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Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

What are the odds Elon ends up fleeing *departing* the country for somewhere that better appreciates his engineering vision and sacks of cash?

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Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

BBC video of the Maduro event:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-45073420/venezuela-drone-attack-soldiers-seen-running

Definitely doesn't seem to have affected Maduro or the folks on stage, but it spooked the crap out of the troops standing at review.

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Donnie found a second thing to relate to in Chinatown:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1026524292396273664

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Vasudus posted:

North California chuds that are mad they can't divert all the river water to their fields, which would pretty much nuke the multi-billion dollar fishing industry in the process.

Specifically Devin Nunes, who's apparently got a lot riding on squeezing the last bit of moisture out of the San Joaquin.

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

According to Bellingcat it looks like there actually were exploding UAVs at Maduro's event, counter to the reports about a possible kitchen propane explosion:

https://twitter.com/N_Waters89/status/1026767097366503424

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

The VA is being run out of a golf club, what else is new?

https://www.propublica.org/article/ike-perlmutter-bruce-moskowitz-marc-sherman-shadow-rulers-of-the-va

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Just got done with the 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States and it is both darkly comical as well as grim as poo poo. The golf course scene is worth the price of admission alone. Just be sure to have something to take your mind off it afterwards since there's some real darkest timeline stuff in there.

:rip: if you live in South Korea, Tokyo/Yokohama, Palm Beach, Honolulu, Manhattan, or between Tysons and Alexandria

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

CMD598 posted:

Tokyo/Yokohama aren't worth it anymore imo. All the major combat forces are elsewhere like Okinawa or Iwakuni and the ships in Yokosuka are probably deployed anyway, or already broken.

The scenario kicks off during Foal Eagle so there's plenty of US assets deployed in the field. North Korea launches off about 50 nukes in the opening salvo, mostly at the US bases in the region but a few gently caress yous at the Japanese. Okinawa and Guam specifically come out unscathed as the eight missiles fired at them either explode off shore or fail in flight. About half the US service members and dependents in SK and Japan end up as casualties, but in the end it does jack poo poo to stop the USN and USAF from completely eliminating the DPRK military within a few days, but the difficulties in hunting down the North Korean launchers mean that KJU is able to get off a last salvo of ICBMs at CONUS.

Viva Miriya posted:

At least I die quick in Manhattan right?

If your name is ________Melania Trump________, then yes.

Otherwise, think WTC collapse but across the entire island :smith:

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

It's pretty crazy how breathlessly the conservative sphere is fixated on her, Fox News is just incredulously reporting her statements verbatim. You saw the same thing with the Stoneman students before AOC took the scene. I guess Bernie fit into the classic mold of a crotchety old leftist professor so they could fit him into their existing world model, but having someone young, unafraid, and unwilling to back down an inch is breaking their brains.

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

They know what's she's talking about resonates with the average American and it terrifies them.

It's just hilarious that their approach to dealing with it is to repeatedly read off her platform while making shocked faces.

:chanpop: "She wants Medicare for All, jobs guarantees, and fully fund public schools and universities!?" :chanpop:

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

AOC's also avoided getting tangled up in culture war/dog whistle topics so far - her message has been sticking to largely economic issues where it's harder to paint her as the MY GUNS AND GAY ABORTIONS Boogeyman.

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.


-1 dimensional chess

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

mlmp08 posted:

KSA's response to blowing up the bus full of kids is somewhere between "they did it first" with regard to a Houthi ballistic missile attack that killed one civilian and "it was a real target"

More humane than their current policy of starving the kids to death.

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Looks like the rallies are winding down, there were barely two dozen Right wing marchers versus several hundred counter protesters.

https://twitter.com/thencarolsaid/status/1028708659373776897

https://twitter.com/thencarolsaid/status/1028718421108768769

https://twitter.com/thencarolsaid/status/1028732159564161024

https://twitter.com/Matt_D_Cohen/status/1028727013325135874

https://twitter.com/SegravesNBC4/status/1028748794022834181

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1029086538787905539

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1029082412108656640

Going to need a video of that.

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

A better quote that makes it sound like he was just attempting a dumb Trump joke:

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1029082751151026182

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Nick Soapdish posted:

That made me think of this old classic, Tom Brady's post-UofM resume



Reminds me of the Upon Further Review podcast/book where they posit a world where the Patriots still suck, Belichick is a local sports radio commentator, and Brady's an unknown high school sports coach out in California. Still doomed to apocalyptic climate change, but nonetheless a better timeline all around.

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

The Tesla thread is a pro-read right now, the whistleblower is posting up VIN numbers and internal factory photos on Twitter and its amazing:


Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:

Tweet is deleted

:mad:

Twitter placed a 12 hour posting lock on him earlier, guess Elon called in some favors.

Highlights included photos of using bamboo sticks and a dremel to sand down and reapply incorrectly applied battery bandolier casings, with bamboo and plastic dust left mixed into the adhesive. Also a bunch of bent as hell battery cooling strips that were apparently being reused in new builds. He posted a listing of VINs for Model 3s with damaged batteries installed.

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

As Nero Danced posted:

On one hand it's the hundred year anniversary of the end of world war 1, so I can almost see an argument for a parade. On the other hand no one has actually made that argument and instead it's driven solely by Trump's desire to stroke his ego. He's literally the reason we can't have nice things.

The hundred year anniversary of the War to End All Wars should be commemorated by a black clad caisson and taps, nothing more.

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Injecting a little positivity, the kids are alright:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1031733958512455680

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

But....magnetic stripes!

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Vasudus posted:

the establishment and the press are absolutely making GBS threads their pants over AOC and it's hilarious

they are seriously unable to cope with her ~radical~ platform

tbf they've all been inoculating the public against ☭☭ S O C I A L I S M ☭☭ for so long that even the first hint of an antibiotic-resistant strain is enough for them to flip out.

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

This is probably a good summation:

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1034105790154588161

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Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Fallom posted:

Lmao the GOP FOIA’d the USPS and got an unredacted SF86 of a Democratic politician. Whoever managed that request ought to get loving crucified.

https://t.co/3TVUmmiILX

Sounds pretty suspicious that a GOP PAC would just happen to get her SF86 on a USPS FOIA request :thunk:

Gillum win is good, every time the centrist wing thinks they've *finally* got the Left back in the hole there's another sign that the Left isn't going away.

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