hobbesmaster posted:

“Democrats would’ve impeached Lincoln” gets a “technically correct” rating so I can’t do anything but laugh.

Blago should’ve added something about Trump tower Chicago to really get on the fast track for a pardon.

hobbesmaster posted:

Kentucky stayed in the union, McConnell would’ve led the war democrats.

Chichevache posted:

Edit
Had to do it at my cousins wedding as well. And her funeral a few months ago. It's just a christian thing, not a fascist thing. This was even one of those peace and love surfing churches.

joat mon posted:

fascist in the sense of Fascism, or fascist in the sense of 'don't like thing'?

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:

if trump nuked iran he would 100% get reelected lmao

Smiling Jack posted:

That article about the Marine F-18 crash? The unit only had about a third of it's F-18s ready to fly. I think 70% for the F-35 might actually be a little high.

mlmp08 posted:

That account has been making some real wild claims. Including that the US created all the previous anti-corruption protests, of which al-Sadr was a supporter, but also suddenly all the Iraqi leadership decided to tell the US to get hosed, including al-Sadr. And that actually, SMGs didn’t shoot anti-Iranian protesters when those protesters were rushing Iran-friendly posts and facikities, it was secret US Marine sniper teams.

Bored As gently caress posted:

And the President still has an unsecure phone and everything because Nothing Matters

Handsome Ralph posted:

I saw this in the D&D ME thread, but I would advise taking this stuff with a grain of salt. He's also claiming that Trump fostered (lol) the mass protests against him which is highly unlikely for obvious reasons and most regional experts said the protests pre-killing Soleimani were due to this guys corruption issues, not because El Cheeto formented them.

Casimir Radon posted:

I plan on shutting down anyone who wants to tell me this will be good or easy with "I've heard this one before dumbass, it doesn't end well"

Casimir Radon posted:

That and these morons make Bush and Co. look competent and stable by comparison.

facialimpediment posted:

The first loving good development of the night.

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1214721219188199424

Proud Christian Mom posted:

also, since every conservative I know tells me the economy is booming, surely retailers had a great Christmas?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/09/business/jcpenney-macys-kohls-department-stores/index.html

tl;dr Middle class retailers got hosed even with Christmas and all the gains are going to discount retailers.

Crakkerjakk posted:

The US foreign policy system (State Department, CIA, friendly allies, sympathetic billionaires, etc) sometimes shuffles money to people who say the things they want to hear, often through NGOs and think tanks.

*Shrug*

I know Bellingcat is a goon. Being a goon is not mutually exclusive with any of us getting paid (directly or via a third party) by the US for our work.

Crakkerjakk posted:

No, I assume he started out a goon, blew up posting things that agreed with what the US foreign policy establishment wanted out there, and then started getting paid (via third party).

It's almost never as sinister as "we will give you one milllllliiioooonnnn dollars to say a thing and create a whole new identity for you to do so," whether it's the US foreign policy establishment or just like national news media.

Instead, it's vastly more common to say "hey, here's a guy already toeing the party line on what we want put in the world, let's hire him on and give him the tools to reach a larger audience." Same reason you don't see flaming lefties in big corporate news rooms but mysteriously ABC and CNN head honchos think Jake Tapper should be talking to a national audience.

Crakkerjakk posted:

Like, back in the day, when the Soviets would respond to the US criticisms of their real human rights abuses with "and you lynch black people", they weren't wrong. They WERE commiting widespread human rights abuses, and so were we. We were trying to put the emphasis on their lovely behavior and they were trying to put the emphasis on our lovely behavior, all as part of lovely international power games.

And at the time us civil rights groups were very angry about the lynching as well.

Like sometimes various power blocks lie about what the other is doing, but it's usually far simpler for each side to point out the other's actual poo poo, because pretty much all great powers have an awful lot of poo poo they engage in.

And it's not too hard to say "gee, the reason a bunch of gulf countries, Pakistan, China, etc contribute to think tanks and NGOs is because they're trying to push Washington to do stuff that benefits them" and then follow that up with "and when the US does the same thing they have the same exact intentions."

Crakkerjakk posted:

Again, I'm not saying the Iranians didn't shoot down this airliner (it's the simplest explanation) or that Russian seperatists didn't shoot down the airliner in Ukraine (seems amply documented). It's that Bellingcat tends to focus on the misdeeds of the geopolitical enemies of the US and it's allies instead of the misdeeds of the US and it's allies. That's why the US sends them money.

Smiling Jack posted:

Bellingcat has repeatedly investigated incidents and blamed the United States for the outcome.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2017/03/16/us-missile-remains-reportedly-recovered-from-site-of-aleppo-mosque-bombing/

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

Nashville is loving booming as a town though. I’m glad I’m not living out there, but there’s lots of jobs and opportunities if you have the skills or education required. Plenty of work for those that have neither as well. Pretty booming service economy.

Not my cup of tea, though, it’s a neat place to say I’ve visited.

Internet Wizard posted:

CFL is better than NFL don’t at me

facialimpediment posted:

Bye Mike, it's too late, you're hosed.

https://twitter.com/hsu_spencer/status/1217257221899390976

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Rip and tear until it is socialism.