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SocketWrench posted:As much as firing Comey e: DOG TAX! 
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Junior should have said they wanted to adopt Russian children so they could imprison them in the basement of Comet pizza. I would have believed that.
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Jul 9, 2017 23:15
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STAC Goat posted:Wait, so the story went from "We weren't doing anything sketchy, we were just talking about some adoption stuff" to "she promised us dirt on Clinton but she just wanted to talk about some adoption stuff"? Does the Trump family just have a complete inability to run these things past their lawyers before talking? "But i didn't even get the real drugs/sex I was promised!" hasn't worked out so hot for people arrested in VICE stings.
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Jul 9, 2017 23:16
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n4 posted:That Cernovich tweet is crazy. you don't fuckin' say
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Jul 9, 2017 23:17
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Shifty Pony posted:Does the Trump family just have a complete inability to run these things past their lawyers before talking? "But i didn't even get the real drugs/sex I was promised!" hasn't worked out so hot for people arrested in VICE stings. They were all born and raised rich. Consequences are for other people.
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Jul 9, 2017 23:17
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Dmitri-9 posted:He's slandered multiple people as pedophiles. I don't understand how he hasn't been sued into penury. Just another teflon retard of the Trump era. And falsely reported a friend of mine to her university as a potential school shooter after she mouthed off to him on the internet.  As such I hate Mike Cernovich just that tiny bit more than the other high-profile alt-right scum.
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Shifty Pony posted:Does the Trump family just have a complete inability to run these things past their lawyers before talking? "But i didn't even get the real drugs/sex I was promised!" hasn't worked out so hot for people arrested in VICE stings. I have a feeling this is the statement after they ran it by the lawyers.
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Shifty Pony posted:Does the Trump family just have a complete inability to run these things past their lawyers before talking? "But i didn't even get the real drugs/sex I was promised!" hasn't worked out so hot for people arrested in VICE stings. Tiffany's ridiculously circuitous plan to inherit everything is one quarter complete. Wittes breaks down some of the important points. https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/884159304386957313 Some of the points -First, note the sourcing. This is clearly NOT an investigative leak. This is a set of White House admissions in response to the story. -The date on this meeting may actually be exculpatory to Trump in one way. Why? It predates the disclosures, I think, of Russian hacking. /4/ -This graf is devastating, however. It shows that the Trump folks were willing to cooperate with Kremlin in exchange for dirt on Hillary. -This graf is also devastating. Trump Jr admits that his ONLY interest in the meeting was the dirt the Russians might provide on Clinton. /7/ -This is a very interesting graf. POTUS denies knowledge and Trump Jr.'s statement clears both Manafort and Kushner. Jr. takes the fall. /8/ farraday fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Jul 9, 2017 |
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Jul 9, 2017 23:22
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I feel like with the exception of Trump's maniacal tweets everything they release has been vetted by their lawyers. Even Trump's lawyers have lawyers now w/r/t Russia investigation.
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Jul 9, 2017 23:25
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RasperFat posted:I feel like with the exception of Trump's maniacal tweets everything they release has been vetted by their lawyers. Even Trump's lawyers have lawyers now w/r/t Russia investigation. counterpoint: donnie jr had no reason whatsoever to be compelled to respond to the nyt story and i don't think any lawyers would have advised that statement be released
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Jul 9, 2017 23:27
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farraday posted:Based on timing and the existence of the new Trump Jr statement I think this is probably an intentional leak, or at the very least something they knew would leak immediately because they had an official response ready to go. The Times probably asked for comment. I think its standard to have a little bit of warning a story like this is going to drop, with the amount of warning you get proportional to the media's concern you'll leak it to someone friendly if you have too much time.
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Jul 9, 2017 23:29
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We all knew this would end with everyone around Donald going to prison while he sits alone on his stolen throne. It's pathos - he got what he wanted but at the expense of his family legacy.
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Jul 9, 2017 23:31
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I was kind of freaked out the other day when Google Assistant out of the blue suggested I could archive all the pictures of receipts I had on my phone. Pictures that obviously had no label marking them as receipts, meaning it recognized them as such by visual recognition alone. Granted, a computer recognizing a blank piece of paper with currency values as a receipt is not as taxing a computational task as others but it was still kinda creepy.
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Shifty Pony posted:Does the Trump family just have a complete inability to run these things past their lawyers before talking? "But i didn't even get the real drugs/sex I was promised!" hasn't worked out so hot for people arrested in VICE stings. the lawyers that stick around with the trumps are the ones who are too dumb to tell them to stop or who have realized that telling them to stop makes them upset and once they're upset they stop paying you and have long since ceased giving a gently caress
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:We all knew this would end with everyone around Donald going to prison while he sits alone on his stolen throne. Hell, if this happens he probably has a decent shot at reelection. R's can more easily vote for him since somebody went to jail for the Russia stuff and it wasn't him so therefore he's clean Also something something vote suppression and more hacking will help him too
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AceOfFlames posted:I was kind of freaked out the other day when Google Assistant out of the blue suggested I could archive all the pictures of receipts I had on my phone. Pictures that obviously had no label marking them as receipts, meaning it recognized them as such by visual recognition alone. Granted, a computer recognizing a blank piece of paper with currency values as a receipt is not as taxing a computational task as others but it was still kinda creepy. Sometimes out of the blue, my Alexa will tell me she can't answer a question that I never asked.
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Jul 9, 2017 23:36
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Don't let his father see this.He'd love to punch the Fake News.
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Jul 9, 2017 23:37
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Your Taint posted:Sometimes out of the blue, my Alexa will tell me she can't answer a question that I never asked. my alexa just translates virtually everything that (a) is a command or (b) had a vaugely-alexa sounding word in it into a request to play a random song
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Jul 9, 2017 23:37
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Frankly, Donald Trump's most impressive accomplishment is managing to produce a more loathsome, venal, stupid, disgusting-looking creature than he himself is. That's not easy.
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Jul 9, 2017 23:39
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Ague Proof posted:Don't let his father see this.He'd love to punch the Fake News. That fake news isn't wearing a suit, better slap some sense into it.
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Jul 9, 2017 23:40
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FlamingLiberal posted:Sooner or later China will no longer be able to prop itself up by just throwing more government money into its paper economy or building cities that no one lives in Might shock you but those "ghost cities" are filling up. In China apartments are unfurnished by default and buyers are responsible for furnishing the floors/walls/electrical etc.
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Jul 9, 2017 23:41
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Man, I'm just thinking about what happened in that meeting. What if Don Jr., Manafort, and Jared went to that meeting expecting juicy Hillary details and got presented with the piss tape and that "Russia owns you now, Mr. Trump"? Like, if they're got blackmail material on one person, but that person still won't cooperate, but also on you, and know you as pliable as Play-Do and it would sink your campaign if that came out, they'd let you know that poo poo up front.
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Young Freud posted:Man, I'm just thinking about what happened in that meeting. What if Don Jr., Manafort, and Jared went to that meeting expecting juicy Hillary details and got presented with the piss tape and that "Russia owns you now, Mr. Trump"? Like, if they're got blackmail material on one person, but that person still won't cooperate, but also on you, and know you as pliable as Play-Do and it would sink your campaign if that came out, they'd let you know that poo poo up front. if they didn't have blackmail material going into the meeting, they did after the meeting was over
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skylined! posted:counterpoint: donnie jr had no reason whatsoever to be compelled to respond to the nyt story and i don't think any lawyers would have advised that statement be released Yeah most of the people in this thread could have come up with a less troublesome statement which kept the same excuse. Old friend asked if we could talk, blah blah, after introductions and a bit of small talk it became clear they wanted to talk about international adoptions but we hadn't won yet so we said we couldn't. Was all just a courtesy for an old colleague, blah blah fake media making up poo poo.
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Peven Stan posted:Might shock you but those "ghost cities" are filling up.  That's not what 'furnish' means here. Also, get whoever is arranging this into Detroit. Say there is a coal factory there. Seriously parts of that city looks like a Fallout expansion. e- And honestly, if Republicans actually cared about the working man who had a manufacturing job, then this alone could have probably cushioned them against the (correct) blowback from Democrats/most of the nation. Rescue Detroit, make it a place worth investing in. A lot of people might have agreed on both sides with those executive orders if this was the outcome. WHAT THEY PROMISED. Detroit. The epitome of what you claim to want to buoy. But, y'know tax cuts. KickerOfMice fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Jul 9, 2017 |
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Covok posted:1 of 2 isn't bad. Lol, noted respecter of human rights Saudi Arabia and Pinochet.
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KickerOfMice posted:
I don't mind it in concept. I just bought a new condo because I am a loving idiot, and the people who did the purchasing for appliances and did things like design the kitchen cabinetry were obviously full on loving retarded. Would've been much better if they'd given me nothing but empty spaces and let me specify how I wanted things, but now I have to fix everything as I'm trying to live in it, while having already taken the financial hit for the loving pieces of poo poo they did buy. I think the Chinese may be on to something here... Tl;dr: Don't ever, ever buy a pre-sale condo. It's the devil's own invention and if I could go back in time and tell myself not to do something this loving stupid, I'd do it instantly.
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There's a lot of virtue in planning big housing developments years in advance before you're allowing people from rural areas to move there via the household registration system. For one, imagine if people in charge of the bay area started building upwards 20 years ago for anticipated demand today.
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Peven Stan posted:There's a lot of virtue in planning big housing developments years in advance before you're allowing people from rural areas to move there via the household registration system. except the household registration system as implemented on mainland china created effectively a caste system even post the reform, people are still getting their benefits not properly, and people who have changed their registration from countryside to whatever city aren't being properly compensated. moreover, those numbers are being strictly limited in the larger cities. it's, a nightmare moreover the hukou system is such that even when rural people can switch over to urban hukou
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I'm just currently learning that this exists, so excuse me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system Any other articles worth reading for noobs if you guys could think of any would be cool. e- I know I could google it, but excuse me for having trust in you fools for recommending something worth reading. KickerOfMice fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Jul 10, 2017 |
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I think most of the Trump/Kushner clan's actions during the elections can be explained by an impressive amount of complacency when it comes to dealing with shady Russians. It's barely a secret that the entire real estate empire is fueled by overseas money, and they had never been caught or investigated very seriously. When the campaign began picking up steam they just continued meeting with the same shady Russian people they always had and it never occured to them that there would be long-term consequences. They can't explain the Russian contacts because they had been complacently doing shady deals with them for decades and it never occured to them to be more discreet.
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stone cold posted:except the household registration system as implemented on mainland china created effectively a caste system do you really think the country can handle the mass migration of 800 million people from rural to urban areas without some kind of system managing it? liberals deranged hatred for china is hilarious
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It was the Dems. https://twitter.com/icemannyr/status/884173802724306944
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skylined! posted:do you think trump is involved in chinese government-built affordable housing Perhaps, but if we are going for making fun of weird derails, I AM A TALL SUPREMACIST! 
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Peven Stan posted:do you really think the country can handle the mass migration of 800 million people from rural to urban areas without some kind of system managing it? maybe don't make your country so big next time??
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This makes perfect sense when put into the context that don jr was in charge of using "new internet techniques" to reach out to voters or whatever they were claiming. In every lie there's a kernel of truth. I bet this gets more sinister. Also jr is falling on the sword now but I guarantee he talks when faced with the prospect of a few years at Leavenworth. Lastly I still don't believe trump had any actual knowledge of what was going on in his campaign.
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Peven Stan posted:do you really think the country can handle the mass migration of 800 million people from rural to urban areas without some kind of system managing it? there's management and there's the creation of an underclass but sure, this was a good system quote:And it is not just the boarders who suffer. In all kinds of education, rural children have less chance of doing well than their urban counterparts. Less than 10% of them go to senior high-school, compared with 70% of their peers in cities. That is because the government stacks the system against them. for management quote:According to their research in 2000, they state that in Beijing, nearly half of the rural migrants’ housing is without kitchen and bathroom, 40% of their housing is very crowded, with 4–6 people sharing one small room, and 20% of them admitted that they did not have running water. quote:Wang [6] also views that the rural migrants in Beijing have very few housing choices without hukou. The Beijing urban hukou allows residents to purchase three types of housing with reliable financial capabilities. These three types of housing are as follows: (1) Commercial Housing; (2) Economically Affordable Housing; (3) Low-rent Housing. However, these choices are unattainable by rural migrants since one Square Meter would cost around 30,000 RMB. This automatically would make anyone understand that very few rural migrants can afford their own housing in Beijing. eh, peven? quote:In China’s biggest cities, some 40 percent of the population is "unofficial" — lacking the city’s hukou. Shanghai, for instance, has an officially registered population of about 13 million, plus 10 or 11 million migrant workers, who can’t access the same social services.
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