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July LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

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

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

2 3.92%

John Kelly

18 35.29%

Jared Kushner

1 1.96%

Wilbur Ross

4 7.84%

Ben Carson

0 0%

Rudy Giuliani

1 1.96%

Scott Pruitt

15 29.41%

Kellyanne Conway

2 3.92%

Rod Rosenstein

3 5.88%

Write-in

5 9.80%

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07-10-2018 , 04:03 PM

#576

All-In Flynn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

Yeah, but people wouldn't be very interested in the opinions of the owner of the smallest car company in America otherwise. Do you think the CEO of General Motors is pro-union?

True.

07-10-2018 , 04:09 PM

#577

stinkubus

Pooh-Bah

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bobman0330

Are you saying they never do clinical trials on children? Or they can only do them if the EV of the two treatments being tested is equal (whatever that would mean)? But even if you had those rules, why couldn't you take parents who don't intend to breastfeed and randomly assign the children to receive either formula or donated breastmilk?

Quick Google research indicates that congress had to pass a law to compel pharma companies to conduct clinical trials on children because they would not do so on their own.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3987179/

The relevant passages are in the third paragraph.

07-10-2018 , 04:10 PM

#578

Trolly McTrollson

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At least the Thai govt got a free child escape pod for its space force.

07-10-2018 , 05:54 PM

#579

ScreaminAsian

For President

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Univision to sell The Onion, Gizmodo Media Group

07-10-2018 , 06:12 PM

#580

pvn

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Elon Musk queries expertise of Thai cave rescue officials

https://www.theguardian.com/news/201...als?CMP=twt_gu

07-10-2018 , 06:38 PM

#581

uDevil

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Quote:

Originally Posted by pvn

Elon Musk queries expertise of Thai cave rescue officials

https://www.theguardian.com/news/201...als?CMP=twt_gu

Quote:

SpaceX engineering is absolutely certain that mini-sub can do entire journey & demonstrate at any time,” Musk added.

If their engineers really do go around spouting this kind of nonsense, it's only a matter of time before SpaceX ****s up bigly.

07-10-2018 , 06:42 PM

#582

Jiggymike

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When the mother’s body spends hundreds of calories making a food specifically to feed her baby we can probably just assume it’s good, ya know? Like our body also probably poops, pees, and sweats out the correct thing as well.

Bill Gates and JK Rowling def not evil billionaires, Warren Buffet seems maybe alright, only ones I can think of offhand.

07-10-2018 , 07:41 PM

#583

ChrisV

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One thing that distinguishes all three of those people is that they have an appreciation of the role luck plays in success. I know Gates is aware of how lucky he was to have mainframe access in his teens and that MS-DOS got hitched to the very successful IBM PC architecture.

07-10-2018 , 07:45 PM

#584

Noze

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Lady who founded Spanx is probably the most evil billionaire in the world.

07-10-2018 , 09:18 PM

#585

ChrisV

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Been at Summer League a bit and not only is everyone requested to stand for the anthem every day, but the announcer says "please direct your eyes to the Stars and Stripes hanging from the ceiling... The Flag of Freedom!". Gotta say it is pretty tilting. The anthem renditions are always awful too. Today was a high school choir, which was much better.

07-10-2018 , 09:40 PM

#586

champstark

aka starkwired

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 14,838

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...merica-1126106

Quote:

Sarah Palin on Tuesday took to Facebook to reveal that she was unknowingly interviewed by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for his upcoming Showtime series, Who Is America?

The former Republican vice-presidential candidate said she sat down for an interview with Cohen thinking he was a wounded U.S. veteran.

"Yup — we were duped. Ya’ got me, Sacha. Feel better now?" Palin began. "I join a long list of American public personalities who have fallen victim to the evil, exploitive, sick 'humor' of the British 'comedian' Sacha Baron Cohen, enabled and sponsored by CBS/Showtime."

She continued: "This 'legit opportunity' to honor American Vets and contribute to a 'legit Showtime historical documentary' was requested of me via a speakers bureau."

Palin went on to say that she and one of her daughters traveled across the country to meet with Cohen, who, she says, "had heavily disguised himself as a disabled U.S. Veteran, fake wheelchair and all."

Palin also claimed that "the Cohen/CBS/Showtime production team purposefully dropped my daughter and me off at the wrong Washington, DC airport after the fake interview, knowing we’d miss all flights back home to Alaska." She added, "I wrote this off as yet another example of the sick nature that is media-slash-entertainment today.

hahahhahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaha

I am so ****ing pumped for this

07-10-2018 , 09:49 PM

#587

eyebooger

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 58,684

That is just about the best advertisement for that show possible.

07-10-2018 , 10:13 PM

#588

stinkubus

Pooh-Bah

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LOL at dropping them off at the wrong airport. That's an outstanding touch.

07-10-2018 , 10:17 PM

#589

Trolly McTrollson

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Quote:

Palin also claimed that "the Cohen/CBS/Showtime production team purposefully dropped my daughter and me off at the wrong Washington, DC airport after the fake interview, knowing we’d miss all flights back home to Alaska." She added, "I wrote this off as yet another example of the sick nature that is media-slash-entertainment today.

LOOOOOOOOL expertly played

07-10-2018 , 10:28 PM

#590

DudeImBetter

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Do you guys remember when "Fake News" was just fake news, a thing that existed and was specifically defined?

Not sure a better example exists of how much better the right is at spin and messaging. They realized dumbass Trumpkin's were out there in Ukraine kinda sorta hurting their brand by making boldfaced bulls*** news stories, so they co-opted the term but redefined it, using it to describe actual news stories that weren't to their liking.

Flash forward a year or two, nobody remembers what fake news is (was?) and only know of Fake News!!1! a la Trump and the GOP.

07-10-2018 , 10:36 PM

#591

Jiggymike

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Noze

Lady who founded Spanx is probably the most evil billionaire in the world.

I almost made this same joke because it’s really the sickest thing imaginable that people will defend a system in which this lady has more money than 99.99999% of other people.

07-10-2018 , 11:01 PM

#592

zikzak

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I had to ask the internet if JK Rowling was really a billionaire, and I still don't believe the answer even though it was a heavily hedged "maybe".

07-10-2018 , 11:32 PM

#593

uDevil

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So I had a comment "liked" by an apparent rando who is followed by... Guess!

Spoiler:

07-10-2018 , 11:41 PM

#594

zikzak

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Can anybody come up with a historical example where the sorts of things the US is doing right now turned out to be good? Or even an example in fiction where something similar to our present course is what the good guys do?

07-10-2018 , 11:43 PM

#595

SenorKeeed

mew mew mew

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Egyptian immigration policies vis a vis the Sea Peoples

Roman anti-Visigoth sentiment

07-10-2018 , 11:55 PM

#596

zikzak

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I'm not entirely sure the Sea Peoples and Visigoths were looking to support their families with modest careers in the building trades and food service industries.

07-10-2018 , 11:58 PM

#597

ChrisV

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lol I kind of doubt they actually dropped them at wrong airport deliberately but I hope it's true.

07-11-2018 , 12:14 AM

#598

uDevil

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Onion is obsolete.

https://twitter.com/ScienceMarchDC/s...94581852573696

07-11-2018 , 12:27 AM

#599

microbet

Solar Powered

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestlé_boycott

Re breastfeeding

There's a history of formula companies marketing the benefits to the developing world, women not being able to consistenly afford formula, their own milk drying up, watering down formula, too diluted with unsafe water and their babies dying.

07-11-2018 , 02:55 AM

#600

jalfrezi

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

I'm not entirely sure the Sea Peoples and Visigoths were looking to support their families with modest careers in the building trades and food service industries.

Lol

For desserts can you drop him off at the wrong airport?

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