Malazan Empire: The USA Politics Thread - Malazan Empire

Jump to content

  • 728 Pages +
  • « First
  • 290
  • 291
  • 292
  • 293
  • 294
  • Last »
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

The USA Politics Thread

#5821 User is offline   Malankazooie 

  • Elder God
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 6,693
  • Joined: 21-June 16

Posted 17 September 2017 - 04:23 PM

Do you guys think an american president should be above things like this?

Trump shares GIF of himself striking Hillary Clinton in the back with a golf ball
0

#5822 User is offline   worry 

  • Master of the Deck
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 14,687
  • Joined: 24-February 10
  • Location:the buried west

Posted 17 September 2017 - 06:05 PM

Yes. It's pathetic.
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
0

#5823 User is offline   Aptorian 

  • How 'bout a hug?
  • Group: The Wheelchairs of War
  • Posts: 24,785
  • Joined: 22-May 06

Posted 17 September 2017 - 06:18 PM

 Malankazooie, on 17 September 2017 - 04:23 PM, said:

Do you guys think an american president should be above things like this?

Trump shares GIF of himself striking Hillary Clinton in the back with a golf ball


Posting a funny gif on Twitter? No, I think it would be great to live in age where there's enough surplus of time and good will, that a president can have a bit of fun with his voters over a social media.

Unfotunately, Trump is just an idiot. As such this direct connection to the population is wasted on his ego and terrible personality.
0

#5824 User is offline   Cause 

  • Elder God
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 5,809
  • Joined: 25-December 03
  • Location:NYC

Posted 17 September 2017 - 06:25 PM

 Malankazooie, on 17 September 2017 - 04:23 PM, said:

Do you guys think an american president should be above things like this?

Trump shares GIF of himself striking Hillary Clinton in the back with a golf ball


wow
0

#5825 User is offline   worry 

  • Master of the Deck
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 14,687
  • Joined: 24-February 10
  • Location:the buried west

Posted 18 September 2017 - 09:55 PM

Might be worth noting, they're closer today than they've been yet to destroying Obamacare. The Graham-Cassidy bill is just as bad as the other ones, but I don't see McCain rejecting something by Graham no matter how much he hems and haws over it. There's no CBO score on this one and they may have finagled a way to get around all the parliamentary stuff. Contact your Senators, folks.
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
0

#5826 User is offline   worry 

  • Master of the Deck
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 14,687
  • Joined: 24-February 10
  • Location:the buried west

Posted 19 September 2017 - 02:02 AM

Even though Sen. Bill Cassidy (who famously agreed to the Kimmel Test on his appearance a few months back) represents Louisiana, the Graham-Cassidy bill would devastate the healthcare options for families in Louisiana in particular. The LA State Secretary of Health explains in detail: http://thehill.com/p...are-repeal-bill
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
0

#5827 User is offline   EmperorMagus 

  • Scarecrow of Low House PEN
  • Group: Tehol's Blissful Chickens
  • Posts: 1,199
  • Joined: 04-June 12
  • Location:Vancouver

Posted 19 September 2017 - 07:04 PM

Beautiful UN speech.

This guy is certifiably more embarrassing than Ahmadinejad, which fact may be his greatest achievement to date.
Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori
#sarcasm
0

#5828 User is offline   worry 

  • Master of the Deck
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 14,687
  • Joined: 24-February 10
  • Location:the buried west

Posted 19 September 2017 - 08:06 PM

We elected the stupidest man on earth.
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
0

#5829 User is offline   Malankazooie 

  • Elder God
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 6,693
  • Joined: 21-June 16

Posted 20 September 2017 - 12:10 AM

How do you think the interpreters for each contingent handled translating "rocket man" during Trump's speech? What a disgrace.
0

#5830 User is offline   Tapper 

  • Lover of High House Mafia
  • Group: High House Mafia
  • Posts: 6,666
  • Joined: 29-June 04
  • Location:Delft, Holland.

Posted 20 September 2017 - 12:33 PM

 Malankazooie, on 20 September 2017 - 12:10 AM, said:

How do you think the interpreters for each contingent handled translating "rocket man" during Trump's speech? What a disgrace.

Probably as "Kim Jong-Un, which Trump is unable to pronounce".
Everyone is entitled to his own wrong opinion. - Lizrad
0

#5831 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

  • Faith, Heavy Metal & Bacon
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 12,100
  • Joined: 08-October 04
  • Location:T'North

Posted 20 September 2017 - 05:14 PM

Thing is, you know that "Rocket Man" is something Trump heard, decided he came up with it and now thinks is the funniest and wittiest joke ever told...
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
0

#5832 User is offline   Vengeance 

  • High Priest of Shinrei Love and Worship
  • Group: Administrators
  • Posts: 3,960
  • Joined: 27-June 07
  • Location:Chicago
  • very good...;)

Posted 20 September 2017 - 05:41 PM

 Tapper, on 20 September 2017 - 12:33 PM, said:

 Malankazooie, on 20 September 2017 - 12:10 AM, said:

How do you think the interpreters for each contingent handled translating "rocket man" during Trump's speech? What a disgrace.

Probably as "Kim Jong-Un, which Trump is unable to pronounce".


Except for North Korean which translated it to. His most royal Majesty, The sun of the communist future, The Great leader, Great Man who is a Man of Deeds,Glorious General who Descended From Heaven, Guiding Star of the 21st Century, Glorious Guide for Rockets
How many fucking people do I have to hammer in order to get that across.
Hinter - Vengy - DIE. I trusted you you bastard!!!!!!!

Steven Erikson made drowning in alien cum possible - Obdigore
0

#5833 User is offline   Malankazooie 

  • Elder God
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 6,693
  • Joined: 21-June 16

Posted 22 September 2017 - 06:22 AM

The dear leader was called a "dotard" by rocket man.

Dotage

Posted Image
0

#5834 User is offline   Tsundoku 

  • A what?
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 4,800
  • Joined: 06-January 03
  • Location:Maison de merde

Posted 22 September 2017 - 11:35 AM

Never go full dotard.
"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes

"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys

"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
0

#5835 User is offline   QuickTidal 

  • Frog
  • Group: Team Quick Ben
  • Posts: 21,339
  • Joined: 05-November 05
  • Location:Nowhere Specific
  • Interests:Nothing, just sitting. Quietly.

Posted 22 September 2017 - 12:31 PM

Is it bizarre to anyone else that two world leaders (if you can call either man that term) are firing burns off at one another and bickering like anonymous online commentators?
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon
0

#5836 User is offline   Vengeance 

  • High Priest of Shinrei Love and Worship
  • Group: Administrators
  • Posts: 3,960
  • Joined: 27-June 07
  • Location:Chicago
  • very good...;)

Posted 22 September 2017 - 12:37 PM

 QuickTidal, on 22 September 2017 - 12:31 PM, said:

Is it bizarre to anyone else that two world leaders (if you can call either man that term) are firing burns off at one another and bickering like anonymous online commentators?



One is a child emperor of a starving hermit kingdom, the other is a spoiler boy who inherited hundreds of millions of dollars and has had everything given to him. If they are the epitome of anonymous online commenters then I don't know what is.
How many fucking people do I have to hammer in order to get that across.
Hinter - Vengy - DIE. I trusted you you bastard!!!!!!!

Steven Erikson made drowning in alien cum possible - Obdigore
1

#5837 User is online   Mezla PigDog 

  • Malazan Yo Yo Champion 2009
  • Group: Mezla's Thought Police
  • Posts: 2,703
  • Joined: 03-September 04

Posted 22 September 2017 - 01:36 PM

The US / N Korea thing is affecting me strangely. On the one hand there's the whole "fucking hell this could go horribly wrong" track. On the other hand I'm finding Trump's complete disregard for the status quo quite refreshing. If we had a true statesman in office then it would continue as a stalemate for a long time to come but I wonder if Trump is going to push NK into over-reaching. There's obviously the worst case scenario where S Korea is wiped from existence, millions of people die, sections of earth become inhospitable to human life blah blah blah. But there are many scenario's between the ongoing stalemate and global nuclear war. Kim could be overthrown internally, they could push their research too far and accidentally destroy their facilities, they could bankrupt themselves trying to show off or they could be exposed as a lame duck. Or any other zillion scenarios.

It's not a gamble I would choose to have played out over my head and I am not crediting Trump with any kind of strategy but I won't be surprised if we look back in 50 years and say without Trump it would still be a stalemate. I also wouldn't be surprised if there is nobody left to look back in 50 years so the stalemate has a lot going for it. But yeah, you can't deny it's interesting.

Also I want someone to publish a book of North Korean insults. They're so cute.
Burn rubber =/= warp speed
0

#5838 User is offline   worry 

  • Master of the Deck
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 14,687
  • Joined: 24-February 10
  • Location:the buried west

Posted 23 September 2017 - 02:32 AM

He said a lot of goofy stuff, but maybe the weirdest thing is that he doesn't seem to know that Luther Strange -- the candidate he came out to support -- is already in the Senate. He's the incumbent. It's Roy Moore who is the challenger in the primary.

https://twitter.com/...389494934425600
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
0

#5839 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

  • Faith, Heavy Metal & Bacon
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 12,100
  • Joined: 08-October 04
  • Location:T'North

Posted 23 September 2017 - 02:47 PM

 Mezla PigDog, on 22 September 2017 - 01:36 PM, said:

The US / N Korea thing is affecting me strangely. On the one hand there's the whole "fucking hell this could go horribly wrong" track. On the other hand I'm finding Trump's complete disregard for the status quo quite refreshing. If we had a true statesman in office then it would continue as a stalemate for a long time to come but I wonder if Trump is going to push NK into over-reaching. There's obviously the worst case scenario where S Korea is wiped from existence, millions of people die, sections of earth become inhospitable to human life blah blah blah. But there are many scenario's between the ongoing stalemate and global nuclear war. Kim could be overthrown internally, they could push their research too far and accidentally destroy their facilities, they could bankrupt themselves trying to show off or they could be exposed as a lame duck. Or any other zillion scenarios.

It's not a gamble I would choose to have played out over my head and I am not crediting Trump with any kind of strategy but I won't be surprised if we look back in 50 years and say without Trump it would still be a stalemate. I also wouldn't be surprised if there is nobody left to look back in 50 years so the stalemate has a lot going for it. But yeah, you can't deny it's interesting.

Also I want someone to publish a book of North Korean insults. They're so cute.

Funny you should mention that...

Earthquake likely caused by explosion hits North Korea
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
0

#5840 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

  • Faith, Heavy Metal & Bacon
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 12,100
  • Joined: 08-October 04
  • Location:T'North

Posted 23 September 2017 - 02:50 PM

And cos I just realised that article is from Sputnik and possibly therefore not the most reliable, here is a BBC article about the same event: http://www.bbc.co.uk...d-asia-41371867
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
0

Share this topic:


  • 728 Pages +
  • « First
  • 290
  • 291
  • 292
  • 293
  • 294
  • Last »
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

88 User(s) are reading this topic
1 members, 87 guests, 0 anonymous users

  1. Macros