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December LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of December?

Matthew Whitaker

10 21.74%

John Kelly

6 13.04%

Kjrstyn Njielessen

8 17.39%

James Mattis

1 2.17%

Ryan Zinke

0 0%

Donald Trump Jr

8 17.39%

Roger Stone

4 8.70%

Ivanka Trump

1 2.17%

Rod Rosenstein

6 13.04%

Write-in

2 4.35%

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12-03-2018 , 12:15 AM

#51

ScreaminAsian

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

On the other hand, if you don't act like a prey animal you either scare it off or confuse it. This guy has the right idea; if he took off running he'd be dead.

"this is unbelievable"

no i don't think so. if the mountain lion was inside a gym it'd be unbelievable.

12-03-2018 , 01:46 AM

#52

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

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Whitaker is very possible. However, I think Trump will try and fire Rosenstein as the heat gets turned up in the Mueller investigation.

12-03-2018 , 07:30 AM

#53

Victor

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Looked like dude had on a biking helmet. I proly take my chances out biking it.

12-03-2018 , 10:27 AM

#54

champstark

aka starkwired

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 14,838

Seems like Phil Murphy (NJ Governor) needs to resign:

https://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf...at_hearin.html

Quote:

On Tuesday, the Legislature will hear from Katie Brennan, the woman who says she was sexually assaulted by a senior adviser to Gov. Phil Murphy's campaign last year, and then abused again by an administration that gave him a plum job while ignoring her as she banged every drum she could find for over a year.

"I've been denied justice," Brennan, 31, said Friday in an exclusive interview. "It's incredibly disappointing. At each step, people failed to take meaningful action. At each step it wasn't taken seriously enough. And he remained in a position of power."

These hearings present a serious threat to the governor, who claims that he didn't know a thing about this until the Wall Street Journal called in October, despite Brennan's contacts with his senior staff months earlier, and despite a meaty internal discussion among his top aides about the decision to hire the alleged attacker, Al Alvarez, in a top-paying job in the administration.

12-03-2018 , 10:59 AM

#55

Trolly McTrollson

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The GOP’s favorite gay token is busto. Also, why are these guys all trying to move to Australia?

Quote:

The far right activist Milo Yiannopoulos was more than $2m in debt during 2018, according to a collection of documents assembled by his former Australian tour promoters and seen by Guardian Australia. Creditors listed in the documents include employees of his company, a wedding venue and his former sponsors, the billionaire Mercer family.

The documents indicate that as of April 2018, Yiannopoulos owed $1.6m to his own company, $400,000 to the Mercers, $153,215 to his former lawyers, $76,574 to former collaborator and Breitbart writer Allum Bokhari, and $20,000 to the luxury jewellery brand Cartier.

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Yiannopoulos’s disagreements with the promoters did not put him off the country, though. In a September text, he says that “I am really seriously considering a move to Australia in the next year or two. The political environment in the US is insane. So pulling this off well really matters to me”. In another text he worries that a failed tour would damage his earning potential in the country.

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The British-born former Breitbart writer was to be accompanied by various guests, including the rightwing US commentator Ann Coulter, the English Defence League founder Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson, the Australian senator Fraser Anning, who once called for a “final solution to immigration in Australia”; and the Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes, who was himself refused a visa to enter Australia late last week.

https://www.theguardian.com/australi...&ICID=ref_fark

12-03-2018 , 11:09 AM

#56

eyebooger

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Milo's twitter thoughts on the matter:

https://twitter.com/nero

12-03-2018 , 12:10 PM

#57

dth123451

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Michele Obama ripping Sheryl Sandberg makes me happy:

“Don’t Lean In. That **** doesn’t work.” Looooolll rekt.

12-03-2018 , 12:28 PM

#58

DVaut1

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12-03-2018 , 12:34 PM

#59

AllTheCheese

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Nah, bro. Coming from someone in the US, that framing of metropolitan elite and global elite versus rural poor, her words, is totally reactionary.

12-03-2018 , 01:08 PM

#60

Trolly McTrollson

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Axl/Anderson 2020!

12-03-2018 , 01:08 PM

#61

smacc25

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David attenborough at the U.N.

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...climate-summit

12-03-2018 , 01:32 PM

#62

Namath12

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We must maintain good relations with these guys

12-03-2018 , 01:41 PM

#63

microbet

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Dunno what's going on with Pamela Anderson, but a gas tax is a politically very wrong way to do this. Manufacturer requirements on emissions and subsidy for zero emission transportation is where the $ should do. Also charging more for extraction rights, transportation and refining of FFs.

12-03-2018 , 01:49 PM

#64

Trolly McTrollson

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Yeah, that’s a disappointing analysis and we should expect more from our Baywatch stars.

12-03-2018 , 01:55 PM

#65

DVaut1

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Originally Posted by AllTheCheese

Nah, bro. Coming from someone in the US, that framing of metropolitan elite and global elite versus rural poor, her words, is totally reactionary.

Fair, but constructing equal and egalitarian societies? 99% that are fed up with inequality? She's close is what I'm saying. Think if he can get Pamela and Sarah Michelle Gellar and Tiffany Amber Theissen saying leftist **** on twitter, watch out, how long can the global bourgeois survive. Not long, not long.

12-03-2018 , 02:03 PM

#66

Trolly McTrollson

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Can one of you French bros explain to a USAan why all of France hates Macron now? Is the Le Pen family gonna take control?

12-03-2018 , 02:11 PM

#67

DVaut1

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Superficially fuel prices and taxes on fuel. As for the deeper reasons, if you read around French sources, I think there are lots of hot takes on the gilets jaunes situation and what the motivating factors are, my informal USAan read is that the anger is multi-faceted and complex, thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

12-03-2018 , 02:15 PM

#68

bobman0330

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Can one of you French bros explain to a USAan why all of France hates Macron now? Is the Le Pen family gonna take control?

Would you believe it's an opportunistic alliance between the far right and the far right that aims to destroy the centrist government to spread the political chaos that will empower extremist elements? Very foreign and exotic concepts at play.

12-03-2018 , 02:23 PM

#69

champstark

aka starkwired

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bobman0330

Would you believe it's an opportunistic alliance between the far right and the far right that aims to destroy the centrist government to spread the political chaos that will empower extremist elements? Very foreign and exotic concepts at play.

Solid Freudian slip there.

Seems like anything that might lead to Le Pen taking control is a bad thing.

12-03-2018 , 03:09 PM

#70

Namath12

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

The GOP’s favorite gay token is busto. Also, why are these guys all trying to move to Australia?
...

the Australian senator Fraser Anning, who once called for a “final solution to immigration in Australia”

This Fraser Anning guy seems swell

12-03-2018 , 03:34 PM

#71

ScreaminAsian

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Seinfeld, current day:

Elaine loves to juul and upon seeing they're not gonna sell them in stores buys several cases as a lifetime supply, but then is tortured as to what situation merits a puff of juul. "Is this juulworthy?"

12-03-2018 , 03:49 PM

#72

UsedToBeGood

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Can one of you French bros explain to a USAan why all of France hates Macron now? Is the Le Pen family gonna take control?

Seems like Macron is basically an elite centrist and represents that world, sort of like a Clinton type. So issues like wealth consolidation to the 1%, etc., he's a part of and there are a lot of people not doing well and that's where a lot of anger comes from. People on the left are fighting for more equality and populism; people on the right are probably also looking for something similar but through a racist worldview and blame immigrants for their problems.

12-03-2018 , 03:53 PM

#73

microbet

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Macron > Clinton but generally in the same category.

My impression is that he's more like Obama. More naturally aligned with progressives but still attached and indebted to the corporate/finance world. He comes off pretty well in Varoufakis' Adults in the Room.

12-03-2018 , 04:02 PM

#74

Namath12

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I assume this was during a Super Bowl party

12-03-2018 , 04:03 PM

#75

Huehuecoyotl

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An article about insane Congressman who created his own "intelligence" agency to fight the Soviets and "subversives" in America that was pretty much the John Birch Society but sounding official called Western Goals

Quote:

McDonald’s sense of besiegement bled into his personal life. He often wore a bulletproof vest, his brother told the Atlanta Constitution in 1983. He kept significant assets in silver. At least one report from the same paper said he stocked purified drinking water and dehydrated food in his living room. A legendary teetotaler, McDonald also reportedly abstained—at least some of the time—from other pleasures of the flesh. “We’re at war,” his ex-wife said the future congressman once told her, according to the Atlanta Constitution, “and people do not make love in wartime.”

Quote:

Then there was the “alternative” medicine.

Quote:

Then there was the potential gun-running scandal.

Quote:

Some of these government organizations actually appeared to launder Western Goals’ intelligence to launch investigations into individuals or groups deemed suspicious. According to contemporary news reports, individuals working for local or federal law enforcement would provide Western Goals with derogatory—and potentially illegally acquired—intelligence information about perceived radicals or groups. Rees, the publications director, would then publish this information in a “journalistic” Western Goals newsletter. McDonald would subsequently enter whole passages from this newsletter in writing into the Congressional Record, which shielded him from libel. (By law, members of Congress are immune from lawsuits targeting statements made in the Record.) Western Goals would then cite McDonald’s statements in its own public reports.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/st...p-state-222726

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