Red Mosquito

Donald Trump just retweeted somebody named Steve Holt.

the national discourse pre-Trump: screaming at each other over where trannies go pee; endless disgust at the name of the Washington DC football team

the national discourse 2017: nuclear war, loss of freedom of the press, destruction of nato, institutionalized sexual harassment, muslim registries

anyone want to argue about how many angels are dancing on a pin, for old times sake?

I'll go first: 12

I think it's more probably devils dancing on matches.

Mrs Wease has female family members who are all hard-right staunch republicans. A vote against Trump, to them, is a reservation in hell. They're all loading up for the inauguration Friday then on Saturday, going to a women's rights demonstration on the streets outside the White House

Er...

wease wrote:Mrs Wease has female family members who are all hard-right staunch republicans. A vote against Trump, to them, is a reservation in hell. They're all loading up for the inauguration Friday then on Saturday, going to a women's rights demonstration on the streets outside the White House

Er...

Sounds like you married into a good family there, wease.

Birds in Hell wrote:

wease wrote:Mrs Wease has female family members who are all hard-right staunch republicans. A vote against Trump, to them, is a reservation in hell. They're all loading up for the inauguration Friday then on Saturday, going to a women's rights demonstration on the streets outside the White House

Er...

Sounds like you married into a good family there, wease.

Luckily, the Mrs has a bit of sense about her.

Anonymous may have just made this extra weird.

By "just," I mean today. And also by Anon, I apparently mean either them or the rumors Trump's own supporters are now chatting about regarding a leaked racist tape. Or I'm dime.

It's just hard to keep track as these things fly by anymore.

What are the chances something really bad happens this year? Like 9/11, or assassination, or Pearl Jam releasing a new album bad?

BurtReynolds wrote:What are the chances something really bad happens this year? Like 9/11, or assassination, or Pearl Jam releasing a new album bad?

Everybody was playing the "Oooo will he get assassinated?" game with Obama and obviously nothing happened. I imagine nothing will happen with Trump, either. 50,000/1

"Like 9/11"? Probably even closer to nil. Like Orlando, San Bernardino? 1000/1 or so.

BurtReynolds wrote:What are the chances something really bad happens this year? Like 9/11, or assassination, or Pearl Jam releasing a new album bad?

Hard to say. US and Russia being bros will not please our buddies in the Arabian peninsula, who are the primary state sponsors of terror, being that their main economic goal over the last two decades has been to maintain their energy monopoly by replacing the EU's dependency on natural gas from Russia with their own supplies via long range pipelines through Iraq and Syria. On the plus side, cooperation with Russia will likely improve conditions in Syria. On the minus side, their are going to be a lot of pissed of syrian 'rebels' with a yuge dislike for America.

If I had to guess, 2017 will be the year of cyber attacks against western financial systems and institutions. An attack on the GPS system is not out of the equation either.

McParadigm wrote:By "just," I mean today. And also by Anon, I apparently mean either them or the rumors Trump's own supporters are now chatting about regarding a leaked racist tape. Or I'm dime.

It's just hard to keep track as these things fly by anymore.

Or like I suggested two pages ago, a fake one has been produced and is now ready to be released (since we have all been primed to be sensitive to our countries horrendous history with race by MLK day), because the manufacturers know that people want to believe it's real.

Bi_3 wrote:

McParadigm wrote:By "just," I mean today. And also by Anon, I apparently mean either them or the rumors Trump's own supporters are now chatting about regarding a leaked racist tape. Or I'm dime.

It's just hard to keep track as these things fly by anymore.

Or like I suggested two pages ago, a fake one has been produced and is now ready to be released (since we have all been primed to be sensitive to our countries horrendous history with race by MLK day), because the manufacturers know that people want to believe it's real.

Maybe that's what Alec Baldwin meant by "other venues."

BurtReynolds wrote:What are the chances something really bad happens this year? Like 9/11, or assassination, or Pearl Jam releasing a new album bad?

The Goblins Strike Back.

2017 is the very pit of madness

BurtReynolds wrote:

Orpheus wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:My general sense is that everyone more or less agrees that the overall state of US Politics sucks ass hard, and that Trump is a symptom of that. The cause and cure to those symptoms are up for debate, but no one has said that liberal whining was the "big problem," unless I've missed some key posts.

I was referring to the days immediately after when everyone was trying to tell us that bubbles and not reaching out to the working mayun' is what really did us in.

That's only why the democrats lost the election, not that it was good or bad.

p.s. Saying 'fuck you' and calling them the working mayun' is a poor way to win their votes.

Wait, Orpheus is running for President? Hold the fucking phone.

McParadigm wrote:You're clearly confusing the left with people of action.

BurtReynolds wrote:I bet Trump is genuinely hurt that Bruce Springsteen won't play at his party. He probably doesn't even understand why, either.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you already knew and understand that The Boss was never going to play, it was a tribute band.

bune wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:I bet Trump is genuinely hurt that Bruce Springsteen won't play at his party. He probably doesn't even understand why, either.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you already knew and understand that The Boss was never going to play, it was a tribute band.

I know but I like to think that the cover band was plan B.