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half cocaine
Jul 22, 2019


Remember when Trish Regan was apolitical on Bloomberg? And Lara Logan on CBS? Hell the was a time when Maria bartiromo was sane. It's almost as if political tv is a loving game to make money or something.

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sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Wylie posted:

From the Point of Light in a Weary World department, Montgomery, Alabama just elected its first-ever black mayor, Steven Reed, by a 67% vote. He was in a runoff against David Woods, who was running on a platform of Being A White Dude and Not Being Joe Reed's Kid.

(Joe Reed basically runs the Alabama Democratic Party, and has run it into the ground so hard that the national Dems won't even give them campaign money. His son, Steven, has been a probate judge in Montgomery for years and appears to be a pretty good dude.)

hey that's nice. My friend in Alabama was volunteering for Reed, seems like a solid guy.

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

jimmy carter, easily the best man to ever be president, whatever that means to you:

https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1181741644154052608

https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1181744684051382274

https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1181747228928610307

https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1181755161003401217

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

he unfortunately did some bad poo poo like every president but he for sure is in the running for 'only person to hold the office who wasn't a complete demon in a loose skin suit' yea

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Its really too bad he killed UHC, such a shortsighted fight

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

The Glumslinger posted:

Its really too bad he killed UHC, such a shortsighted fight

plus let's not forget the whole...motherfucker loved the Shah, like genuinely seemed to think that guy was a good man as well as a politically useful friend...

Carter's probably genuine wholesomeness does often whitewash his more troubling elements.

Amazing Zimmo
Jan 27, 2006

That's quite a load you got in them diapers
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1181771156203986946

trump's putting in some serious executive time

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Jesus christ, no one is gonna watch an 8 minute clip. You gotta keep these things punchy and just do the best 20 seconds. You cant just say the entire segment is the highlight, poo poo doesn't work that way

Abner Assington
Mar 13, 2005

For I am a sinner in the hands of an angry god. Bloody Mary, full of vodka, blessed are you among cocktails. Pray for me now, at the hour of my death, which I hope is soon.

Amen.
You know that clip basically is twenty seconds to that loving moron because he either stops paying attention or the dementia really kicks into high gear and he loses the ability to perceive time.

The fucker is tossing our allies to Turkish and Russian-backed wolves, likely letting ISIS regroup due to apathy of the same, and he is sitting there pissing away on Twitter with Sean Hannity clips.

I cannot loving wait until he dies of whatever. Stroke. Aneurysm. His head explodes like the guy in Scanners. I don't give a gently caress. I just cannot wait to get the news notification that this hateful idiot is dead.

e: I've hit a pretty new level of mad in the last few weeks and probably need to take a breather.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
So when do we get to see videos of kurds pleading for help as they are murdered while Trump tweets about how they are being mean to him

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

sexpig by night posted:

plus let's not forget the whole...motherfucker loved the Shah, like genuinely seemed to think that guy was a good man as well as a politically useful friend...

Carter's probably genuine wholesomeness does often whitewash his more troubling elements.

yeah he's spent the last 40 years repenting for anything bad he did while president, and while he's certainly not perfect the man is in his 90s and still goes out there and builds houses for the poor, which ought to be worth something.

seriously he's 95 years old, got a black eye and 14 stitches and goes out a week later and does hard manual labor. he's trying to live like Christ right down to the carpentry.

i am harry
Oct 14, 2003

Louisiana car insurance is some of the highest in the nation, and that's because it's literally full of lovely drivers who file bodily injury claims after every (multiple) accident. No idea why the Orange Skull mentioned it.

i am harry fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Oct 9, 2019

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1181751912892436480

Yeah, thats gotta be a fun question to get asked when you're up for reelection in a year

Oh and for the what if Obama question

quote:

In 2014, when asked about President Barack Obama’s recess appointments, which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously were unconstitutional, Ernst referred to Obama as a dictator who should be "removed from office" or face "impeachment."[85] She said, "He is running amok. He is not following our Constitution."[85][86]

The Glumslinger fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Oct 9, 2019

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.



Did we establish what's the actual law being broken here, or is that one of those "the constitution was written under the assumption that the darkest timeline could happen" things?

Dr. Red Ranger
Nov 9, 2011

Nap Ghost

Rent-A-Cop posted:

Imma start a squadron of swamp pirate raiders. We're going to wear Mickey Mouse hats and eat people.

Only if I can join this band under the pseudonym White Devil and I get a shotgun with Eye of the Needle engraved onto the barrel.

When we capture people and they barter for their lives we'll say, "ah, but what does the beltway think?". The Beltway is an alligator pit.

Dr. Red Ranger fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Oct 9, 2019

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Taerkar posted:

The closest thing Louisiana got to a socialist candidate (and he wasn't that close) got gunned down in the state capital building where they still have the bullet holes in the wall.

There was an election for governor where the candidates were A Former Governor Known For For Corruption and Literally David Duke.

I am intensely curious about the timeline where Huey Long didn't get assassinated.

Oracle
Oct 9, 2004

The Glumslinger posted:

He expanded Medicare in the state under ACA guidelines to get a shitload of federal funding to help the poor

So you're saying he's going to go the way of Huey Long?

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

GreyjoyBastard posted:

I am intensely curious about the timeline where Huey Long didn't get assassinated.
What was Huey Long's stance towards Axis Germany?

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Grouchio posted:

What was Huey Long's stance towards Axis Germany?

he got iced in 1935, but there are two quotes from him i can find on adolf and friends

quote:

"Don't liken me to that [SOB]. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain [GD] fool."

— Huey Long on Adolph Hitler (Williams p. 761)


"I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards."

— Huey Long (Williams p. 761)

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


GreyjoyBastard posted:

I am intensely curious about the timeline where Huey Long didn't get assassinated.

I want to see the timeline where FDR didn't have a heart attack in bed with his mistress and instead made it through a couple more terms.

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

FuturePastNow posted:

I want to see the timeline where FDR didn't have a heart attack in bed with his mistress and instead made it through a couple more terms.

another of Elizabeth Warren's sins :argh:

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Grouchio posted:

What was Huey Long's stance towards Axis Germany?

His VP pick was super into it

quote:

On November 20, 1938, two weeks after Kristallnacht (the Nazi attack on German and Austrian Jews, their synagogues, and businesses), Coughlin, referring to the millions of Christians killed by the Communists in Russia, said "Jewish persecution only followed after Christians first were persecuted."[44] After this speech, some radio stations, including those in New York City and Chicago, began refusing to air Coughlin's speeches without subjecting his scripts to prior review and approval. In New York City, his programs were cancelled by WINS and WMCA, and Coughlin broadcast only on the Newark part-time station WHBI.[45] On December 18, 1938 thousands of Coughlin's followers picketed the studios of station WMCA in New York City to protest the station's refusal to carry the priest's broadcasts. A number of protesters yelled anti-semitic statements, such as "Send Jews back where they came from in leaky boats!" and "Wait until Hitler comes over here!" The protests continued for several months.[46] Historian Donald Warren, using information from the FBI and German government archives, has documented that Coughlin received indirect funding from Nazi Germany during this period.[47]

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

Why the gently caress would known progressive kleptocrat Huey Long have favored known semi-fascist Father Coughlin as his running mate? :psyduck:

Oracle
Oct 9, 2004

Grouchio posted:

Why the gently caress would known progressive kleptocrat Huey Long have favored known semi-fascist Father Coughlin as his running mate? :psyduck:

I don't believe the candidates picked their VPs at that point in history, the party did in 'smoke filled back rooms.'

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

GreyjoyBastard posted:

another of Elizabeth Warren's sins :argh:

Did she use the chain that time though?

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

Oracle posted:

I don't believe the candidates picked their VPs at that point in history, the party did in 'smoke filled back rooms.'
You know you have to admire the ways in which our country has progressed in the last 80-90 years.

Berke Negri
Feb 15, 2012

Les Ricains tuent et moi je mue
Mao Mao
Les fous sont rois et moi je bois
Mao Mao
Les bombes tonnent et moi je sonne
Mao Mao
Les bebes fuient et moi je fuis
Mao Mao


Grouchio posted:

Why the gently caress would known progressive kleptocrat Huey Long have favored known semi-fascist Father Coughlin as his running mate? :psyduck:

he was racist, op

Oracle posted:

I don't believe the candidates picked their VPs at that point in history, the party did in 'smoke filled back rooms.'

nah coughlin was wildly popular at that point and long was looking for any angle to break with FDR and kickstart his own party

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

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

The Glumslinger posted:

His VP pick was super into it

Didn’t Coughlin make some weird jump to being sorta lefty to being a screaming facist much like larouch?

Oracle
Oct 9, 2004

Dapper_Swindler posted:

Didn’t Coughlin make some weird jump to being sorta lefty to being a screaming facist much like larouch?

Coughlin was very anti-semitic (railing against 'Jewish bankers' from the left) and was being secretly funded by the Nazis. He was always an authoritarian demagogue, just one with socialist leanings. A national socialist, to coin a phrase.

Mr. Fall Down Terror
Jan 24, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Dapper_Swindler posted:

Didn’t Coughlin make some weird jump to being sorta lefty to being a screaming facist much like larouch?

yeah, it's not hard for people to start off by getting mad at kleptocrats and capitalists and bankers and from there it's a real short distance to ranting about jews

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

KillHour
Oct 28, 2007


luxury handset posted:

yeah, it's not hard for people to start off by getting mad at kleptocrats and capitalists and bankers and from there it's a real short distance to ranting about jews

Only if you're a racist who believes being a Jew is synonymous with being a kleptocrat. WTF, dude?

Illuminti
Dec 3, 2005

Praise be to China's Covid-Zero Policy

mod sassinator posted:

If you're arguing about Bush and bodycounts instead of doing things to stop the current criminal administration, that's the problem. No one loving cares and we won't care until Trump is long out of office.

Oh shut up. jfc

Thanks for your pointless comment. Wasting time when you could've been out there doing something!

mod sassinator
Dec 13, 2006
I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass

DC Murderverse posted:

jimmy carter, easily the best man to ever be president, whatever that means to you:


Nah, go watch the CNN documentary series on the modern presidents and Carter's episode. He wasn't bad but he wasn't exactly good either--he had no idea how to work with Congress to get things passed, and that torpedoed his chances of a second term. The hostage crisis was a complete mess under his leadership. IIRC he went through a few complete reboots of his cabinet too in attempts to get things under control. He was a good peanut farmer and nuke boat engineer, but a good president? The best you can say is he wasn't terrible.

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

I need someone else to acknowledge Giuliani going "I am Spartacus" in that voice

What the gently caress, we put this dude in charge of blackmailing Ukraine

Mr. Fall Down Terror
Jan 24, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

KillHour posted:

Only if you're a racist who believes being a Jew is synonymous with being a kleptocrat. WTF, dude?

leftists can also be racists, is this controversial :confused:

i am harry
Oct 14, 2003

mod sassinator posted:

but a good president?

Such a thing hasn’t existed in an awful long time.

Amazing Zimmo
Jan 27, 2006

That's quite a load you got in them diapers
https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1181794765936967682

rudy is dribbling, can someone wipe his chin

KillHour
Oct 28, 2007


luxury handset posted:

leftists can also be racists, is this controversial :confused:

You're the one who said it's not a far leap from kleptocrats to Jews. It is a far leap - one that requires you to be a racist to get there. Don't Stan for racists. :wtc:

Mr. Fall Down Terror
Jan 24, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

KillHour posted:

You're the one who said it's not a far leap from kleptocrats to Jews. It is a far leap - one that requires you to be a racist to get there. Don't Stan for racists. :wtc:

really don't know where you're trying to go with this "racists often have racist ideas" take but good night and god bless you on your journey

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Bugsy
Jul 15, 2004

I'm thumpin'. That's
why they call me
'Thumper'.


Slippery Tilde
So much crazy rudy.

https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1181755612574736384

https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1181733491098230785

https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1181762551530557440

https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1181768921285828610

https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1181764447100133376

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