Politics And Current Events

[Factorial]

Nice play at 1st by Bell in the second.

==> Pirates thread

[count2infinity]

Nice play at 1st by Bell in the second.

==> Pirates thread

“Politicians are all pirates.”
-Guinness probably

[Freddy Rumsen]

Has that not been the established order for the past 25+ years, under both parties?

Yes, actually. But the Democrats for most of the last 25+ years have at least said that they don't want the US to be the world's policeman.

Really?

Our last candidate, HRC, was an isolationist?

Most arguments I've heard come from the right, stating that we can't afford it. 'We need the money here, **** them' nationalistic bullshit...

There is literally only one candidate on the right who has ever talked like that.

Pat Buchanan?

Mostly, Paul as well but he doesn't go for the Nationalist stuff, though people associated with him do.

[Freddy Rumsen]

Nice play at 1st by Bell in the second.

==> Pirates thread

It was fantastic. #LetsGoBucs

[Shyster]

I was born during the Nixon Administration.

So slightly older then me (Ford Administration). Then you should remember how Reagan was attacked for trying to be the global policeman.

[Freddy Rumsen]

I forget how old you are, but I might have a longer historical perspective on this.

I was born during the Nixon Administration.

Johnson represent.

Carter4Life

[Freddy Rumsen]

This story is crazy.

Nobel peace prize winner Aung Sang Suu Kyi was actually the biggest obstacle to the freeing of the 2 Reuters journalists imprisoned in Myanmar. w/ @RCPaddock & Saw Nang.

https://t.co/Yqumvf8KdE

[Dickie Dunn]

It’ll always be Burma to me.

[shafnutz05]

This story is crazy.

Nobel peace prize winner Aung Sang Suu Kyi was actually the biggest obstacle to the freeing of the 2 Reuters journalists imprisoned in Myanmar. w/ @RCPaddock & Saw Nang.

https://t.co/Yqumvf8KdE

This...this is what fantastic journalism looks like. Great stuff NYT.

[shafnutz05]

Also, as much of a geography nut as I am, I thought Myanmar was a lot smaller than it actually is.

[dodint]

Here is the video that surfaced of the Islamic children singing about beheading people and waging jihad at an event in Philadelphia. This is all totally normal. In a just world, the Feds would descend on that school and anything associated with it, but that probably won't happen.

I know of another major world religion with similar sketchy observances involving kids. For instance, one involves simulated ritualistic cannabalism and blood drinking. Initiation for it starts around 7 years old, before the child is old enough to reason for themselves. Pretty gross.

[mikey]

There are a lot of new parents here, so are you gonna tell us which one or what...?!?! It sounds awesome!

[Freddy Rumsen]

Here is the video that surfaced of the Islamic children singing about beheading people and waging jihad at an event in Philadelphia. This is all totally normal. In a just world, the Feds would descend on that school and anything associated with it, but that probably won't happen.

I know of another major world religion with similar sketchy observances involving kids. For instance, one involves simulated ritualistic cannabalism and blood drinking. Initiation for it starts around 7 years old, before the child is old enough to reason for themselves. Pretty gross.

[dodint]

[blackjack68]

Here is the video that surfaced of the Islamic children singing about beheading people and waging jihad at an event in Philadelphia. This is all totally normal. In a just world, the Feds would descend on that school and anything associated with it, but that probably won't happen.

I know of another major world religion with similar sketchy observances involving kids. For instance, one involves simulated ritualistic cannabalism and blood drinking. Initiation for it starts around 7 years old, before the child is old enough to reason for themselves. Pretty gross.

Bomb them all

[Nittany Ned]

Another funny Trump golf story

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1126 ... 24256?s=19

I'd knee that fat **** right in the common peroneal if I saw him do this. Hell, I'd like to do that to him if I just saw him.

Lmao, you absolutely would not. You and all the rest of the Internet tough guy Trump haters would **** your pants if you were in the same vicinity as him. The Hollywood idiots too:



This seems like a BS story, anyway.

[MWB]

Yeah, because Trump is such a scary guy, lol.

[count2infinity]

Of course a nutter like Ned would eat up the Denero platform shoes thing... completely ignoring that he was wearing them while on set and shot the exact same scene wearing normal shoes as well.

Yo Ned, how are ya boy's bone spurs treating him?

[Willie Kool]

You and all the rest of the Internet tough guy Trump haters would **** your pants if you were in the same vicinity as him.

Oh, you were serious?

[Freddy Rumsen]

Vietnam is such a weird animal in American politics. Bill Clinton was hailed as a hero for dodging the draft.

John McCain was a massive hero in Vietnam yet is mocked incessantly by Trump.

It's still insane to me that Richard Blumenthal lied openly and willfully about his service in Vietnam and there's been absolutely no repercussions in his public life.

[tifosi77]

Robert de Niro is 5'10". The shoes were for closeups in a movie role.

[MR25]

I just watched the Ben Shapiro interview with the BBC.

You can tell at least one person did their homework beforehand, and it wasn't Shapiro.

[Factorial]

Normal stuff going on today:

MOSCOW — As President Trump and his inner circle appear increasingly focused on Ukraine as a potential tripwire for Joe Biden and Democrats, officials about to take power in Kiev are pushing their own message: Leave us out of it.

Supporters of Ukrainian President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky — who is expected to take office in the coming weeks — said in interviews Saturday that they feared they were being pulled into a domestic political conflict in the United States, potentially at Ukraine’s expense.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/eu ... 0dfbb7e9e1

[Freddy Rumsen]

As predicted, every stupid and insufferably smug trope of modern architecture is present in this monstrosity.

https://t.co/aRPduGd7qV

[slappybrown]

Are you a Biden guy @Factorial?