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Elephants and Jackasses...

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

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    I so badly want this to be a double-false-flag. Like some young black punk thought to himself "what is the honkiest way I could write this, so they think he wrote it himself? Got it: Blacks Rule."
     
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    Right on, “homes”! What it is!!!

    I just love how PERFECTLY splayed a fabric that was in flames is on the ground— like the police do for the press when they make a drug bust:

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    It reminds me of Jussie Before Jussie:
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    …if you’re going to scratch a “B” in your face make sure to do it backwards in the mirror, folks.
     
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    Trump’s wall of gold-framed presidential portraits features a picture of Joe Biden’s signature on an autopen.
     
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    Saw a pundit on CNN say that he'll vote for any Democrat in 2028 who promises to replace Trump's portrait with a photo of Trump and Epstein.
     
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    They can say whatever they want, just rip all the portraits down. Dude has no eye for design.
     
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    goooooooold!
     
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    “Hesgeth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals…”

    And we’re at the point where my first thought was “maybe he’s just real drunk?”

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    Kegger at Quantico
     
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    I appreciate y'all keeping this going. Inside the bubble, it's been surreal.

    I keep wondering how any of this gets fixed....where do we go from here?

    The crazy, once unleashed, can't be put back away. I look at the violence, and I'm in no way surprised. It will get worse before it gets better, as the shooting in Dallas can attest.

    I'm more than sick of people being murdered and then a mad rush of assholes to put political spin on their deaths. The people who do this are ghouls and they should be ignored until they are silent.

    Silence seems to be at a premium. I know folks who were fired for voicing opinions on the Kirk shooting, and I cannot wrap my head around his posthumous treatment. Shutting the fuck up has always been an option, and it seems the voices grow more shrill, petulant and weak with each passing controversy.

    At this point, the first order of business seems to me to ignore Trump. Starve the narcissist. Ignore him, and let him go insane. It's been the solution to his ilk the entire time, and the powers that be just couldn't help themselves.

    The second is to look towards the future of our country with an eye towards rebuilding it. I have a hard time seeing a fractured political coalition re-assembling without some heavy machinations. For me, the big things are income inequality/labor rights, separation of church and state, eliminating a lot of antiquated laws leveraged for political maleficence (such as maritime laws from the 1830's that are being used to suppress rights today), and a re-envisioning of the world order where the US lives up to it's ideals and keeps its word.

    I don't see anyone right now capable of such a vision, much less executing it. Newsome and AOC are fine getting headlines and buzz, but like...I'm not seeing either of them heal a nation's wounds, much less extend credibility to the rural grievances that will be much worse very soon.

    I also think the sooner we stop pretending this is normal, and that an election in 2026 or 2028 is going to happen, the better.

    The great big honking meeting that DOD is hosting is to launch a "liberal" purge, and to begin McCarthyism inside the military. Bet me.
     
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    You mean the DOW right? The Hegseth memorandum I mentioned?

    I actually considered (after assuming he was drunk) that the whole thing at first is a loyalty test. Call in all your high ranking officers, and see who jumps up the fastest.
     
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    One thing I've been trying to communicate to people (and wish I could communicate to elected Dems) is the idea that we're not getting out of this without scars. If you keep looking for a path to get everything back as it was, to make everyone whole, you're going to miss the bigger picture and lose everything. It's triage time; you need to identify what can be saved, and what is unfortunately already lost, and act accordingly.
     
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    So... somehow, Trump forced the transfer of ownership of TikTok via Executive Order.

    How the fuck does that work?
     
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    Interestingly in this case Trump was breaking the law by not banning it. Congress passed legislation that basically required TikTok to be sold to an American company, or banned, and Trump kept kicking the can down the road and declaring "extensions" of the deadline (which are provided for nowhere in law) until he could put together a cabal of right wing assholes to put together an attractive enough offer for the Chinese to take it. I believe the current terms are that the American operations of TikTok will be spun off into a company acquired by the US consortium, and the TikTok algorithm will be licensed to this new American company for their operations.
     
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