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Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

BIG GOVERNMENT BAD! SOCIALIST! Starve the beast *accepts federal aid to the tune of a couple billion* bad government, taxes too much! BOOT STRAPS!

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Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Duke Chin posted:

"Myself and my colleagues will vote for your aid package when you finally show the country your true reptilian skin and you can definitively prove you're not the Zodiac Killer." - Sen Schumer D-NY

Texas gets Aid and we finally solve the mystery of the Zodiac Killer[Ted Cruz]

Win win.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Mr. Nice! posted:


There was zero justification for the attempted draw other than to try to mitigate fault for critically injuring him in the first place.

Wait, what's the point in that? I thought if police chased a suspect any stupid poo poo that happened became added to the suspect not the authorities?

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

M_Gargantua posted:

liberals did it

and the Deep State. Don't forget them.

edit:

"An Idiot" posted:

"Folks, the hurricane doesn’t even need to strike land. The hurricane doesn’t even need to hit in order to for the agenda to be advanced. All they have to do is create the panic and then show you that graphic of this giant red blob that, “Oh, my God, is gonna eat the country, you see this thing, is horrible, Mabel, look at how big…” And they create the fear and panic after they’ve already told everybody climate change is responsible for these bigger and more frequent storms." -

Also went on a big thing about how people are stupid for buying bottled water instead of getting storage containers and filling it from the tap. Which is kind of fair.

Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Sep 6, 2017

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

GoGoGadget posted:

But racism does not exist! It's just the mainstream media trying to tear us apart to take our guns!

Government bad when does Taxes and Takes guns and wont let me do what I want, except when government police do anything to that seemingly keeps whitey on top.

:thunk:

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

NUKES CURE NORKS posted:

actually slavery was invented in africa by black people

-an actual thing people say

and what about the Irish, who where lower than black slaves!?! - An actual dumb thing I saw once.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

bengy81 posted:

So are we getting Mad Max, Fallout, Waterworld, or The Road?

Snow Piercer instead of a giant train that does loops through the world with rich people making GBS threads on everyone and poors eating cockroaches, It'll be a bunch of islands.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Two Finger posted:

Why was Ryan looking devastated?

Trump wants Debt Ceiling can to be kicked to before the Mid Term instead of after it, So Republicans can't play the "DONT MAKE ME SHOOT MYSELF IN THE HEAD ILL DO IT I SWEAR UNLESS YOU x,y,and z" and the House Repubs probably want Ryans head on a spike.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Nostalgia4Butts posted:



wapo: Trump, Schumer agree to pursue plan to repeal the debt ceiling - The Washington Post
https://apple.news/A-4D-nFWfQ9iM6NIH_zYWaw

I'll loving believe this is exactly what will happen and it's not a case of "If you vote to gut Social Security, we'll stop putting a gun to our own head forever" deal when it happens.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Why is it on the college to do any sort of investigating and judgement? Isn't this a criminal matter that the police are supposed to investigate, the courts to judge, and the judge to sentence, and when all of that is done then dude gets expelled or what ever?

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

How is that a thing? If I as a student steal another students car on campus how would that be a civil matter instead of a criminal matter? Instead of either a criminal or both a civil and criminal matter? It's not as if the State doesn't have Sexual Battery on the books.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Why are people worried about Atlanta? Once it hits land doesn't it dissipate pretty quickly?

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

I hope Trump goes for this for the gnashing of teeth and the mental gymnastics of the right.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

I don't see why a starting point of "DO IT ALL" is a bad thing from the Democrats especially since doing the negotiate from a center position thing that they've been doing has dragged our country right incrementally.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

That Works posted:

When insurance and pharma companies donate bigly to the PACs that fund your campaigns....

It was more in response to the dude saying "That plan sucks because it asks way too much and is untenable as a result."

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

FAUXTON posted:

Offer them contracts to handle claims processing and they'd probably be real fine with it. Take away the risk part, pay them to push papers, have the treasury cut the checks, that's like running a casino that doesn't have to pay out.

Why not both hang insurance execs as an example to the next crop not to have lovely practices and to do better and let them handle the paper pushing.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

I dunno if I'd be more angry or more happy if Trump does a 180 just out of spite and a want to not be known as the most unpopular president in recent history. On one hand good job for taking america to the hospital, but bad job for shooting it in the foot repeatedly for the last 9 months.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Casimir Radon posted:

Unless it's about the wall. Then he lays out specifics.

"It's gonna be 40 feet high and see through so you don't get hit in the head with a 60lb bag of drugs!"

Will possibly also be solar powered.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Proud Christian Mom posted:

We live in a world where I'm finding myself viewing juggalos as allies. 2017 is amazing

Almost as if there are better reasons to dislike people then listening to lovely music and being poor/middle class suburban kids what done paint their faces?

edit:

NBC posted:

and though organizers of MOAR say they "condemn racists of all colors and supremacy of all colors" in their mission statement, Peter Boykin, president of Gays for Trump and a speaker at the conservative rally, said in an interview with The Washington Post ahead of the event that he will speak out against what he calls "Sharia law, transgender men and women in the military and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program" in his speech. - http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/Juggalo-March-Mother-of-All-Rallies-National-Mall-Washington-DC-444718333.html

:ironicat:

Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Sep 16, 2017

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Lake of Methane posted:

Does professional wrestling have a name for a plot twist when a character betrays his current alliance? And what happens next, a new kind of winning?

If the dude is going bad to good, it's a face turn. If good to bad, heel turn. If same to same it's a swerve brother.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

I like that no one ever uses a good photo of McConnell(R-Turtle) and they always seem to highlight his turtleness.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Plastic_Gargoyle posted:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/latest-trump-calls-reform-49929142

Because nothing says stability like a parade of tanks.

Never mind the waste of time and money.

(Granted, I still can't figure out why the Navy thinks it needs a Balloon team.)

...So... this is the Orange Juche we've been promised?

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

TheGreasyStrangler posted:

What's the excuse people are trotting out this time, that the caller said the guy might be armed?


1) DID YOU KNOW A MAN CAN DRAW A KNIFE AND SHANK YOU WITHIN 20 FEET BEFORE YOU HAVE TIME TO DRAW YOUR FIRE ARM *police had firearms drawn, data on that is taken from sketchy police studies.*

2) " What the Hell are they protesting?? Yes police shot a student that had a knife and posed a threat. Listen to the police and you won't get shot. No reason to protest!" - an actual quote

3) Those police must have feared for their lives, they go into danger ever day.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Mr. Mambold posted:

Batons? Are batons that expensive in Georgia?

Why do you hate are troops HEROES!?

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

I feel if you give panicky people guns they'll look for any excuse to shoot someone who appears hostile. So maybe cops shouldn't have guns, if they're always able to use the "HES COMING RIGHT FOR US" defense, even if the victim is only kinda ambling towards them.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

What about creating some sort of, national policing organization, train them to police the country instead of having a bunch of different underfunded/well funded/undertrained people in fifty different states. Something to guard the citizens of the US, some sort of national...guard.. :thunk:

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

FastestGunAlive posted:

Yea I'm well aware; I'm not actual suggesting it as a valid idea, it would just be funny to see the wheels turn. Kind of how I'm seeing people in reaction to this shooting saying "well that's what you get" "just listen to the officer and you'll be fine"- the same people who think the police are gonna confiscate their guns, the authoritarian takeover is gonna happen any time now, etc

On one hand the government is really bad and over steps their bounds, but on the other hand government is good and does it matter if a few rights are pushed to the side every so often?

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Godholio posted:

Believe it or not, panicky people are not always hopeful loving murders, you moron.

:rolleyes: They sure as hell will shoot at things that are scaring them. If they are panicking what scares them wouldn't really scare a rational human being. Like that dude who got mag dumped sitting in his car next to his girlfriend, with his kid in the back seat after telling the cop "I have to inform you I have a gun in the car".

Idiot.

edit: To be clear, I don't think cops are out to murder everyone. I just think because of how they're trained, how they're armed, and maybe some psychiatric factors they're set up so that the needle is pointed towards lethal that lowers to non-lethal, instead of towards non-lethal that ratchets up to lethal in high stress situations, so that one wrong move or incompliance may end up with some dude dying instead of arrested.

I mean you can see the difference in that video. The one officer gets approached, he backs up a bit as the dude comes towards him doesn't shoot him, dude turns around heads towards the other officer, dude approaches him the same way gets blasted.

Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Sep 20, 2017

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

You think this might end up like "Lets kick it to the house, no way they'll pass this poo poo"?

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

NUKES CURE NORKS posted:

I don't know what CG boot is like but people couldn't even make it through a week of in processing at Benning, before basic training even actually starts.

Is it the "Oh poo poo I can't believe I'm doing this, I want out" thing that gets them?

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010


Golly Gee, I wonder what they'll say...

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

So king of the hill is an accurate reflection of life in Texas?

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Vasudus posted:

Here's TBI in a nutshell: Don't hit your loving head. The severity and frequency in which you hit your head will determine how hosed up you become. If you hit your head repeatedly, it will turn your brain into swiss cheese over time, even if the hits do not cause typical mTBI/concussion symptoms like alteration of consciousness, loss of consciousness, etc.

So the two years of kickboxing where I'd take a nasty kick to the head once every month or two has made me even dumber than I would have been otherwise?

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Terrifying Effigies posted:

Kinda wonder what the general reaction is going to be when the Turks, Russians, Syrians and Iraqis all turn on the Kurds and start massacring them while Trump sits idly by.

Lot of handwringing from western liberals and dead Kurdish civilians while Fox explains "well actually, the PKK..."

Lots of bad people on both sides I'd say.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

Now let's see if they actually vote in a distributed manner so that states flip because popular vote means nothing next time.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Proud Christian Mom posted:

BECAUSE THIS WORKS SO WELL FOR THE SERVICE ACADEMIES

Are troops are the best at everything. We don't need single payer healthcare, we just need are troops to give us medical care!

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

lightpole posted:

Find out Britney Spears isn't a virgin and be forced to tear down my posters?

:smith: Someone else tell em.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Why not tax the rich and increase both military spending and civilian spending which translates to healthier and smarter soldiers to feed into the forever war meat grinder? v:shobon:v

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Healthcare town hall is something. Lindsey Graham, thinks that South Carolina, and every other state is gonna legislate to keep the pre-existing conditions clause, and that oh lordy why can't we just let the states innovate!

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Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

The crux so far for healthcare debate


Lindsay: OH WHY CANT WE ALLOW THE STATES TO BE GREAT AGAIN! I PROMISE YOU THAT SOUTH CAROLINA WONT THROW YOU UNDER THE BUS

Sandman: COMMUNIST HEALTHCARE FULL STOP!! PHARMACEUTICALS AND INSURANCE PEOPLE RIPPING YOU OFF

Cassady: *gargles the balls of said industries* YOU'RE A SOCIALIST AND FURTHER MORE! *swallows*

Klobuchar: Why not the middle ground, where we can just have the worst of all worlds?

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