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#10441 Obdigore

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Posted 20 April 2020 - 08:10 PM

Gorefest, on 14 April 2020 - 08:48 PM, said:

Has it ever occurred to the American public to vote for policies instead of people? Like how they do it in most of the rest of the world?

You know, it has. But don't worry, our choices are between 'puts kids in cages' and 'the GOP are pretty ok, we should go ahead and just compromise with them'.

But thanks for the suggestion.

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Posted 20 April 2020 - 08:23 PM

Man, when us commies say things about insurrection and shit, they throw us in jail.

Laseen did nothing wrong.

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#10443 Lady Bliss

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Posted 21 April 2020 - 03:31 AM

Briar King, on 21 April 2020 - 02:54 AM, said:

Going to post this here instead of NK thread. Just saw a report that Kim Jong Un is reported to be in really bad shape after a surgery. I’m curious and kinda scared about this. This could be huge news if this fucker dies.

His successor could be more interested in playing nice.

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#10444 Tavvar

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Posted 21 April 2020 - 06:41 PM

Further reports seem to suggest that he's okay (from SK), but we probably wouldn't hear if there *was* a problem anyway...

#10445 QuickTidal

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Posted 21 April 2020 - 07:21 PM

So it sounds like Bill Barr wants to bring legal action against various States for remaining in lockdown...like what are you going to do you little grimy toadman? Take NYC to court? Fucking clown ass clown.

If it wasn't obvious how much of a criminal your goddamned attorney general is...he continues to make it more obvious.

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#10446 Azath Vitr (D'ivers

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Posted 21 April 2020 - 07:30 PM

QuickTidal, on 21 April 2020 - 07:21 PM, said:

'Barr said the department wouldn’t hesitate to support lawsuits filed by citizens or businesses in response to certain state directives.'

https://www.thedaily...kdowns?ref=home

Try to get a judge to order an injunction on lockdown until the law suit is over?

Can they be sure to get a shamelessly hyperpartisan Trump appointee who is willing to brazenly misinterpret the law?...

#10447 Tavvar

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Posted 23 April 2020 - 03:28 PM

Azath Vitr (D, on 21 April 2020 - 07:30 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 21 April 2020 - 07:21 PM, said:

'Barr said the department wouldn't hesitate to support lawsuits filed by citizens or businesses in response to certain state directives.'

https://www.thedaily...kdowns?ref=home

Try to get a judge to order an injunction on lockdown until the law suit is over?

Can they be sure to get a shamelessly hyperpartisan Trump appointee who is willing to brazenly misinterpret the law?...

Unfortunately, that's exactly what they are going to do. The whole reason the GOP puts up with Trump is to drag our judicial system so far to the Right, that it can stop any Progressive or Liberal legislation whenever they lose power (which I think they think is coming).

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Posted 23 April 2020 - 09:56 PM

Long entrenched republican reps may have a new opponent to worry about when their seat comes up for election - The Grim Reaper.

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#10449 Cause

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Posted 23 April 2020 - 11:38 PM

I thought it was an onion article. Trump suggested using disinfectant on the lungs to kill coved 19, or aplying us light under the skin.

#10450 Malankazooie

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Posted 23 April 2020 - 11:52 PM

Oh there are many examples of this. Members of his administration have been on Fox News, when coronavirus started to get more attention, saying we are familiar with it because this was the 19th version of the virus.

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Posted 24 April 2020 - 04:33 AM

Kentucky case #s just jumped, news is hesitant to flat out link to the rallys but the implication is there.

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#10452 Gorefest

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Posted 24 April 2020 - 06:29 AM

Well, there is a sort of perverse upside, ih that Trump supporters will literally become a dying breed.

Yesterday, upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. Oh, how I wish he'd go away.

#10453 Aptorian

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Posted 24 April 2020 - 06:36 AM

The majority of them won't die, they'll just carry the disease and prolong the suffering.

#10454 Gorefest

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Posted 24 April 2020 - 07:03 AM

If they start injecting themselves with disinfectant or exposing themselves to extreme UV light they will.

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#10455 Aptorian

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Posted 24 April 2020 - 08:56 AM

Or they'll turn into super mutants.

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Posted 24 April 2020 - 10:20 AM

Their super power common sense.

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#10457 QuickTidal

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Posted 24 April 2020 - 11:23 AM

How the fuck is a president basically pulling a Jim Jones and telling his followers to drink the poisoned Kool-aid (in this case INJECTING DISINFECTANT INTO THEIR LUNGS) and nothing is being done to stop him from spreading that false info? Are there NO adults in the room? Why does no one stand up to this guy and tell him he's wrong...constantly?

I actually saw someone in TikTok comments saying "Well, vaccines contain a bunch of nasty shit too, so why can't this work?! It's not a bad idea."....motherfuckers can't get out of their own way. Darwinism at it's finest.

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#10458 Slow Ben

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Posted 24 April 2020 - 01:02 PM

I’ll probably start with figuring out how to inject light into my body before moving on to disinfectant.

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Posted 24 April 2020 - 01:06 PM

Slow Ben, on 24 April 2020 - 01:02 PM, said:

I'll probably start with figuring out how to inject light into my body before moving on to disinfectant.

This one is easy!
Step 1: Walk outside to a particularly sunny area
Step 2: Use a knife to slit open your chest cavity and stomach (*note: it has to be deep so it can get to the lungs!)
Step 3: Enjoy a Covid Free 2020!

Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....

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Posted 24 April 2020 - 01:55 PM

I guess the people who were all about the perineum sunning craze that took off last year knew something was coming.

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