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This seems bad https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1607848139104620544
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Mike Pence was terrified his own Secret Service detail was either going to abduct or execute him if he got into a car with them on January 6th, I don't blame Biden for not trusting them. The whole organization needs to be flushed and refreshed.
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Dec 29, 2022 04:25
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nine-gear crow posted:Mike Pence was terrified his own Secret Service detail was either going to abduct or execute him if he got into a car with them on January 6th, I don't blame Biden for not trusting them. The whole organization needs to be flushed and refreshed. But lol, with who? There's only one place cops come from.
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Dec 29, 2022 04:51
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Ghost Leviathan posted:But lol, with who? There's only one place cops come from. Resident Evil 4 had the right idea you recruit from cops who only lasted as cops for one day so it hasn't fully metastasized.
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Dec 29, 2022 05:03
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the_steve posted:Yeah, why would anyone stop doing the thing that constantly rewards them with millions of dollars, especially when the only punishment for failure is being constantly rewarded slightly less millions of dollars? That, and the airlines themselves are essentially loss-leaders for their rewards program subsidiaries, which are many times larger and more profitable. They essentially print their own currency (airline miles), set their own exchange rates (how many miles each flight costs), and then sells these quasi-securities to (mostly) credit card companies.
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Dec 29, 2022 07:28
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I'd be mad at anyone who made me get rid of my dog, too.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:But lol, with who? There's only one place cops come from. Historically, with foreigners who can't speak your language so they won't get drawn into courtly politics.
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Dec 29, 2022 08:16
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Ghost Leviathan posted:But lol, with who? There's only one place cops come from. Members in good standing of a John Brown Gun Club, or similar organization. Or we hire a bunch of Scandanavians or Swiss who promise to wear silly uniforms.
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Dec 29, 2022 08:34
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Normy posted:I did see a tiktok about 4 strangers who rented a car to go from Florida to the north east somewhere. Didn't see how it ended up though. A few years ago I had a ORD-IAH flight canceled and couldn't get anything else for like 6 days. I absolutely took the refund, grabbed a rental, and drove the 20 or so hours from Chicago to Houston in one go. I trashed the rental in the process (flight canceled due to a blizzard) but gently caress it, I bought the insurance for a reason.
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Dec 29, 2022 08:53
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forbidden dialectics posted:That, and the airlines themselves are essentially loss-leaders for their rewards program subsidiaries, which are many times larger and more profitable. They essentially print their own currency (airline miles), set their own exchange rates (how many miles each flight costs), and then sells these quasi-securities to (mostly) credit card companies. What do the credit card companies do with these uh... whatever they are being sold (frequent flyer miles?) I know pretty much nothing about securities or finance, or even much about rewards programs seeing as I haven't flown in well over a decade.
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Dec 29, 2022 09:01
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Tayter Swift posted:What do the credit card companies do with these uh... whatever they are being sold (frequent flyer miles?) I know pretty much nothing about securities or finance, or even much about rewards programs seeing as I haven't flown in well over a decade. I'm not entirely sure what that person means by selling the miles to credit card companies, but every airline has one or more partnerships with banks and/or credit card companies to offer a card where you can earn miles for your spending.
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Dec 29, 2022 09:17
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Shooting Blanks posted:earn miles for your spending.  I forgot about that direction, I was only thinking of frequent flyer miles. Interest on the cards will get them their cut then.I think I get it now, thanks 
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Dec 29, 2022 09:55
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Gyges posted:Members in good standing of a John Brown Gun Club, or similar organization. Once again, opinions I was pilloried and probated for previously just take their sweet-rear end time becoming conventional opinion in CE.
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Dec 29, 2022 15:46
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selec posted:Once again, opinions I was pilloried and probated for previously just take their sweet-rear end time becoming conventional opinion in CE. That's kind of a literal joke but uh okay. Also lol that people the mainstream Democrats absolutely will pillory as insane dangerous partisans are literally the only ones who could even possibly be trusted to defend their lives at this point. And this isn't an exaggeration. On any level, you'd be hard to find a cop in America who isn't salivating at the idea of presenting a literal severed head of a Democrat to Donald Trump personally.
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Dec 29, 2022 15:49
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Gyges posted:Or we hire a bunch of Scandanavians or Swiss who promise to wear silly uniforms. I would legit want my tax dollars go to the Presidential Guardsmen Halberdiers Regiment tbh.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:That's kind of a literal joke but uh okay. Mine was a joke too, but we’re getting at the same home truth here: regardless of where the posting is, domestically or foreign, anybody who wants to pick up a gun for America should probably be prevented from doing so just on the basis of what kind of person our culture produces who wants to do that. Everybody loves Batman but nobody takes the time to ask why he need a a form fitting latex fetish suit and a bigger tank-car every year to do his job.
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Dec 29, 2022 15:56
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Those were good boys.
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selec posted:Mine was a joke too, but we’re getting at the same home truth here: regardless of where the posting is, domestically or foreign, anybody who wants to pick up a gun for America should probably be prevented from doing so just on the basis of what kind of person our culture produces who wants to do that. Everyone knows why
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Dec 29, 2022 17:44
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nine-gear crow posted:Mike Pence was terrified his own Secret Service detail was either going to abduct or execute him if he got into a car with them on January 6th, I don't blame Biden for not trusting them. The whole organization needs to be flushed and refreshed. This is so shocking to me. Not sure if I should be shocked. I would think that Secret Service agents are the best of the best, truly professional people, who are there to strictly do their jobs.
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Dec 29, 2022 18:17
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Gyges posted:Members in good standing of a John Brown Gun Club, or similar organization. Robviously posted:I would legit want my tax dollars go to the Presidential Guardsmen Halberdiers Regiment tbh. Believe it or not, but the Secret Service did briefly have official uniforms that make them look absolutely ridiculous. It was Nixon's idea, because apparently he thought people didn't get that he was a supervillain.
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small butter posted:This is so shocking to me. Not sure if I should be shocked. I would think that Secret Service agents are the best of the best, truly professional people, who are there to strictly do their jobs. The result of a system is it’s intent. If they are the best, truly professional law enforcement the US can offer, they are definitionally right wing stooges ready to murder at the behest of class imperative. Tell me what a “good cop” looks like, and then go google Adrian Schoolcraft.
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Dec 29, 2022 18:24
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cat botherer posted:Those were good boys. I hope Major comes back, and I hope he bites people.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Believe it or not, but the Secret Service did briefly have official uniforms that make them look absolutely ridiculous. It was Nixon's idea, because apparently he thought people didn't get that he was a supervillain. While almost all of our Presidents are war criminals or some other form of villain, we are still sitting at only one super villain President. And it ain't Nixon. 
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selec posted:The result of a system is it’s intent. If they are the best, truly professional law enforcement the US can offer, they are definitionally right wing stooges ready to murder at the behest of class imperative. [*] There's all the war crimes and child murder, but also even internecine murder AsInHowe posted:I hope Major comes back, and I hope he bites people.  I also guarantee you they were doing semi-abusive poo poo to provoke the dogs.
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Dec 29, 2022 18:37
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Shooting Blanks posted:I'm not entirely sure what that person means by selling the miles to credit card companies, but every airline has one or more partnerships with banks and/or credit card companies to offer a card where you can earn miles for your spending. Credit card companies offer miles for spending; they buy those miles up front from the airline's rewards subsidiary in order to then give them away as an incentive to their cardholders. The miles are "real" in the sense that they aren't just a coupon or something the credit card company makes up and the airline honors; they're treated as actual assets and the credit card company can't issue them without first owning them.
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Dec 29, 2022 19:03
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small butter posted:This is so shocking to me. Not sure if I should be shocked. I would think that Secret Service agents are the best of the best, truly professional people, who are there to strictly do their jobs. The Secret Service has had a number of unprofessionalism scandals in the past decade or so. Drunk driving in official vehicles, hiring prostitutes while on duty, accepting bribes, presidential bodyguards being sent to guard the house of the director's assistant, leaking personal info about members of Congress to discourage investigations into Secret Service behavior, and so on. Naturally, there have been also been a few security incidents suggesting that their competence has similarly declined. In the last decade, no less than three Secret Service directors have been essentially forced out by one scandal or another: Mark Sullivan (2006-2013), Julia Pierson (2013-2014), and James Murray (2019-2022). Rather than a simple partisanship issue, I think it's a symbol of how badly an elite group needs strict oversight and discipline, and how quickly institutional rot can set in and turn it into a squad of useless failsons. It shouldn't be that shocking, imo - signs of this kind of stuff have been visible all over the place, even if our institutions have turned a blind eye. The whole Ronny Johnson thing was a perfect example. The guy spent more than a decade as a White House doctor, and was personal physician to both Obama and Trump, with apparently no issues...but as soon as Trump tried to make him a Cabinet member, suddenly it comes out that he's known among the White House staff as an aggressive drunk who handed out prescription drugs like candy. The media narrative there was "Ronny Johnson is unfit for office", but IMO, a better response would have been "what the gently caress is going on in the White House Medical Unit, and with the presidential appointees who are supposed to be overseeing this poo poo". It's not like "the president's personal doctor" is an unimportant position where it doesn't matter if the guy doing it is a clownshow fuckup.
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Main Paineframe posted:The Secret Service has had a number of unprofessionalism scandals in the past decade or so. Drunk driving in official vehicles, hiring prostitutes while on duty, accepting bribes, presidential bodyguards being sent to guard the house of the director's assistant, leaking personal info about members of Congress to discourage investigations into Secret Service behavior, and so on. Naturally, there have been also been a few security incidents suggesting that their competence has similarly declined. I can't imagine this stuff wasn't even worse in the past, just easier to cover up
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Dec 29, 2022 21:16
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Any doctor who works exclusively for the wealthy is absolutely fine with the fact that their prescription pad is a collaborative doctor-patient effort. Entire system is designed to comfort and coddle the wealthy, why would the White House work any different? Probably had to sting for Neera Tanden personally that they have had to seem to tighten that ship up since.
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Dec 29, 2022 21:19
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Gyges posted:Members in good standing of a John Brown Gun Club, or similar organization. Now I could see the Swiss liking that idea but not wanting to put it forward.
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small butter posted:This is so shocking to me. Not sure if I should be shocked. I would think that Secret Service agents are the best of the best, truly professional people, who are there to strictly do their jobs. I remember the Obamas, especially Michelle, not being exactly impressed with them. Some idiot jumping the fence of the White House springs to mind. That and the Secret Service writing off some loud noises as a car backfiring only for someone to open some curtains and find a few bullet impacts in one of the windows a few days later (obviously the White House has bullet proof glass, they just don't announce it).
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Dec 29, 2022 22:03
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Do cars even backfire anymore? I can't remember hearing one do so in my lifetime outside of old timey cartoons.
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Alkydere posted:I remember the Obamas, especially Michelle, not being exactly impressed with them. Some idiot jumping the fence of the White House springs to mind. That and the Secret Service writing off some loud noises as a car backfiring only for someone to open some curtains and find a few bullet impacts in one of the windows a few days later (obviously the White House has bullet proof glass, they just don't announce it). I bet this is what Michelle and GW bond over, goofy stories about the praetorians
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I'm driving so I can't track a source for a tweet embed but it looks like Andrew Tate just got arrested in Romania.
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cr0y posted:I'm driving so I can't track a source for a tweet embed but it looks like Andrew Tate just got arrested in Romania. Seems to come from here: https://www.libertatea.ro/stiri/surse-perchezitii-diicot-tristan-tate-andrew-tate-sechestrare-fete-tristan-tate-bianca-dragusanu-4394856/
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lmao he got arrested because his limp dick video yelling at greta thunberg had a pizza box from a local restaurant in it what a moron
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cr0y posted:I'm driving so I can't track a source for a tweet embed but it looks like Andrew Tate just got arrested in Romania. Bwahahaha, saw something about his recent Twitter spat with Greta Thunberg let them see something that indicated he was in Romania. So he literally got caught because of trash talking online?!
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Yeah he couldn't put down the Jerry's Pizza (try the tuna and mayo!) which is a Romanian brand to shoot his video rebuttal so the Romanians figured out he was at home and raided his house lol
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small butter posted:This is so shocking to me. Not sure if I should be shocked. I would think that Secret Service agents are the best of the best, truly professional people, who are there to strictly do their jobs. If it makes you feel just the tiniest bit better, the conjecture was (mostly) less "secret service executes the vice president" and more "secret service holds the vice president at some undisclosed location 'for his protection' long enough for some stooge to perform the election fuckery in his absence" but yeah.
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Kith posted:Do cars even backfire anymore? I can't remember hearing one do so in my lifetime outside of old timey cartoons. They do not, unless something is going very wrong.
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The writers really had this one thought through huh. https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1608603222935228418
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