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Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.
https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/887589477887115269

Huckabee is down with the revolution. Full communism now.

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Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

berserker posted:

Glioblastoma general prognosis via American Brain Tumor Association:

His only hope now is eating cannabis oil like it was salt water taffy.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

No more loopholes for Sesh

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Petr posted:

So, uh, this leak is clearly bad news. The White House put it out to force a Sessions resignation, allowing him to appoint someone non-recused and destroy the investigation.

If the endgame is firing Muller why not just fire Sessions?

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Comrade Fakename posted:

There's a theory floating about that China's gender imbalance means that they're going to invade North Korea at some point just to burn off the excess men.

War doesn't kill soldiers as much as it used to.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

glowing-fish posted:

This is why I am not just trolling when I try to talk about geography in this thread.

For reference, here is a map of where large predators live in the United States:



There are no cattle ranchers in the midwest who are dealing with wolves.

Hearing people say things like that, to me, is like hearing a grandma try to buy CDs for their grandchildren in 1995. "Smashing Pumpkins...no, no, no, I don't want them listening to that rap music! I think they like alternative rock, like Bruce Springsteen".

The basis of the Republican Party in the house is in suburban states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. The amount of Republican Party members who live in areas where wolves are an issue is very small.

This is why everyone loving hates your siloed geography talk. There are ranchers in Montana and Idaho that are affected by wolves. They get political coverage from Republican politicians in the midwest and talking heads in New York because they are all part of the same party.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.
Did this get posted?

https://twitter.com/thenation/status/890690529096331264

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

FizFashizzle posted:

lol i just realized heller voted yes for no reason

He didn't want Steve Wynn to claw his eyes out.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

NoEyedSquareGuy posted:

Trump sent his personal body guard to escort Reince back to the puzzle box from whence he came.

Subeirp Ecnier
Subeirp Ecnier
Subeirp Ecnier

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTDFHgmWweY

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

At what point does every lawyer thats been in the same room as Trump get disbarred? They've all lied in public venues for him.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.
Does anyone else think the stock market is inflating because no one is selling their equities assuming that there is some incoming Republican capital gains tax cut?

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Yes, lots of people don't know how the stock market works.

In this case they do know how the stock market works. They could be looking at a substantial tax savings if they wait. If people hesitate to sell that means that the same amount money is flowing into the system and less money is flowing out. That would inflate the prices even more than the current macroeconomic shenanigans have done.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ng-out-of-cash/

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Only about 20% of the stock market is owned by individual investors with large holdings. A few of them are people with inheritances or trusts and not actively managing their portfolios.

That means that somewhere around 12-18% of the market valuation is held by individual traders. Even if 100% of these traders were working in complete unison with their trading, they would not be able to impact the market cap and valuation changes that the stock market has seen in the last 6+ months.

Additionally, many individual stocks are way down. That does not indicate a broad market acceptance of the idea that equities as a class are going to be more valuable in the near future because of a tax break.

My language was not very precise, I'm not talking about the entire market but just another factor that could contribute. All of the optimism started in November of 2016, clearly they expect a more favorable regulatory regime.

Reik posted:

They could just short sell against the box and close their positions when the tax rates drop. It would have the same net effect on the market but let them choose when to realize the gains. The cost to do this should be minimal.

That also locks in your gains, what if you expect you position to keep gaining?

Dmitri-9 fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Aug 2, 2017

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Fulchrum posted:

Ah, so somehow, THAT issue that has intense pushback from a relatively small lobbying group and few dedicated detractors is toxic and should not be touched, but somehow, unions, which have generations of vocal hatred against it and so much more lobbying against it, that we just need to work to redeem.

Because gun control only has downsides for the party but supporting labor has potential upsides.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Doomsday clock: tick-tock tick-tock

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Pepe wasn't a racist symbol until thousands of people began to create "ironic" racist pepe memes. Here's a hint the "irony" is just disinformation.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

KickerOfMice posted:

Okay?

I think i'm going to trust the ADL's well written article over your two sentences. :shrug:

Equating a character from an internet comic about frogs and piss jokes with a cultural gesture that has been around for more decades than you and me put together seems reasonable.

BUT HERES A HINT :smug:

e- man I'm going to make the 'thumbs up' mean I hate 'World of warcraft and its players are subhuman!"

Good luck in all your future endeavors

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

KickerOfMice posted:

An even handed response. I'm sorry your frog got stolen by wannabe nerd racists?

wtf?

Just posting a thousand year old good luck symbol to bring you good luck.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

KickerOfMice posted:

You guys know we're talking about how the anti defamation league posted an article that giving the ok symbol is not a hate symbol, yes?

I know dogpiles are fun but this is pretty pathetic.

Nazis don't do things in good faith. 4channers speak out of both sides of their mouth. When the news notices the phenomena it is a "hoax" but sarcasm, irony, and hoaxes have a strange way of becoming ironclad sincerity with frog nazis. The swastika meant lots of things for thousands of years and so did the OK gesture but that doesn't really have a huge bearing on what it means today.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

KickerOfMice posted:

ALRIGHT! I'm goona go have a smoke, can we all stop calling each other nazis please and ty.

I'm not calling you a nazi, I'm calling you naive.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Who is worse, Miller or Gorka?

Miller is a true believer, Gorka is just an upper class twit

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

The doomsday clock got extremely dumb after the Cold War ended.

Uh India-Pakistan anyone?

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Calls to violence are not protected speech. Put it in a blast chiller.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Remember that the only difference between Trump and Never Trump conservatives is aesthetics.

Dmitri-9 fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Aug 13, 2017

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Ringo Star Get posted:

I've seen a few WW2 reenactments and I'm tempted to ask the German reenactors how many times they get approached by neo Nazi fuckwits. I'm sure they do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiLVAz-Jczg

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Dirt posted:

https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/897300363530850305


You can't make this poo poo up.

Trump is retweeting a Nazi or at the least a Nazi-aligned idiot two days later

Posobeic also tried to false flag anti-Trump protesters with a "rape Melania" sign and promoted Pizzagate.

HOLY poo poo that's the guy who was promoting the fake Macron leaks right when they came out.

Dmitri-9 fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Aug 15, 2017

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Relentlessboredomm posted:

Look at this steaming pile of poo poo people are passing around on Facebook: http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/23/how-anti-white-rhetoric-is-fueling-white-nationalism/


Or better yet, don't. Don't give them the views.

Yeah he is pretty much right. Liberal intellectuals are complete hypocrites telling people that race is culturally constructed and non-essential and then reordering culture completely along racial lines. The invisible knapsack does nothing to help oppressed people it only demoralizes and humiliates privileged people. You can't really check the privilege of someone else you can only check your own, meaning that this program needs the internalized beliefs to already mirror anti-racists ones. White racists will not consent to being singled out and demoralized, they will react and assert their white pride.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

DreamShipWrecked posted:

After the Boston bombing Reddit went on the prowl and identified one of the bombers. A day later the guy's corpse washed up out of the river.

Turns out it was the wrong guy. Whoops!

That guy killed himself before the bombing.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Javes posted:

Holy poo poo what is happening

The Great Unveiling

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

STAC Goat posted:

Psycho crying Nazi Dude was a Free Keene guy? The gently caress?

Scratch a libertarian find a fascist

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

STAC Goat posted:

Its not really the journey of "sad, pathetic loser with vague anti-government ideas and a willingness to be a dickhead gets hooked on neo nazi rhetoric" thing that shocked me. That seems like a cliche if anything. Its more "how the gently caress did this guy manage to become the star of a viral Colbert skit and a Vice documentary on almost entirely different subjects years apart with out someone planning it?"

2017 is so weird.

These people are coddled by society to a ridiculous degree. If there are no consequences and you have a love of the limelight there is no end to the amount of man bites dog stories you can be a part of.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Arturo Ui posted:

This dude is *nineteen*. He definitely touched an orb.

All Young Republicans look and dress like 45 year old local newscasters that are recovering coke addicts.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Chilichimp posted:

THAT ALL HAPPENED IN 4 loving WEEKS?!?!?!?!?!

Do you want to feel really disoriented? Steve Mnuchin commuted perjury for a second time and it didn't last a whole news cycle.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

MrFlibble posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/899008521726861312

You know all the doom warnings about the coming north american eclipse are funny and all but if Donald Trump is actually performing some sort of Lovecraftian ritual to summon an elder god then I want you all to know that I loving called it first.

Oh yeah "eclipse". Like the President doesn't swallow the sun and drink the oceans.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Flesh Forge posted:

Wow, it really says something when the Libertarian party essentially kicks you out ... and then the Republican party takes you in.

e: how rich his mom/dad must be I wonder

SPLC article on him is a hoot
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/augustus-sol-invictus-austin-gillespie

Is that the guy who talks like Catherine Hepburn and wanted to sacrifice a live goat to his gods?

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Zopotantor posted:

FTFY. At some point there were factories in Russia whose products were worth less than the raw materials they consumed.

Rancher's in the US sometimes feed their animals candy because it is cheaper than corn. Guess what candy is made out of.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

CroatianAlzheimers posted:

Someone mentioned way back in the thread that that IronStache guy got Milkshake Ducked. Was that a joke, or did something actually happen and he turned out to be a shitheel?

He responded favorably to Louise Mensch suggesting that he was a kook but he later explained that he was trying to make friends wherever he could because he was such an newbie.

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Ague Proof posted:

Speaking of Mensch, do you think that they've settled on the death penalty for Bannon now that he's no longer under Trump's protection?

Bannon is going to skate. This broken Mensch is right less than two times a day.

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Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

Wirth1000 posted:

10 sailors missing, 5 injured....

"That's too bad." -Their CiC

This is the second one this year right? Did he name a Secretary of the Navy yet?

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