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12-30-2018, 11:44 PM
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#176
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
lol, one line out of that I'd forgotten about was when the chick goes "I think there's a revolution happening pretty soon?" when asked why Iran. There is if you guys have any say in it, I guess.
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12-31-2018, 12:13 AM
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#177
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
Lolollol (waiting on me sklansky to explain how that is really genius level geography)
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12-31-2018, 12:24 AM
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#178
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
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Originally Posted by zikzak
To this day that really pisses me off. We knew. The run up to war was obviously bull**** to anybody paying even a little bit of attention. This retconned crap about only discovering the truth years later is pure, self-serving nonsense by *******s trying to hide their guilt. We already knew it was a bunch of lies, and we did it anyway.
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Per Hanlon's Razor, I think the population at large did not know that (look how factually uninformed everyone is in the present day) but I will allow that part of the reason they didn't know (again, as in the present day) is that they sought out information which confirmed what they wanted to believe. In elite circles, yeah, everyone knew but didn't care.
I don't even remember what I thought about that at the time. I was certainly opposed to the war and went to the protest (we got about 7% of the population out in Adelaide, biggest protest of my lifetime) but I don't think I had any strong opinion that the WMD intel was bull****. Pretty sure I was agnostic on it, thought the intel was pretty weaksauce and that it didn't justify the war. I was 22-23 at the time the debate was happening, so probably insufficiently cynical.
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12-31-2018, 12:49 AM
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#179
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
Am I ponied and didn't notice or has nobody posted the LA Times interview with John Kelly?
Most interesting thing in it imo is that Kelly says that the family separation thing was a decision by noted scumbag and gnome Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions which took the White House by surprise:
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In May, Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions announced a zero-tolerance policy for immigration violations. U.S. officials already had begun to put the policy into practice, resulting in hundreds of migrant children being separated from their parents.
Kelly said Sessions’ announcement caught the White House by surprise.
“What happened was Jeff Sessions, he was the one that instituted the zero-tolerance process on the border that resulted in both people being detained and the family separation,” Kelly said. “He surprised us.”
The chaotic implementation then fell primarily on the Department of Health and Human Services and Nielsen, who came under fire for standing on the White House podium and saying there was no policy of separating families.
“She is a good soldier; she took the face shot,” a senior White House official said on background. “No one asked her to do it, but by the time we could put together a better strategy, she’d already owned it.”
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This is worth noting as well, this is the pull quote most outlets are going with:
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Kelly’s supporters say he stepped in to block or divert the president on dozens of matters large and small. They credit him, in part, for persuading Trump not to pull U.S. forces out of South Korea, or withdraw from NATO, as he had threatened.
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12-31-2018, 12:51 AM
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#180
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
Also, pretty sure the "senior White House official on background" is just John Kelly still.
Edit:
Also, phrasing dude, seriously.
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12-31-2018, 01:00 AM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Winesburg, Ohio
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
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Originally Posted by zikzak
To this day that really pisses me off. We knew. The run up to war was obviously bull**** to anybody paying even a little bit of attention. This retconned crap about only discovering the truth years later is pure, self-serving nonsense by *******s trying to hide their guilt. We already knew it was a bunch of lies, and we did it anyway.
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CNN was ginning people up for the Iraq war before we even knew what happened. That was some surreal ****. Everyone was hung-ho ready to take down Saddam because he might have WMDs even though he had nothing to do with 9/11 and he’d been a contained threat for a decade. It’s like literally everyone I knew had lost their mind. And then we had the PATRIOT Act which was just such a cheap knockoff of 1984 it was embarrassing.
Basically it just takes one illegal immigrant committing a major terror attack and Trump will be president for life. This country really is that dumb.
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12-31-2018, 01:26 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
...which is why every single day I ask myself if I should just start grifting these people.
Also, I just heard that apparently mass murders get all kinds of fan mail in jail. Specifically, Chris Watts who murdered his pregnant wife and two toddlers has college girls sending him naked pictures and adding money to his prison account.
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12-31-2018, 01:48 AM
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Digg'n the gifs
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Location: Kansas City
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
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Originally Posted by OmgGlutten!
...which is why every single day I ask myself if I should just start grifting these people.
Also, I just heard that apparently mass murders get all kinds of fan mail in jail. Specifically, Chris Watts who murdered his pregnant wife and two toddlers has college girls sending him naked pictures and adding money to his prison account.
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Set up a Gofundme for the Gofundme for the wall.
"Donations have slowed down for the wall Gofundme. If you donate here, we can then turnaround and increase the funds over there. Two Gofundmes are better than one!"
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12-31-2018, 03:19 AM
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Save the Cheerleader, Save the World
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
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Originally Posted by OmgGlutten!
...which is why every single day I ask myself if I should just start grifting these people.
Also, I just heard that apparently mass murders get all kinds of fan mail in jail. Specifically, Chris Watts who murdered his pregnant wife and two toddlers has college girls sending him naked pictures and adding money to his prison account.
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Solid job by those girls' parents.
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12-31-2018, 03:44 AM
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still catching up
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The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: Individual 1, Thread 2, Year 3
seems more like a solid job by Chris Watts, but I won’t argue with you...
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12-31-2018, 03:58 AM
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old hand
Join Date: Feb 2008
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
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Originally Posted by OmgGlutten!
...which is why every single day I ask myself if I should just start grifting these people.
Also, I just heard that apparently mass murders get all kinds of fan mail in jail. Specifically, Chris Watts who murdered his pregnant wife and two toddlers has college girls sending him naked pictures and adding money to his prison account.
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In MIke Tyson's autobiography, he wrote that while he was in prison for raping Desiree Washington, he used to get lots of naked pictures from women in the mail. Naturally, Tyson did the honorable thing with such pictures: he sold them to other inmates for use to masturbate.
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12-31-2018, 04:04 AM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Master of the Obvious
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
I’m assuming you misread that post wiper. Not really your style of humor there.
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12-31-2018, 04:49 AM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: East Coast
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
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Originally Posted by JimHammer
Set up a Gofundme for the Gofundme for the wall.
"Donations have slowed down for the wall Gofundme. If you donate here, we can then turnaround and increase the funds over there. Two Gofundmes are better than one!"
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1. Start a 527 group with the acronym WALL. Welcome to America Legally Latinx. It's goal will be for immigration reform to expand legal immigration.
2. Start a GoFundMe for the WALL, and make it just confusing enough for Trumpers to fall for it (so like only mildly confusing).
3. Use most of the money to actually do what you set out to with WALL, and skim a little to pay yourself for the time and effort. Maybe $50/hr or something for your time.
Like what's the o/u on how much money you could grift for the greater good that way? Six figures? Seven?
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12-31-2018, 04:55 AM
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#189
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: East Coast
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
Question or the lawyers, and your answer does not constitute legal advice yada yada yada... Breitbart embedded a tweet (and the picture I tweeted) of mine in an article about NFL attendance. They never asked, although I assume they don't have to since a tweet is already published publicly, etc... Legally can I force them to take it down or anything like that? I've seen cable news outlets ask for permission to use it, but I assume that's because it's being put on TV, not just used online.
And the only real reason I even care to get it taken down is because **** Breitbart, that's why.
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12-31-2018, 07:39 AM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
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Originally Posted by cuserounder
And the only real reason I even care to get it taken down is because **** Breitbart, that's why.
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If they've been foolish enough to embed it instead of screencapping it, changing your handle to "**** Breitbart" will probably get the job done, and hey, good for a laugh, too.
Last edited by All-In Flynn; 12-31-2018 at 07:39 AM.
Reason: IANAL yada yada
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12-31-2018, 07:55 AM
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#191
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Shimmy Town
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
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Originally Posted by All-In Flynn
If they've been foolish enough to embed it instead of screencapping it, changing your handle to "**** Breitbart" will probably get the job done, and hey, good for a laugh, too.
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From my experience Trumpers screen cap everything. A handful of them that sort of know how to use computers will screen cap something so the rest can share it.
On the forum I post at with a lot of Trumpers you can embed twitter yet they legit never do it, it's always a screencap of a twitter post.
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12-31-2018, 08:04 AM
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#192
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
If he means this article, they all seem to be embedded.
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12-31-2018, 08:52 AM
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WITCH HUNT!
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12-31-2018, 08:56 AM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
That sounds a lot like abandoning the idea of an all concrete wall, but wtf do I know
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12-31-2018, 09:03 AM
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WITCH HUNT!
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12-31-2018, 09:06 AM
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veteran
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Florida
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
He's just so needy.
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12-31-2018, 09:13 AM
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WITCH HUNT!
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12-31-2018, 09:19 AM
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WITCH HUNT!
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12-31-2018, 09:30 AM
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WITCH HUNT!
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12-31-2018, 09:40 AM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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re: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: State of Emergency
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Originally Posted by LostOstrich
That sounds a lot like abandoning the idea of an all concrete wall, but wtf do I know
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I guess we will have to wait until see-through concrete becomes available.
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