#101 2017-01-24 02:32:08
choad wrote:
I'm not convinced that's anywhere near accurate. A quick look at Trump's jumped up nobody appointments reveals a who's who of unstable personalities and promises one spectacular flameout after the next.
Oh, I know that, and I agree. Humor is just a coping mechanism to ride out the inevitable storm. Any way you look at it the ride ahead is rocky for as far as the eye can see. Hold on, let go and keep a sense of humor whenever possible.
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#102 2017-01-24 07:01:55
What everyone fails to realize is that Obama and Trump were a tag-team act; Obama brought Hope and Trump brings Change.
Hope-man brought us record levels of deportations and lobbyist benefaction while Change-boy is a gameshow host who apparently has determined the the change needed is the complete destruction of the dignity of the office.
I miss Hope-man already and am already tired of the inane "Nazi" comparisons.
Most importantly I'm renewing my efforts at local politics because that's where shit really matters.
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#103 2017-01-24 08:26:48
Smudge wrote:
You have, however, identified yourself as a member of the class who will deny any aspect of reality so long as it serves your political agenda.
What political agenda would that be? Despising Bush for the Iraq war...Abu Ghraib...turning America into a police state since 9/11? Fuck Barry Soweto as well. IRS targeting groups with differing views, race-baiting and NOT ONE GODDAMN BANKSTER IN JAIL! Barry was a fucking neocon...it isn't alt-right...it's an alt-universe.
Denying reality...seriously? Useful idiots (most recent example women march) really believe their own narrative and stopped worrying about the things that really matter like deficits, endless war, porous borders, Constitutional rights...oh, and most recently reported that $20k in regulatory cost burden for each worker in the U.S.
I didn't vote Trump BUT he has all the right enemies. Looking at many of those lined up against him makes me a fan. Barry might have been the "hope" but after 72 hrs at "the desk" it's looking like Trump will be the "change".
TODAY 11am: Trump signs executive order; White House schedule provide no details on what order may entail.
Place your bets bitchez
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#104 2017-01-24 08:56:11
JetRx wrote:
recently reported that $20k in regulatory cost burden for each worker in the U.S.
Regulatory costs? Like those speed limit signs, OSHA Inspectors and FBI budgets?
Smoke and Fucking mirrors, our regulatory costs are low and we have one of the most productive work forces in the world. Regulations are how you catch crooks, anti-regulation is effectively anti-enforcement and why the fuck do you hate our cops you unpatriotic bastard?
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#105 2017-01-24 10:42:41
JetRx wrote:
What political agenda would that be?
I have no idea, and at this point I don't care. I only know that you are willing to accept process errors so significant and fundamental that, for me, it negates the significance of anything else you might say or think.
I have nothing personal against you, and you might be, taken as a whole, a fine fellow. But your political thinking is infantile.
(Johnny_Rotten, I liked that article a lot; thanks for posting.)
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#106 2017-01-24 11:37:29
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#107 2017-01-24 20:37:04
Got this from a friend in Ohio. I guess they didn't all vote for Trump.
The 15 Warnings Signs of Impending Tyranny MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 2017 As tyrants take control of democracies, they typically:
1. Exaggerate their mandate to govern – claiming, for example, that they won an election by a landslide even after losing the popular vote.
2. Repeatedly claim massive voter fraud in the absence of any evidence, in order to restrict voting in subsequent elections.
3. Call anyone who opposes them “enemies.”
4. Turn the public against journalists or media outlets that criticize them, calling them “deceitful” and “scum.”
5. Hold few if any press conferences, preferring to communicate with the public directly through mass rallies and unfiltered statements.
6. Tell the public big lies, causing them to doubt the truth and to believe fictions that support the tyrants’ goals.
7. Blame economic stresses on immigrants or racial or religious minorities, and foment public bias and even violence against them.
8. Attribute acts of domestic violence to “enemies within,” and use such events as excuses to beef up internal security and limit civil liberties.
9. Threaten mass deportations, registries of religious minorities, and the banning of refugees.
10. Seek to eliminate or reduce the influence of competing centers of power, such as labor unions and opposition parties.
11. Appoint family members to high positions of authority
12. Surround themselves with their own personal security force rather than a security detail accountable to the public.
13. Put generals into top civilian posts
14. Make personal alliances with foreign dictators.
15. Draw no distinction between personal property and public property, profiteering from their public office.
Consider yourself warned.
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#108 2017-01-24 22:48:36
Raul Hilberg described this process in simple five steps, as practiced since humans turned hind legged.
Identify an evil group.
Confiscate their property and nullify their civil rights.
Demonize, ostracize and confine the group to physically isolated ghettos, out of public view.
Concentrate them in prisons and camps where they have no rights, can't vote or have children, and systematically exploit their labor.
Kill them, either by withholding food and medical care or by deliberate murder.
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#109 2017-01-25 11:44:33
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#110 2017-01-25 13:13:26
choad wrote:
Where's Rowdy Roddy Piper when you really need him? Oh yeah, dead.
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#111 2017-01-26 04:23:33
High-Street denizen outed!
But which of you has the double alias...Em...Smudge...?
Apologies, story sourced from one of those alt-right fake media sites.
Seems "trusted" MSM sources are still sitting on their pencils or working how to spin.
Kidding aside, good friends with parents of agent seated behind the Obamas.
Yes, she's from AK. No longer with the Service. Will be interesting to get that perspective.
BTW: Now making good $$ protecting highest paid female CEO as she circles the globe making arms deals. Murica.
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#112 2017-01-26 09:53:26
JetRx wrote:
But which of you has the double alias...Em...Smudge...?
I can't tell if you're suggesting that I'm playing games which involve creating a double identity, or if you're suggesting that someone else has done so and are challenging me to figure out who it is. Your writing is ambiguous, and could be read either way.
If it's the former, all I can say is "Damn, you caught me." and "Does my other identity post tons of pictures too, or is that simply part of my clever cover story?"
If it's the latter, I'd say "Don't know, and don't care."
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#113 2017-01-26 10:41:49
Until recently, I thought Smudge might be Dusty, but that was mostly because Dusty had been absent for a while, and because of a notion that they had similar sensibilities (or at least might have). It turns out I am not me, and he is not him.
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#114 2017-01-26 10:51:31
Not that I don't like a bit of mystery, but the truth is easily uncovered. Choad knows because he more or less invited me over from another forum where I was a regular, where choad occasionally posted and where we got to know each other over the course of the last couple of years.
Either that or I'm actually TWO women, at least one of whom is named Debbie.
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#115 2017-01-26 12:57:03
Smudge wrote:
Not that I don't like a bit of mystery, but the truth is easily uncovered. Choad knows because he more or less invited me over from another forum where I was a regular, where choad occasionally posted and where we got to know each other over the course of the last couple of years.
Either that or I'm actually TWO women, at least one of whom is named Debbie.
I'd fuck the prettier one. Sorry, Debbie (maybe)
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#116 2017-01-26 16:55:19
Baywolfe wrote:
I'd fuck the prettier one. Sorry, Debbie (maybe)
I'm all a tingle with anticipation.
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#117 2017-01-26 16:57:05
Fled wrote:
It turns out I am not me, and he is not him.
Nicely worded.
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#118 2017-01-26 19:15:39
Just tell me who the goddamn Walrus is, and then back away slowly.
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#119 2017-01-26 20:25:49
George Orr wrote:
Just tell me who the goddamn Walrus is, and then back away slowly.
From The National Lampoon's Radio Dinner Album 1972, Magical Misery Tour. Taken from interviews with John Lennon. He'll tell you who the walrus was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVDpPX37fkU
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#120 2017-01-27 18:53:13
#121 2017-01-27 19:45:07
Emmeran wrote:
Here it comes, the low hanging fruit is already being plucked, cya orange guy.
Stifle yourself goy. Trumpster has all but sworn fealty to the Ashkenazim and re-aligned U.S. foreign policy to suit Israhell.
Kryptonite will have little if any effect now. 
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#122 2017-01-28 10:16:51
I'm so relieved to learn that this was fake...
http://www.snopes.com/trump-turkey-pardons-reversed/
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#123 2017-01-30 01:34:31
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#126 2017-02-02 11:48:47
Violent protests at free-speech bastion UC Berkeley are being blamed on "external agitators" so the university police forces don't have to deal with them.
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#127 2017-02-02 12:49:05
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Violent protests at free-speech bastion UC Berkeley are being blamed on "external agitators" so the university police forces don't have to deal with them.
Several injuries have been reported and at least four banks have been vandalized after demonstrators marched away from the scene of a violent protest at the canceled speaking event by controversial far-right writer and speaker Yiannopoulos on the University of California at Berkeley campus.
If those are college students, then they deserve to be shot by the Ohio National Guard.
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#128 2017-02-02 13:01:00
Idiots are simply empowering Trump.
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#129 2017-02-02 15:56:23
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Violent protests at free-speech bastion UC Berkeley are being blamed on "external agitators" so the university police forces don't have to deal with them.
Irony
1964: Berkeley students march to demand free speech.
2017: Berkeley students riot to deny free speech.
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#130 2017-02-02 17:35:26
JetRx wrote:
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Violent protests at free-speech bastion UC Berkeley are being blamed on "external agitators" so the university police forces don't have to deal with them.
Irony
1964: Berkeley students march to demand free speech.
2017: Berkeley students riot to deny free speech.
Look - don't you understand it's not acceptable to say things people disagree with?
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#131 2017-02-02 23:16:11
There is usually a better way to deal with a flaming queen attention whore.
https://youtu.be/-ukFAvYP3UU
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#132 2017-02-03 06:52:49
#133 2017-02-03 16:20:35
Finally, America truly is first. Everyone can agree on that. So rare to have such consensus in this day and age.
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#134 2017-02-04 14:25:16
#135 2017-02-04 14:41:32
Fantastic article and pictures, choad.
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#136 2017-02-05 18:25:36
choad wrote:
I have been in the presence of the Gatchina Palace Egg and the Red Cross Egg, along with other examples of Faberge's work. They are beautiful, so intricate you could look at them for literally hours.
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#137 2017-02-06 19:47:04
How many strumpets does it take to screw in a light bulb?
~ click ~
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#138 2017-02-07 11:44:34
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#140 2017-02-08 07:47:20
R.I.P. Professor
Academy Award Senator
There may be hope after all.
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#141 2017-02-08 20:36:55
#142 2017-02-09 12:00:54
My wife asked me if they were like The Onion. I said, "Maybe, but not on purpose."
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#143 2017-02-09 16:06:12
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#144 2017-02-09 16:46:06
Baywolfe wrote:
My wife asked me if they were like The Onion. I said, "Maybe, but not on purpose."
Goddammit! I resemble that remark!
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#145 2017-02-10 10:51:29
It's not bias if it's true. Unfortunately, President Trump is not a fascist, he's an oligarch. The vermin he brought with him into the White House are the fascists.
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#146 2017-02-10 11:36:58
Baywolfe wrote:
President Trump is not a fascist, he's an oligarch. The vermin he brought with him into the White House are the fascists.
I think your comment is accurate. But when we say "Trump", we pretty much mean the whole administration for which he is responsible, even if it's not actually his individual position.
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#147 2017-02-10 12:15:29
It's interesting though that many of his appointments are distinctly NOT career politicians and are unlikely to stay in those roles for more than a few years. In many ways he truly is "draining the swamp", I don't approve of his methods but that swamp is long over due for a good draining...
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#148 2017-02-10 12:37:16
That sentiment is understandable, to see something other than career politicians carrying on business as usual.
But you are delusional if you think what is happening is draining the swamp. This is giving it away on a stick. You don't put an oligarchy with endemic cronyism and nepotism in charge to drain anything short of a gilded 14 caret marbelized tub stopper at the top of your Manhattan tower.
Unless you'd really like to emulate a Russian oligarchy. In that case it doesn't matter to even bother making promises to the people that the trains will run on time.
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#149 2017-02-10 12:52:41
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
That sentiment is understandable, to see something other than career politicians carrying on business as usual.
But you are delusional if you think what is happening is draining the swamp. This is giving it away on a stick. You don't put an oligarchy with endemic cronyism and nepotism in charge to drain anything short of a gilded 14 caret marbelized tub stopper at the top of your Manhattan tower.
Unless you'd really like to emulate a Russian oligarchy. In that case it doesn't even matter to even bother promises to the people that the trains will run on time.
My sentiments exactly, JR.
"Change for change sake", and "It can't get any worse than it already is." are the slogans of someone who hasn't lived much, or at least hasn't learned much yet.
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#150 2017-02-10 14:10:43
Emmeran wrote:
It's interesting though that many of his appointments are distinctly NOT career politicians and are unlikely to stay in those roles for more than a few years. In many ways he truly is "draining the swamp", I don't approve of his methods but that swamp is long over due for a good draining...
Said every German in 1939...
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