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PIZZA.BAT
Nov 12, 2016


:cheers:


DELETE CASCADE posted:

liberals in the bush era couldn't even imagine trump

that was still before palin hit the national scene. that’s when my poli sci professor started getting REAL nervous

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Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



apparently city council passed a bill allowing minors to get vaccines without parental consent. naturally, this brought out the anti-vaxxers who are trying to get people to write to the mayor to veto it. complete with "do your research!" in the middle of a pandemic.

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

Endless Mike posted:

apparently city council passed a bill allowing minors to get vaccines without parental consent. naturally, this brought out the anti-vaxxers who are trying to get people to write to the mayor to veto it. complete with "do your research!" in the middle of a pandemic.

that’s an awesome policy.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003

I’d make eye contact with him and fart. I did it all the time for like two years. I didn’t even know his full name, just heard that his coworkers thought he was a nut for complaining about “the guy who would fart on me in the break room”

DELETE CASCADE posted:

liberals in the bush era couldn't even imagine trump

In terms of actual outcomes, Bush was far and away a more malevolent president than Trump could ever aspire to be.

Trump just turned the machine inwards on his own constituents and said the quiet parts out loud.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003

I’d make eye contact with him and fart. I did it all the time for like two years. I didn’t even know his full name, just heard that his coworkers thought he was a nut for complaining about “the guy who would fart on me in the break room”
Bush set in motion events that killed over a million Iraqi and Afghan civilians because we were mad about what, ~3000 lost in 9/11?

Trump let 300K+ Americans die because he thought a pandemic would only affect people in places that didn't vote for him.

Fart Sandwiches
Apr 4, 2006

i never asked for this

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Bush set in motion events that killed over a million Iraqi and Afghan civilians because we were mad about what, ~3000 lost in 9/11?

Trump let 300K+ Americans die because he thought a pandemic would only affect people in places that didn't vote for him.

trump might get his bodycount in the millions if you count his irresponsible handling as causing it to spread more far and wide than it would have in a less lovely timeline

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
that's more than the number of americans killed in battle during world war ii, by the way

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



mediaphage posted:

that’s an awesome policy.

yeah, 100% agree. i should probably write to the mayor in support of it

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison
https://twitter.com/dansinker/status/1330734048357076994

lol

but also lol that all of those people voted to not convict trump

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003

I’d make eye contact with him and fart. I did it all the time for like two years. I didn’t even know his full name, just heard that his coworkers thought he was a nut for complaining about “the guy who would fart on me in the break room”

kitten emergency posted:

https://twitter.com/dansinker/status/1330734048357076994

lol

but also lol that all of those people voted to not convict trump

Multiple Republican senators including Lamar Alexander outright said at the time that the House proved their case, but that they just couldn't vote to convict because it'd "tear the country apart" lol

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

Endless Mike posted:

yeah, 100% agree. i should probably write to the mayor in support of it

you should legit do that. also consider speaking during a city council meeting.

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

President Beep posted:

you should legit do that. also consider speaking during a city council meeting.

that's a good idea, the council feedback sessions in most places are usually filled by, er, nonsocial folks

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

Jabor posted:

that's more than the number of americans killed in battle during world war ii, by the way

one million is more than the number of iraqis killed in ww2 also

Lysidas
Jul 26, 2002

John Diefenbaker is a madman who thinks he's John Diefenbaker.
Pillbug

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

it'd "tear the country apart"

meaning "i will lose my next primary to someone who is even more off the right-wing deep end, and also younger dumber and louder"

Lysidas
Jul 26, 2002

John Diefenbaker is a madman who thinks he's John Diefenbaker.
Pillbug
i really like the commentary i saw a while ago about how the republicans could possibly have failed to repeal obamacare, when they had the house, senate, and white house

something like "there is a big divide in washington, but not between the republicans and the democrats, its between the older republicans who know their agenda is massively unpopular and has to be rammed through under cover of darkness, and the younger dumber ones who actually believe their own bullshit, this is how the party could fail to repeal obamacare, because a large voting bloc of the party thought the repeal wasnt cruel enough"

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003

I’d make eye contact with him and fart. I did it all the time for like two years. I didn’t even know his full name, just heard that his coworkers thought he was a nut for complaining about “the guy who would fart on me in the break room”

Lysidas posted:

i really like the commentary i saw a while ago about how the republicans could possibly have failed to repeal obamacare, when they had the house, senate, and white house

something like "there is a big divide in washington, but not between the republicans and the democrats, its between the older republicans who know their agenda is massively unpopular and has to be rammed through under cover of darkness, and the younger dumber ones who actually believe their own bullshit, this is how the party could fail to repeal obamacare, because a large voting bloc of the party thought the repeal wasnt cruel enough"

Speaking from what i know:

29% of Pennsylvania's entire budget is Medicaid. One in four rural Pennsylvanians is on Medicaid.

This is only made possible via the 90% grant that came with Medicaid expansion in the ACA.

Many of the people hooting and hollering to repeal Obamacare in this state are the exact same people who would suffer and die without it.

It really is amazing.

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

best to separate these two groups into separate parties then, so each can maintain their ideological purity

Asleep Style
Oct 20, 2010

Lysidas posted:

meaning "i will lose my next primary to someone who is even more off the right-wing deep end, and also younger dumber and louder"

Which is gonna happen to a good portion of them anyway

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Bush set in motion events that killed over a million Iraqi and Afghan civilians because we were mad about what, ~3000 lost in 9/11?

Trump let 300K+ Americans die because he thought a pandemic would only affect people in places that didn't vote for him.

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them
remember when libs were rehabilitating w because he gave michelle obama a loving candy

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

bump_fn posted:

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

what's this from?

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

President Beep posted:

what's this from?

its a quote by an unnamed aide who was later revealed to be karl rove

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-and-the-presidency-of-george-w-bush.html

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

flakeloaf posted:

best to separate these two groups into separate parties then, so each can maintain their ideological purity

I agree with this. if we can't get a socialist party going I would like there to be at least a white supremacist/cop bootlicker/anti-mask party, so that we can set off an atomic bomb at their convention

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


PIZZA.BAT posted:

that was still before palin hit the national scene. that’s when my poli sci professor started getting REAL nervous

can't apologize enough for that

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

I wonder how many of the world's problems would be solved if you just set off a nuke during Davos's peak.

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

bump_fn posted:

remember when libs were rehabilitating w because he gave michelle obama a loving candy

they’re doing it again with ellen, who we are supposed to assume is on our side because she’s a lesbian (the sitcom and her coming out was big, don’t get me wrong), completely failing to look at the situation from the pov that they’re both rich, powerful people

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

polyester concept posted:

omg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM

edit: i realize this is like an eternity ago in trump era time sorry if it's already been posted

this is among the least funny things i have ever watched, sorry

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



i am not clicking on something from south park

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003

I’d make eye contact with him and fart. I did it all the time for like two years. I didn’t even know his full name, just heard that his coworkers thought he was a nut for complaining about “the guy who would fart on me in the break room”

mediaphage posted:

they’re doing it again with ellen, who we are supposed to assume is on our side because she’s a lesbian (the sitcom and her coming out was big, don’t get me wrong), completely failing to look at the situation from the pov that they’re both rich, powerful people

Also Ellen is a completely loving horrible person to her underlings, which is a good give as to what sort of person she is.

jesus WEP
Oct 17, 2004


the amount of time her show spends mocking those drat millennials basically marks her out as the female tim allen

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice
behind every fortune is a mountain of misfortune

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Also Ellen is a completely loving horrible person to her underlings, which is a good give as to what sort of person she is.

remember when it finally made the news that she is a horrible monster to all of her staff despite it being a well known thing in the industry forever, and tons of celebrities were like "Well she was always nice to me!!!!!" lol

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Also Ellen is a completely loving horrible person to her underlings, which is a good give as to what sort of person she is.

well that and her whole schtick has been "ha ha gently caress you i'm rich" for long enough to confirm it's not an act

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

bump_fn posted:

remember when it finally made the news that she is a horrible monster to all of her staff despite it being a well known thing in the industry forever, and tons of celebrities were like "Well she was always nice to me!!!!!" lol

Lmao there was a twitter poll where Chris Pratt was voted the worst Chris and celebs were acting like someone was murdered.

Celebs are all deeply deeply diseased people. Fortunately there is a cure. :thermidor:

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Chris Pratt is the one who's a weird evangelical christian but also dumped his wife when he got famous right

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


Sagebrush posted:

Chris Pratt is the one who's a weird evangelical christian but also dumped his wife when he got famous right

iirc, there was some stuff going on with her not being able to handle him not being fat anymore

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003

I’d make eye contact with him and fart. I did it all the time for like two years. I didn’t even know his full name, just heard that his coworkers thought he was a nut for complaining about “the guy who would fart on me in the break room”
A problem no yospos spouses will ever have to deal with

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

The Fool posted:

iirc, there was some stuff going on with her not being able to handle him not being fat anymore

Hmm. Tbf I agree, he was more fun when he was a doughy guy on parks and rec than after they tried to make him an action hero

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003

I’d make eye contact with him and fart. I did it all the time for like two years. I didn’t even know his full name, just heard that his coworkers thought he was a nut for complaining about “the guy who would fart on me in the break room”
He traded in his wife born in 1976 for a wife born in 1989 when he got famous, that's par for the course.

gotta turn in your lease for a new model

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AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

The Fool posted:

iirc, there was some stuff going on with her not being able to handle him not being fat anymore

He also found his faith again when he got married, and considering he was evangelical as a kid I imagine he got very insufferable.

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