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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
#182801: Apr 13th 2017 at 10:03:55 AM

[up][up][up]The Alt-Right doesn't accept anything other than Putin or Hitler 2.0 in charge, so either by 2018 or 2020 they will hopefully become irrelevant again, so far even for the Alt-Right Trump can be considered a massive disappointment.

They got hyped with Trump's election and fully went on the we president nao! train but once the train caught fire, the dumbfucks are still wondering if they have to burn or jump.

They will keep spamming their racist memes, making fake news, spreading bullshit stories about ebil libruls and butthurt thin skin SJ Ws, but without a massive help of the disinformation campaign aided by the Russians, Comey and Assange they aren't as big or as influential as they think they are.

This doesn't mean they aren't a threat though, Trump being elected made them feel validated and now they think they can let their prejudices out because they believe that it is socially acceptable again.

[up][up]The moderators of The_Donald are simply deleting every negative post or comment regarding Trump and his administration and banning whoever doesn't get 101% behind Trump.

edited 13th Apr '17 10:05:57 AM by AngelusNox

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Luigisan98 A wandering user from Venezuelan Muscat Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
A wandering user
#182802: Apr 13th 2017 at 10:05:18 AM

[up][up][up] Hypocrisy at its finest then...telling the Democrats of how they needed to accept the results of the elections regardless of who won because of "democracy" and yet they'll bitch and even perhaps do the same thing the Democrats did in response to Trump but with less people and more violence...truly quite the self-entitled.

edited 13th Apr '17 10:05:30 AM by Luigisan98

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#182803: Apr 13th 2017 at 10:06:54 AM

[up] That is the trait that defines the alt-right: entitlement.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#182804: Apr 13th 2017 at 10:08:00 AM

Is The_Donald just in lockstep with him? Or are the mods purging dissenters?
The latter, and with a vigor that would make Stalin blush.

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#182805: Apr 13th 2017 at 10:25:24 AM

Note that he lovingly describes the cake before saying they sent missiles to attack Iraq.

Of course he does. That's not just any cake. That's Trump Cake. They were at the Mar-a-Lago. He's literally using this press conference to advertise his hotel is by talking up its amazing cake.

That part needs to not be ignored. Trump isn't just being a silly goofball who can't prioritize. He's shilling his brand.

It's weird that they aren't more scared of the rich like Trump who are usually the ones actually screwing them.

Maybe it's because they want to be one of the rich someday.

That's exactly it. Middle-class whites worship the wealthy elites. There's a stigma attached to wealth among suburbia that says those people are wealthy because they're paragons of hard work and effort. That every single dollar was earned the hard way, and if you work hard, then you too will one day join their illustrious ranks.

Middle-class whites hear the word "rich" and immediately think "the superior man, in whose image we must all aspire to follow".

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3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#182806: Apr 13th 2017 at 10:30:31 AM

Nevermind.

edited 13th Apr '17 10:30:47 AM by 3of4

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TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
#182807: Apr 13th 2017 at 10:32:12 AM

So we just dropped a MOAB on Afghanistan against ISIS.

Target was a tunnel network and other personnel in the Nangarhar province.

edited 13th Apr '17 10:33:08 AM by TheRoguePenguin

CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#182808: Apr 13th 2017 at 10:43:33 AM

Not much of a story but as for how much the president of the United States knows about foreign policy (or for the benefit of the doubt bolstering morale at home) well... Trump says 'things will work out fine' between U.S. and Russia

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday "things will work out fine" between the United States and Russia, a day after he said U.S.-Russian relations may be at an all-time low.

"Things will work out fine between the U.S.A. and Russia. At the right time everyone will come to their senses & there will be lasting peace!" Trump said in a note on Twitter.

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#182809: Apr 13th 2017 at 10:59:34 AM

[up]x2 What is ISIS-K? I mean, the "-K" part of it?

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#182810: Apr 13th 2017 at 11:00:16 AM

Anti-EPA Scott Pruitt says Obama created false choice between environment and jobs.

https://t.co/KPu38suUM9?amp=1

Oh, I hope you Choke on your "clean coal".

edited 13th Apr '17 11:00:34 AM by megaeliz

TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
#182811: Apr 13th 2017 at 11:02:41 AM

[up][up]ISIS-K is ISIS-Khorasan, the local branch of ISIS in that region.

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Lost in Space
#182812: Apr 13th 2017 at 11:10:00 AM

[up][up] The hell? I know they trade in distortions and cherry-picking, but that is a flat-out lie. Obama was in the "environment and jobs can both be had" camp.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#182813: Apr 13th 2017 at 11:16:58 AM

You know, if someone were to just keep feeding Trump delicious cake, he'd be too busy to cause trouble.

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#182814: Apr 13th 2017 at 11:17:33 AM

[up] Nah, he'd still be able to tweet with his mouth full.

Disgusted, but not surprised
megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#182816: Apr 13th 2017 at 12:08:55 PM

May I present the latest Trump Draws Tweet. Choclat Cake.

https://twitter.com/TrumpDraws/status/852246799662186496

Also Sean Spicer as a talking potato. Actually not that far off.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1211815408944919&id=538454426281024&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FoszPI5JX2H&_rdr

edited 13th Apr '17 12:15:13 PM by megaeliz

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#182817: Apr 13th 2017 at 12:50:36 PM

THERE WILL BE LASTING PEACE!

To his new empire?

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#182818: Apr 13th 2017 at 1:53:46 PM

[up][up] That's pretty offensive. Potatoes are delicious and a vital source of nutrients worldwide.

edited 13th Apr '17 1:54:26 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#182819: Apr 13th 2017 at 2:05:34 PM

Yeah, we really can't compare anyone in the Trump administration to anything other than the Trump administration, because comparing them to anything else would definitely be an undeserved slander on the object of comparison.

edited 13th Apr '17 2:05:52 PM by danime91

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#182820: Apr 13th 2017 at 2:05:56 PM

Swing Left is launching district funds, that are for Democratic candidates in the general house elections in 2018.

https://swingleft.org/district-funds

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#182821: Apr 13th 2017 at 3:58:21 PM

In other news about "Fuck the 'unicorn brigade'", apparently they're currently hating on Perez for not giving cash to the Kansas race and not having a 50-state strategy ready in less than two months.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#182822: Apr 13th 2017 at 4:12:54 PM

These people are a minority. Most of us are reasonable. You don't get anywhere bashing them except making this become an echo chamber of repeats.

edited 13th Apr '17 4:14:32 PM by megaeliz

carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#182824: Apr 13th 2017 at 4:17:31 PM

[up] Fantastic.

So that makes it 2/2 of Republican Presidents in the 21st Century that started a war for no real reason?

I worry for the South Koreans who will have to deal with the immediate damage of a renewed Korean War.

carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#182825: Apr 13th 2017 at 4:25:02 PM

I swear the way they're talking about it, it sounds like Trump is expecting to just pull off a larger version of his Syria dickwaving and expecting the North Koreans to just give in and call it a day.


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