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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#165801: Jan 9th 2017 at 9:45:23 AM

I'd choose either Doom or Lex Luthor, as much evil as they are, depending of the incarnation they are at least competent leaders and their obsession is usually limited at the protagonists.

Doom at least made his home country, again depending of the incarnation, a very pleasant place to live, well outside having no democracy.

I wouldn't count on him dying, those bastards are pretty hard to kill naturally, like Kissinger and Fidel, which was a chronic smoker, can attest.

edited 9th Jan '17 9:47:17 AM by AngelusNox

Inter arma enim silent leges
NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#165802: Jan 9th 2017 at 9:46:33 AM

Currently in the comics, Doom admitted that Reed was a better man than him, reformed, and is currently Iron Man

So even the premier Marvel supervillain can learn more than Trump.

edited 9th Jan '17 9:48:44 AM by NoName999

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#165803: Jan 9th 2017 at 9:48:22 AM

There is a core constituency that will continue to vote Trump even if they aren't better off in four years, because they believe he is the only one in Wash who cares about them, and any failure can be blamed on someone else. But the rest of them actually voted against Hillary, not for Trump, and they want results.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#165804: Jan 9th 2017 at 9:48:29 AM

I'd take Ra's al Gul at this point.

ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#165805: Jan 9th 2017 at 9:50:19 AM

[up]At least we would be Going Green.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#165806: Jan 9th 2017 at 9:50:29 AM

I am pretty sure that the Alt-Reich and other white supremacists that voted Trumpft will keep voting for him and anyone like him as long as they perceive minorities will suffer or get in a situation worse than theirs.

...again LBJ was spot on.

Inter arma enim silent leges
NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#165807: Jan 9th 2017 at 9:53:38 AM

A good opinion piece on the Streep/Trump controversy.

Remember when Mc Cain's daughter was one of the fellow sane conservatives?

Meryl Streep can't criticize Trump mocking a disabled reporter because she's a rich actress? What the fuck is that nonsense? Besides, she was speaking to like minded individuals during her speech.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#165808: Jan 9th 2017 at 9:56:11 AM

Reading the comments, the Trumpets are behaving just as childish and moronic as Trump is.

That is if they aren't calling other people triggered or cucks, which I find funny for the former word because whenever someone criticizes Trump and they have no argument they do behave like they have been triggered.

Inter arma enim silent leges
vandro Shop Owner from The little shop that wasn't Since: Jul, 2009
Shop Owner
#165809: Jan 9th 2017 at 10:36:59 AM

The most obvious point about triggered people is that, the far right projects triggers on to others with ease and regularity. Which is to be expected. They would be content with no freedom of speech, if their social policy were the law.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#165810: Jan 9th 2017 at 10:52:01 AM

Just got the push notification on my phone that Jared Kushner, Trump's Son-In-Law, named Senior Advisor to the President.

SMFH.

New Survey coming this weekend!
Antiteilchen In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good. Since: Sep, 2013
In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good.
#165811: Jan 9th 2017 at 10:52:34 AM

If Streep shared their opinion, the Trumplings would be howling about freeze peach if you suggested she should tone it done. Fucking sniveling hypocrites.

XanderCrews Since: Oct, 2010
BrainSewage from that one place Since: Jan, 2001
#165813: Jan 9th 2017 at 11:01:47 AM

A friend of mine somehow managed to run off to Belize with his girlfriend with hardly anyone knowing it until they were already gone. Maybe I'll ask him his secret.

How dare you disrupt the sanctity of my soliloquy?
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#165814: Jan 9th 2017 at 11:01:51 AM

[up][up]What anti-nepotism laws? Because if we were concerned about any sort of laws, Trump wouldn't even be office. Where Trump and his cronies are concerned, the law may as well not even exist.

edited 9th Jan '17 11:02:02 AM by kkhohoho

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#165816: Jan 9th 2017 at 11:14:30 AM

Challenge not accepted

i'm tired, my friend
vandro Shop Owner from The little shop that wasn't Since: Jul, 2009
Shop Owner
#165817: Jan 9th 2017 at 11:15:58 AM

I'll just say, at least in the third world we have public option.

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#165818: Jan 9th 2017 at 11:17:27 AM

The Trump transition team wants the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration and his deputy to leave by the 20th, with no replacement.

For bonus fun, this organization cannot legally operate without those two positions filled.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
TrashJack Confirmed Doomer from beyond the Despair Event Horizon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Confirmed Doomer
#165819: Jan 9th 2017 at 11:18:33 AM

[up] Why did this idiot get elected, again?

"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#165820: Jan 9th 2017 at 11:18:39 AM

Oy. I can already imagine Al Quaeda laughing about this...

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#165821: Jan 9th 2017 at 11:20:21 AM

[up][up]Because your country has a bullshit electoral system?

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#165822: Jan 9th 2017 at 11:21:55 AM

The Terrorists won.

It may have taken 15 years, their countries being decimated, and their citizens fleeing, but they ultimately won.

Now they just have to sit back and let it all crumble like a Jenga tower

New Survey coming this weekend!
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#165823: Jan 9th 2017 at 11:23:21 AM

[up][up][up] Shit, at this point I think Al Quaeda might be pitying America.

And to the people who voted against Obamacare but like the ACA and somehow never realized they were the same thing...

SMH

edited 9th Jan '17 11:28:35 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
vandro Shop Owner from The little shop that wasn't Since: Jul, 2009
Shop Owner
#165824: Jan 9th 2017 at 11:29:40 AM

The power of polarization.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#165825: Jan 9th 2017 at 11:32:14 AM

To the point that the GOP is working their asses off to repeal a healthcare plan that was originally their idea.

Disgusted, but not surprised

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