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

"i like bombers who make bombs that go off, OK?"

Let me guess, next up there will be a mysterious fire in the US Capitol building, followed by crackdowns on Democrats and permanent martial law?

perhaps in order to deal with this tense situation, they'll have to delay the elections indefinitely.

"i like bombers who make bombs that go off, OK?"

― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, October 25, 2018 11:18 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ummm

My first thought was that the bombs came from a Republican. Then I learned the bombs don't work.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 24, 2018

steven pinker, famous brain genious:

Steven Pinker
‏@sapinker

Once again the press gets gamed, giving saturation coverage and agonized commentary to a minor event. It's not major news that a country of 325m has a few malicious jerks who (correctly) anticipate 15 minutes of notoriety with a vindictive stunt.
11:56 PM - 24 Oct 2018

Once again the press gets gamed, giving saturation coverage and agonized commentary to a minor event. It's not major news that a country of 325m has a few malicious jerks who (correctly) anticipate 15 minutes of notoriety with a vindictive stunt. https://t.co/zXnBJXCqdB

— Steven Pinker (@sapinker) October 25, 2018

steven pinker on migrant caravan :

. . .

it's incredible how stupid major cognitive scientists are when they step an inch outside their scholarly wheelhouse

i know drawing Dilbert is a complicated endeavor but....

that's true for most scientists ime

xp

Cannon Building has "all clear" - false alarm

what is Scott Adams saying there? that Republicans are better at constructing bombs?

yes

yep, the violent democratic mob is also less experienced at violence, somehow

He’s saying that “Democrats” are lazy and don’t like to work

berks county, PA republican party is sharing "false flag" conspiracy theories on social media.

see e.g.
https://ptpimg.me/m9reuh.jpg

i'm sure the same goes for many other official GOP pages, etc.

they probably tried to turn their Obamaphones into explosive devices

which, for this tedious dilbert asshole, a pretty solid zing

xposts

Trump’s response to yesterday’s bombings is to warn people that if they keep criticizing him they’ll be killed. https://t.co/PmVwDOAI0J

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 25, 2018

guys I'm sure that if Republicans had been the targets of mailbombs, the same people would think that was a false flag op too

this is a preview of the 2020 election btw
stochastic terrorism as campaign tactic

Rosenstein mailed da bombs

hi Gummy Gummy, are you a new poster or an old one with a new name?
in case it's the former, let me add that I was asked the same q the first time I posted in the US politics thread

did i post something ill-advised?

(old lurker, new poster btw)

oh hi there

hi dere gummy gummy

xp
not at all! ILX is pretty quiet these days, new posters are relatively rare, and you seemed to adapt v quickly

welcome gummy gummy :)

which immediately seemed suspicious. it's the paranoid style of us politics thread

haha yeah i was like 'wow this person fits in..........................too well'

stochastic terrorism as campaign tactic

― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, October 25, 2018 4:55 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also 'strategy of tension'

Maybe Gummy did the pipe bombs! Maybe the bombs are coming from ... inside the house!!!!

Strategy of Tension sounds like the name of a good prog-metal band.

Or a bad one, I guess.

We're through the looking glass, people

just now?

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legit sounds like a robert fripp project

This gummy gummy thing is gonna break it wide open

yeah i wish it was a mission of burma song or something

i wish everything was a mission of burma song

life is a mission of burma song, and that's no so great imo

georgetown prep fight song

yeah i wish it was a mission of burma song or something

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, October 25, 2018 10:25 AM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol my immediate thought was "sounds more like a hardcore album title"

we can split the difference, i think... it's a good math-rock album title.

(band put out one album on touch & go in 1994.)

(i saw them open for jesus lizard.)

Good stuff on ActBlue's role in the Democratic fundraising surge. https://t.co/8iTclpqmyq pic.twitter.com/m7g0n7bxb2

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 25, 2018

hey Josh Harder, allright! that's the race I've been throwing my $$$/time at. VOTE HARDER

actblue is good