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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #460 on: December 06, 2016, 09:47:48 PM »

This anti-corruption thing is going so well.

*cackles manicly about first-world problems*

Ah, sorry. That was entirely too rude of me.

It's humorous regardless of how minor the corruption is. And going for populism and anti-corruption then... this.

Oh, I know. I was just thinking about how... relatively easy you guys have got it there.  :P
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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #461 on: December 06, 2016, 10:10:18 PM »
Maybe Trump will fix it.
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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #462 on: December 06, 2016, 10:15:17 PM »

This anti-corruption thing is going so well.

*cackles manicly about first-world problems*

Ah, sorry. That was entirely too rude of me.

It's humorous regardless of how minor the corruption is. And going for populism and anti-corruption then... this.

Oh, I know. I was just thinking about how... relatively easy you guys have got it there.  :P

"You guys."

I'm an outside observer too. :P

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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #463 on: December 07, 2016, 04:55:18 AM »

This anti-corruption thing is going so well.

*cackles manicly about first-world problems*

Ah, sorry. That was entirely too rude of me.

It's humorous regardless of how minor the corruption is. And going for populism and anti-corruption then... this.

Oh, I know. I was just thinking about how... relatively easy you guys have got it there.  :P
They're giving a man who gets pissy about Saturday Night Live and gets his news off Twitter the nuclear launch codes.  Everyone should be afraid.

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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #464 on: December 07, 2016, 11:54:16 AM »

This anti-corruption thing is going so well.

*cackles manicly about first-world problems*

Ah, sorry. That was entirely too rude of me.

It's humorous regardless of how minor the corruption is. And going for populism and anti-corruption then... this.

Oh, I know. I was just thinking about how... relatively easy you guys have got it there.  :P
They're giving a man who gets pissy about Saturday Night Live and gets his news off Twitter the nuclear launch codes.  Everyone should be afraid.

We've given the biggest thieves in our history the key to our coffers. And then they made thieving legal, but only for themselves.

At least on your side of the pond there are enough sensible people that if he does decide to press a button someone might be there to stop him.
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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #465 on: December 07, 2016, 06:10:13 PM »
Actually our laws are designed so that he alone makes the decision on nukes.  If he wants to do it the only way anyone has of stopping him is shooting him in the head.

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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #466 on: December 07, 2016, 06:21:14 PM »
Actually our laws are designed so that he alone makes the decision on nukes.  If he wants to do it the only way anyone has of stopping him is shooting him in the head.

The Secretary of Defense has to agree actually, the President can't launch it alone.

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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #467 on: December 07, 2016, 08:29:20 PM »
Good thing he won't appoint a yes man, that Donald.
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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #468 on: December 08, 2016, 06:01:24 PM »
I thought The Donald could defeat nukes just by his awesomeness alone.
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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #469 on: December 08, 2016, 11:30:47 PM »
I thought The Donald could defeat nukes just by his awesomeness alone.

The_Donald would suck in the nukes because it is a raging cesspool devoid of hope or sanity.
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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #470 on: December 09, 2016, 06:08:56 AM »
Good thing this isn't War Games and there are actual people that have to push the buttons.  People who have been vetted for sanity.  Unlike our Commander Incompetent.  So it'll only be one or two.

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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #471 on: December 09, 2016, 09:19:01 AM »
Have...have you seen our nuclear sites?  You know, the places that have come under fire recently for the people drinking on the job, cheating on the tests (everyone there cheating on the tests, at all levels, facilitated by all levels), the launch silos in disrepair, etc.  I say recently, I mean a couple years ago.  But the problem just went away, not being fixed, people just stopped caring.  Which put us back to before this was common knowledge.  This has been a problem for a while.

Although, that might be a good thing here, maybe the people in charge of turning the keys will just forget how to do it when the order come in.
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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #472 on: December 09, 2016, 04:42:33 PM »
Nixon was worse 'cause The Donald isn't a drunk.
story from 2000 ---> https://www.theguardian.com/weekend/story/0,3605,362958,00.html

Yeltsin was (is) a drunk, but he kept his nerve.
story from 2012 ---> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/russia/closecall/


Speculating ... Flynn was 1 of the ISIS intelligence guys, no nukes in those tactics. 
Patraeus wants to get back in, and he's the mop-up-W's-Iraq-mess guy = no chance.
Bannon ?  I'd expect his usual screed tactics to be mouthy about this = all talk , crazy people oops into action (see Comet pizza).
Pence ... very conservative Catholics don't consort with end-of-the-worlders.
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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #473 on: December 09, 2016, 10:05:31 PM »
Reminder: 44% of Americans think the world will end in their lifetimes.  A good chunk of them, enough to be noticeable, believe that this will be heralded by a Christian army and a Muslim army fighting in Syria.  ISIS is taking over very specific Syrian cities, because those are the prophesied battlegrounds, they are also trying to do this.  A number of people who really want us to go into Syria are doing this because they want to help usher in the end of the world.  So yeah, a pretty big chunk of conservative Christians would absolutely try to end the world.  I'm not sure Pence is one of them, but just because he's Catholic doesn't mean he won't.

Note: a large portion of the US consider us to be a Christian nation, and thus a Christian army.  We are not, but they consider us as such.  ISIS considers us as such.
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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #474 on: December 12, 2016, 05:32:36 PM »
Yeah they've been itching about that even since ISIS went into Syria.

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Recent story, NOT well titled, usually "Life Expectancy Lower for Trump Voters".
http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/life-expectancy-lower-trump-voters-n694421
edit --- don't use this one, found the actual study below

There were a big pile of counties that voted Obama twice, but flipped to Trump.
"But the "health problems" question is fairly consistent across the counties Trump won."
Throw in the unemployment = anti-immigration, too.
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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #475 on: December 13, 2016, 03:57:21 PM »
Here's the originating article, much better info.

http://www.centredaily.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/article119636503.html
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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #476 on: January 10, 2017, 10:02:09 PM »
So Trump may or may not be into golden showers and Russia may or may not have blackmail on Trump.  Thanks to anti-information campaigns I cant tell if the story is true or not but this is still everything I ever wanted but didn't know I wanted.  In related news the final words of 2016 were 'The Aristocrats!'

Also in more serious news, Trump's....guy?  I don't know his actual title, but a senior Trump adviser or something, the guy who kept saying 'Says who!' in response to a journalist asking him questions probably was in Prague meeting with Russian intelligence officers to do....stuff (we have no real way of knowing what they talked about).  This happened in July/August.  In response to these allegations, he posted a picture of his passport (the outside, so no stickers/stamps) with text "I have never been to Prague!". He then proceed to admit to heading to Italy in June.  You know, the same time these meeting happened.  In a country where traveling to Prague would require no passport checks.
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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #477 on: January 11, 2017, 04:52:47 PM »
Heh, the intelligence agencies sending a pro-tip to the F.B.I. about how to really do it.

iirc - and there's so much reportage froth on this its ridiculous - some of today's supposed material, had been part of a Pre-election briefing.


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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #478 on: January 20, 2017, 04:43:56 PM »
What?  Was something ...  :whistle ... going on today?

Ironically, my i.p. address today is going through Wash DC 20007 (which I was totally unaware of, 'til 2 minutes ago). 


Goldman Sachs is near totally in charge of the economy now ; and "rumor" has it they don't follow anyone else's ideology.  Roll a d20 for result please.
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Re: The Politics Thread v3
« Reply #479 on: January 20, 2017, 08:46:39 PM »
What?  Was something ...  :whistle ... going on today?

Ironically, my i.p. address today is going through Wash DC 20007 (which I was totally unaware of, 'til 2 minutes ago). 


Goldman Sachs is near totally in charge of the economy now ; and "rumor" has it they don't follow anyone else's ideology.  Roll a d20 for result please.

I think America just rolled a 1, what happens with that?
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