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CookingCat Since: Jul, 2018
#257851: Oct 16th 2018 at 5:34:22 PM

NVM.

Edited by CookingCat on Oct 16th 2018 at 6:49:44 AM

Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#257852: Oct 16th 2018 at 5:37:28 PM

[up]That's... not a good joke. I mean at all, the Nazis make the Law and Justice party look like fluffy bunnies by comparison.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
CookingCat Since: Jul, 2018
#257853: Oct 16th 2018 at 5:38:59 PM

[up] Sorry, couldn't resist making that joke.

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#257854: Oct 16th 2018 at 5:41:03 PM

God this is embarrassing

Just spoke with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia who totally denied any knowledge of what took place in their Turkish Consulate. He was with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo... ...during the call, and told me that he has already started, and will rapidly expand, a full and complete investigation into this matter. Answers will be forthcoming shortly.

Because, hasn’t everyone gone to a foreign country in the middle of the night to “politely meet with” a political dissident, while carrying a bonesaw?

Edited by megaeliz on Oct 16th 2018 at 8:45:55 AM

tsstevens Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did from Reading tropes such as Righting Great Wrongs Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: She's holding a very large knife
Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
#257855: Oct 16th 2018 at 5:44:47 PM

Thank god he was not president during Bush's era. "Just got off the phone to the Bin Laden family who took a last minute flight back to Afghanistan. Osama was busy with dot dot dot, dot dot dot confession tape. I believe him over my intelligence agencies who have credible evidence of his involvement in 9/11 attacks. I blame Obama."

Currently reading up My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours
Wildcard Since: Jun, 2012
#257856: Oct 16th 2018 at 6:27:47 PM

[up]I'm bothered that I could buy Trump blaming Obama for everything when he was a senator few outside of Illinois knew.[tdown]

DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#257857: Oct 16th 2018 at 6:45:53 PM

Germany, can you please invade Poland again?

No, we can't. And please don't ask that again.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Oct 16th 2018 at 3:46:11 PM

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
lara16 Since: Mar, 2018
#257858: Oct 16th 2018 at 6:49:25 PM

The sentence "he totally denied any involvement!" just sounds hilarious to me and it's not even close to the worst thing Trump's tweeted. This is the same guy who wrote "I'm, like, really smart" and then had the bravery to actually post it. While he was president. Of the United States of America.

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#257860: Oct 16th 2018 at 7:05:57 PM

This is the General US Politics thread.

It's been fun.
Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Face me now, bitch!
#257861: Oct 16th 2018 at 7:07:45 PM

The second debate between Ted Cruz and beto o'rourke just finished.

Ted Cruz got molly wopped even worse then the first time, its great.

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Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#257862: Oct 16th 2018 at 7:08:26 PM

If O'rourke wins Texas then I will be very happy indeed.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
TroperOnAStickV2 Call me Stick from Redneck country Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Call me Stick
#257863: Oct 16th 2018 at 7:08:36 PM

[up][up][up][up] Oh good, it's not just me then. Now back to politicking.

Edited by TroperOnAStickV2 on Oct 16th 2018 at 10:08:58 AM

Hopefully I'll feel confident to change my avatar off this scumbag soon. Apologies to any scumbags I insulted.
CookingCat Since: Jul, 2018
#257864: Oct 16th 2018 at 7:15:53 PM

[up] It's down for everyone. There's posts on Discord and Twitter about this.

archonspeaks Since: Jun, 2013
#257865: Oct 16th 2018 at 7:19:46 PM

[up] I’d take discussion of that to the Computer Thread.

They should have sent a poet.
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
TroperOnAStickV2 Call me Stick from Redneck country Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Call me Stick
#257867: Oct 16th 2018 at 7:40:03 PM

Aaand it's back. Carry on, nothing to see here.

Hopefully I'll feel confident to change my avatar off this scumbag soon. Apologies to any scumbags I insulted.
CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#257868: Oct 16th 2018 at 7:40:24 PM

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/paul-allen-shows-its-hard-to-donate-10-billion/573109/

Paul Allen had a huge amount of trouble giving away his fortune. It's a surprisingly interesting problem.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#257869: Oct 16th 2018 at 7:41:15 PM

My mail-in vote finally arrived. Pretty easy when you just have to vote D down the board. Now it comes to the Dem vs Dem decisions. The most important one: Kevin de Leon or Dianne Feinstein?

TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
#257870: Oct 16th 2018 at 7:53:25 PM

I'd personally go with de Leon, though I'd be surprised if he actually won.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#257871: Oct 16th 2018 at 8:18:36 PM

The state's more conservative voters are almost certainly not going to vote for him.

Disgusted, but not surprised
danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#257872: Oct 16th 2018 at 8:44:38 PM

Alright, almost done. Now all that remains is to answer the final, most important question of all. Keep Daylight Savings Time or get rid of it?

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#257873: Oct 16th 2018 at 8:55:05 PM

I like daylight and I like savings, but I'd be down for abolishing time.

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FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare
#257875: Oct 16th 2018 at 8:56:04 PM

That part on the ballot asked something along the lines of "Do you wish for DST to be decided by the federal government?"

Nah, I'll pass on Donald Trump being able to shape literal time and space. [lol]

Edited by FluffyMcChicken on Oct 16th 2018 at 8:56:16 AM


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