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Elephants and Jackasses...

Discussion in 'Permanent Threads' started by Nettdata, Oct 14, 2016.

  1. Aetius

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    What do you not understand about saving money by no longer paying for Europe's defense, which is why we need a $150 billion increase in our military budget?
     
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    Everything. I understand 0% of the decision-making.
     
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    That…. Yeah. I think you guys are officially “done” when it comes to making sure Hitler doesn’t rise up again, and those are so many American resources that get eaten up for no good reason. France alone can seriously light up any nation who fucks with them— and these days they are very quick to back up allies.
     
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    Which would make sense, considering the EU was originally conceived by the French with the expressed purpose of using it as a vehicle for France to project power to Europe and outward. The big irony with the EU is that it won't rise to the occasion for the same reason the US wants to walk away from them: some member states take resources while others provide them, creating a weird state of inequality between NW Europe and SE Europe.
     
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    Question for the Canadians:

    There's some rumbling that Pierre Poilievre could lose his own district, which would mean he is no longer an MP. This upcoming election is being pitched as a choice between Poilievre and Carney, but unlike the US you guys don't directly vote for your chief executive. If the Conservatives win a majority, but Poilievre loses his district, can he still be PM? Or do you have to be a member of Parliament to be PM? If it's the latter, would a Poilievre loss be a titanic thing, or would Parliament just shrug and make the next-man-up PM?
     
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    I honestly don’t know.
     
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    The PM only has to be the leader of the party with the most seats who either has a majority or the support of enough parties to pass a budget.

    However I can't think of any cases of a party winning a plurality and their leader not winning a seat so this would be a first.

    I can think of cases where party leaders haven't won their seat and then were replaced in quick order by their party.
     
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    I'm going to post this here just to emphasize how much of a fucking disaster letting RFK Jr. run HHS is. I can't believe they confirmed this clowns nomination.

     
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    Trump really hitting the Canadian campaign trail hard. For which candidate though, that's up for debate:

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    Nah, there's no doubt that he's all for PP... this is going to help Carney by reinforcing the fact that PP is sucking up to Trump despite his best efforts to say he's not.
     
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    The latter was the point of my joke. Trump clearly wants PP, but he's such an enormous fuck up that his endorsement will actually help Carney.
     
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    Ahh... gotcha.
     
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    Jokes on him...those stacks are long since torn down
     
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    They’re there, used as a Concert backdrop now because it “looks cool”. The point is, these fat rich fucks don’t know what a blast furnace is. They don’t know what pig-iron is, they don’t know what coke is, they would look at a blast furnace and a
    Hydrocracker and probably think they’re the same thing. they don’t even know why those foundries closed the fuck down. They know nothing about any of this shit and it’s incredible that there are still so many people in the USA who still don’t think that they’re stupid liars.

    Really, fucko? You’re going to bring the factories back? Gary Indiana is on the rise, folks! Forget the fact a gigafactory takes at least a decade to build AFTER designing it and doesn’t help local economies they way they used to because— it’s a fucking gigafactory and there is no reason whatsoever for the workers to leave the property other than to go home.

    We have a VW gigafactory being built a five minute drive from where I work. Local
    Idiots are under the impression that German designers and builders are going to want their help putting this project together. No, no, no, no. It’s VW. It’s Germans. You will see nobody else building and designing this place but other reliable Germans. And its been five years since they’ve broke ground and they’re still not even laying the foundation in. Thats how long this shit takes.
     
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    No, they know what coke is. It's why they keep insisting all immigrants are criminals...the ones they know ARE.
     
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    Race to the bottom... just like Trump's approval rating.