US Politics February 2019: This is one of the great losers of all time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mRG2oAQhso

revenge of the nerds: the two towers

As cited upthread, "Revenge of the Nerds".

Here’s a video that was running on mtv in 1983
https://youtu.be/OG3PnQ3tgzY

what a talent show!

I’m surprised I was alive in the 80s. It seems like an extraordinarily different kind of amoral civilization

But ohhh, the coke

Your grandparents probably supported eugenic sterilizations.

Moral progress in the last 70 years has proceeded faster than at any other period. It's the silver lining of the apotheosis of opposing elements in Nazism and similar nationalisms of the early 20th century.

^at least in Western democracies. Which accounts for the allegiance/mentorship of reactionary elements with the worst in Russia, Uganda, etc...

A Transportation Security Administration agent was killed Saturday morning after jumping from a hotel balcony into the atrium of Orlando International Airport, authorities said.

was killed? uh, no. this person died and in the most public way they could possibly choose. presumably this TSA agent thought the public needed to witness it and to acknowledge their humanity and their extreme distress.

How sure are you that the floor of the airport wasn't from Mexico?

I’m surprised I was alive in the 80s.

I thought you said you were 29.

That's why he's surprised.

mathperson

I'm 29 and was alive in the 80s

Intetesting that McConnell is leaking this ahead of time
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/mcconnell-privately-cautioned-trump-about-emergency-declaration-on-border-wall/2019/02/01/5ff1262c-2646-11e9-81fd-b7b05d5bed90_story.html?utm_term=.c4287bf1480b

Which signals he cant keep his caucus in line and would be willing to bring something to the floor to appease them/confront Trump

29yos were alive in a single "eighty" unless we can agree that life begins at conception

“I did not shoot the sherif. How can I be so sure? Because I have such a vivid memory of shooting the deputy.”

— Tim Stanley (@timothy_stanley) February 2, 2019

'Willful Ignorance.' Inside President Trump's Troubled Intelligence Briefings

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s renewed attacks on the U.S. intelligence community this week, senior intelligence briefers are breaking two years of silence to warn that the President is endangering American security with what they say is a stubborn disregard for their assessments.

Citing multiple in-person episodes, these intelligence officials say Trump displays what one called “willful ignorance” when presented with analyses generated by America’s $81 billion-a-year intelligence services. The officials, who include analysts who prepare Trump’s briefs and the briefers themselves, describe futile attempts to keep his attention by using visual aids, confining some briefing points to two or three sentences, and repeating his name and title as frequently as possible.

What is most troubling, say these officials and others in government and on Capitol Hill who have been briefed on the episodes, are Trump’s angry reactions when he is given information that contradicts positions he has taken or beliefs he holds. Two intelligence officers even reported that they have been warned to avoid giving the President intelligence assessments that contradict stances he has taken in public.

I was alive in 89

Trump needs to be removed from office. If a democratic president was displaying this behavior, i don’t think the party would enable it.

lmao Northam's wife prevents him from actually moonwalking at press conference to prove he was a fan of Michael Jackson, presumably to justify blackface

so he says he's not in the photo, but he did wear blackface in med school

well, that's very different

I was alive in 89

Many people have forgotten that 2019 is still very new on the scene. It seems like its been here for ages.

xp and his nickname was "Coonman"

the drumming on that Soundgarden song is immense imo

holy shit

The freezing prisoners at the Metropolitan detention Center in Sunset Park are banging out SOS for all of us to hear. #SunsetParkGulag pic.twitter.com/f9O8KIVAxZ

— Brad Lander (@bradlander) February 1, 2019

that's about 2 miles from me

(and Lander is my councilman)

Apparently said detention center received a court order to attend an evidentiary hearing on 2/5. Good.

Glad all their lies are being swiftly refuted.

soto lol

xp and his nickname was "Coonman"

Come together with your Klan

:D

Northam’s game is to survive 48 more hours. Let Super Bowl and then SOTU take the media glare away and ride it out. Then apology tour.

— Advance Guy Notes (@AdvanceGuyNotes) February 2, 2019

Trump's perma-tan is the result of “good genes,” according to a senior administration official who would speak only on the condition of anonymity. https://t.co/Tu6LCCBbjo

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) February 2, 2019

they lie about the dumbest shit

when i was a kid, the only thing i knew about trump was that he refused to admit his hair was a toupée

right-o! it appears to be not a toupee, but some strange, cyclonic hyper-comb-over

he admits he takes antibiotics for a skin condition, right? rosea or something? he probably uses makeup to counteract the blotchiness.

Christian Bale’s combover from American hustle explains everything you need to know about Trump’s Hair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjDnwNoE_GA

A truly glorious human specimen.

Here is the Trump "tan" that the New York Times just described as "sun-kissed" and "vibrant"

This is real and undoctored, straight off the TV pic.twitter.com/vWbieYI0uN

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 3, 2019

How Trump Survived Explosion in Max Factor Factory

not surprising, but new MO senator josh hawley basically spent his two years as attorney general using his office to run his senate campaign and broke a bunch of laws doing it.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article225334655.html

the chief law enforcement official of the state breaking a bunch of laws? imagine that!

fuck missourians for not knowing wtf to do when they get shown something

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) had the best fundraising quarter of her career after she delivered a pivotal vote that helped seat Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, according to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission.

The Bangor Daily News reports that after announcing her decision to vote in favor of Kavanaugh’s nomination during a speech on the Senate floor in early October, Collins raised $1.8 million in the final quarter of 2018.

The records show that of the nearly $900,000 Collins received from individual donors who contributed more than $200 to her campaign, just $19,000 came from individuals with Maine addresses.

reminds me that i registered susancollins2020.com the day that she made her fucking terrible speech about kavanaugh

haha awesome. i hope her people end up offering you a significant amount of money for it, that you can then turn around and donate to her opponent.

fuck her

i expect to make as much money off of it as i did doonaldjtrump.com (losing a couple hundred $ on hosting costs)

but yeah, fuck her. god, i still fill the goosebumps of rage when i remember that day

fuck missourians for not knowing wtf to do when they get shown something

Clever post!

heavy conservatism backed by the surety of 'common sense' is archetypal in missouri, it's nauseating