Current Events 3/17: good job cole

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Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Okay, let's try a fresh approach to the Current Events thread.

Last month's rules & infraction records are wiped clean. Life goes on, and so does the Current Events thread.

There is one rule: talk about current events without breaking the rules!

Big events in February:

2017 Oscars were too woke, and people didn't like it.
Our president learned that health is "complicated".
Our president has uncertain plans for a compromise on immigration.
Our president is proposing a 10% increase in funding for the DoD.
A wave of threats and actions against Jewish Community Centers recently occurred.
Best Korea's emperor is executing more senior leaders, and also his half-brother.

Everyone still thinks the world is ending (they might be right)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/27/us/politics/most-important-problem-gallup-polling-question.html

Cool non-mandatory Twitter linking advice:

quote:

- I generally link twitter because it's easy as hell on a phone and makes article clickthroughs easy. If you're quoting someone's twitter post, remove the twitter link so the quote doesn't have the blown-up picture too for those on desktops.

- For tweetstorms (the thing where people respond to themselves like 15-20 times), just link the first tweet. If they're interested in the whole thing, they'll click through and it's easy to read.

Zeris fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Mar 2, 2017

# ¿ Mar 1, 2017 06:04

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 13:24

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

two finger :mad:

# ¿ Mar 1, 2017 06:24

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

current event: two finger mad

# ¿ Mar 1, 2017 06:33

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

facialimpediment posted:

This thread sort of explains it pretty well, everyone grieves differently and his death will now Mean Something. Basically, lay off widows and family members even if they're potentially being stupid: https://twitter.com/mkhammer/status/836826353630654464

Now, for the amount of ways this all goes sideways for Donnie:

- Donnie apparently quoted Mattis that it was a good mission and produced good intel. I doubt Mattis was happy about that.
- NBC News is already reporting that the intel they found was garbage and Donnie (and Mattis) may be lying https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/836802054404386820
- Donnie already blamed his generals: "They lost Ryan"
- The father is calling for an investigation and yelling at Donnie.
- The operation falls under the oversight of the Senate Armed Services Committee, led by one John McCain.

Sorry for your loss, the Useful Intelligence is in Another Castle!

# ¿ Mar 1, 2017 18:03

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

That's literally a Duffleblog article

# ¿ Mar 1, 2017 21:26

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

bengy81 posted:

In non trump news:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/iowa-pol-s-bio-changed-after-sizzler-u-discrepancy-emerges-n726961?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

Meh; he's bad for misrepresenting himself to idiots for who the degree or non-degree might actually might, on the other hand we're so acclimated to politicians lying in many circumstances that what's most jarring is that he forgot to lie smarter, not that he doesn't actually have a degree. The type of degree he is lying about having is useless. It's like declaring stolen valor on someone who fudged their commander's coin into a certificate of achievement. Both are only treasured by retards.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 01:19

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

facialimpediment posted:

I raise your Iowa thing with a Biden thing. I mean, I don't even know where to start with this one. It seems like everyone's happy but holy gently caress this story.

https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/837051638372249601

Edit: no actually gently caress that, that's a happy goddamn story. Beau Biden's widow is now together with Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden is estranged from his wife, but still married for now. Jill and Diamond Joe fully approve.

gently caress it, that's great.

lol when the cousins become step-siblings. But, whatever.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 01:21

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Not playing devil's advocate - actually wondering - what are the list of ways Russia interfered, with an outcome useful to Trump, in the election?

-Hack DNC emails and leak them
-???

# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 04:17

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Russia undermining Clinton and Russia colluding with Trump staff are not the same thing. I'm not talking about objective reality, I'm talking about what's provable. They could have done everything in that IC report and not said a word to Trump or his cronies. Unless they were spelling it out to the GOP campaign and demanding favors in return -- unless that's what was in those conversations -- or whatever, then I don't get it.

It looks stupid -- Sessions lied, obviously, but until it's clear what he lied about, there's no saying whether this will last or snowball to something worth resigning over.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 05:17

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Kawasaki Nun posted:

What is it you don't get? Obviously if there is not a smoking gun then the accusation will just be another in a seemingly endless parade of dire blemishes on the trump presidency. Another reason that suggests under no circumstances should the Don be given the benefit of the doubt because so much indicates that his character and loyalties are suspect, at the very least.

Sorry your use of - makes it hard to understand exactly how to parse your sentences.

No, that's exactly it. It's not a smoking gun (yet) but people, I guess in a few posts here and in implications from left-leaning media outlets, seem to assume it's a smoking gun. Maybe I'm reading too far into things. I already have outrage fatigue and I no longer understand the point of getting riled up over stupid poo poo until it's clearly smoking-gun-level stupid poo poo.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 05:48

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Casimir Radon posted:

Here's some different Trump news. Not related to treason, just extreme stupidity.

Hey at least it's a solid blow against the undermining efforts of the Chinese

# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 05:51

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

facialimpediment posted:

Some quick notes after a night of news comedy:

- I generally link twitter because it's easy as hell on a phone and makes article clickthroughs easy. If you're quoting someone's twitter post, remove the twitter link so the quote doesn't have the blown-up picture too for those on desktops.

- For tweetstorms (the thing where people respond to themselves like 15-20 times), just link the first tweet. If they're interested in the whole thing, they'll click through and it's easy to read.

- Don't get too worked up about all the poo poo about 'normalization' and what's bad and good to react with. Hail gay satan and enjoy this poo poo as it happens because we're getting an absolutely incredible amount of jaw dropping news on a daily basis and it's hilarious watching assholes get what they deserve, even if it doesn't lead to actual charges and stuff. Plus I'm sure that stuff will be coming soon enough

Thanks, I am adding this to the OP.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 18:38

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Guys

Donald J. Trump Presidential Library

"
Sponsored by McDonald's and ExxonMobil. It's just a gas station, drive thru, and a "take a book / leave a book" shelf on the curb.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 21:37

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Why America joke?

# ¿ Mar 3, 2017 03:05

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It's almost as though going after them for lying about meetings, without having any substance as to what went on in them, wasn't an effective tactic!

# ¿ Mar 3, 2017 23:00

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Don't get me wrong, I hope the IC leaks the contents of those meetings and it proves to be damning. But in TYOOL 2017 nobody loving cares if people on their team lied or misremembered or weren't "technically lying" because x/y/z happened in a non-official or different capacity.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2017 23:02

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Can't wait for the "obstructionist democrats" narrative to emerge to explain why there are no new jobs and our government infrastructure is literally eating itself

# ¿ Mar 4, 2017 13:21

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Thanks everyone for reporting that doucher on last page and not letting it derail. Moving on!

# ¿ Mar 4, 2017 20:55

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

How long until a sleepy senior WH officer gets executed by an anti aircraft gun?

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 00:21

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Genocide Tendency posted:

What do you call competing rallies/protests where its just autistic screeching at each other?

The two remainining posters on something awful that aren't bots

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 16:01

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

But deep state bad !

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 19:26

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Pesticide20 posted:

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/838408389046710273

I dig how the president's top twitter antagonist has a misspelled first name and a car selfie for a profile pic.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 20:52

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Funny, I can easily think of the last time he was that...pissed

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 21:38

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

facialimpediment posted:

https://twitter.com/costareports/status/838519655065141248

Well yeah I mean when you are acting against your own country's best interests what do you expect?

Also, I question the underlying assumption (correct me if I am wrong) that the Russians were somehow "caught", as in, they wanted to scoot Trump into the WH without getting noticed. Presumably the Russians are smart enough to know when they're being monitored by the US IC. The people who aren't smart enough are Team Trump. More on that shortly-

Russia is already vilified, especially in the last few years. They are so good at navigating fine lines re: reprisals from other states. Knowing that they have little to lose, doesn't it make more sense that Russia's sloppiness is deliberate, here?

Russia could easily turn their own negativity into a weapon by unilaterally hacking & leaking stuff, and then colluding with (or even just meeting with) Team Trump affiliates knowing how bad it would look down the road, knowing the US IC would be observing, and knowing that it would only take a little bit of drama for leaks on that revelation to begin. Now everyone has been undermined. Is Russia just trying to get us so hosed up with ourselves that we stop giving them a hard time?

Conspiracy theory: if this is a repeat of the Crimea model, then what is it that Russia is stealing before our eyes?

# ¿ Mar 6, 2017 00:06

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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

the picture in that wapo article lmao.

The scotch tape will never not be funny to me

Oh my god are those things related to him

# ¿ Mar 6, 2017 02:51

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Shitpost til midnight EST because why not it's been a while :siren:

Zeris fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Mar 6, 2017

# ¿ Mar 6, 2017 03:38

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

http://imgur.com/gallery/YvZIw

# ¿ Mar 6, 2017 03:42

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# ¿ Mar 6, 2017 03:46

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Ya'll can't even shitpost right

I won't go back on my word

But we do have an idiot king

# ¿ Mar 6, 2017 04:16

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FrozenVent posted:

# ¿ Mar 6, 2017 04:38

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Oh well 98 minutes til my dumb decision expires

# ¿ Mar 6, 2017 04:41

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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

I'm gonna ask Zeris to give the next Galt quotes a month off. He won't listen but then again he might.

Hey this is my dumb mistake, I stand by it.

You on the other hand are free to request any probie you like. Anything above a six requires admin approval.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2017 05:33

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Reverand maynard posted:

if emma waton boobs get me probated then just loving ban me this thread needs it

Wanna talk about it?

# ¿ Mar 7, 2017 02:40

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Proud Christian Mom posted:

You say chains, I say stylish bracelets!

kanye posted:

Black on black lies is worse than black on black crime
The jews share they truth on how to make a dime
Most black men couldn't balance a checkbook
But buy a new car, talking bout how my neck look?
Well it all looks great
Four hundred years later, we buying our own chains

# ¿ Mar 7, 2017 06:44

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Please don't talk specifics on how the IC monitors its targets or what the accountability process looks like :siren:

I don't know the exact rules, but I'm erring on the side of caution here.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 03:09

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# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 04:46

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Yeah there was an article somewhere about 3/75 rangers being spotted rolling in strykers to some joint effort against Raqqa in Syria but it was so low-key that I assumed I had just missed something and we were in Syria and it wasn't a big deal anymore. I don't know. something something Rex Tillerson.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 06:38

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The Iron Rose posted:

Jesus Christ, I don't think I've seen a more clickbait-y headline. Shame too, since they could've had a different, much more accurate and equally clickbait-y headline simply by saying that the Rangers are in town to deter attacks on the YPG from Turkey. Literally acting as human shields, so to speak.

tl;dr the 75th Rangers rather than MARSOC or SEALs rolled into North Manbij to deter Turkish attacks on the YPG.

It begins, I guess?

# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 06:43

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facialimpediment posted:

Every now and then though, reality intercedes.

https://twitter.com/DevonHeinen/status/839527302127968256

Someone bugged the emperor's new clothes!

# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 19:46

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 13:24

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Pesticide20 posted:

No leprechauns, clearly not Ireland

That's a pic of Australia, dummy

# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 19:54

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