The September 2019 US Politics Thread is great Great GREAT GR8

but how you leave the place is extremely important

Better hang around another 18 years then

better say disingenuous shit on a messageboard

Agreed that how you leave the place is important.

Sorry I misunderstood you earlier.

"we" (the militarist dumbshits) will never get it right

NC republicans promised NC house democrats that they wouldn’t pass any legislation while the democrats were away at an 11/9 memorial service. Then broke the governor’s veto on budget legislation as soon as everyone was gone.

Can’t wait until Biden gets nominated so he can restore more of this type of bipartisanship!

Republicans deserve to not have all their teeth

but how you leave the place is extremely important

Some ways would be marginally better than others, but I'm not sure there is any possible way to leave that would produce the kind of results you would approve. The women of Afghanistan, even if they were a monolithic bloc, have so little power that they cannot control events, or even influence events in a meaningful way.

The combined weight of USA/NATO/western NGOs have not changed that equation nearly enough in the past 18 years to alter the fundamental vulnerability of Afghan women and there's no reason to believe they can dictate such a change as part of their peace terms. That's the reality of it.

on this holiest of days

Post 9/11 thread for people to post the wildest shit they remember from 01 to 06

I'll start:

People thought Osama had an entire mountain hollowed out that he was using as his base and that's why AQ was hard to find and that somehow a group of like 30 dudes arranged this. pic.twitter.com/IPGVQ1xfhs

— mugrimm (@unabanned) September 11, 2019

honestly I'd forgotten about a lot of this stuff but I agree with the guy's point that Obama's failure to investigate/prosecute any of this stuff has pretty much led us to where we are today

literal bond villain shit, just an incredible time to live through

tbrr for those of us living/working in downtown manhattan, everything felt completely unreal and bizarre anyway! osama living in a gi joe playset was somewhat in line with having to show id at subway checkpoints and dodge police chokepoints just to get to the office.

That thread reminded me of the time Kerik hustled a fuck pad out of the city so that he and and his right wing girlfriend could pork away.

it really is wild how everyone for awhile thought OBL was basically Cobra Commander crossed with Saruman when he was really just a troll in a condo watching porn, like so many other shitty 21st century people.

Ayman Al Zwahiri = Destro?

who was the Baroness

Condi

couldn't even get all the liberals to dissent?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-allows-full-enforcement-222638710.html

basically this is Congress' fault.

Here's video of Trump telling reporters today that "innocent children" are "coming home and they're saying, 'mom, I want to vape!'" pic.twitter.com/XwSrYboavZ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 11, 2019

And my new username is born

Too bad guns don't come in kid flavors.

but they do...

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/apr/29/armed-to-the-milk-teeth-america-gun-toting-kids

'mom, I want to vape!'

Unreleased "The End" outtake.

I like how he presents this hypothetical as if kids going to their parents to ask permission before doing something is somehow a terrible thing that must be stopped

"Mommy, can I go out and......VAPE TONIGHT!?!"

i love how trump constantly feels compelled to set the scene that's playing out in his head for everybody

"his head"

Mother, May I Vape With Danger

idk whatever you call the My Three Sons episode that he envisions n front of him

This is so transparently about wanting to be seen as decisive and pro-active about anything whatsoever, so long as it's not guns or something of real consequence. I hate vapes, but I think this ban is disgusting. I also expect that bans on THC products are right around the corner.

Trump describes a dream he had/episode of Quincy he half-watched as if it were reality (perhaps prefaced with 'many people are saying'), world calls Trump out on preposterous claim, Trump humorlessly grouses that he was obviously just joking and any other take is just FAKE NEWS, lather, rinse, repeat, torch earth and salt remains.

I also expect that bans on THC products are right around the corner.

of course becasue it's not like the whole fucking issue is due to black market THC carts so banning them will definitly help.

I would encourage everyone to forward Trump news stories about the Electric Sun 20 so that we can hasten the complete dissolution of reality.

It's more about Juul stuff right? My daughter and her friends complain about its pervasiveness in their high school.

because they have fruit flavors ? they still make Boones Farm Strawberry Hill don't they ? I don't know any adults that drink that shit .

THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!

I don't think the CDC really knows what exactly it is yet. there seems to be a correlation to black market THC carts, potentially related to a thickening agent they've been using to make the carts appear more "real". from what I've heard a lot of the carts tested have Vitamin E oil in it, which is something you definitely can't smoke, but not all of 'em had it and some of the people hospitalized weren't using THC carts at all, so it's all a bit up in the air right now

the idea that this is just a bad batch of THC carts doesn't really make sense to me right now either, if that were true you'd expect there to be a ton of these cases concentrated in a specific area. but that's not really the case right now

i think there are two issues at hand. First there are the deaths or whatever is going on there but there is also the thing with banning just flavored nicotine oils which seems stupid .

Impetus was tainted/doctored/adulterated oil, honestly think they're conflating/confusing all sorts of stuff. Juul, ecigs, vaping tobacco, vaping cannabis, vaping concentrates, etc. They're not all interchangeable.

oh maybe it was just that Barron got caught vaping

lol @ the notion that Trump gives one shit about Barron or even knows where he is at this particular moment

Off somewhere doing the cyber

oh yeah right my bad

Im mainly pissed at getting kids addicted to shit that is harmful costly pays merchants of death and in the end bridges them very nicely to that product

Ban flavored cyber imo

except keylime which is irresistible

I don't support this banning, but I will say that a kid at my son's high school was murdered by two other kids in a botched Juul deal. I assume this isn't particularly common, and honestly don't know what to make of it.

uh

holy shit

True facts

The fuck? That’s crazy

Did that make the news? Because I feel like I should have heard about that.