July 2022 Current Events: F*ck You I Won't Do What You Tell Me

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Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

facialimpediment posted:

Update: it wasn't enough to just have a Magic Bullet

https://twitter.com/JoeHoldenCBS3/status/1544166990734139392?t=4S8cqx1IxuzuJnVthoBkCA&s=19

One of the few times I've enjoyed the Twitter replies

This one had me rolling:

https://twitter.com/xangoh/status/1544335374222299136

# ¿ Jul 5, 2022 18:34

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 01:18

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

shame on an IGA posted:

BoJo will be fine, no one in the UK has a response for demands to resign being met with "lol piss off"

Here's how it's been explained to me.

The Tories have a "1922 Committee" that's there to represent the rank-and-file MPs ("backbenchers", who are members of the House of Commons but don't have specific executive positions in Johnson's administration) to the Prime Minister. They make the rules over when a party leader can be subjected to a Vote of Confidence by the membership and a new party leader elected, who would become the new Prime Minister.

Currently the Conservative party rules under the 1922 Committee state that if they hold a VoC and the party leader makes it through, they can't hold another one for a year. BoJo just survived a Vote of Confidence a short time ago, but with 59% - a result that would ordinarily make a party leader resign in shame anyway. (BoJo has no shame, though.)

Now, the 1922 Committee could change that rule so that he could be subjected to another Vote of Confidence, but the current head of the committee said that he's not going to do that. So that's that, right?

Well, no. The current committee's tenure is up and there will be a new one seated Monday. It's entirely possible, maybe even likely, that the incoming 1922 Committee will go ahead and change the rule so that they can throw Johnson out on his rear end.

This whole thing has been hugely entertaining to me.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2022 22:33

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

maffew buildings posted:

England is loving stupid

Not disagreeing with you but I'm not sure we USians ought to be throwing that particular stone from our decidedly glassy house.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2022 22:36

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Grip it and rip it posted:

The homemade shotgun disgused as a camera makes me think it's gonna be for something weird

Yeah, this is a pipegun. Possibly piezoelectric firing mechanism, from the wires. What the hell?

https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1545263545973178369

EDIT: Enough smoke in the video that homemade rounds makes sense too. Just all around weird.

Lemniscate Blue fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Jul 8, 2022

# ¿ Jul 8, 2022 06:15

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Carteret posted:

hey guys did you hear about abe

Nothing, what's abe with you?

# ¿ Jul 8, 2022 07:49

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

shame on an IGA posted:

full res here, note this is a 30MB png

https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01G79R28V7S4AXDN8NG5QCPGE3.png

It's Murcheson's Eye! Watch out for Moties.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2022 16:55

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

facialimpediment posted:

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1546955197045415936?t=iFQalTsYQM_srTWPEUNxLw&s=19

YOU'RE NOT HELPING, JOHN

I really wish his moustache would crawl up his nose and start growing into his brain. That'd be nice.

EDIT: Oh hey:

https://twitter.com/TweetMsw/status/1546958583081963522

# ¿ Jul 12, 2022 23:45

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Crab Dad posted:

Chill guys FOX news is actually entertainment and not to be construed for real journalism.

After all, it's not like there's a history there or anything.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2022 01:30

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

maffew buildings posted:

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/unitedhealth-group-posts-51b-profit-q2-boosts-guidance-it-eyes-continued-2022-growth

Can't even imagine how proud all their front line workers feel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7gnpmOWBKo

# ¿ Jul 15, 2022 18:23

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

CainFortea posted:

Did that one guy ever tell all the crazy Medieval Times stories? I saw the dramatis personae today but that was it!

I didn't ever get back to it, no. I'll have to write up some more stuff. There's actually a union-related story but it was before my time so it's secondhand.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2022 00:37

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

As long as we're playing miserable weather poker:

North Texas.

EDIT: Nearly everyone here has A/C though.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2022 23:58

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Platystemon posted:

You�re about maxed out on temperature, but I have faith that you can get more humidity.

Don't you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby!

# ¿ Jul 19, 2022 00:03

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 01:18

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

VSOKUL girl posted:

would she realistically get primaried? ousted by a republican in the general seems far more likely

i do not know what bizarro world has the democratic party not quash any attempt to primary a sitting senator in a battleground state, but we're sure as hell not in it. she's getting successfully primaried about as Manchin has since 2010

i mean, i guess they did sorta tacitly approve de Leon's challenge to Feinstein, but they probably had decent confidence in the eventual outcome and it's not like California is going to have a Republican senator anytime soon

Arizona Democrats absolutely despise Sinema. They'd vote for a literal cartoon supervillain over her in the primary. She's poisoned her own well that badly.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2022 02:37

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