orange juche posted:

Is it a picture of a dick from the back

Deathy McDeath posted:

I’m weeping over here

Bernard McFacknutah posted:

No.

Also, one of these 'scandals' is a minister who 'fleetingly touched' the knee of a female Journalist. Not exactly feral rapings going on.

NUKES CURE NORKS posted:

If we destroy the world and make it uninhabitable then humans won’t be able to sexually assault each other.

Vasudus posted:

Another way to look at the house resolution is 'how much of a trumpster are you REALLY'. If you're still onboard the trump train you'll sign it.

When nobody touches it, not only will Trump's already weak power in the house evaporate some more, but it'll be a signal fire to moderate/establishment republicans that are deciding how hard to push against the administration.

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

As a champion of bad decisions, it's not worth the time. Skulking around here waiting for an NSA Wizard post is a slightly better option.

I called my uncle a chickenhawk when he was ra-ra-ing some stupid poo poo. Shut him right the gently caress up about it, but it was a little weird the next time I saw him. It really is a classic insult.

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The White House on Saturday disparaged the legacies of the only two living Republican presidents to precede Donald Trump, after reports that both men castigated Trump in interviews last year and refused to vote for him.

Former president George H.W. Bush mocked then-candidate Trump as a “blowhard” and voted for a Democratic president, while the younger Bush worried aloud that Trump would destroy the idea of a Republican president in all but name, according to “The Last Republicans.” which is scheduled to go on sale later this month.

The White House response followed a CNN report about the new book in an extraordinary war of words involving three presidents from the same party.

"If one Presidential candidate can disassemble a political party, it speaks volumes about how strong a legacy its past two presidents really had," the White House wrote to CNN. It called the younger Bush's decision to wage war on Iraq "one of the greatest foreign policy mistakes in American history."

quote:

During one visit, she writes, she thought of a question former Democratic congressman Tony Coelho used to ask her about campaigns: “Are the kids having sex? Are they having fun? If not, let’s create something to get that going, or otherwise we’re not going to win.”

“I didn’t sense much fun or loving in Brooklyn,” she deadpans

Proud Christian Mom posted:

If the terrorists winning means I get to see Papa John himself put beneath the sword before I am, I'm fine with that.

As for the Saudi 'news?'

Didn't Salman buck all the trends by appointing his son or whatever as successor instead of whatever 9000 year old brother was next? There's way too many egos and waaaay too much money on the line for this to keep passing peacefully. Eventually this ends badly and we're going to be up to our neck rather than just our balls.

shame on an IGA posted:

Yeah and this is that son making a huuuuuuge big swingin dick example out of the richest, most successful, most internationally recognized cousin to show anybody that might be getting ideas what the score is.

lightpole posted:

Majority of twitter too right? Or just the largest single owner?

ded posted:

I wonder what would happen if the DPRK tried to lob a nuke at whatever city Trump was in while he is ~in asia~

Mr. Nice! posted:

Trump hates the prince that was arrested because he's bought trump's bankruptcy assets on multiple occasions and talks poo poo to him about it.

I LICK APE PUSSY posted:

How do you post life insurance as part of your bond? Control of the policy transfers if you run? What if the state doesn't want to pay premiums?

45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:

does trump not sell bumper stickers or are people not putting them on their cars because I haven't actually seen any actual red hats in the flesh in months. I mean I've met trump supporters but no one wearing any visible signs of it.



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CommieGIR posted:

shame on an IGA posted:

Jinping Stalin playbook

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https://www.avclub.com/threads-served-up-a-bleakly-british-depiction-of-our-im-1819231394
After all, there’s something undeniably cathartic about just dropping the pretense and reveling in the hopelessness of the modern human condition; like Jimmy and his pal shrugging off World War III in favor of another pint, hey, it’s not like we can do anything about it. The best we can hope is to be drunk and snug inside the blast radius when our own death from above arrives.

But that wasn’t what Jackson or Hines intended, of course. They wanted Threads to spur the international outcry for nuclear disarmament, to become activists for the cause the same way Ruth’s portrayer Karen Meagher did. They wanted us to put down the pint and go do something, to recognize that the ties binding us together needed to be tightened immediately, before they were forever torn. For all its grim hopelessness, Threads had a subtextual faith that people would understand all this before it was too late.

Watching Threads now, in 2017, when the ones holding those strings in their tiny hands only seem to care about yanking them for their own ego-gratifying amusement, well… With apologies to the charred babies and incinerated cats, maybe the scariest thing about Threads is how grimly, hopelessly naive that seems.

Immanentized posted:

Which Prince was it that wanted to build a high tech, mega Saudi one city on this uninhabited peninsula? Was it the crown Prince or that one guy who Bloomberg jerks off on a weekly basis.

Milo and POTUS posted:

Little late but I'm kinda in the dark on stuff regarding the kingdom, what was the gist of it?

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By ELLIOTT ABRAMS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Over the weekend, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia announced the arrests of 11 of his princely cousins, among them some of the kingdom’s most prominent businessmen; he also announced several dramatic changes to top government ministries, including the creation of a powerful new anticorruption committee. Why? Was it a coup? The response to a failed coup? Some kind of purge?

The background to these events is the continuing centralization of power in the hands of the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, who is one of King Salman’s sons. Over the past two years he has taken over most of the key economic and security posts and has clearly emerged as the most important operator in the government. The crown prince is also deputy prime minister (under the king, who is also prime minister) and minister of defense. All this at the age of 32.

This steady seizure of power has given rise to resistance within and outside the royal family, and Mohammed bin Salman’s elevation to crown prince was not unanimously supported when the top royal princes met to approve it. In the Saudi system, power has been passed among the sons of the founder of the modern Saudi kingdom, known as Ibn Saud, since his death in 1953. That made the king more primus inter pares than absolute monarch. One king was removed by his brothers (Saud, in 1964), and the system has permitted fiefs: The late King Abdullah was head of the National Guard for decades, and his son Miteb bin Abdullah took it over after his death; the late Prince Nayef served as minister of interior for 37 years and his son came after him; the late Prince Sultan was minister of defense for nearly a half century, and his son Khalid was his deputy.

Crown Prince Mohammed is putting an end to all that, taking some of those posts himself and removing others from the seemingly permanent control of any one branch of the family. All power is going to his branch — to his father, himself and his own allies; one brother is now the new Saudi ambassador to the United States.

Among the most notable moves was the removal of Prince Miteb — son and close adviser of Salman’s predecessor, the late King Abdullah — as head of the National Guard. You don’t need to be addicted to “Game of Thrones” to see the logic in that move: don’t allow a potential rival to keep his hands on a major locus of military power in the kingdom. Similarly, the arrest of perhaps the kingdom’s richest man, the billionaire international investor Alwaleed bin Talal, will both clip his wings and send a message that no one is beyond reach.

It was possible to pass the post of king from brother to brother in order of age when there were only 36 brothers who lived to adulthood, and that is what the Saudis have been doing since 1953 until King Salman’s accession to the throne in 2015. It will not be possible to govern that way in Crown Prince Mohammed’s generation, where there are literally hundreds of eligible princes. He may wish to establish a single line of succession, including only the descendants of his father, King Salman. To do that will require raw power.

Recently I asked a Saudi friend why Salman chose Crown Prince Mohammed as his successor, given that he is not his oldest son. The answer: “The King thinks Mohammed is the toughest. He’ll pull the trigger when he needs to.” This weekend, he did just that.

But why take such rapid action rather than a slow and steady series of changes? The answer is not yet clear. Some Saudi watchers believe that a coup attempt was uncovered or had begun, and that Crown Prince Mohammed crushed it. All those suspected of being involved are now being purged. A helicopter crash on Sunday near the border with Yemen killed one Saudi prince and several other officials, leading some to speculate if this was truly an accident. Meanwhile those arrested are being detained at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh. Only in Saudi Arabia could a Ritz-Carlton pass for a jail.

Another theory suggests that King Salman, who is 81 and reportedly not in the best of health, may soon abdicate, and Crown Prince Mohammed is acting now while his father is king by removing rivals and critics.

Is this centralization of power a good thing for the United States, or even for Saudi Arabia? That question will best be answered retrospectively, in about a decade. What’s clear now, though, is that Crown Prince Mohammed has announced ambitious economic and social changes, from allowing women to drive and mix with men in sports stadiums, to selling off a part of the kingdom’s key asset, the Aramco oil company, to challenging the ideology of the Wahhabi clerics. He appears to believe that such moves require sheer power, both to overcome resistance and to move the kingdom’s poorly educated and youthful population (roughly half are under the age of 25) of 33 million into the 21st century.

Crown Prince Mohammed has spoken of a more modern Saudi Arabia, at least when it comes to the role of religion and the rights of women. Last month he called for “a moderate Islam open to the world and all religions.” But political liberalization is not in the cards. Indeed, a serious crackdown has been underway for the last two years, including lengthy prison terms for tweets that criticized the Saudi authorities. The message from the palace is clear: get on board or pay the price. That message applies not only to commoners, but to the entire royal family.

Few were in doubt about Crown Prince Mohammed’s ambition. Now there will be equal certainty about his determination. Those who think he’s going to fail, or hope he does, are on notice. This modernizer thinks the path forward is an absolute monarchy. Get out of his way.

psydude posted:

Being complicit in spreading more X series BMW filth throughout the world should be a war crime. And don't try to tell us you're just following orders, we've heard that one from the Germans before.

Soulex posted:

Your honor, I saw “Good Girl” or whatever that movie where Macullay Culkin dies from bee stings. Can’t judge a man based on bees.”

KildarX posted:

It'll probably be something inane like Rand Paul has a rotting tree tilting dangerously at his neighbors house, and his neighbors like "look I can't come on your property and cut that tree, but it's gonna fall on my house can you like... get it cut down before it does that?" and Rands like "Let the free market decide. Pay me to cut down my own tree" the guy then looses it and beats the gently caress out of him, who would blame him.

FAUXTON posted:

Holy gently caress someone elsewhere immediately was like "I bet that poo poo was over easements" as soon as the news broke.

That's almost enough to redeem it for not being a neighbor getting all wound up about antifa supersoldiers and tackling randpaul in a headlong rush to be The Hero Of The Evening News.

facialimpediment posted:

Twice today, Fredo (Don Jr.), using Twitter, has urged Virginians to go vote tomorrow.

The election is today.

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

realtalk whats to stop a nork from doming trump across the dmz if he went there