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nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013
So I just emerged from a slow teleport from the year 1996. Can someone please sum up the last 21 years of history for me, or is this joke finally loving dead after a week and a half?

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nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013
God, Bill O'Reilly gets fired, Roger Ailes dies, Tucker Carlson plows Fox's ratings into the basement, and now Sean Hannity might quit in a screaming huff over a literal fake news conspiracy? Is there a term for a hat-trick where the team just keeps getting scored on? :allears:

The correct answer is: A Vancouver Canucks game, but anyway

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Koyaanisgoatse posted:

lol, I was actually in Vancouver for when they lost the Stanley Cup a few years ago, poo poo was crazy

Hah. I know. I would walk around my job playing Chelsea Dagger on my phone to troll the gently caress out of everyone. What a time to be alive. (And I was a Nucks fan at the time too)

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013
So I was watching The Flash instead (because I want to experience a sane reality where things make sense at least once a week); did Hannity nut up and quit :foxnews:, or was that tweet just a stunt to con people back into watching his show like I fully expected it to be?

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

I really hope Hannity gets fired before long.

If I was James Murdoch, I'd be up all night working on my sales pitch to Rupert for when I came into the office in the morning. "Oi, Da! Guess 'oo we gotta fi'ah dis week?"

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

Why are the Murdoch sons cleaning house? The lawsuits or are they just disgusted with the network?

Yes.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Every picture I have ever seen of Pope Francis he is smiling joyfully in them... except that one.

How awful a human being do you have to be to make a man who becomes overjoyed just by getting a loving pizza frown that hard while he is in your presence?

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Crain posted:

I wish Marcon or someone would hit him back on that to his face.

Jesus Christ.

https://twitter.com/garyhe/status/867710859224788993

Macron got him back by crushing the gently caress out of his tiny hand at the press event.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

lol nothing matters. The countdown to a congressional correspondent getting punched out live on CNN by a Republican Rep or Senator has officially begun.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Tatsuta Age posted:

Pretty cool that, someday in the maybe not so far future, a female journalist will be raped and killed by a Republican congressman, have it caught on audio/film, and then we'll all read how deeply troubled everyone is by it alongside thought pieces about how it was her own fault for dressing that way and asking those questions

Joe Scarborough (allegedly) murdered an intern and left her corpse in his office and the only punishment he got was an eternity of hosting a morning show with Mika Brzezinski.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

STAC Goat posted:

Jack Kingston on CNN about the "bodyslam":

"We all know these things happen in politics."

Also "he was snarky and asking for it."

He's being ripped to shreds as anyone who makes this argument will be.

The next six months are going to be amazingly horrifying in the regard to all the new and escalatingly brutal ways reporters are gone get assaulted in the wake of this. Mark my words.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

DariusLikewise posted:

Ahahhaha as a guy who sucker punched and choked out a reporter got elected, what the gently caress is wrong with Montana

The same thing that's wrong with the rest of your country. Now tune in next week when Marsha Blackburn pepper sprays Andrea Mitchell and then throws her down a flight of stairs because she said the word "Russia" within a ten foot radius of her.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Majorian posted:

The notion that all voters who went for Trump are irredeemables who the Dems can't ever win, so they shouldn't try, is both a cop-out and a self-defeating mindset.

...That is proving increasingly true with each passing special election.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

And Joe Scarborough can go to hell right alongside them. Never forget: this man and his literal TV Wife are a huge reason the world has to endure Trump now because they lead the charge in normalizing him, and normalizing the godawful behaviour from Republicans he is now aghast at for some reason.

gently caress Joe Scarborough into centre of the goddamn Sun.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Unzip and Attack posted:

Some more than others. Scarborough was particularly guilty by giving an infamously softball interview where the downtime mics recorded Trump, Scarborough, and Mika giggling like idiots and reassuring each other the interview wouldn't be confrontational at all. Sure, some journalists helped Trump via inaction, but Scarborough was an active participant in the rise of Trump. Any regrets he has now can be shoved up his rear end, hopefully right before he gets fired for being a disgrace to cable journalism (which I know is saying a lot).

More than that they had daily on air phone calls from Trump for nearly nine months after he first announced he was running where they basically put the show on hold and gave him like 20 of free air time to cement himself in the public consciousness even more. Joe was the #1 non-:foxnews: Trump hype man until Trump turned on him. And he now realizes what a terrible mistake that was and is going to be spending the rest of his media life trying to make amends for it with stuff like that stupid rant, and to that I say again, "gently caress Joe Scarborough right into the Sun."

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013
I hope one day Martin Shkrelli develops a super villain serum like Norman Osborne and he tests it on himself, only instead of becoming the Green Goblin he turns into the screaming blob from the end of Akira and just pops.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013
Plot twist: Zukerborg is replaced with Jesse Eisenberg halfway through the primary and everyone is astounded at how much more personable and human he suddenly seems without realizing it.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Flesh Forge posted:

Kim Dot Com is just some fat guy hiding in New Zealand, he's a little harder to sue successfully, but I doubt Rich's family would have a hard time finding a lawyer to go against Fox.

e: Fox treating him as a credible source is probably good evidence for them actually lol

I've said it before, but it bears repeating: Kim Dot Com is the real life version of the insufferable self-important prick Jim Sterling pretends to be on the Jimquisition.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

mik posted:

It's one thing to watch the implosion of the US political system as a non-America, it's another when that implosion poses an existential threat to the rest of us. Come on, USA.

That's my Darkest Timeline nightmare scenario: Putin gets really loving ballsy and tries to annex part of Nunavut, Trudeau invokes Article 5, and Trump's response is to fart into his iPhone.

loving scary.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

ThisIsJohnWayne posted:

The Baltics are defended. Can we say the same thing about the North Pole?

Plus the Russian Air Force regularly sends Tu-95s into Canadian Arctic airspace to probe our defenses before RCAF interceptors "politely escort" them back home. So yeah, we're on Putin's wish list, no matter how far down we are.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Yeah, that's a textbook case of "senile grandpa forgets where he is and starts singing along to the catchy music." Just the way he starts swaying about with reckless abandon and is clearly singing very loudly so that he can try to be heard over the band. Now that is unsettling because he either has an utter lack of fucks for decorum and proper conduct at a remembrance ceremony, or yeah he just literally got distracted by the catchy music and couldn't help himself because he has the brain of a toddler.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

SardonicTyrant posted:

I fear a world where history is kind to Trump.

America is a nation of infinite forgiveness and incurably short memory, where the Overton Window only moves in one direction: rightward.

It's only a matter of time before the most left leaning of liberals utters the words "you know, Donald Trump wasn't actually that bad" in comparison to a future President Richard B. Spencer.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013
Spicy got asked straight up "Should people be concerned that the President put out an incoherent tweet in the middle of the night that stayed up for hours with seemingly no one in the White House noticing it?"

And Sean's response was an utterly amazing "..........no."

:allears:

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Reminder: Erick Erickson is so dumb he once pulled out a gun and repeatedly shot a newspaper article because it made him mad. This was a thing that literally happened.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Electric Phantasm posted:

Is there video?

Sadly no, but there is photographic "proof" from the man himself.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Lote posted:

More like:



Pictured: President Chelsea Clinton, Vice President Michael Moore, First Son William Jefferson Clinton II, and Ambassador Obama Osama Bin Laden in 2021 in the Oval Office

gently caress, I'd vote for Chelsea Clinton and Michael Moore if we got Amanda Waller as a cabinet secretary. And I'm not even American.

God, that loving comic. It was a hilarious trainwreck in its day, and time has been decreasingly kind to it as the years roll on.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013
Remember after Obama was elected and and suddenly there were like 50 versions of anime Obama out there because people were so happy America elected a cool smart president who people liked? :smith:

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Autism Sneaks posted:

If Marvel had any goddamn balls or sense they would use Trump as the evil posterchild of their current Worst Timeline Nazi fracas instead of Captain America. It doesn't even have to be Trump or a "totally not Trump (but is)", just make MODOK orange and give him blonde hair

DC already did. Trump was the president in the evil Doomworld the Legion of Doom briefly created in the CWverse shows.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

voltroon posted:

First the Scandanavians, now this. I'm excited to watch every European leader dunk on Trump for the next four years.

I would not be surprised in the slightest if within the next two years we actually go from a G7 partnership to a G6 as Europe, Japan and Canada kick the United States out of the G7 ala Russia and the G8. Or, gently caress, even swap in China for America because China is literally a better faith actor and on its way to having a stronger economy than the United States is/does for the foreseeable future.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Boris Galerkin posted:

What did the Scandinavians do?

Their PMs all got together and recreated the Orb photo with them all holding a soccer ball ominously.

E: This
https://www.twitter.com/nordenen/status/869480526905782272
:orb:

nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Jun 2, 2017

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Oxxidation posted:

As someone who's related to a whole bunch of evangelicals by marriage I'm comfortable saying that they're some of the foulest, most hateful hypocrites on the planet.

And they're so mother loving boring on top of it, which is somehow the worst part of all.

That's what happens when you believe everything BUT being a racist rear end in a top hat is a mortal sin. You're too scared to do anything resembling fun or have a real personality because you'll go to hell if you do.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013
RACHEL'S ALIVE! :woop:

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

He misspelled president on purpose.

:thejoke:

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

evilweasel posted:

senator mccain: "twitter has informed me i was a rambling crazyperson"

https://twitter.com/mviser/status/872886101027037184

So just how disturbed with John McCain is John McCain after hearing John McCain's crazyass ramblings in that senate hearing?

I bet he's deeply troubled.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Jesus. It's one thing when you hate your home team, but when your home team hates YOU...

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

PhazonLink posted:

why did she choose a user pic that looks bad.

Because there aren't any qualifiedly "good" pictures of her that exist? She is unfortunately not photogenic and kinda scored a PR windfall by SNL convincing the world she actually looks like Kate McKinnon.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

The Hill: John McCain Made Noise Today

next

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Pellisworth posted:

idk but he just won re-election this year and is 80 years old

if he ran again it would be in 2022 and he would be 85-86

McCain's corpse will continue to run for office and win every time.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Wark Say posted:

Is he a loving Captain Planet / Toxic Crusaders villain?

He's Hoggish Greedly with Duke Nukum's hair and complexion.

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nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

The thought of Trump just meandering up and down the halls of the White House screaming "I'M NOT UNDER INVESTIGATION!" in increasingly angry tones into any open door he bumbles across is just delightful.

Chris Hayes was right, the man is still a living dril tweet.

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