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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#162776: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:35:19 AM

Unrelated to press conference, from NPR

In Leaked Remarks, Hillary Clinton Explains Putin's 'Beef' With Her http://n.pr/2gJrCWI

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#162777: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:35:55 AM

~Elle: Drunken Nordmann knows that, they're German, the what is a disgusted reaction.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#162778: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:35:56 AM

20 minutes late now. Is this normal?

Well, in other major news - the FBI has backed the CIA's assertion that Russia intervened to help Trump win.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#162780: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:37:10 AM

Oh, NOW you mothefuckers want to back that assessment.

lmao.

New Survey coming this weekend!
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#162781: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:37:30 AM

[up][up]Missed it by that much.

edited 16th Dec '16 11:38:10 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#162782: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:39:37 AM

The conference has started.

edited 16th Dec '16 11:40:03 AM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
Yinyang107 from the True North (Decatroper) Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#162784: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:39:49 AM

Press conference is starting now.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
TrashJack Confirmed Doomer from beyond the Despair Event Horizon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Confirmed Doomer
#162785: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:39:49 AM

And, here we go . . .

"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#162786: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:39:50 AM

Dresden was a strong case for Allied war crimes over the needlessness of the firebombing.

So calling a Dresden has its own set of Unfortunate Implications but most are standing between statements that the Bombing of Dresden was a war crime because the city was effectively out of the war effort and housing refugees from the Eastern Front to how it was another bombing campaign in WWII and how they kinda deserved it for supporting the Nazi party.

It became politicized as the right wing and far right elements of Germany want to recognize the Bombing of Dresden as a war crime and anti-fascists and other left wing groups simply either don't think that it should be qualified as a war crime or that the victims don't deserve pity because they were either complicit or supporting Nazi Germany, it is the origin of terms like Genocide by Bombing and others like Bomber-Harris, do it again!.

Also the stream just begun.

Inter arma enim silent leges
CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#162787: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:40:32 AM

Can we literally rename America to "Incompetence, Inc.?'' Because with the slate of Cabinet CE Os and our laughably corrupt security arm, that's what this feels like.

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#162788: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:40:57 AM

"Party over country. Is the idea of "winning" so deep in the human psyche that there are people willing to throw away previously held beliefs at any cost? Because it seems to me like they want to "win" so badly, they're willing to commit treason to do so. What did the Dems do to them that they would sell out their entire country, WILLINGLY?!"

Because you got that wrong, is not party over country, is that party IS country: in their demental view both have become the sene, so the most moral course of action is to control everything and controling everyting is moral because they does.

In sort, the republican party and trump fanbse have become tautalogical templar of first order.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#162789: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:41:15 AM

There's a live stream on You Tube, if anybody's having trouble with the White House site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2c0pYm44W4

This Space Intentionally Left Blank.
Yinyang107 from the True North (Decatroper) Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
#162791: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:44:13 AM

Talking about stuff he and his government have accomplished over the past eight years.

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#162792: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:47:46 AM

He is namedropping Russia as a responsible for the situation in Aleppo...

Edit (I will keep editing as I go along): He seems to be taking a clear anti-Russia and anti-Assad stance.

He is giving a bit of a compromising answer, but clearly naming Russia as responsible of the hacking.

edited 16th Dec '16 11:51:58 AM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#162793: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:48:44 AM

I bet every journalist in there is like "Okay...Barry...this is cool information and all...but that's not what the fuck we want to hear right now. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THE HACKS?!"

New Survey coming this weekend!
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#162794: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:50:13 AM

Literally the first thing they asked.

Yinyang107 from the True North (Decatroper) Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
#162795: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:51:26 AM

He's mentioned "his successor" and "the president-elect" a couple times now, but never Trump by name. So that's interesting.

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#162796: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:52:17 AM

So I think it's pretty safe to say at this point that there will be no miracle.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
Yinyang107 from the True North (Decatroper) Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
#162797: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:52:49 AM

Indeed. He's finished with his prepared notes already, moved on to questions.

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#162798: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:53:20 AM

About what was expected then.

edited 16th Dec '16 11:53:26 AM by CaptainCapsase

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
Proglottid Since: Mar, 2010
#162800: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:54:23 AM

Miracles are the one thing you should know not to expect this year

Or good things, at all


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