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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#265026: Dec 24th 2018 at 10:23:21 PM

Nah, they'd just refuse to cover it entirely and focus on something else.

Disgusted, but not surprised
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
#265027: Dec 24th 2018 at 11:14:28 PM

Um Trump believes in the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, nice kind tyrants and dictators and terrorists and the global fake news conspiracy with his own network now turning on him and he can eat a baby burger in Times Square and everyone will still worship him, but that guy in the red suit and beard is a total fake. Welcome to Malice in Never Never Land. You cannot make this up.

Currently reading up My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours
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.
#265028: Dec 25th 2018 at 3:42:50 AM

Remember that Trump once told another kid he was Batman?

"You can reply to this Message!"
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.
#265029: Dec 25th 2018 at 4:08:19 AM

Trump: "Pfft, you believe in Santa Claus? What a loser!"

Also Trump: "I'm totally Batman, by the way."

Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Face me now, bitch!
#265030: Dec 25th 2018 at 5:48:44 AM

Santa beats the crap out of True Darkseid on a routine Basis.

You don't fuck with Santa Claus.

Watch Symphogear
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#265031: Dec 25th 2018 at 6:21:29 AM

And that electronic countermeasure system on his sled is so good that even NORAD doesn't dare do more than track him.tongue

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#265032: Dec 25th 2018 at 6:40:24 AM

He... believes in the Easter Bunny? That's a joke, yes?

If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
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
#265033: Dec 25th 2018 at 8:00:08 AM

To answer the question about Santa tracking, it started as a joke after some kid called NORAD (I think they got the number by accident) and has become a running thing since then.

“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.
#265034: Dec 25th 2018 at 8:02:55 AM

Trump's just bitter that Santa gives him a lump of coal every year.

Disgusted, but not surprised
PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#265035: Dec 25th 2018 at 8:09:21 AM

No, he's bitter because he keeps asking him for "clean" coal but never gets any.

i'm tired, my friend
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#265036: Dec 25th 2018 at 8:19:59 AM

No, he's bitter because Santa mines his own coal rather than buying it from American companies.

Friendperson Since: May, 2018
#265037: Dec 25th 2018 at 9:06:14 AM

Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope you're all having a good holiday. This year has been pretty excellent.

RainehDaze Nero Fangirl (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Nero Fangirl
#265038: Dec 25th 2018 at 9:09:50 AM

Given that this is a politics thread, and politics this year has been an utter clusterfuck where nothing's gone right for either side, you must be joking.

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.
#265039: Dec 25th 2018 at 9:10:06 AM

Okay, now I'm also starting to be convinced you just come in here to start shit...

"You can reply to this Message!"
Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#265040: Dec 25th 2018 at 9:20:19 AM

At Christmas too,for shame

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
RainehDaze Nero Fangirl (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Nero Fangirl
#265041: Dec 25th 2018 at 9:22:21 AM

And really, that sort of trolling should be reserved for New Years anyway.

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#265042: Dec 25th 2018 at 9:27:17 AM

Who's trolling? Merry Christmas everyone, and have a happy new year.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#265043: Dec 25th 2018 at 9:30:58 AM

Thanks; Merry Christmas everyone.

"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."
Blueeyedrat Since: Oct, 2010
#265044: Dec 25th 2018 at 9:46:12 AM

However this year went (and I'd guess for most folks in this thread, despite how it went), Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and here's hoping things are looking up for the coming year.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#265045: Dec 25th 2018 at 9:47:18 AM

The part that makes it trolling is the whole "this year has been pretty excellent".

It has not been an excellent year at all. And no, the midterm results aren't enough to make it excellent. They were just enough to keep it from being a total shitshow of a year.

Just say "Merry Christmas".

Edited by M84 on Dec 26th 2018 at 1:49:07 AM

Disgusted, but not surprised
SciFiSlasher from Absolutely none of your business. Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#265046: Dec 25th 2018 at 10:02:56 AM

Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope you're all having a good holiday. This year has been pretty excellent.

Okay, you're officially a right-wing troll. Maybe this year has been excellent for you, however; after all, you've already proven yourself to be a blind white environmentalist who knows nothing about racism.

"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."
SeptimusHeap MOD from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#265047: Dec 25th 2018 at 10:15:43 AM

Just because it's Christmas does not mean that the rules about personal attacks and personally intoned derail stop applying, you know...

Edited by SeptimusHeap on Dec 25th 2018 at 7:16:06 PM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
TechPriest90 Servant of the Omnissiah from Collegia Titanica, Mars, Sol System Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Servant of the Omnissiah
#265048: Dec 25th 2018 at 10:30:56 AM

> This year has been excellent

> Year has been excellent

> Excellent

My only reaction.

I hold the secrets of the machine.
RainehDaze Nero Fangirl (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Nero Fangirl
#265049: Dec 25th 2018 at 10:35:21 AM

I'm just not sure how anyone on any side could call this excellent and not a mess.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#265050: Dec 25th 2018 at 10:44:31 AM

I mean, I could see hardcore Trump supporters calling it excellent, because Trump will, and they'll parrot whatever he says.


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