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Yes 34 40.48%
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CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Milo and POTUS posted:

Wasn't there at least one trans seal anyway or have they gotten worse since trump broke their brains

Kristin Beck.

Who I frequently mix up with Dr. Lynette Nusbacher, military historian, canadian war college professor and former british officer. She's the one that shows up on Discovery channel shows on occasion.

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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
If you're a civilian working for the feds, your rear end in a top hat coworker might be gone soon (again)

https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1512201107493302272

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1512198821526261762

fknlo
Jul 6, 2009


Fun Shoe

facialimpediment posted:

If you're a civilian working for the feds, your rear end in a top hat coworker might be gone soon (again)

https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1512201107493302272

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1512198821526261762

I’ll believe it when I see it.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

fknlo posted:

I’ll believe it when I see it.

For what it's worth, this court case is basically over. 12 other district courts told the antivaxxers to gently caress off, then they judge-shopped and got a Trumper. This poo poo's over unless the Supreme Court decides to do something and that's unlikely, since they ruled for Biden in the SEAL case.

Now getting the leaders to start firing people is a different story :v:

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



facialimpediment posted:

For what it's worth, this court case is basically over. 12 other district courts told the antivaxxers to gently caress off, then they judge-shopped and got a Trumper. This poo poo's over unless the Supreme Court decides to do something and that's unlikely, since they ruled for Biden in the SEAL case.

Now getting the leaders to start firing people is a different story :v:

The Holman Rule got turned back on in 2017, so Congress could just zero out their salaries. That's the theory anyway.

Ardlen
Sep 30, 2005
WoT



Midjack posted:

The Holman Rule got turned back on in 2017, so Congress could just zero out their salaries. That's the theory anyway.
It got turned off again in 2019 when the Democrats took the House.

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

Milo and POTUS posted:

Wasn't there at least one trans seal anyway or have they gotten worse since trump broke their brains

She transitioned after she retired from DEVGRU

The SEALs were already pretty broken since they’ve just basically been a death squad for 15 years and few people are going to come out of it as anything other to an a lunatic blood craving fascist or a depressed broke brain

fknlo
Jul 6, 2009


Fun Shoe

facialimpediment posted:


Now getting the leaders to start firing people is a different story :v:

Yeah, that's the believe it when I see it part. I've been of the opinion that it's all posturing from the start. I think we're in the 30-40% unvaccinated range and I don't see a world in which they fire any one, especially since we're already short staffed as an agency.

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

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


Cool https://twitter.com/SamTLevin/status/1512109658432888840?s=20&t=OBUFDFYyeIIHI-VEJrhWdQ

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Blast from the past - Ammon Bundy just got hauled to jail because he refused to do his community service time from a 2020 trespass conviction, instead arguing that him running for governor was community service :psyduck:

https://twitter.com/KTVBTerhune/status/1512154313694461979?t=IdG1ZVcu2gaOBp2_173Eww&s=19

https://twitter.com/KTVBTerhune/status/1512162377311039489?t=ZfbJNh0nY5PG8QCAhLwpxQ&s=19

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
Very glad law enforcement is even better funded to enact the policies of whatever fascist gets in after the Dems get clean swept the next two cycles

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

maffew buildings posted:

Very glad law enforcement is even better funded to enact the policies of whatever fascist gets in after the Dems get clean swept the next two cycles

BLue nO maTTer WhO

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?
I wonder if the appeal of superheroes is because the only way normies can conceive of any positive change is from literal gods coming down to strongarm villains into compliance. Which is itself not very great lol. But you'd love to see the result of ice trying to ship superman back to krypton

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
One major reason Biden's approval numbers are in the toilet is because of massive overpromises (and undelivering) on a lot of issues like that, given the nature of a 50/50 Senate, plus corporatist saboteurs. But this probably wouldn't have happened otherwise:

https://twitter.com/evanmcmurry/status/1512473220758265864

edit: well this doesn't look ideal

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1512471616428597249

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
DHL pilots deserve every award they're given for crash landings. They're Sully for packages.

Torrannor
Apr 27, 2013

---FAGNER---
TEAM-MATE
https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1511904164598751239?cxt=HHwWjoC9lfm0rvspAAAA

When the revolution comes, it's the guillotine for all of these fucks. There won't be a revolution

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

facialimpediment posted:

One major reason Biden's approval numbers are in the toilet is because of massive overpromises (and undelivering) on a lot of issues like that, given the nature of a 50/50 Senate, plus corporatist saboteurs.

We're in a lot of trouble if the standard left of blue dog position is over promising.

Arrath
Apr 14, 2011


Torrannor posted:

https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1511904164598751239?cxt=HHwWjoC9lfm0rvspAAAA

When the revolution comes, it's the guillotine for all of these fucks. There won't be a revolution

Jesus fuckin christ what a bunch of ghouls.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Well, here's a weird one

https://twitter.com/Dave_Boucher1/status/1512499230782357507?t=H6hvw0_0XkmMBx3bjRv1pA&s=19

In a very odd way, the people that pleaded guilty in the plot hosed up by taking a guilty plea!

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
And just think, that's the part of the conference they thought would be good publicity and "relatable."

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

Torrannor posted:

https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1511904164598751239?cxt=HHwWjoC9lfm0rvspAAAA

When the revolution comes, it's the guillotine for all of these fucks. There won't be a revolution

I’m suddenly okay with concentration camps but only for people who went to Davos.

Unfortunately they’ll always be the ones running them but I can dream

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

facialimpediment posted:

Well, here's a weird one

Are these the weirdos who got caught in a sting trying to Kidnap the governor of some Northern state.... Illinois? Wisconsin? or something? Weird, thought that was long settled.

Arrath
Apr 14, 2011


SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

I’m suddenly okay with concentration camps but only for people who went to Davos.

Unfortunately they’ll always be the ones running them but I can dream


Maybe their next "simulation" can have them crowded into a train station when it actually gets hit by cruise missiles. gently caress em all.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Defenestrategy posted:

Are these the weirdos who got caught in a sting trying to Kidnap the governor of some Northern state.... Illinois? Wisconsin? or something? Weird, thought that was long settled.

Michigan! And more or less the jury decided that the FBI pushed them too hard into potentially doing the crimes, more or less. The entrapment defense more or less held up. As Popehat said:

https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1512517343334699008?t=ky6nEoDq5OHyyQ_Lhvh_aw&s=19

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

You’re only allowed to push brown people into doing a terrorism comon FBI

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

You’re only allowed to push brown people into doing a terrorism comon FBI

Jury was white af too:

https://twitter.com/nwarikoo/status/1512521146582900741

Grand Rapids is weakly Democratic, but the first thing that greeted me when I drove into the city area was a loving DeVos building. I wanted out of there soon afterward.

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".
Davos is an irrelevant conference where the rich but irrelevant go to hob nob and pretend they are relevant. Its mandatory for CEOs if their company is circling the drain (see Carly Fiorina).

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
Look at all these dweebs and behold their excitement

https://twitter.com/af_academy/status/1512172917576007710?s=21&t=FaKeLmM587IvgMVIAL5mMA

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

facialimpediment posted:

Michigan! And more or less the jury decided that the FBI pushed them too hard into potentially doing the crimes, more or less. The entrapment defense more or less held up. As Popehat said:

https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1512517343334699008?t=ky6nEoDq5OHyyQ_Lhvh_aw&s=19

Okay, I don't have a widely followed Twitter account, or any Twitter account, but hear me out. Maybe this guy is correct and it was a tough case or maybe, just maybe Michigan is a long time stronghold of violent far right extremism and in general, armed right wing anti-government extremism gets jury nullification in America and maybe we should be really loving concerned about this.

Eason the Fifth
Apr 9, 2020
Yoopers gonna yoop

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Stultus Maximus posted:

Okay, I don't have a widely followed Twitter account, or any Twitter account, but hear me out. Maybe this guy is correct and it was a tough case or maybe, just maybe Michigan is a long time stronghold of violent far right extremism and in general, armed right wing anti-government extremism gets jury nullification in America and maybe we should be really loving concerned about this.

All correct, but here's a good recap (early in the case) of all the issues - the FBI didn't cover themselves in glory.

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/missteps-plague-whitmer-kidnapping-case-despite-evidence-its-no-slam-dunk

quote:

But complicating matters for the government: An FBI agent who played a key role in the investigation was recently arrested on unrelated assault charges, another FBI agent was recorded describing efforts to confuse defense attorneys and an early FBI informant was indicted on gun charge, signaling he's no longer cooperating with prosecutors.

Attorneys defending the five men facing federal charges and eight others facing state charges have an "obligation to try to exploit" errors by prosecutors, said Michael Rataj, a Detroit attorney who successfully defended Hutaree militia members a decade ago.

"It's not a slam dunk case by any stretch of the imagination,” Rataj said of the federal case against kidnappers set for trial in October.
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Federal prosecutors already have one conviction in hand: In January, Wolverine Watchmen member Ty Garbin of Hartland pleaded guilty to a kidnapping conspiracy charge and agreed to cooperate with authorities as part of a plea deal for a potentially lighter sentence.

But prosecutors suffered a setback last month when police arrested FBI agent Richard Trask, 39, of Kalamazoo who helped thwart the alleged plot and wrote the affidavit that led to the militia arrests.

He is now accused of assault with intent to do great bodily home less than murder during a domestic altercation with his wife after a swingers’ party.

The FBI used 12 informants and multiple undercovers, so a clear-cut case sure got infested with a lot of grey in a rapid hurry. Column A and Column B, probably.

Kesper North
Nov 3, 2011

EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

Holy poo poo lmao

Teenage me is the guy waving a chair over his head

(I stan Shotwell not Elon)

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

another game at nationwide arena. everybody keeps asking me if they can fuck the cannon. buddy, they don't even let me fuck it

https://twitter.com/ZcohenCNN/status/1512508659087122448

https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1512520273597149186

All I want for the next 10 Christmases is one of these fucks to go to Federal gently caress-Me-In-The-rear end Prison and for Donnie to be barred from running for office ever again.

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

another game at nationwide arena. everybody keeps asking me if they can fuck the cannon. buddy, they don't even let me fuck it

https://twitter.com/sarahszilagy/status/1512435658245165060

Giving this its own post because it's its own story, but it's disturbing to see Ohio State use its "publicly do one thing, privately say another" powers for something more nefarious than trying to kill the NHL team it doesn't want to share town with.

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?

Stultus Maximus posted:

Okay, I don't have a widely followed Twitter account, or any Twitter account, but hear me out. Maybe this guy is correct and it was a tough case or maybe, just maybe Michigan is a long time stronghold of violent far right extremism and in general, armed right wing anti-government extremism gets jury nullification in America and maybe we should be really loving concerned about this.

Right wing extremist violence is p much tolerated in america.

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018


Disband all service academies

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".

SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

Disband all service academies

All the engineering nerds were like that at the Cal State I was at just for the cars and chance to interview. Its funny how 99% of their interns hated it and they still drew wannabes.

More to the point, yes.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

Milo and POTUS posted:

Right wing extremist violence is p much tolerated in america.

It's the default position

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaZ9G2A2SqE

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Soul Dentist
Mar 17, 2009
Does Beau give you a cut off his YouTube ads?

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