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30 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

 

Going thru old SNLs for OG celebrity jeopardy we came across a weekend update featuring Yasser Arafat and Bibi. Arafat has been dead for 20 years.

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Some great revisions today for Sleepy Joe. The technicality of a recession everyone argued about for two weeks in 2022 officially became moo, like a cow, and reached positive. GDP still at 3% revised and projections to show 3% this quarter as well.  I continue to be the most correct poster on here and I still enjoy it though you ruhtards test my patience with Texas politics. GDI, which everyone talks about at the dinner table, finally got around to showing what I’ve said the entire time about wages that you no-nothings bitch about (you know who you are). I am sure PCE tomorrow will continue to show we are in the best of times and the only times. Fresh off record highs and into buying plane tickets to the Philippines for research purposes, I hope you all had a great day.

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I hope Biden is overwhelming southeastern residents who need immediate and long term help from the hurricane. Obviously this is a minimum expectation of the fed govt especially fema but there needs to be no peep that some are not getting the legitimate help to get back on their feet. Hell I would even help out with illegitimate needs.

and financially encourage social media people to post what they’re seeing from the federal govt.

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The last Jobsgiving of relevance is tomorrow. The last CPI report the week after. So this will be my final Jobsgiving post. A Haiku to the single greatest individual who has roamed the hall of the White House, possibly looking for his dogs that left months ago.

 

Joe brought jobs and cash

Joe got you money for ass

Dollar-Dollar bills

 

 

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14 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

The last Jobsgiving of relevance is tomorrow. The last CPI report the week after. So this will be my final Jobsgiving post. A Haiku to the single greatest individual who has roamed the hall of the White House, possibly looking for his dogs that left months ago.

 

Joe brought jobs and cash

Joe got you money for ass

Dollar-Dollar bills

 

 

There's another one just before election day. I know there aren't a lot of people who won't have made up their minds by then but there's more than a handful and elections are stupidly tight thanks to a system designed by people who naively thought political parties wouldn't be a thing.

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3 hours ago, elfenix said:

There's another one just before election day. I know there aren't a lot of people who won't have made up their minds by then but there's more than a handful and elections are stupidly tight thanks to a system designed by people who naively thought political parties wouldn't be a thing.

I can’t remember ever seeing one on Friday when it lands on the first of the month. They typically get held off til Friday after

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6 hours ago, elfenix said:

There's another one just before election day. I know there aren't a lot of people who won't have made up their minds by then but there's more than a handful and elections are stupidly tight thanks to a system designed by people who naively thought political parties wouldn't be a thing.

I don’t want to freak anyone out, but the system is working exactly like they designed it.

 

Also, Dark Brandon laid some pipe today. 

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1 hour ago, Bateshorn said:

I don’t want to freak anyone out, but the system is working exactly like they designed it.

 

Also, Dark Brandon laid some pipe today. 

Letting a minority of malinformed dipshits have a realistic shot at controlling the presidency is not working as intended. 

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1 hour ago, royiv said:

Biden is at his best when he doesn’t have the stress of running for office.

yup, this actually has to be relatively enjoyable for him. I hope they make him the next press secretary

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2 hours ago, elfenix said:

Letting a minority of malinformed dipshits have a realistic shot at controlling the presidency is not working as intended. 

The minority part was the design, the dipshits was the evolution.

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3 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

I don’t want to freak anyone out, but the system is working exactly like they designed it.

 

Also, Dark Brandon laid some pipe today. 

If Hunter is any indication, it's a large pipe

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2 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

yup, this actually has to be relatively enjoyable for him. I hope they make him the next press secretary

Oh holy shit I would love this. Put him on a Zoom also.

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Remember when mean tweets had us on the edge of nuclear war and some posters here were shitting their pants. Pepperidge farm remembers. Biden probably doesn't. 

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31 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Remember when mean tweets had us on the edge of nuclear war and some posters here were shitting their pants. Pepperidge farm remembers. Biden probably doesn't. 

I remember when Twitter was a fairly reliable source of information to get from verified accounts during crises and natural disasters before Elon fucked up the algorithms so that right-wing trolls that spread disinformation go to the top of the feed.

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3 minutes ago, bolverk said:

I remember when Twitter was a fairly reliable source of information

That's cute. But I know that you actually pay more attention than that. 

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27 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

No, I don't remember any of that shit.  I'll chalk this up as another Annie Sloppy Drunk Thursday.

They always turn out well.

I remember some posters losing their mind over, as they framed it, an unacceptable level of tolerance for any even infinitesimal greater risk of nuclear war, given the impact of the consequences. Meanwhile we sit here today in 2024 and the world looks like neon green neocon wet dream. Crickets, though. I understand. If you listen to some of Bolton's recent performances, they are indistinguishable from many of the posters here. And esp the state mouthpieces.   

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5 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

I remember some posters losing their mind over, as they framed it, an unacceptable level of tolerance for any even infinitesimal greater risk of nuclear war, given the impact of the consequences. Meanwhile we sit here today in 2024 and the world looks like neon green neocon wet dream. Crickets, though. I understand. If you listen to some of Bolton's recent performances, they are indistinguishable from many of the posters here. And esp the state mouthpieces.   

It doesn't matter what the platform is when the President of the United States goes off shitting in his pants like this:

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https://theintercept.com/2022/05/14/twitter-elon-musk-trump-nuclear-war-north-korea/

When Trump took office in January 2017, U.S. intelligence believed that North Korea had manufactured dozens of nuclear devices. In July 2017, the North Korean government successfully tested intercontinental ballistic missiles that could reach the U.S.

It was this — the possibility that the U.S. was vulnerable to the nuclear sword of Damocles that we had dangled over North Korea’s head for decades — that caused Trump to proclaim in August that “North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.” The next month at the United Nations, Trump similarly said the U.S. might be forced “to totally destroy North Korea. Rocket Man [i.e., North Korean leader Kim Jong Un] is on a suicide mission.”

Trump then jumped on Twitter that month to proclaim that Kim was “obviously a madman” who “will be tested like never before!” He followed it up the same day by tweeting, “Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U. N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won’t be around much longer!”

Such berserk bellicosity from a U.S. president would be alarming under any circumstances but was especially so involving North Korea. Jeffrey Lewis, a longtime North Korea observer and professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, was so worried about Trump’s behavior that he wrote an entire speculative novel imagining how the president might accidentally start a nuclear war via tweet.

“North Korea,” Lewis told me recently via Twitter direct message, “has a nuclear strategy that relies on preemptively using nuclear weapons to repel a US invasion. If North Korean leaders think an invasion is imminent, their plan — at least on paper — is to use nuclear weapons against US forces in South Korea and Japan to destroy any invasion forces and shock the United States.”

And the North Korean government, Lewis said, doesn’t “have the kind of global hi-tech monitoring system the United States does. Instead they have to rely on signs and indicators. We don’t really know what indicators they use, but we think one of the most important indicators that the North Koreans rely on is the presence of military families in South Korea. The North Koreans think the U.S. would evacuate those families to safety before any invasion.”

This was the situation on January 3, 2018, when Trump tweeted, “North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the ‘Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.’ … I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”

Esper, then serving as secretary of the Army, learned later that month that Trump was about to order all U.S. military dependents out of South Korea — announcing it on Twitter. “Kim would probably view a U.S. evacuation as a prelude to a conflict,” Esper writes in his book, echoing Lewis’s fears. “Would he strike first, targeting Seoul? … Would this be like the beginning of World War I? … This was a dangerous game of chicken, and with nuclear roosters no less.”

Thankfully for all humanity, someone — Esper still has no idea who — “talked the president out of sending the tweet. … War averted.”

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28 minutes ago, bolverk said:

It doesn't matter what the platform is when the President of the United States goes off shitting in his pants like this:

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https://theintercept.com/2022/05/14/twitter-elon-musk-trump-nuclear-war-north-korea/

When Trump took office in January 2017, U.S. intelligence believed that North Korea had manufactured dozens of nuclear devices. In July 2017, the North Korean government successfully tested intercontinental ballistic missiles that could reach the U.S.

It was this — the possibility that the U.S. was vulnerable to the nuclear sword of Damocles that we had dangled over North Korea’s head for decades — that caused Trump to proclaim in August that “North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.” The next month at the United Nations, Trump similarly said the U.S. might be forced “to totally destroy North Korea. Rocket Man [i.e., North Korean leader Kim Jong Un] is on a suicide mission.”

Trump then jumped on Twitter that month to proclaim that Kim was “obviously a madman” who “will be tested like never before!” He followed it up the same day by tweeting, “Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U. N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won’t be around much longer!”

Such berserk bellicosity from a U.S. president would be alarming under any circumstances but was especially so involving North Korea. Jeffrey Lewis, a longtime North Korea observer and professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, was so worried about Trump’s behavior that he wrote an entire speculative novel imagining how the president might accidentally start a nuclear war via tweet.

“North Korea,” Lewis told me recently via Twitter direct message, “has a nuclear strategy that relies on preemptively using nuclear weapons to repel a US invasion. If North Korean leaders think an invasion is imminent, their plan — at least on paper — is to use nuclear weapons against US forces in South Korea and Japan to destroy any invasion forces and shock the United States.”

And the North Korean government, Lewis said, doesn’t “have the kind of global hi-tech monitoring system the United States does. Instead they have to rely on signs and indicators. We don’t really know what indicators they use, but we think one of the most important indicators that the North Koreans rely on is the presence of military families in South Korea. The North Koreans think the U.S. would evacuate those families to safety before any invasion.”

This was the situation on January 3, 2018, when Trump tweeted, “North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the ‘Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.’ … I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”

Esper, then serving as secretary of the Army, learned later that month that Trump was about to order all U.S. military dependents out of South Korea — announcing it on Twitter. “Kim would probably view a U.S. evacuation as a prelude to a conflict,” Esper writes in his book, echoing Lewis’s fears. “Would he strike first, targeting Seoul? … Would this be like the beginning of World War I? … This was a dangerous game of chicken, and with nuclear roosters no less.”

Thankfully for all humanity, someone — Esper still has no idea who — “talked the president out of sending the tweet. … War averted.”

If you think that that tweet posed a greater risk than the current geopolitical set of the board today, I am not quite sure what to say.  

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