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A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum

Star Man posted:

Unban Tiny Brontosaurus you loving cowards

:siren::smithcloud::tif::siren:

WrenP-Complete posted:

Resources related to the Thomas Fire:

http://library.sbcc.edu/blog/2017/12/06/resources-for-students-impacted-by-the-thomas-fire/

Please let me know if anyone needs help or support via PM or Discord (Wren #7859). Stay safe, goons.
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tentative8e8op posted:

The Hurricane information document was updated, and there are a whole mess of new PR resources to check out, including ways to get in touch with people who you haven't heard from.

The American Red Cross Safe and Well Website and Univision's local situation information tool are both very helpful.

If you are in the U.S. and need to find your family in Puerto Rico:
Write to the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration by emailing maria1@prfaa.pr.gov. Due to the large volume of emails, do not send more than one unless the situation of your family member has changed.
Call the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration: 202-800-3133
Call the radio station WIPR 787-777-0940
Call the Puerto Rico Family Institute at 212-414-7895. They are helping PRFAA because their lines are slammed. Just go through the recorded message and press any key.

We would also like to point out an opportunity to help that seems well suited to many goons:
People in the diaspora with a tech-related background who want to donate their expertise are encouraged to fill out the Maria Tech Recovery Effort form. This form is being managed by a group organizing through Startups of Puerto Rico who will work to connect key people on the ground in PR with the best talent in the diaspora. In order to partner effectively, they are using the form to create an “inventory” of talent that can be leveraged to help stand up services and share resources.
:siren::smithcloud::tif::siren:

:ussr: Please join the Democratic Socialists of America. :ussr:



Unkempt posted:

The rats are deserting a sinking ship except the ship is made entirely out of tangled rats

WeAreTheRomans posted:

I doubt the Trump Era will only be defined by a single insane quote. His whole array of demented verbal tics will be in our lexicon long after he strokes out while taking a poo poo
Trump continues to be completely loving insane, and apparently the OP of the Trump thread has joined him. Let us continue to discuss the ongoing catastrofuck that is America under the Trump administration.

Thread Rules*:
Please no relitigating Hillary v. Bernie. It goes on for days and nobody's mind gets changed.

Please don't constantly ask what has happened since you last checked the thread. Instead, use this:
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/

Please don't respond to 45 ACP CURES NAZIS, 8-Bit Scholar, akma, Azhais, Bashez, BetterToRuleInHell (an MIGF rereg who also uses the alt accounts ThisIsWhyTrumpWon and ISeeCuckedPeople), bird cooch, Bondii, Calibanibal, Caros, CassandraSupreme, Chadderbox, Cingulate, cravius, DandyLion, Darth Windu (or his rereg JailTrump), dbukalski, Dead Reckoning, Enigma89, gohmak, Gold Sexy Body, gowb, Heliogabalos, INITIALCUMOFFERING, JacobinPhoney, John Henry Miller, Kekekela, KillHour, Knifegrab, LeJackal, logosanatic, Mnoba, namaste faggots, NathanScottPhillips, nessin, NiceGuy, NothingMatters, PainterofCrap, Petr, PCOSBill, pkay, poopinmymouth, R-Type, Race Realists, Rent-A-Cop, Retro42, sarehu, Sinteres, smoke something bitch, SocketWrench, steinrokkan, SweetAsselin, tehinternet, Telsa Cola, terrorist ambulance, The Kingfish, ThisIsJohnWayne (probably MIGF), TROIKA CURES GREEK, twodot, Verranicus, Vladimir Putin, white sauce, Xombie, or Yug. They are posting in bad faith, and some are outright bigots.

Leon Trotsky 2012 used to be an okay poster, but more and more frequently posts awful things to get a reaction out of people. Don't fall for it.

:siren:Please report awful, bigoted, or bad-faith posters whenever possible.:siren:

Koalas March posted:

Anyone advocating for genocide is subhuman, full stop. hth

Even if you don't agree with Prester Jane's theories, insulting her based on mental health issues is out of line and says bad things about you. Posters have been continually singling her out in demeaning and dismissive ways, and it's gross.

Quit whining about Koalas March's gifs. It's pathetic and completely transparent.

Koalas March posted:

Real talk: if you didn't join the forums to dunk on lovely people I don't want to know you

Like don't even breathe in my direction

If you meet a Nazi on the road, punch them. For why doing this is important, please consult the excellent essay about Nazis that marshmonkey reposted.

Please don't use Mensch or people in her circle as a source. They refuse to vet their information or filter out obvious nonsense. Additionaly, the @RoguePOTUSStaff account is fake and possibly a disinformation attempt. Instead, here's a list of better sources from the old thread:

quote:

@costareports (Robert Costa, Washington Post, formerly National Review): Conservative-leaning journalist to whom Republican sources often leak backroom stories (Republican retreats, Presidential campaigns, etc.)
@JohnJHarwood (John Harwood, CNBC, New York Times): Has a lot of sources in the Republican Party and was the first to report on Paul Manafort leaving the Trump campaign in August 2016.
@daveweigel (Dave Weigel, Bloomberg Politics, formerly Slate): "Idiosyncratic libertarian" journalist who is second only to Robert Costa in connections/interviews with Republican officials. Contrary to popular belief, not D&D superstar Joementum.
@BruceBartlett (Bruce Bartlett, ex-Reagan/Bush official): "Lifelong conservative who now thinks the GOP panders to fools, whom he calls wankers. My tweets should not always be taken seriously."
The following are semi-random selections from a list offered by Rygar201 and may be good or bad.
@owillis (Olivier Willis, research fellow, Media Matters)
@mattyglesias (Matt Yglesias, executive editor, Vox)
@JuddLegum (Judd Legum, Editor-in-Chief, Think Progress)
@dick_nixon "37th President of the United States. Messages from the President are unsigned, others from Ronald Ziegler. "
@EricBoehlert (Eric Boehlert, Media Matters)
@JamilSmith (Jamil Smith, senior editor, The New Republic)
@jonathanchait (Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine)
@nielslesniewski (Neils Lesniewski, Senate coverage, Roll Call)
@abwhite7 (Abraham White, former comms for Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chuck Schumer (D-NY))
@DSenFloor (Senate D Floor Watch): "Live floor updates from the Senate Democrats"
@billmon1 (Billmon)
@ebruenig (Elizabeth Bruenig, The New Republic)

Please don't be a Covok (i.e. a doomsaying jerk). Being terrified by how things are is healthy. Constantly and exclusively posting about things being awful forever is not only low-content, it's using the suffering of others as an excuse to get attention while lashing out at others for not being miserable like you. And certainly don't take glee in claiming things won't matter.

Don't be awful about Barron Trump. He's eleven years old. Every other Trump family member is fair, but let Barron be a kid for just a small bit. In general, just leave people's kids out of it.

Don't try to be the tone police. Trump supporters constantly make death threats and vomit hate speech. It's okay to be assholes to them. In fact, it's your patriotic duty.

The dog rule may be dead, but dog pictures are always appreciated.

Saying "nothing matters" is useless or worse. By posting it you're either being an rear end in a top hat because you support awful people and don't want them punished, or you're letting depression make you into a loser by trying to inflict it on others.

Don't put stroking your own ego about how pure you are over actual electoral and policy success. You feeling nice about never compromising doesn't keep disenfranchised people from dying.

Things are not normal. Stop pretending they are. Stop criticizing people for being rightfully afraid, or for taking steps to protect themselves.

An individual minority or woman being an awful person who enables Republicans is not an excuse to be a bigoted or sexist piece of poo poo. I thought this went without saying. skylined! puts it well here:



"Nork" is racist. It is a slur. End of story.

Discendo Vox posted:

Ignore the hokey coal town interview articles, they're not representative. The people who were the core of the Trump support base weren't the impoverished white racists and sexists, it was suburban semi-wealthy racists and sexists.

When articles talk about "economic anxiety" as a predictor of voting behavior in Trump supporters, the measures used were not measures of how poor voters were, or of how at-risk they were. They were measures of how much voters were worried that someone else would get their money. These concerns had no bearing on their actual income or status. The poorer people were, the more likely they were to vote Democratic. The "working class" Trump supporters aren't the main group of people who get hurt or die in the time ahead.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

"kawv-FEH-feh," not "kōv-FEEF"

Juggalos are pretty chill people. Here's a documentary about them.

Please read The Case for Reparations when you get a moment.

Neat Stuff:
Xibanya has made a fun tool that takes screen captures of the front page of various news sites at a given time. It can be found here:
https://xibanya.github.io/frontpages

Party Plane Jones' tweet recaps are an excellent way to catch up on news.

Robot Hobo made an insightful and useful post about subtly winning over conservative coworkers and such.

Mezzanine made a bingo card generator for Spicer press conferences (RIP):

MIGF's trolling prompted this excellent post about modern masculinity.

Colin Mockery posted:

Oh man, what a coincidence, I'm also concerned about boys' and young men's relationships to their masculinity and how cultural expectations might make them feel as if they aren't sufficiently masculine or feel forced to change how they express themselves in a way that causes them emotional harm!

Have you watched The Mask You Live In yet? It's a great documentary about this exact subject and it's available on Netflix!

You know what else I like that talks about boys and their relationship to masculinity and how to be a good role model so that boys feel confident, safe, and happy in relation to their masculinity?

The Good Men Project

I don't actually read it that often because it turns out I don't actually care about kids that much, but it sounds like something you might be really interested in! Have you tried volunteering for things like Big Brothers Big Sisters? That's a good way to try and model good behavior and help kids grow up happy and supported too!

I'm so glad you care about dismantling the harmful expectations put on young men as they grow up, and about providing them with ample examples of how men can express their masculinity in ways that are healthy and honest.

But really, it's a good documentary and it really is on Netflix.

Sinteres got owned by Covok.

BrianBoitano posted:

Neat Mooch mp4 #1 removed for size, click quote text to see it.

Azhais posted:

Neat Mooch mp4 #2 removed for size, click quote text to see it.

After toxxing to write a long slashfic of McCain with Obama if the former actually went through with voting against the latest repeal attempt, Endorph followed through.

Randbrick posted:

Shucks is like a space alien who kidnaps you and subjects you to a comically fake construction of a human town with a human office building where you do human work, staffed with mantis people wearing crude obvious human masks

And you can tell her a thousand times you know full well this is a fabrication and that she isn't human and she'll just smile at you and bare her teeth and soldier on like tom has had his human birthday. We are office. But the hell of it, the aliens don't even understand humans enough to understand dishonesty or to gauge that your rejection of the false reality means, you just have to keep going and watching the mantis people of the Jesus nebula fail to trick you forever

Someone made an album of all the times Trump's aides have talked about him acting like a toddler.



A link to the old thread. :pisstape:

*Enforcement of these or any forum rules subject to mod discretion. Sometimes this thread goes a long time without mods stopping by.

A Shitty Reporter fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Dec 22, 2017

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Pellisworth
Jun 20, 2005

A lovely Reporter posted:

Trump continues to be completely loving insane, and apparently the OP of the Trump thread has joined him. Let us continue to discuss the ongoing catastrofuck that is America under the Trump administration.

I think you're overreacting, let's give him a chance.

Nice username/post combo tho

FUCK SNEEP
Apr 21, 2007




We're almost through all 4 years, right?

Heck Yes! Loam!
Nov 15, 2004

a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.
I didn't know what to do with my life for about 5 minutes.

PoopShipDestroyer
Jan 13, 2006

I think he's ready for a chair
That was a scary 15 minutes, I almost had to work!

Low Desert Punk
Jul 4, 2012

i have absolutely no fucking money
trump is a pissbaby who should burn in hell, pass it on

Mr. Wiggles
Dec 1, 2003

We are all drinking from the highball glass of ideology.
I propose that Trump is a bad president: Discuss.

DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness
I genuinely thought we had just declared war on someone when I read that last post on the old thread :v:

No Butt Stuff
Jun 10, 2004

Counterpoint:

I would like to talk about the 2018 primaries on the occasion one of the more interesting tweets or candidates gets brought up.

Maybe we could use this thread to discuss a vast spectrum of US Politics?

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
An admin asked the OP to close the thread for some reason. So it's not his fault.

Sexual Aluminum
Jun 21, 2003

is made of candy
Soiled Meat
No orb thread icon, I find this deeply troubling.

Huge_Midget
Jun 6, 2002

I don't like the look of it...
Calling it now, he either keels over from a heart attack, or resigns before impeachment proceedings begin. Either way he's not making it to the Fourth of July.

Rigel
Nov 11, 2016

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

An admin asked the OP to close the thread for some reason. So it's not his fault.

It was obviously a bad joke.

No Butt Stuff
Jun 10, 2004

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

An admin asked the OP to close the thread for some reason. So it's not his fault.

please stop investigating pop-o-matic trouble's actions or any role the administration may have had in them

Mahoning
Feb 3, 2007
What the gently caress, SA? You can't be constantly feeding me Trump Administration gently caress-ups and news bombs and then cut off my supply like that!

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!



This is a link to the special prosecutors office, can some lovely reporter link it in the op please?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Uglycat
Dec 4, 2000
MORE INDISPUTABLE PROOF I AM BAD AT POSTING
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I still wanna see a special election

1-800-DOCTORB
Nov 6, 2009
It's only Thursday.

NewMars
Mar 10, 2013

Huge_Midget posted:

Calling it now, he either keels over from a heart attack, or resigns before impeachment proceedings begin. Either way he's not making it to the Fourth of July.

Trump will show his base the way forward by being the first human being to have a heart stroke.

BlueBlazer
Apr 1, 2010

Huge_Midget posted:

Calling it now, he either keels over from a heart attack, or resigns before impeachment proceedings begin. Either way he's not making it to the Fourth of July.

Join my Toxx you coward!

guidoanselmi
Feb 6, 2008

I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest post. No lies whatsoever.

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

An admin asked the OP to close the thread for some reason. So it's not his fault.

no mods no masters

Shookies
Aug 17, 2003

A Magic Hand took my Freeze-Gun!!
The last OP: "When I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, ‘You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story,’” [CLOSE THREAD]

Sexual Aluminum
Jun 21, 2003

is made of candy
Soiled Meat
Montana is having their election with Quist on the ticket in two days right? Does he have a chance?

Name Change
Oct 9, 2005


RiggenBlaque posted:

That was a scary 15 minutes, I almost had to work!

Crain
Jun 27, 2007

I had a beer once with Stephen Miller and now I like him.

I also tried to ban someone from a Discord for pointing out what an unrelenting shithead I am! I'm even dumb enough to think it worked!

Uglycat posted:

I still wanna see a special election

No such thing in the US of A. If Trump gets ousted it goes to Pence, then Paul Ryan, then Orin Hatch then down a long list of increasingly irrelevant people.

EDIT: At least not for the office of President.

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat
Trump is a bad president.

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

Woo down with censorship! #NoModsNoShackles

WeAreTheRomans
Feb 23, 2010

by R. Guyovich
Huh I thought Islam was a religion of peace ? Checkmate libcucks :smugdog:

https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/866711448411570176

prom candy
Dec 16, 2005

Only I may dance
hey america, nice president. not.

Chemtrailologist
Jul 8, 2007
His wife hates him only slightly less than we do.
https://twitter.com/DaniellaMicaela/status/867057615926435841

Fitzy Fitz
May 14, 2005




OP needs more orb photoshops.

Also put https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/ in OP too please thanks.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/867086338557976576
https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/867089510366146560
https://twitter.com/markfollman/status/867088109359345665
https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/867084261744136192
https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/867089709507465216

And the joke for the day:

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/867064884386811906

WeAreTheRomans
Feb 23, 2010

by R. Guyovich
Also may I propose a new thesis for this new thread iteration to discuss at length --- Trump is actually good????

sean10mm
Jun 29, 2005

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, MAD-2R World

Fitzy Fitz posted:

OP needs more orb photoshops.

Also put https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/ in OP too please thanks.

:agreed:

It is very handy when the Trump news is coming fast & furious and nobody knows WTF.

Rigel
Nov 11, 2016

Sexual Aluminum posted:

Montana is having their election with Quist on the ticket in two days right? Does he have a chance?

Yes. A recent poll had him down 4, and his GOP opponent has been clearly collapsing for the last few weeks. (used to be more like down 15 which is why the DNC didn't spend much money)

4 points in a low-turnout special election is not nothing, but it can be overcome. I'd say Quist has about a 25% chance.

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

gently caress SNEEP posted:

We're almost through all 4 years, right?

lol, its been 4 months

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

An admin asked the OP to close the thread for some reason. So it's not his fault.

lmao

highme
May 25, 2001


I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!


Shimrra Jamaane posted:

An admin asked the OP to close the thread for some reason. So it's not his fault.

It was a post in a different thread in CSPAM.

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

The Glumslinger posted:

lol, its been 4 months

So we're about halfway through his Presidency.

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Doctor Butts
May 21, 2002

Tim Ryan reiterating what we've experienced:

https://twitter.com/RepTimRyan/status/866861120669323265

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