Anyone else under the impression that NK's nuclear development has accelerated the last year or so? Any chance if it has that it's a product of Russia's ongoing troll game?

Elizabeth Bruneig was pretty prescient when she got a tweet deleting bot to delete her tweets after 24 hours.

Who was the brave reporter who did the back search to find the tweet?

So this should have set off red flags immediately to look at the tweet

What was the tweet?

and the context?

It was the day after a lot of liberals were defending Roman Polanski, trying to minimize the seriousness of the charges, or saying that he was a great artist and that should excuse it.

So the Project Veritas, Cernovich type of bad faith gotcha tactics that are just trying to own the libs by taking advantage of liberals good faith gets another reports who, from all reports, uses sarcasm.

https://www.thewrap.com/msnbc-will-n...ski-rape-joke/

They saber rattle for every new President that comes into power, trying to do a shake down in order to get more UN supplies and/or for domestic propaganda purposes. The problem is Trump has completely blown up the normal procedures to placate the situation so now it's full steam ahead.

To be honest though, even since Bush went the saber rattling route they've been on a path towards a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead. It seems to be moving at a quicker pace, but still within what they were always going to do without some kind of course correction.

lol

Too much scumbaggery to appropriately focus on today, but apparently Trump gave 2 million acres of land away in Utah, possibly to oil companies

Same. Had 1. Austria, 2. Switzerland, 3. Belgium. Kinda wanted to throw an african nation in there but couldn't think of one that would have stuck with zie german and decided to just go with both the little guys.

People are saying he just gave it back to the states. States rights ya know.

I'm way too lazy to research, but ill just assume the state plans to lease the land to oil companies for nothing and pay all sorts of their expenses because why not?

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/822495850899374080

Quoting this here from the Alabama thread because this article is an amazing takedown of Shapiro and modern conservative logic in general

Real or onion?

Deeply unpopular Congress aims to pass deeply unpopular bill for deeply unpopular president to sign

Northern part of Belgium speaks Dutch while the south speaks French.

Was interesting to go from Brussels (mostly French-speaking) to Antwerp (mostly Dutch-speaking). It was like travelling to another country.

That's a very good one. I went real because people very, very seldom post these when it's actually Onion.

Huh? Brussels was pretty darn bilingual when I was there, and if anything it seemed more Flemish. But visiting Tournai, Rochefort, and Chimay, yeah, it was a very different place.

I heard mostly French while in Brussels. That said it's no surprise for the headquarters of the EU to be a multilingual city. My hosts there spoke 5 languages fluently and were learning a sixth.

Supreme court hears the case for the Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple.

Any guesses on how they rule? Or which way gorsuch rules?

Great article. I'd nitpick by saying passages like this need to be framed instead the way Fly / Dvaut do WRT us being part of the 'normals' group by merely accepting concensus expert opinion on scientific topics. Making gender identity acceptance a left / right issue offers Shapiro and the right more legitimacy than they deserve and frankly allows for the shoehorning of bigoted / deplorable takes into what's considered acceptable political discourse.

"The argument made by the left is that this simple story doesn’t account for something important: in the real world, we don’t form our understanding of whether someone is a man or a woman by their chromosomes. Instead, we form it by how they look and act. What people mean when they say that “gender is a social construct” is not that “chromosomes are a social construct” but that in practice, gender*isn’t*reducible to chromosomes."

Biggest difference between northern and southern Belgium is whether the menu offers frites or frieten.

Hey what happened to that poster who logged the first hundred days of lunacy? That was awesome.

He can still be found in the more unsavory corners of the forum.

I was asked to watch "The Soviet Story" by a friend.I Found it interesting and thought there was a good chance some of you have seen it. How accurate is it? Is it propoganda of some kind? I know it's at least somewhat accurate.

he gave it to cattle ranchers who want to destroy the land and draw dicks on the native monuments

https://wonkette.com/601019/bundy-bu...can-get-behind

disgusting and totally unsurprising.

the Indian guy on NPR today said that they were filing suit and he hoped that Trump and the courts would listen to them as they were Americans.

what these guys fail to understand is that No, they are not American in the eyes of Trump, Republicans, and these locals. one of the local leaders, expressed his happiness that Trump had "listened to the locals", whom he claimed numbered around 15,000. So they are gonna destroy priceless and beautiful wilderness so that a few people get rich. its totally disgusting.

but not surprising.

I decided to look up the "pled" vs "pleaded" issue (again).

http://www.abajournal.com/news/artic...leaded_or_pled

Also:
https://abovethelaw.com/2011/12/gram...leaded-v-pled/

Sticking with "pled" as more consistent with brevity and plain English.

sync these videos

fox and friends 12/4/17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N6Iq7Vwngc

red hot chili peppers - one hot minute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFn2zLwVtLg