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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#260951: Nov 7th 2018 at 4:58:56 PM

he's a skrull

Edited by Ultimatum on Nov 7th 2018 at 4:59:06 AM

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
Gaon Smoking Snake from Grim Up North Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#260953: Nov 7th 2018 at 5:05:15 PM

It's been pointed out Mike Pence bears a almost unnerving resemblance in appearance and personality to X-Men villain Reverend William Stryker, a religious fanatic who thinks Mutants are an abomination to God. Replace mutants with homosexuals and it's literally Pence.

Literally the same person. To a tee.

Edited by Gaon on Nov 7th 2018 at 5:06:49 AM

"All you Fascists bound to lose."
wisewillow She/her Since: May, 2011
She/her
#260954: Nov 7th 2018 at 5:07:50 PM

Am from Indiana; can confirm.

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#260955: Nov 7th 2018 at 5:09:14 PM

never mind

Edited by megaeliz on Nov 7th 2018 at 8:47:30 AM

Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#260956: Nov 7th 2018 at 5:10:48 PM

Pence also looks unsettlingly like Race Bannon.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#260957: Nov 7th 2018 at 5:18:19 PM

So some thoughts, we've still got runoffs to happen (Mississippi at least) and Trump looks to be starting his purge now. I wonder if Trump's purge could impact the runoffs.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#260958: Nov 7th 2018 at 5:19:42 PM

By purge you mean, "vent my frustrations of losing the House by firing people and blaming them for all my failures"? :v

Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#260959: Nov 7th 2018 at 5:22:47 PM

Not just venting; a lot of it is people we've known he'd been holding off on firing to avoid affecting the midterms

Edited by Hylarn on Nov 7th 2018 at 5:22:57 AM

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#260960: Nov 7th 2018 at 5:23:28 PM

Yeah, he's very openly moving to try and stop Muller now and may chuck several other cabinet members out. That chaos isn't going to do well for Trump's approval rating and I'm wondering if it could impact the runoffs.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#260961: Nov 7th 2018 at 5:23:43 PM

[up][up][up]It sounds better than "tantrum".

[up]Narscism: tantrum-throwing and being convincingly cunning with it, yet without truly grokking all the ramifications of what you are doing? Part of the package!

Edited by Euodiachloris on Nov 7th 2018 at 1:26:46 PM

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#260962: Nov 7th 2018 at 5:26:48 PM

A realisation hit me with regards to Trump's loses,if the Republican party thinks they're going to lose the 2020 election and they're desperate to hold on to power they might try to remove Trump before that date arrives,get someone else in so when the election day comes they have someone else to vote for.Of course removing Trump might give the democrats even more of a boost

It's hard to what will happen in the future,if Muller's investigation does lead to impeachment it would be a convenient way to remove Trump from power but still have the Republicans in control of the country

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#260963: Nov 7th 2018 at 5:26:53 PM

I mean, shaking up the cabinet is a pretty common response to losses like that, and shaking up the cabinet is a thing Trump does more than most. The question wasn't whether somebody would resign, it was 'who will resign'. And Sessions, as the guy Trump's openly disliked for awhile, was kind of the obvious choice.

Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#260964: Nov 7th 2018 at 5:29:37 PM

A realisation hit me with regards to Trump's loses,if the Republican party thinks they're going to lose the 2020 election and they're desperate to hold on to power they might try to remove Trump before that date arrives,get someone else in so when the election day comes they have someone else to vote for.Of course removing Trump might give the democrats even more of a boost

Doubtful. Trump is the most popular thing about the Republican party, and certainly more popular than the complete absence of charisma that is Mike Pence

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#260965: Nov 7th 2018 at 5:33:14 PM

A Twitter thread on how the Acting AG can't just slash the budget of the Mueller probe (not until next fall), nor fire or obstruct him without risk.

https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1060329761782857728

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#260966: Nov 7th 2018 at 5:35:52 PM

In the Republicans are going to take anything from yesterday, it's that clinging to Trump kept them in the Senate. Notice the incredibly muted response to Sessions being fired from Republicans.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#260967: Nov 7th 2018 at 5:36:53 PM

The Republicans won the Senate because of geography, they did terribly in blue states and most of the swing states. They can't hold the Senate or the White House with red America alone.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#260968: Nov 7th 2018 at 5:39:35 PM

~megaeliz

I just destroyed in every way, the argument that poor people are poor because they “don’t work hard enough” that my friend was repeating from Fox News. And I actually think I gave him some food for thought.
How'd you do that, if I may ask? I'm curious.

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#260969: Nov 7th 2018 at 5:47:57 PM

Yeah there's the basic fact that if blocking the probe was easy and without risk Sessions would have done it himself, Muller isn't someone to fuck with, being loyal enough to do terrible things for Trump is one thing, being loyal enough to go to jail for obstruction of justice is another.

Whitaker can try and obstruct things but he's got one big limiter, that obstruction of justice is a crime and Muller is a serious enough individual that he might look at charging Whitaker with it if he does try and obstruct.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#260970: Nov 7th 2018 at 5:59:25 PM

he's a skrull

Cruz?

Nope. Skrulls are actually good at acting human.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#260971: Nov 7th 2018 at 6:01:00 PM

The most accurate description I've seen of Cruz came from, funnily enough, another conversative (I forget who):"a lizard covered in vaseline".

MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#260972: Nov 7th 2018 at 6:06:40 PM

So, the Guardian claims that the GOP had a net gain of two seats in the Senate, for a grand total of 51. I thought they already had 50 seats before this election.

Edited by MarqFJA on Nov 7th 2018 at 5:07:35 PM

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#260973: Nov 7th 2018 at 6:08:29 PM

[up][up]Cruz is something much worse than a Skrull or a Lizard Person. He's a mime.

You know that picture of him as a mime in that high school play? He wasn't wearing makeup that day.

Edited by M84 on Nov 7th 2018 at 10:08:44 PM

Disgusted, but not surprised
Kakuzan Let memes die. Kill them, if you have to. from Knock knock, open up the door, it's real. Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Let memes die. Kill them, if you have to.
#260974: Nov 7th 2018 at 6:08:42 PM

It is still funny how hard he tries to relate to us hughmanz by posting that Zodiac Killer joke a few times. Who knows, maybe it is proof that he is a time traveling alien.

Don't catch you slippin' now.
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#260975: Nov 7th 2018 at 6:10:52 PM

[up]x3 Weird, they won 4 States (North Dakota, Missouri, Florida and Indiana) and lost 1 (Nevada), for a total of +3. Even if they lose Arizona and Mississippi (Special Election), they'd still have a +1, and would have 52 Seats (they started with 51), meaning nothing major would've changed, but Republicans would still hold the Senate.


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