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pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

bird food bathtub posted:

I really liked the part of the trial where they tried to use the castle doctrine to defend the invading murderer instead of the guy eating ice cream in his own place. That part was super loving cool. I get it as a part of the adversarial nature of our court system but holy gently caress that was some brazen bullshittery.

And for every rear end in a top hat bleating about how this will make cops afraid to "do their jobs" now; loving good. They should be afraid of murdering citizens.

I can’t recall if I saw it here or elsewhere but I saw an explanation suggesting that the reason why SYG was a part of the jury instructions was so to minimize that angle in case her counsel filed an appeal later. Of course, the optics of that are SUPER loving bad to begin with.

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pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008


Holy gently caress bury her under the jail

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Mr. Nice! posted:

The president is extremely not mad:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1179422987684077568

E: Editing because this tweet will probably get deleted and corrected:



The 2016 electoral college was 227-304.

:tinfoil: if you call 201-622-3306 you get a recorded message from Q telling you where Hillary’s 33,000 deleted and acid washed emails are stored :tinfoil:

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

The stuff that ISW did on the Syrian Army’s order of battle was fascinating. They have some really good and talented researchers even if they’ve got some of Dubya’s hawks on staff.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Requesting name change to “out of control fire hose filled with blood” please.

By way of an actual contribution, Facebook looks to be content with disinformation and lying, but only if you’re paying them a lot to publish it.

https://popular.info/p/facebook-says-trump-can-lie-in-his

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

facialimpediment posted:

He's claiming edit: a male escort that Warren hired for BDSM poo poo cut him in a (maybe) threesome. But:

https://twitter.com/BrandyZadrozny/status/1179833719902760960?s=19

xXx

The things I’m going to do for my country

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1179851099978846209

:vince:

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Stultus Maximus posted:

This just makes me sick of myself.

This was a stunt by Lyndon Larouche’s group. They’re notorious for doing poo poo like this, and they claimed this one as well. AOC handled this as best as she could.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

So it looks like Elizabeth Warren’s Marine/human sex toy was lying about his military service as well:


https://www.thedailybeast.com/jacob-wohls-bogus-warren-accuser-exaggerated-his-military-service-record

Jacob Wohl is starting to make James O’Keefe look subtle and measured by comparison here.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Here’s some more very normal treatment of a veteran and journalist at Dulles, an airport serving the capital region of our very normal country.

quote:


Watson recalls the conversation:

CBP officer, holding Watson’s passport: “What do you do?”

Watson: “Journalism.”

CBP officer: “So you write propaganda, right?”

Watson: “No.”

CBP officer: “You’re a journalist?”

Watson: “Yes.”

CBP officer: “You write propaganda, right?”

Watson: “No. I am in journalism. Covering national security. And homeland security. And with many of the same skills I used in the U.S. Army as a public affairs officer. Some would argue that’s propaganda.”

CBP officer: “You’re a journalist?”

Watson: “Yes.”

CBP officer: “You write propaganda, right?”

Watson waited five seconds. Then: “For the purposes of expediting this conversation, yes.”

CBP officer, a fourth time: “You write propaganda, right?”

Watson, again: “For the purposes of expediting this conversation, yes.”

CBP officer: “Here you go.”

At that point, the CBP officer handed back the passport.


https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/10/us-customs-officer-harasses-defense-one-journalist-dulles/160380/

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Stultus Maximus posted:

The first several commenters need to be lined up and shot.

That’s a statement that can be applied to any news story that has comments, without exception.

We need a constitutional amendment specifically outlawing comments on news stories. They serve no purpose to anyone.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

I wish we weren’t living through the sequel to Being There in real time.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

I was in a deep red part of Virginia for work a few weeks ago, and there were a bunch of signs against socialism up around a lot of the properties on the town’s main drag. Except for one person who had a big sign that said WHAT DOES SOCIALISM GET YOU? Followed by a list that said fire departments, public schools, the US military, national parks, etc. It was this weird sliver of dark blue in a town where most restaurants have OANN on in the background.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

George W. Bush differs from Trump in that the former had a moral compass that guided his decision making and presidency. You could certainly disagree with the directions it pointed him and the decisions he made, but at least you had a general idea of what motivated him. You certainly can’t say that for Trump, and it’s even odds whether it’s narcissism, racism, aspiring authoritarianism, greed or the brain worms feasting.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Remember: the big lesson to be learned is that you can never count on the US to stand by its allies of convenience. Sorry Kurds, maybe next time you’ll move quicker on building Trump Tower Rojava.

Also I wonder how that Turkish F-16 pilot who had Erdogan’s plane in his sights and didn’t fire during the 2016 coup attempt is feeling these days because I’m certainly not too happy with him.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

cool wonder if his security is gonna wail on protestors again

I could tell the MPD was fixing to taze the poo poo out of Erdogan’s detail of thugs and I hope this time they get the chance to.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008


pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Did we have goons scammed during FyreFest? If so I’d love to read some accounts. Everything about this shitshow just makes for :discourse: reading.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

I’m having a hard time balancing my wish to not see a bunch of Turkish soldiers get killed with my profound desire that the Kurds make the Turks pay for every loving inch of ground they take.

It was seriously heartbreaking when the SDF leadership said that they consider the US servicemembers who fought with them their brothers in arms and that they don’t hold them responsible for the withdrawal. I hope someone forgot to load a couple hundred Stingers onto the trucks when they pulled out.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1182031506237280257

Jesus the brain worms are loving FEASTING today.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Kawasaki Nun posted:

Wow trump is too toxic for the dumbshit fox news set.

There are definitely people who think Fox News is too liberal now so they’ve migrated to One America News Network, which is so pro-Trump that they would cover Trump wandering away from the podium to take a poo poo in the Rose Garden in front of the press corps as the Orange Emperor fertilizing his garden.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Bored As gently caress posted:

Al-Hol detainees attack guards and start fires as Turkish assault begins

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/al-hol-detainees-attack-guards-and-start-fires-turkish-assault-begins



I don't know why the YPG ever kept male ISIS prisoners to begin with. I know why the SDF did - we were partnered with them, and that was probably a condition that we made. But how could there be so loving many ISIS prisoners? Ten thousand or more. Aren't these prisoners failures in their own mind? They failed to martyr themselves. They got taken prisoner by "kafirs" and "apostates." They were failures.

And these ISIS prisoners can't be reformed. Imprisoning jihadis of all types just radicalizes them even more, as we've seen all across the ME. All of the European and American assholes who went to Syria to fight for ISIS want to go back to their countries and commit terrorist attacks. So what does the SDF do? Honestly, what do they do? Just wait for the prisoners to successfully escape and join the ISIS insurgency, and possibly be killed by them one day? Or do they do what ISIS would do to them if they had the chance? I honestly wouldn't blame the Kurds in any way shape or form if they just executed every single fighting age male prisoner.

Turkey gives no fucks about the ISIS prisoners being released or escaping - it'll just create more chaos for them to exploit, and tie up Kurdish resources.


The whole situation is a clusterfuck of epic proportions. All of this could've been avoided if we had a president with a backbone who stood up to Turkey and Erdogan.

That fighter pilot who had that autocratic piece of poo poo in his sights during the failed coup probably regretted not killing Erdogan for the rest of his short, torture-filled life.

Frankly, if adhering to the laws of war regarding treatment of captured combatants was a precondition for US assistance, then I’m glad it was even if we’re going to have a problem from hell with IS detainees. If it’s a war based in part over values and ethics, the more we can differentiate ourselves from them, the better.

Turkey has been an uneven, unreliable ally WRT to Syria. While on one hand they were among the first countries to come out against Assad, they used their porous borders as a bargaining chip with the west with their initial assistance to rebek groups and later their blind eye toward IS moving back and forth. None of those European IS fighters would have made it into Syria were it not for them not managing their border.

And yeah, gently caress Erdogan eternally.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

quote:

John Ziegler, an anti-Trump conservative, said Warren’s words conveyed no such generosity. Her message and her body language, he said, telegraphed a dislike of men.

Trump voters in places such as the Florida Panhandle and central Pennsylvania, he said, will think, “ ‘Oh my God — this woman hates us.’ ”

“It plays right into the narrative about her, which is that she’s an out-of-touch liberal from Massachusetts, and this whole obsession with wokeness that the Democratic Party has where the white male is under attack,” Ziegler said.

Every word in this article is just loving cringe as hell. It’s 2019, if you don’t like gay marriage then don’t loving get one. Also “telegraphed a dislike of men” shut up with that bullshit.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...7b37_story.html

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

I would have figured that if we’re going to get a lovely reality TV star as President, the ideal Schwarzenegger film for our time would have been The Running Man. Hell, it’s even set in 2017.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

McNally posted:

Welp, time to pull the plug.

I asked the admins to delete GIP. I think we had a good run.



gently caress he’s not kidding


https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3886332&perpage=40

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008


So I think I mentioned this in dadchat thread the other day but this is the nightmare scenario documented in the latest Reply All podcast about this disease getting into the US feral hot population. Instant trade killer there.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008


TLDR but what I did read was some thirsty capitalist type doing the thirsty capitalist equivalent of sliding into her DMs by way of an editorial.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Old Boot posted:

He what now

Additionally-- IDK if this has been posted, but woo, this poo poo's surreal.

https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1184027365170700289

I’m kind of surprised that those positions weren’t bombed after they withdrew, even if they took anything sensitive or useful with them.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Nick Soapdish posted:

https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa/status/1184196900934815744

Not sure the veracity of the report but interesting reading the MOU between the regime and rebels

She’s a reliable source who has been covering this for years so I’d trust her reporting.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Goodness, I think I’m going to need an Enigma machine to get through THAT coded language. What could they have meant by that???

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Leave it to Donald Trump to be the one man in America who could make Nancy Pelosi look like a badass.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Suicide Watch posted:

Wasn’t this one of the founding missions of JSOC? Securing loose nukes?

Yeah, and I’ll bet they trained at Incirlik although I’ll bet “shoot it out with a NATO member state on the way to, at and from the objective” is something they could handle, it’s probably something State and DOD’s lawyers break into cold sweats while thinking about.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

On one hand I detest Tulsi Gabbard and hope that her eventual fall causes Bashar al-Assad’s dick to dislodge itself from her throat; on the other hand I’d really prefer that Hillary shut the gently caress up about anything and everything and maybe just go hiking for good.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008


Every single word in this article should be considered :nms:

Like, i reflexively crossed my legs several times when I saw this earlier today.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

CommieGIR posted:

Though that was SecDef?

Also: Turkey wants a nuke. Wonder if Trump wants a new tower?

He’s already got one in Istanbul

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Towers_Istanbul

Wonder if Erdogan took a page from the Trump playbook and threatened his towers in order to compel Trump’s OK for their anti-Kurd operation.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

colachute posted:

I feel like seal worship has kind of died off. It’s gonna be insufferable if they go in and take back like 50 nukes.

The future conservatives want.

SEAL worship will die down even further if they recover 49 nukes.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

President Donald Trump, the most unfairly investigated and harassed President in the history of the world, has adroitly compared the constitutionally defined impeachment inquiry he is facing to lynching, the extralegal process of a mob murdering someone.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

There's a lot of decent channels for crashes. I stopped watching mega driving school when he started narrating poo poo because they were demonetizing his channel.

Fury Road channel had some great clips, but slipped off with accident videos and pretty much does road rage only now.

On that weird topic, my new dashcam showed up today. Generic rear end chinese Apeman brand, but at least the manual isn't engrish like the last one.

The ones that always piss me off are the motobros who do dumb poo poo in traffic just so they can flip their visors up on their helmets and pick a fight with someone because they honked at them for doing a wheelie at 50 in a 35. I remember seeing one where some kid got his rear end kicked by a much older dude, which was pretty gratifying to watch. I really have nothing against motorcyclists at all, just find it really amusing when people write checks their mouths can’t cash. Road rage videos are occasionally good to watch from a point of “how would I deescalate or get out of this situation if I found myself in it” but otherwise I don’t like them very much.

Edit: found the video https://youtu.be/kFIXHAbjCxQ

pantslesswithwolves fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Oct 23, 2019

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pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008


I’ll vote for any candidate who takes the platform of deporting anti-vaxxers to countries where children die of easily preventable childhood illnesses. gently caress all of these people and the privilege that lets them spout this poo poo so hard.

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