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LastInLine posted:LOL that was exactly the part that triggered the memory! Like there was some time in living memory that there wasn't just unlimited money for covert operations to do heinous things without any oversight whatsoever is completely bonkers to even try to believe and yet there it is. If I remember right, there was only not-infinite money for the contras because they murdered a busload of literal nuns (including american citizens) and when pushed on it were like "hell yeah we did it and we'd do it again, gently caress them nuns". Then congress passed a "no more infinite dark money for those guys, specifically" law. The law achieved nothing, the contras were still funded, and no one was really punished, legally or electorally, for openly breaking it.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:If I remember right, there was only not-infinite money for the contras because they murdered a busload of literal nuns (including american citizens) and when pushed on it were like "hell yeah we did it and we'd do it again, gently caress them nuns". Then congress passed a "no more infinite dark money for those guys, specifically" law. Someone recently in one of these threads said that their excuse they settled on was "we weren't meaning to kill american nuns, we meant to kill social workers" which is also the bad sort of lol
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Milo and POTUS posted:Someone recently in one of these threads said that their excuse they settled on was "we weren't meaning to kill american nuns, we meant to kill social workers" which is also the bad sort of lol You’re probably thinking of a different time a US backed Latin American death squad murdered nuns: in 1980 US nuns working as missionaries were raped, beaten and murdered by members of the El Salvador national guard. In response to this Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Reagan’s Secretary of State said ‘the nuns were not just nuns. They were political activists. We ought to be a little more clear about this than we actually are.'
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Mitt Romney avoiding Vietnam service by doing missionary work in France wasn't he there for like 6 years or something and ended up with exactly 0 converts?
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Spergin Morlock posted:he only moves his facial muscles when he involuntarily twitches from the spray-on toupee tickling his scalp
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YOLOsubmarine posted:You’re probably thinking of a different time a US backed Latin American death squad murdered nuns: in 1980 US nuns working as missionaries were raped, beaten and murdered by members of the El Salvador national guard. Serious grover energy
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uber_stoat posted:turnip didn't actually want to win the election.
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Private Cumshoe posted:wasn't he there for like 6 years or something and ended up with exactly 0 converts? also killed one of his hosts in a car crash or some poo poo
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Romney being so out of touch that he tried to relate to people by talking about how he had to sell off some stocks when he was first starting out on his own.
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muscles like this! posted:Romney being so out of touch that he tried to relate to people by talking about how he had to sell off some stocks when he was first starting out on his own. a small one million dollar loan
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George HW Bush pardoned all the Iran-Contra people the day before Christmas, mere weeks before he'd step-down as President
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Ah, yes, the fabled "pivot".
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our resident insane trumper top bunk wanker getting really mad anytime anyone used the words pivot or ratfucking.
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tbf for awhile there everything everywhere was ratfucking and being ratfucked
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:tbf for awhile there everything everywhere was ratfucking and being ratfucked traumatic brain farts for a while
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I remember from this morning when Rudy Giuliani got caught on camera trying to gently caress an actor in the new Borat movie
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LibCrusher posted:I remember from this morning when Rudy Giuliani got caught on camera trying to gently caress an actor in the new Borat movie I remember when Cohen's tv series accidentally uncovered sex trafficking and nothing happened
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not being able to run bernie because trump would stick the socialist label on him, and him alone.
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Dennis Rodman basically making himself the US ambassador to North Korea
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:tbf for awhile there everything everywhere was ratfucking and being ratfucked yeah but its a good funny word.
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Donald Trump may be a rat but I have no desire to copulate with him
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moist turtleneck posted:speaking of rats lol no it was a dirty little secret within Iowa politics and presidential campaigns for a long time that the results were always wildly inaccurate, but the fact that it's proportionate representation and that the winner doesn't generally go on to be the nominee meant that no campaign was ever really gonna try to force through a change, until Bernie anyways the reforms his campaign championed after 2016 essentially guaranteed that the long-standing fuckery would be made public. the iowa dem party made a hilariously inept attempt to get the kind of results mandated, but the fact that everyone was so used to absolute chaos and fuckery, it went as it did once it became clear that the actual votes weren't gonna matter to who was the nominee and they promised to never do a caucus again (which is what the actual goal of Bernie's reforms was, but the Iowa Dems stubbornly refused and needed to be made a laughingstock first), everyone politely dropped it
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lol the wikipedia page for it is snarky as hellquote:Contrary to media belief in Biden's strength among non-white voters,[97] Sanders won that demographic in Iowa with 46% support, with Buttigieg placing second with 15% and Biden placing third with only 13% support. According to CNN reported entrance polls, Buttigieg won white voters with 23%. However, The New York Times indicates a statistical tie at 23%, with a slight advantage to Sanders.[98] Some counties carried by Buttigieg, such as Clinton County, had swung from Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016 by double digits.[96]
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Marx Was A Lib posted:not being able to run bernie because trump would stick the socialist label on him, and him alone. Its very hard to imagine that anyone fooled by that would have ever voted Bernie in the first place.
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StashAugustine posted:Donald Trump may be a rat but I have no desire to copulate with him
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Stephen Paddock shooting almost a thousand people truly wild how quickly and thoroughly he got memory-holed
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tinstaach posted:Stephen Paddock shooting almost a thousand people one of my coworkers got shot in the back during that event and was out of work for 6 or 7 months
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Its very hard to imagine that anyone fooled by that would have ever voted Bernie in the first place. I have been wondering for years and years where the  gangtag came from
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tinstaach posted:Stephen Paddock shooting almost a thousand people that they still don't know his motive and claim he had no political views is really suspect also all the child porn both he and his brother had
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Flavius Aetass posted:I have been wondering for years and years where the that was a LF thing for people who donated to the Muslim guy who needed money to buy pants
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Azathoth posted:Iowa fighting tooth and nail to have a 2020 caucus after everyone telling them that they couldn't do it with the mandated accountability and auditability from the post 2016 reforms and that they should switch to a primary, them insisting that it'll be fine, then getting embarrassed on the world stage because it absolutely was not fine. The this is fine dog amidst a field of corn
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I will never apologize for America lmao sucks to suck 655
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Rick Perry's ranch D in Meats
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