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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Here's another entry into a weird car wreck. Saw this in the morning and figured it was a Donnie true believer wrecking the Colorado Supreme Court, but nope!

https://www.denverpost.com/2024/01/02/colorado-supreme-court-breakin-denver-police/

Looks like a dude wrecked in the neighborhood, then threatened the other wrecked car with a gun. Then he went into a nearby building, which just so happened to be the supreme court building, held up a guard for the keys, then went in and hosed poo poo up for some reason. Even shot out the window at the cops! ... Then surrendered. A weird one.

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Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


facialimpediment posted:

Here's another entry into a weird car wreck. Saw this in the morning and figured it was a Donnie true believer wrecking the Colorado Supreme Court, but nope!

https://www.denverpost.com/2024/01/02/colorado-supreme-court-breakin-denver-police/

Looks like a dude wrecked in the neighborhood, then threatened the other wrecked car with a gun. Then he went into a nearby building, which just so happened to be the supreme court building, held up a guard for the keys, then went in and hosed poo poo up for some reason. Even shot out the window at the cops! ... Then surrendered. A weird one.

Sometimes you need to go on a harmless shooting spree.

:justamericanthings:

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
Happily ever after, in America

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

facialimpediment posted:

Here's another entry into a weird car wreck. Saw this in the morning and figured it was a Donnie true believer wrecking the Colorado Supreme Court, but nope!

https://www.denverpost.com/2024/01/02/colorado-supreme-court-breakin-denver-police/

Looks like a dude wrecked in the neighborhood, then threatened the other wrecked car with a gun. Then he went into a nearby building, which just so happened to be the supreme court building, held up a guard for the keys, then went in and hosed poo poo up for some reason. Even shot out the window at the cops! ... Then surrendered. A weird one.

Who amongst us hasn't...

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

https://x.com/AP/status/1742539757500956896?s=20

Surely this will calm things down on a regional basis. This won’t be a problem at all.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Oh boy let's roll the "Who wants to gently caress everything up and destabilize it all enough to do this?" dice. There's a lot of contenders!

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


bird food bathtub posted:

Oh boy let's roll the "Who wants to gently caress everything up and destabilize it all enough to do this?" dice. There's a lot of contenders!

Israel.

My guess.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
The last time there was a big attack like this in Iran, it was ISIS, the group with the power to unite several competing factions from around the world to hate them. No idea who did this one, but it's not like Iran has only one enemy.

Soul Dentist
Mar 17, 2009
What is this, an election year?!

Hannibal Rex
Feb 13, 2010

bird food bathtub posted:

Oh boy let's roll the "Who wants to gently caress everything up and destabilize it all enough to do this?" dice. There's a lot of contenders!

Somehow John McCain returned

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

Hannibal Rex posted:

Somehow John McCain returned

You get runner up for folks coming back from the (almost) dead to offer terrible takes on Iran:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/28/the-west-may-now-have-no-option-but-to-attack-iran/

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Bolton needs to lead the charge into Iran.

Coasterphreak
May 29, 2007
I like cookies.

Crab Dad posted:

Bolton needs to lead the charge into Iran.

preferably wearing day-glo while screaming "you'll never take me alive!"

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Crab Dad posted:

Bolton needs to lead the charge into Iran.

I swear this walrus-in-a-suit spent his entire, comically brief, time in the Trump administration stroking a half-chub about the idea of going to war with Iran.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

pantslesswithwolves posted:

https://x.com/AP/status/1742539757500956896?s=20

Surely this will calm things down on a regional basis. This won’t be a problem at all.

Definitely avoid Ukraine Air flights over Iran for a while

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Feels like it could be a Moscow apartment bombing situation, Khameini stepped in it big time the other day by flirting with calling himself a prophet, plus elections are coming up.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202401029230

this is a saudi propaganda channel that broadcasts into iran but it's influential there

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
A follow-up to some days ago - the DEA is finally confirming that they're doing their part of The Weed Review

https://twitter.com/natsfert/status/1742624205521265141?t=SGhYXXXwC9dyOni_vYODfw&s=19

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!



Brown Moses posted:

Caro just got awarded $50 million, like a real life Spawny Get
https://x.com/MansourOmari/status/1742634380437188712

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
This is about the best outcome, I guess. I hope he spends money on therapy.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

2024 is off to a hell of a start.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
Oh hell yeah we're gonna make the news again

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


What is the holy gently caress. Man I hope he has good people caring for him.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

Crab Dad posted:

What is the holy gently caress. Man I hope he has good people caring for him.

I'm going to assume (hope) that whatever state department psychologist interviewed him after his release picked up on the laundry list of red flags.

Baconroll
Feb 6, 2009
Theres suggestions the US and UK are getting closer to joint airstrikes strike on Yemen due to the increased attacks on shipping.

Theres a hell of a lot of coastline to hold those small boats though !

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Baconroll posted:

Theres suggestions the US and UK are getting closer to joint airstrikes strike on Yemen due to the increased attacks on shipping.

Theres a hell of a lot of coastline to hold those small boats though !

Just hit the leadership sending those men to their deaths. loving stupid.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007




Good for him! He may actually see the money since it'll be paid out of withheld funds and I hope he has family and other people helping him to assemble a good care team and getting the money set up to last him the rest of his life.

Borscht
Jun 4, 2011

psydude posted:

I'm going to assume (hope) that whatever state department psychologist interviewed him after his release picked up on the laundry list of red flags.

“That’s fascinating… would you mind elaborating on the difference between an av, a red text, and a sig?”

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Midjack posted:

Good for him! He may actually see the money since it'll be paid out of withheld funds and I hope he has family and other people helping him to assemble a good care team and getting the money set up to last him the rest of his life.

At the very least, he's gonna be able to buy plat for all of his parachute accounts after they keep getting banned!

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



Midjack posted:

Good for him! He may actually see the money since it'll be paid out of withheld funds and I hope he has family and other people helping him to assemble a good care team and getting the money set up to last him the rest of his life.

He'll 100% see the money because his lawyers want their cut (prob $20m).

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





1m for therapy
20m to set up an insanely sick fistfight with cmdr_shep

lightpole
Jun 4, 2004
I think that MBAs are useful, in case you are looking for an answer to the question of "Is lightpole a total fucking idiot".

Baconroll posted:

Theres suggestions the US and UK are getting closer to joint airstrikes strike on Yemen due to the increased attacks on shipping.

Theres a hell of a lot of coastline to hold those small boats though !

Small boats are a small portion of this, they have anti ship missiles that are doing the heavy lifting.

Suicide Watch
Sep 8, 2009
I hope this means SA gets a trust fund and will be set for perpetuity
That will be the dead gay comedy option

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

facialimpediment posted:

A follow-up to some days ago - the DEA is finally confirming that they're doing their part of The Weed Review

https://twitter.com/natsfert/status/1742624205521265141?t=SGhYXXXwC9dyOni_vYODfw&s=19

These folks follow orders from Biden, right? So this response means the administration is not making marijuana scheduling a priority?

Tell these people to get on board or find a new job, this isn't difficult.
https://www.dea.gov/about/dea-leadership

e: Had not heard of Milgram before. The 10 year gap in her resume on her official page? She was helping design pretrial detention advisory tools that later turned out to be extremely racist, then spent some time defending white collar criminals. Then she got appointed to head of DEA.

AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Jan 3, 2024

Grip it and rip it
Apr 28, 2020

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

These folks follow orders from Biden, right? So this response means the administration is not making marijuana scheduling a priority?

Tell these people to get on board or find a new job, this isn't difficult.
https://www.dea.gov/about/dea-leadership

e: Had not heard of Milgram before. The 10 year gap in her resume on her official page? She was helping design pretrial detention advisory tools that later turned out to be extremely racist, then spent some time defending white collar criminals. Then she got appointed to head of DEA.

It says that they're in the process of making a decision and they don't want to tip their hand either way about what they're thinking. Either you piss of the President, HHS, a large bipartisan segment of the American public, and Public Policy wonks, or you piss off Federal Law Enforcement, Many state law enforcement agencies, and a bunch of crusty old shitheads who love Prohibition. Either way for an organization like the DEA its going to be a painful transaction.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

That honestly seems like hand-waving. Descheduling marijuana is extremely popular, and legally is there anything preventing Biden from forcing the changes through or ordering the people running DEA to do so under threat of dismissal? If the senate wants to prevent an appointment based on keeping weed illegal, let them at it during an election year.

e: Same goes for courts. Undoing federal legalization should be great for their popular legitimacy.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Crab Dad posted:

Israel.

My guess.

Not exactly Israel's usual tactic.

Tiny Timbs posted:

How do the chuds rationalize Trump’s visits to child rape island?

Unless new evidence has come to light, Trump didn't go there.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
Louis DeJoy is still Postmaster General.

Milgram’s job is secure.

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT
It's only racists who don't want rescheduling prove me wrong.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

legally is there anything preventing Biden from forcing the changes through or ordering the people running DEA to do so under threat of dismissal?

I believe the answer is "it depends", like most dumb legal poo poo.

Donnie really, really liked to do things this way, by declaring what to do with government regulations, telling his appointees what to do, then they'd do it. Then it would be reversed by the courts due to Administrative Procedure Act violations. A lot like the Census's citizenship question that was pushed through, then killed by the courts because Donnie and his fuckers skipped steps.

So foot-dragging is a component, as is an unwillingness to use federal executive power. But, another component is doing things the "correct" way according to usual procedure so the rescheduling wouldn't get overturned. I tend to think it's more foot-dragging though!

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Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011


Comrade Blyatlov posted:

1m for therapy
20m to set up an insanely sick fistfight with cmdr_shep

$2k for another run of Operation Useless Dirt shirts

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