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SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse

Man, imagine being the moron that thinks impeaching a president that does all the bad things he listed is a show of all the bad things he listed.

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SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse

Uncle Wemus posted:

Is this where I send all my Garfield porn?

This sounds like a Reagan/Freedombook challenge

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe

The Glumslinger posted:

Yo what the gently caress, 15 years ago this would have been a huge scandal, but nowadays no one is gonna give a poo poo

Yeah, Inhofe has almost killed people by being a really lovely rear end in a top hat pilot. This barely merits an eyebrow raise.

SalTheBard
Jan 26, 2005

I forgot to post my food for USPOL Thanksgiving but that's okay too!

Fallen Rib
I'm so confused by this bedbug thing.

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003
SOME REALLY TEDIOUS DUMB SHIT THAT SUCKS ASS TO READ ->>

Party Plane Jones posted:

Yeah, Inhofe has almost killed people by being a really lovely rear end in a top hat pilot. This barely merits an eyebrow raise.

yeah lets go gently caress over a bunch of natives lives and livelihoods so our yacht can be marginally closer to water

barely an eyebrow raise?

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003
SOME REALLY TEDIOUS DUMB SHIT THAT SUCKS ASS TO READ ->>

SalTheBard posted:

I'm so confused by this bedbug thing.

Imagine the corncob tweet but the first corncobee put a ton of effort into trying to get dril fired from the candle factory and it turns out no one actually liked the corncob guy anyways

Charliegrs
Aug 10, 2009

Herstory Begins Now posted:

Imagine the corncob tweet but the first corncobee put a ton of effort into trying to get dril fired from the candle factory and it turns out no one actually liked the corncob guy anyways

I was also confused by the bedbug thing but I'm even more confused by this corncob thing

SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse

SalTheBard posted:

I'm so confused by this bedbug thing.

Dude calls Bret a bedbug as a silly jab. Bret takes offense and not only cries to the dude that said he was a bedbug, but also the dude's superiors to try and get him fired while claiming that wasn't his intention. Bret goes on to cry so much about this he equates people calling him a bedbug to people shouting the n-word at black people. Thus the internet laughed and now scores of people are calling Bret a bedbug because of his butthurtness over nothing

Delthalaz
Mar 5, 2003






Slippery Tilde

SocketWrench posted:

Dude calls Bret a bedbug as a silly jab. Bret takes offense and not only cries to the dude that said he was a bedbug, but also the dude's superiors to try and get him fired while claiming that wasn't his intention. Bret goes on to cry so much about this he equates people calling him a bedbug to people shouting the n-word at black people. Thus the internet laughed and now scores of people are calling Bret a bedbug because of his butthurtness over nothing

Imagine being this much of a thin skinned loving rat. Goddamn what a piece of poo poo on like a very basic human level. loving bedbugs man.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Admiral posted:

We really need to start a collection of things that Trump Knows More About Than Most.

The Library of Congress already exists though.

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012
Change dot org petition to rename the Streisand effect to the “Bretbug effect”

thin blue whine
Feb 21, 2004
PLEASE SEE POLICY


Soiled Meat

Delthalaz posted:

Imagine being this much of a thin skinned loving rat. Goddamn what a piece of poo poo on like a very basic human level. loving bedbugs man.

So thin skinned and hated even the President, who is a gigantic loving thin skinned baby, has to get his shots in.

Lemming
Apr 21, 2008

SalTheBard posted:

I'm so confused by this bedbug thing.

In addition to those other things he emailed the person and offered to let them come to his house and call him a bedbug in front of his wife and kid

It was hilariously loving weird

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003
SOME REALLY TEDIOUS DUMB SHIT THAT SUCKS ASS TO READ ->>
I think it really blew up because bretbug wrote like 10 emails to the guys bosses over a tweet that apparently had 0 retweets and 9 likes

Mr Interweb
Aug 25, 2004

SocketWrench posted:

Dude calls Bret a bedbug as a silly jab. Bret takes offense and not only cries to the dude that said he was a bedbug, but also the dude's superiors to try and get him fired while claiming that wasn't his intention. Bret goes on to cry so much about this he equates people calling him a bedbug to people shouting the n-word at black people. Thus the internet laughed and now scores of people are calling Bret a bedbug because of his butthurtness over nothing

even this explanation doesn't do the situation justice

- the guy who called bret a bed bug didn't even reply to him. he was commenting on a separate twitter thread to someone else
- meaning bret actively searched this guy out to be enraged by him
- the guy in question only got 9 likes and zero retweets
- this was enough that bret couldn't let him go unpunished
- he literally compared what people were calling him to what nazis called the jews
- as if that isn't already lovely enough, bret is the same lowlife who insisted that locking up immigrant children, as bad as it MAY be, was not bad enough to warrant nazi comparisons

StealthArcher
Jan 10, 2010




Herstory Begins Now posted:

I think it really blew up because bretbug wrote like 10 emails to the guys bosses over a tweet that apparently had 0 retweets and 9 likes

0 retweets, 9 likes, by an account with 20 followers without tagging Bretbug.

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


StealthArcher posted:

0 retweets, 9 likes, by an account with 20 followers without tagging Bretbug.

that post has 4700 retweets and 30k likes now, mission accomplished Bret

oh and the rando professor now has 26k followers

Boris Galerkin
Dec 17, 2011

I don't understand why I can't harass people online. Seriously, somebody please explain why I shouldn't be allowed to stalk others on social media!

Admiral posted:

We really need to start a collection of things that Trump Knows More About Than Most.

Someone else already did that. I’d copy the text so you don’t have to go to reddit but that takes :effort: so
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ctjnnk/comment/exl9pst

FizFashizzle
Mar 30, 2005







https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1166655742943858688?s=20

no no he asked for cabotage, not a coup d'etat.

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

How 'bout them hawks news huh!
Having just spent a week on Gran Canaria, where I had to share the pool area with a big group of very obnoxious and rude British families, I feel petty enough to wish them a truly disastrous Brexit.

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018

BigglesSWE posted:

Having just spent a week on Gran Canaria, where I had to share the pool area with a big group of very obnoxious and rude British families, I feel petty enough to wish them a truly disastrous Brexit.

Brits in the Canary Islands are the worst of all slime

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


I'm going to guess the dick pix Tindr congressman is some random lovely democratic, because that's usually a democratic MO, and Republican congressmen don't know how technology works, they pay a staffer top go find them a mistress or something

Boris Galerkin
Dec 17, 2011

I don't understand why I can't harass people online. Seriously, somebody please explain why I shouldn't be allowed to stalk others on social media!

BigglesSWE posted:

Having just spent a week on Gran Canaria, where I had to share the pool area with a big group of very obnoxious and rude British families, I feel petty enough to wish them a truly disastrous Brexit.

Having just crossed paths with a brown person who looked at me and made me uncomfortable, I feel petty enough to wish them all deported “back to where they came from.”

FizFashizzle
Mar 30, 2005







AlBorlantern Corps posted:

I'm going to guess the dick pix Tindr congressman is some random lovely democratic, because that's usually a democratic MO, and Republican congressmen don't know how technology works, they pay a staffer top go find them a mistress or something

Matt Gaetz has already been busted for slutting around on Instagram, and duncan hunter used campaign funds to buy Steam games.

It's a brave new world lads.

trilobite terror
Oct 20, 2007
BUT MY LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS ON THE FORUMS!

Herstory Begins Now posted:

I think it really blew up because bretbug wrote like 10 emails to the guys bosses over a tweet that apparently had 0 retweets and 9 likes

And because Bret has a long and rich history of specifically going after ‘leftist thought police’ and safe spaces and academics and whether immigrants make America worse and hate crimes and other such worthy aims.

Also apparently this dude isn’t the first tweeter Bert’s gone after, and there’s word that times employees have received management/hr scares after Bretbug complained.

I wonder how many service employees Gregor has hosed over over trifles.

SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse

AlBorlantern Corps posted:

I'm going to guess the dick pix Tindr congressman is some random lovely democratic, because that's usually a democratic MO, and Republican congressmen don't know how technology works, they pay a staffer top go find them a mistress or something

You've, uh, been living under a rock since the mid 2000's, huh? You know, when Reps were sending dick pics and soliciting gay sex in bathrooms...and one disappearing for a week or so to get some poon in South America.

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


So those not-so-big verdicts against opioid makers sure are a thing right? I mean, they're promising to mend their ways, right?

quote:


Opioids addiction rising in India as US drugmakers push painkillers

[...]

Vijay Bhatia can attest to how the business acumen propelling India toward economic prosperity has been brazenly co-opted by eager pharmaceutical companies.

Bhatia worked in pharmaceutical sales for two decades for a handful of companies, including GlaxoSmithKline and Ranbaxy Laboratories, an Indian generics maker owned by Sun Pharma. He now works in Chandigarh, where he oversees sales for Atulaya Healthcare, a chain of diagnostic imaging centers. Bhatia was among several current or former pharma representatives interviewed who described how multinational drugmakers deploy sophisticated methods in India for getting their products prescribed.

Drugmakers routinely give sales representatives extra money to offer doctors cash or gifts – iPads, cars, trips to conferences – to prescribe the drug they’re selling, Bhatia said. He described how sales reps give influential doctors free products to test with patients and how some doctors, in turn, deliver lectures at all-expenses-paid symposia, often presenting research papers sponsored by the drug companies.

The multinational companies “have access to all these top opinion leaders”, Bhatia said. They will sponsor doctors to live “abroad for studies being done there. It is circumventing the entire marketing process. It’s another way of taking the doctor into the loop.”

Engendering loyalty with chemists is a top priority. To make his sales targets, Bhatia said, he would offer financial incentives to chemists who would “substitute [a product] with my product. In India, the chemist becomes king.”

[... good long read ...]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/28/india-opioids-addiction-us-drugmakers-push-painkillers

Oh no wait, they're exporting banned US practices to third world countries, just like the tobacco companies do.

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018

Junior G-man posted:

So those not-so-big verdicts against opioid makers sure are a thing right? I mean, they're promising to mend their ways, right?


Oh no wait, they're exporting banned US practices to third world countries, just like the tobacco companies do.

Truly unforeseeable

trilobite terror
Oct 20, 2007
BUT MY LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS ON THE FORUMS!

SocketWrench posted:

You've, uh, been living under a rock since the mid 2000's, huh? You know, when Reps were sending dick pics and soliciting gay sex in bathrooms...and one disappearing for a week or so to get some poon in South America.

I hope the next big cultural shift as millennials and zoomers start running for office in bigger numbers is that this sort of thing stops being even keyfaybe-d as scandalous, unless its due to issues of abuse/assault/violence/hypocrisy/boundary violation/etc. Eventually we're gonna have a race where every candidate has a nude somewhere (or if they don't it's because they're either hyper-religious or a 'brought-a-briefcase-to-school' incel type). I dream of a world where a candidate's old grindr profile is criticized not for existing, but for the tackiness of the photos.

trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 12:15 on Aug 28, 2019

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

How 'bout them hawks news huh!

Boris Galerkin posted:

Having just crossed paths with a brown person who looked at me and made me uncomfortable, I feel petty enough to wish them all deported “back to where they came from.”

Yes clearly equivalent and I was totally not making a mean joke.

You must be fun at parties.

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018
Trump now officially has brainbugs to keep his brainspiders company

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1166672386214772736?s=19

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


Trump calling Brett Stephens a bedbug is amazing.

That we could live in such times.

Ice Phisherman
Apr 12, 2007

Swimming upstream
into the sunset



Junior G-man posted:

So those not-so-big verdicts against opioid makers sure are a thing right? I mean, they're promising to mend their ways, right?


Oh no wait, they're exporting banned US practices to third world countries, just like the tobacco companies do.

Yeah, they've been looking for new markets for a while now. A good number of countries have looked at opioids that people like Perdue are peddling, looking at the death toll and saying, "Nah dude, we're good."

On a long enough timeline, India is going to see the same problems with opioids that America has now. They have over a billion people in India, the US has about 350 million. We lose 3000 people every two weeks and that's only accelerating. Oxies are literal gateway drugs to heroin because at some point, oxy is more expensive than heroin. So you just do heroin.

Ice Phisherman fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Aug 28, 2019

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Failed Imagineer posted:

Trump now officially has brainbugs to keep his brainspiders company

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1166672386214772736?s=19

sometimes trumps spiteful dickishness pays off and is almost "good". like this kinda thing.

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

Junior G-man posted:

Trump calling Brett Stephens a bedbug is amazing.

That we could live in such times.

Maybe he'll write a harshly worded email to his handlers.

DynamicSloth
Jul 30, 2006

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

Junior G-man posted:

Trump calling Brett Stephens a bedbug is amazing.

That we could live in such times.

What's so great about your big wet baby President injecting himself into every new story trending hashtag? This is going to take all the fun out of it.

CubanMissile
Apr 22, 2003

Of Hulks and Spider-Men
I mean, it is a rare thing to find someone with a thinner skin than the president. I suppose the official hierarchy now is:

1. Cops
2. Bret Stephens
3. Trump
4. Literal children

FizFashizzle
Mar 30, 2005







Lmao at this point how does Bret have an audience left?

Are there enough “reasonable republicans” left to justify his salary?

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


FizFashizzle posted:

Are there enough “reasonable republicans” left to justify his salary?

There's always enough gullible centrist twits who find a bizarre need to have 'principle opposition' nearby.

Look out for his column in the Atlantic, coming soon.

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GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

really israel could slaughter all these children without our help, I just didn't want to miss out on the chance to participate
It's not about the size of the audience, it's about how popular he is among the donors/investors/golf club friends of the owner.

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