actually!
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 10 November 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
actually
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 November 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
(nods)
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 10 November 2019 22:30 (four years ago) link
At a Texas State basketball game. pic.twitter.com/203AhRTrUB— Meisterboomer (@meisterbuerger) November 9, 2019
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/13/lawmaker-posts-cryptic-jeffrey-epstein-message-during-impeachment-hearing
― SHANTY the golden fish portion (stevie), Thursday, 14 November 2019 10:10 (four years ago) link
cool
― grebbmoolb (crüt), Thursday, 14 November 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
the guy whose family TOOK OUT AN AD TELLING PEOPLE TO VOTE AGAINST HIM
― maura, Thursday, 14 November 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
okay I didn't realize that's who that was
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 14 November 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
good to see he's using his time in productive ways
wonder who was in charge of the Justice Department when it happened and whether or not that person had any connections to Epstein
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 November 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
― maura, Thursday, November 14, 2019 11:12 AM (forty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lmao that was the best
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 November 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
also this is the best kudos to that no doubt horrible man for generating quality news
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 November 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
he's still in office, he only deserves our scorn
― maura, Thursday, 14 November 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
#Assad says Epstein didn't commit suicide, he was killed https://t.co/D1ktgu9u6F #Syria— Al-Masdar News (@TheArabSource) November 14, 2019
idk how we got here but we got here.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Friday, 15 November 2019 04:42 (four years ago) link
All the Trump supporters on my Facebook feed started posting these memes daily at the same time, some of them very slickly produced, many crafted to appeal to the hard rock / heavy metal set. Makes me think this is a dry run for the 2020 meme wars. Facebook now knows who its reliable memesoldiers are.
― Bnad, Friday, 15 November 2019 05:10 (four years ago) link
I'm so glad there are threads like this when I have LOTS of free time on my hands. No real opinion on whether he did or didn't kill himself but clearly this has just become another rightwing distraction and given their fixation with the Clintons it doesn't seem unlikely that their their theories will point more and more towards the connection with Bill.
The discussion of conspiracy theories mid-thread was more interesting to me. I wonder, does Russiagate qualify as a conspiracy theory?
― viborg, Friday, 15 November 2019 07:40 (four years ago) link
I revived another thread to kind of talk about that! Russiagate is unusual because its a centrist pushed conspiracy, and usually centrists aren't predisposed to conspiracies. Its quite an overtly top down conspiracy. The more left or right you go the more you're going to believe things aren't as presented (leading down some strange paths sometimes), centrism is kind of the opposite of that, that things are generally as they appear and/or problems are out in the open
― anvil, Friday, 15 November 2019 07:59 (four years ago) link
Russiagate in general wasn't a conspiracy, in that 90% of it was true.
― Frederik B, Friday, 15 November 2019 08:23 (four years ago) link
Whether a conspiracy theory is true or not has no bearing on whether it is a conspiracy theory. Some conspiray theories are true, and some conspiracy theories are not true.
This isn't about the veracity of any particular theory, but about predisposition towards them
― anvil, Friday, 15 November 2019 08:36 (four years ago) link
Lol, ok. But even then, the bulk of Russiagate, that Russians were interfering in the election, and that Trump encouraged them at the very least, was pretty clear from summer 2016. So that was probably why a lot of people believed it. The interesting question is more why so many people furiously denied it and helped the Russians in spreading the material. I think those people had more of a conspiratorial mindset.
― Frederik B, Friday, 15 November 2019 08:53 (four years ago) link
That should really not be controversial, a lot of people seemed to think Russiagate was thought up by Dem elites and the Deep State to undo the will of the people. That's the conspiracy here.
― Frederik B, Friday, 15 November 2019 08:55 (four years ago) link
― Frederik B, Friday, November 15, 2019 8:23 AM (thirty minutes ago)
i recommend buying a dictionary
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 15 November 2019 08:58 (four years ago) link
for better or worse, the phrase “conspiracy theory” near-universally means a crackpot or impossible one, and Fred - a very clear writer but in a second language, able to fudge the odd nuance - was here using the first word in context of the whole phrase
― insecurity bear (sic), Friday, 15 November 2019 09:40 (four years ago) link
Prince Andrew's being interviewed on a Newsnight special tomorrow night. It's the BBC, so unlikely to be incredibly uncomfortable, but it'll be interesting to see how far they'll be permitted to go.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Friday, 15 November 2019 10:35 (four years ago) link
'not nearly far enough', one assumes
― actor Robert de Niro disguised as an Uzbek homeopath (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 November 2019 10:51 (four years ago) link
One assumes - but there's also a theory that he's so bang-to-rights, there's a political value in making him out to be at least moderately accountable in public to lessen the perception that the Royal Family and government have been running interference for him.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Friday, 15 November 2019 11:08 (four years ago) link
I can't imagine, even with softball questions, he can possibly come out of it looking good or would have agreed to it in the first place if he hadn't been compelled by someone more senior.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Friday, 15 November 2019 11:09 (four years ago) link
it'll be instructive as to how far the royals are willing to hang him out to dry, for sure
― actor Robert de Niro disguised as an Uzbek homeopath (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 November 2019 11:19 (four years ago) link
That’s a HELLUVA NON-DENIAL when the allegation is repeatedly having sex with a 17-year-old sex slave of a notorious pedophile. pic.twitter.com/mTp1COGXQX— Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻 (@MarkDiStef) November 15, 2019
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Friday, 15 November 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
he's really captured the enormity of the situation with that apology
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 November 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
maybe could've thrown a "soz" in there too
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 November 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2014-03/enhanced/webdr04/10/10/anigif_original-grid-image-28739-1394461841-5.gif?crop=450:298;2,0
― actor Robert de Niro disguised as an Uzbek homeopath (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 November 2019 22:30 (four years ago) link
Federal prosecutors offered a plea deal to two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein on the night of his death, but the officers have declined, people familiar with the matter tell The Associated Press. https://t.co/GmOyWM1zG7— The Associated Press (@AP) November 15, 2019
― Simon H., Saturday, 16 November 2019 02:12 (four years ago) link
When I hear a politician saying "I have no recollection," I know I'm 100% OK to write the story because that always means "I don't like it, but I can't deny it." EVERY TIME. It's the accepted nod, wink form of words for "I'm bang to rights". Is the Duke badly advised or stupid?— Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) November 15, 2019
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 16 November 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link
bit of both
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 16 November 2019 11:29 (four years ago) link
a lot of both, i’d say
― actor Robert de Niro disguised as an Uzbek homeopath (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 16 November 2019 12:17 (four years ago) link
What else can he say?
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Saturday, 16 November 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
"I'm a dodgy child abuser from an outmoded institution that should be abolished toot sweet, Vote Labour, peace"
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 16 November 2019 15:30 (four years ago) link
it would have been nice if he’d led with “for decades, i’ve been an active and enthusiastic participant in an international sex trafficking and child rape ring alongside some of the world’s richest and most powerful men, which is probably at least in part also operating as a blackmail operation for intelligences agencies in countries including the united states, united kingdom and israel “also, jeffrey epstein was murdered”
― actor Robert de Niro disguised as an Uzbek homeopath (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 16 November 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
they obv don't teach these posh kiddyfiddler gimps the art of plausible deniability these days.
― calzino, Saturday, 16 November 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
just a bit of fun init
― lag∞n, Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
Shocking to see an otherwise merely useless pile of flesh tarnished with these accusations.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 16 November 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
If some entitled shit who is considered important because he was born and for no other reason can do a thing like this, who can we even trust anymore?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 16 November 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
30 seconds into this interview and it's even worse than in the clips. He looks terrified.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 November 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
"I never have really partied" - this man is the anti-Andrew WK
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 November 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
yikes yikes yikes yikes at this
― ||||||||, Saturday, 16 November 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
The bits he has obviously prepared for are somehow worse. Still not sure if the guilt or the idiocy is stronger here, but both are powerful forces.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 November 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
“I do not regret being friends with a pedophile”
― ||||||||, Saturday, 16 November 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
“I was not close friends with him... but I felt like I had to fly halfway across the world to break up with him.”
― ||||||||, Saturday, 16 November 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link