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fermun posted:exactly, catholics are an easter people. protestants are the christmas ones excellent point now i'm imagining melania's completely traditional white house mardi gras decorations and pageantry
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the US government spent billions of dollars in the 1980s developing space weapons because the president was a senile old man who had seen Star Wars and liked it, with almost all of them being promptly cancelled by George HW Bush, his own hand-picked successor. they included a concept for a laser gun powered by a nuclear warhead and a bugfuck-insane plan to launch over 300 orbiting space stations covered in weapons. the one that they went with, as the least stupid and outlandish of the various designs they wasted money on, was 'Brilliant Pebbles', a plan to launch ten thousand tiny missiles into orbit and have them just hang out up there forever, to be activated if the Soviets ever launched ICBMs. in addition to violating pretty much every space treaty and filling LEO with debris, the plan's projected cost was about 55 billion US dollars by the time it was finally cancelled (inflation-adjusted, about 110 billion dollars), plus ongoing costs for replacing the missiles as they reached end-of-life, for something that we now know would have never been used. it managed to survive through the Bush era only to finally get shitcanned by the Clinton administration. also, even if it had been deployed, and even if nuclear war had broken out, we are now pretty sure it wouldn't have even worked
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Kitfox88 posted:can anyone post that time lapse photo series of abrams realizing in real time she will not be vice president https://twitter.com/ejw2020/status/1282064379878486016?s=19
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Nov 27, 2022 16:07
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Remember when Melania Trump redid the white house gardens to look like a terrifying hellscape and people got actual IRL mad about this garden they had never been to and will never be allowed to enter
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loquacius posted:Remember when Melania Trump redid the white house gardens to look like a terrifying hellscape and people got actual IRL mad about this garden they had never been to and will never be allowed to enter She also installed an art 
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Mister Bates posted:the US government spent billions of dollars in the 1980s developing space weapons because the president was a senile old man who had seen Star Wars and liked it, with almost all of them being promptly cancelled by George HW Bush, his own hand-picked successor. they included a concept for a laser gun powered by a nuclear warhead and a bugfuck-insane plan to launch over 300 orbiting space stations covered in weapons. The conniption the usual suspects through after clinton "slashed" the military budget after the cold war drawdown
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Lord of Pie posted:She also installed an art I have just now learned this garden exists and I am utterly outraged that it has been so defaced
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Bet they have to spend less money maintaining that sculpture over some.roses you know the first lady wasn't watering
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Milo and POTUS posted:The conniption the usual suspects through after clinton "slashed" the military budget after the cold war drawdown everyone predicting that there would be a 'peace dividend' after the end of the Cold War as all of that military budget money was shifted to instead being spent on domestic/civilian programs, like infrastructure or healthcare or education, only for everyone in government to pick that exact moment to suddenly be extremely concerned about the budget deficit
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Mister Bates posted:George HW Bush, his own hand-picked successor. Uhh
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Mister Bates posted:everyone predicting that there would be a 'peace dividend' after the end of the Cold War as all of that military budget money was shifted to instead being spent on domestic/civilian programs, like infrastructure or healthcare or education, only for everyone in government to pick that exact moment to suddenly be extremely concerned about the budget deficit Thank God for 9/11
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Mister Bates posted:everyone predicting that there would be a 'peace dividend' after the end of the Cold War as all of that military budget money was shifted to instead being spent on domestic/civilian programs, like infrastructure or healthcare or education, only for everyone in government to pick that exact moment to suddenly be extremely concerned about the budget deficit gee I wonder why it got memory holed so hard
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Sherbert Hoover posted:it looks awesome but is also very clearly from someone who doesn't get christmas which is v funny Perhaps it is hamburger people who do not understand christmas and instead have let the coca cola corporation define it for them. If there isn't a beast man birching children I feel like you have forgotten the reason for the season. A Bakers Cousin posted:Bet they have to spend less money maintaining that sculpture over some.roses you know the first lady wasn't watering You probably don't need to water roses in DC.
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Weka posted:Perhaps it is hamburger people who do not understand christmas and instead have let the coca cola corporation define it for them. If there isn't a beast man birching children I feel like you have forgotten the reason for the season. Or when you're the first lady Really, any labor the first lady performs is sheer pageantry
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Lord of Pie posted:She also installed an art that rules
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mawarannahr posted:https://twitter.com/wiczipedia/status/1594154238795550723 LOL she lasted 1-2 months.
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Mr. Lobe posted:Or when you're the first lady Sometimes it's nice to do a simple menial task like water the garden.
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Action Jacktion posted:They forgot "All of the above." #7 only kind of happened compared to "definitely exactly that happened" for the rest
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ikanreed posted:#7 only kind of happened compared to "definitely exactly that happened" for the rest like crime is up, and 9/11 happened, but capitalism did not let 9/11 stop them for sure and crime's still way down compared to the 90s
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DACK FAYDEN posted:eh #6 mostly didn't I think the point of calling #6 true is that whether or not crime and terrorism actually went up, the War on Terror and the associated enormous media coverage of high-profile terrorist acts like 9/11, the London bombings, or the Bataclan attack did in fact lead to much of the developed world pulling back and closing itself off out of fear rather than continuing to open up as the "long boom" scenario projected.
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Zerg Mans posted:some twitter lockdown-scold getting crippling long covid because he had to see three spiderman movie in theaters The dnd covid thread zealot who accidentally let slip that he went to disneyland to buy a mug but its okay because he didn't go to the restroom so he's still morally pure
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Remember when Ron Paul was in one of the Presidential Debates in 2008 and said he supported the harshest punishments for illegal immigrants, but was opposed to building a fence on the southern border because he said "they will use the border fence to keep all of us in instead of keeping them out" and implement capital controls to bankrupt anyone who tried to move? And he thought it was such a good point that he tried to run ads highlighting that answer and promoted it on his Twitter? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esp-ruhkZqQ https://twitter.com/ronpaul/status/1072597329490993155
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Remember when Ron Paul was in one of the Presidential Debates in 2008 and said he supported the harshest punishments for illegal immigrants, but was opposed to building a fence on the southern border because he said "they will use the border fence to keep all of us in instead of keeping them out" and implement capital controls to bankrupt anyone who tried to move? i remember the groans from the audience when he said it lol
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Remember when Ron Paul was in one of the Presidential Debates in 2008 and said he supported the harshest punishments for illegal immigrants, but was opposed to building a fence on the southern border because he said "they will use the border fence to keep all of us in instead of keeping them out" and implement capital controls to bankrupt anyone who tried to move? Ron Paul's mid-interview stroke
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vyelkin posted:I think the point of calling #6 true is that whether or not crime and terrorism actually went up, the War on Terror and the associated enormous media coverage of high-profile terrorist acts like 9/11, the London bombings, or the Bataclan attack did in fact lead to much of the developed world pulling back and closing itself off out of fear rather than continuing to open up as the "long boom" scenario projected.
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Zerg Mans posted:Ron Paul's mid-interview stroke no, that was Jeff toobin
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Remember when, during a Democratic primary debate, Anderson Cooper asked the question:quote:They say you can tell a lot about a person by their enemies. What enemy are you proudest of making during your political career? And the responses were: quote:The coal industry quote:Wall Street and Big Banks. quote:The NRA quote:The Republican party named me their biggest problem in Congress. And then, it was Jim Webb's turn and he responds with: quote:I’d have to say the enemy soldier that threw the grenade that wounded me, but he’s not around right now to talk to... And then didn't offer any other details. And people kept asking him about what person he killed that he was referencing so much that his campaign had to contact the Navy for a copy of his qualifications for the Navy Cross to get all the information. Then, he said he was done talking about it, but also confirmed that he had killed more than one person, and just referred everyone to the Navy statement. quote:On 10 July 1969, while participating in a company-sized search and destroy operation deep in hostile territory, First Lieutenant Webb’s platoon discovered a well-camouflaged bunker complex which appeared to be unoccupied. Deploying his men into defensive positions, First Lieutenant Webb was advancing to the first bunker when three enemy soldiers armed with hand grenades jumped out. Reacting instantly, he grabbed the closest man and, brandishing his .45 caliber pistol at the others, apprehended all three of the soldiers. The video is amazing because he clearly intended it to be a huge laugh line, but none of the candidates react and the audience has an uncomfortable sigh mixed in with a tiny smattering of applause from his campaign guests in the audience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AqzJ5JnnlI
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Zerg Mans posted:The massive candidate fields in the 2016 and 2020 primaries requiring a kids table debate And Bobby Jindal described being sent to the kids table debate as "brutal" and said that he almost cried when he heard. Then, he tried to reverse in the middle of the interview and declare that "this was the very first debate of the campaign. It was the first debate and not an inferior debate. I think being first is going to be a huge boon for us." At the same debate, Jim Gilmore didn't have a press team and got stopped by event security trying to go up to the Fox News and CNN stage because they didn't realize he was a candidate.
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Just remembered that Ronna Romney changed her name and started using her maiden name "Ronna McDaniel" because Trump didn't want someone named Romney running the RNC. lmao.
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