May Current Events: i was drunk and getting fisted by dr doom and had an IV of straig

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

President Baby just kicked a CBS anchor out of an oval office interview

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/01/media/john-dickerson-donald-trump/index.html

# ¿ May 2, 2017 00:01

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 20:15

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

Odradek posted:

I participated in an awesome seminar today - this Canadian guy had been radicalized in his late teens and went over to Syria to support ISIS. He was a supporter, not a combatant. After being there for a while he realized it was BS and he returned to Canada and offered to help their Intel services. He provided some excellent insights into what drives people to support ISIS and how they can be de-radicalized. He was very animated and funny and did a great 1 1/2 hour presentation. Since it was a VTC (I'm working in Charlottesville VA and the talk was at DIA HQ in DC) it was amusing to see the reaction shots of the crowd during the presentation - lots of scowls. "This dude was an ISIS scumbag...why is he here?" Overall, good insights into a dangerous ideology and some tips on how to fight it. I like my job. I'm not a CT guy (most of my experience in in counterproliferation/nuclear stuff) but this session got me smart on some interesting stuff.

Oh yeah, for the guy who asked me for more information on the NK nuclear issue, I served 3 years as the Chief of the WMD Intelligence Cell in USFK, so I'm pretty dialed in to all things NK nuclear. They got em, just need to get good at getting them to us.

Odadek you should post an AMA in this forum and use that as practice for future interviews of all varieties.

# ¿ May 2, 2017 13:08

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Nostalgia4Butts posted:

oh god what if trump is senile and kushner is weekend at bernie's-ing the executive branch

Yeah...what "if"

# ¿ May 2, 2017 17:08

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facialimpediment posted:

ATTENTION NSA WIZARD

SOMEONE IS SHOWING HIS CAC

https://twitter.com/RabbiShmuley/status/859514352755453954

I thought about posting this earlier for the fun poo poo in the background (sunsetting VISA laws, EVENTUALLY making Mexico pay for the wall, etc) and decided against it, then I just realized that Bannondorf didn't hide his CAC. It looks like it's a weird CAC though, because it doesn't have that scannable ID strip on the front.

Pls don't doxx shim

# ¿ May 2, 2017 23:42

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Woof Blitzer posted:

Found a good metaphor for current events
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/859570710624296962

# ¿ May 3, 2017 03:24

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

Sign unironically owns

# ¿ May 3, 2017 03:34

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CHICKEN SHOES posted:

someone will cry that its a tweet but i mean it is the president

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/859601184285491201

poo poo talking his head of FBI thats investigating him and his associates, 1039th dimensional chess

I mean it is kind of funny

# ¿ May 3, 2017 04:10

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

Why does that childish "journalist" have a TV show?

# ¿ May 3, 2017 04:32

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Wasabi the J posted:

She used to do news.

Also is not like you can't laugh at something so farcical and not be serious at other times. poo poo I think anyone who's worked in A TOC can understand the hilarity of hold music blasting into the conference call.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g4dkBF5anU

The video was hilarious, but her making faces like a youtube reaction video is dumb.

# ¿ May 3, 2017 05:00

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

iLightsabers

# ¿ May 3, 2017 06:59

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

Can someone translate

# ¿ May 4, 2017 04:57

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

Stop

# ¿ May 6, 2017 16:25

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

Everyone knowing that it was Russia is 100% part of the plan. It brings the entire focus of the issue's response on "what are we gonna do about it" instead of "oh gosh we better figure out who did this" [wait three months and the news cycle has moved on]. Russia's troll game is top-tier and we loving suck at combatting it.

# ¿ May 6, 2017 18:37

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

I don't know...dead people are a lot easier to get along with than autistic people

# ¿ May 8, 2017 02:28

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BigDave posted:

They don't smell as bad either.

Zeris fucked around with this message at 06:12 on May 8, 2017

# ¿ May 8, 2017 06:07

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Nostalgia4Butts posted:

can we say

That word and also "late capitalism". Slots at a pol pot-style reeducation camp await anyone who use these terms.

# ¿ May 9, 2017 05:07

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

Just lol if you aren't directly quoting forums.somethingawful.com as your source

# ¿ May 9, 2017 16:16

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

https://twitter.com/braddjaffy/status/862065328200830976

# ¿ May 9, 2017 23:10

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M_Gargantua posted:

Teen Vogue, MTV, National Parks Service, and Chuck Tingle... voices of the resistance, etc

https://twitter.com/dubsteppenwolf/status/862087501757992960

https://twitter.com/dubsteppenwolf/status/862087751939870722

# ¿ May 10, 2017 15:47

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Thwomp posted:

But here's the thing: so long as Republicans feel that they can survive while sticking with/ignoring Trump, they will. They'll passively sit back while Trump does one outrageous thing after another.

It's a simple calculus. If a possible voter backlash against Republicans in general is less likely than the certain backlash they'd face if they impeach their own president, they'll stick with Trump every time.

And given that he just fired the head of the FBI (the guy in charge of the investigation into his possible collusion with Russia to swing an election), I don't know what, if anything, Trump could do that could push Republicans any further. So we're going to have to wait until 2018 at least to see if a general backlash is possible. Which also means we're in for at least another year and a half of Trump doing real harm to Americans and Republicans folding to Trump's bullshit.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/08/how-trump-could-get-fired

very long new yorker article posted:

As the scandal ground on, Nixon made his second mistake: he flouted the authority of a coequal branch of government. In October, 1973, Nixon refused to obey a federal appellate-court ruling that ordered him to turn over tapes of conversations in the Oval Office, and he forced out the investigation�s special prosecutor, Archibald Cox. For nine months, Nixon continued to resist�in effect threatening the basic constitutional system�until, in July, 1974, the Supreme Court ruled that he had to comply. By then, the damage was done, and the House Judiciary Committee launched impeachment hearings. By thwarting other branches, Nixon weakened his support in Congress and convinced the country that he had something to hide. Until that point, much of the public had not focussed on the slow, complex investigation, but interviews at the time show that Nixon�s stonewalling made people pay attention, and he never recovered. �Well, everything has added up to his incompetence over the last few months, and I don�t think the American people should stand for it any longer,� a woman interviewed in New York by the Associated Press said. �In fact, I just signed an impeach petition.�

...

The second lesson of the Clinton impeachment comes from the strategy adopted by his legal team. Learning from Nixon�s fate, the lawyers realized that congressional Democrats would abandon Clinton if they concluded that he had lost the trust of the public. Gregory Craig, one of the lawyers who directed Clinton�s defense, told me recently, �The fundamental point is that it�s a political process.� He and his team spent less energy on disputing the details of evidence than on maintaining support from fellow-Democrats and from the public. They painted Clinton as the victim of a partisan quest to exploit an offense�covering up an affair�that was not on the scale of abuse that the Framers had in mind. �To be honest, we pursued a strategy that embraced polarization,� Craig recalled. �I gave a statement to the press that said this is the most unfair process since the Inquisition in Spain. Some arcane historical reference came out of my mouth. I said, �It�s like they�ve tied up President Clinton, put him in a closet in the middle of the night and turned off the lights, and they�re whipping him.� �

# ¿ May 10, 2017 15:56

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

M_Gargantua posted:

*googles lessons learned from the French revoluton*

*searches TaskRabbit for discrete revolutionaries that identify as gryffindor*

# ¿ May 10, 2017 16:08

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Reverand maynard posted:

She looks just like her dad. Punchable faces are genetic I guess

Relax there buddy

# ¿ May 10, 2017 20:47

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facialimpediment posted:

HBCU graduates at Bethune-Cookman basically told Betsy DeVos to go gently caress herself

https://twitter.com/GenePark/status/862383109165240320

Money buys cabinet seats but not forward facing seats womp womp

# ¿ May 10, 2017 22:28

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

lets make peace

# ¿ May 11, 2017 23:15

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

lol you idiots think anything matters

# ¿ May 18, 2017 02:03

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Buca di Bepis posted:

Stop the white noise "nothing matters" poo poo, even aside from the possibility of Trump going down there is a very significant shake-up unfolding before us.

Until a majority of the GOP congress sees Potus as a sinking ship, they will wiggle and dance their way through whatever outrage or disappointment is necessary to not irk him while also placating constituents. Until a GOP group makes an actual move to stop the president, something they can't retract or write off if it fails, something that can actually snowball, nothing is gonna change. This whole investigation could conclude with a cabinet level official falling on their sword and nothing more. There is never a right and obvious time for party with ownership of the senate, house, and White House to suddenly forfeit the advantage. Voters don't keep score and don't reward idealolgical purity. They elected the pussy grabber, the guy who has literally not read a book in decades, who didn't release his tax returns and is not generally known to be clinically obese due to a corrupt MD's report, who dog whistled racism and made campaign promises that didn't even balance out with thirty seconds of bar napkin math. They are in this deep than we want to admit.

We have a ways to go before the rats give up on the ship.

Zeris fucked around with this message at 03:25 on May 18, 2017

# ¿ May 18, 2017 03:22

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

I'd pay top dollar for an artistic rendering of Obama&W copiloting magically in the cockpit of a predator drone, doing a loop-de-loop through each twin tower leaving chemtrails along the path, circling over Abbottabad, and then dropping them off at a baseball game / on Richard Branson's yacht

# ¿ May 18, 2017 14:25

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Office Pig posted:

Oh and we just signed an arms deal of >$100 billion usd with Saudi Arabia so congratulations Trump voters, you'll never understand the irony but you can go gently caress yourselves anyway.

That's just business as usual, though: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/world/middleeast/jared-kushner-saudi-arabia-arms-deal-lockheed.html

# ¿ May 20, 2017 16:34

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Bored As gently caress posted:

I like Chip and Joanna. She's smoking. Talks way too much about shiplap though.

But seriously gently caress that guy named Tarek, who pronounces his name "Tair-ek." Sorry rear end in a top hat your name is pronounced "Tah-reek" you yuppy gently caress. What the gently caress kind of name is that anyway.

May Current Events

# ¿ May 20, 2017 21:34

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# ¿ May 20, 2017 23:05

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

PornHub: Arabian Palantir Nights is looking good

Shut the gently caress up with your guns and cops stuff. Maybe someone can start a Blood War thread for posters who want to resolve social justice horrors with their axe of But Actually +4

# ¿ May 21, 2017 23:35

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KirbyKhan posted:

Cross posting from CSPAM. It is too beautiful for this dead gay forum:

The joke was funny the first two or three times I guess

# ¿ May 22, 2017 23:11

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

Nope. You gotta give the screaming toddler their fifteen minutes of getting exactly what they ask for, just to remind them why the adults should be in charge.

# ¿ May 23, 2017 18:20

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orange juche posted:

Where would you rate Persian women on the scale of hotness? They're definitely way up there imo.

They're on their own scale, so just as a deployment 10 would be a normal-life 5, or a New York City 3...an Iranian 10...we don't have numbers that equate. It might break the world.

# ¿ May 24, 2017 00:14

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

Kimdotcomchat

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11279489

New Zealand Gossip Rag posted:

"We had an amazing life where I was his princess and when you're 19 or 20, that's cool. But then you grow up and want to explore the world and it doesn't work anymore," she told Woman's Day.

She described the relationship as a "Cinderella story" with the opulent lifestyle at the side of Dotcom, 40, vastly different from a tough childhood tainted by abuse and spent living with different relatives.

"I was only 17 or 18 when we met and I had a difficult childhood, as he did. He gave me emotional security."

She also revealed that Dotcom stashed bags of his favourite food, gummi bears, around the house.

# ¿ May 24, 2017 00:18

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psydude posted:

It was an editorial piece.

This does and doesn't matter. There's no hard rule against this.

But any reputable newspaper should be aware of how bad they look when they publish anything, even op/eds, by someone who is paid to have that opinion. It makes the newspaper look like they got played because they're too stupid to properly verify a contributor isn't being influenced, or it makes the paper look lovely because they didn't care to check. Since the Washington Post is making its latest name on anti-corruption, clarity in government, calling a spade a spade, etc. this makes it look very dumb. On the other hand, NYT does the same thing to a certain extent.

A lot of nonprofits and lobbying groups will support writers of op/eds and try to get them into well-known papers. They usually go through the front door, though, and disclose the exact affiliation within the op/ed itself. That's actually an example of a newspaper fulfilling a civic duty, with respect to the notion that an opinion is at least worth hearing out if there's a lot of resources and/or believers in it.

Sneaking it in looks pretty dumb. But nobody reads the corrections, so it's already over with.

Zeris fucked around with this message at 17:52 on May 24, 2017

# ¿ May 24, 2017 17:50

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

What if nothing seems to matter because the purge has already begun and it will never end

# ¿ May 25, 2017 05:42

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MA-Horus posted:

goddammit I want to make a joke using the forbidden word

# ¿ May 25, 2017 19:55

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

I thought that was the running expectation with owning a newspaper.

# ¿ May 28, 2017 02:58

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 20:15

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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

CommieGIR and Dead Reckoning debates are going to end in a thumbs up or thumbs down ruling by me. Thumbs up, I adorn your av with.. something. Thumbs down? Probation.

Everyone clear on this?

# ¿ May 28, 2017 15:25

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