Lostwingman

55 minutes ago, Walter_Sobchak said:

 

I thought it was odd that one of the brothers in the ad is labeled as a private investigator.  Is that really a job in real life?

Oh yea, one guy I know who does it investigates disability claims. You know the old, "photographing the guy walking out just fine to the mail put claiming workmans comp for a broken leg" type deal.

8 hours ago, Ramlaen said:

 

Turns out that Texas District 19 with the upset R win is a hispanic majority.

 

https://censusreporter.org/profiles/61000US48019-state-senate-district-19-tx/

I only vote for winners.

Also the endlessly hilarious factoid is that my state senate district had been blue for 139 years. Oops.

5 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

What do you mean, Mexicans won't rally behind this man?

 

 

He's part of the super wealthy Irish population in El Paso, Texas. And both light skinned AND dark skinned Mexicans can't stand those people.

 

Source: I dated an irish girl from el paso for four years.

For a good long time one of my neighbors had their wifi network named "Beto". I was utterly confused by that for months, that is until I started getting the campaign ads. My god the campaign ads. I could build a house of all the poster paper.

2 hours ago, Ulric said:

Hey, let's run a story that incorrectly implies wrongdoing on the part of our political opponents, then after it's peaked and people have moved on to other news we can quietly issue a correction that only a small percentage of the original readership will see!

"What do you mean you don't trust the mainstream news outlets? Are you a conspiritard?"

6 hours ago, Lord_James said:

It must be easy to be a reporter: you get paid for being retarded, and people listen to your retarded ramblings... 

News media is largely trash today. It consists almost entirely of sitting on twitter and trying to jump on trending fast enough.

2 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:

Oh no:

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/11/russia-mystery-illnesses-us-staff-cuba-china

"three unidentified US officials and two other people briefed on the investigation told NBC"

"Why does noone trust the media #235454523"

Mein sides.

The damage the media is doing to the mental health of people in this country would be funny if I didn't have to live with these people.

3 minutes ago, LoooSeR said:

And how exactly it is important? It is not like any other american president had no relations with us.

Hilary, Obama, Bush, Bill, Reagon, all of them lived in bubbles that prevented them from talking to or having anything to do with non-Americans. Unfortunately we had to take the cone of freedom off.

1 hour ago, Lord_James said:

 

You mean Saudi Arabia before 1980? 

I don't recall the fashion of Saudi Arabia pre-1980 being big into the stylings of 19th century American settlers...

6 minutes ago, Donward said:

So... if Kavanaugh is appointed it means people will be forced to watch Handmaid’s Tale?

Handmaid's tale is an apocryphal tale in feminist thinking where women lose all rights and become the biggest caricature of "u buy waif 4 2 goats? virgin gud yyes?". Just imagine Saudi Arabia on religious steroids with a Mormon flavor.

The protest is against the FACT that Kavanaugh is the first step to creating the Mormo-Islamic Polygastate!

1 hour ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

The left sure does like their little fantasy world. 

Which is the one for blocking information about POWs left behind in SEA?

4 hours ago, Donward said:

I’m not tired of #WINNING yet.

 

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/404600-ford-cancels-next-years-ford-focus-citing-trump-tariffs

 

“Crossover” cars are the ride of Satan, an abomination of the roadway. 

 

You're thinking of the Ford Escape. The Focus was the compact sedan. Mostly it was just over priced long before Trump got near office. I remember indepth car shopping for a compact in 2013 and then again in 2016 (when my 2013 Mazda3 was totaled). Both times it was near the upper end of the compact cars in cost. It chevy was way superior in cost and features with both the Cruze and Sonic and ofc the Japanese always have great  compacts. Just...an uncompetitive car.

4 minutes ago, Walter_Sobchak said:

"We're doing a great job. And we have really no laws to work with. We have really no laws to work with. The laws are horrible. Laws are the worst and dumbest in the history of the world."

 

 

That can easily and likely is intended to be read as the current laws being so bad that they're practically just useless text for show.

But you know, "GOTCHAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

2 hours ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:

Huh, so McCain manages to have less class than Trump post-death. He really was a fuckup to the end. 

You might even say that this funeral is going to...crash and burn.

We must subpoena everyone in the FBI/DOJ named Ivan. For Democracy!

We're going to be well into the 2040s and people are still going to be sifting through 2016 social media posts trying to find Russian interference.

We must build a wall around Russian twitter for the good of our democracy.

2 hours ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:

 

 

This does not help pave the way for Hillary 2020? 

She's fuming in her depends.

Neo-Cons are democrats who want to intervene into fucking everything.

Worthless chickenhawks.

Actually, does that make the current democrat party neo-con now?

Also here's the guy running against Elizabeth Warren.

5 hours ago, Donward said:

And meanwhile, we're living in an age where Silicon Valley tech giants are arbitrarily censoring anyone and everyone who has a different opinion. 

 

https://nypost.com/2018/08/23/facebook-censored-my-column-and-i-still-cant-find-out-why/

 

The NY Post is a hilariously bad tabloid whose highest and best use is posting pictures of celebrities and criminals behaving badly. But it's STILL a mainstream US publication. And now one of their columnists is being censored on Facebook for writing this which CLEARLY violates FB's community guidelines...

 

https://nypost.com/2018/08/22/why-trumps-supporters-wont-care-about-cohen-and-manaforts-convictions/

Hmmmmmmm

Source.

1 hour ago, Toxn said:

 

Nuance is the thing that's lacking in the understanding of the issue coming from such first-hand sources as fucking New Zealand and Australia.

To this point specifically, searching google for news stories is like trying to find diamonds in the St. Lawrence. More to that, we are all here familiar with the wider news media's use "copy paste" news articles that get articles from 15 different countries' newspaper to be virtually identical. I was only trying to find sources that looked legitimate because of how shitty google is, as long as the news source looked legitimate and wasn't a blog I felt it sufficient. My point wasn't the source, but rather that those are stories I've seen that's made it out of SA and are what what develop the impression of SA going the route of Zimbabwe.

3 minutes ago, Ramlaen said:

 

The irony is you are missing the point I was making.

 

And I'm not claiming whites are being genocided in SA, but if you are fine with your country's farming industry getting Zimbabwe'd then good for you?

Stop being an uninformed foreigner, there is nothing going on in SA atm. All is well.

Well Toxn, when the news that filters out of SA is of brutal shit like this and things like this that sound eerily like what happened Zimbabwe, the perception is going to be a certain way.

Although we'll see how this goes.

Man the old fogeys in the DNC who've been around for ages are going to face contests from within that make the rise of "Trumpism" in the Republicans look positively enviable.

Just imagine it, entire hoards of confused socialists. Oh boy we're gonna get our own Labor party! How long before Corbyn is a guest speaker?