gowdy did 9/11 xp
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:25 (six years ago) link
On the day of the blue-blood eclipse, the GOP train literally collides with a trash truck.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
msnbc says one killed (and paul ryan unhurt)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
I wonder what connection the truck drivers had to Clinton
― Evan, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
There is a time to come and a time to go. This is the right time, for me, to leave politics and return to the justice system.
I would like a lot more of them to return to the justice system, but probably not in the way he means.
― claude rains down in africa (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
Or maybe ... he's going to become the new AG. Or deputy AG. Or Head of the FBI.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
I understand the CDC is in need of a director who's willing to demonstrate an intransigent lack of concern toward the control of diseases.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link
What does thing bring the count to now? Of scaredy-cats?
― Pumpkin Soup and Mandy Patinkin (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
if Gowdy becomes AG or head of FBI I’m going to vomit
― the late great, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
that's true for me if he becomes anything other than "dead in a gasoline fire"
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
sounds like he is going to serve out his term though
― the late great, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
and a second one
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
he's apparently joining the newly created position "Lead Benghazi Inquisitor"
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
Paul Ryan was on the train apparently.
Unfortunately, he's ok.
or at least, as ok as he was before.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
That, but mainly (for me) the whole needless antagonizing thing
― Simon H., Wednesday, January 31, 2018 2:38 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm not sure I buy that antagonism of Russia or NK is "needless"
one's systematically & brazenly undermining representative democracies everywhere and the other is waving nukes around after two decades of the planet begging them not to seek nukes
sanctions won't make progress towards resolving these problems, but neither does pretending they don't exist. nor are they irrevocably war prelude.
fuckin idk
this timeline sucks
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
Feds will not retry Bob Menendez
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
if there really must be nukes in this world, N Korea should have some (as should Iran). but that's a debate for another thread lol
― Simon H., Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
A seat on the Fourth Circuit Court, which covers South Carolina, became vacant just yesterday, and the current U.S. attorney in South Carolina is serving in an interim role
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/another-gop-chairman-to-retire-trey-gowdy-announces-hes-out
― Pumpkin Soup and Mandy Patinkin (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
That's an insane opinion, Simon...
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
xp no nukes for iran
― the late great, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
I've been after Sanders for not offering a different fp vision, but careful what you wish for, I guess. Yikes...
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
was russia "needlessly antagonizing" us when they fucked w/ our election? yeesh.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
xp
iran's brand of revolutionary islam is extremely oppressive and shitty, and they really are supporters of terrorism
allowing them nukes would just prop up the current shitty regime and embolden them to build regional power, export their brand of islam, etc
not cool.
― the late great, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
(I don't think anyone should be handing out nukes or advocating for them - disarmament all the way. I just don't like the USA having a monopoly on or outsized comparative capacity for force.)
― Simon H., Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
the USA aren't supporters of terrorism? gimme a break.
Well well. The FBI has formally gone all out:
BREAKING: FBI on The Memo "we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.” pic.twitter.com/ZAGWmu9o9o— Ryan J. Reilly 🦅 (@ryanjreilly) January 31, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:34 (six years ago) link
― Simon H., Wednesday, January 31, 2018 6:31 PM (one minute ago)
yeah cuz the world sure did get notably safer when the soviets got nuclear weapons, didn't it?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:35 (six years ago) link
the USA may or may not be supporters of terrorism but why would you want more int'l supporters of terrorism?
― the late great, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:35 (six years ago) link
they are, and I don't want that, but an iran with nukes seems less likely to me to get nuked by the US at some point down the line than one that doesn't, and I'd much prefer no one got nuked tbh
― Simon H., Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
Iran is in a different league of terrorist supporter than the US, more comparable to the Saudis, and no, the Saudis should not have nukes either. Which they absolutely would get if Iran got them.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
But there is in fact a thread for these types of questions, which is mostly used to discuss kleptocracy every half a year or so, but could def use a bump.
xp well i am not sure i agree w/ that and besides i think there are more effective ways to keep iran from being nuked w/ less unhappy side effects
― the late great, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
I'm open to persuasion, and yeah if there's another thread we can def go there but my searches turned up nothing definitive
― Simon H., Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
America needs a new foreign policy
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
If we were all implanted with subcutaneous nukes at birth then no one would use nukes because if they did it would be a chain reaction of little nuclear explosions that would mutually-assured destroy all of us.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
Simon, the most likely cause of nuclear war always has been and always will be tragic mistake or systems malfunction, the more countries have nukes the more likely that becomes
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:52 (six years ago) link
Re Trey Gowdy: the Hill article I read said that a judicial seat in the 4th Circuit court opened up the day before his announcement, so maybe that's his plan.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
ums I replied to you in the other thread
in conclusion, Grey Towdy
― Simon H., Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
bengowdy :(
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
On Tuesday, for the first time in 80 years, the Senate confirmed a judicial nominee over the objections of a home-state senator.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/371453-senate-confirms-trump-nominee-despite-missing-blue-slip
― Pumpkin Soup and Mandy Patinkin (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
feels like we've hit some sort of inflection point, seems like the media is now focusing disproportionately on $5 bonus checks, Trump's "gentler, bipartisan" approach, and what could possibly be in the Nunes memo, while stories about him trying to fire Mueller and raw dogging porn stars have basically dropped out of the news cycle. Meanwhile his approval rating is ticking up, the GOP is within striking distance on the generic ballot, and everything seems to be set in place for full-on voter suppression for midterms, while the Dems just shamble along aimlessly, committing to nothing except "lol Trump bad". I'm uh...starting to get a bad feeling
― frogbs, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
Yeah, nascent totalitarianism will do that to a body.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link
I kinda understand where the media's coming from, tbf. Trump will probably only approve a limited number of state-run outlets so they need to start making their overtures now.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
(In case it's unclear, I think we're nearing a point of no return, or rather a point where the only possibility of something resembling a return is a legitimate revolution.)
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
i love y'all but the news itself is depressing enough without doomsaying
i may be Too Tired for a revolution, down to die like a dog tho
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
^^^ yes, this, x1000
― sleeve, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
Oh, yeah, I'm over the revolution hill. Getting my affairs in order as we speak.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
like we've got several people from the Trump admin already arrested and Ryan & the GOP's only response has been "investigate the FBI". even as the President steadfastly refuses to implement the sanctions Congress nearly unanimously voted for against the country he's been accused of colluding with. meanwhile the President's SOTU speech is 90% made up of GOP/White Nationalist talking points and he gets overwhelming praise for being "bipartisan". I uh...don't think we can go back to 2016 anymore
― frogbs, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
Like, do I think everyone in the US is going to be rounded up and genocided? No. Do I think life in the US has probably reached peak cushiness? Probably so.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
this is why I enjoy the fact that DSA has an electoral plank but does a bunch of other outreach/serve the people/community-building shit as well - reform AND revolution, baby xxp
― Simon H., Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link