Gfted1 Posted June 1, 2018 Posted June 1, 2018 Hmm, doesn't pass the BS test for me. 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Zoraptor Posted June 1, 2018 Posted June 1, 2018 US diplomacy at work, I guess. They also brought a resolution to the UN today that garnered a grand total of one vote, their own, and they must have known that that was all it was going to get- and they spent ages lobbying for it and tried all sorts of procedural tricks as well. At this point the 'bad' diplomacy looks like it's 100% deliberate and intended to make the US look isolated.
smjjames Posted June 1, 2018 Posted June 1, 2018 US diplomacy at work, I guess. They also brought a resolution to the UN today that garnered a grand total of one vote, their own, and they must have known that that was all it was going to get- and they spent ages lobbying for it and tried all sorts of procedural tricks as well. At this point the 'bad' diplomacy looks like it's 100% deliberate and intended to make the US look isolated. What was the resolution?
smjjames Posted June 1, 2018 Posted June 1, 2018 (edited) This really deserves to go on the weird, random, and interesting things thread, but it’d be better to contain politics in here. (Spotted on Vox) Fox News, wtf? http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/05/31/school-shootings-this-cannon-fires-unbelievable-ammo-to-blast-through-walls-and-help-rescue-victims.html I don’t care what side of the gun debate you’re on, schools aren’t fortresses and I’m pretty sure there’s usually planning before using it and by the time the siege engine squad arrived, it’d be too late. Edited June 1, 2018 by smjjames
HoonDing Posted June 1, 2018 Posted June 1, 2018 Why do Republicans hate free trade? The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
smjjames Posted June 1, 2018 Posted June 1, 2018 I think it’s just Trump that hates free trade, most Republicans aren’t as protectionist as Trump is.
majestic Posted June 1, 2018 Posted June 1, 2018 I think it’s just Trump that hates free trade, most Republicans aren’t as protectionist as Trump is. Looks like Trump wants to go back to the mercantilism of the good old motherland. Maybe he'll annex India at some point. Too many engineers flooding the US. No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
Zoraptor Posted June 2, 2018 Posted June 2, 2018 US diplomacy at work, I guess. They also brought a resolution to the UN today that garnered a grand total of one vote, their own, and they must have known that that was all it was going to get- and they spent ages lobbying for it and tried all sorts of procedural tricks as well. At this point the 'bad' diplomacy looks like it's 100% deliberate and intended to make the US look isolated. What was the resolution? Blaming Hamas and PIJ for Gaza violence. The US was also the only country to vote against the previous resolution.
Guard Dog Posted June 2, 2018 Posted June 2, 2018 Well there is one thing both Democrats & Republicans agree on. If the US Government wants something you have it's perfectly OK for them to just take it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/05/31/a-64-year-old-put-his-life-savings-in-his-carry-on-u-s-customs-took-it-without-charging-him-with-a-crime/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.617efb63b804 2 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted June 3, 2018 Posted June 3, 2018 I find it hard not to vomit after reading this one: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/opinion/sunday/obama-ben-rhodes-world-as-it-is.html "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Bartimaeus Posted June 3, 2018 Posted June 3, 2018 Heh, compared to the current state of affairs, it's easy to have your perspective warped to the point of thinking the previous administration was perfect. It doesn't help any of us to not remember clearly, though - to not do so just means things will become more and more far-gone as our standards for normalcy and "rightness" get lower and lower. Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
smjjames Posted June 3, 2018 Posted June 3, 2018 Meanwhile, Trump is doing to the GOP what Obama did to the Dems. https://www.axios.com/trumps-500-day-coup-of-the-gop-conservatism-5f1f129d-22c3-4f53-b9f1-d957eb1ef05c.html It doesn't exactly mirror it as it's still in the relatively early stages (compared to Obamas two terms), but it's the same thing as Obama not being a party builder, at least not of the Dems and Republicans, respectively.
Bartimaeus Posted June 3, 2018 Posted June 3, 2018 "Oh, don’t forget: He has 962 days left in this term." **** Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Guard Dog Posted June 3, 2018 Posted June 3, 2018 "Oh, don’t forget: He has 962 days left in this term." **** Yep. 962 days until we trade one moronic big government miscreant for another one. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
HoonDing Posted June 3, 2018 Posted June 3, 2018 can't get worse than Trump right guise The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
Chilloutman Posted June 3, 2018 Posted June 3, 2018 oi! I heard they are going to ban knifes in UK I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene"
smjjames Posted June 3, 2018 Posted June 3, 2018 Frigging pfft the lengths and logical contortions that the Trump team is going to try and prove that Trump can't be indicted, http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/390486-giuliani-if-trump-shot-comey-he-still-couldnt-have-been They're recently effectively trying to argue recently that Trump is above the law, he isn't.
Guard Dog Posted June 4, 2018 Posted June 4, 2018 can't get worse than Trump right guise Would you rather be bitten by a snake or stung by a scorpion? Eaten by an alligator or a crocodile? When all the choices are bad does it really matter which bad choice is made? I used to think it did matter. Now I know better. Democrat, Republican, Democrat, Republican, on and on it goes. But no matter who wins the government gets bigger, the deficit climbs towards eventual collapse, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, everyone becomes less free, and the bombs never stop falling overseas. It does not have to be this way. But it will be until people realize there are options beyond the one we have now. Yes... one 3 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
BruceVC Posted June 4, 2018 Posted June 4, 2018 But no matter who wins the government gets bigger, the deficit climbs towards eventual collapse, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, everyone becomes less free, and the bombs never stop falling overseas. It does not have to be this way. But it will be until people realize there are options beyond the one we have now. Yes... one A melancholic assessment of the state of US politics my friend ....pass the razor blades But under Obama the USA , apart from understandable drone strikes, tried very hard to stay out of the ME and other geographical hot spots of political and social instability But Trump has brought the USA back into the interminable struggles of the ME, thats on him "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
Guard Dog Posted June 4, 2018 Posted June 4, 2018 But no matter who wins the government gets bigger, the deficit climbs towards eventual collapse, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, everyone becomes less free, and the bombs never stop falling overseas. It does not have to be this way. But it will be until people realize there are options beyond the one we have now. Yes... one A melancholic assessment of the state of US politics my friend ....pass the razor blades But under Obama the USA , apart from understandable drone strikes, tried very hard to stay out of the ME and other geographical hot spots of political and social instability But Trump has brought the USA back into the interminable struggles of the ME, thats on him No, Obama is 100% responsible for our involvement in Libya, Syria (not the mess, just our involvement in it), Yemen, and several African countries. As you my melancholic assessment: "When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed" "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted June 4, 2018 Posted June 4, 2018 Speaking of Trump, here is a new little nugget: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/trump-i-have-the-absolute-right-to-pardon-myself.html All I can think of is: 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Pidesco Posted June 4, 2018 Posted June 4, 2018 I find amusing how so many still don't understand that Trump is really different from everything that came before. Just his attitude towards trade, for instance, has clear potential to tank the country's economy in a way that would make the sub prime crisis look like a walk in the park. "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian tourist I am Dan Quayle of the Romans. I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands. Heja Sverige!! Everyone should cuffawkle more. The wrench is your friend.
smjjames Posted June 4, 2018 Posted June 4, 2018 Speaking of Trump, here is a new little nugget: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/trump-i-have-the-absolute-right-to-pardon-myself.html All I can think of is: Is that Nixon? Not sure who. Anyways, theres nothing in the Constitution that says he can't pardon himself, just that it won't stop impeachment from happening. So, he could, but it'd look massively guilty as the only reason he'd pardon himself is to attempt to be above the law and it makes it look a hell of a lot like he's guilty of something and trying to hide. Not to mention the political firestorm that would ensue.
aluminiumtrioxid Posted June 4, 2018 Posted June 4, 2018 As you my melancholic assessment: "When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed" Classy. "Lulz is not the highest aspiration of art and mankind, no matter what the Encyclopedia Dramatica says."
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