Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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Oh, yeah, by the way? There's this thing that's going to be happening this summer, in Tokyo?
Fuggedabouddit.
Fuggedabouddit.
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Dave
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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.
www.theguardian.com
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.
Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote
Guardian analysis finds that places where black and Latino population is growing by the largest numbers experienced the majority of closures and could benefit Republicans
www.theguardian.com
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.
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.
Someone's not into freudenschade, i see...
Well, look, things like cancer or diabetes just don't hurt or kill as many people all across the nation without advance warning, okay?
/s, obviously.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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.
I think that's a projector.
If you had watched teh videos, you wouldn't have to ask...
Also, shame on you for questioning their devotion to our lord and saviour, the Giant Plunger in the Sky.
GasBandit
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GIFs of Roger Stone tweaking at his deposition
From the comments on that article:
--Patrick
Hmm...looks like the image processing on the forum breaks the animation, had to reupload it after cropping.
Dave
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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.
Dave
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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!
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
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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".
