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PhiSat Planeswalker from Everywhere and Nowhere Since: Jan, 2011
Planeswalker
#174151: Feb 13th 2017 at 4:47:31 PM

Get ready for DIY abortions as these "hosts" try to cut the parasites from their bodies because someone who's immune to the parasite decided said parasite was more important than a currently living breathing human.

edited 13th Feb '17 4:47:48 PM by PhiSat

Oissu!
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#174152: Feb 13th 2017 at 4:49:25 PM

[up][up]That makes a lot of sense.

edited 13th Feb '17 4:49:48 PM by BearyScary

Do not obey in advance.
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#174154: Feb 13th 2017 at 4:57:17 PM

I didn't know that Chris Evans actually is Captain America. smile

Sometimes, you hope that an actor is like their character, but this is better than I could have ever hoped.

Do not obey in advance.
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#174155: Feb 13th 2017 at 4:59:22 PM

Here's a a good Captain America quote that is relevant today:

You were told by this man — your hero — that America is the greatest country in the world!

He told you that Americans were the greatest people — that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities hammered out of it, and shine more brightly!

He went on about how precious America was — how you needed to make sure it remained great!

And he told you anything was justified to preserve that great treasure, that pearl of great price that is America!

Well, I say America is nothing!! Without its ideals — its commitment to the freedom of all men, America is a piece of trash!

A nation is nothing! A flag is a piece of cloth!

I fought Adolf Hitler not because America was great, but because it was fragile! I knew that liberty could be snuffed out here as in Nazi Germany! As a people, we were no different than them! When I returned, I saw that you nearly did turn American into nothing!

And the only reason you’re not less then nothing — — is that it’s still possible for you to bring freedom back to America!

Here.

Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#174156: Feb 13th 2017 at 5:01:23 PM

Fuck these fucking painthuffing buttwhistlers and everything they and their regressive asshole constituents stand for.

Jesus tapdancing Christ, could they get any more slimy, cowardly and misogynist short of physically morphing into Jabba the Hutt.

[awesome] Comment of the night right here.

They even removed the language requiring men to actually pay support for the kids they'd be forcing women to keep, making it even more transparent.

"If Congress begins to use its powers to rummage around in the tax returns of the president, what prevents Congress from doing the same to average Americans?" House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady told reporters.
That's a worthless excuse, and he knows it. Average Americans aren't beholden to the entire country.

We're on Day 25. Just for reference.

edited 13th Feb '17 5:02:25 PM by Pseudopartition

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#174157: Feb 13th 2017 at 5:05:30 PM

@Beary Scary Yeah, Chris Evans is really stand up guy. He's also expressed political ambitions before as a Democrat some day in the future. His uncle is in the House of Representatives as the representative of Massachusetts' 7th congressional district to.

Here's another tweet of David Duke attacking him for playing a Jewish inspired hero, dating black and Jewish women, and hating white women and Chris' response to that.

edited 13th Feb '17 5:13:45 PM by MadSkillz

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#174158: Feb 13th 2017 at 5:12:08 PM

[up] Keep fighting the fight, Chris! Prove you're worthy of carrying the Shield!grin

Senators launch Bi-Partisan effort to speed up deployment of Self Driving Cars. This is definitely a thing I can get behind.

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#174159: Feb 13th 2017 at 5:17:09 PM

About the magazine thing: How can Scott Walker disband a magazine that is apparently run sort of privately(?) and runs entirely on subscriptions?

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#174160: Feb 13th 2017 at 6:55:56 PM

The New York Daily News called for a boycott of The LEGO Batman Movie due to now Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin being an executive-producer of the movie, and it failed massively.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
TropesForever God forbid women do anything from wait where is she Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: I wanna be your dog
God forbid women do anything
#174161: Feb 13th 2017 at 7:05:20 PM

The movie failed or the boycott failed?

thebeatles.com/careers
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#174162: Feb 13th 2017 at 7:05:38 PM

According the Maddow Show I'm watching right now, employees are protesting Puzder for such things as employees being required to pay ten cents an hour for the privilege of wearing a Hardee's uniform. Good Lord.

[up]Little too late, and not going to work because I bet hardly anyone read that article before giving into the joy of Lego Batman.

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#174163: Feb 13th 2017 at 7:24:54 PM

David Shulkin, Trump's pick for Veterans Affairs Sec, passes Senate with all 100 Votes.

So I can only assume that David Shulkin is an absolutely fantastic and qualified person.

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#174164: Feb 13th 2017 at 7:27:27 PM

@Beary Scary Yeah, Chris Evans is really stand up guy. He's also expressed political ambitions before as a Democrat some day in the future.

Shut up and take my vote.

I don't even care who the other guy is. The GOP can send out whatever troglodyte they think is best, that's great, but my vote is going to Captain Goddamned America.

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#174165: Feb 13th 2017 at 7:40:15 PM

Guy's only 35, I don't think he's a realistic option.tongue I mean, if electoral politics do become a total sideshow, he's not the worst you could do...

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#174166: Feb 13th 2017 at 7:43:36 PM

[up][up][up]Shulkin is an Obama pick that somehow got tapped by Trump, hence the unanimous vote. Seems competent, dedicated, and principled, which leaves me wondering what the regime is smoking this week.

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#174167: Feb 13th 2017 at 7:53:23 PM

@Rational: uh... they didn't say he wanted the presidency specifically. There's plenty of other things he could run for or participate in.

And much like Reagan, he could use his film career to make some very memorable slogans, probably.

rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#174168: Feb 13th 2017 at 7:56:42 PM

Micheal Flynn just resigned.

EDIT: It's so hot off the presses I don't even have an article to show you.

edited 13th Feb '17 7:58:07 PM by rmctagg09

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#174169: Feb 13th 2017 at 7:58:06 PM

Link? I'm googling it and not seeing anything.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#174170: Feb 13th 2017 at 7:59:09 PM

If that's true, then good. One less national security risk.

Edit:

Also...Puzder really charged his employees to wear their own uniforms? Ones they were probably required to wear? What a dick.

edited 13th Feb '17 8:00:07 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#174171: Feb 13th 2017 at 8:00:14 PM

Like, it's on the news if you don't want to just take my word for it.

edited 13th Feb '17 8:01:17 PM by rmctagg09

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#174172: Feb 13th 2017 at 8:02:29 PM

Huh. I need to tempt fate more often.

Ahem.

"Trump resigning in disgust after realizing how hard this job truly is and, in a last-ditch middle finger to the GOP, signing an Executive Order to immediately pass the Presidency to Hillary Clinton? Pfft. I'll believe that when I see it."

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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#174173: Feb 13th 2017 at 8:03:00 PM

If it's true, then Flynn knows he's in some serious trouble, and the White House may know it too.

So, I guess the question now is, how often have Important Administration Allies left over Major Offenses in US History in the first month on the job?! Presidential Administrations are a weak point in my studies of US History and Politics.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#174174: Feb 13th 2017 at 8:04:21 PM

[up][up] Heh, you might as well wish for Trump to be visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet-to-Come this December, or have his heart grow three sizes after listening to the Whos in Whoville singing on Christmas Day.

edited 13th Feb '17 8:04:50 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#174175: Feb 13th 2017 at 8:08:21 PM

Micheal Flynn resigns.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."

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