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Wark Say posted:The kids are alright. gently caress yeah they are. She's encouraging me to take the management at my workplace to task about environmental stuff and general waste. It's a small thing but working with what I can.
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Rex-Goliath posted:Everyone was going nuts over that one guy getting shitfaced and calling all the news channels while his lawyers tried to break down his door To be fair, that was absolutely insane and everyone deserved to go nuts over that madness. Stone's lieutenant goes on one show, breaks the gently caress down, calls into another less than an hour later, continues breaking down.
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Sep 27, 2019 03:20
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Flesh Forge posted:Here he is in 1987. He talks faster but it's the same aggaddaggaddaggadda formless gibberish, and that's with King leading him really carefully through the interview. I think you're overlooking one major thing when doing the Trump:Reagan functional Alzheimer's comparison. Reagan was a Hollywood-level actor before he got into politics. Playing a role and speaking to an audience/camera was second nature and literally his job for a good chunk of his adult life. Trump was a coddled real estate developer/"tycoon". It's a different job with different expectations (not that Trump did any of those expectations). Mainly all Trump had to do was boss people around and be confident. He could be a verbal klutz as long as he had the illusion of wealth to support his lifestyle and lie that he was a super genius.
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Sep 27, 2019 08:08
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Zotix posted:This just in: r/the_donald is in full meltdown mode. It's just like the white house they can't keep up with the facts that are coming out. Oh man I hadn't even thought about that. They're probably suffering the same issue the GOP as a whole is feeling where everything's coming too fast for them to adjust. I wonder how many are just gonna walk away from politics from this?
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Sep 28, 2019 05:45
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Zotix posted:Like that's not really what's happening right? We know he's in Italy, but people don't really think he's AWOL,right? I believe you quoted the wrong person goon-sir(or madame), as funny as it is to imagine the entirety of r/donald taking a sudden trip to Italy in preparation for fleeing prosecution.
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Sep 28, 2019 05:49
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1glitch0 posted:What does he or the administration have to gain by rescheduling his trip? It just makes things look worse and there's not much he can't do via phone calls that he can do being physically in Washington. He could be there to physically manage Trump. He is a massive idiot who needs that sort of attention kept on him to keep him from going and doing stupid poo poo. Any actual bureaucratic stuff though...yeah he could do anything he needed over phone or e-mail. Well maybe not e-mail this madness is moving too fast for sedate e-mails. RandomBlue posted:The trip started when all this poo poo heated up. I doubt that's a coincidence. Oh yeah I find the entire thing pretty suspicious. Though I doubt it's full-on "fleeing the country" as hilarious as it is. Probably more meeting people he really shouldn't be meeting out of desperation or hubris.
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Sep 28, 2019 08:02
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Au Revoir Shosanna posted:lmao he really is that dumb The Samson of Political Stupidity. When he was finally confronted and threatened, Trump grabbed the supports of the political edifice that supported him and screamed "Noo! I'm the best! Nobody beats me!" as he flailed, bringing the entire machine down upon his own allies in a confused tantrum.
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Sep 28, 2019 13:21
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Solaris 2.0 posted:Hey how are things going for Trump’s ol’Buddy MBS Aren't the Houthis the ones who took credit for blowing up the SA refinery and the ones we're 99.95% sure actually did it and not Iran like every senile chickenhawk has been crowing because that's who the Saudis and Israelis want us to attack? If so, hah, serves the Saudis right. My cold, bitter heart loves seeing those assholes get clowned.
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Sep 29, 2019 04:23
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Ripoff posted:I can imagine Giuliani responding to this by screaming "OH YEAH?", taking a massive rip off the jenkem bottle in the corner, and calling to book himself an interview on MSNBC. I read that last bit as "Calling himself to book himself on MSNBC" ...at this point I totally could believe in Guliani straight up calling up a second phone in his pocket to talk to himself to schedule something.
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Oct 1, 2019 13:25
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Oct 1, 2019 21:43
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Rex-Goliath posted:Keep in mind that everyone has different brain chemistry so a dose that gets you vibrating through the floor gets another person sky-high. I’ve noticed this with opiates as the few times I’ve been prescribed them I found them insanely pleasurable and totally understood how people could get addicted to them while most of my friends can’t stand them as they make them sick. Meat computers are weird. The two times I've been prescribed even relatively mild opiates (once for getting all my wisdom teeth out, once for shattering my ankle into powder) I basically went "Oh gently caress these are good...too good" and they scared the poo poo out me to the point I didn't refill my prescription.
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Oct 6, 2019 05:53
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Prester Jane posted:I want to say good on ya for being self aware and making the right choice here. The addiction risk in prescription opiates has been severely understated by big pharma, and it is very very very easy to become addicted to them. Yeah when I first had them with my wisdom teeth out I was all "I only used half the bottle...I'm gonna enjoy the gently caress out of these after hard days because they make me happy/go right to sleep at night" and would have totally re-upped the hydrocodine if I'd been prescribed more. Second time was after I broke my ankle and had some weird experiences with other painkillers and anesthesia. The night I spent in the ER room they set my ankle so I'd gently caress it up less and put it in a plaster cast overnight because they had a bone setter there that night but the bone surgeon wasn't gonna show up until her normal shift in the morning. My leg swelled up so big in that cast I was literally in so much pain the morphine they gave me did nothing until they figured out the pain was from my leg trying to crack open the cast. One trashbag of ice over my cast and I was out like a light. The next morning I was put under anesthesia so they could slice open both sides of my shattered ankle at once (I broke it in 3 places simultaneously), and when I woke up I had the most hosed up reaction to the anesthesia: I woke up with my heart pounding in my chest, my adrenaline flowing and I was angry even as my head was fuzzy from the drugs. Like I legitimately would have tried to start a fistfight with some poor orderly if I hadn't also been too loving drugged to really do anything but lay there and drool for the next 20 minutes. By the time I was able to recover enough to think I realized that I hadn't been abducted by aliens or some shadow government project (not even joking: those were the paranoid thoughts going through my head) and Iwas just loco from whatever they knocked me out with. Still took a good half hour after they moved me from the recovery clinic to my room to calm myself enough to pass out again. Between those weird reactions to morphine and the anesthesia I looked what I was feeling from the hydrocodine they gave me and it kinda freaked an older and wiser me out. After about a week I tried to manage the pain with ibuprophen except when it was really bad (i.e.: I banged my cast against something). To be honest, the hydrocodine tended to put me out and a lot of sleep was probably exactly what I needed the first couple of weeks, but there was that underlying "too good to be true" happy that made my skin crawl when it wore off and my head was clear.
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Oct 6, 2019 07:44
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SocketWrench posted:Eh, I seriously doubt he's a billionaire. I'd wager he barely passes as a serious millionaire if you liquidate all his assets and ignore his debts He's a billionaire if you look at the absolute value of his wealth: When his casino went under he claimed such a huge loss that he literally hasn't paid taxes since due to the IRS's debt forgiveness rules. As in: his one claim was something like a full third of the business losses claimed that year and the value was big enough the program filling out the form didn't have enough significant digits so someone had to go and get a typewriter to plug in the last two zeroes on the form. So yes, he's very much a negative billionaire if you're allowed to include his debt.
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Oct 6, 2019 07:51
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Barry Foster posted:FWIW that's a pretty common response to anaesthesia It freaked me out and I've had general anesthesia before and sense, never had that reaction. I'm normally a zen and level headed guy so suddenly waking up, mind confused and drugged while the adrenaline pumps and not knowing where I am (and admittedly for a while who I am) and thinking I've been kidnapped for some B-rated thriller plot is not a state of mind I enjoy being in.
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Oct 6, 2019 10:41
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GlyphGryph posted:It could be retaliation from a cop or coo sympathizer but I doubt it was to silence him, he'd already said all the bits that did damage I'd be more willing to bet "cop sympathizer" than straight up cop. Cops have other ways to make you miserable, a non-person and/or dead. Then again I might just be hopeful because cops are less likely to cover for a crazy-rear end civilian killing this guy even for pro-cop reasons than they are to cover for another racist rear end cop. Edit: Oh loving absolutely \/\/\/\/ Alkydere fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Oct 6, 2019 |
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Oct 6, 2019 12:24
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Charlz Guybon posted:Also, surely this is some kind of crime As far as I can see there's two options: -The bank is bluffing and hopes Trumps enemies won't get enough power to make heads role -The bank actually creatively lost/destroyed its own data and even if Trump's enemies don't gain the power to make heads roll there are gonna be some auditors/accountants pissed enough that there's gonna be at least an internal audit and someone's head will roll for the headache this produced. It will just be some lower level heads that roll. In short we have added yet another layer of stupidity onto this...this...mess.
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Oct 11, 2019 06:15
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Ms Adequate posted:It's deffo a stretch to call Shep Smith 'good', but he did at least have something that can be recognized as respect for the truth. Put it this way: A Fox where most people were Shep Smiths and there were one or two crazy outliers would have done a lot less damage to America. We call that place CNN.
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Oct 12, 2019 05:17
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Dapper_Swindler posted:i mean cnn are centrist suckers and such but who are the scary outliers. even tapper strikes me more as a stupid uber sorkin decomrimist than a full on nazi. Fair enough. I'm so decoupled from cable and cable news these days the only reason I can tell different news networks apart is the logo on the chyron.
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Oct 12, 2019 05:21
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It really is as if most of them can't even comprehend anything they did was bad or illegal. They were born with a Silver Spoon so far up their rear end all they know is people are screaming at them but they can't comprehend why. Obviously Trump can't but Rudy seems in that camp as well where he's in his own world where up might as well be down, black is white, etc.
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Oct 12, 2019 08:18
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Charlz Guybon posted:He had a traumatic brain injury and has never been the same since. Yeah I know that. I guess I really didn't explain myself properly: -Trump lives in Trump Land, a delusion of his own creation -Trump's family are trapped in Trump Land. -Rudy's TBI means he lives in Opposite Crimeland where Crime is Law and Law is Crime. The issue is, to me at least, that everyone else around them seems utterly lost and trapped in Trump Crimeland, simply pulled in by the sheer gravitational pull of the delusion and unable to escape. Lured in by a populist president and then trapped by their own greed and corruption.
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Oct 12, 2019 10:14
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Dr. VooDoo posted:What? No for real what does this mean? It means he's gonna crush small family farms and support big mega farms. More than he has that is.
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Oct 13, 2019 00:22
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Flesh Forge posted:I remember shortly after he was elected a bunch of dumbasses argued that he wouldn't be able to do a lot of damage because, y'know, the powers of the office of the President are like, TOTALLY LIMITED and stuff! We did have a couple of years where he was too stupid to properly abuse them, and the people around him were smart enough to limit him. But over time he figured out what actually works and how to get rid of people who could say no.
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Oct 13, 2019 04:42
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Google Butt posted:I straight up scroll right past Trump tweets, they're not even worth reading, ever. Trying to understand them is a fools errand for sure Yeah I respect (and thank) those of you who can stand reading his poo poo for me because I can't. I'd rather save my braincells and only really stop to read them when people start freaking out. At this point the tweets are basically the white noise of angry/terrified/confused old man lashing out.
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Oct 19, 2019 06:43
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These tweets/headlines should start ending with "Shame they won't do anything about it". Lots of hot air wasted being very concerned
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Oct 20, 2019 02:24
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Otteration posted:Amazon workers ‘forced to go back to work’ after fellow employee dies on shift Man, I apparently work in the one island of sanity in the Amazon network. We had the same issue that site did (person complaining to AmCare about things that could be vaguely heart-related) and their response was "CODE RED! CODE RED!" and practically threw them into the back of an Ambulance. Turned out they barely got the woman to the hospital in time in our case. It's always so weird coming home from a shift seeing poo poo like this because I'm all "Do I work in opposite land?" Farchanter posted:It'll happen during the next administration and it'll be because "Democrats can't keep us safe." *Tries to explain Trump's betrayal of the Kurds a few years ago*  "NOT MY PRESIDENT! FILTHY COMMUNIST DEMONRATS! LETTING THEM drat EE-LEGALS IN!"
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Oct 21, 2019 13:02
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LaserShark posted:Wait a minute, though. Wasn't the whole point of the SCIF invasion to build a narrative of 'standing up to those mean Dems'? Why would Fox avoid covering that? Because Fox, as TV people, know what optics are. Which means they knew how bad this could potentially end up looking. Especially if the idiots stood around for a bit with their thumbs up their butt then got rejected and the normal work continued delayed by only an hour or two. So they don't show the thing, at least not in real time, in order to avoid placing a narrative on their channel that a bunch of congressmen humiliated themselves. They'll probably bring it up later once they figure out how to spin it and get their stories straight, making sure not to mention how quickly testimony reopened as if nothing had happened.
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Oct 23, 2019 21:56
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tek79 posted:What sort of diseases and/or complications arise when you only consume meat? Because I'm totally fine with Peterson fans all dying, or feeling really uncomfortable from them. Gout. A meat/protein heavy and low-carb diet puts you at a high risk of developing gout if you're not careful and pay attention. I doubt anyone following a Peterson designed diet (including the Petersons themselves) is doing anything besides shoving as much meat as they can down. Also constipation if you don't get enough fiber. So gout and constipation.
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Oct 25, 2019 01:35
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Jealous Cow posted:https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1188215280973074432?s=21 They do realize that nitpicking their rules just mean they'll get trolled more and more, right?
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Nov 1, 2019 14:51
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Sojourn posted:They’re not trying to sway anyone in congress’s opinion. They’re trying to muddy the waters enough that unaware members of the public will turn against the investigation. They’re hoping that if they scream about unfairness enough and throw enough shade (warranted or not) on a more well known (at least as, “The Whistleblower”) witness that people will decide that maybe they aren’t full of poo poo. There's basically a few fatal flaws in their plan: 1) Trump already released the (edited) Transcript which was hilariously damning and made the Whistleblower a non issue 2) Trump doesn't know how to shut up and let himself fade out of public conscious 3) Trump's basically hit the hard floor of his popularity and everyone has an opinion of him (mostly negative) 4) It the GOP so long to come up with a semi-coherent plan that they're fighting against a fairly entrenched narrative.
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Nov 9, 2019 08:34
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Koalas March posted:It's almost like privileged whites will jump to defend their own even for racist tirades *raises hands* Priveledged White myself. I feel the woman was cruising for a bruising and I have no sympathy for her, and the victim was the guy who had decades of such non-physical aggression levied against him by her, her friends, etc. I will admit I would not have thought that way a few years ago but watching my hispanic friends and co-worker from my last job becoming terrified about being deported/killed by ICE the last few hours is an eye opener. This woman was part of a system that used state sanctioned violence, openly or in subtle, venomous ways, against such minorities for decades. The reason she talked poo poo like this was she was allowed and encouraged to do the same, if not worse, since she was a racist little kid. She attacked others in such ways with impunity since she was a child. She might have quieted down a bit in the 90's and 00's but I gauran-loving-tee you she was all grins that Trump let her "tell it as it is" and she could get away with such attacks again. She couldn't figure out how the world changed and she finally pushed someone too hard and found out the hard way that the world now considered eligible for the "Talk poo poo, Get Hit" rule of social etiquette. That woman represents a poison in our society that many fooled ourselves was gone. I know I did.
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Ringo Star Get posted:“Republicans go on the offensive”, what’s their strategy, Charge of the Light Brigade? Considering the amount of delusion that's going on, I'd say "The Children's Crusade"
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Nov 13, 2019 23:12
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Nov 17, 2019 00:18
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Oh my god that "Trump's insecure" line is gonna get back to him and he's gonna have a loving temper trantrum.  Tax Edit: 
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Nov 17, 2019 21:21
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GreyjoyBastard posted:yeah, between my chortles i concluded that it was probably an advertising success, if apparently not the one the dudes who were interviewed about it were aiming for That's how I felt about it as well. It obviously was not meant the way everyone outside of their little brainstorming circle took it BUT the unintentional hilarity meant it spread like wildfire. Everyone shared it for a laugh but that was free, self-perpetuating signal-boosting which now means people are aware: 1) South Dakota exists 2) South Dakota is on Meth 3) Their sides now hurt from laughing 4) South Dakota's government wants to do something to help the suffering of its constituents
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Nov 19, 2019 22:21
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Duck_King posted:I work in IT, and it's pretty telling how myself and all the people I know who get excited about things like video cards and new USB standards, soundly say "gently caress that" when it comes to things like Alexa and Ring, because we understand the implications. I really, really wish your average person understood the horrible dystopia we're hurtling towards with tech like this. Oh abso-loving-lutely. I work at Amazon itself (somehow our warehouse is the one that...doesn't cause horror stories?  ) and I watch even my co-workers getting worked up over these things. They're all "Yeah but can you turn on the lights or start a playlist of your favorite music with just a voice command?"No but I don't have Amazon snooping on me when I'm not working either and I'm not too lazy to just hit a light switch. I already spend 40+ a week with Peccy staring over my shoulder to make sure I'm not stealing poo poo.
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Nov 28, 2019 23:12
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WoodrowSkillson posted:They want women to die OP, the cruelty is the point. No they want women afraid that they will die if they get out of line/speak up. A few of them actually dying is just a "gotta crack a few eggs to make an omelet" situation. You're right though that cruelty, fear and control over women is the point though.
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Hunt11 posted:What is the GOP's obsession with trying to get hostile witnesses? It's two things as far as I can tell. First thing is: FizFashizzle posted:Everything the GOP does is about establishing narratives for fox news. They want to try to make propaganda out of such events. No matter how badly things go, they trust their propaganda arm to find at least one or two soundbytes that out of context and with very leading questions about it will sound bad about their target for their audience. The second is desperation to just pretend they're in charge. Screaming "No I'm the boss, not you! You're not investigating me, I'm investigating you!" and fully expecting the real world to go like your daydreams because they, as rich white men, have always been so very blessed in life before that they think that's how the world really works.
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