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Speaking of civil wars, Russia's casualties in Syria may be higher than they've been reporting. We're still talking about double digit casualties, but it still shows that they're anxious about the blowback. This article talks about graves of the dead being placed in high-security military cemeteries, and dates of death being obscured. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-russia-casualtie-idUSKBN1AI0HG
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TBeats posted:I cannot wait for his SOTU We had the biggest crowds! We had all 535 senators and representatives there, all of whom agreed that it was the best speech that had ever been given there. The best speech since George Washington, at least, maybe earlier. And- a lot of people don't know this, but it's starting to come out more and more- all nine members of the Supreme Court were there, including Justice Gorsuch, who everyone is agreeing is the newest justice. Also my cabinet and Vice President Pence were there, who still congratulates me on my victory today. Just the other day Mike was saying "Oh Trump, I don't know how you did it, but you did it the best. The best there is, you won it!" Ah, Ivanka, nice of you to join us. She was worried that we wouldn't win Michigan or Ohio because it's so hard for a Republican to win those states, but here we are. Crooked Hillary couldn't win those states despite all the Crooked Media and Fake News, but we won. We won by the biggest margin ever, which everyone at the State of the Union address agrees upon even if they're a democrat.
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Trump's statement on signing the Russia sanctions: http://publicpool.kinja.com/subject-statement-by-president-donald-j-trump-on-sign-1797465698 quote:"Further, the bill sends a clear message to Iran and North Korea that the American people will not tolerate their dangerous and destabilizing behavior. America will continue to work closely with our friends and allies to check those countries malignant activities. 
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Zeroisanumber posted:This man is 31 years old. I have a theory that the entire Trump administration is actually a huge piece of performance art meant to be a live-action 5th season of Arrested Development, where the Bluths are replaced with more evil versions of themselves. Miller is totally Evil Buster; Donald Junior is Gob.
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So from that signing statement from Trump that I linked to earlier:quote:"By limiting the Executives flexibility, this bill makes it harder for the United States to strike good deals for the American people, and will drive China, Russia, and North Korea much closer together. The Framers of our Constitution put foreign affairs in the hands of the President. This bill will prove the wisdom of that choice. Meanwhile Medvedev just tweeted this: https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/892847115281485824 So either the Russians are trolling the gently caress out of Donnie, or they're trying to prod him even further. There's also (unconfirmed) rumors that Trump and Putin had a phone call before Trump signed the bill.
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Aug 3, 2017 00:53
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Antifa and Trump supporters/DEVGRU cosplayers are currently mixing it up in Portland, nary a cop to be seen at the end of the most recent melee clip: https://www.pscp.tv/itsmikebivins/1RDxlmpvwvkKL
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Aug 6, 2017 23:05
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Cugel the Clever posted:I don't think either DJT or KJU have a dick large enough to effectively wave. Dick pointing, maybe? That's precisely why it's a dangerous situation- we've got two paranoid narcissists who thrive on a cult of personality depicting them as strong, powerful leaders. De-escalation isn't a concept they understand, especially if leads to a perceived loss of face.
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I've been at work today and haven't had a chance to dig into the news about DPRK beyond the OMFG SKY IS FALLING tweets. Is there evidence that suggests that DPRK has miniaturized nuclear weapons on ICBMs and is capable of actually deploying them, or is this "North Korea has hypothetically figured out how to miniaturize a nuke and put it on one of their homebuilt ICBMs of unknown capability"?
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Aug 9, 2017 01:38
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Internet Wizard posted:Oh so now the administration is listening to the IC No, Trump probably saw it on Fox News. This is a guy who wants a one page PDB with maps and graphics but also demands 50 pages daily of fawning press coverage and printed out tweets. If there's one lesson to learn from the past 25 or so years, it's that you need a credible deterrent to keep the US from changing your regime. Saddam and Qaddafi learned that lesson the hardest way; DPRK has the threat of flooding Seoul first with artillery and then with brainwashed refugees. That they would develop a nuclear capability as the ultimate form of deterrence over the past two decades seems almost natural. The deterrent value of nukes is pretty obvious in this case, but what could they hope to realistically compel through the threat of their use here?
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3 is less than 7, so by definition that's a tax cut! Thanks GOP! 
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https://twitter.com/MalcolmNance/status/895973426330054656 Good little tweet series that shows that no, we are not in fact locked and loaded, and are quite far from it. Man, that 25th amendment can't get invoked soon enough. I'd rather have Pence, or gently caress even Mattis couping Trump, than the orange one bumbling his way into WWIII.
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I really do wonder if someone sat him down in front of a computer with Command and Conquer: Generals loaded up into skirmish mode and told him that it was a state of the art command interface. If his next tweet references particle cannons being ready to fire, I guess we'll know for sure.
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Meanwhile, in "Dealing with America's Own 5th Column News," jury selection for the Bundy Ranch standoff re-trial isn't going very well as evidenced by this thread: https://twitter.com/jjmacnab/status/896090737837723648
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facialimpediment posted:Edit: Uh oh, looks like the nazis are out again and scuffles have broken out. Oh cute, looks like they went by Home Depot and got themselves some more tiki torches. Sure is a shame that no one managed to set themselves on fire with them.
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Aug 12, 2017 03:58
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M_Gargantua posted:That looks bad. V. Bad Another angle https://twitter.com/severin_jahn/status/896431893394206720 There is no way this wasn't intentional.
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ASAPI posted:So yeah... Assuming you're talking about Charlottesville, why would this lead to a coup?
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ASAPI posted:I was being sarcastic. I'm just amazed. What little faith in humanity I had is quickly draining. Ah, gotcha. With you on the whole losing faith in humanity thing too.  Maybe counter-protesters should bring their own militia to the next rally for self defense, but I don't like where that road leads to one bit.
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Palate cleanser/zen space https://twitter.com/fordm/status/896215039799164928
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tastefully arranged labia posted:I am I agreeing with Pat Roberts on something? Stopped clock, twice a day, yadda yadda. Huckabee's tweet is the one time I haven't retweeted it with "Your son tortured and murdered a dog."
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Proud Christian Mom posted:holy poo poo lol Can't say I disagree
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https://twitter.com/YesYoureRacist/status/896411734617075712 The internet has started identifying and doxxing the more visible fascists who attended the rally in Charlottesville. At least one of them has already gotten fired over their attendance yesterday. A lot of people came from as far away as California to attend this rally, including some veterans of the Berkeley brawl from earlier this year, and also, that Vanguard America group that the suspect reportedly marched with is the same one that blanketed a neighborhood in DC (Bloomingdale- the same neighborhood where Seth Rich got killed  ) and tore down the pride flag at my favorite bar in that neighborhood.
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Trump finally came out and tweeted a statement unequivocally denouncing white supremacy and the alt-right. Just kidding, he's back to blaming Obstructionist Democrats for BAD DEALS. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/897048688639574016
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joat mon posted:No politics has been the rule there for at least a month. In retrospect, a prescient move by the mod. I'm just glad that the weirdo douchebag who would keep posting conspiracy theories about how GEORGE SOROS IS PERSONALLY FUNDING ANTIFA quit posting once that rule went into effect, and even more glad that GIP doesn't tolerate alt right shitbags.
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Slim Pickens posted:I haven't gone there forever except for the hunting thread, but was it tenement funster? It wasn't- he doesn't really post in TFR anymore, at least not in the threads I tend to read.
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timma85 posted:TFR has always had its share of idiots. Wasn't GI joe dirtbag pretty terrible back in the day? There's a few others I seem to remember as well I just don't remember usernames. TenementFunster's callout thread of GI Joe Dirtbag was one of the best things I'd read on these Something Awful forums to that point, and the av that someone made depicting GIJDB being executed by Al-Qaeda in Iraq was hilarious as well. User's "hazing is good" spiel was so loving dumb, as was his refusal to answer whether he'd ever been in the military or had any other qualifying experience to base that on, that I thought it was Sebastian Gorka's account. I put PCOS Bill on ignore years ago and never regretted it once.
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I'm watching the Vice documentary on Charlottesville and all I want to do is live up to the legacy of the Greatest Generation and gently caress up Nazis.
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sharknado slashfic posted:Buying a gun in Maryland seems to be just complicated enough that I don't feel like doing it...which I guess is working as intended. I'm about to go through that Byzantine process here in DC, although to be honest, ours seem to be way less convoluted than yours.
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Third World Reggin posted:at least punk music is gonna be good over the next few years Do the needful, Propagandhi
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Ever come back from a nice vacation and find out that work has completely gone to hell in your absence, and the mountain of poo poo you have to climb completely overshadows any relaxation you got while on leave? Well, a certain public defender in Charlottesville has you beat. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/lawyer-assigned-to-alleged-charlottesville-attacker-does-not-know
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The gap between "there's a tweet for everything" may be shrinking, which is probably the biggest indicator of the Trump regime's health.
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cowboy elvis posted:Boy imagine coming back to that email. Imagine reading that email and then deciding to head back into the woods to try out a new life as a bear because that's what I'd do.
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Alex Jones is in Seattle, and someone threw coffee on him. https://twitter.com/RealAlexJones/status/898568874395934721 (confrontation starts around 3:40) When it was brought to Seattle PD's attention via Twitter, they had this to say: https://twitter.com/SeattlePD/status/898648339293421569 
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So if Bannon got fired and is then pledging to go right back to work for Trump's agenda, doesn't that make him, to borrow terms he's familiar with, the ultimate beta cuck? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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facialimpediment posted:BAD NAUGHTY NAUGHTY BAD WORD May want to edit out the c-word before you catch a six-hour vacation like I did yesterday.
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He probably thinks that the protestors were "alt-left" and the thousands who did turn out to oppose them were brave American patriotic Trump voters.
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Ruh roh https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/899416440855572481
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quote:“Our troops will fight to win,” he said. “From now on, victory will have a clear definition: attacking our enemies, obliterating ISIS, crushing al-Qaeda, preventing the Taliban from taking over the country, and stopping mass terror attacks against Americans before they emerge.” From here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...m=.fe16e57061b7 I'll give Trump credit- with clearly defined goals like those (first time ever?), the war in Afghanistan finally stands a chance of being won.
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