People that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows -- US Politics September 2020

i was a happy family man with a job i loved, but then i started gaetzing and immediately got fired and now my family won't speak to me

family court judge says the viral video of me gaetzing at the Chuck E Cheese after being asked to leave several times by management is admissible. so basically I’m fucked

my mom and I moved in with this guy and after they split up I decided to stick around. He does tend to overdo it with the gaetzing but he’s got an awesome hairline and we get box seats for the Nats.

Good looking out caek I’m sending that link to my angriest friends who still have income

can I just say I hate this Nancy Pelosi story so much. it is the top performing story on Facebook right now BY FAR and apparently all they're talking about on Fox News. of all the dumb shit Republicans do this sort of obviously fake concern trolling is probably my least favorite

but also she's dumb as hell and the "salon owner owes me an apology" thing is doubling down on the dumbness.

it’s always important to milo that the democrat is the most wrong person

'Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course' is milo's very own 'no homo'.

Btw Joe Biden Also Sucks, Of Course.

'We Suck Noticeably Less Than Our Competition' has kept many a business enterprise flourishing.

yeah not defending Nancy but holy shit you'd think this was the most important story on the planet right now

I encourage Pelosi to keep doing dumb shit, so the Trump campaign can continue forgetting it's not running for reelection against Nancy Pelosi.

and i said what about nancy pelosi
fox news said i think i remember that speaker
as i recall i think we both really hated her
and i said well that's the one thing we've got

hell of a URL

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/

god, just to say some of that shit out loud where other people can hear it...it really goes to show you how money and power allow for behavior that's completely indistinguishable from severe mental illness.

funny how Hillary's "deplorables" comment got like a month of coverage and this story will be forgotten in 15 minutes

well i dunno, this similar accusation, but with more evidence to back it up, almost certainly lost him the election in 2016

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/gold-star-families-attack-trump-over-comments-about-ghazala-khan-n620671

that Atlantic article by Goldberg is otm

it’s always important to milo that the democrat is the most wrong person

It’s unfortunate that you missed the day in school where they taught the meaning of “also.”

still infuriating that shit like this would instantly end the career of literally any politician in the country except for the goddamn president

It would be okay if it normalized not genuflecting toward the troops.

it’s important to milo that people don’t forget troops are actually bad not good

actually, that IS important tbf

One need only look at the military to cop pipeline to see that.

I think it's maybe possibly possible (just maybe) to curb uncritical over-veneration of the armed forces without calling POWs and veterans losers. Possibly. Just imagine.

Without veterans, how would we staff CrossFit gyms and domestic spying operations?!

The systemic overfunding of troop activities and troop-adjacent programs is probably suboptimal.
Troops themselves are just young people, often disadvantaged, looking for a steady career. They work hard and sometimes they get hurt bad or die.

everything and everyone is bad.
lock thread.
nuke forum.
walk away.

Nothing will happen to him. He got away with McCain, the purple heart thing, bone spurs... he could piss in Arlington cemetery and not dip in the polls.

it’s important to milo to treat vets with the same level of respect that trump does

who among us hasn't taken a leak there. sometimes a slurpee has to re-emerge

I think it's maybe possibly possible (just maybe) to curb uncritical over-veneration of the armed forces without calling POWs and veterans losers. Possibly. Just imagine.

Probably! And if one was a politician or adjacent, it would be important to do so. Messaging and all that.

That doesn't describe anyone itt, though.

I'm a politician

sadly I got primaried by a more evolved being

Some of us have relatives buried in military cemeteries, you fucking asshole.

So do I.

If that's going to be the boundaries of acceptable opinion, though, shit's gonna get weird when we start accounting for people with beloved cop uncles and Republican grandpas.

when 18, 19 year-olds who are disproportionately poor and brown die because they joined the military, that to me is good, because I am very wise.

'The military' contains multitudes, from purely amazing and admirable people to some of the worst assholes you can imagine. The USA's big military problem is funding every big, shiny weapon system the DoD asks for and they will never, ever stop asking for whizzier gadgets. The consequence is we get troop carriers that can go 70 mph over rough terrain, do backflips, shoot 10,000 bullets a second, cost $50 million each and can be blown up by an IED rigged from an old artillery shell and a cell phone. And the troop carrier doesn't even have AC.

when 18, 19 year-olds who are disproportionately poor and brown die because they joined the military, that to me is good, because I am very wise.

This is a myth IIRC - the military is disproportionately middle-class. The poor are under-represented and the ethnic makeup isn't much different from the country as a whole.

I don't think anyone wished death on them, though?

‘Who gives a shit’ is pretty different from that actively wishing death IMO. Veterans took a job with pretty sweet benefits, end of story, end of the extent we should care about them.

Like, meatpackers play an actual important role in American society and have never committed war crimes.

anyway, let's enjoy the big fella grouse about paper straws (so 2018!) and marvel as his steel trap mind recalls the names of fast food restaurants

TRUMP: "They want to ban straws. Has anybody ever tried those paper straws? They are not working too good. Right? I said, I have had a couple meals at McDonald's, etc, over the years. Wendy's. A friend of mine owns Wendy's, I will give it a plug. Right? Burger King." pic.twitter.com/0lNygt7oHM

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 3, 2020

fuck him, paper straws are awesome

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/demographics-us-military

Most services (the big ones) are less white than the gen pop and “middle class” is a broad term.

If that's going to be the boundaries of acceptable opinion, though, shit's gonna get weird when we start accounting for people with beloved cop uncles and Republican grandpas.

― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z)

I'm not sure what this means

I'm not sure what this means

'I have family who were veterans how dare you not be nice about them' is just as applicable to uncle-cops (as we've literally seen on ILX) and Republican grandpas?

The same as well with using demographics as a trump card - the NYPD and LAPD are majority-minority. But you know, fuck 'em.

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here are the boundaries of acceptable opinion afaics. when you find that certain opinions are 'unacceptable' please feel free to tell all ILX that you disagree with them, but there are boundaries on how disagreeable you may be in expressing this. DJP is aware of this and stays in bounds.

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― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, September 3, 2020 8:20 PM bookmarkflaglink

-Ronald Reagan, Iran Contra trial

I always imagine milo typing these not so deep thoughts sitting on his tailgate, eating a sandwich. Why do i think this???

He should try a California burrito instead.