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

Now 8 cases in BE as well, so we're starting phase 2 (canceling events, schools and hospitals starting hygiene measures, blahblahblah).
 

Dave

Staff member
If you can't beat 'em, cheat.

Texas closes hundreds of polling places ahead of super Tuesday. But they were evenly spaced throughout the state so it's fine. Nah, just kidding. They were all in minority and low income areas designed to suppress minority voting.

 
Heh, these guys actually started their own church as a fuck you to Scientology.



And the Church service is a party:

 
Random politics musing (that I'm far from the first person to come up with):

If you actively fight against changing a healthcare system that heavily discourages people from getting tested for coronavirus and staying home when sick, i don't want to hear you complain when you or a loved one gets sick/dies from it.
 
Electrical Engineer writes letter criticizing red light cameras, gets fined $500, and is spuriously accused of not being an engineer.
It got even better:
Today, the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) formally announced that it voted to adopt [Matt Järlström's] new formula for determining the timing of traffic lights

So not only did he previously win the right to title himself as an "Engineer" (which he is, btw), but the organization in charge of such things just voted to adopt his formula as the international standard by which yellow lights should be timed.

The coldest, sweetest, juiciest revenge.

--Patrick
 
So, anyway, I know the internal affairs are so juicy it's hard to tear your eyes away, but has anyone noticed or any thoughts on the fact that you guys have almost entirely pulled out of Syria, leaving the remnants of your allies to get slaughtered by Isis or Russia (let's say...that's a loss), have a signed an "agreement" with the Taliban that gives them authority and rule, installing a Caliphate of Afghanistan which does not have to recognize or even keep a cease-fire with the elected government of Afghanistan (let's call that a loss - they're already bombarding government positions where- whoops- there were still American soldiers present!), have forced Iran back into opening their nuclear plants (which I guess is not a loss per se, but at the very least the exact opposite of anything anyone wanted), and adopted an appeasement policy with North Korea where they're now regularly holding missile tests and they're not even getting a slap on the wrist anymore (which, I guess, is not a loss as such, just a show of weakness). Oh, and you somehow managed to present a "solution" to Palestine and Israel that was so ridiculously one-sided no-one even took it serious or expected it to lead to any sort of negotiations.
Trump will spin this as "I promised we'd bring our soldiers back, and we did", but the fact is that both Afganistan and Syria (oh, and Iraq - I forgot about that) ended with your supposed allies worse off than before, no goals achieved, no enemies removed from power - frankly, as bad or worse as Vietnam.
Even if the next president is Obama's third term, the position of the USA has been permanently, severely damaged and weakened. If a democratic president had done even one of these things, he'd have been butchered and quartered alive by half the country.
 

Dave

Staff member
Even worse, the Afghani government rejects the deal completely. Why? Because Trump never talked with them - only the Taliban!! So The Afghani government was like, "No, we're not releasing 5000 prisoners. Are you fucking kidding?"

So we're going to pull out with NO deal in place, basically ceding the place to the Taliban. Sound familiar? Yup. Same thing we did in Syria.

I get wanting to leave the area and pull out our troops, I really do. But it's just like Trump to take a good idea and to fuck it up beyond recognition.
 
I'm banned from the "attempt to rationalize how you can be a good person despite being a devout Mormon" thread, so I'll put this here.

A few weeks ago, BYU updated their honor code saying that all dating is fine as long as here is no premarital sex. While this is still regressive as hell, the implication is clearly that you can be and LGBTQ and out on campus, which is certainly an improvement.

So after a few weeks of people coming out of the closet on campus, they changed their mind and ooopsies being gay is no longer allowed. Sucks that they now know who to ban.

 
I'm banned from the "attempt to rationalize how you can be a good person despite being a devout Mormon" thread, so I'll put this here.

A few weeks ago, BYU updated their honor code saying that all dating is fine as long as here is no premarital sex. While this is still regressive as hell, the implication is clearly that you can be and LGBTQ and out on campus, which is certainly an improvement.

So after a few weeks of people coming out of the closet on campus, they changed their mind and ooopsies being gay is no longer allowed. Sucks that they now know who to ban.

The reasoning there is incredibly mind-bendy though. OK, so premarital sex is bad. Gay marriage does not lead ot children, so is bad. Fair enough. But as long as you're not doing anything sexual, my going out for a night of....tea and chess...or whatever, with another guy is just as much "romantic" as me going out with a woman - no matter which of us, if any, is homosexual. Holding hands is not against the Bible. Washing another man's feet with your hair is not against the Bible. Washing together, naked in the lake, is not against the Bible.
 
It looks like a projector.
There’s even enough distortion that you could probably backtrack the exact location of the projector without too much trouble, too (assuming they didn’t deliberately distort their gobo to account for this, that is).

—Patrick
 


I am now 99% certain that Roger Stone has abused amphetamines.

He's making meth faces like they're going out of style.
 
:facepalm:


A boy choosing to attend in just a posing pouch would not need such pre-approval.

We need to find a boy with the courage to do so as a big FUCK YOU to policies like this.
 

Dave

Staff member
My first thought was that I'm glad it was a female principal. But this is all kinds of fucked up, even though I do understand it to some degree. I've entertained at several post proms and some of the outfits the girls wore would have been better seen on a street corner than a dance.
 
A girl should sent a pic of herself in an absurdly skimpy outfit then call the cops on the principal for possessing lewd photos of a minor.
 
Boy I'm glad I have a Costco sized bunch of toilet paper right now. Jesus Chrizzist. One worldwide pandemic is all it takes to teach you fragile our way of life is.
 

Dave

Staff member
We have one roll of toilet paper at home. Which means I have to go to the store today after work and buy toilet paper. And if I find some I'll buy the same small pack I always do, but I know I'm going to be judged when I go to pay for it.

I'm not scared of COVID-19, Karen! I just want to keep my ass clean!
 
We have one roll of toilet paper at home. Which means I have to go to the store today after work and buy toilet paper. And if I find some I'll buy the same small pack I always do, but I know I'm going to be judged when I go to pay for it.

I'm not scared of COVID-19, Karen! I just want to keep my ass clean!
Pssst... washlet. One of the best purchases I ever made. Keeps you cleaner than TP. Doesn't eliminate the need for it, but will cut usage by a lot.
 

Dave

Staff member
Pssst... washlet. One of the best purchases I ever made. Keeps you cleaner than TP. Doesn't eliminate the need for it, but will cut usage by a lot.
I'm under the impression those are just as hard to find right now. But as I haven't been to the store yet, I am just repeating "what I've heard".
 

GasBandit

Staff member
I feel like I'm missing out on some great apocalyptic experience, given that I have been well-stocked on toilet paper for quite some time.
 
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