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bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

3D Megadoodoo posted:

That time France committed an act of terrorism against Greenpeace and killed a guy.

blew up a ship in NZ or something like that?

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bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Cockblocktopus posted:

Didn't Andrew Yang vaguely tweet that he was promised VP by Biden too? What are the odds Biden simultaneously promised everyone else in the field the VP slot?

In an interview with the Breakfast Club (wtf is this?), Yang displayed his political inexperience by openly stating that Biden promised him a cabinet position in exchange for an endorsement.

It is a crime to make this sort of promise but it is not like Biden will ever be investigated for this

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:

Sorry I made fun of your friend, Mr. President, but Tromp actually is extra lovely and having a noticeably negative effect on, like, everything.

Also a fantastic description of Obama's presidency

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Baquack Obamailure

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Declan MacManus posted:

i love these

what would john mccain have done with the arab spring

john mccain would have done his best to give america another war

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Feldegast42 posted:

What would Reagan have done if instead of collapsing the Soviets launched their nukes

Ejaculated.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Kitfox88 posted:

i mean yeah but how the gently caress does a person reach 'self driving car -> less parking meter usage'

the idea is that your self-driving car will drive around the block until you need it and so save you from having to pay parking meter fees!

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Animal-Mother posted:

that was a LF thing for people who donated to the Muslim guy who needed money to buy pants

still one of the more worthy forums causes to have donated to

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Inceltown posted:

Stacey Abrams thinking she was going to get the VP nod on live TV only to have her heart ripped out in front of the world.

This was a rather delicious moment.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

sat on my keys! posted:

People earnestly believed saddam transferred the wmd to Syria

I had forgotten this one lmao

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

I thought the delight in M&Ms came from eating them one at a time, not pouring a box of them into your mouth

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

puppets freak me out posted:

One of the funnier elements of the Warren saga is deranged Warren supporters bringing back blood quantums to claim that 1/1024 was enough to consider her a woman of color

Also powwow chow

iirc the powwow chow recipe was plagiarized

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

I appreciate that it was a man named "anthony weiner" who derailed a carefully-planned lib breeding program.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Platystemon posted:

Brian Williams and the RPG story.

iirc, this wasn't the first time brian williams was caught in a lie

he still has a job though!

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Liz Warren doesn't owe you anything!

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Bernie's 2020 lower campaign staff unionizing to try and pressure the higherups into not throwing the campaign.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

taqueso posted:

tell me more about this

I heard about a lot of this on a really good interview roundtable that was conducted in April or so. I'll dig it back up.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

taqueso posted:

tell me more about this

For the long version, you can listen to this campaign postmortem interview with ex bernie campaign staff. This jacobin article covers the same topics although I haven't really read the jacobin article.

For the short version:

The faction within the Bernie campaign representing the political operatives actually doing the campaign work out in the handful of states the campaign decided to target at first resisted unionization because it was though that any word of labor unrest would hurt bernie. What ended up driving the workers to finally unionize was their collective horror that the campaign bosses had a terrible strategic plan and would lead them all to ruin.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Fluoride Jones posted:

Robert Mueller lmao forever

George Bush FBI guy was supposed to save da libs.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Tiler Kiwi posted:

dude who charged protesters with a tacticool gladius and got wrecked

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

GalacticAcid posted:

I can’t believe all his tweets are gone man

Thought we’d be Suddenly Remembering the best ones for years to come

tears in teh rain

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008


he is eating a cinnamon roll

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

gradenko_2000 posted:

"bootlicker" was supposed to be homophobic, somehow

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Filthy Hans posted:

women wearing handmaid's tale costumes while demonstrating outside Bret Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings

I had forgotten this. :barf: Is Handmaiden's Tale still a thing or has it dropped from public consciousness?

My funny political thing for the moment is remembering all the people who threatened to burn down the capitol building if Trump seated justice in place of RBG.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008


when the pope visted the US he made a special detour to see her

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008


backpedaling

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

gradenko_2000 posted:

Brian Williams caught lying about getting shot down in a helicopter over the Balkans

Brian Williams getting caught lying about Iraq

Brian Williams getting caught lying about Hurricane Katrina

This guy still has a job I imagine

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Thundercracker posted:

So yeah, gently caress Trump. He directly caused the death of 100k Americans easily.

:d2a: so he should have killed more?

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

ben shapino posted:

pow wow chow

Liz Warren is a member of the dem native american caucus.

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

Haha imagine if this was Bernie

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

paul_soccer12 posted:

steve jobs stank like poo poo as he was dying of a treatable disease because he was an idiot crank who thought he didn't need to wash his rear end

lmao steve jobs was one of those guys too?

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Liz Warren summoning a botchling.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Joe Biden's brother wants to euthanize people when they turn 75. He and his friends and family don't count though.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Tesseraction posted:

Isn't that Rahm Emmannuels brother and he was part of Biden's covid task force

whoops, you are right! I was wrong.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Skulk Hogan posted:

Cenk Uygur getting into a "fight" with Alex Jones and Roger Stone at the RNC. Wish that had escalated. Cenk is a turd but hes pretty much entirely responsible for me being interested in politics at all and I really wanted to see him punch Alex Jones.

Bernie Sanders endorsed Cenk Uygur.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

One More Fat Nerd posted:

Sadly, this post is entirely wrong.

The "black twitter aint havin no Bernie" tweet predated the SC primary by a bunch, I think it was 2018.

Also, Bernie did better against Biden in every age bracket of white folks in said primary. In the over 60's, Biden won by 30 points for white folks, and 66 points for black folks . The only age bracket Bernie won with black voters in SC was the under 30s, where he beat Biden by 2 points. In the under 30 white folks in SC, Biden got 4th place, 42 points behind Bernie, and also well behind Mayo Pete and Snakewoman.

This makes perfect sense, as there are a whole bunch of black conservatives in the south that would happily be Republicans if it weren't for all the "open ethnofascism", and "squealing about how much they wanna say the N-word without consequences".

Edit: in fact, doing the math, it looks like removing the old (over 45) white voters actually improves Bidens margins, because while he won that group, he did so by less of a margin than he won the average of "under 45 white voters+all black voters".

something else to consider is that Bernie's campaign strategy did not involve any significant outreach in SC. The plan was to win the first three states and then this victory would result in everyone recognizing Bernie as the candidate. Voices within Bernie's campaign were horrified that this was the plan and did attempt to force a new direction, but at the end of the day, the people Bernie selected to run his campaign and even Bernie himself had a different idea.

It is astonishing how much better ran his 2016 campaign was. And consider that Bernie had four years to build a team and make a plan.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Bernie Sanders' slapdash 2016 campaign was a far, far better operation compared to his carefully prepared 2020 campaign! The ladder climbers and nonprofit experts Bernie surrounded himself with are in reality incapable of running a campaign, except to run it into the ground.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Tiler Kiwi posted:

the weird thing was that a common justification i read from the black voters who supported biden was specifically that they felt that white americans would never, ever vote for a socialist or anyone that challenged the status quo too much. biden was the best they could expect whites to support.

in that sense, the white biden supporters bragging about their black allies came across as rather pathetic.

a common message among primary voters seemed to be "I like bernie but he can't win so I won't vote for him and we got to beat trump." Bernie did himself no favors in this by both telling everyone that Joe Biden was exactly like him and to say many times in public that someone other than him could win the election.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Vim Fuego posted:

RBG held onto power 12 years too long, accomplished nothing but dissents, officiated a wedding during a deadly pandemic maskless, without an immune system and died just. in. time. to be replaced with a ruthless conservative psychopath before the democrats took the presidency and the senate. lol

lmao her target retirement age was 90. she was very worried about retiring too soon and having to live as a normal person without power, much like Sandra Day O'Connor, who is still alive and who RBG pitied for being alive.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

spacemang_spliff posted:

Whatever happened with those kids in cages

that is why AOC is crying. she is looking at all that empty space behind a fence that could be filled with kid cages.

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Apr 23, 2008

shrike82 posted:

white incel guru Jordan Peterson is slowly breaking down physically and mentally partially due to an all meat diet that his daughter foisted on him

he’s said in a recent interview that one of his few remaining pleasures in life is luxury toothpicks

Jorden Peterson's proof of life video where Jordan wordlessly drives a remote controlled car.

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