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Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

maddow had a really well done piece and interview with biden's nat security advisor about the yemen raid

thank loving god im not in

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manchego
Feb 16, 2007

MEANWHILE,
A few people have asked things like, "when was the last time it was this bad" etc.

The Sixties https://g.co/kgs/NtCEFM

The CNN documentary series on the 60s, 70s, and 80s are worth watching for some easy-to-digest history. If you've ever wondered about the events surrounding Nixon or why conservatives think Reagan is such a messianic character, the series dive into it. I liked them a lot and each episode is stand-alone. They're up on Netflix and the 90s series is supposed to come out this year.

Riot Carol Danvers
Jul 30, 2004

It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

manchego posted:

A few people have asked things like, "when was the last time it was this bad" etc.

The Sixties https://g.co/kgs/NtCEFM

The CNN documentary series on the 60s, 70s, and 80s are worth watching for some easy-to-digest history. If you've ever wondered about the events surrounding Nixon or why conservatives think Reagan is such a messianic character, the series dive into it. I liked them a lot and each episode is stand-alone. They're up on Netflix and the 90s series is supposed to come out this year.

This is cool. Thanks for this.

Anyone have any reputable links about Bannon's Troskyism and hope for destruction of the country? One of my more normal right wing friends is interested in learning about it and I can't find it with how fast this thread is updated.

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
http://www.middletownpress.com/sports/20170203/connecticut-politicians-make-pitch-for-new-york-islanders

quote:

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin on Friday officially urged the New York Islanders to consider moving to Connecticut’s capital city.

The Democrats sent a letter to the National Hockey League team’s management, offering Hartford’s XL Center as an option for its interim use.

They also suggested the downtown arena could be “a long-term solution to your needs,” noting it would be transformed into “today’s NHL standards.” They pledged to work with “private partners to develop the building you would be proud to call home.”

The Islanders’ future in Brooklyn was called into question Monday when it was reported arena management wasn’t counting on any revenue from the hockey club beyond the 2018-19 season. Islanders’ management has declined to comment.

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

manchego
Feb 16, 2007

MEANWHILE,

WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:

This is cool. Thanks for this.

The Seventies https://g.co/kgs/Wf6yO7

The Eighties https://g.co/kgs/lBKfCZ

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:

This is cool. Thanks for this.

Anyone have any reputable links about Bannon's Troskyism and hope for destruction of the country? One of my more normal right wing friends is interested in learning about it and I can't find it with how fast this thread is updated.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/us/politics/stephen-bannon-breitbart-words.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/22/steve-bannon-trump-s-top-guy-told-me-he-was-a-leninist.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...5405_story.html

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

facialimpediment posted:

Press Secretary has responded. Summation: a bloo bloo bloo

https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/827715321310097408

Protecting the homeland eh? Well if you're gonna adopt the outlook guess you might as well adopt the language too.

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!



That would be awesome if it happened.

my kinda ape
Sep 15, 2008

Everything's gonna be A-OK
Oven Wrangler
Isn't the "Banon is a Leninist" thing entirely based on one thing he said that was basically just him saying he wanted to create a new order? Like I don't think he actually agrees with anything Lenin believed at all.

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

my kinda ape posted:

Isn't the "Banon is a Leninist" thing entirely based on one thing he said that was basically just him saying he wanted to create a new order? Like I don't think he actually agrees with anything Lenin believed at all.

More or less. I'm not sure if he decided to go with the Lenin analogue because he's a dope, or rather if choosing a more appropriate comparison would have tipped too many people off to his ultimate goals.

BUG JUG
Feb 17, 2005




gently caress yeah bring back the Whale.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Ba-dam ba-DUMMMMMM

my kinda ape posted:

Isn't the "Banon is a Leninist" thing entirely based on one thing he said that was basically just him saying he wanted to create a new order? Like I don't think he actually agrees with anything Lenin believed at all.

Lots of dudes on the far right admire Lenin for his ability to destroy the state and remake it in his own image; neoconservatives basically saw themselves in the same light. If the 49ers stole a page out of the Giants playbook and used it to win, it's because they saw a tactical end to winning a strategic objective, not because they wanted to be the Giants.

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Handsome Ralph posted:

That would be awesome if it happened.

BUG JUG posted:

gently caress yeah bring back the Whale.

state dems in CT (except the governor) are pushing for legalization

weed and whalers, the CT hot button issues

Saint Celestine
Dec 17, 2008

Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.

- Saint Sabbat, Lessons
Grimey Drawer

Office Pig posted:

More or less. I'm not sure if he decided to go with the Lenin analogue because he's a dope, or rather if choosing a more appropriate comparison would have tipped too many people off to his ultimate goals.

Probably gonna go with the latter, since you can't really say "I admire Hitler" and have any future in politics. Lenin... ehhhhh.

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

someone needs to teleprompter troll Trump and get him to say "I admire Hitler" on TV

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

Mr. President

CHICKEN SHOES
Oct 4, 2002
Slippery Tilde

Reverand maynard posted:

someone needs to teleprompter troll Trump and get him to say "I admire Hitler" on TV

dude can't see Rudy G across the table from him, he can't read a teleprompter lol

Slim Pickens
Jan 12, 2007

Grimey Drawer
I'd vote for that dogge

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Reverand maynard posted:

someone needs to teleprompter troll Trump and get him to say "I admire Hitler" on TV
They admire his honesty.

Professor Bling
Nov 12, 2008

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

This is abuse

MODS??!!!


Edit: that dogge is too good for that hairstyle

SwampDonkey
Oct 13, 2006

by Smythe

(and can't post for 4 years!)

The latest in political projection news, people are being paid to voice their support for DeVos.





https://theslot.jezebel.com/someone-is-paying-strangers-online-to-beg-for-betsy-dev-1791976320

initial report: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/01/23/1623818/-Organization-literally-paying-people-to-support-DeVos

FastestGunAlive
Apr 7, 2010

Dancing palm tree.

Reverand maynard posted:

someone needs to teleprompter troll Trump and get him to say "I admire Hitler" on TV

Tomi would be real quick to release a video "destroying" the rioters that go all out as a result of that. "drat lieberals hypocrites, oppressing free speech"

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

Is Soros funding both sides now? when does his influence stop!? (I still cant believe that everyone thinks that protesters are being paid by someone)

Third World Reagan
May 19, 2008

Imagine four 'mechs waiting in a queue. Time works the same way.
Most protesters are not being paid.

But paid protesters is a thing. I've seen it done from the paying side.

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
https://twitter.com/EjmAlrai/status/827866738482098176

i wonder how unhinged trump really is and if Iran is just going to keep trolling until they get nuked

Vasudus
May 30, 2003
I'm more concerned about them using ~cyber weapons~ that we most assuredly have in their power systems and industrial controls to brick the country. It's way less messy than saying OMG NUKES and much more likely given that the Trumpenfuhrer doesn't understand anything related to computers. I remember reading back when Stuxnet was a thing that bricking the entire power/water systems for the greater Tehran area would kill like millions of civilians.

Plus, it opens pandora's box for real on ~cyber weapons~ so maybe that lovely NBC show might actually come to reality.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Third World Reggin posted:

Most protesters are not being paid.

But paid protesters is a thing. I've seen it done from the paying side.

This reminds me of a story I saw about union paid protesters picketing a walmart. I think Colbert covered it five or ten years ago on the old show.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

LITERALLY SHAKING posted:

This reminds me of a story I saw about union paid protesters picketing a walmart. I think Colbert covered it five or ten years ago on the old show.

Yeah, UFCW was hiring 'professional activists' to picket Walmart's

I also remember that the picketers were getting $9/hour, while the actual Walmart employees were making $10-12/hour.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

BigDave posted:

Yeah, UFCW was hiring 'professional activists' to picket Walmart's

I also remember that the picketers were getting $9/hour, while the actual Walmart employees were making $10-12/hour.

When I had a UFCW job in high school, their pro-union anti-Walmart training videos were full of so many dog-whistles, especially about underpaid immigrant labor. We also got training on how the chain was partially still alive because of old people, so be especially careful not to piss them off, even if they are slow as hell and make ridiculous demands.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

mlmp08 posted:

When I had a UFCW job in high school, their pro-union anti-Walmart training videos were full of so many dog-whistles, especially about underpaid immigrant labor. We also got training on how the chain was partially still alive because of old people, so be especially careful not to piss them off, even if they are slow as hell and make ridiculous demands.

Yeah I was in UFCW as well when I worked at Safeway in highschool. We didn't have to endure any propaganda, but having to pay the dues really sucked when was only making $5.15 an hour to begin with.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

Trump's taking the immigration ban ruling about as well as you might expect. The judge is a Bush appointee, BTW.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m=.961625ee0fc6

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING
"So-called judge" no you jackass he is a judge :cripes:

Also saw this and had a laugh.

Prop Wash
Jun 12, 2010



"#USA threat2 Iran r nonsensical."

This is how a human being, responsible for the control of an entire country's air and space forces, communicates in the year 2017. gently caress it, maybe nukes are called for.

Riot Carol Danvers
Jul 30, 2004

It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

psydude posted:

Trump's taking the immigration ban ruling about as well as you might expect. The judge is a Bush appointee, BTW.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m=.961625ee0fc6

This Motherfucker has ruined the future of politics in this country because even if he DOES get booted out of office for something, the idiots who still love him will never shut up about FAKE NEWS and poo poo like that. And the loving president making threats to foreign countries via Twitter is amazing and horrifying. We're all gonna die.

Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



psydude posted:

Yeah I was in UFCW as well when I worked at Safeway in highschool. We didn't have to endure any propaganda, but having to pay the dues really sucked when was only making $5.15 an hour to begin with.

My first job when I was 15 was a UFCW grocery job with similar pay. Although the union rep got my job back promptly when I got fired for not working in lieu of going to school.

Third World Reagan
May 19, 2008

Imagine four 'mechs waiting in a queue. Time works the same way.
https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/827912800525750273

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING
Bannon has got to go.

CHICKEN SHOES
Oct 4, 2002
Slippery Tilde

stuff like this makes me feel way about about the state of things

Not feel good about it by any means, but just a little better.

Vasudus
May 30, 2003
I like that the two most reasonable, level headed people in the administration are two marine generals.

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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://twitter.com/amyfiscus/status/827883214731636739

drat WARMONGERING POLES :argh:

Speculation is that bullshit information came from RT.

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