I'd relish in the schadenfreude of all the Trump voters losing their jobs and healthcare and schools and environment over the next four years… if not for the fact that's going to hit everyone else, too.
Indecision 2016 - In Soviet Russia, we elect american president!
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@Monkey:
And I'm intrigued at the increasingly globally popular narrative that thinks that since 2014 the response to Russia should be "Eh, guys, who cares huh? Russia's alright. Ukraine, Syria, whatevs.". And points at people calling them out and does the "crazy person" finger gesture.
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If there's anything this year should teach any of us it's that there's a lurking complacency in a lot of our heads saying something like "Naw, it's 2016, that sort of thing doesn't happened anymore, it's different now, no big deal, don't worry." And that this sense of complacency is 100% wrong.
That may be true internationally, but in America people are more paranoid than ever.
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Complicating things since 2009.
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Someone married their stepmom and then got murdered?
Sounds like he used a monkey paw to make a porno story come true.
Then the curse of the paw eventually killed him.
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At least Hexxus seems more transparent about his work.
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EPA Head- Hexxus
Secretary of State- Kratos
Secretary of Defense- Genie Jafar
Secretary of Health and Human Services- Death, of the Four Horsemen
Secretary of Education- Pat Robertson
Secretary of the Treasury- Flintheart Glomgold
Secretary of Justice- Two Face
Secretary of Labor- A Literal Pinkerton
Secretary of Energy- Seven coal miners
Secretary of Homeland Security- Benedict Arnold
Secretary of Transportation- A diesel-powered Truckasaurus
Secretary of Commerce- Isolationism-era Tokugawa Iemitsu
Secretary of Agriculture- Sentient Can of Mountain Dew
White House Chief Advisor- Hitler's Brain in a JarSeveral of those would be better than what we're getting.
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@CCC:
EPA Head- Hexxus
Secretary of State- Kratos
Secretary of Defense- Genie Jafar
Secretary of Health and Human Services- Death, of the Four Horsemen
Secretary of Education- Pat Robertson
Secretary of the Treasury- Flintheart Glomgold
Secretary of Justice- Two Face
Secretary of Labor- A Literal Pinkerton
Secretary of Energy- Seven coal miners
Secretary of Homeland Security- Benedict Arnold
Secretary of Transportation- A diesel-powered Truckasaurus
Secretary of Commerce- Isolationism-era Tokugawa Iemitsu
Secretary of Agriculture- Sentient Can of Mountain Dew
White House Chief Advisor- Hitler's Brain in a JarSeveral of those would be better than what we're getting.
….Damn I wish I could fit this in a signature lol.
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Post your fantasy White House roster ITT
EPA Head - Looten Plunder
Secretary of State - Freeza
Secretary of Defense - Mechagodzilla
Secretary of Health and Human Services - Nagash the Great Necromancer
Secretary of Education - Andy Schlafly
Secretary of the Treasury - C. Montgomery Burns
Secretary of Justice - Fleet Admiral Sakazuki
Secretary of Labor - One of the mine owners from the West Virginia Mining Wars
Secretary of Energy - A literal lake of burning oil
Secretary of the Interior - A grizzled old prospector yelling THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THERE NATIONAL PARKS
Secretary of Homeland Security - The vengeful spirit of Charles Lindbergh
Secretary of Transportation - Judge Doom
Secretary of Commerce - Bugsy Sigel
Secretary of Agriculture - Jefferson Davis
White House Chief Adviser - William Dudley Pelley -
@Rogues':
Hahahaha Ferngully's villain as EPA chief. Holy shit that takes me back.
Yeah I'm not happy about these cabinet picks. Especially this one. I can only imagine how all this turns out. Just sucks a bunch nature/animals/etc. are going to die/be damaged for the sake of money and "making America great again."
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Likely Secretary of Labor opposes even moderate minimum wage increases and favors increased use of automation in service industries to cut labor costs for businesses.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/andrew-puzder-labor-secretary-trump
"B-B-But he was supposed to bring back jobs and fix the economy".
I'd relish in the schadenfreude of all the Trump voters losing their jobs and healthcare and schools and environment over the next four years… if not for the fact that's going to hit everyone else, too.
That derp spiral may have not hit Trump (like it was supposed to) but we can hope it's hits the more sane morons who voted for him just because.
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@Cyan:
Post your fantasy White House roster ITT
EPA Head - Looten Plunder
Secretary of State - Freeza
Secretary of Defense - Mechagodzilla
Secretary of Health and Human Services - Nagash the Great Necromancer
Secretary of Education - Andy Schlafly
Secretary of the Treasury - C. Montgomery Burns
Secretary of Justice - Fleet Admiral Sakazuki
Secretary of Labor - One of the mine owners from the West Virginia Mining Wars
Secretary of Energy - A literal lake of burning oil
Secretary of the Interior - A grizzled old prospector yelling THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THERE NATIONAL PARKS
Secretary of Homeland Security - The vengeful spirit of Charles Lindbergh
Secretary of Transportation - Judge Doom
Secretary of Commerce - Bugsy Sigel
Secretary of Agriculture - Jefferson Davis
White House Chief Adviser - William Dudley PelleyI appreciate the obvious yet essential Captain Planet villain pick, and I was actually about to use a gold-mining prospector myself.
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Jesus Christ, and he's on the short list for Sec. Of State.
Jesus christ what an enormously stupid person. Or enormously slimy person.
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I appreciate the obvious yet essential Captain Planet villain pick, and I was actually about to use a gold-mining prospector myself.
Secretary of the Interior Gabby Johnson addresses the northwest logging industry:
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China is easily more democratic than Russia is, is the funny part.
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The president of the Philippines is inciting mass murder so our president-elect praised him and invited him to the White House.
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its mad cool to be alive in the time of someone who will possibly be the worst president we've ever had
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@Cyan:
Post your fantasy White House roster ITT
EPA Head - Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz
Secretary of State - Wilhuff Tarkin
Secretary of Defense - George Armstrong Custer
Secretary of Health and Human Services - Nurgle
Secretary of Education - Bizarro
Secretary of the Treasury - Auric Goldfinger
Secretary of Justice - Salvatore Tessio
Secretary of Labor - Rehoboam
Secretary of Energy - B. P. Richfield
Secretary of the Interior - Unicron
Secretary of Homeland Security - Andrew Jackson
Secretary of Transportation - Immortan Joe
Secretary of Commerce - William M. Tweed
Secretary of Agriculture - The Cactus King
White House Chief Adviser - Super Kami GuruComplicating things since 2009.
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@Monkey:
Jesus christ what an enormously stupid person. Or enormously slimy person.
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lol at China having no political reforms.
They're still a totalitarian state run by strongmen with personality cults right? Yeah sure.I lean towards the latter, but I can never discount idiocy.
Rohrabacher is one of the more pro-Russian Reps, if I recall correctly.
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One small question. Why is it called Secretary of State when it's regarding relations to other countries?
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The New York Times has finally reached the nadir of "same shit both sides."
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Well at least James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover, and George W Bush will be judged better by history on account of "not irreversibly destroying America for their own self interest and also being functional adults."
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One small question. Why is it called Secretary of State when it's regarding relations to other countries?
The position was originally called Secretary of Foreign Affairs but was changed when the Department was given duties within the United States as well; so it handled relationships between the Federal Government and individual states, both foreign and domestic. Most of those tasks have been handed off to other agencies but they kept the name.
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The New York Times has finally reached the nadir of "same shit both sides."
Pointing out bias in others is _not_ bias!
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The New York Times has finally reached the nadir of "same shit both sides."
Dude I totally read the source article earlier and singled out that paragraph for being laughably stupid.
(Here it is: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/us/politics/political-divide-on-campuses-hardens-after-trumps-victory.html?mwrsm=Facebook)No shit, college Republicans. Of course you're not welcome in an intellectual, progressive environment when you actively promote and celebrate a cataclysmically non-intellectual, anti-progressive candidate and are then confounded by other people's founded fears and concerns to the point that you make a stink when there's a day of mourning for the loss of our country.
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The position was originally called Secretary of Foreign Affairs but was changed when the Department was given duties within the United States as well; so it handled relationships between the Federal Government and individual states, both foreign and domestic. Most of those tasks have been handed off to other agencies but they kept the name.
Nice to see America doesn't just fuck up the names of kids we fuck up the names of our government agencies too.
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Dude I totally read the source article earlier and singled out that paragraph for being laughably stupid.
(Here it is: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/us/politics/political-divide-on-campuses-hardens-after-trumps-victory.html?mwrsm=Facebook)College republicans can fuck off. No shit you're not welcome in an intellectual, progressive environment when you actively promote and celebrate a cataclysmically non-intellectual, anti-progressive candidate and are then confounded by other people's founded fears and concerns to the point that you make a stink when there's a day of mourning for the loss of our country.
fucking lol at using the Lebanese kid with Republican parents as artificial balance.
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Guys I found this Irish person who is SUPER pro-British, amazing complexity! Many sided issue! Actually not as sectarian as you'd think!
Why yes he's a Protestant Unionist from Londonderry, why do you ask?HUGE SCOOP, Cypriot all for Turkish troops staying forever. You won't believe this Cypriot loves Erdogan and Turkish snipers. A Cypriot! From the Turkish north! Wow gosh willikers!
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@Monkey:
its mad cool to be alive in the time of someone who will possibly be the worst president we've ever had
ANd that's competing with Andrew Jackson's trail of tears!
I think pretty much the only way he doesn't manage to be the worst is if it's cut short early on for some reason.
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James Buchanan in Hell is suddenly happy because he will no longer be found at the top of a "worst presidents" list.
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Well…Good news. We can really only go up right? I mean....Who could possibly be worse than Trump?
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Kanye .
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Well…Good news. We can really only go up right? I mean....Who could possibly be worse than Trump?
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Well…Good news. We can really only go up right? I mean....Who could possibly be worse than Trump?
Pence if Trump either bites the dust or successfully gets impeached.
Paul Ryan if Trump and Pence somehow happen to get offed at the same time.
Ted Cruz.
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Pence would be awful for a lot of reasons, possibly worse than Trump in that he could get people to actually cooperate with him.
But at least I don't think he'd start WW3 because of a SNL skit.
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Pence, Ryan and Cruz are normal politicians who get treated like normal politicians instead of an exciting reality show. Also they wouldn't pick Twitter fights with corporations to get their stock to drop and to beat them into quiet submission (Boeing is now sponsoring Trump's inaugeration) or attack private citizens so they get death threat'd into silence.
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Pence, Ryan and Cruz are normal politicians who get treated like normal politicians instead of an exciting reality show. Also they wouldn't pick Twitter fights with corporations to get their stock to drop and to beat them into quiet submission (Boeing is now sponsoring Trump's inaugeration) or attack private citizens so they get death threat'd into silence.
Maybe but one of those three would galvanize Congressional Republicans into shutting down the Government to get something they hate repealed.
Speaking of Inauguration's Trump's is still looking pretty weak and awful where star power is concerned
At this rate they can offer free blowjobs and people would still not go
I've often wondered about that myself; seems like being supported by people who only want you there so the world can end in fire (with you going to Hell in the process) would be somewhat off-putting
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There needs to be a mass cleansing of the chain of command so that John Kerry gets his rightful place on the throne (that or Kiefer Sutherland).
Just not Orrin Hatch. Please.
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Maybe but one of those three would galvanize Congressional Republicans into shutting down the Government to get something they hate repealed.
Speaking of Inauguration's Trump's is still looking pretty weak and awful where star power is concerned
At this rate they can offer free blowjobs and people would still not go
I am deeply amused at this=
Musicians Lee Greenwood and Garth Brooks are reportedly already speaking with transition officials, but a source told the Wrap Trump’s team hopes “to do better than Kid Rock and Ted Nungent,” two performers who supported Trump’s campaign. The source also suggested aides are looking for high-profile performers “like Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars.”
LOL "do better than" the two performers that did support him. Part of me wants to wants to cringe and offer water to Kid & Ted for that burn…but I'm too busy laughing. Then the next line mentions high-profile performers, makes it sound like they do not think Kid & Ted meet those standards .... I wonder why ;)
This shows how much damage Trump can do with Twitter....
This is what happens when Donald Trump attacks a private citizen on Twitter@Trump:
“I think I am very restrained, and I talk about important things,” Trump said during an interview with the “Today” show this week. “Frankly, it’s a modern-day form of communication. . . . I get it out much faster than a press release. I get it out much more honestly than dealing with . . . dishonest reporters. So many reporters are dishonest.”
insert multiple facepalms No Donny Despicable, you are not restrained, twitting about SNL proves that. You do not talk about important issues, and no conspiracy theories do not qualify as important. And no you are not honest, you are a giant flipflopper caught in the hurricane of politics.
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Speaking of Inauguration's Trump's is still looking pretty weak and awful where star power is concerned
Any sane agent should fight tooth and nail to keep their client from accepting; not just for the bad optics but because Trump will find some way to screw them over when it comes to actually paying.
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Entertainment at the inauguration will consist solely of Chris Christie being made to dance for Trump's amusement.
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insert multiple facepalms No Donny Despicable, you are not restrained, twitting about SNL proves that. An no you are not honest, you are a giant flipflopper caught in the hurricane of politics.
You forgot to buzz him on his claim of talking about important stuff. Wanting to fuck your own daughter isn't important nor is telling your followers to go find a non existent sextape of someone metaphorically pissing all over you.
Revealing your actual worth and what you pay in taxes is important or least that's what I've been told:ninja:.
@Cyan:
Entertainment at the inauguration will consist solely of Chris Christie being made to dance for Trump's amusement.
I trust the dancing will be played to the tune of Fats Domino "Ain't That A Shame".
Christie is the metaphorical round peg trying to be fitted into a square hole at this point.
Any sane agent should fight tooth and nail to keep their client from accepting; not just for the bad optics but because Trump will find some way to screw them over when it comes to actually paying.
Hey look at it this way another person for Trump to screw over leading to another twitter fight and asinine death threats, another lawsuit to be settled.
I've often wondered about that myself; seems like being supported by people who only want you there so the world can end in fire (with you going to Hell in the process) would be somewhat off-putting
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You forgot to buzz him on his claim of talking about important stuff. Wanting to fuck your own daughter isn't important nor is telling your followers to go find a non existent sextape of someone metaphorically pissing all over you.
Revealing your actually worth and what you pay in taxes is important or least that's what I've been told:ninja:.
Opps forgot to mention he doesn't talk about important issues. I went and changed it, scolding that conspiracy theories were not important.
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@Cyan:
Entertainment at the inauguration will consist solely of Chris Christie being made to dance for Trump's amusement.
"I don't know why people are always talking bad about Putin. Wonderful guy. Just great. He even sent me a dancing bear for the inauguration!"
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As if Native Americans didn't have enough to worry about the pipeline….
Trump advisors aim to privatize oil-rich American Indian reservations
The proposed path to deregulated drilling - privatizing reservations - could prove even more divisive. Many Native Americans view such efforts as a violation of tribal self-determination and culture.
"Our spiritual leaders are opposed to the privatization of our lands, which means the commoditization of the nature, water, air we hold sacred," said Tom Goldtooth, a member of both the Navajo and the Dakota tribes who runs the Indigenous Environmental Network. "Privatization has been the goal since colonization - to strip Native Nations of their sovereignty."
Reservations governed by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs are intended in part to keep Native American lands off the private real estate market, preventing sales to non-Indians. An official at the Bureau of Indian Affairs did not respond to a request for comment.
according to the article, some Indians are for it, but I doubt its a big number, if we go by the sentimentin the above quote, and there's been big turnouts to protests of events that could damage lands or their water supply coughStandingRockcough
Also, there is no guarantee that a Trump administration would allow control to stay in the hands of Native Americans.
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They're paranoid over idiotic things like Pizzagate, contrails, and FEMA death camps while being perfectly fine with actual serious problems like the Russia situation.
People on the right are, but there are definitely a lot more people on the left concerned about Russia than there were five or ten years ago.
