I mean light one up
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 22 December 2016 01:47 (seven years ago) link
Forgive all student loans.WTF is this shit
― van smack, Thursday, 22 December 2016 03:08 (seven years ago) link
upper deckerThe act of defecating in the upper tank of the toilet. When the next poor unsuspecting person flushes the toilet they get a bowl of beef stew. the upper decker is a weapon of terror and should only be used on people who deserve it.
― salthigh, Thursday, 22 December 2016 03:45 (seven years ago) link
the code
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 22 December 2016 04:10 (seven years ago) link
the dougiethe wormthe robotthe stanky leg
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Thursday, 22 December 2016 04:28 (seven years ago) link
get das racist to reunite and book them as the headliner for Trump's inaugural ball
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Thursday, 22 December 2016 04:35 (seven years ago) link
Send Trump to Guantanamo.
― Bianca Smell BO (Leee), Thursday, 22 December 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
appointing Garland isn't asking much, not really a stretch imo compared to pardoning Snowden, that'll never happen
― flappy bird, Thursday, 22 December 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link
Huh
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Friday, 30 December 2016 02:48 (seven years ago) link
Burn down the White House
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 30 December 2016 02:49 (seven years ago) link
it's been done before
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 30 December 2016 03:04 (seven years ago) link
dab
― del griffith, Friday, 30 December 2016 03:09 (seven years ago) link
We the PeopleA response to your petition on Chief Judge Merrick Garland:Thank you for using the We the People platform to sign a petition regarding the Senate’s obstruction of President Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee, Chief Judge Merrick Garland.As President Obama noted when he announced his nomination, Chief Judge Garland has more federal judicial experience than any Supreme Court nominee in American history. His 19 years on the federal bench, meticulous commitment to the law, and unimpeachable credentials prove that there is no one more qualified to immediately serve on the Supreme Court.Many Republicans agreed too, judging him to be well-qualified in temperament, experience, and background. He is the exact kind of consensus nominee that the Senate GOP claimed they wanted the President to nominate. That’s why he was confirmed to the D.C. Circuit in 1997 in a strong bipartisan vote. And that’s why it is so deeply discouraging that Senate Republicans decided to wage a historic campaign of obstruction of his confirmation process.Article II Section II of the U.S. Constitution is clear about the Senate’s duty to consider the President’s nomination. The Senate Republicans willfully abdicated that basic responsibility as elected representatives of the American people.President Obama was proud to nominate Chief Judge Garland to the Supreme Court, and knows he will continue to serve our country with distinction on the D.C. Circuit.-- The We the People Team
Thank you for using the We the People platform to sign a petition regarding the Senate’s obstruction of President Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee, Chief Judge Merrick Garland.
As President Obama noted when he announced his nomination, Chief Judge Garland has more federal judicial experience than any Supreme Court nominee in American history. His 19 years on the federal bench, meticulous commitment to the law, and unimpeachable credentials prove that there is no one more qualified to immediately serve on the Supreme Court.
Many Republicans agreed too, judging him to be well-qualified in temperament, experience, and background. He is the exact kind of consensus nominee that the Senate GOP claimed they wanted the President to nominate. That’s why he was confirmed to the D.C. Circuit in 1997 in a strong bipartisan vote. And that’s why it is so deeply discouraging that Senate Republicans decided to wage a historic campaign of obstruction of his confirmation process.
Article II Section II of the U.S. Constitution is clear about the Senate’s duty to consider the President’s nomination. The Senate Republicans willfully abdicated that basic responsibility as elected representatives of the American people.
President Obama was proud to nominate Chief Judge Garland to the Supreme Court, and knows he will continue to serve our country with distinction on the D.C. Circuit.
-- The We the People Team
― marcos, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 21:01 (seven years ago) link
YOURE MISSING A LINE THAT SHOULDVE SAID "AND THAT'S WHY PRESIDENT OBAMA LISTENED TO YOU AND RECESSED-APPOINTED THIS GUY"
― marcos, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 21:03 (seven years ago) link
*sigh*
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 21:03 (seven years ago) link
hey, everybody slept on this one
Joe Cirincione@CirincioneOh good! @POTUS approved $350Billion nuke sub program we don't need before leaving. #ThanksObama
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-05/new-nuclear-armed-subs-win-pentagon-approval-before-obama-leaves
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2017 19:22 (seven years ago) link
the military industrial complex is truly running this country, which is why I hope they find a way to murk trump
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 5 January 2017 19:31 (seven years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/11/chelsea-manning-obama-commute-prison-sentence
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 12 January 2017 08:16 (seven years ago) link
that better not be a tease. but i'm betting it is
― goole, Thursday, 12 January 2017 15:58 (seven years ago) link
ditto
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 January 2017 16:21 (seven years ago) link
the audacity of hope
― wins, Thursday, 12 January 2017 16:27 (seven years ago) link
hope he does something about the waiting lists on death row tbh
― trilby mouth (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 January 2017 16:29 (seven years ago) link
anyone you have your eye on in particular?
― ogmor, Thursday, 12 January 2017 16:29 (seven years ago) link
i dunno i missed the draft this year
― trilby mouth (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 January 2017 18:28 (seven years ago) link
give the NSA expanded latitude on intercepted metadata
DONE
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 January 2017 18:49 (seven years ago) link
nobody cares about your phonecalls
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 January 2017 18:58 (seven years ago) link
if you don't care about the NSA conducting expanded domestic surveillance under Trump, then you haven't thought about it
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:03 (seven years ago) link
it's not really at the top of my list of concerns, no
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:15 (seven years ago) link
but then maybe I'm just cynically resigned to it since this all seemed inevitable following the Patriot Act. The combination of gov't interest and available technology was never going to be realistically constrained by legal barriers so I've just accepted it.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:16 (seven years ago) link
Go back and view Citizenfour again. Trump is just as vindictive as Nixon and if anything is less constrained by any trace of morality, which is really saying something. You may not be able to stop domestic surveillance abuse on your own or very quickly, but it is important to encourage more Snowden-like leakers and ACLU challenges. Just rolling over is no good.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link
Snowden is basically a traitor and an idiot imo and no I will not be watching CitizenFour again
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:27 (seven years ago) link
That's one answer, I suppose.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:28 (seven years ago) link
wow dude
― k3vin k., Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:29 (seven years ago) link
I don't think there is a legal solution to this tbh. and there isn't really a technological one either, as long as everybody wants phones that are connected to everything else and developed and sold to us by giant megacorporations.
xp
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:29 (seven years ago) link
If you accept that the PATRIOT Act created a legal framework that changed the boundaries of the problem, why do you conclude there is no legal solution? Making a law is not impossible. What's harder is creating a political atmosphere where observing the law is demanded and enforcement is seen as a duty. You don't get there by 'just accepting' the abuse of privacy as inevitable.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:34 (seven years ago) link
because there is no broad support for repealing the legal framework established by the Patriot Act, and there isn't going to be. Generally speaking, powers granted to (or assumed by) the state are never curtailed or removed or given up, barring a total collapse of the state.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:44 (seven years ago) link
That generality has a grain of truth, but it is far from an ironclad rule.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:46 (seven years ago) link
the federal government has been gradually accruing greater and greater power since the republic's founding, that trend isn't going to be reversed, especially by an increasingly cowed and ignorant populace that prizes safety over the much more abstract "privacy"
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:46 (seven years ago) link
Predicting the future by observing the present trend and drawing a straight line out to the horizon is almost always going to result in wrong conclusions.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:51 (seven years ago) link
xxp:The DoD didn't have much choice in the matter of the Ohio-class replacement. The present ones are scheduled to start retiring in 2029, after a 45 year service life, so the contracts on who would do detailed engineering and building actually should have been signed last year.
― not because roaches like to party (Sanpaku), Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:52 (seven years ago) link
Snowden Obama is basically a traitor and an idiot imo
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:53 (seven years ago) link
hiyioooooo
― trilby mouth (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 January 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link
we're having challops for supper again?
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 12 January 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link
Someone who posted recently is pathologically sick, and I'm not sorry for him.
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Thursday, 12 January 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link
Snowden is basically a traitor and an idiot imo
ACTOR ANALYSIS: rightwingers say this cuz they mean it and leftwingers say it cuz they want everyone to know they themselves were alarmed as far back as 2002
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 12 January 2017 20:07 (seven years ago) link
btw it's not morbs' phonecalls one would prefer the incoming fascist government not have access to but the phonecalls of all the BLM activists and leftwing democrats and DSA kids and people who don't particularly like donald trump and other assorted traitors and idiots shortly to be part of the vast ISIS conspiracy
but i agree that, and w yr reasons that, this isn't going away
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 12 January 2017 20:20 (seven years ago) link
dlh otm
― k3vin k., Thursday, 12 January 2017 20:24 (seven years ago) link
ftr I didn't really consider Snowden a traitor (or an idiot) til he went to Russia
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 January 2017 20:28 (seven years ago) link
man c'mon
― goole, Thursday, 12 January 2017 20:31 (seven years ago) link
But you do consider him a traitor and or idiot now? What was he supposed to do, wait for the Feds to show up on his doorsteps? Xp
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 12 January 2017 20:32 (seven years ago) link
well I guess we learned why JD suddenly cares about oliver willis' opinion on this matter
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:24 (seven years ago) link
I vaguely remember Willis being an Internet Somebody back during Bush's second term, but haven't paid attention to him since maybe 2006.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:25 (seven years ago) link
and how racist were the GG tweets?
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), 17. januar 2017 23:23 (twenty-eight seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
They were just retweets. He didn't put on a single word, didn't in any way ask for people to do what they did.
He don't have to. And he knows what happens, it's the same thing that always happens.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:26 (seven years ago) link
retweeting peoples vile tweets is a crime
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:27 (seven years ago) link
i know that in the court of public wokepinion that is evidence enough to convict greenwald of being worse than trump, but believe it or not journalists (even the "good" ones) mock/hate RT other people all the time. i didn't think disavowing the racist BS that random people spew was necessary on ilx but if it makes you happy, fred, then here you go
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:27 (seven years ago) link
no kev, you misunderstand freddy b, gg specifically retweeted willis because he wanted a racist pile-on, but he is cunning enough not to be explicitly racist himself, because he is crafty
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:29 (seven years ago) link
i find it quite troubling that fred, posting from a continent currently experiencing increased right-wing and anti-semitic sentiments, seems to always find a way to have unkind words for this particular gay jewish journalist. but that's none of my business
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:32 (seven years ago) link
willis works for media matters, which is damning enough w/o the dumb tweets
― salthigh, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:39 (seven years ago) link
get that Fred's a punching bag, but c'mon.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:41 (seven years ago) link
These Europeans are all the same.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:44 (seven years ago) link
The sensitivity surrounding Greenwald and his #Putincept...
Which is a hashtag used by Oliver Willis. Yeah, he can be pretty tiresome. And he's definitely wrong about Chelsea Manning. People have flaws, some are way too soft on the IC, and some turn a blind eye to racist/sexist harassment from their followers. I didn't bring up what happened to Oliver Willis, I just pointed out it was instigated by Greenwald, and that he must have expected this kind of thing would be happening. Both things accurate. Calm down guys.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:46 (seven years ago) link
obviously i was being facetious with my post. i think even fred got that
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:48 (seven years ago) link
Also, #EuropeisNotaCountry.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:48 (seven years ago) link
i said continent. my joke post is airtight
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:49 (seven years ago) link
Obama also pardons Oscar Lopez Rivera
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:51 (seven years ago) link
https://www.lawfareblog.com/obama-right-chelsea-manning
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 23:52 (seven years ago) link
Paul Ryan and Bob Menendez both blasting the Manning commutation, so let's commend Obama for uniting them in bipartisan shitheadism.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 01:54 (seven years ago) link
Judith Miller @JMfreespeechObama commutes sentence of Chelsea Manning. How many people died because of manning' leak?
@tinyrevolutionIt's not that Judith Miller thinks it's BAD to publish things that get people killed. It's that she's competitive.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 02:34 (seven years ago) link
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2017/1/17/14303388/willie-mccovey-pardon-president-obama
Big surprise, because I don't really remember this ever happening in the first place.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 03:16 (seven years ago) link
Lol: Lol: http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/314783-assange-lawyer-conditions-not-met-for-assange-manning-extradition-offer
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link