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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Jon Stewart signs off from 'The Daily Show' with a look back
I'm totally sure Stewart is taking a time off so he can follow this year's candidate nominations and prepare some new material for the next episodes
The candidates on foreign policy and national security
Nothing substantive, but that was to be expected from these clowns.
edited 7th Aug '15 4:45:35 AM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Oh sorry
The Tangled Web Pennsylvania's Attorney General Allegedly Wove
Kathleen Kane, a Democrat, was charged with leaking grand jury documents in order to embarrass a political rival, and then lying about it to another grand jury in an attempted coverup.
Edit: Fixed the link on my last post
edited 7th Aug '15 4:45:50 AM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.Not the EPA's finest moment.
edited 7th Aug '15 4:46:11 AM by Skycobra51
Look upon my privilege ye mighty and despair.Chuck Schumer Opposes Iran Nuclear Deal, Shaking Democratic Firewall
The bit about drug-fueled child sex parties is Not Hyperbole, as noted. But also note how many wealthy people go to jail for such things versus how many poor people, proportionally. I'm not making this shit up.
Seriously, when a point like that is made, it is not saying that everyone who votes Republican is a pedophile. I am saying that their policies are specifically designed to make the poor go to jail for trivial offenses while shielding the wealthy from any and all consequences.
Edit: Whether this is the intent of the rank-and-file voter when they go to the polls is irrelevant. We cannot have a functional public debate until all parties are willing to recognize facts.
edited 7th Aug '15 6:27:48 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"The link above about the debate had a nice long paragraph about their responses to national security - to which everyone except Rand Paul apparently claimed they would increase militarynote funding. So on that note, I don't have a link for this because it was e-mailed by my senior chief. Personally, given the last few years of Republican votes to cut veteran health care and downsize the military, I think they are all quite full of shit. Notes are all mine.
While there have been so-called "carrier gaps" in the Persian Gulf before, this one will leave the Navy without the presence of a high-profile aircraft carrier just as a proposed nuclear deal with Iran is at center stage. It also comes as Iranian naval forces have conducted low-level harassment of U.S. and other shipping in the region.note
U.S. military officials insisted that there would be no impact on U.S. operations in the gulf because the Air Force can briefly send additional, land-based aircraft to the region if needed. Airstrikes against ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria are also largely undertaken by the Air Force. The Navy accounts for only about 20% of the ISIS strike missions.
The Pentagon has a formal military requirement to keep at least one carrier in the gulf region at all times, so U.S. Central Command had to approve the decision to have a gap, according to a defense official. The current carrier in the gulf region, the USS Theodore Rooseveltnote , is scheduled to leave sometime in October. The replacement aircraft, the USS Harry S. Trumannote , is not scheduled to arrive until sometime in the winter.
This is who some of you* want to be president.
Seriously.
- Not so much here, but in America in general.
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Yes, except they still do their best to siphon as much of that money as possible to their capitalist buddies over the rank and file worker.
edited 7th Aug '15 6:53:52 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
X6 I wonder if this might be the killer for Trump, he's gone after one of Fox's own, if they circle the wagons it will probably kill Trump's campaign.
edited 7th Aug '15 7:24:47 AM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranNope. Fox will gladly throw its own under the bus to service its base. Megyn Kelly, for all her stature as a face of the network, is disposable — a Blonde Republican Sex Kitten who has trod on a few sacred cows in her time. If she gets into a massive public feud with Trump — and Fox backs her, it could definitely be a Pass the Popcorn moment, though.
edited 7th Aug '15 7:50:30 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Watching what Trump said is already a Pass the Popcorn moment for me, really.
edited 7th Aug '15 8:22:43 AM by Aszur
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
