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bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

LingcodKilla posted:

Seeing a president saying how bad the FBI is only when they go after his criminal compatriots is funnier. They should have gone all Ruby Ridge on his russian loving rear end.

They've really torn the mask off for anyone not chugging the Flavoraid when it comes to this stuff. The black man was going to Operation Jade Helm us all so buy more guns and keep your powder dry, but a white guy does it to immigrants and they celebrate.

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bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Well that's my dose of "We live in all the lovely parts of Shadowrun" for today. I'm done now, the world can stop being lovely for a day.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
So, uhh....how much other spectacularly hosed up and bizarre animu poo poo do you have on your hard drive and how lovingly is it curated?

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Reign Of Pain posted:

E: you can probably do whatever you want because no one is going to check due to the fact that we've been under a hiring freeze since 2010(few exceptions) and like 60% of everyone can retire now and probably will...

Can't wait for stuff like this to start working it's way in to large scale cultural beliefs. Countries always work wonderfully when the prevailing, unspoken belief of the population is, "Eh, there's no effective government or enforcement anyway, nothing's going to happen if we ignore it."

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
I can't subject myself to even ten second sound bites of the verbal diarrhea that squirts out of his tanned face-anus. Y'all listening are some disturbed individuals.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Personally I was hoping Pelosi would gently caress with Donnie and schedule the SOTU for after the next potential shutdown. Hit the fucker right in his narcissism if he tries that poo poo again.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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AreWeDrunkYet posted:

Yes, but the pro-life side intentionally conflates pro-choice with pro-abortion even though pretty much no one falls into the latter category.

It's more disingenuous bullshit from that camp. Scratch a "pro-lifer" and you'll see someone who believes women should know their place in a home, gussied up nice with other language like being concerned for the morality of society and the righteous value of the nuclear family and so on.

See also: "The only moral abortion is my abortion. My daughter just made a mistake, those other dirty sluts deserve to be punished"

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
I have not recently submerged myself in the right wing media swamp. Anyone mind translating CHUD to English for me? Latest brain dead propaganda piece being parroted at work was AOC's green new deal is actually mostly bullshit that nobody cares about and is really just a sneaky way to implement "the socialism" because one part of it says, "and those unwilling to work". All day it was "Hurr hurr I don't want mah tax dollars going to the wrong sort of people like that, you know the type, and that's clearly what all these left wing extremists want with their socialism. Free stuff to buy votes from them types at my expense."

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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The climate is completely hosed, we're just Wile E. Coyote not looking down yet. When countries begin collapsing and deaths start numbering hundreds of millions or more, whoever comes out the other side of the hosed up bullshit we've left to them will rightfully hate us for what we've done. The only optimistic scenario that's got a basis in reality is that the trauma the next hundred or so years inflicts on humanity is enough to make us learn the lessons we should have when it was possible to do so without suffering and pain. Only real hope is that whoever is left to pick up the pieces can push past the results of what we've done to make a better society that looks to the future and takes action before things happen.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

The fundies will 100% blame the gays.

Their last thought as their entire country starves/burns/dehydrates to death will be, "We should keep having quarter pounders with cheese, Jesus is gonna be here any day now to fix it all up."

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
I really don't see another shutdown going well. Miss one more paycheck and air traffic control is going to jump straight to a full blown strike immediately, and good luck with that.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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Godholio posted:

and nobody had any idea what the president will do.

Least of all the president himself.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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shame on an IGA posted:

Sinclair Broadcasting will interrupt programming on all of its local stations tonight at 7:00 for a special hour long roundtable discussion about the preschool to prison pipeline, hosted by Armstrong Williams. I will be making an effort to tune in because that sounds fuckin' hilarious.

My bet is an hour of "fuckfuckfuckfuck the for profit prison industry was only supposed to target those types of people now it's run amok and white innocent people are being grievously wronged! Who could possibly have seen this coming? It's so unfair!"

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Just to chum the waters a bit, I'd like to point out our current system is horrifically broken and ineffective at deterring white collar and financial crimes. Past a certain point of wealth it literally becomes a cost of doing business, a no-poo poo line item in the budget written ahead of time accepting that a minor amount of profit will be diverted towards paying off our "judicial" system.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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Stravag posted:

Im sure whatever it was it wont be enough as soon as coulter calls him a pussy on twitter again

That'll be the fun part to watch. Mr. Oatmeal-brain could absolutely go through with another shut down if he doesn't get abject surrender and completely servile groveling from Democrats. Just takes one poke at his ego and we're off to the races!

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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Bell_ posted:

That video is the best thing I've seen this year. Thank you.

He wasn't joking though, download a copy while it's up. That video gets taken down quick as poo poo every time. It's kinda impressive.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Well traumatizing a generation with duck and cover drills still leaves an impact on people of that age. Guess we'll see what happens after we traumatize a generation with active shooter drills.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Genuinely surprised they aren't outright calling for the return of debtor's prison and complete asset seizure for failure to repay a financial overlord. What could possibly be worse to their donors than not giving them money?

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Christ almighty she's good at this.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Bored As gently caress posted:

Hopefully he gets dysentery.
I'll go the other direction. I hope he eats nothing but MRE's.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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shame on an IGA posted:

:frogsiren::frogsiren::frogsiren::frogsiren:

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26479/commander-that-fired-zoe-kotnik-from-f-16-demo-team-made-this-crass-video-15-years-ago

Jesus first Big Dick Nick and now Gold Bond going mainstream in the same week, I swear we're gonna see Groverhaus on HGTV by the end of the month. The internet isn't leaking into real life anymore, it's a loving spring tide

This could be a moment of learning. Opening minds, realizing the culture of "perfection" and paper-based risk avoidance among officers is toxic and counter productive. Also having a sense of humor wouldn't hurt.

I'll put down the bong now and come back to reality in a few minutes, but it could.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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Oh boy can't wait for the fact-free disingenuous attacks over this. "Radical left socialist super soldiers cost everyone JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS vote Trump 2020 MAGA"

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Republicans don't give one half of a flying sideways gently caress about the precedent the state of emergency would set. Seriously this is Republicans we're talking about; their natural state of existence is rank, unending hypocrisy. They outright stole a supreme court seat because "gently caress you it's not against the law, all we have to do is ignore the constitution for a year."

What they don't want is for the state of emergency to be called and for house Democrats to get it on the floor for a vote countermanding his declaration. Then they have to actually take a position either for it or against it, and Turtle McFuckface can't just bottle the issue up and ignore it. Revocation of a state of emergency is a privileged vote that must take place. If Donnie Dumbfuck pushes that button senate Republicans have no choice, they have to take a bite of the poo poo sandwich and tell everyone publicly how they think it tastes.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Mr. Nice! posted:

As of now, Trump still has not signed the funding bill. He signed the state of emergency declaration. If he does not sign the funding bill today, the government shuts down at midnight.

Won't even be surprised at this point. It's the dumbest, most self-destructive, petty and spiteful move possible.

So I give it 50/50 odds.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Can anyone give a quick Barney-style rundown of what squalene positive means? Wiki says it's a hydrocarbon that's used for faces and stuff but not really an easily digestible outline of what a positive result means.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Arc Light posted:

Almost this, but check bags. Air travel improves remarkably when you don't need to fight for space in the overhead compartment (or sacrifice legroom).

For everyone still in the US military, get an American Express platinum card. The ~$500/yr fee is waived, and AmEx eats the cost of in-flight food, booze, luggage, etc.

Edit: and the open bar/open buffet at centurion lounges is nothing to scoff at.

Eh, I have trust issues with airlines and my luggage. If it's a week-ish or less I can fit everything I need in my carry on + laptop bag. gently caress giving those guys a chance to lose my poo poo, again, even with built-in identification windows that have my name, home town and cell number in them.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

This becoming the theme song for protests in the US is something I am very much OK with.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Welcome, newly awakening coma patient. I see 2019 is going to take a little bit of introduction so I'll try to go slow about the president and peepee.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Hot Karl Marx posted:

I really didn't need to know those actually existed

We have the internet. There are entire communities devoted to the ins (:v:) and outs of things like these.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
My biggest draw to Bernie is that he has said the same message for decades. How many of the new bandwagon jumpers are just making the popular mouth noises with no intention of actually following through and fighting those fights? We're at multiple crisis points as a nation and a species, there is negative amounts of time to deal with this poo poo, and no more room for "hope and change and change of hope for change oops bankers blew everything the gently caress up better give them money and let them off the hook."

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/18/politics/klobuchar-pragmatic-approach/index.html

Go hog wild. Highlights include Medicare For All, "It could be a possibility in the future. I'm just looking for something that will work now."

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump...ingawful.com%2F

Why stop at 6G? 7G will be better and have the broadest of bands

This kind of stupidity would be offensive if it was coming from the town drunk on a barstool at 10pm Friday night.

Good thing he's just the president with a rabid base desperate to sieg heil their way through some political opposition.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
https://thinkprogress.org/bernie-sanders-loves-the-filibuster-too-much-3b51bc9aca0e/

quote:

Yet, while Buttigieg admits that he’s “not reached a considered position on the issue of court packing,” he also recognizes that the existential threats to democracypresented by men like Neil Gorsuch may require a proportional response. “I don’t think we should be laughing at it,” Buttigieg tells his ambitious questioner, before acknowledging that court-packing is “no more a shattering of norms than what’s already been done to get the judiciary to where it is today.”

Even allowing the idea space for debate has my interest in this guy seriously spiking.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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egyptian rat race posted:

Not only that, but isn't the fat gently caress billing a ton of this to his own companies?

Basically everything he can charge to his own businesses he is so he can charge way, WAY beyond market rate and pocket the excess. His hotels are also stunningly full of representatives from foreign governments renting out entire floors and the like that may or may not actually show up but pay for the rooms at way, WAY beyond market rate so he can pocket the excess.

In a functioning, healthy country those would be easy grounds for impeachment right there but laffo we live in a kleptocracy.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

That particular rabbit hole is....well it's definitely a dark one. If I remember correctly this was revealed when his daughters text messages were released and she's bitching to a friend about, "Yeah dad loving sucks, he's doing that group sex stuff to mom again." Probably off on the details, that's all going from memory.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Well I guess the constitution does not specifically outline someone as ineligible to run from inside prison so sure, let's go for it.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Bored As gently caress posted:

More than 50 ex-national security officials tell Trump his national emergency is not justified
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/more-50-ex-national-security-officials-tell-trump-national-emergency-n975701

In a letter, the former officials said redirecting funds to build the border wall could hurt national security by pulling resources from programs that keep the U.S. safe.



Link to the letter itself: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5749671-National-Emergency-Joint-Declaration-2-21-19.html

Yeah the Great Orange Fecal Smear will get right on that and start giving a gently caress at about half past never.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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Vasudus posted:

My particular favorite part of all of this is the geopolitics of what's gonna happen when land dynamics greatly change. Montana/Wyoming/the Dakotas/Michigan UP/etc are going to be prime farm land in 2100. That also means a bunch of Canada is going to thaw and be prime farmland.

Guess what, fuckers: we're gonna take that land when it comes time. Just like every other country is going to go to war over farmland like it's 1099.

Ehhh, the temperature and rainfall in those areas (in aggregate, so ignoring the massive fluctuations which will ruin poo poo all on its own) might be what is needed for farmland as the temperate climate bands retreat towards the poles, but the soil is going to be really lovely for farming on the scale that is needed. If memory from high school AgSci is correct it takes about a century of highly active plant and animal life to make an inch of soil that can be washed away in one of the increasingly common massive rain storm events. So naturally we will respond with even more intensive fertilization and nitrogen fixation. Have fun with that.

Also plant growth on the high end of the CO2 predictions takes place crazy fast, but the nutrition gained from that growth goes through the loving floor as far as feeding populations is concerned.

There is basically no way you can imagine that climate change is not going to turbo gently caress civilization.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
The gently caress kind of world does he live in where the end of February 2019 is right before the 2020 elections?

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bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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That Works posted:

Checks out

I'm going to need a lot of convincing to not believe these images are a 3D rendering of a particularly weird first person shooter boss fight.

And yeah there's some stuff about the president committing some light treason as well but I want to talk about something new and interesting.

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