Abyssal Squid posted:

Does Lester understand that if you somehow got a hand of all jokers, it'd be the highest possible hand? Or does he just think that little of his readers?

And then Putin somehow decided not to fold despite seeing Obama's unbeatable hand. Also they're apparently playing strip poker and with chips at the same time, somehow.

Craft your drat metaphors better you hack! And I even weakly agree with Lester on this one, that Obama's indecisive Syria policy probably strengthened Russian influence there.

Sandpuppy posted:

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Radish posted:

African Americans historically can't swim because they live in economically disadvantaged areas without access to swimming pools so they don't learn as kids. Also swimming pools were/are heavily segregated.

http://www.theroot.com/swimming-in-the-black-community-how-racism-is-drowning-1790855966

loquacius posted:

Among computer-security types "social engineering" means lying to people to make them let you past their security measures (ie calling them on the phone claiming to be Microsoft and asking for their passwords etc)

In other words, that guy is not a professor, he's a guy that grifted a university for a bunch of money somehow and has been lying low while living off his ill-gotten gains. Mallard just assumed he was a professor because he looks like a wimp. An Unintentionally Funny Cartoon.

King Possum III posted:

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HootTheOwl posted:

Is anything in this true except "the Us is the only country to use nukes?"

Horrible Lurkbeast posted:

I've a sneaking suspicion that Tinsley would die on whichever hill bought him drinks.
Does anyone know what is Tinsley's whiskey sours?

Alhazred posted:

CampingCarl posted:

http://www.snopes.com/2017/04/20/operation-gotham-shield/ for context.


This is just amazing.

Fulchrum posted:

Also, despite actually being written in another language, it still more understandable.

And it's not traced from pornos.

And the characters don't look like melting abominations.

And it's not bizarre wish fulfilment of a sad, pathetic little man who wants to build a gently caress barn.

And it's not about how amazing the lead characters pussy is.

So, you know, like Day By Day, except in any of the things that defined day by day

Fulchrum posted:

Ramirez would beg to differ.

Sandpuppy posted:

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quote:

Former FBI Director James Comey was "taken aback" by President Donald Trump's request for a personal assurance or pledge of loyalty at a dinner shortly after he took office, a source close to Comey told CNN Friday.

Comey refused to do so, saying he could not provide such a pledge -- those who work at the FBI pledge their loyalty to the US Constitution, not to any individual person -- but he promised to always be honest with the President.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Friday rejected the idea that Trump asked Comey to pledge his loyalty. "I think the President wants loyalty to his country and to the rule of law," Spicer said.
Trump himself echoed those remarks in an interview with Jeanine Pirro on Fox News on Friday.
Pressed by Pirro on whether he asked Comey for his loyalty, Trump responded: "No, I didn't, but I don't think it would be a bad question to ask. I think loyalty to the country, loyalty to the US, is important. You know, it depends on how you define loyalty, No. 1; No. 2, I don't know how it got out there because I didn't ask that question."
A description of the dinner and conversation was first reported Thursday night by The New York Times, although CNN had previously reported Comey's refusal to give Trump any assurance of personal loyalty.

Asked on MSNBC Friday about the dinner, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Comey "was uneasy with it, just for the appearance."
As CNN reported, Comey's refusal to pledge loyalty is one of the reasons the President fired him, the other being the acceleration of the probe into alleged collusion between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia.

Vib Rib posted:

Really looking forward to the ones where he has Dilbert calmly explain that rape is a natural instinct in a repressed society and evolution isn't real.

Jedit posted:

Probably not, it was like suicide.

Selachian posted:

I'm not sure why the Star Wars stuff, other than "Bell is a Gen Xer."

Crabtree posted:

In the bush W. years you always had some military recruiters camped in your high school, probably around the cafeteria or any high traffic place to snag as many kids you can, as well as just bombing students with calls and letters about exciting new opportunities in the military!

Jurgan posted:

I hate this "filibuster-proof majority" line. There were 60 people in the Democrats' Senate caucus for about five months total (Franken's election was delayed and Ted Kennedy died), and that includes Joe Lieberman. If all of the 60 were rock-solid leftists, then there would have been a better plan. Thanks to McConnell's non-stop filibustering every single Democrat or Democrat-affiliated independent had to vote yea for anything to pass, so Lieberman had the leverage to personally kill the public option.


There's no doubt that he has a strong claim to Spider-Man, and probably had more influence on him than Lee did for a while there. It's also true that Marvel was pretty terrible about respecting the contributions of their artists, which is why MacFarlane and a bunch of others left to form Image (though they ultimately weren't much better).

Pakled posted:

Climate change is going to kill way, way more people than terrorism ever could.

Trogdos! posted:

Mr. Squishy posted:

I'm not the most avid Pope-watcher but hasn't the current guy been making great strides in accepting condoms?

FishBulb posted:

They're kind of moderately fun and you can get them dirt cheap on Amazon from Chinese sellers. I don't see how they help with focus and stuff though. The cubes and what not kinda work, like it's fun to fiddle with then when I'm watching tv or something.

I dunno if they belong in schools though. Seems like another distraction.

SirSamVimes posted:

Shouldn't altruism and selfish be swapped? Because that chart says that receiving a lot and giving nothing is altrustic and the opposite is selfish.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Xen Tricks posted:

Holy poo poo you're right, it's two squares offset. How can Kirchen of all people gently caress that up

D.N. Nation posted:

That's Lester. Unless you also think it'd be funny for Mrs. Branco to kick AF's rear end. Because it probably would.

My Branco nomination is that he perishes from some horrible, snaggle-tooth, rotted-gum disease.

Samurai Sanders posted:

Often I check this thread immediately after waking up and my brain isn't all there. It must still be this time though since I dunno what the message is here.

Alhazred posted:

How the gently caress is Buchanan a worse president than Andrew "Trail of Tears" Jackson?

Jonas Albrecht posted:

Garrison's a sad little man now. There's nothing left for him but to delve further into fantasy.

Neodoomium posted:

What do you think it would take to get the usual suspects to stop making comics on the following:

- milquetoast "everyone is wrong/crazy and I am a wise 8 year old girl"
- but her emails
- but obama
- nothingburger
- vroom vroom liberals are wimps because they don't want to die of smog

Anything less than a hostile alien invasion?

Lurdiak posted:

Pretty sure the 8 years of a black president had something to do with it as well.

Vib Rib posted:

At this point literally what are right wingers expecting? I was trying to make up some exaggerated piece of literal, physical evidence like you'd have in a plastic baggie because that's what they seem to want (because obviously testimony doesn't count) but I couldn't even come up with something hypothetical in my head they wouldn't immediately discount, up to and including a video of Trump shaking hands with Russian officials while handing over a sack labeled "secrets".

Shangri-Law School posted:

What is Sputnik News up to these days?
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VitalSigns posted:

Public education has almost everything shitbag conservatives hate.

A unionized workforce, labor protections, poor kids getting free poo poo, race-mixing, science, history, and other information that makes it harder to indoctrinate kids into religious/corporate/colonialist propaganda.

Crabtree posted:

The killer whale doesn't look like its from a monster movie and the only reason you are saying these creatures are bad because they have names THAT HUMANS GAVE THEM. That's like saying anyone who is a Butcher is evil because their profession is also a synonym for slaughter.

Does this Bible Humper believe angel food cake is made by angels?

Ularg posted:

I think the point here is that humans have the ability to observe their own behavior and change it for the better.

Instead they burn crosses and torture gay people.

loquacius posted:

hot take: Jon Ossoff was not a good candidate, and I wish he'd won but I was never optimistic