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#8881 User is offline   Azath Vitr (D'ivers 

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Posted 19 May 2019 - 10:37 PM

View Postworry, on 19 May 2019 - 02:11 AM, said:

One would hope so.



Wonder if this is a precursor to ordering troops to do some unsavory acts in the future. Probably I'm just being paranoid huh.



What's next, preemptive pardons for war crimes?

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Posted 20 May 2019 - 11:34 AM

Trump pushing economic war on China and physical war on Iran.

I'm starting to see America as Nelson Muntz circa early Simpsons, and Israel as the crony kid who takes Lisa's cupcakes.
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Posted 25 May 2019 - 05:20 AM

So apparently Trump used a national emergency excuse to circumvent Congress and sell arms to Saudi Arabia.

WTF

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Posted 25 May 2019 - 06:40 AM

So in other words: he's doing exactly what we all expected him to do, except the few people who thought he wasn't going to try and turn into Hitler a dictator as soon as possible?

I'm so shocked. /s
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Posted 25 May 2019 - 08:34 AM

View PostAzath Vitr (D, on 19 May 2019 - 10:37 PM, said:

What's next, preemptive pardons for war crimes?


I believe the term you're looking for is "armed pilgimage", but it can be conveniently abbreviated to "crusade".

But surely that could only happen if you had a population that was dominated by the (religious) Right ...

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Oh.

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Posted 25 May 2019 - 10:20 AM

View PostSilencer, on 25 May 2019 - 06:40 AM, said:

So in other words: he's doing exactly what we all expected him to do, except the few people who thought he wasn't going to try and turn into Hitler a dictator as soon as possible?

I'm so shocked. /s


Oh no, Silencer. Not you too. This "/s" sarcasm tag bullshit needs to end. If people are too stupid to detect sarcasm fuck 'em!
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Posted 25 May 2019 - 05:00 PM

View PostAptorian, on 25 May 2019 - 10:20 AM, said:

View PostSilencer, on 25 May 2019 - 06:40 AM, said:

So in other words: he's doing exactly what we all expected him to do, except the few people who thought he wasn't going to try and turn into Hitler a dictator as soon as possible?

I'm so shocked. /s


Oh no, Silencer. Not you too. This "/s" sarcasm tag bullshit needs to end. If people are too stupid to detect sarcasm fuck 'em!

Have you ever met anyone, ever? People are very stupid. Even more so on the internet.

This post has been edited by Tiste Simeon: 25 May 2019 - 05:00 PM

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Posted 25 May 2019 - 05:27 PM

Sure but this is even worse than smilies. It's basically crutches for internet retarded people.
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Posted 25 May 2019 - 05:33 PM

Leave smileys alone :doh: :p :cry:



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Posted 25 May 2019 - 05:53 PM

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Posted 26 May 2019 - 07:21 PM

The liberal media.
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Posted 28 May 2019 - 09:01 PM


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Posted 29 May 2019 - 07:12 PM

'The Department of Energy Is Now Calling Fossil Fuels “Molecules of Freedom” and “Freedom Gas”'

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Posted 29 May 2019 - 09:46 PM

So muller just said if they though trump didn't commit a crime they would have said so. He didn't belive a sitting president could be charged and so it's congress job
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Posted 29 May 2019 - 09:53 PM

Luckily we have Nancy Pelosi to protect us! For the record, the 'sitting president can't be charged with a crime' thing isn't in the Constitution or any legal code, it's just some guidance imagined up by *ahem* Richard Nixon's DOJ in a 1973 memo.
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Posted 29 May 2019 - 10:47 PM

Drama time!


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Posted 30 May 2019 - 07:21 PM

Today, the racist idiot admitted that Russia helped get him elected and the evil McConnell blocked a bill that would help prevent further election interference.

In a world of awful people, Mitch somehow manages to stand out as being particularly vile.
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Posted 30 May 2019 - 07:37 PM

He just misspoke, Tiste. He meant to say they didn't help him get elected. That should be obvious. Fake news!

Also election interference isn't bad if it helps get the Republicans elected.
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Posted 30 May 2019 - 08:22 PM

Thats the thing that baffles/frustrates me the most i think. Even if you can convince yourself Trump is a stable genius, that the economy is amazing, that immigrants are the debil, and that the Mueller investigation is a WITCHHUNT!!! There was a systematic attack by Russia on our sovereignty and almost all Republicans are like "shrug".


On a side note, we need all but a handful of Democratic hopefuls to drop out and run for Senate. It may not be AS important as president, but getting turtlehead fucknuts out as Senate majority leader is vital.
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Posted 30 May 2019 - 10:44 PM

View PostSlow Ben, on 30 May 2019 - 08:22 PM, said:


On a side note, we need all but a handful of Democratic hopefuls to drop out and run for Senate. It may not be AS important as president, but getting turtlehead fucknuts out as Senate majority leader is vital.


Honestly I think the job of a senator is more important.

The whole Presidential race/hero worship thing is part of what has led to Trump. The head of the executive branch could probably disappear tomorrow and government would still function just fine. The entire Senate going AWOL, though, would probably be a different story.
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