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

[sixpackshaker]

Wait until you see what they do when you start singing "The stars at night..."

::clap:: ::clap:: ::clap:: ::clap::

We play that at Sam Houston (national champs) home games. Puzzles the fuck out of the away fans...

 

[GasBandit]

::clap:: ::clap:: ::clap:: ::clap::

It's a real thing. Pee wee wasn't exaggerating.

 

[Frank]

That's not Americans, that's People of WalMart.

Canadians in Walmart don't burst into Oh Canada. So I'm left believing that they are in fact Americans.

 

[Squidleybits]

Canadians in Walmart don't burst into Oh Canada. So I'm left believing that they are in fact Americans.

I would be so shocked if that happened that there would be no singing lol.

 

[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]

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]

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]

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.

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

#whynotboth?

 

[PatrThom]

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

--Patrik

 

[DarkAudit]

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

--Patrik

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.

 

[Squidleybits]

I do hope that I am never a person of Walmart. Given the long hours they have....I’ve run out there in some sketchy outfits.

 

[Krisken]

Remember, corporations only care about Democracy until people stop looking.

 

[BErt]

This is fucking incredible

 

[PatrThom]

Not the first time they've been right, either.

--Patrick

 

[HCGLNS]

Well that's kind of what they do, when they left NFLD it was instantaneous and terrible.

 

[blotsfan]

Shame on the holocaust museum for letting themselves be used this way.



Note that earlier today she also was on a podcast with known Nazi Seb Gorka and stood by her equivocation of the democrats with the nazis.

Fuck the Holocaust museum.

 

[PatrThom]

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

--Patrick

 

[@Li3n]

Fuck the Holocaust museum.

Damn leftists, accusing anyone they don't agree with of being nazis...

 

[Tinwhistler]

Damn leftists, accusing anyone they don't agree with of being nazis...

You know, I don't think Nazi's would have such a bad rap if the only reason they rounded up people was to truck them to vaccination centers for a cholera vaccine or something.

 

[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.

 

[jwhouk]

And now you know why the GOP hates Critical Race Theory.

 

[figmentPez]

 

[drifter]

So their whole family is shit, not just the dad and the son? Good to know, I guess.

 

[bhamv3]

How many of you guys recite your family mottos with your right hand held up like that? Cause I don't.

 

[Frank]

If your family has a motto, your family is long overdue to a trip to the gallows.

 

[Shawn]

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]

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.

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

 

[HCGLNS]

If your family has a motto, your family is long overdue to a trip to the gallows.

Family Motto

Clasic "Ne Obliviscaris"

Modern "SOUPS ON MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!"

 

[PatrThom]

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

It actually stands for "Take Theo At The Helm"

--Patrick

 

[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?

 

[Chad Sexington]

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?

I couldn't look away. High tier awful taste but great execution

 

[PatrThom]

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?

She is apparently wearing a word cloud, but a word cloud of what source, I wonder?

--Patrick

 

[DarkAudit]

Punching nazis.

Punching republicans.

Same thing.

 

[PatrThom]

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.

www.cnbc.com

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,”
[...]
Saul told The Washington Post, however, that he plans to log back into work on Monday.

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

 

[Krisken]

He can try, but I bet IT has already removed him from the servers.