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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:State anti-abortion groups are upset that the FDA decided to allow abortion pills to be sent via mail following the Dobbs decision and worried that it is undermining the ability the prevent abortions. Not a fan of WaPo framing them as "illegal abortion pills." Edit: man this is a depressing snipe. Here's a picture of my cat. 
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Agents are GO! posted:Not a fan of WaPo framing them as "illegal abortion pills." Yeah, that short description is a little unclear. They are illegal to distribute by non-pharmacists in the states that banned them The pills themselves are not illegal versions of abortion pills. Just people who provide abortion pills to people seeking abortions without them having to go to a doctor/pharmacy are distributing them illegally. Most of the abortion bans were written to not punish the woman in any way, so they don't know what to do when the woman orders them from a website that isn't a registered pharmacy, but they want it to stop and for someone to get punished. They are trying to find ways to block the pills and punish people who distribute them, but not the women who use them. One of the suggestions is a state law requiring ISPs block websites that sell them. But, they don't have a really good strategy to prevent this. That is why they are going with the crazy route of trying to get states to interfere with the mail. But, so far, none of the states have taken them up on that angle yet.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I was 100% convinced this was a joke until I scrolled down to the next two posts. I am genuinely stunned, in the most hilarious way. This is why it's been so hard to satire Trump. It's just impossible to be more ridiculous. Hopefully this campaign continues to deliver all the hilarious moments of 2016-2020 and none of the world-endingly horrible ones
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Seems like a great way to launder money and also get it in large quantities potentially outside of the usual campaign donation apparatus, which is already a huge grift.
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Cranappleberry posted:Seems like a great way to launder money and also get it in large quantities potentially outside of the usual campaign donation apparatus, which is already a huge grift. He already tried NFTs back in March when Parler launched and only sold 384 of 1000 https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2022/03/01/parler-launches-nft-marketplace-with-new-trump-nfts/?sh=7ba3fc1113c4 Great businessman, perhaps the greatest businessman.
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We should have known it was going to be some sort of grift. This is the absolute most bonkers timeline - and it all started with Harambe’s assassination.
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Honestly this is relatively (RELATIVELY) smart of Trump. Why spend the resources developing an NFT when the only morons who would ever buy one are totally fine with just buying a JPEG instead? The Trump cult happily eats poo poo at every opportunity, why serve them a fancier meal?
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projecthalaxy posted:A few more of the designs, if you've got a spare hundred bones laying around: I honestly thought that second one was somehow a picture of Joe Biden that was slipped in there somehow because of the aviator shades. I love how he's not smiling in any of these pictures. He's so stern faced and just generally bereft of joy. I want to imagine he, if not posed for all of these drawings, at least face modelled for them, because it's just a more flattering version of his fat head on fictional bodies. So I just want to picture him sitting there, utterly miserable, while they took reference photo after reference photo, getting increasingly more bored with the prospect because he lacks the imagination to picture the finished product in his head as he's doing it, so every picture in the set had a facial expression that looks like he wants to be literally anywhere else right now.
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Discendo Vox posted:To the best of my knowledge there's no actual news regarding Fauci or supposed lab leak conspiracy theories; it's likely that some "revelation" has been ginned up entirely in the right wing fringe. I'm not quite sure where to look to seek out what it might be, since a lot of the outlets I've historically used for that purpose are actually (relatively) pro-vax. So do we know what might have set them off besides Fauci's retirement? Like, there wasn't that much discussion of COVID or Fauci around the summer but now it's everywhere on right wing Twitter. Edit: Also, is there a good explainer about the right's obsession with gain of function research in Wuhan? Some say that "the NIH admitted it!!!" and others say "not so fast."
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Dec 15, 2022 17:52
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Thered better be a " Trump as a Tom of Finland leather daddy" in the set
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MAGAchu, I choose you!
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If you buy 45 of them you get a dinner with Trump.
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That's one way to make up with Pence.
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Should've gone with a Trump jpeg gacha imo.
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These are all how Trump sees himself when he looks in the mirror.
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His ad read is equally  https://twitter.com/owillis/status/1603429122516172802
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Non Fungible Trump
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negativeneil posted:Honestly this is relatively (RELATIVELY) smart of Trump. Why spend the resources developing an NFT when the only morons who would ever buy one are totally fine with just buying a JPEG instead? The Trump cult happily eats poo poo at every opportunity, why serve them a fancier meal? Nah according to the website they're NFTs. And he's a bit late to the NFT grift train. e: wow he is struggling with that ad TGLT fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Dec 15, 2022 |
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Youth Decay posted:His ad read is equally Oh my god, the subtitles literally struggling to keep up with his alternating rapid/slow speaking style. He just winged that ad read off the top of his head. There are no other better or worse takes, that's the only take they had.
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small butter posted:So do we know what might have set them off besides Fauci's retirement? Like, there wasn't that much discussion of COVID or Fauci around the summer but now it's everywhere on right wing Twitter.
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https://twitter.com/aedwardslevy/status/1603077088197623817 CNN out with an interesting framing on the tedious Trump/Biden polling that's somehow both overdone and premature. A few notes:
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Failed Imagineer posted:Thered better be a " Trump as a Tom of Finland leather daddy" in the set Somewhere, a computer running Stable Diffusion whirrs into action Anyhow whomever said it's going to be impossible to tell which are parodies and which are real is right
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I'm starting to think Texas was a mistake
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I guess this will answer the question "who is left that's dumb enough to buy NFTs" lol EDIT wait... Kaiju Cage Match posted:They're just pictures, not even NFTs! Can you clarify, like you're literally just paying money to get like a high res PNG of the image or whatever and there isn't even a token? 
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Beginning to look like Trump Campaign III is more of a collection plate than a candidacy. No, I mean more than the first two did.
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small butter posted:So do we know what might have set them off besides Fauci's retirement? Like, there wasn't that much discussion of COVID or Fauci around the summer but now it's everywhere on right wing Twitter. Elon bought Twitter, and now he's giving all the "hey maybe we should do something about rampant COVID misinfo" email chains and Slack discussions to various washed-up right-wing journalists. When it comes to the right's obsession with gain-of-function research, there's not really anything to explain. Conspiracy theorists who believe in human-created superviruses being secretly released into the wild are obviously going to fixate on research that involves genetically modifying viruses. And there isn't much point getting into the fine details, because they're all just repeating nonsense they saw being passed around on social media.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'm starting to think Texas was a mistake Evergreen comment
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TGLT posted:Nah according to the website they're NFTs. And he's a bit late to the NFT grift train. e: wow he is struggling with that ad Holy poo poo. Someone had to sit down and try to explain NFTs to Trump. Could you imagine what a circular conversation that would have been?
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nine-gear crow posted:Holy poo poo. Someone had to sit down and try to explain NFTs to Trump. Could you imagine what a circular conversation that would have been? "This is a thing that lets dumb people give you money" "Ok, do it"
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haveblue posted:"This is a thing that lets dumb people give you money" On second thought, nevermind
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Sir Lemming posted:I am genuinely stunned, in the most hilarious way. I'm not sure how political satire as a genre even exists in the post-Trump era. This announcement is just soul crushing darkness. Trump sucked all the comedy out of the planet's atmosphere like Mega Maid in Spaceballs by going door-to-door and making sure everyone knew that all the jokes were not only real but awkwardly on the nose to the point of pure, unrelenting cringe.
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 In celebration of this early Trump-Mas bounty, we have decided to launch the First Annual D&D Merry Trump-Mas Caption Contest! Posters can win fabulous prizes for participating! You can read the full details and send in your submissions in a separate thread here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4019787 A brief summary of the rules and prizes below: quote:The Rules: Come spread the seasonal cheer. Have a merry Trump-Mas. A Happy Joe-ydays. A blessed Kamalakkah. And a Fauci-vus for the rest of us. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Dec 15, 2022 |
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This timeline is threatening to collapse into a singularity of stupidity. Help.
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E: Double posted and somehow beat the 10-second timer.
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Full OP for caption contest is up! We also went through the Trump NFT collection to pull a bunch of examples and templates for easy use. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4019787 Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:
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I’m dying Leon. I’m not going to say it, but somebody else will put two and two together. It’s very funny.
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Lol is "RUMP TOWER" actually on the finished version, I assumed it was just a bad crop
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Captain_Maclaine posted:This timeline is threatening to collapse into a singularity of stupidity. I'm not a cosmologist, but I would say, in my uninformed opinion, that that happened around the time mister Trump took his escalator trip way back in 2015.
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Main Paineframe posted:Elon bought Twitter, and now he's giving all the "hey maybe we should do something about rampant COVID misinfo" email chains and Slack discussions to various washed-up right-wing journalists. Thanks. What about the idea that Fauci "lied" about the research? From what I can gather, different people and institutions have different definitions of it and Fauci was being honest by using the definition that the NIH uses. (But regardless, COVID wasn't manmade.)
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nine-gear crow posted:Holy poo poo. Someone had to sit down and try to explain NFTs to Trump. Could you imagine what a circular conversation that would have been? My favourite part is how he toward the end says "NFT" by leaning forward, as if he can't read the teleprompter well.
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