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FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Also, there are states (especially border South ones like KY, WV, and TN) where people register as Democrats but vote overwhelmingly Republican.

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FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Keeshhound posted:

It takes a special person to buy a historic house and repeatedly vandalize it to make a political point.
People (especially of the yahoo ARE FREEDOMS variety) can get really sore about being told what they can and can't do with THEIR PROPERTY.

There is a political spite house near me; alas, it's all nasty local sniping (about inspections and occupancy laws and crooked city councilmen) and not germane to this thread.

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Sep 10, 2003

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Random rear end in a top hat posted:

Out of all the poo poo they spew, this is the stuff that really baffles me. I mean, the bible has unicorns and vampires, too; do they think those exist and will come to Hillarys aid, too? Will she ride into the debate on the back of a seven-headed dragon? Is she literally Lillith, fulfilling her vow to kill as many babies as possible by appointing pro-choice justices? Like I just don't get how you reconcile living in the modern world with the belief that fairy tale-style witches a) exist, b) can actually curse people, and c) are actively working for the Democratic party.
There's a certain substrata of biblical-literalist Christian who honestly and truly believes they are living in a magical world, where angels and demons and curses and The Devil are actual things that exist, and who perceive Harry Potter and heavy metal and Dungeons & Dragons and yoga classes to be literal efforts by Satan to worm his way into peoples' lives and lead them away from the Light.

To them, it's all real. All of it.

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Sep 10, 2003

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Mors Rattus posted:

He started out relatively strong, which is to say, it took half an hour for him to warm up to interrupting Hillary.
She poked poked poked at him, finally causing him to snap when she needled him about having "choked" when he went to Mexico, at which point Trump couldn't handle the strain of pretending to be Presidential and Serious and Sober-Minded and reverted to his natural form of whining, self-pitying, boorish jerk.

Near the end, he blurted out "What a nasty woman" when Hillary was delivering an answer about some policy or other.

I'd loving love to play poker with Donald Trump. He's basically just one big tell.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Clinton clearly got the debate questions ahead of time, or was having the answers beamed to the electronic e-ink paper in front of her, because there's no way in a million years anyone could have guess that there'd be questions about ISIS, the Supreme Court, and Social Security at a Presidential debate.

Sweet Jesus, these Freepers. The general topics were even announced ahead of time. A high school civics class could have predicted about 70% of the questions that would be asked, but it's all black magic and (((globalist))) trickery to Freepers.

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Sep 10, 2003

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McGlockenshire posted:

Media and Clinton campaign is in pure “full panic” mode!!! Geez...I thought Hillary & Kaine were going to stomp around in Arizona and Texas.

Wonder why they (Clinton/Kaine & company) are still fooling around in Ohio. Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina. Answer....they are losing in those states!!!
The #1 most reliable Freeper tell is when they accuse liberals/democrats of desperation or panicking. It never fails. It's an ironclad admission that they're getting their asses kicked.

And the reason that Clinton & Crew are campaigning in Florida and Pennsylvania and North Carolina is that those states have in-play Senate seats, and as much fun as running up the EV score in Arizona and Missouri and Georgia might be, it's a much better use of Hillary's resources to build the Democratic margin in the Senate.

And that 50-38 poll is a stunner. First sign of total across-the-board collapse of the Republican electoral coalition. Remember, the polls don't account for the gaping difference between each party's GOTV efforts, so if anything they're over-estimating the Republican position.

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Sep 10, 2003

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change my name posted:

Yeah how about getting off your asses and actually stumping for him
One of my favorite dumb things about Trump's current campaign is the way he is calling for supporters and volunteers to spend their time over in Democratic districts trying to catch voter fraud (i.e discourage blacks and latinos from voting) instead of, say, volunteering to call and drive Trump voters to the polls. They've hosed up their field and turnout operations so badly, and now they're telling their most dedicated volunteers to spend election day NOT getting voters to the polls. Just amazing.

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Sep 10, 2003

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SocketWrench posted:

* Jesus loving christ. If hosed up cancer rates are gonna happen anywhere it's gonna be the home of 935 tests
One of my favorite Hollywood stories concerns the making of The Conqueror, a typical lunatic Howard Hughes idea, starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan. It's a famously awful movie and it flopped magnificently. It was filmed in the 1950s in the Nevada desert, just downwind from the Nevada Test Range (where they were still doing above-ground nuke tests), so everyone got a good dose of radioactivity during the production. Even better, after viewing the rough cut, Hughes decided to shoot some additional scenes on a soundstage in Hollywood (because it was too difficult to spin up production again on location and the cast and crew had all moved on to their next projects) so he had them truck in semi-trailers full of sand and soil from the location so the additional filming wouldn't look too out of place in the movie. Another week or two for everyone, in an enclosed soundstage, breathing that fallout-rich dust.

Literally every single person involved in that movie (including Wayne) died young of cancer.

Punchline: no one knows what happened to the dirt from the shoot or where it ended up. Presumably dumped in a lot or a canyon somewhere, and had condos later built on top of it.

e: My memory was largely (but not entirely) correct -

wikipedia posted:

The exterior scenes were shot on location near St. George, Utah, 137 miles (220 km) downwind of the United States government's Nevada National Security Site. In 1953, extensive above-ground nuclear weapons testing (11 total) occurred at the test site as part of Operation Upshot–Knothole. The cast and crew spent many difficult weeks on location, and in addition Hughes later shipped 60 tons of dirt back to Hollywood in order to match the Utah terrain and lend realism to studio re-shoots.[6] The filmmakers knew about the nuclear tests[6] but the federal government reassured residents that the tests caused no hazard to public health.[14]

Director Powell died of cancer in January 1963, seven years after the film's release. Armendáriz was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 1960, and committed suicide in June 1963 after he learned his condition had become terminal. Hayward, Wayne, and Moorehead all died of cancer in the 1970s. Hoyt died of lung cancer in 1991. Skeptics point to other factors such as the wide use of tobacco — Wayne and Moorehead in particular were heavy smokers, and Wayne himself believed his lung cancer to have been a result of his six-packs-a-day cigarette habit.[15] The cast and crew totaled 220 people. By the end of 1980, as ascertained by People magazine, 91 of them had developed some form of cancer and 46 had died of the disease. Several of Wayne and Hayward's relatives also had cancer scares after visiting the set. Michael Wayne developed skin cancer, his brother Patrick had a benign tumor removed from his breast, and Hayward's son Tim Barker had a benign tumor removed from his mouth.[14][16]

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FMguru
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Jurgan posted:

It amazes me that John Freakin' Wayne playing Genghis Khan is only the second most infamous thing about that movie.
Try and imagine The Duke, in full 1950s "Oriental" makeup, delivering this line:

quote:

I feel this Tartar woman is for me, and my blood says, take her. There are moments for wisdom and moments when I listen to my blood; my blood says, take this Tartar woman.
e: ahahaha, the entire IMDB quote page is prime

quote:

[Surrounded by his enemies]
Temujin: Come and take me, mongrels - if you dare. While I have fingers to grasp a sword, and eyes to see your cowardly faces, your treacherous heads will not be safe on your shoulders. For I am Temujin, the Conqueror. No prison can hold me, no army defeat me.

Bortai: The Conqueror? Mighty armies cannot stop him. But one touch of my lips... Yes, he captured me - but he cannot tame me.

Hunlun: My son has won the world. Still he must conquer that red-headed Jezebel.

Temujin: We'll chase them like rats across the tundra.

Hunlun: She will bring woe to you and your people, my son! A woman made wife against her will can be a dangerous foe!

Temujin: For good or ill - she is my destiny.

Kumlek: [to Temujin] Joint by joint from the toe and fingertip upward shall you be cut to pieces, and each carrion piece, hour by hour and day by day, shall be cast to the dogs before your very eyes until they too shall be plucked out as morsels for the vultures.

Bortai: For me, there is no peace while you live, Mongol.

Temujin: You're beautiful in your wrath.

[His bride-to-be tries to escape]
Temujin: I stole you. I will keep you. Before the sun sets you will come willingly to my arms.

Temujin: She is a woman - much woman. Should her perfidy be less than that of other women?

Temujin: While I live, while my blood burns hot, your daughter is not safe in her tent.

Temujin: Dance for me, Tartar woman.

Temujin: The tartar woman stays with me, Jamuga.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Does anyone have that cartoon image of a guy chugging a water-cooler sized water bottled marked "FREEPER TEARS"? I think I may have a use for it a little under 48 hours from now.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Islam is the Lite Rock FM posted:

In the OP locked and loaded, FRiend.

Unless the link died.

Nope it still works:


Bless you, my friend.

I also hope someone sets up a 2016 version of the White People Mourning Romney tumblr.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Mantis42 posted:

That's the best headline I've ever seen.
At least people are moving on from using Harry Potter as their go-to example for explaining current events. :shrug:

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Erenthal posted:

I cannot even begin to imagine the roiling chaotic hellscape that must be the inner thoughts of a confurvative.
It probably looks something like this

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Cythereal posted:

Yup. Muslims used to be a very reliable Republican voting bloc. Similar social values, often well educated and wealthy, and well above average tendency to vote. After 9/11, Muslims quickly became a reliable Democrat voting bloc.
Yeah, lots of American muslims were immigrants from conflict-ridden countries like 1980s Lebanon and Iran, and they tended to be middle/merchant class (i.e. the sort of people with the resources to GTFO and relocate to the other side of the world) and thus socially conservative and pro-business. I grew up in a city that had a sudden influx of well-to-do Iranians in 1979, for instance.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Alex Jones is already Just Asking Questions about whether Democrats sabotaged the Houston evacuation in order to embarrass Trump

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/902244978281381888

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Lightning Lord posted:

It's actually true, but only if you consider every other Republican president to be a RINO.
Noted RINO liberal sellout Ronald Reagan!

LOL at Freep believing that Trump giving Pelosi and Schumer exactly what they asked for with no concessions to be a masterful Art of the Deal nth-dimensional chess gambit that just totally owned those libtards. Predictable but hilarious.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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McGlockenshire posted:

If this continues which it will it would not surprise me if by this time next year politicians start being treated like Mussolini.
What's that, Freep? Are you saying that any moment now people are going to rise up and overthrow their hated socialist oppressors? Just like the last thirty or so times you confidently predicted that revolution was just around the corner? Huh.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Guavanaut posted:

What fact did Trump bravely reveal? That the terrorist is a loser? Oh no.

What does 'treated like Mussolini' even mean coming from Freep? Hanged from a lamppost or joyously marching on Rome by his side?
The former. Murdered by crowd, mutilated, hung from a meathook in the public square.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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SocketWrench posted:

Pussy - definitely not a member of the rascal brigade that pounds out death threats online but stays shut in because those liberals and colors are allowed to exist in their lifetime
Also: definitely not the sort of person who needs to conceal carry when they go the Walmart Supercenter outside of Altoona.

FMguru
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Zebulon posted:

As I understand that was a purposeful strategy to make sure no one group could muster the strength to actually oppose the colonial powers occupying the area.
It was a combination of 1) splitting large ethnic groups up across multiple countries and 2) picking a minority ethnic group in each country and putting them in charge, which was a recipe for 70 years of brutal quasi-genocidal conflict.

FMguru
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Keeshhound posted:

... Alright, I give, what's this one?
"Cooze", a rather crude term for a woman's genitals, or a woman herself (with the implication that the woman is nothing more than an ambulatory vagina).

FMguru
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Keeshhound posted:

That's what I was going to guess from context, but I've literally never heard "cooze" before. Is that a regional thing?
I think it's a Britishism (because they use "oval office" much more casually, it's almost not a swear word to them)

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Oh man, that's some wonderful cognitive dissonance. I can't decide what I like more

- The case against Manafort is overwhelming, therefore he must have been sent over by Podesta as a false flag sabotage operation

or

- That series of indictments and plea bargains among Trump's closest advisors means that Hillary's plans have fallen apart and she is clearly the next to be indicted and charged

Never stop, Freep.

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FMguru
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Plinkey posted:

So much winning.

Anyone else think Popadopolas emails and in return the emails from campaign officials/possibly cabinet members at the time, while he was working with the feds brings down some more people?
Some people are parsing the language used in the filing against Popa as an indication that he wore a wire to some meetings with other Trumpist persons of interest, which would be just the best thing.

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SocketWrench posted:

Didn't even have to be that major. Just refusing to go be a bullet sponge in another pointless charge was enough. One French General had a number of men arrested for refusing to go over the top and given the death penalty. Then he rescinded it to order that they have their hands bound behind them and be sent into no-man's-land alone and unarmed to be shot by the other side. They didn't refuse to fight, they still fended off German attacks, they just refused to take part in another suicidal charge that had killed so many before them for literally nothing
The extraordinarily good Kubrick movie PATHS OF GLORY is built around a case like this. One of Kubrick's best (which means it's one of the best movies of all time).

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Icon Of Sin posted:

these criminals will end up dead sooner than later with a needle in their arm or a drive-by shooting. It goes with their homey lifestyle.
LOL, keeling over dead with a needle in your arm is actually much more likely for the fentanyl-huffing crackers of Skeeter Hollow than the inner cities, but we know Freep thinks cities are pretty much the same as they were in DEATH WISH II.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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omnibobb posted:

I sent my mom screenshots of this and she said "lol im the cool mom"
She's right.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Deep state! Deep state! Deep state!!!!

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB9fwJDweaU

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Republicans control the entire state political apparatus, and have for decades, but sure, sneaky Democrats rigged the system. You bet.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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OAquinas posted:

They may be all :smug: now, but just wait until Ryan goes after his real Heart's Desire: slashing SS and Medicare.
Spoiler: The cuts will be phased so that boomers willl be mostly dead by the time they kick in. Freepers will be just fine, lecturing the rest of us about personal responsibility as they step into their gold-plated sarcophaghi.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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SocketWrench posted:

Lol, this has to be satire
PatriotHole is the mock wingnut viral news site run by the Clickhole/Onion crew.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Mantis42 posted:

Now 007, DO try pay attention, this is important. You see, this may look like an everyday American pizza pie establishment, but if you look here, you'll see that its full of pee-do-files.
007: Rather like Eton

Q: Quite

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Conservative Republicans control the presidency, both houses of congress, the courts, have just passed a giant conservative tax plan, and appointed a new head of the Federal Reserve - so obviously they had nothing to do with the stock market or the economy. I mean, how could they?

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Keeshhound posted:

I find it fascinating just how quickly they assume Daddy's going to screw them over.
And after all that wishcasting to alter the constitution to make him God-Emperor for Life!

I wonder if Freep has reacted to the news that Ta-Nehisi Coates (author of "The Case for Reparations") is now the writer for the main Captain America comic.

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Sep 10, 2003

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Lote posted:

What’s telling is that even in these survivalist fantasies the only thing that is better is the amount of power they have over others. Everything else is objectively worse. If society goes to poo poo and there’s a civil war, Coca Cola becomes questionable water. Maybe you have meat. Nope on the sugary foods. Good luck with electricity and gas. The guns and bullets are now homemade.
You forgot the two most vulnerable logistical supply commodities for Freeplandia - insulin and statin drugs. Bomb whatever meager production facilities they have, wait a month, boom 25% civilian casualties.

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Sep 10, 2003

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Vahakyla posted:

If they’d use massed amounts of ”patriots” ,like in these fever dreams, in Belfast, the carnage British tanks and rifle squads would wreak on them would’ve been some Rorke’s Drift style poo poo.
There were multiple Irish uprisings in the early 20th century that did lead to massed patriots facing down British regulars.

The outcomes of those is why the IRA focused on the ambush/car bomb/targeted assassination side of the ledger when they were in business.

FMguru
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Alter Ego posted:

republican_tears.jpg

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Mantis42 posted:

You know, when Trump was elected I predicted that he would probably get his wall. It was a stupid ego project but I figured the GOP was afraid enough of its voters to let them just have it. After the first 100 days passed without it and the ACA Repeal failed it was pretty obvious the writing was on the ground (because there is no wall to put it on it, you see).

Seems it took Freepers a year to catch on. Can't wait for the House to flip and they realize just how little they'll actually get out of this presidency.
Watching them flail around trying to explain why a Republican president with a Republican House, Republican Senate, and Republican-controlled Supreme Court can't seem to deliver on any of his Republican campaign promises has been a reliable form of entertainment these past 14 months

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FMguru
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:

Freepers are not men and women of action.
It's one of the most striking characteristics of Freeperdom - the constant stirring calls for other people to rise up and fight the deep state (or whatever today's bugaboo happens to be). They're always so appalled that one million patriots haven't marched on the capital to support Donald Trump/turf Robert Mueller out of his office/execute Nancy Pelosi for crimes against the people., or why the military hasn't already launched a coup and murdered all their political enemies. There's a slightly milder form of it where they assure each other that THIS bit of (usually fake) news will be the trigger that sends a million people into the streets and wipes out the liberals for good, that THIS is the last straw and true patriotic Americans are finally, finally going to strike back.

It's just a perfect mixture of impotence, wishcasting, and laziness. Freepers are "idea men" down to their cores.

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