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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Oh... Putin-sempai... just a little deeper...
edited 30th Sep '16 10:19:44 AM by flameboy21th
Non Indicative UsernameAnd The Mole is in charge.
Someone needs to photoshop that Matryoshka doll intro from that old TV adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to have Trump and Putin's faces on the dolls.
"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."No one controls the GoP. Not even themselves. That was made abundantly clear in the primaries. Even if Trump himself is actually a direct Russia puppet, that still wouldn't affect the lower level Republicans. I mean, they desperately want to show a united front at this point, but that doesn't mean they're all working in lock step.
edited 30th Sep '16 10:22:03 AM by Clarste
That reminded me of this great tweet I saw a while back. It was something like:
2008 Republican Party: "I can see Russia from my house."
2016 Republican Party: "Russia is calling from inside the house!"
edited 30th Sep '16 10:27:53 AM by Hodor2
That's a horribly leading question. What happened on Twitter last night?
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Oh, those tweets. Yes, Trump resorted to his fallback position whenever challenged: unwarranted personal attacks.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"President Trump in negotiations with foreign nations: "There's nothing wrong with my policy. My policy's great. It's so good. I've had experts look at it, and they tell me it's great. The problem is with your wife. Has anyone seen this guy's wife? She has a face like a mule that got ran over by a tractor, except that would never happen because Mexicans don't have tractors, but the point is, that's why you don't like my policy. But it doesn't matter because I just launched the nukes."
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Trump: Hello, I'd like to speak to the director of the FBI.
James Comey: This is him.
Trump: Um, yes, I'd like you to make this erm, man, disappear, if you catch my drift.
James Comey: I beg your pardon?
Trump: He's an enemy of the state.
James Comey: And what...has he done exactly?
Trump: I was passing by him in the grocery store, and he said my fly was undone. CAN YOU BELIEVE HIM?!?!?! OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!!!
That's why he's so convenient as an Our Presidents Are Different choice for the incumbent US president during the first few years following the Second Impact in the Neon Genesis Evangelion timeline. The ruin he'd bring upon an already devastated USA (plus possible exacerbation by the Ancient Conspiracy, which is led by a very elderly German dude) would neatly explain why it's no longer the preeminent superpower in the post-Second Impact world (the UN committee that officially acts as a supervising body for the N.G.O. Superpower Nerv is apparently led by a German representativenote ), and why the UN HQ was moved from New York to Japan.
edited 30th Sep '16 11:14:23 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.The Commission on Presidential Debates revealed in a one-sentence statement Friday that
"...there were issues with Donald Trump's audio that affected the sound level in the debate hall." There is no indication that the audio issues affected the television broadcast of the debate. So, like many of his other statements, there is a trivial grain of truth but no net significance.
I've been noticing that the tone of web and print journalism over the last few weeks has become much more starkly critical of Trump. The New York Times and the Washington Post recently published statements from their editorial boards that they would no longer play the game of "false centrism" that's helped him get so much traction.
If only this would carry over into television news...
edited 30th Sep '16 12:14:31 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"USA TODAY's Editorial Board: Trump is 'unfit for the presidency'
I'd heard about this earlier today.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.Yeah, the major papers are coming out in droves against Trump. You have 130-year old publications that have never endorsed a Democrat in their existence publishing articles endorsing Clinton and/or rejecting Trump. It's bizarre.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Thing is, Trump's supporters won't care. Because those newspapers are the MSM, the Mainstream Media they hate.

Yeah the faster this shit party dies at the national and state level the better
New Survey coming this weekend!