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Train now departing: poo poo year Train now arriving: poo poo year Welcome to the Donald J Trump arrival lounge Tiny Timbs posted:The mayor said it was a terrorist attack and the FBI said it was not. I think they’re waiting to check the net worth of the people killed. Cops reported to have emergency requisitioned paper bags from the nearest Winn-Dixie
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Mainstream reporting is that the New Orleans attacker got out of the truck firing an AR-15 and had at least one IED that failed to go off. Plus an ISIS flag. Sounds like the NOPD dropped him pretty quickly, so I guess you do, in fact, have to hand it to them. Definitely a shittier scenario than my initial guess of "drunk idiot does the gas/brake mixup".
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That Works posted:The years of lithium Thread title right here
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Jan 1, 2025 21:33
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fknlo posted:There's apparently a very crisp body inside of that burning dumpster. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/police-investigating-vehicle-explosion-trump-hotel-las-vegas/story?id=117252987 quote:An official briefed on the probe told ABC News that the Tesla Cybertruck had a load of fireworks-style mortars onboard. Investigators are urgently working to determine a motive and whether the driver intended to set off an explosion and why. Was the body a human-sized coyote by any chance?
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Jan 1, 2025 22:18
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I guess if I was  I would try to make something out of two explosive laden* electric pickups getting into poo poo on the same day.* Samsung wanted to autocorrect "laden" to "Laden" THEY'RE ON TO ME
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fknlo posted:For those wondering, both vehicles that did things today were rented on Turo. Discussion Quorum posted:I guess if I was Fixing my own post
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I would try to make something out of two explosive laden* electric pickups getting into poo poo on the same day.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Did it start as a cybertruk fire or a fire that happened to be in a cybertruk? it died with explosive batteries, not of explosive batteries 
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Jan 2, 2025 19:36
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Rando: how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Elon, the world's smartest and richest genius: great question
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Jan 2, 2025 22:55
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pantslesswithwolves posted:An unremarkable white GBS noise poster who probably made oblique references to their wealth or the Bay Area’s tech scene. When no one really bit on this mysterious poster’s attempts at allure and intrigue, they then tried their hand at being a FYAD superstar and got really into “ironic” overuse of the n-word and other slurs before everyone finally got tired of him and chased him out. Turns out that's the kind of 4channer he was too https://bsky.app/profile/junlper.beer/post/3lesfnfkigs24
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Jan 3, 2025 03:33
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Stultus Maximus posted:The police don't put your poo poo back in place and dust after they execute a search warrant. The NYP comments are giving me whiplash. "This justifies our Islamophobia BUT ALSO how did a rookie reporter get access to an active crime scene if this isn't a TLA deep state false flag?" 
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Jan 3, 2025 20:12
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Was really hoping the "P" in PJ stood for Pete but alas
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Jan 4, 2025 16:47
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Harris status: punished Ok great election guys, fantastic praxis. Let's move on to the next step of our plan, Organizing and Prote- [gets run over by a gleeful chud in a Cybrtruck who avoids prosecution thanks to the Protestors Go Squish Act of 2025] Grip it and rip it posted:I've certainly lost any optimism about the country coming around. We are headed for a neo-gilded age and it doesn't look like there is any way out of it, at least in the near term. I think this fits the mold of "reasonable worst case," with the caveat that Trump and his coterie may on any given day be actively considering and/or pursuing any number of unreasonable worse cases.
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Jan 7, 2025 21:05
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Quackles posted:I don't know if that's common public perception or not, but I think even promising doing things could have been of some help. The political reality of the American system pretty much guarantees that the Dems need to be a big tent party to even have a shot at a majority. This means you have to choose between living with Manchin/Sinema types who will vote with you some of the time, or they will join the other side and vote with you none of the time. If you even have that, remember that the Senate is structurally biased against you and in a 6-3 decision... So now you've got two choices: Promise things you know you're likely to get cockblocked on ("where's my check, Joe?") OR not make promises you aren't sure you can keep ("these guys have nothing"). Not that you need to feel sorry for the Dems but a party that simply tries to vibe through this reality is on a road to nowhere. The whole system is rotten, and I don't know how to change it, but everyone keeps thinking the Dems could pull a rabbit out of their hat if they would just [______]. It ignores the fact that the right has spent literally generations doing their absolute best to make sure that there are no rabbits.
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Jan 7, 2025 23:17
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That's not what I said, and the point wasn't even about Manchin and Sinema specifically. It's that they're the most visible symptoms of a broader problem with the American electorate and representation system, which a magical not-Dem party will still have to contend with. The Incorruptible Puppies and Kitty Kisses Party will still have to overcome 51 +/- 2 Senators' worth of Americans believing that they emanated directly from Satan's butthole, and that literally trillions of dollars have been spent on achieving this over the better part of a century.
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Jan 7, 2025 23:44
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orange juche posted:Quoting from the trumplol thread in GBS, I had a pretty good chuckle. You do not have to hand it to Steve Bannon but God drat lmao It's like if "heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point" and "heartwarming: the worst people you know are all fighting" had a baby And he's not even in office yet.
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Jan 12, 2025 04:19
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The Behind the Bastards series about Jobs (which includes that anecdote among many others) is shocking even if you already knew Jobs was a monumental rear end in a top hat. He definitely could have made Musk cry though, because Jobs had the "normie" adulation that Musk so desperately craves and also would have been a complete dick to him. Not because Jobs was good, but because he was a dick who was only impressed with himself.
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Jan 13, 2025 21:05
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hobbesmaster posted:https://x.com/kenklippenstein/status/1878912207276343392?s=46 Klippenstein is being a bit bait-y here, they're literally the next 2 in line. Trump is definitely going to skip Obama and name the next one after himself though.
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Jan 14, 2025 03:50
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Stultus Maximus posted:That's not how ship naming works. There's no "we just name presidents in order" convention. HW Bush and Ford were both decorated Navy combat veterans. Presidents 1933-present: FDR - carrier Truman - carrier Eisenhower - carrier JFK - carrier x2 LBJ - Zumwalt  Nixon - memory holed Ford - carrier Carter - sub for obvious reasons Reagan - carrier HW Bush - carrier Obviously there's not a rule written down that it's Clinton's "turn" but it's not like Joe grew a wild hair here, he's just a decorum dem decoruming
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Jan 14, 2025 04:36
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Also I just realized that Bill Clinton is younger than Donald Trump Cursed gerontocracy-rear end country
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Wingnut Ninja posted:That's the Theodore Roosevelt, not Franklin. FDR had a Midway-class named after him I like Klippenstein but he sometimes plays up nothingburgers for clicks is all I was saying
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Are you a lumberjack? Unless you wear women's underwear, in which case Elon Musk's DOGE (Department Of Genital Examination) will be in touch on January 21st
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GD_American posted:These motherfuckers really want to see a fifth column in action, when we (the USA) starts killing family members of 2nd generation Mexican-Americans, you're gonna see some poo poo shhhh you're going to wake up Korematsu
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Jan 16, 2025 01:13
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MonkeyFit posted:Trump has already stated Israel should "finish the problem," so Bibi is probably just stalling until he can get that unconditional military package from him. Then they'll just start having War Crime Wednesday on every day that ends with Y. EVERY DAY IS A RUGBY DAY except by rugby they mean crimes against humanity
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Blind Rasputin posted:It kind of freaks me out because it’s so blatant, and if our Navy, or Taiwanese shore defenses, sinks one of these full of soldiers and tanks… it would be war. I mean, yes... but if a fleet of those is full of soldiers and tanks and headed towards Taiwan, that's probably a foregone conclusion There is a case to be made that there is power to be gained by having the capability even if you don't plan to use it. Speak softly and carry a big stick. Of course, recent history tells us that once you have a global expeditionary capability, you end up wanting to slap the roof and take it for a spin.
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The ideological big tent that has become the far right was built on the margins in drips and drabs over decades. Many of them were once somewhat normal, potentially reachable people. And new voters come of age every day. You really wanna just cede a channel that large to the far right? Start now or never. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time was today. Kaiser Schnitzel posted:but if you want to win elections, you've got to talk to voters in a way they will listen to. In a nutshell: Don't talk to those guys, they are impure. Oh, they didn't vote for you and you lost? This is all your fault!
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Defenestrategy posted:Dude as far as Ive been able to tell is only critical when it comes to weed, aliens, and fight sports and has some tragic opinions on transpeople participating in gender divisions in fight sports. If you say legalize it, I stand by aliens rights to exist, and mall karate sucks and can keep a high person from going off topic you can sit up there and say pretty much anything. Honestly itd be like saying nbc is a radicilization pipe line because they had putin and trump interviews and the interviewers where milque toast little dweebs Also, as far as I can tell, anyone I've known who listes to JRE at least fancies themselves to be above the partisan fray because both sides bad. That's why they love self-styled outsiders like RFK, and yeah, Trump, too. We can argue all day how much of that is true and how much is self delusion, but it doesn't actually matter. It is the most sympathetic large audience you're likely to get outside the mainstream media as long as you don't send in a corporate Dem. Worst case, you changed nobody's mind, and nothing of value was lost. Send Bernie back on and have him prep the next round of folks who are willing to hold their noses and talk about the oligarchic capture of our society. Not in McKinsey-speak or activist jargon but plain fuckin' English. That's the subject that will resonate with JRE listeners, and frankly, until we can undo that, we probably can't have any other good poo poo either. Demographic inevitability for the Dems is as dead as Hillary's blue wall. The Republicans have been chasing black and Hispanic voters in all manner of stupid buffoonish ways, and it's working! Slowly and at the margins, but for Hispanic voters in particular it is becoming electorally significant. And that's before we even talk about the Zoomer men. These are all demographics that the Ds took completely for granted and we called the Rs stupid for reaching out to them. Who's laughing now?
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The WHO withdrawal was the first bit of news I've failed to avoid for the day, and I'm doing my best to keep it at that. We're potentially due for 4-6 inches of snow in Houston, and as much of a pain as it's going to be while we pray for the power to stay on, I'm super jazzed for my little dude to have his first snow day. He was in tears a couple times during the holidays, because he kept asking when we would get snow like the kids get in the movies, and I kept having to explain that it's kind of a once every 5-10 years thing here. Zamujasa posted:> irc transcript lol that's a golden oldie
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:But he usually lets his adherents swing in the winds, is my point. Yeah, after he's done with them. So either this was just in the huge cartoon stack of paper one of his minions had ready for him to sign, or he's not done with them.
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Jan 21, 2025 15:03
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There is an entire demographic that is angrier at him about the gaming thing than him being a fascist, much less the salute.
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Let us pray that has the same sticking power as freedom fries and liberty cabbage
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Hell yeah we got our first trade war and it's even dumber than I expected
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not caring here posted:It seems like the new game in town for world leaders is calling trump a punk rear end trick to his face and I'm all for it. empty quoting, no notes
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lightpole posted:It could do something like split the market and take over simple stuff that doesn't need OpenAI level power, with OpenAI acting as a premium service. This would still end OpenAI and a lot of AI companies. The number of small and mid sized businesses alone who care about nothing more than the cheapest price will eat it up. You will be dealing with an "AI" customer service bot that refuses to discuss Tianenmen Square in the next 3 years. facialimpediment posted:But yeah, Project 2025 in progress and it's not even particularly hidden. If I had to pick the one thing about the media and ruling class handjob Trump received leading up to and just after the election that pisses me off the most, the coverage of Project 2025 has got to be top 3. "Trump says he doesn't know anything about it and the retired union steel mill workers in this Ohio diner couldn't care less if he did" are you loving kidding me
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Zamujasa posted:fond memories of "don't be a doomer", "quit posting donnie wriggling out of the jam memes" etc only for donnie to once again wriggle his way out of every single jam and become the american god king "Post your map" arzi was right e: loving hell that was almost 10 years ago now
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Woodchip posted:Medicaid? JFC. Drake meme but with Trump: JFC?  KFC 
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Ultimate Shrek Fan posted:as for who is the driving factor behind project 2025, im guessing stephen miller Right now? Probably still the Federalist Society. A motley crew of true believers, and opportunists who will say whatever the Kochs and their ilk will write a check for. They're riding the tiger though, just like von Hindenburg and co did last time around.
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stealie72 posted:Love being back in the halcyon days of governance by making up random poo poo and waiting for judges to decide what sticks. Part of me - not the good part of me - is screaming "stop saving them from themselves" The people at the top of this will never ever suffer though so pretty sure that would still be a net negative for everyone else
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shame on an IGA posted:eagerly awaiting the 10-dash line More like the DoorDash line
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CBJSprague24 posted:Speaking of Greenland, what does happen if the orange one orders Operation Bigly Deal and mobilizes an invasion? Would that constitute an attack on Denmark and, thus, NATO? Thanks to our robust separation of powers, declaring war is a function of Congress and not the Execuahahaha just kidding they'll find a fig leaf in the AUMF Hail
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Per PPRuNe, it was an American CRJ from Wichita and a US Army VIP transport. https://www.pprune.org/accidents-close-calls/663888-aa5342-down-dca.html US air travel had a really good run. Our last big crash was in what, 2009? If this turns out to be yet another ATC fuckup (and it seems like it must be on some level)... big yikes. There is seriously hard work to do with ATC staffing, training, recruiting, mental health/stress management... but the powers that be have been beating the DEI drum because one of the controllers in a recent incident was black, so...
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