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bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Yeah keep in mind every single "crisis" at the border for the entirety of Trump's tenure in office has, is and will be absolutely intentional and purposely manufactured specifically for the inevitable legislative response that will follow. Don't for a single loving nanosecond fall for the Fox propaganda that our borders are becoming lovely places because of any actions other than those specifically and directly taken by American policy makers and the racist cumstains enforcing them. Nothing that happens on the southern border is an accident, fully including the purposeful human suffering, deaths and social instability.

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bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Vasudus posted:

Then there's the people that say getting citizenship is too easy or that we're just handing out money and benefits to illegals.

Like goddamn people, we don't hand out benefits to our own natural born citizens half the time.

It took my ex-fiance 13 years to get citizenship. She came here as a bona fide refugee fleeing an internationally recognized civil war. If anybody in her family had a criminal record while waiting then that person would probably not have gotten citizenship. Nowadays the Trump administration would have probably just said 'nah' and just denied it anyway.



And take note of the date, 2008. It's gotten a WHOLE FUCKLOAD worse.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Blind Rasputin posted:

Why are those sheriffs dressed like Delta Force or something. They can’t possibly use a tenth of that crap.

They have more poo poo on them than I had walking around in Afghanistan for a year. I can't even figure out what half the stuff is on the front right next to their, I dunno, tactical aluminum velcro patch or what the gently caress ever.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
I'm not a historian with a PhD or anything but from my understanding of history France would be fighting pretty hard for the bottom of the list of places that the wealthy elite should be pushing a hardline austerity agenda.

Just sayin'.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Syrian Lannister posted:

Lol ^

AOC is on a tear today about insurance

Think it was yesterday where she tweeted about paying more for insurance when she was a waitress than she pays as a congressional representative. That was kinda depressing because I just can't get mad about it at the moment.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Anyone bitching about the cost of M4A can do two things. Eat the corn straight out of my rear end in a top hat, and explain why the amount we're paying for-profit industries for the travesty of a medical system we have now suddenly doesn't count when it comes to covering everyone.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Where did this "three branches of Congress" talking point come from, by the way?

Right wing fever swamps tired of getting chaos dunked on by someone who doesn't run, screaming, from the label "socialist" took a verbal slip and tried to spin it in to "Look how dumb the broad is, doesn't even know how the government she's in works"

It's "53 states" all over again.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
They made a new(ish) kind of can opener that doesn't go on the side and punch down through the top of the can but instead goes on the top and slices through the little tiny rim around the side. They are super cool. The lid acts as a lid even after you cut it open. It just slides right back on and seals up the can just fine for putting leftovers back in the fridge. It also does not leave sharp edges as it cuts through. If you're using a can opener on the regular I really recommend one.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Gotta give the propagandists credit. They manage to turn protests over economic instability and austerity measures into protests against their hosed up half baked definition of socialism in the minds of like a third of the country. Now the majority will at least hear it presented that way and background believe that's the truth. It's a hell of a propaganda machine they've got.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

FrozenVent posted:

Nah they’ll make him work hard labor / wow gold mining for a few years first.

"Organ donor"?

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

sharknado slashfic posted:

This country isn't going to last another 50 years. I wonder if it turns into a Russia style oligarchy or Balkanizes.

To me it feels like a race between corruption and fanaticism. Corruption has currently won over democracy. If it keeps getting its way then we'll end up with oligarchy but along the way it is royally pissing people the gently caress off. Democratic party has so far responded by being limp-dick bought off controlled opposition barely worth considering while the Republican party has just gone completely ape poo poo death cult full on blood gargling party of hatred and fanatacism. If money and power can't keep the anger and hatred in check I see it headed to outright fascism. Straight up "for interests of national security the Democratic party is outlawed".

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

I'm pretty sure his views haven't evolved on this one since the date he squeezed it out his anus and on to Twitter.

I am horrifying curious though of how it would go down in the theoretical situation where there was rock solid, black and white irrefutable paper trail evidence, he got convicted and just straight up did this. Outright pardoning himself. Just, "Nope, I think I'm innocent. Don't care" How far WILL the Republicans ride this crazy train?

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Hey just in case anyone thought the right-wing rear end raping of our judicial system was anywhere near complete check out the kind of poo poo that active, sitting judges are saying out loud, in public forums such as a Federalist Society meeting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQDRQKO09tY&t=3126s

"I would probably institute a new federal rule that said all cases worth less than $500,00 would be tried without any discovery."

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Only for piddly poo poo like everyone not going to court for a cool half million.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
How the gently caress does that draft dodging poo poo sack get away with saying "The next time I go to Vietnam" without anyone bludgeoning in his skull with his god drat phone?

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Burt posted:

This is always something I have never been able to get my head round in regard to fundamental Christians, Jesus basically was a socialist agitator working to bring down the establishment and hated the rich and all you hear is "buy me a new Lear jet FOR JESUS SAKE".

Well that and him being a blonde haired, blue eyed Aryan rather than a swarthy son of the desert.

"Republican Jesus" isn't a joke. Between prosperity gospel bullshit and Fox talking points the "Christianity" professed by the majority of Trump worshipping chuds is exactly what the bible itself warns against.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Falwell doing the poolboy and Trump blackmailing him for it? God drat the writers for this season are just throwing darts at a mad libs board for ideas. Quality has really gone downhill.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Stultus Maximus posted:

The linked article only mentions a shady business deal, nothing sexual. Guy writing the tweet is making poo poo up and expecting you to not read it, sadly.

Fair enough, I did not click through to read it.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

hobbesmaster posted:

Theres no way Trump's ICE would let that through.


I mean maybe she can "defect" to another 5 eyes country?

Man that is not a choice I'd want to be making. Given how Russian Intel organizations work I wonder how much choice she had in starting the whole thing in the first place.

In a competent and uncompromised administration it could be made in to a really good example as at least a mitigating factor discouraging others from doing so. This administration? loving :lol:

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Milo and POTUS posted:

What's really funny is as lousy as my social graces are I'd still be way better at fostering a sense of community than these pieces of poo poo.

Presumably you view other members of humanity as more than chattel to be used for personal gain and lorded over so yeah you're a country mile ahead of rich people in this aspect.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
OPSEC violations are only for the little people and Hillary. Bigly Strong Daddy and family are above all that.

There is no joke here. That's just how they view reality.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Adderall makes sense, but I've said since the Clinton debates he's snorting something. I've seen/heard straight nose candy junkies who sniffle less obviously than our current president.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
I guess I'll never "get" it being an Intel weenie and all but, uhh, it's kind of a war crime and that's bad. Don't be bad. Be Gay, Do Crime and all but maybe not war crimes and murder?

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

mlmp08 posted:

Why won’t democrats support the GOP healthcare plan, which is apparently for SCOTUS to make a ruling that will fix healthcare?

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1074650975456124928?s=21


It would be top quality Hellworld 2018 entertainment to see Donnie Smoothbrain live on TV trying to explain what a deductible actually is. He's just taking words other people say and vomiting them out of his sphincter-mouth.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Exit bag + nitrogen. Much easier to make it look like a cardiac event for life insurance to the wife and kids.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Yeah my plans are not mental health emergency situations, they're "Oh I have turbo cancer and suck at cooking meth so going Breaking Bad isn't an option."

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Don Dongington posted:

Little late to this party, but I'm putting all my hopes in a post-White House Trump hiding away in a Russian Embassy somewhere in the EU, getting into poo poo-fights with the embassy staff about cleaning up after Junior.

Still pulling for a truly massive, one-half-paralyzed-drooling-and-making GBS threads-himself stroke to completely shatter the Strong Daddy Trump image while his (and his children's) financial empire gets torn apart limb from limb.

I want to see him a blubbering, making GBS threads, drooling mess so broke he can't afford the medical care he needs while everyone abandons him, proving to him it really was only ever his money that bought people's praise and attention while at the same time wounding his narcissistic ego when nobody cares.

I may be just a teensy bit vindictive.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Bought them for $42,000, now values them for less than $1,000, but I bet if he were to sell them the price would mysteriously spike back up.

Can we just start murdering the rich already? It's so obvious they have law and finance in the country rigged start to finish.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Federal Panel Of Judges Dismisses All 83 Ethics Complaints Against Brett Kavanaugh
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/18/6780...RwWQhL29u8OrLlI

Notably their reasoning isn't, "Nope he didn't do it. Totally squeaky clean". Instead:

quote:

The judges concluded that while the complaints "are serious," there is no existing authority that allows lower court judges to investigate or discipline Supreme Court justices.

So expect Donnie Dumbfuck to purposely misrepresent this when he vomits something out of his face-anus about it and all the MAGA CHUDs to swarm around to lap it up before regurgitating it everywhere.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

DoktorLoken posted:

:lol:

How do they think literally building a single lane freeway in a loving tunnel at suburban sprawl density to every house is at all viable be it in terms of the logistics of construction or the outrageous construction costs. What the gently caress drugs are these people on? Getting mass amounts of people around in an urban area in a quick and efficient manner that is largely unencumbered by surface congestion? It's called a loving train you dipshits.

If they take the train they might be forced to acknowledge the existence of people who make less than a million dollars a year. Much more disruptive to make a private transit system that avoids all that "public" poo poo in public transportation and just limits it to people that can afford to live in a libertopian techno wonderland.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
There was another link in D&D where some rear end clown wrote a bunch of poo poo about how unfairly the Triangle Shirtwaist owners got treated. I don't see any way to cure this kind of stupid.

Edit: found it.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/was-history-fair-triangle-waist-factory-owners-180971019

bird food bathtub fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Dec 20, 2018

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

facialimpediment posted:

And lol, partial government shutdown starting Saturday at 12:01 because Donnie watched Fox News too much.

https://twitter.com/RiegerReport/status/1075819564846456832?s=19

Truly this is the result of a stable very good brain that should be leading the country. Any suggestions of dementia backed up by the reality of constantly agreeing with the last person to speak to him are just liberal fake news lies and people not smart enough to understand the two dimensional tic tac toe that our president is dealing in.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc

Stolen from D&D. Buzz feed with another amazing(ly horrifying) scoop. FinCEN is probably fully penetrated by Russian cyber warfare at this point and financial information on anyone they want to target is probably already exfiltrated.

Edit ^^^Yeah I read it, and coming from anyone not Fox just makes it worse. Anyone saying "well ackshually, what they did wasn't against the law so it was just an innocent tragedy not anything actually illegal, so maybe they shouldn't have the unfair legacy of being the poo poo stains of capitalism people think they are" can gently caress right off. The only bad part of them getting the poo poo reputation they had was it being associated with the name Triangle Shirtwaist and not being applied to every last poo poo head doing the exact same stuff.

bird food bathtub fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Dec 20, 2018

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

"But we must also fulfill our constitutional duty to conduct oversight over the policies of the executive branch."

Yeah. Yeah you should mother fucker. So how about you get on that, oh, say, two years ago?

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Getting out of Afghanistan is a good thing.

Absolutely a good thing, but maybe with more planning than the morning poo poo with tweet machine in hand?

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

How is reality so goddamned broken that Noam loving Chomsky is arguing for more US intervention in the Middle East?

Oh, right, TRUMP

The simulation is breaking down, we're just living through the universal version of pressing ctrl-alt-delete and trying to hit 'restart' before God gets pissed off and pulls the plug.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
They so perfectly capture and mock that infuriating hand gesture bullshit the mushroom dicked smooth brain does.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Godholio posted:

I want the democrats to hold loving firm on this point, and force senate republicans to make a goddamned choice.

Well ol' Steel Spine Schumer will get right on that.

I mean it's probably going to happen anyway, but more through the leader of the Republican party making GBS threads his bed and declaring that everyone needs to roll around in it to MAGA than through principled and resolute opposition.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Publicly financed campaigns. Democratic elections are *THE* defining feature of a democracy. Maybe nationalize that poo poo in the interest of protecting it from the influence of capital, and letting the representatives do their actual job instead of the current out-sourcing of legislation drafting to lobbyists while they spend their days on the phone asking for money from donors.

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bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Oh man can't loving WAIT to see what Brainworm McGrifterstein comes up with to manage the markets. Gonna be a wild loving ride when the galaxy-brain-in-chief convinces himself the gold standard is the only answer or whatever the gently caress and all the eggheads screaming at him are just too dumb to understand the genius solution his gut came up with.

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