Trump just claimed Pelosi made a "fascist" statement
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 June 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
I mean fine
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 14 June 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
I’m more worried about the possibility of a war that would cost maybe millions of lives than an old man being a jerk
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 14 June 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
i understand why people are skeptical that iran did it - like i said, i'm right there with you. what i'm criticizing is the immediate leap to "FALSE FLAG!", which is just as ridiculous when everyone lacks evidence
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Friday, 14 June 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
I was also listening to this podcast and they discussed what a fragile security situation the gulf states are in. kuwait in particular gets all its water from desalinization plants that can be easily blown up. we'd have to do daily airlifts of water to avoid the entire population dying of thirst.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-26939754
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 14 June 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
the US intelligence community faces a very high burden of trust for reasons that should be fairly obvious
― Simon H., Friday, 14 June 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
Iran could have bombed my apartment building and i wouldn’t support a war led by trump and bolton
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 14 June 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
someone just tell me to stop if i'm missing the point, but there's a big difference between not trusting the US intelligence community (which, yeah, duh!) and "false flag!"
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Friday, 14 June 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
definitely a crank-y position but it's not as though it's totally without precedent
― Simon H., Friday, 14 June 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
I hate conspiracy theories but something about this seems off
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 14 June 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
best thing to do is pretend it's 1985 and there's no pressure to immediately come up with a theory less than 48 hours after it happened and the evidence is just starting to bubble up
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Friday, 14 June 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
whoa, husker du has a new album out, sickwait, reagan is president, fuck?invest in apple!
wish i could bomb oil tankers
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 June 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
I am afraid these two things may be inextricable
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 14 June 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
looks like mnuchin has delayed the design of the new $20 bill with harriet tubman to 2025, so that trump won't have to see his favorite president andrew jackson replaced with a black woman even if he gets reelected
trump has been treated more unfairly than any president
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Friday, 14 June 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
ultimately war boils down to a bunch of old men being jerks
― omar little, Friday, 14 June 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
The best possible outcome is still for Trump to die in office before November 2020. Because if he wins re-election, we're fucked, and if he loses, we have to put up with him calling into Fox & Friends for an hour every morning - and the press covering it like it matters - for the next 20 years, or until solar flares melt all our satellites and there's no more TV.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 14 June 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
Official White House graphic:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9CIXhAWkAAhWQb.jpg
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 14 June 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
who is the head of the Joint Chiefs right now? anyone we've heard of?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 June 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
if he loses, we have to put up with him calling into Fox & Friends for an hour every morning - and the press covering it like it matters - for the next 20 years, or until solar flares melt all our satellites and there's no more TV.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, June 14, 2019 10:24 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark
oh shit i hadn't thought about this
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 14 June 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
Yeah, you know that thing where ex-presidents kinda fade away from public life and you don't really hear a whole lot from them once they're out of office? Get ready for that to be a thing of the past.
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 June 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
am sure Pres Ivanka will find a role for him in her 2040 admin
― nashwan, Friday, 14 June 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
In this scenario, the USA plays the Ancient Mariner and Trump plays the role of dead albatross hung around the USA's neck.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 14 June 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
wtf. does trump have a sense of humor about himself now?
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 14 June 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
is this seriously a white house graphic?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 14 June 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
yeah. trump retweeted it from the whitehouse twitter page.
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 14 June 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/c40BQpZFtW— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 14, 2019
It likes like a Nascar rally car
― Like A Turrican (stevie), Friday, 14 June 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
Why is the president fucking a flag?
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 June 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
its a metaphor
― Like A Turrican (stevie), Friday, 14 June 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
ha like Trump is able to grasp why everyone else thinks that image is funny/awful
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 14 June 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
all he cares about is that it is effective because it centers all the attention on himself
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 14 June 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
the flag likes it
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 14 June 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
when you're a star they let you do it
― frogbs, Friday, 14 June 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
he's Bidening Old Glory
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 June 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
Ragging Anoe
― omar little, Friday, 14 June 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
Lots of people sharing this, no idea who this person is, she seems a little too close to resistance grifter types so I’m a little wary of sharing it as gospel truth, but:
IF YOU CARE ABOUT WHAT TRUMP IS DOING AT THE BORDER, you need to read and share this thread. @jacobsoboroff @JuliaEAinsley please read this.I have just gotten off the phone with a friend who is a legal volunteer in Border Patrol facilities.Don't look away.1/— Elizabeth C. McLaughlin (@ECMcLaughlin) June 13, 2019
― JoeStork, Friday, 14 June 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
Shouldn’t there be reporters all over the border right now?
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 14 June 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
she seems a little too close to resistance grifter types
yeah. whatever facts she's presenting there are dragged down by her vibe, which practically shouts 'propaganda'.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 14 June 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
I know the topic has moved on, but commercial ships are equipped with radar and sonar devices, the EXACT purpose of which is to detect things in the dark.
― Velcromancer (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 June 2019 22:30 (four years ago) link
Interesting. But only patriotic proud American commercial ships, right?!
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Friday, 14 June 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
I really couldn't give a fuck if Iran threw shitty bombs at a NON US tanker. although I guess now the word is they were trying to hit a US drone which I guess is...provacative, but also, who gives a fuck? What if Iran had drones flying off the East Coast? Wouldn't we shoot them down?
― akm, Friday, 14 June 2019 22:59 (four years ago) link
I need thousands of American 23 yr olds to protect my freedom of speech by murdering Iranian civilians because a Japanese oil tanker got attacked 8000 miles from America.— rob delaney (@robdelaney) June 14, 2019
― gbx, Friday, 14 June 2019 23:05 (four years ago) link
last two posts otm
― Dan S, Friday, 14 June 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
Any nation has the recognized right to shoot down hostile aircraft overflying its airspace, including within its 12 nm territorial waters. I have no doubt that US drones have in the past overflown Iranian territory.
― despondently sipping tomato soup (Sanpaku), Friday, 14 June 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
Would the average US citizen recognize that Iran has a right to defend its sovereign territory? As my parents' generation used to say, "eh, go tell it to the marines". That's just how we empires roll.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 15 June 2019 00:50 (four years ago) link
Blockbuster story buried in this NYT report.Pentagon, intelligence officials fear they cannot trust Trump enough to brief him fully on new US cyber operation against Russia for fear he will "countermand it or discuss it with foreign officials" as he did before with Russians. pic.twitter.com/BgSF3zi8nm— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) June 15, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 June 2019 03:29 (four years ago) link
well yeah
― Dan S, Sunday, 16 June 2019 03:33 (four years ago) link
gotta loop that motherfucker out
― j., Sunday, 16 June 2019 03:52 (four years ago) link
I hope whoever assembles the PDBs has a post-Trump memoir coming up. Even redacted, these are among the most embarrassing stories I've read about Trump's actual functioning in a presidential role. The PDB reduced to two pages of bullet points with large colorful maps, insertions of the phrase "President Trump" as often as possible to maintain attention, intelligence withheld from CinC for fear of leaks to other powers.
― despondently sipping tomato soup (Sanpaku), Sunday, 16 June 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link