US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

I always find it intersting how those who use 'snowflake' as a pejorative often themselves seem to be on the brink of melting down.

I mean these people all lost their collective minds because one football player took a knee during the National Anthem and are scared shitless of Maxine Waters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

feel like snowflakes are really getting a lot of unwarranted negativity in this political battle. snowflakes are cool fuiud

i get that you shouldn't engage these idiots, but sometimes when people use these stupid, overused pejoratives I wonder if they think it's a biting insult because most people don't respond back as they are too busy rolling their eyes and sighing.

I get so annoyed by the lack of creativity.

i get that you shouldn't engage these idiots, but

new board description

I fucking hate everything

Same here, but it's really the entire internet (or humanity), with its endless recycling of memes. xp to yarec

that instagram post is fucked up as hell

fuck these fucking assholes

i can't even believe she created and shared that. wtf. fuck that lady. fuck everyone

xpost but I love those Linklater anti-Cruz ads, glad they chose to exploit Ted's totally inexplicable Whataburger diss.

Ok sarah palin mocking her own disabled child and then gaslighting everyone about it is actually excrutiating for some reason.

that is unbelievably fucked up

ehh I'm not willing to give these people the benefit of the doubt 99% of the time, but in this case I'm willing to believe sarah palin was not mocking her own child

what was the meme? (instagram is blocked where I am)

frogbs' imgur link is the meme

hmmm, I would not expect anything better of her really.

I don’t know how else to interpret that meme

Xp

Parents of children, fathers of daughters, husbands of wives, has never meant shit. We all know how easily they will sell them out to protect themselves.

I don’t know how else to interpret that meme

she sees these people as crying children?

sure, maybe i’m looking at it too hard

I think iatee is right, but her reaction makes it extremely hard to not interpret it uncharitably. also she's dumber than I thought if she believed people would share that meme with good intent

xp
Crying Down Syndrome children, so, you know...

this guy doesn't merit an RIP thread but hey I'm glad he's dead anyway
https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/television/article/Nevada-pimp-who-starred-in-HBO-series-found-dead-13311893.php

posted here because he will obviously no longer be in the running for his state legislative seat this fall

otm and thank god

"He had been celebrating is birthday at a hotel in the rural city of Pahrump that Hof had said would be attended by porn star Ron Jeremy, rapper and reality television star Flavor Flav and Joe Arpaio, the former six-term sheriff of metropolitan Phoenix"

where do you go when you die if you already lived in hell?

re: the earlier discussion even approaching that meme in improbably good faith: don’t employ your fucking children as memes, it’s gross

I dont think the kids’ down syndrome was at the forefront of her mind but she should have taken twelve seconds to think about whether this was a nice or respectful way to depict her child

when has Sarah Palin taken any seconds

forefront, not even sure she has a onefront

As I mentioned in the obituary thread, I met Hof once in a work context. He was like a character out of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

"He had been celebrating is birthday at a hotel in the rural city of Pahrump that Hof had said would be attended by porn star Ron Jeremy, rapper and reality television star Flavor Flav and Joe Arpaio, the former six-term sheriff of metropolitan Phoenix"

where do you go when you die if you already lived in hell?

I would be a little bit interested in overhearing a conversation between flavor flav and joe arpaio

execs at a few reality tv production houses in L.A. just perked up their ears

Julian Castro? I know nothing about him. Thoughts?

BREAKING: Trump tells AP that Saudi Arabia being blamed for missing journalist is another case of "guilty until proven innocent."

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 16, 2018

Wtf! Ugh

FFS turkey is insisting again they have clear evidence of this. NOTE: I hate the Turkish government and think they are as bad as the Saudi government so maybe there is some tiny, tiny sliver of doubt here, but I thought the Saudi's owned up to this last night?

FFS turkey is insisting again they have clear evidence of this. NOTE: I hate the Turkish government and think they are as bad as the Saudi government so maybe there is some tiny, tiny sliver of doubt here, but I thought the Saudi's owned up to this last night?

everybody involved here - the Turkish gov't, the Saudis, the US gov't - are grade A assholes so I sort of don't care what happens and at no point will anything resembling "justice" ever be remotely close to being served

Khashoggi was last seen entering the Saudi consulate before he disappeared. That fact alone...

Mr. Khashoggi walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul around 1:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 2, for an appointment to pick up a document.

Under the strain of his voluntary exile from Saudi Arabia, his marriage had ended in a divorce, and he had since become engaged to a Turkish woman. Mr. Khashoggi needed certification from the Saudi authorities of his divorce so that he could remarry in Turkey; the wedding was planned for the next day.

The Turkish authorities have released video footage of him walking into the consulate, but they say there is none of him walking out. The Saudis, while insisting that he left the consulate safely, have not offered any evidence.

Mr. Khashoggi’s fiancée waited for him outside the consulate for hours.

everybody involved here - the Turkish gov't, the Saudis, the US gov't - are grade A assholes so I sort of don't care what happens and at no point will anything resembling "justice" ever be remotely close to being served

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, October 17, 2018 12:26 AM (seven seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ding ding ding. Trump's said he prefers hauling in a couple of billion in arms sales. Mohammad bin Salman is a ruthless ruler. And Erdogan's Turkey is one of the worst led nations in history.

USA, Turkey, Saudi Arabia: the true axis of evil.

These fucking arms sales a god damn joke it's not even like it's a lot of money in the grand scheme.

tbh I don't care much about this story -- more American perfidy. Woulda happened under Obama, totally commonplace in the Poppy Bush and Reagan administrations.

v true

This kinda thing should have provoked outrage then too.

it did.