, It's the end of Article 370: India strips disputed Kashmir of special status

the second 370 that went to pakistan and disappeared :tinfoil:

# ? Aug 5, 2019 17:30

BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

brains posted:

the second 370 that went to pakistan and disappeared

# ? Aug 5, 2019 17:36

Slim Pickens: Jan 12, 2007; Grimey Drawer

Chichevache posted:

I'm not trying to start a huge derail in race, because I'm pretty sure you phrased it the way you did to try and be polite, but a lot of Central and South Americans in general, and Mexicans in particular, would probably be offended by being called "people of Spanish descent".

"Is there a term besides 'Mexican' that you prefer? Something less offensive?"

# ? Aug 5, 2019 17:50

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# ? Jun 6, 2024 13:55

Vasudus: May 30, 2003

I suppose in the good news category, the invisible hand of the free market just went so far up 8Chan's rear end they can...taste the ring? gently caress I'm not good at these things but they're getting rightly turbofucked. Apparently the anti-DDoS service that hosts such treasures as the Daily Stormer that 8Chan moved to just had their own access cut off at the backbone level or some poo poo. I don't know it's levels of levels of corporations going 'woah now, I guess hosting this stuff isn't cool after all' like some kind of hosed up game of hot potato.

# ? Aug 5, 2019 17:58

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