Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Sexy gamma ray burst

(Are we still doing this?)

Duzzy Funlop posted:

If we're going stellar, slutty magnetar-fly-by

Duzzy Funlop posted:

If we're going stellar, slutty magnetar-fly-by

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

dude, magnetars are loving terrifying

quote:

At a distance of halfway from Earth to the moon, a magnetar could strip information from the magnetic stripes of all credit cards on Earth.

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

FrozenVent posted:

What a pain the rear end that would be.

Fallom posted:

Who’s the idiot with the cowboy hat

Duzzy Funlop posted:

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1050430667958509569

pantslesswithwolves posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1050746600916754432

FrozenVent posted:

I assume this makes everything materially worse, please expand.

As Nero Danced posted:

My brother had just been transferred there under a hardship for his wife's family, wonder what's going to happen to that now. Actually, have we ever had a military base completely wiped out like this? Even pearl harbor was at least partially functional after the attack, wasn't it? Cobra Commander's weather dominator works after all.

e: maybe Hugo back in 89, I guess

Duzzy Funlop posted:

He is literally the only one that started the "people are saying" bullshit like 3 (?) says ago, already preempting with the fake "oh, but people would totally complain about nepotism" like he cares, this is the most transparent idiocy I could possibly think of and he's been running with it for two years now

Vasudus posted:

"many people don't know" = "I didn't know this fact that is actually incredibly common knowledge"

"many people are saying" = "I heard this on the TV"

"sir" (in any of his stories) = "this story is completely bullshit"

Soulex posted:

2040 is close. But look at what happened in 20 loving years. What were you doing 1998? Remember phones with cords? At home? My son figured out how to change videos on the ipad at just under a year old. We have the information generation starting to take place. We may have to make pennance for the sins of our fathers and their fathers, but gently caress off if you dont think Im not gonna try. Life is a gift, and giving it to someone helped turn my life around.

Duzzy Funlop posted:

I agree with this in general, but in this specific instance, the second point isn't accurate, because he's the first moron to think to place his daughter in yet another, albeit more pronounced, position of power

Vasudus posted:

People been suspecting it soon as Ivanka started following a bunch of State/USAID twitter accounts the day before Haley's announcement. My bet is that he was going to do it and then people pointed out to him that it requires Senate confirmation and thus the actual real Nepotism laws apply.

Nostalgia4Dogges posted:

https://www.myndnow.com/news/bismarck-news/bismarck-police-to-bring-first-tactical-intervention-vehicle-to-north-dakota/1511086979

Lmao

BigDave posted:

It's surprisingly not crap: https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/10/11/17965690/music-modernization-act-

Vasudus posted:

"many people don't know" = "I didn't know this fact that is actually incredibly common knowledge"

"many people are saying" = "I heard this on the TV"

"sir" (in any of his stories) = "this story is completely bullshit"

quote:

“Absolutely most insulting conversation I have ever had with anyone,” Kelly, then serving as the secretary of homeland security, wrote to Kevin Carroll, who was then his senior counselor at the Department of Homeland Security, in an email from Feb. 8, 2017. “What an impolite arrogant woman. She immediately began insulting our people accusing them of not following the court order, insulting and abusive behavior towards those covered by the pause, blah blah blah.”

Warren called Trump’s travel ban illegal during a protest she attended soon after Trump issued the executive order at Logan International Airport in Boston, where a number of people were detained. A congressional source familiar with Warren’s phone call with Kelly told BuzzFeed News that the senator’s staff first tried to obtain information from the Department of Homeland Security on Jan. 29, 2017 about her constituents who were stuck abroad and prohibited from boarding airplanes to fly into Logan. But the staffers were unsuccessful. Warren then reached out to Kelly, who didn’t respond to her for a week. When Kelly finally called Warren, she told him she had been trying to reach him, which Kelly denied. Warren described her staff’s numerous email exchanges with Kelly and their conversation then became heated.

quote:

You probably remember: Right after Donald Trump became President, one of his first orders of business was launching an illegal, bigoted Muslim ban.

We all felt powerless at the time – Republicans had just won the White House and both branches of Congress – but my staff and I wanted to do something about it. So we tried to get answers from the Department of Homeland Security about their policy of illegally detaining Massachusetts residents (and their family members) at Boston Logan Airport.

There was only one problem: Trump’s new Director of Homeland Security – John Kelly – wouldn’t return our calls and emails. My staff emailed back and forth with his staff, but we couldn’t get them to set up a call or answer our questions.

When I finally did get on the phone with John Kelly, I asked if he had an office number that I could use in the future to get in touch more quickly. He brushed me off, directing me to the main line listed on the Department of Homeland Security’s website (really). Even worse, he bizarrely insisted that I’d made the whole thing up and we’d never tried to reach him in the first place. I happened to be looking at all the emails between his staff and my staff when he said this, so I started reading them to him. He accused me again of making it all up.

My policy staffers were in the room. And to this day, I’ve never seen so many jaws drop in unison. It was one of the first times we saw “alternative facts” so up close and personal. And one of the first times we saw how truly dysfunctional the executive branch had become – and how quickly.

So what happened next? You guessed it – I persisted. I asked again for his number. He hemmed and hawwed, and he again tried to give me the Department’s main line. Let’s just say that’s when the conversation really started getting awkward – and that I persisted longer than he did. Eventually, he didn’t just give me his office number – he gave me his cell number.

Before we got off the phone, I gave him something back for his troubles – a message on behalf of the American people that it was time to follow the court order and allow people stranded abroad to board planes into Logan International Airport.

Was I tough on John Kelly in that phone call? You bet I was. And apparently he didn’t like it.

According to an email he wrote about our conversation just afterwards, which was just released, he called me “an impolite arrogant woman”:

What an impolite arrogant woman. She immediately began insulting our people accusing them of not following the court order, insulting and abusive behavior towards those covered by the pause, blah blah blah.

“Blah blah blah.” That’s all he had to say when he was called out for breaking the law and destroying lives. And I don’t know about John Kelly – but there are some men who can only hear “blah blah blah” whenever a woman’s talking. One of his aides wrote back, “Too bad Senate Majority Leader McConnell couldn’t order her to be quiet again!”

Clever. Well, Mitch McConnell can’t shut me up – and neither can John Kelly. (He can’t even get Donald Trump off Twitter, and as far as I can tell, that was his main job description when he took on the role of White House Chief of Staff).

It’s been a long two years since Donald Trump became President. But the night the Muslim ban started will be seared in my brain forever. That night, I went to Logan Airport to join the protest. It was an incredible sight – a sea of people rushing to East Boston to make their voices heard. There’s nothing impolite about people’s right to speak out and hold their government accountable. And sometimes, people are right to be angry.

It’s been a long two years, but November 6th, we’ll have another chance to make our voices heard and fight back against Donald Trump, John Kelly, and all the bigoted creeps still strutting and smirking around 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Tick tock, Donald. But we aren’t out of the woods yet. Please chip in now to support our re-election campaign and help make sure Democrats win BIG across the country.

aphid_licker posted:

This is on the level of one of the dumber Warhammer 40k models

Stultus Maximus posted:

Senator Professor Warren gets another nice slow one over the plate


And counterpunch: