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Goddamnit, what a time to be on the eve of leaving the US for two weeks. Hope I can still get back in from Dulles before Trump orders the borders and airports shut down while he orders the MAGA Militia to go after his rivals.
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Slim Pickens posted:edit: they also changed dog faces Would still pet, fake or real dog 
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Poppyseed Poundcake posted:UN has troops? Peacekeepers attached to the MONUSCO mission, which is the largest peacekeeping force in the world. The dead were mostly Tanzanian. It’s been a bad year to be a peacekeeper. In Central African Republic, a bunch of them have gotten killed in recent months, then there was the disaster in South Sudan last year...
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Dec 9, 2017 09:16
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ed-allegations/ Goddamnit. I’ve been listening to On Point off and on for over 10 years.
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Dec 9, 2017 21:30
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Suicide Watch posted:Tom Ashbrook is married to a woman whom he met via Twitter after she tweeted at him https://www.boston.com/news/media/2017/06/18/wburs-on-point-host-tom-ashbrook-gets-remarried-to-harvard-staffer-he-first-met-on-twitter The guy’s wife died relatively young a few years ago, so who knows how he internalized and dealt with his grief. I haven’t listened to his show for a while so I dunno if he’s discussed it. I should also note that I’m talking specifically about how he met his current wife, not whatever it is he’s accused of.
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:*posts trump tweet* DON’T MIND IF I DO https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/939680422493073408 In this video, we have Trump criticizing the independent judiciary, introducing and driving home the notion of “CRIMINAL ALIENS,” which obviously sounds more threatening than undocumented immigrants or even illegal immigrants, conflating DACA kids with said criminal aliens, and making it seem like the Reason why 1/5 Beautiful Americans won’t be home for Christmas is because of the hordes of Criminal Aliens running around raping and murdering while they flash their official Sanctuary City residence certificates. This is just a big, bloody hunk of red meat thrown to his base, and also, whoever did the lighting and camera work for that video should be fired. Also to contribute to SouthChat- I really like Asheville, NC. It’s blue, hippy as all hell, and western North Carolina is one of the prettiest geographical areas in the country, at least for me. It’s tough to find good, professional jobs, though. I’ve spent some time in New Orleans and have enjoyed it, though I think Bourbon Street should be burned to the ground. The rest of the city is super cool, and the WWII museum is worth a day of your time.
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Dec 10, 2017 09:34
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lightpole posted:Response to Alabama from one of the redder ends of on my Facebook: "gently caress, there goes National Reciprocity!" gently caress this guy. Not for what he did, but for the inevitable legislative response. I expected to wake up to hear that we had elected a pedophile to the Senate, but was so surprised and happy to see that Jones got the win. I can’t wait for Two Scoops to engage in a real, unhinged tweet storm when Kelly isn’t looking, maybe even tweeting so hard he rips out his Diet Coke IV. This, with the new Star Wars movie getting good reviews, is making my loving day.
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Dec 13, 2017 08:16
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Woof Blitzer posted:Jones won but Trump still has 3 years left to nuke America... your victory maymays are premature motherf*ckers. Please let us hold onto this moment for just a second or two longer
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Dec 13, 2017 09:00
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at the date posted:The appropriate threshold for getting mad about something is the apocalypse. Why would you care? Not like you’ll be around afterwards.  If net neutrality really wasn’t such a big deal, why did telecoms have to AstroTurf support for it? Comcast has a de facto monopoly on the area that I live in, how do I get to vote with my dollars in this glorious capitalist paradise that we live in when I’m unhappy with their service?
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Dec 14, 2017 21:25
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Wasabi the J posted:Those "Second amendment protects the First" gently caress-o's have been awfully quiet today. Tangentially related but JJ McNab, who was tracking the Bundy’s and other RW extremists before they were on the national radar, unearthed some really weird poo poo about Adam Lanza. Thread is short but interesting. https://twitter.com/jjmacnab/status/941323987438710785
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Dec 14, 2017 23:33
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facialimpediment posted:The real interesting thing about Flynn and co. is that Donnie's lawyers are supposedly meeting with the Special Counsel sometime next week (per CNN). Expect crazyness at Christmastime if those lawyers don't like what they hear. Remember: Trump's lawyers have raised the expectation that the whole investigation will be over by Christmas. Two Scoops is gonna be even more sad than all the little kids whom Santa didn't bring didn't get a Nintendo Switch to this year when he finds out that a holy poo poo real life federal investigation takes time to work through.
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DoktorLoken posted:How does it play out if Donnie successfully tanks Mueller's investigation and the Republicans do nothing? I don’t think it’ll get that far. Eventually, the Republicans will have to look at Trump’s egregious, authoritarian conduct and eventually come to the conclusion that they’ll have to put country before party and intervene to- hahahahahahaha they’ll never turn on Trump, especially now that he’s signing their tax bill and deep-throating corporate cock with extra slobber and complimentary ball fondling.
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Dec 16, 2017 15:25
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The news about the Pentagon declassifying its UFO research program has me terrified at the prospect of us making first contact during the Trump presidency. Specifically, Trump shoving an alien envoy out of the way so he can be at the front of a group picture, effectively dooming the entire planet to extinction.
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Dec 17, 2017 05:06
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BigDave posted:Just saw a picture of McCain To be honest, I wouldn’t wish a glioblastoma on my worst enemy. It’s a horrible cancer and a pretty bad way to die. A woman I went to high school with got one, and died within six months of her diagnosis at the age of 28. The cancer robbed her of her ability to walk, left her blind in one eye, and the chemo drugs and steroids made her gain weight in weird ways, and she basically went from looking being a nearly olympic-quality athlete to a wheelchair-bound shadow of her former self. I get that McCain is a shithead and his “maverick” reputation is a figment, but if I got diagnosed with a glioblastoma, I’d be performing some brain surgery on myself with 9mm JHP before it had enough time to get really bad. No loving thanks.
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facialimpediment posted:Mueller literally just asked the GSA in a letter "hey can we have all the transition emails?" and GSA said "sure!" Wherein Trump’s team learns the lesson that every college student learns when they first start smoking weed: you don’t get to claim the police’s searches and seizures are unlawful when you voluntarily gave consent to search and they found your stash.
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On a related note about billionaires doing whatever they loving please, the DEA had enough evidence to nail McKesson, the country’s biggest pharmacy company with $200 billion in annual revenue, for ignoring and abetting blatantly illegal content at some of its warehouses and distribution centers. This includes not flagging repeat huge orders of Vicodin to small-rear end pharmacies and trying to cover its tracks. In the end, the company’s lawyers settled with the DEA and DOJ for a fraction of the $1 billion fine that government lawyers had been angling for. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/mckesson-dea-opioids-fine/2017/12/14/ab50ad0e-db5b-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html
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Dec 17, 2017 19:45
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I’m legit surprised DJT jr doesn’t have a disposable intern to go buy his stogies for him. I still take pride in flipping off every motorcade that goes by me when I’m walking in Adams Morgan, Kalorama, or near the White House.
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Dec 19, 2017 03:11
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Dead Reckoning posted:I'm getting my guard card and polishing up on my butler skills, because I'm pretty sure the proletariat are gonna lose this one. “Gonna lose?” I think we already had class war in this country generations ago, and the proles lost. Capital owns the government, the guns and the men who know how to use them already. The only thing that could level the playing field at this point is some kind of superbug that sweeps through the world quickly, and even then Peter Thiel will go hide in his private bunker until it’s safe to come out.
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Dec 19, 2017 12:34
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facialimpediment posted:Oh man, this is probably right about the Hall of Presidents Trump: They clearly just reused the one for the villain from Poltergeist 2. 
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Dec 19, 2017 19:26
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:the problem with wealth is that its being leveraged to an extreme degree in politics, and about the only way to fix that is through more tax brackets. Having the highest tax bracket cap out at under 40% for under a million dollars is dumb as hell. The highest tax bracket should be 100kk+ not 400k+ 100k for a household really isn’t that much, but otherwise, I agree. The way I see it- taxes are the price of admission to civilization. Remember how all the conservative pundits freaked out during Obama’s “you didn’t build that” speech? Anyone with a working thinker would have interpreted that as “if you are successful, it’s because you used your individual talent to leverage the things developed by other innovators and supported by government as something that benefits everyone.” But nah, that’s socialism and bad because we’re all self-made millionaires, but some of us are just waiting for the check to clear, any day now.
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psydude posted:I'm sitting here reading this article about the GotV effort for black voters in Alabama and I'm thinking, why hasn't anyone come up with a ride sharing app for people to request a ride to the polls on election day? Watch James O’Keefe do some stunt where some actor in blackface calls for a ride even though they have a Porsche in the driveway, obviously paid for with their welfare check via your tax dollars.
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Meanwhile, Nikki Haley says we’ll be “taking names” of whoever votes against the US in a non-binding UNGA vote calling for the embassy to not be moved to Jerusalem. I guess we’re just gonna go to war with everyone to be on the safe side. https://apnews.com/bc946df73d6f4206af39cf3c5b67c40f
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Stultus Maximus posted:The hate squash really is as dumb as his supporters isn't he. If you ever want to see what us surrendering our influence looks like, take a trip through sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, fly into the new airport in Lome, Togo, which serves as a hub for western and central Africa, or drive down a few freshly paved roads in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, or check out the new Bank of Central African States building being built in Bangui, Central African Republic. All of these things were paid for by Chinese money and built by Chinese companies. We may have a few SF teams doing SFA/FID in some places and some JSOC stuff going on in the Sahel and the Horn, but the Chinese are letting it be known they are investing big and are there to stay. You can’t blame this all on Trump, but he really hasn’t done anything to stop it or try to reassert American influence there.
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lightpole posted:Bit of a sticky wicket in some of these places and projects no? China doesn't have a problem supporting lovely projects and regimes. Not saying you are wrong but there's no real clear path forward for the US there. We have embassies in all of the places that I mentioned, minus Guinea Bissau but we still engage with their government from Senegal. And we were also really involved in providing the diplomatic and political backing for South Sudan, which is one roiling cauldron of war crimes, official impunity and other sundry horrors. You’re totally correct that China isn’t going to care about human rights violations or lovely regimes. At least the US has continued to put the screws to Kabila and the DRC over the former’s forgetting to hold elections last year.
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Prop Wash posted:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/04/lake-chad-the-worlds-most-complex-humanitarian-disaster That’s the first I’ve seen it, thanks for sharing it. Yeah, the Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin are such a mess, and the attendant issues drag in every neighboring country as well. In CAR, it’s very lucrative to be a warlord or bandit gang leader- one guy whose militia controls one of the traditional Peuhl grazing routes makes $500 million USD a year in extortion and “taxes” from the pastoralist tribes who use those roads.
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Stultus Maximus posted:How? How are the Feds so loving bad at this? She hasn’t commented on this just yet, but JJ McNab is the Twitter persona that you want to follow for everything sov cit or right-wing extremist. She’s a really good researcher and has some great knowledge of these groups and their dynamics. I fear that the string of acquittals or mistrials for the Bundys will only empower additional actors like them, and that we’ll see other batty poo poo go down the next time we have a Democrat or someone who can’t pass the paper bag test in national office.
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Y’all are just bitter that you’re not getting invited to the best party ever: https://twitter.com/mbesheer/status/943987297019662336
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Handsome Ralph posted:
The stuff discussed in this article is way more hosed up and impacts way more people than any of the Buttcoin antics of the past week. Jesus Christ, we seriously did elect the human version of an RE: FWD: FWD email.
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Dec 24, 2017 01:21
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/945126026824298497 Remember when Obama was President and we had to say “Hail Bin Laden, Christ-Killer Extraordinaire!” between November and January or risk having our families shot and dumped in a shallow grave?
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RFC2324 posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_versus_nurture 
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boop the snoot posted:2017 retrospective: what was the dumbest thing Trump did this year? 
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President Two-Scoops the Smoothbrained is revisiting the rivalries of the 1980s midtown Manhattan social scene today: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/946401576381505536 Also Anna Wintour edits Vogue, not Vanity Fair.
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Trump doing his best to doom the Iranian protest movement: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/947180713236934657 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/947453152806297600 That last one- what are we going to do about human rights violations? Bomb every nuclear reactor?
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