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Postby Nazeroth » Wed Jan 22, 2020 4:00 pm

Gormwood wrote:
Totenborg wrote:I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you endorse the South American style of corruption.

As long as it lets him keep his shootys he's fine and dandy with it.


South American curruption is actually Pro-Gun control :roll:
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Postby The East Marches II » Wed Jan 22, 2020 4:04 pm

Austria-Bohemia-Hungary wrote:Whatever happens, America has certainly not become greater after almost four years of Donald. It has in fact started the path to joining South American caudilloships.


My good boy, you forget the beginnings of all this. That is a very myopic view.

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Postby Penguin Union Nation » Wed Jan 22, 2020 4:04 pm

I have a feeling Trump's inevitable acquittal is just going to re-energnize his base, and that's bad news for the election (I mean, unless you support Trump, I guess).

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Postby Gig em Aggies » Wed Jan 22, 2020 4:06 pm

Penguin Union Nation wrote:I have a feeling Trump's inevitable acquittal is just going to re-energnize his base, and that's bad news for the election (I mean, unless you support Trump, I guess).

not really Bernie has a base that's energized as well but not like trump but the DNC is to busy tearing itself apart to make meaningful gains to appeal to more voters they have been since day 1 back in 2016
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Postby Gormwood » Wed Jan 22, 2020 4:06 pm

Penguin Union Nation wrote:I have a feeling Trump's inevitable acquittal is just going to re-energnize his base, and that's bad news for the election (I mean, unless you support Trump, I guess).

Trump can't win on base alone. The ones who aren't indoctrinated and can decide whether or not they think his crimes are severe enough to warrant removal are the people that matter.
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Postby The Black Forrest » Wed Jan 22, 2020 4:19 pm

Penguin Union Nation wrote:I have a feeling Trump's inevitable acquittal is just going to re-energnize his base, and that's bad news for the election (I mean, unless you support Trump, I guess).


How do you re-engergize something that was already going to vote for him?
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Postby Totenborg » Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:19 pm

Bear Stearns wrote:
Totenborg wrote:I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you endorse the South American style of corruption.


If we build the wall maybe we'll stop importing corrupt South Americans :^)

The ones coming aren't the corrupt ones.
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Postby Totenborg » Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:22 pm

Gormwood wrote:
Totenborg wrote:I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you endorse the South American style of corruption.

As long as it lets him keep his shootys he's fine and dandy with it.

So it would seem.
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Postby Hurtful Thoughts » Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:32 pm

Penguin Union Nation wrote:I have a feeling Trump's inevitable acquittal is just going to re-energnize his base, and that's bad news for the election (I mean, unless you support Trump, I guess).

The "Bi-winning" meme striketh again.

... I suddenly feel old for referancing a ten year old dank meme and re-purposing it to the needs of the Trumpwagon.
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Postby Austria-Bohemia-Hungary » Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:33 pm

Hurtful Thoughts wrote:
Penguin Union Nation wrote:I have a feeling Trump's inevitable acquittal is just going to re-energnize his base, and that's bad news for the election (I mean, unless you support Trump, I guess).

The "Bi-winning" meme striketh again.

If Donald declared himself Greatest Eternal-President-Chairman like Kim the First these people would see nothing wrong with it, rather they'd be hailing it as a new era of "freedom and democracy".
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Postby Hurtful Thoughts » Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:41 pm

Austria-Bohemia-Hungary wrote:
Hurtful Thoughts wrote:The "Bi-winning" meme striketh again.

If Donald declared himself Greatest Eternal-President-Chairman like Kim the First these people would see nothing wrong with it, rather they'd be hailing it as a new era of "freedom and democracy".

Ironic since some of them thought that was Ms Rodham's angle.

"Nobody's right, if everybody's wrong"- A story of a booggett.
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Mokostana wrote:See, Hurty cared not if the mission succeeded or not, as long as it was spectacular trainwreck. Sometimes that was the host Nation firing a SCUD into a hospital to destroy a foreign infection and accidentally sparking a rebellion... or accidentally starting the Mokan Drug War

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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:44 pm

Hurtful Thoughts wrote:
Austria-Bohemia-Hungary wrote:If Donald declared himself Greatest Eternal-President-Chairman like Kim the First these people would see nothing wrong with it, rather they'd be hailing it as a new era of "freedom and democracy".

Ironic since some of them thought that was Ms Rodham's angle.

"Nobody's right, if everybody's wrong"- A story of a booggett.

I believe she goes by "Mrs. Clinton."
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Postby Hurtful Thoughts » Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:48 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Hurtful Thoughts wrote:Ironic since some of them thought that was Ms Rodham's angle.

"Nobody's right, if everybody's wrong"- A story of a booggett.

I believe she goes by "Mrs. Clinton."

Actually, she's dropped the r back in 2016.

That or every major news agency has been committing a rather big typo.
(Ironic since NYT kept refering to her as Mrs until the end of 2015)

Which circles back to "if a newpaper says it's true, is it admissable in court?"
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Mokostana wrote:See, Hurty cared not if the mission succeeded or not, as long as it was spectacular trainwreck. Sometimes that was the host Nation firing a SCUD into a hospital to destroy a foreign infection and accidentally sparking a rebellion... or accidentally starting the Mokan Drug War

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Postby Tarsonis » Thu Jan 23, 2020 10:44 am




Given Schiffs ridiculousness, I'd hide too. Second hand embarrassment makes me uncomfortable
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Postby Ifreann » Thu Jan 23, 2020 11:07 am

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Given Schiffs ridiculousness, I'd hide too. Second hand embarrassment makes me uncomfortable

It was my understanding that Senators were required to stay in the chamber.
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Postby Asle Leopolka » Thu Jan 23, 2020 11:09 am

Ifreann wrote:
Tarsonis wrote:

Given Schiffs ridiculousness, I'd hide too. Second hand embarrassment makes me uncomfortable

It was my understanding that Senators were required to stay in the chamber.

"On pain of imprisonment," which frankly sounds preferable compared to what Schiff & co are doing. Plus, congressional "imprisonment" is sitting in a holding cell under the Capitol building, which again sounds preferable.
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Postby Gormwood » Thu Jan 23, 2020 11:11 am

Asle Leopolka wrote:
Ifreann wrote:It was my understanding that Senators were required to stay in the chamber.

"On pain of imprisonment," which frankly sounds preferable compared to what Schiff & co are doing. Plus, congressional "imprisonment" is sitting in a holding cell under the Capitol building, which again sounds preferable.

How about if Ted Cruz reads Green Eggs and Ham out loud again.
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Postby Ifreann » Thu Jan 23, 2020 11:38 am

Asle Leopolka wrote:
Ifreann wrote:It was my understanding that Senators were required to stay in the chamber.

"On pain of imprisonment," which frankly sounds preferable compared to what Schiff & co are doing. Plus, congressional "imprisonment" is sitting in a holding cell under the Capitol building, which again sounds preferable.

Clearly they should all be arrested, then.
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Postby Vassenor » Thu Jan 23, 2020 11:41 am

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Given Schiffs ridiculousness, I'd hide too. Second hand embarrassment makes me uncomfortable


TIL it's ridiculous to present the findings of an investigation.
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Postby Gormwood » Thu Jan 23, 2020 11:43 am

Another classic case of Trump undermining his own side's argument with They Said He Said, now weaponized by the Democrats.

Trump tapes help incriminate the President at his own trial
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Postby Valrifell » Thu Jan 23, 2020 11:45 am

Gormwood wrote:Another classic case of Trump undermining his own side's argument with They Said He Said, now weaponized by the Democrats.

Trump tapes help incriminate the President at his own trial


I thought we learned from Nixon that recording yourself doing bad guy things wasn't a super great idea.
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Postby Gormwood » Thu Jan 23, 2020 11:47 am

Valrifell wrote:
Gormwood wrote:Another classic case of Trump undermining his own side's argument with They Said He Said, now weaponized by the Democrats.

Trump tapes help incriminate the President at his own trial


I thought we learned from Nixon that recording yourself doing bad guy things wasn't a super great idea.

Now I failed a Sanity check with an image of Trump in the place of Billie Eilish dancing in the Bad Guy video.
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Postby Valrifell » Thu Jan 23, 2020 11:49 am

Gormwood wrote:
Valrifell wrote:
I thought we learned from Nixon that recording yourself doing bad guy things wasn't a super great idea.

Now I failed a Sanity check with an image of Trump in the place of Billie Eilish dancing in the Bad Guy video.


It cost you nothing to share that thought, yet here we are.
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