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Postby Cannot think of a name » Wed Dec 05, 2018 9:19 pm

Petrasylvania wrote:
Telconi wrote:
I don't think you understand how money works...

The first three words are accurate.

C'mon man.
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Postby Senkaku » Thu Dec 06, 2018 12:45 am

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It'll be real fucking grand when some Chinese fuck is stabbing you to death with a bayonet and millions of Americans lay dead, because that's exactly where this line of thinking leads to.


I don't think we should be making budgetary decisions based on the paranoid delusions of right-wing bunker dwellers.

Everyone scoffs at my idea for a 70 trillion dollar space laser, but you won't be laughing when the Bug Men of Alpha Centauri are dissecting your brain!

I think the People's Liberation Army is a rather more concrete threat than the Bug Men of Alpha Centauri.
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Postby Ism » Thu Dec 06, 2018 12:48 am

Senkaku wrote:
Myrensis wrote:
I don't think we should be making budgetary decisions based on the paranoid delusions of right-wing bunker dwellers.

Everyone scoffs at my idea for a 70 trillion dollar space laser, but you won't be laughing when the Bug Men of Alpha Centauri are dissecting your brain!

I think the People's Liberation Army is a rather more concrete threat than the Bug Men of Alpha Centauri.


That's what they want you to think.

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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Thu Dec 06, 2018 1:14 am

First USS Fitzgerald crashed into a container ship near Japan. Now US Marine Corp aircraft are crashing into each other near Japan.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKBN1O42RU

Did someone forget to password protect your military radar software?
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Postby Western Vale Confederacy » Thu Dec 06, 2018 2:24 am

An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:First USS Fitzgerald crashed into a container ship near Japan. Now US Marine Corp aircraft are crashing into each other near Japan.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKBN1O42RU

Did someone forget to password protect your military radar software?


Quality control is about as good as I'd expect from the US with such a budget.

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Postby Zurkerx » Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:43 am

The month that keeps on giving:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 5571012613

I usually chuckle at his tweets, but this calls for a fucking kek.
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Postby Petrasylvania » Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:46 am

Zurkerx wrote:The month that keeps on giving:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 5571012613

I usually chuckle at his tweets, but this calls for a fucking kek.

If an average guy was this whiny and bitchy people would wonder if he still lives with his mother.
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Postby Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States » Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:50 am

Zurkerx wrote:The month that keeps on giving:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 5571012613

I usually chuckle at his tweets, but this calls for a fucking kek.

That apostrophe at 'judge's' makes me want to take a contingent of British soldiers and torch the White House.
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Postby Neutraligon » Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:53 am

Zurkerx wrote:The month that keeps on giving:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 5571012613

I usually chuckle at his tweets, but this calls for a fucking kek.

Huh? I fail to see how the latter part of the tweet follows from the former.
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Postby Galloism » Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:56 am

Zurkerx wrote:The month that keeps on giving:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 5571012613

I usually chuckle at his tweets, but this calls for a fucking kek.

>Presidential Harassment

I haven't laughed that hard in a while.
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Postby Neutraligon » Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:58 am

Galloism wrote:
Zurkerx wrote:The month that keeps on giving:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 5571012613

I usually chuckle at his tweets, but this calls for a fucking kek.

>Presidential Harassment

I haven't laughed that hard in a while.

I am still scratching my head on that one.
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Postby Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States » Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:01 am

Neutraligon wrote:
Zurkerx wrote:The month that keeps on giving:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 5571012613

I usually chuckle at his tweets, but this calls for a fucking kek.

Huh? I fail to see how the latter part of the tweet follows from the former.

Well, basically, he is blaming his low approval ratings on the Russia Investigation turning public opinion against him.
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Postby Neutraligon » Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:12 am

Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States wrote:
Neutraligon wrote:Huh? I fail to see how the latter part of the tweet follows from the former.

Well, basically, he is blaming his low approval ratings on the Russia Investigation turning public opinion against him.

But how is that presidential harassment...whatever that is?
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Postby Austria-Bohemia-Hungary » Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:25 am

Neutraligon wrote:
Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States wrote:Well, basically, he is blaming his low approval ratings on the Russia Investigation turning public opinion against him.

But how is that presidential harassment...whatever that is?

If this is presidential harassment then what of the eight whole years of nothingburgers like the Obama birther manufactroversy?
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Postby Farnhamia » Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:26 am

Austria-Bohemia-Hungary wrote:
Neutraligon wrote:But how is that presidential harassment...whatever that is?

If this is presidential harassment then what of the eight whole years of nothingburgers like the Obama birther manufactroversy?

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Postby Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States » Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:50 am

Neutraligon wrote:
Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States wrote:Well, basically, he is blaming his low approval ratings on the Russia Investigation turning public opinion against him.

But how is that presidential harassment...whatever that is?

Presidential harassment is a term coined either by Trump or his followers. In principle, it is mindless negativity towards the president in order to get under his skin, but in practice, it has been used to describe any criticism of president Trump. And, if you think that the Russia investigation is meant to criticise Trump, then it falls under wat they call 'presidential harassment'.
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Postby Greater vakolicci haven » Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:51 am

Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States wrote:
Neutraligon wrote:But how is that presidential harassment...whatever that is?

Presidential harassment is a term coined either by Trump or his followers. In principle, it is mindless negativity towards the president in order to get under his skin, but in practice, it has been used to describe any criticism of president Trump. And, if you think that the Russia investigation is meant to criticise Trump, then it falls under wat they call 'presidential harassment'.

Trump has faced an unprecedented level of negativity though.
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Postby Austria-Bohemia-Hungary » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:02 am

Greater vakolicci haven wrote:
Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States wrote:Presidential harassment is a term coined either by Trump or his followers. In principle, it is mindless negativity towards the president in order to get under his skin, but in practice, it has been used to describe any criticism of president Trump. And, if you think that the Russia investigation is meant to criticise Trump, then it falls under wat they call 'presidential harassment'.

Trump has faced an unprecedented level of negativity though.

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Postby Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:03 am

Greater vakolicci haven wrote:
Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States wrote:Presidential harassment is a term coined either by Trump or his followers. In principle, it is mindless negativity towards the president in order to get under his skin, but in practice, it has been used to describe any criticism of president Trump. And, if you think that the Russia investigation is meant to criticise Trump, then it falls under wat they call 'presidential harassment'.

Trump has faced an unprecedented level of negativity though.

Yes. Quite. At least, in scale. Obama received similar (or even greater) intensity of negativity, but Trump's criticism is more wide-spread. This, however, is because he is one of worst presidents, at least in living memory.
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Postby Zurkerx » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:29 am

Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States wrote:
Greater vakolicci haven wrote:Trump has faced an unprecedented level of negativity though.

Yes. Quite. At least, in scale. Obama received similar (or even greater) intensity of negativity, but Trump's criticism is more wide-spread. This, however, is because he is one of worst presidents, at least in living memory.


On Fox Obama did. The other news organizations were surely more positive to him, although not as positive as some may think.

Neutraligon wrote:
Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States wrote:Well, basically, he is blaming his low approval ratings on the Russia Investigation turning public opinion against him.

But how is that presidential harassment...whatever that is?


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Postby Juristonia » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:39 am

Greater vakolicci haven wrote:
Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States wrote:Presidential harassment is a term coined either by Trump or his followers. In principle, it is mindless negativity towards the president in order to get under his skin, but in practice, it has been used to describe any criticism of president Trump. And, if you think that the Russia investigation is meant to criticise Trump, then it falls under wat they call 'presidential harassment'.

Trump has faced an unprecedented level of negativity though.

He's also a nearly unprecedented level of awful.

It's not harassment if the negativity is accurate.
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Postby Tarsonis » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:44 am

Juristonia wrote:
Greater vakolicci haven wrote:Trump has faced an unprecedented level of negativity though.

He's also a nearly unprecedented level of awful.

It's not harassment if the negativity is accurate.


Still though. 50% at this time of term? Isn't all that bad to be honest.
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Postby Neutraligon » Thu Dec 06, 2018 1:44 pm

Tarsonis wrote:
Juristonia wrote:He's also a nearly unprecedented level of awful.

It's not harassment if the negativity is accurate.


Still though. 50% at this time of term? Isn't all that bad to be honest.

Assuming the poll is accurate. Normally that particular poll is not.
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Postby Seangoli » Thu Dec 06, 2018 1:57 pm

Juristonia wrote:
Greater vakolicci haven wrote:Trump has faced an unprecedented level of negativity though.

He's also a nearly unprecedented level of awful.

It's not harassment if the negativity is accurate.


He is also a total and unapologetic jackass. You kind of lose your right to bitch about people calling you a jackass all the time when you are a such massive jackass.

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Postby Seangoli » Thu Dec 06, 2018 1:58 pm

Tarsonis wrote:
Juristonia wrote:He's also a nearly unprecedented level of awful.

It's not harassment if the negativity is accurate.


Still though. 50% at this time of term? Isn't all that bad to be honest.


According to Rasmussen. Obama polled a few points higher at this time.

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