Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

jwhouk

jwhouk

Fun Fact: Wal-Mart was founded on July 2nd, 1962. I found this out as wife and I were perusing the local Supercenter on Friday.
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

There aren't a lot of Walmarts near here, but from the ones nearest us, if someone broke out in the Star-Spangled Banner, most likely people would stop and stare. Or possibly have security standing by.

EDIT: Walmart. I just realized everyone has been spelling it differently in this thread, and it was throwing my usual bad spelling into a tizzy.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

We literally don't have that much flags up in a supermarket even in times like this with the EC going on. Under normal circumstances you'd be hard-pressed to find a Belgian flag anywhere in a shop like that, except on a few chocolate/beer/strawberries labels saying they're Belgian.
Yes, the jingoism from the far right and the ultranationalism is dangerous and weird and all that - but even the far more moderate "regular" patriotism from the rest is still weird to those of us whose cultures have been shaped by nationalism gone bad. As the joke goes, show your pride in your nation by taking care of your poor, your weak, your unhealthy - not by waving a flag and pretending to be proud of something you have little to do with.

All that aside, happy 4th!
 
Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

Celt Z said:
There aren't a lot of Walmarts near here, but from the ones nearest us, if someone broke out in the Star-Spangled Banner, most likely people would stop and stare. Or possibly have security standing by.

EDIT: Walmart. I just realized everyone has been spelling it differently in this thread, and it was throwing my usual bad spelling into a tizzy.
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corporate.walmart.com

Walmart Changes its Legal Name to Reflect How Customers Want to Shop

BENTONVILLE, Ark., Dec. 6, 2017 – Reflecting its growing status as an omni-channel retailer Walmart today announced plans to change the company’s legal name from Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. to Walmart Inc. effective Feb. 1, 2018. The name change chiefly demonstrates the company’s growing emphasis on...
corporate.walmart.com corporate.walmart.com

#whynotboth?
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

PatrThom said:
Yeah it's been Wal~Mart, Wal*Mart, Wal-Mart, but now it's Walmart.

--Patrik
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This passage from the Hitchhikers Guide radio show comes to mind. The last bit is the important part.
And then one particular cloning machine got badly out of sync with itself. Asked to produce six copies of a wonderfully talented and attractive girl called “Lintilla” for a Bratis-Vogen escort agency, whilst another machine was busy creating five-hundred lonely business executives in order to keep the laws of supply and demand operating profitably, the machine went to work. Unfortunately, it malfunctioned in such a way that it got halfway through creating each new Lintilla before the previous one was actually completed. Which meant, quite simply, that it was impossible ever to turn it off - without committing murder. This problem taxed the minds, first of the cloning engineers, then of the priests, then of the letters page of ’The Sidereal Record Straigtener’, and finally of the lawyers, who experimented vainly with ways of redefining murder, re-evaluating it, and in the end, even respelling it, in the hope that no one would notice.
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PatrThom

PatrThom

"Vaccinations? More like Nazis!"
"Fauci? More like Mengele!"
"Jill Biden? More like Eva Braun!"
What the world looks like through MTG's eyes:
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--Patrick
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Locking people up in cages, keeping people from due prices just because of their color or religion, deporting thousands of innocents, spending billions on weapons and war materials while ignoring what the economy really needs, peddling lies and falsehoods under the guise of "news", setting their voters on their political opponents even going to death threats, abandoning international treaties, meeting long time allies suffer, making deals with the Devil...
I really don't understand why people didn't compare the national-socialist worker's party to the modern day US Republicans back then. Oh wait, there's a timeline issue I guess.
 
Shawn

Shawn

figmentPez said:
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Oh cool. So they can prove this has been a family motto for longer than it's been an oath for QAnon?
Cause oh man. They would look like such dip-shits if they couldn't.

Might as well sue the internet on the grounds that it keeps them from being able to get away with douche-baggery.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Shawn said:
Oh cool. So they can prove this has been a family motto for longer than it's been an oath for QAnon?
Cause oh man. They would look like such dip-shits if they couldn't.

Might as well sue the internet on the grounds that it keeps them from being able to get away with douche-baggery.
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They'll also have to explain why, if it's not an oath, and it's not the qanon oath, why he tweeted the video with the qanon hashtag #taketheoath
 
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Celt Z

Celt Z

Side question: what is up with that hideous dress on that woman on the right side? Lady, did you actually pay money for eyesore, or did you take snippets from Twitter and iron them onto your dress?
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

www.cnbc.com

Biden fires Social Security boss, a Trump appointee who refused to resign

The White House said the Social Security commissioner, Andrew Saul, "undermined and politicized" the agency's benefits.
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From the article:
The White House said the Social Security commissioner, Andrew Saul, “undermined and politicized” the agency’s benefits, among other things that warranted his firing. "Since taking office, Commissioner Saul has undermined and politicized Social Security disability benefits, terminated the agency’s telework policy that was utilized by up to 25 percent of the agency’s workforce, not repaired SSA’s relationships with relevant Federal employee unions including in the context of COVID-19 workplace safety planning, reduced due process protections for benefits appeals hearings, and taken other actions that run contrary to the mission of the agency and the President’s policy agenda,”
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Saul told The Washington Post, however, that he plans to log back into work on Monday.
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What IS it with these people? The symbol for the GqP shouldn't be an elephant, it should be a picture of Monty Python and The Holy Grail's Black Knight.

--Patrick
 
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