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Johnny Five-Jaces
Jan 21, 2009


redeploy them to istanbul, imo

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Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



Some dude showed up to his former place of business this morning in Orlando, shot and killed 5 people then himself.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Just 5? Don't even get an unlock for that kind of kill streak

Slim Pickens
Jan 12, 2007

Grimey Drawer
So it's too late for Donnie to start tweeting poo poo he makes up based on incomplete details? Bummer, I wanted more muslim ban rants.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
George Conway, Kellyanne Conway's husband, was up for Justice Department Civil Division head in the administration. He pulled out a while back.

He's now actively making GBS threads on Donnie.

https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/871746245630590980

In case it gets deleted: These tweets may make some ppl feel better, but they certainly won't help OSG get 5 votes in SCOTUS, which is what actually matters. Sad. https://t.co/zVhcyfm8Hr


Wapo confirmed that it was him:
https://twitter.com/mattzap/status/871753693699375104

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Jun 5, 2017

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

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


Personally I think the worst things he does is poo poo talk the courts and to a lesser extant the congress and senate.

Makes me nervous to think what he may try to do more out of incompetence than malice.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD
Just remember that every idiotic thing President Baby Hands shits out onto Twitter is something White House staff is going to be left trying to defend instead of doing productive things.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Turns out, you actually CAN be too racist for Breitbart.

https://twitter.com/Hadas_Gold/status/871760137723269120

quote:

McHugh had ignited controversy on Saturday night when she wrote on Twitter that "there would be no deadly terror attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didn't live there."

"You're a real moron," actor Pej Vahdat replied.

"You're an Indian," shot back McHugh, incorrectly identifying the ethnicity of Vahdat, who is Iranian-American.

McHugh's comments prompted outrage from a number of her own colleagues. Breitbart employees who spoke to CNN Sunday characterized McHugh's remarks as "appalling," "terrible," and "dumb."

McHugh has a history of posting racially tinged remarks on social media. She once tweeted, "Mexicans wrecked Mexico & think invading the USA will magically cure them them of their retarded dysfunction. LOL." In other tweets, she was disparaging of other cultures and said, for example, "another Crusade would do a lot of good."

It was not clear if Ryan Saavedra, a Breitbart writer who called for the return of the crusades after the London terror attack, was also still with the company.

Neither McHugh nor a Breitbart spokesperson immediately responded to a request for comment.

Nigel Farage is floating internment camps now too. Fun stuff!

Edgar
Sep 9, 2005

Oh my heck!
Oh heavens!
Oh my lord!
OH Sweet meats!
Wedge Regret
Guess the president is going to lay out a plan to privatize air traffic control systems.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Edgar posted:

Guess the president is going to lay out a plan to privatize air traffic control systems.

WHAT

:stare:

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Edgar posted:

Guess the president is going to lay out a plan to privatize air traffic control systems.

He signed a fake 'bill' this morning ordering as such, but its unlikely to pass due to how strong the Air Traffic Controller's union is.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Don't worry, it's toast.

https://twitter.com/mikedebonis/status/871765751413321729

They're trying to float privatization as sort of like the Canadian system. The airline industry is lukewarmly in favor of air traffic controllers going to a nonprofit corporation, except for Delta, and Delta left the trade lobbying association over a dispute about it.

It's going nowhere in a hurry, it's just that there's a bill in the hopper in Congress, so Donnie is holding a fake signing ceremony.

Acebuckeye13
Nov 2, 2010
Ultra Carp

fucjgng christ

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Would there be any way to prevent the thousands of eligible ATCs from retiring with the public employee benefits they earned? Like without sending in the national guard and making them work at gunpoint, that is.

After that, would they even be willing to try privatizing the benefits those controllers have earned? Like sure ok they retire and the industry loses 10k skilled employees in 90 days. Would there be any kind of basis for a threat to say "if you leave during this you get nothing?"

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Other than what happened the last time the air traffic controllers got uppity?

Richard Bong
Dec 11, 2008

hobbesmaster posted:

Other than what happened the last time the air traffic controllers got uppity?

Can you go into a little more detail I must have missed this.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Richard Bong posted:

Can you go into a little more detail I must have missed this.
St. Ronnie Moron fired them.

citybeatnik
Mar 1, 2013

You Are All
WEIRDOS




Richard Bong posted:

Can you go into a little more detail I must have missed this.



e:fb

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

Richard Bong posted:

Can you go into a little more detail I must have missed this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_(1968)#August_1981_strike

The old ATC union threatened a strike unless they got a 32 hour week and better working conditions. Reagan told them if they went on strike they'd lose their jobs. The union figured they would be fine, since if they got fired they couldn't be replaced.

Reagan fired them all and blacklisted them from Federal civil service for life. Military ATC's were sent in to manage the workload until new hires could be trained in.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Richard Bong posted:

Can you go into a little more detail I must have missed this.

There was a union. Holy Saint Reagan, peace be upon him, didn't like unions. He fired every single one of them because they dared to do what unions do, namely not work and threaten the money. Surprise, now we have basically the entire country's air traffic control staffing knocking on retirement's door at the same time.

Oh also it was a warning shot across the bow of every single other union in the country that they were completely and utterly hosed, totally powerless, and would be crushed if they did anything uppity like force capital to accept the existence of labor as anything other than replaceable cogs to be given the minimum maintenance and then discarded afterwards. Shockingly union membership in the US is abysmal now, because unions can't actually do anything anymore.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Ronnie was once the head of SAG, so he was even bad at hating unions.

The Eyes Have It
Feb 10, 2008

Third Eye Sees All
...snookums
"Calling a President's bluff" is a hefty gamble, or put another way, dare a President to not do what he said he'd do kinda tilts the who has more to lose equation. Naturally we have the benefit of hindsight but I'm sure it seemed like a thing worth doing at the time.

Piell
Sep 3, 2006

Grey Worm's Ken doll-like groin throbbed with the anticipatory pleasure that only a slightly warm and moist piece of lemoncake could offer


Young Orc
Press briefing with Sanders has started

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

Mister Sinewave posted:

"Calling a President's bluff" is a hefty gamble, or put another way, dare a President to not do what he said he'd do kinda tilts the who has more to lose equation. Naturally we have the benefit of hindsight but I'm sure it seemed like a thing worth doing at the time.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

The Brits ID'd two of the London Bridge attackers, both of whom were British citizens.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...omepage%2Fstory

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Huckabee-Sanders threw up a bunch of poo poo at the briefing, but she confirmed that the administration won't use executive privilege for Comey.

Comey testimony, 1000 Thursday :toot:

https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/871792755017732096

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Jun 5, 2017

Time Crisis Actor
Apr 28, 2002

by Hand Knit

BigDave posted:

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

The Brits ID'd two of the London Bridge attackers, both of whom were British citizens.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...omepage%2Fstory

We need a Muslim travel ban to protect us from Britons!

EBB
Feb 15, 2005


I'm probating you if you use military time again

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011

Deathy McDeath posted:

We need a Muslim travel ban to protect us from Britons!

The named suspects were a Pakistani immigrant and a Moroccan/Libyan immigrant, so this isn't exactly a great way to dunk on Donnie for suggesting that people from majority Muslim nations shouldn't be let into the country.

quote:

London’s Metropolitan Police identified the assailants as 27-year-old Khuram Shazad Butt, a British citizen who was born in Pakistan, and 30-year-old Rachid Redouane, who had claimed to be Moroccan and Libyan.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



tastefully arranged labia posted:

I'm probating you if you use military time again

Could always just do it to send a message.

facialimpediment posted:

Huckabee-Sanders threw up a bunch of poo poo at the briefing, but she confirmed that the administration won't use executive privilege for Comey.

Comey testimony, 1000 Thursday :toot:

https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/871792755017732096

They can't invoke it anyways since Trump loves to tweet and has already effectively waived it.

Arc Light
Sep 26, 2013



Peter Sallis, voice of Wallace in Wallace & Gromit, passed away at 96.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40165443


Also, I eagerly await the flood of anti-immigrant bullshit on my facebook feed.

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit

Arc Light posted:

Peter Sallis, voice of Wallace in Wallace & Gromit, passed away at 96.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40165443


Also, I eagerly await the flood of anti-immigrant bullshit on my facebook feed.

Don't have to see that if your feed is an echo chamber :smug:

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

tastefully arranged labia posted:

I'm probating you if you use military time again

Noted!

Content: first big Paris poll out, 59% opposed to withdrawal, 28% support.

https://twitter.com/EmGusk/status/871806130628046848

The big thing is that climate change issues don't rise to the level becoming a one-issue voter's main driver.

https://twitter.com/marincogan/status/871799204234002432

I'd take the day off work to watch the Comey hearing in a bar.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Mr. Nice! posted:

Could always just do it to send a message.


They can't invoke it anyways since Trump loves to tweet and has already effectively waived it.

It's the usual strong man bullshit. "I'm such a nice guy I'm not going to do this thing I cannot do. But I totally could since I'm such an alpha male manly man's man uber man. But I won't do it because I'm so nice. But still strong. Because it's my choice not to do this thing I cannot do."

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Chichevache
Feb 17, 2010

One of the funniest posters in GIP.

Just not intentionally.

Dead Reckoning posted:

The named suspects were a Pakistani immigrant and a Moroccan/Libyan immigrant, so this isn't exactly a great way to dunk on Donnie for suggesting that people from majority Muslim nations shouldn't be let into the country.

7 killed in London by deadly Butt

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!

facialimpediment posted:

Noted!

Content: first big Paris poll out, 59% opposed to withdrawal, 28% support.

https://twitter.com/EmGusk/status/871806130628046848

The big thing is that climate change issues don't rise to the level becoming a one-issue voter's main driver.

https://twitter.com/marincogan/status/871799204234002432

I'd take the day off work to watch the Comey hearing in a bar.

I'm mulling the idea of working from home to watch it.

It'll be on all the news networks yea?

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



bird food bathtub posted:

It's the usual strong man bullshit. "I'm such a nice guy I'm not going to do this thing I cannot do. But I totally could since I'm such an alpha male manly man's man uber man. But I won't do it because I'm so nice. But still strong. Because it's my choice not to do this thing I cannot do."

I read this at first as a response to the idiot king's warning instead of Trump's executive privilege and was like :drat: then I realized what you meant.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Chichevache posted:

7 killed in London by deadly Butt

Please enjoy new Tingler name of "Pounded in the Butt by The Butthead Shazad Butt"

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Mr. Nice! posted:

I read this at first as a response to the idiot king's warning instead of Trump's executive privilege and was like :drat: then I realized what you meant.

EBB you gonna stand for this?

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

cowboy elvis posted:

I'm mulling the idea of working from home to watch it.

It'll be on all the news networks yea?

CBS just announced that they're airing it live, if you don't have cable.

Edit: nevermind, it's on every network, ABC and NBC carrying it too https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/871822032740265984

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CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
They better run that poo poo over NPR so I can drive my coworkers nuts with newstalk all morning. Comey will be coming on when I walk in the door of the warehouse.

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