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The thought that Pompeo pushed him into this, and now its technically going to be harder to start a war with Iran because of it makes me smile.
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Jealous Cow posted:The thought that Pompeo pushed him into this, and now its technically going to be harder to start a war with Iran because of it makes me smile. McConnell will kill this in the senate...
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mcmagic posted:McConnell will kill this in the senate... Have to agree with the McM on this one. Nothing that removes power to drop bombs is ever getting past the senate.
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Doubling up on the military power tax: https://i.imgur.com/UY8MHJQ.mp4
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Revelation 2-13 posted:drat, I suddenly remembered how he wanted the army to go back to using couriers with written messages instead of ‘digital’. That was like a million years ago and he was a complete dumbshit back then already, the dementia/stroke has just made him even more of a complete drooling moron. Stop them from carrying the guns away! Those guns, down the valley! *gestures angrily*
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Jaxyon posted:Have to agree with the McM on this one. GOP talking point is democrats do nothing. Democrats talking point is "look at all the poo poo we are trying to do."
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Senate Resolution 1) or else what? 2) love how they're wording this really specifically instead of taking on the whole war powers act thing, which is the real problem.
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MSDOS KAPITAL posted:The base is not "the people you always get" like they're obligated to vote and vote for you. The base is the people who follow politics at least a bit, and whose preferences broadly align with what you at least claim to support. They're the ones whose votes are supposed to be easily gettable, if you put in some effort. They follow the primaries and they usually vote in them as well. They're also usually thought of as the people you represent. They're not a lock but if you can't even get them to turn out, then you're a terrible candidate. How many more or less votes does that nuance mean?
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UnknownTarget posted:1) or else what? Amending or repealing the war powers resolution would require either a compliant president or a supermajority in both the house and senate, which I strongly doubt is possible at the moment.
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This must be so much worse than the public knows for them to be doing this.
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Hey remember when someone said yesterday that he hoped that Trump didn't watch the wrong Fox News show https://twitter.com/allahpundit/status/1215082577784119296
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Jaxyon posted:Have to agree with the McM on this one. Mike Lee and Rand Paul are going to vote for it, so that's at least 49 votes.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Hey remember when someone said yesterday that he hoped that Trump didn't watch the wrong Fox News show lol. jesus, tucker the nazi sorta helped. thats depressing.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Hey remember when someone said yesterday that he hoped that Trump didn't watch the wrong Fox News show LMAO Tucker Carlson prevents WWIII for a while
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Americans Aren't Rallying to Trump msn.com/10 hrs ago "So that was not exactly the Cuban missile crisis." McConnell has the GOP votes for Trump's trial now. That doesn't mean he'll have them later. nbcnews.com/Jan. 7, 2020 "A handful of Senate Republicans, whom McConnell needs on his side, are being watched for signs they may vote with Democrats to call witnesses." Republicans Scared Bolton Will Testify About Trump’s Ukraine Crimes nymag.com/Jan. 7, 2020 'When a parade of witnesses defied the White House to testify about the administration’s plot to turn Ukraine policy into a lever to dirty up President Trump’s domestic enemies, Republicans dismissed it all as secondhand information. None of them had spoken directly to Trump, except Gordon Sondland, whose memory of such discussions proved fuzzy. “Their understanding, which is the foundation of the case for the Democrats, was based on secondhand information,” said Representative Kevin McCarthy, mouthing the party’s favorite talking point. Yesterday, former national security adviser John Bolton put himself forward as a willing witness for the Senate impeachment trial. Bolton’s testimony is very much of the firsthand variety. On at least one occasion, he met with Trump and pleaded with him to release military aid to Ukraine. Yet Republicans seem shockingly unreceptive for the chance to hear the kind of firsthand testimony they have been demanding for weeks.' 'Approximately 100 percent' of tariff costs have fallen onto Americans, new research shows markets.businessinsider.com/Jan. 6, 2020 [Duh. Pass it on to the chuds anyway.] Trump Administration Quietly Goes After Disability Benefits huffpost.com/01/07/2020 "Some Americans could lose Social Security Disability Insurance benefits under a recent Trump administration proposal ― a change that could affect thousands of people but that has received little attention since it was first floated in November." Spain gets new left-wing coalition government after socialist leader wins vote independent.co.uk/1 day ago "Spain got a new left-wing coalition government on Tuesday after the country’s parliament voted to return Pedro Sanchez as prime minister. The administration is a coalition between the centre-left Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) and the leftist group Podemos. The decision appears to signal an end to months of political deadlock in Spain, which held two general elections last year, the most recent of them in November. The new coalition is the first such arrangement in the country’s political history since the restoration of democracy in the 1970s." What Will Happen to The Trump Toadies? nymag.com/intelligencer/Jan. 7, 2020 "Look to Nixon’s defenders, and the Vichy collaborators, for clues." .... 'Irony, declared dead after 9/11, is alive and kicking in Trump’s America. It’s the concepts of truth and shame that are on life support. The definition of “facts” has been so thoroughly vandalized that Americans can no longer agree on what one is, and our president has barreled through so many crimes and misdemeanors with so few consequences that it’s impossible to gainsay his claim that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it. Donald Trump proves daily that there is no longer any penalty for doing wrong as long as you deny everything, never say you’re sorry, and have co-conspirators stashed in powerful places to put the fix in.' .... Satellite Images Show Australia's Devastating Wildfires From Space nasaspxa.com/January 4, 2020 "Satellites in space can spot changes to Earth’s climate, and they are providing frightening bird’s-eye views of the devastating consequences of global warming." Edit: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3908888 Otteration fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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Thoughts and prayers for our uniformed murderers, but I sincerely hope Iran finds a way to further concrete how loving stupid and useless our leadership and trillion dollar military are. It's funny seeing they're the cool, calm, moderate adults in the room and therefore probably won't, though.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Hey remember when someone said yesterday that he hoped that Trump didn't watch the wrong Fox News show This is not OK.
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ReidRansom posted:This is not OK. Nothing is ok.
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ReidRansom posted:This is not OK. Chill dude, O'Reilly's not around anymore in any real fashion. Instead we've got president Hannity.
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Otteration posted:How many more or less votes does that nuance mean?
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Akumu posted:It really feels like Mike Lee's problem is not anything to do with the decision made but just that Senator Mike Lee's authority was not respected. That will piss off any Senator.
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Caros posted:Nothing is ok. Counterpoint tax: 
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Otteration posted:I'll make fun of the orange fecal smear's sniffing and slurping all day long given obvious data (and because such speculation does not matter at all), but it's way to early to speculate on the cause of any air crash absent actual data. We have actual data, it's a plane taking off and transmitting data normally, then suddenly stopping the transmission of data and then crashing. Something catastrophic happened to that plane to take it from normal to "completely hosed" (a technical term) within seconds -- not long enough for a distress call or a transmission of any kind of abnormal flight path. While I think it's too early to say a missile took it down definitively, it is absolutely reasonable to speculate that this plane crash is directly related to the US/Iran conflict that was happening at the same time. Whether it was a missile, a bomb, or a hurried maintenance job that got hosed up to get a plane out of a near-warzone ASAP, I simply do not believe these two situations are unrelated. The chances are so phenomenally slim it would be like being struck by lightning after walking out of a store where you've just purchased a jackpot-winning lottery ticket. This was a relatively new plane of a proven type, operated by an airline with a great safety record and flown by an experienced crew, it didn't "just crash."
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MSDOS KAPITAL posted:About 75,000 in four swing states. Fix it then.
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We don't have enough info. I know coincidences can be real mind blowers for people though. Perhaps the one true Christian God slapped it out of the air?
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It's entirely possible this is totally unrelated. Everyone was thinking Flight 587, two months after the 9/11 attacks was terrorism, but it turns out the vertical stabilizer broke off. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587
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Don’t tell me I can’t speculate. Try and stop me!
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PT6A posted:We have actual data, it's a plane taking off and transmitting data normally, then suddenly stopping the transmission of data and then crashing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_811#NTSB_investigation_reopened https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800#Tensions_in_the_investigation What actual data yet? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-it/?error=cookies_not_supported&code=2f39a627-e88b-4151-a97e-a46e5bbdf866 https://psychcentral.com/blog/catastrophic-thinking-when-your-mind-clings-to-worst-case-scenarios/ Not saying it isn't "completely hosed", just saying we have no idea yet. Otteration fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:Hey remember when someone said yesterday that he hoped that Trump didn't watch the wrong Fox News show The president won't listen to his own generals but will to some shithead on the TV. I wonder if America thinks the rest of the world still respects it.
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I don't buy this act at all. These ghouls realize that the President almost sleepwalked the country into another unpopular, costly conflict that they would've 100% supported had even one American died but he somehow didn't go through with the worst of decisions so now they have some wiggle room to pretend to be aghast and principled.
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Mat Cauthon posted:I don't buy this act at all. These ghouls realize that the President almost sleepwalked the country into another unpopular, costly conflict that they would've 100% supported had even one American died but he somehow didn't go through with the worst of decisions so now they have some wiggle room to pretend to be aghast and principled. These ghouls still have to be elected in 2020. Parts of their electorate may not be currently pleased. It happens. Poll: More Utahns disapprove of Sens. Mitt Romney and Mike Lee than like them sltrib.com/October 21, 2019 Recent state polls are hard to come by, but it's possible some of his constituency have been yelling at him.
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Madkal posted:The president won't listen to his own generals but will to some shithead on the TV. I wonder if America thinks the rest of the world still respects it. Lots of Americans do think that, but it’s just because in general we are a loving ignorant and vain group of assholes.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Hey remember when someone said yesterday that he hoped that Trump didn't watch the wrong Fox News show
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Hello USPOL, please spare a moment for this thread. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3909991 Thank you.
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This article is probably the most pure political Rorschach test you could come up with Greedy corporations! Inefficient government bureaucracy! Inflexible regulations! Slumlord Exploitation! Lack of a social safety net! Union drafted building codes! Monopoly noncompetition! https://nyti.ms/2FzdT3j quote:By Derek M. Norman
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