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That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


facialimpediment posted:

Like I didn't mean to be That rear end in a top hat to correct you, as I saw that earlier in the day and was like HEY WAT

but the truth of the matter is just as funny - HOW do you botch that so loving bad? HOW DO YOU DO THAT

But Mandel is loving scum marching on the Pettis bridge and saying MLK WOULD LOVE ME so there's that

Oh yeah no worries, I wasn't too surprised to find out it wasn't what it seemed. And yeah, dudes a real POS.

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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
By the way, Donnie touched The Orb in Saudi Arabia so now we get this poo poo as fallout:

https://twitter.com/katienotopoulos/status/1511513886108880901?t=KJNY23bbzm73SByX8hl93A&s=19

HAIL ORB

stealie72
Jan 10, 2007

Their eyes locked and suddenly there was the sound of breaking glass.
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facialimpediment posted:

Like I didn't mean to be That rear end in a top hat to correct you, as I saw that earlier in the day and was like HEY WAT

but the truth of the matter is just as funny - HOW do you botch that so loving bad? HOW DO YOU DO THAT

But Mandel is loving scum marching on the Pettis bridge and saying MLK WOULD LOVE ME so there's that
Not to belabor the point because Occom's Razor says "we suck at photoshop" is the answer, but why is his face unchanged between the photos?

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

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



He’s trying to up his popularity with the porn enthusiast community?

Burning Beard
Nov 21, 2008

Choking on bits of fallen bread crumbs
Oh, this burning beard, I have come undone
It's just as I've feared. I have, I have come undone
Bugger dumb the last of academe

That Works posted:

Oh yeah no worries, I wasn't too surprised to find out it wasn't what it seemed. And yeah, dudes a real POS.

Mandel and that Vance rear end clown make me miss John Glenn as a Senator. When Glenn died my ex-friend went on and on how he hated him for being a Democrat. I was "Um, Glenn was a decent Senator but he was also pretty badass as an pilot and astronaut". None of that mattered. ONLY POLITICS for Xavier. Of course this fine fellow of an ex-friend is a HUGE Mandel fan.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Ba-dam ba-DUMMMMMM

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1511721709359017987

To the surprise of absolutely no one

Soul Dentist
Mar 17, 2009
My gasp of shock is so sharp that it's looped around and just sounds like a sigh

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


FBI and postal inspectors raided an apartment in DCs Navy Yard. Postal inspectors were investigating an assault on a mail carrier in the building and two potential witnesses identified themselves as homeland security agents assigned to a task force investigating Jan 6. Except they were fake agents who had been providing free apartments and guns to Secret Service personnel, including first family protective detail, claiming it was a special DHS program.

2 Arrested for Posing as Federal Agents, Giving Gifts to Secret Service Officers: Court Docs

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Soylent Pudding posted:

FBI and postal inspectors raided an apartment in DCs Navy Yard. Postal inspectors were investigating an assault on a mail carrier in the building and two potential witnesses identified themselves as homeland security agents assigned to a task force investigating Jan 6. Except they were fake agents who had been providing free apartments and guns to Secret Service personnel, including first family protective detail, claiming it was a special DHS program.

Ah, I couldn't find anything regarding the context of this earlier:

https://twitter.com/NotJoshBlackman/status/1511841508370141184?t=rD3rnpFeBTw5FklwgtzEGA&s=19

Yet again, if postal inspectors are involved, you're hosed

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

facialimpediment posted:

Ah, I couldn't find anything regarding the context of this earlier:

https://twitter.com/NotJoshBlackman/status/1511841508370141184?t=rD3rnpFeBTw5FklwgtzEGA&s=19

Yet again, if postal inspectors are involved, you're hosed

Apparently the backstory is someone assaulted a postal worker, and then during the investigation, two guys lied about being DHS agents investigating 1/6.

And here we are.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD
these dudes really went all in on the LEO roleplaying, right down to the bribery and assault.

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


It's always wild when these huge counterintelligence breaks happen because of something completely random and unrelated. I assume these dudes were agents for someone because they were throwing around five figgie gifts.

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://twitter.com/NLRBGC/status/1512069325921812480?t=gOj9ZM0sHce_76tM7sXSgA&s=19

From the good news front, companies can no longer require mandatory attendance at antiunion meetings

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

Soylent Pudding posted:

It's always wild when these huge counterintelligence breaks happen because of something completely random and unrelated. I assume these dudes were agents for someone because they were throwing around five figgie gifts.

imagining the explosion of neurons lighting up as they make the leap from "assaulting a postal worker" to "they were plying Secret Service detail agents with gifts"

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Soylent Pudding posted:

It's always wild when these huge counterintelligence breaks happen because of something completely random and unrelated. I assume these dudes were agents for someone because they were throwing around five figgie gifts.

If it DOES turn out to be a Russian operation, I hope they change from the norm and keep it loving quiet.

This grandstanding/vamping for approval points from Western leaders worldwide trying to appear to care the most about helping Ukraine and loving over Russia is *NOT HELPING MATTERS*. For someone who regards himself as an "elder statesman," Biden seems to be either unwilling or completely incapable of trying to "spike the ball" whenever granted an opportunity to do so publicly.

Not all sanctions have to be painstakingly detailed in the press - the more you feed the beast the hungrier and more ravenous it gets.

If it needs to be done, do it. Just don't :smug: about it in public, for gently caress's sake.

BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Apr 7, 2022

Grip it and rip it
Apr 28, 2020

BIG HEADLINE posted:

If it DOES turn out to be a Russian operation, I hope they change from the norm and keep it loving quiet.

This grandstanding/vamping for approval points from Western leaders worldwide trying to appear to care the most about helping Ukraine and loving over Russia is *NOT HELPING MATTERS*. For someone who regards himself as an "elder statesman," Biden seems to be either unwilling or completely incapable of trying to "spike the ball" whenever granted an opportunity to do so publicly.

Not all sanctions have to be painstakingly detailed in the press - the more you feed the beast the hungrier and more ravenous it gets.

If it needs to be done, do it. Just don't :smug: about it in public, for gently caress's sake.

Biden and his team probably recognize that they need to amplify any win they get because people are not excited about this administration or its accomplishments.

Im not saying I disagree with you, but at this point it seems like he has fewer legislative wins than Trump, which is saying something.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Grip it and rip it posted:

Biden and his team probably recognize that they need to amplify any win they get because people are not excited about this administration or its accomplishments.

Im not saying I disagree with you, but at this point it seems like he has fewer legislative wins than Trump, which is saying something.

That's just the thing, though - there should be a firewall between campaigning/grandstanding and international politics, especially when the latter involves a nuclear-armed adversary currently engaged in a land war in Europe.

*Everyone knew* the US was the driving force behind arming/supplying the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan. The reason that war didn't escalate is because even though everyone *knew*, the people who were involved weren't helicopter dicking and shouting about it at the top of their lungs for ~trending approval~ from the masses.

Bullies deserve their asses kicked - it's the only way they learn. Russia deserves the benefits of NO doubts or ANY concessions whatsoever for what they've done. But the more it turns into everyone on the playground joining in kicking the bully while they're down, the more likely it is the bully comes back with his father's gun the next day.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Not really related, but it does mention our Patron Saint and I love the comparison and I’d love to see that movie.

https://twitter.com/civilwarhumor/status/1512103539295735815?s=21&t=9xpuFhwQx0Sw8OZWCp0G4Q

lightpole
Jun 4, 2004
I think that MBAs are useful, in case you are looking for an answer to the question of "Is lightpole a total fucking idiot".
That made me get distracted learning about Lew Wallace

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

lightpole posted:

That made me get distracted learning about Lew Wallace

Future Governor and Author of Ben-Hur iirc.

Lake of Methane
Oct 29, 2011


https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1511859165609840642?s=20

(Jay Carney is, “SVP for policy & press @Amazon, fmr WH press secretary to @BarackObama, fmr Comms Dir to VP Biden (now @POTUS!), eternal GBV fan (@_GuidedByVoices),” current lol)

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

New Revelations Raise Pressure on NASA to Rename the James Webb Space Telescope



quote:

Prior to leading NASA, Webb was second-in-command at the U.S. Department of State. In a September 3, 2021, e-mail Nature obtained through FOIA, a redacted writer notes that archival documents paraphrased in a 2004 history book say, “Webb met with President [Harry S.] Truman on June 22, 1950 in order to establish how the White House, the State Department, and the Huey Committee might ‘work together on the homosexual investigation.’” A large number of LGBTQ+ workers were fired from the State Department before Webb resigned from his position there in 1952.

Critics say homophobia followed Webb to NASA. During his tenure as the agency’s administrator between 1961 and 1968—a critical time in its preparations to land astronauts on the moon—a suspected gay employee, Clifford Norton, was interrogated for hours about his sexual history by NASA’s security chief and ultimately fired for “immoral, indecent, and disgraceful conduct.” This was part of the basis for calls to rename JWST, which NASA responded to by conducting an internal investigation into Webb’s complicity in such actions.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
The robert webb deep space look far thing

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Dornald Tumrp Deep State Space Spyscope Thingy

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Wait it wasn’t the Vietnam Webb?

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
Fuckin’ weird

https://twitter.com/natashabertrand/status/1512156740879589376?s=21&t=5o5336dxdiZC4PJwj7IL7g

Wrong Theory
Aug 27, 2005

Satellite from days of old, lead me to your access code

Like why make something that is going to allow us to see farther than ever before and show us more of the universe and name it after something as small and insignificant as a person. Name it after an ideal, something inspiring, not some homophobic nerd. And yeah I want one BBQ sauce and one honey mustard with those nuggets, variety is the spice of life.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

mlmp08 posted:

Fuckin’ weird

Early reckless speculation:

https://twitter.com/rishi_bhutada/status/1512164344305537033

Josh thinks there's a chance that this could be some type of Bonesaw Party a la Saudis and MBS. Get in with Secret Service, blackmail them to look the other way for some foreign dude, and kidnap/deport/kill some random dignitary.

hannibal
Jul 27, 2001

[img-planes]

Wrong Theory posted:

Like why make something that is going to allow us to see farther than ever before and show us more of the universe and name it after something as small and insignificant as a person. Name it after an ideal, something inspiring, not some homophobic nerd. And yeah I want one BBQ sauce and one honey mustard with those nuggets, variety is the spice of life.

I just wish they'd stop naming things after administrators. Navy ships have the same problem. If you're going to name the telescopes after people name them after famous scientists (like Hubble, and what they did with the next one, the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope).

I would give the USS Jimmy Carter a pass since he was actually a submariner.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
I just dislike when they name them after minor figures I don’t know or care about. Who the gently caress is Carl Vinson?

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

hannibal posted:

I just wish they'd stop naming things after administrators. Navy ships have the same problem. If you're going to name the telescopes after people name them after famous scientists (like Hubble, and what they did with the next one, the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope).

I would give the USS Jimmy Carter a pass since he was actually a submariner.

I was fine with naming carriers after presidents til I realized that we are now going to end up with a flagship name the USS Donald Trump

lightpole
Jun 4, 2004
I think that MBAs are useful, in case you are looking for an answer to the question of "Is lightpole a total fucking idiot".

FrozenVent posted:

I just dislike when they name them after minor figures I don’t know or care about. Who the gently caress is Carl Vinson?

Vinson was anything but minor to the USN?

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
SEALs I dunno….

https://twitter.com/mchooyah/status/1511866828619976709?s=21&t=kHLjzDEH1OGTSgRvFpDkMw

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
As I often say, “disband the SEALs and replace them with Force Recon.”

CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


FrozenVent posted:

I just dislike when they name them after minor figures I don’t know or care about. Who the gently caress is Carl Vinson?

Yea, I don't know who this Victory chap was but he can't be that important.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418


https://twitter.com/Kislingtwits/status/1512125199113543701

not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u

It's rare that you see an account post something and just get no support in the comments but endlessly dunked on.

ASAPI
Apr 20, 2007
I invented the line.


Oof!

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

RFC2324 posted:

I was fine with naming carriers after presidents til I realized that we are now going to end up with a flagship name the USS Donald Trump

Probably not at the rate we're going

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Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
Wasn't there at least one trans seal anyway or have they gotten worse since trump broke their brains

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