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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Before y'all see it:

https://twitter.com/mooncult/status/1212549854016106496

https://twitter.com/DanteAtkins/status/1212562811261530112

k as you were

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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
No wonder how they could gently caress with his sights to save lives.

https://twitter.com/mistermegative/status/1212424096895709184?s=19

(It's Eddie Gallagher)

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
The "Chief Culture Officer" escalates quickly.

https://twitter.com/GeorgiaKromrei/status/1212846344215433216

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
It's real estate day, apparently. Check the dining room, picture #2.

https://twitter.com/DanielNMiller/status/1212867036411392000

https://www.latimes.com/business/re...comes-to-market

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
I have a feeling that bagging Gen. Qassim Soleimani was a fuckup. They probably meant to drone strike the PMU guy or something, but not Soleimani.

Something stinks here. Donnie's still in Florida and there was zero poo poo about this coming anywhere. He didn't do this poo poo when Bolton was whispering sweet nothings in his ear for the better part of a year? It's just odd.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://twitter.com/ErinBanco/status/1212909195445624833

This is one of the very, very few times that I hope that I'm wrong and the administration knows what the gently caress they're doing. I've seen no evidence of that, though.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

bird food bathtub posted:

Pretty with you on the Soleimani being a little bit of an international "oopsie" but I don't give Trump any wiggle room on that. This is loving exactly the kind of poo poo that leads to an accidental escalation that anyone with two functional foreign policy brain cells has been screaming themselves hoarse about happening if piss baby keeps up his 'maximum pressure' jingoistic dick-waving. At this point he loving owns any accidents that happen.

Well regardless, it appears they're going with the "gently caress it, we did it and we'd do it again" route.

https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1212908227450552320

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Two recaps of basically where everything is:

https://twitter.com/ilangoldenberg/status/1212913079115272192

https://twitter.com/mkoplow/status/1212913809637158914

Risky as gently caress if done by a competent administration with multiple plans and options. With this administration? Oy.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Flying_Crab posted:

how big of an erection does John Bolton have right now?

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1212924762827046918

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1212929512721338370/photo/1

Gonna be fun.

FYI - Quds force got designated as a terrorist organization in April, so that will be the "justification."

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Jan 3, 2020

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Meshka posted:

Why? Suleimani is responsible for a lot of American deaths. Good kill.

https://twitter.com/ALTscoe/status/1212922028950466561

Go watch Hannity, they have your people on there that can't think one mental step past "bad man go boom".

https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1212930045641142274

Be happy that the dude got killed, but think a bit past that point.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Good call, Joe.

https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1212947945169018882

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

MRC48B posted:

Holy jesus christ this isn't true these days. There's a million ways they can gently caress with us, this isn't 2003.

Or 2016.

This basically makes it absolutely, ironclad sure that Iran develops nukes.

https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/1212948557482909696

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Immanentized posted:

Why are all these fucks on twitter?

I'll answer with a question.

Who exactly is the intended audience?

Hint: he's orange and really stupid

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Good call, Bernie.

https://twitter.com/attackerman/status/1212960753705259009/photo/1

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
My trouble is that I have a bit of a fascination with points of no return. I can't shake the feeling that it was the 2016 election, but it very much could've been 2003 (Iraq), or even 2000 (Bush v. Gore) and we're all just dealing with the side-effects.

What's starting to scare me more is that we might've just hit one leading to runaway nuclear proliferation, as this thing not only guarantees Iranian nukes, but North Korean nuclear advances too.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
LIBERATORS

https://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1213079294194442240?s=19

I SAID WE'RE LIBERATORS GODDAMNIT, WHY ARE YOU RUNNING AWAY

https://twitter.com/IraqiGovt/status/1213040120456253442?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1213124164653113344?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

LongDarkNight posted:

Any chance Iraq will tell us to pack up our poo poo an leave?

They're in the process of doing so in the Iraqi parliament right now. The bigger question is if we'll listen or not.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

a real dude posted:

Drone attacks seem a little pricey and scaredy cat like when we have heroes like Eddie Gallagher and his hatchet. I bet if you rounded up everybody with a punisher decal on their truck we could take down Iran in weekend.

https://twitter.com/AsherLangton/status/1213122262045483008?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

colachute posted:

https://twitter.com/ap/status/1213194124666511361?s=21

Preventing a war by smoking a high ranking official?

Yeah... ok.

This doesn't really show what's amazing about the statement.

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1213192042916003840?s=19

Look at how much he looks like a fat pile of poo poo.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
They forgot.

https://twitter.com/DevlinBarrett/status/1213211105130098689?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
This picture is like when Roddy Piper takes off the glasses.

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1213242734036889600?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Proud Christian Mom posted:

Anything Christian to the right of Presbyterians is batshit insane hth

I posted that picture because the imagery is hilarious with the angle, but it's also a good reminder that evangelicals are a political group, not a religious group. They just kinda don't realize it.

bulletsponge13 posted:

People are buying into W's playbook again.
People are Ok with this gently caress- who said he'd end the wars- expanding it because Iran finally had enough of our poo poo? Does everything happen in a loving vacuum now?

I'm actually not genuinely sure about everything here. It's very clear that they're *running* the W playbook, but I'm not really sure if anyone is buying. Like we know Donnie's sycophants are gobbling it up, we know the cable newsers and pundits are repeating it with minimal-to-medium pushback, but the public buying it is *very* unclear right now. The polling has been drastically in favor of *no* war with Iran and I don't think that's changed.

Wouldn't matter though, the administration's probable viewpoint is if Iran starts overtly killing troops and American civis, public perception will change. I kinda doubt that though, people are sick of Donnie's poo poo and sick of Middle East poo poo.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Schadenboner posted:

the "white evangelical protestant" is the tell?

Today's speech was at the King Jesus International Ministry, a Hispanic evangelical megachurch.

"Evangelical" is the tell.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
This long thread is absolutely everywhere, as it's basically the NYT's star ISIS reporter. Her and her team put together the massive "ISIS files" story a year and a half ago, all primary documents from inside the caliphate, so she really knows her poo poo.

Basically, Donnie got a menu of options, picked a moderate one, then the embassy protest happened. Donnie bigbrain didn't want his own Benghazi, so he flipped his choice to the extreme Suleimani option.

And here's how she ended the chain:

https://twitter.com/rcallimachi/status/1213436210238111744?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://twitter.com/jchaltiwanger/status/1213491446507950080?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1213550637910298631

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1213593975732527112

Donnie doesn't give a flying gently caress about any of this stuff. Like he gives a poo poo about the Iranian Hostage Crisis? Not the mention the threats on Iranian historical sites. So, I wonder who is in the Pentagon/Administration that is spearheading this thing.
Will be a pretty fascinating historical footnote.

Again, if we all live and can still read.

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Jan 5, 2020

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

A Bad Poster posted:

This administration is full of just the dumbest motherfuckers.

https://twitter.com/NickKristof/status/1213843845919756288?s=19

A massive pack of brain geniuses.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
The biggest, dumbest person talking to the biggest, dumbest people in the administration, talking to their biggest, dumbest supporters for the biggest, dumbest reasons.

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1213978867683209216

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1213980946749382656

Now he's threatening Iraq too. Great.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Justin Godscock posted:

This is seriously the Trump everyone was worried about in 2015 when it became clear he was a threat during the primaries and not a novelty candidate.

I've long since thought that the Trump presidency is the last gasp of the racist boomers (but I repeat myself), but tack on "fundie neocon" to the front of that, based on Pompeo being the driving force and Esper being an empty suit.

https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1213967546761785345

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://twitter.com/hshaban/status/1214014024431677440

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

hobbesmaster posted:

Nothing to worry about right

I almost posted that yesterday, but I have no idea who the dude is, nor if his connections/quotes are bullshit or not.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
what the gently caress

https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1214228209908277248?s=19

well that could be fun, if the Senate gets 50 to call him (iffy)

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
THE KING IS DEAD

LONG LIVE THE KING

https://youtu.be/YQssl0sM9As

https://twitter.com/ABC11_WTVD/status/1214215565654577154?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Finally. I hope his case gets lost in processing.

https://twitter.com/LAcrimes/status/1214254858351415296?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

EBB posted:

Command and Control is one of the most frightening texts I have ever read.

My personal favorite story in there is that silo life was so lovely that basically a solid 50%+ of the missile crews were high at any given time, including the MPs assigned to making sure that the crews weren't high at any given time.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
lol Soleimani won

Edit: nevermind I guess!

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Jan 6, 2020

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

drat, good reporters (Reuters, WaPo, WSJ) got suckered by it. Welp!

Edit: or maybe it's real!

https://twitter.com/Mustafa_salimb/status/1214276204712345601?s=19

This is one of the reasons why the fears of deepfakes are overblown - everything is fake, real, and untrustworthy already!

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Jan 6, 2020

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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

facialimpediment posted:

lol Soleimani won

Edit: nevermind I guess!

Nevermind my nevermind, it's real.

https://twitter.com/LizSly/status/1214278953629650944?s=19

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2020/01/military-tells-iraq-preparing-move-200106195552545.html?__twitter_impression=true

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-withdrawal/u-s-led-coalition-says-it-will-withdraw-from-iraq-letter-idUSKBN1Z520A

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