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Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

We need a leopard eating a face smiley.

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Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Honestly surprised they didn't scrap it as soon as Trump broke the deal.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

mlmp08 posted:

An eviction notice is a participation trophy.

It’s a way of saying the goal is not for all to thrive, but being a part of the economy is good enough!

You're reading way too much into this.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

https://twitter.com/TepidButterASMR/status/1333862799207002114
(read the whole drat thread)

This is your democracy, America. Cherish it.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Every drat thing is projection.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

And Ted Cruz said that after Biden wins, nobody will talk about the virus any more.
And none of this matters because we're in a post-factual society.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May
Trump's attempt to take troops out of Germany was bad and dumb but this is definitely a step in the right direction.

https://www.stripes.com/news/africa/trump-orders-the-withdrawal-of-the-majority-of-us-troops-in-somalia-1.654243

Unfortunately, it's probably going to be the only step.
Somalia is a policy failure and money pit and an incredible object lesson in "sunk cost fallacy." We really should recognize Somaliland and just leave Mogadishu to re-collapse.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May
https://twitter.com/tasty_gigabyte7/status/1335341017051004928

So how does a guy like this not get shot?

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Midjack posted:

He’s an old white man who voted Republican, OP. :angel:

I meant by the armed antifascists who were there.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

MazelTovCocktail posted:

I have to admit it’s kind of weird, not that I want this to happen, there hasn’t been a large scale shooting incident akin to a pitched battle somewhere. I guess most people don’t want to go to jail for the rest of their life potentially?

I don't want it to happen either, but...
The chuds have been showing up armed to protest or counter-protest for years with the purpose of intimidating the opposition. It's been an axiom to them that liberals are afraid of guns and will never offer any armed resistance to them.
So it's unfortunately necessary for antifa to start arming themselves to protect the rights of liberals and leftists to protest, since the cops sure as poo poo won't.

So picture yourself doing that job. You're carrying at an antifa event, chuds show up to try and bully the protesters away. Some dumbfuck draws and starts aiming at unarmed protesters. What do you do?

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Internet Wizard posted:

Yeah don’t forget how the Marshals executed the guy who defended himself in Portland, and the way the security guard in Denver got thrown under the bus immediately by his employers for defending himself.

So is there any point to the left arming up?

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

ded posted:

Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre

If you think it can't or won't happen again you are out of your mind.

Uh... they got massacred by the chuds and the events were suppressed to the point where most people have only learned about it in the last decade. That example is more supporting this take:

Zamujasa posted:

This is my completely lovely take, but I'm going to assume that the majority of the antifa crowd is not armed, and that starting gun warfare would probably end very badly for them.

But also this:


The instant someone on the wrong side opens fire, the cops are going to go open season. They've already had plenty of chances to use :airquote: less lethal :airquote: methods, I'm sure the facist pigs are more than eager to upgrade to real weapons.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Woofer posted:

Dehumanize chuds and Nazis

gently caress those people.

Yeah, we're talking about people who are literally going on armed marches to overthrow a democratic election and substitute a fascist demagogue.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Sacrist65 posted:

Point: this disease is a really lovely way to die and we really shouldnt wish that on anyone


Do rich and well connected people even die of this any more?

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Discussion Quorum posted:

This roughly parallels a realization I had a little while back. The resistance movements of WW2 were able to accomplish a lot through blending in and/or being able to hide out in relatively remote places with the help of a generally supportive population.

Can you imagine having do that today? You'd have FLIR-equipped Predators hunting for you 24/7, everything about you and who you talk to is in a database that is protected only by a thin veneer of rights that a fascist government could easily strip away, and good luck leaving no electronic traces without withdrawing from society entirely.

If it got to this point I'd be long gone.
I'm more concerned about modern day Klan rides with coal rolling flag pickups.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

For reference, Greg Abbott uses a wheelchair.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Follow-up, dude let a round fly, grazed an antifa, is in jail on 1st degree assault.
https://twitter.com/FPhoenix161/status/1335407695516430336

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Woofer posted:

She’s got my vote and when she inevitably has legal fees to pay she’s got my donation.

I'd, uh, wait on that one.

https://news.wjct.org/post/criminal-stalking-case-against-fired-fla-health-data-scientist-drag-august

quote:

A misdemeanor criminal stalking case against the self-described whistleblower at the center of a politically charged dispute over Florida’s COVID-19 disclosures will continue into August, a circuit judge in Tallahassee ruled Wednesday.

Rebekah Jones, 30, was charged in July 2019 with stalking a former boyfriend – long before the pandemic that catapulted her into headlines and television interviews. Police said she published a 68-page document online discussing private details of her relationship with her former boyfriend, including explicit texts and nude photographs, and shared the link with him.

The two had sex in a classroom in 2017 when Jones was his married professor at Florida State University, the man told police. She was fired from the university after threatening to give a failing grade to his roommate as revenge, he said. Jones said the two had a six-month affair until October 2017, and the man is the father of her daughter born in July 2018.

According to police, Jones wrote in emails to the man, “You’re going to be famous. We’re going to destroy each other. This is never going to end.”Jones was separately also charged with sexual cyber-harassment and cyber-stalking in the same incident, but prosecutors dropped those charges weeks later.

Jones was also previously charged in March 2018 with felony robbery, trespass and contempt of court for violating a domestic violence injunction in cases involving the same ex-boyfriend, but prosecutors also dropped those charges. She was separately accused of kicking the door of the man’s SUV in October 2017, but prosecutors also dropped that case.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

That Works posted:

She was interviewed on NPR mid-summer or so about the time that covid started to spike in FL. Initially FL didn't do as bad as NY, WA and LA had but once it started picking up across the south FL went up fast. DeSantis initially made a lot of metrics for shutting things down etc but then when it looked like they were going to blow right past them the state basically went to the FL DoH and was pressuring them to change the numbers or call a lot of different ones ambiguous. She (according to her interview on NPR) eventually got told point blank to change some of the numbers because an independent auditing group (presumably hired by the FL state gov) was telling the DoH that they were overcounting. Magically each county that was close to getting shutdown had their numbers go lower once they stepped in.

She got fired pretty abruptly after refusing to change stuff and then set up an independent portal based on data from her individual contacts in counties etc.

Yeah, it looks like she did good work there but I'm not going to automatically believe her if she says she wasn't illegally accessing government servers.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

The legal theory is that Ken Paxton is a felon and wants Trump to pardon him.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Milo and POTUS posted:

Surprising at all that reagan would give a poo poo about the grid

:golfclap:

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

nwin posted:

So are we going to be listening to this poo poo until Inauguration Day or will it die off after the electoral college votes?

We're going to be hearing this until trump's 2025 inauguration at least.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

facialimpediment posted:

Yeah that's the key here. Alito and Thomas were like "Yeah, we think we have to hear this, as we said in the past. Then we'd immediately deny it so gently caress off anyways."

Might as well be 9-0.

https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1337544673934667779

Is there a one-stop site for the list and details of Trump's court challenges? I wanted to tally up the judges ruling against him by president.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Pine Cone Jones posted:

It is still entirely baffling to me that a latino dude was allowed in a white power organization, it wasn't that long ago that italians and irish weren't considered white enough for some of these groups. I know logic isn't their strong point.

The claim to not be white supremacist, but "western civilization supremacist" or whatever. So they allow a few token "good ones" in who support them to prove it.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Nick Soapdish posted:

https://twitter.com/KaSpad/status/1337787059889565697?s=20

https://twitter.com/KaSpad/status/1337787080391290881?s=20

Why do national papers pay opinion writers for garbage columns like this? Cool that he spends the majority of the article on honorary degrees which Dr Biden does not have

The WSJ editorial page has always been the absolute rock bottom worst.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May
Hope this knocks him out for AG.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Best Friends posted:

Rahm and Biden are ideologically close and they worked together for years, and liberals who are both rich and not black (so the liberals who make the decisions) like him still, so I'll be pleasantly surprised if Rahm doesn't end up in the admin. Ditto Cuomo. I think the Cuomo accusations are going to be a good test on if Me too is on ideological hiatus or not.

The NAACP and AFL-CIO both hate Rahm and they're old influential liberal orgs so I wouldn't be so sure.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May
Continuing to have a normal healthy democracy here
https://twitter.com/RepHertel/status/1338250529365954560

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

pantslesswithwolves posted:

Pro-tip: if you know you need to get a bunch of vaccines or boosters, try to spread them out over a couple of appointments. I had to get five in one sitting before my first trip to Sub-Saharan Africa and I felt like someone had repeatedly walloped my arm with a 2x4 while also feeling slightly hungover for a few days. F- would not recommend.

Before I deployed to Africa, I got a nicely spaced set of shots which didn't make it into my records. So they gave me three at once. Literally, two into one arm and one in the other. Went to the gym afterwards and both arms got the worst muscle cramps imaginable.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Mr. Nice! posted:

It's funny more than anything that Trump fired him a month before he was out of a job anyways.

Is Barr going to try to pretend that he left on principle and get back into respectable circles?

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

facialimpediment posted:

CURSE THIS drat MONKEY'S PAW

https://twitter.com/tylerpager/status/1338974481080086530?s=19

(she was fine as governor, but she's a politician damnit)

Edit: a politician with ties to the auto industry when Biden wants to go very, very green/electric! Makes more sense that way. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/15/biden-to-tap-former-michigan-gov-granholm-to-lead-energy-department-445782

This is the first appointment I've been actually upset about. Biden should really know better.
As far as Buttigieg goes,

Acebuckeye13 posted:

hahahaha, eat poo poo rahm

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Soylent Pudding posted:

We really should rename the Department of Energy to the Department of Thermonuclear Weaponry so people stop getting confused about what it actually does.

It used to be the nuclear regulatory commission.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Yes and remember until the progressives stood their ground and fought, the direct payments weren't anywhere in the negotiations.

AND we lost the get out of jail free cards for businesses who force workers in unsafe conditions.

It's not everything we could want, but it's still a victory.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

MazelTovCocktail posted:

Didn’t Pelosi turn down a far better offer back in September or am I misremembering things?

As far as I know, this is the first time they've dropped the corporate liability waiver. IIRC, it was Pelosi's firm red line.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

PookBear posted:



we're going to have an anti-president

Please tell me this is fake.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May
It looks inspired by this Salon column: https://www.salon.com/2020/12/15/ready-for-donald-trumps-shadow-presidency-because-thats-where-all-this-is-heading/

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May
https://twitter.com/SpaceForceDoD/status/1340054052894326785

SPACE PROFESSIONALS

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Platystemon posted:

I found this anecdote while looking looking for the other.

If she expected "the help" to defrost the car before she got in, why would she be walking into an AutoZone herself?

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

MazelTovCocktail posted:

That’s true, I only mentioned YT drama as (oh god the stupid poo poo I’ve seen) one of the more prominent examples.

Switching gears....Barr just hosed over Trump. He’s still a criminal piece of poo poo...but man this is funny.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...a025_story.html

The bloated fascist enabler is probably trying to get back into respectable circles again after this is over.

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Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May
https://twitter.com/LauraJedeed/status/1341066489252651008

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