January Current Events: 50 is my favorite caliber AND my BMI

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Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Iran's been doing poo poo for years against the US but mostly contained to the Middle East and proxy wars, this is the sort of thing that gets the IRGC and Hezbollah going after stuff like American tourists and diplomats. I'd avoid going abroad for a while.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2020 04:38

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 00:27

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

BigDave posted:

Oh hey that's not suggestively facist.

Lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2020 01:03

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Loden Taylor posted:

If they open up Space Force to recruitment, I'm imagining an ad where a SPACE CADET with a lightsaber fights a SPACE DRAGON in SPACE.

smash cut to a dude staring at a computer in a poorly air conditioned shed at Vandenberg AFB

Ads unironically targeting those Star Wars Stormtrooper cosplayers.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2020 23:39

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Having trouble not reading those texts in the Borat voice.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2020 03:09

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Casually ignoring the fact that the Secretary of State had an underling print off a blank map to interrogate her with in response to asking a question about an ongoing news story.

Pompeo is reportedly interested in running in the Republican Presidential Primary in 2024 and I would pay good money for that sort of entertainment.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2020 17:48

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

bird food bathtub posted:

Mideast peace plan is out. If you take the propaganda seriously and don't just assume they're puking it up for a media distraction, it took them three years to come up with "Two states, four year hold on new settlements, everything in place is totes legal" and then some poo poo about "east Jerusalem" that I still haven't figured out.

The East Jerusalem thing seems to be:

- gently caress you undivided Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, forever and ever, period
- Current border walls in Jerusalem stay up, which leaves the outer suburbs of Kafr 'Aqab and Shu'afat under Palestinian control
- But Jerusalem must be 'undivided', so those Palestinian suburbs can't call themselves 'East Jerusalem' or whatever, come up with some other name like 'Al Quds' or some poo poo
- Palestine gets to be a junior member of the Jerusalem/Not-Jerusalem Tourism Board, with Israel getting to decide where to invest tourist revenue and the Palestinians negotiating for tour guide licenses in the Old City

But hey, if the Palestinians agree to all this they get to operate a resort (on Israeli land) on the Dead Sea! Art of the Deal!

quote:

Section Thirteen
DEAD SEA RESORT AREA
The State of Israel will allow the State of Palestine to develop a resort area in the North of the Dead Sea without prejudice to the State of Israel�s sovereignty at such location, including, without limitation, Israel�s sovereignty to the shoreline. The presence of the Palestinian resort area along the coast of the Dead Sea will not alter the distribution arrangements between the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the State of Israel for natural resources in the Dead Sea. The State of Israel and the State of Palestine will establish a road that will allow the Palestinians to travel from the State of Palestine to this resort area, subject to Israeli security considerations.

There's even stupid little poison pills like forbidding any involvement in the negotiations (let alone Palestinian government) of members of Hamas or PIJ, and the immediate cessation of Palestinian payments to family members of prisoners and martyrs. Just complete garbage front to back, even comparing it to a Native American Reservation is giving it too much credit.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2020 02:08

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Lake of Methane posted:

So what is the deal there? Why is the Chief Justice presiding over anything if the Senate gets to make the rules of how things will be run?

Or would this be a completely different story if Roberts weren't the same party as the majority?

Article 1, Section 3 posted:

The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.

Founders didn't have a lot to say on the Supreme Court so they probably thought 'yeah sure, Chief Justice presides, sounds legit.'

Terrifying Effigies fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Jan 31, 2020

# ¿ Jan 31, 2020 03:19

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Here's something to make up for today's poo poo sandwich:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSiDu3Ywi8E

# ¿ Jan 31, 2020 23:59

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 00:27

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Nick Soapdish posted:

https://twitter.com/GettyImagesNews/status/1223344677568634880

I, a 2d amendment advocate, sure enjoy cosplaying in a look of a Russian-backed Ukrainian separatist

https://twitter.com/Joe_Gerth/status/1223278777045856257

# ¿ Feb 1, 2020 04:57

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