Prelude to the Apocalypse

[BulletMagnet]

If we even consider the notion that the leaders of NK, who are living a great life for themselves as the top beneficiaries of their society, are insane and want to commit suicide because their feelings were hurt.

At this point this state of affairs might be more plausible on the US side of things, especially considering that Congressional Republicans have proven time and time again that they would rather watch the world burn than not give themselves another tax cut...or admit having ever been wrong about anything.

[BryanM]

What labor shortages? Have we been running out of unemployed people?

Indeed. Employment (true employment via the raw participation rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, not the made up propaganda number Mr.Burns and Mr.Smithers use on TV to tell us everything is fine) is in the low 60%'s, and that still overlooks underemployment.

If there's truly a "labor shortage", they would do that thing... what is it called again... oh yeah, increase pay and benefits. If these jobs were so necessary and critical, you'd think they'd do that lickity split. But gee, they don't.

Almost like they're not so necessary and critical. Am I suggesting that Mr.Burns and Mr.Smithers might... lie?!?!

Astonishing accusations.

(For the record, post internal combustion engine, capital-social transition era employment peaked in the mid 90's. Outside of some massive government jobs program, it's going to absolutely crater in the decades to come.)

especially considering that Congressional Republicans have proven time and time again that they would rather watch the world burn than not give themselves another tax cut...or admit having ever been wrong about anything.

And congressional Democrats. We're bipartisan when it comes to fucking over the plebs.

They'll be getting the necessary dem votes for their cuts and wars.

I liek how they never really fight against those things, but they're fighting universal medicare with every single last resource they have right now. Good 'ole dems.

[Mischief Maker]

Don't worry, Trump's the world's greatest negotiator who's gonna use the skills he learned as a slumlord.

Tomorrow morning Kim Jong Un's gonna wake up and find homeless people sleeping in the hallway of his palace and have no choice but to abdicate.

[BryanM]

Just wait until we have president Kid Rock in 2024. I'm already processing how I'm going to feel about that, as it's better to accept reality for what it is sooner rather than later.

(I am not joking. Anyone who doesn't think this is a very real possibility with the relentless help the democrats have been giving these guys, has a very bad brain.)

[Mischief Maker]

Here's a leaked tidbit that's entirely unsurprising yet hilarious all the same:

Twice a day since the beginning of the Trump administration, a special folder is prepared for the president. The first document is prepared around 9:30 a.m. and the follow-up, around 4:30 p.m. Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former Press Secretary Sean Spicer both wanted the privilege of delivering the 20-to-25-page packet to President Trump personally, White House sources say.

These sensitive papers, described to VICE News by three current and former White House officials, don’t contain top-secret intelligence or updates on legislative initiatives. Instead, the folders are filled with screenshots of positive cable news chyrons (those lower-third headlines and crawls), admiring tweets, transcripts of fawning TV interviews, praise-filled news stories, and sometimes just pictures of Trump on TV looking powerful.

One White House official said the only feedback the White House communications shop, which prepares the folder, has ever gotten in all these months is: “It needs to be more fucking positive.” That’s why some in the White House ruefully refer to the packet as “the propaganda document.”

https://news.vice.com/story/trump-folde ... hite-house

Sebastian Gorka was right. The Alpha Males are back!

“If we had prepared such a digest for Obama, he would have roared with laughter,” said David Axelrod

[BryanM]

Netroots weekend, baby!

Get hypuu for Ossoff's amazing featured lecture on how to beat republicans with trendy ads of yourself tweeting

yyyyeeeeaaaaauuughhhhhh!

[Rob]

Netroots weekend, baby!

lol. Unite the Right.

[Blinge]

^

Charlottesville Rally Turns Deadly: One Killed After Car Strikes Crowd

[Rob]

Yep, it turned out as poorly as anyone could've anticipated. Two dead in helicopter crash as well.

[Xyga]

They brought all those machine guns and didn't fire a bullet? Only one dead? Breivik is disappoint; this is not how you kill liberals and untermensch.
Unite the Reich was a failure, all those fine, intelligent, civilized peaceful gentlemen could learn a thing or two training a couple of months in ISIS's camps.

[Mischief Maker]

I think plowing a car into a crowd of people is pretty ISIS-like.

[mnneurope]

when I saw the title "ramming a crowd with a car" in a town called "Charlottesville" my first thought was, well, he could be using only one car



I was wrong...

he used this one



close enough!

[Bananamatic]

incredible timing

[BulletMagnet]

By the by, to all the conservatives, from Congress on down, who spent the last eight years screaming at Obama/BLM/etc. for "inflaming racial tensions" - because when a cop shoots an unarmed person and then someone insists on talking about it, both are equally culpable - and are now scrambling over each other to self-righteously wag their fingers at Trump for his "many sides" comment, seriously, fuck you.

Oh, and if you insist on still calling the media "unfairly liberal" despite the fact that not a single one of them, at least that I'm aware of, has called any of you on this, fuck you again.

[Rob]

Trump's response was a fair one. Leftist agitators make the legally permitted protest violent in order to shut it down (as they feel justified in blinding people, throwing concrete-filled bottles, sucker punching people, etc. - they're the movie stars and everyone they don't like is a "Nazi") and he condemned hate and violence from everyone involved.

BLM supporter shoots police officers with the intention of "killing white people" and Obama calls out hate and violence. Same level of specificity, but Trump gets crucified.

Obama In Dallas: ‘We Are Not As Divided As We Seem’
Donald Trump Blames ‘Many Sides’ For White Supremacist Clashes In Charlottesville

Obama calls Dallas shootings ‘a vicious, calculated and despicable attack’
Trump condemns Charlottesville violence but doesn’t single out white nationalists

And on and on.

[Xyga]

#shmupsreich

[Giest118]

White supremacists exist, therefore there is no such thing as a bad liberal.

[Blinge]

Heaven forbid you call them nazis though.

shmupsreich to win the World Mental Gymnastics.

[Xyga]

Liberals are so intolerant and violent, why do they hate those fine men bearing swastikas and doing nazi salutes is beyond me, seriously, when all they want is a peaceful racial cleansing, protect the superior aryans chosen by God from all that leftist/gay/brown/jew/muslim/democracy-loving filth!

That 'Fat, Childless 32-Year-Old Slut' as they call her, only had what she deserved. It was legitimate defense for the oppressed aryans.

RACIAL HOLY WAR! WHITE RACE AKBAR! (it's obviously the idelogy of peace, it's freedom. stupid libtards will never get it lol)

also #shmupsfront

[Giest118]

Nazis exist, therefore all conservatives are nazis.

[Xyga]

muslim terrorists exists therefore all muslims are terrorists

SJW stand at left therefore all liberals are SJW

that's basic alt-reich troll talk, anyone can do it, actually it should be taught in school, not just in pubs and beauty salons.

[Giest118]

But for some reason we're to believe nazis encompass the totality of all problems everywhere.

[Blinge]

^utter shite =]

White supremacist mimics Islamic terrorism, drives car into a crowd with intent to maim, murders woman.

Geist's response: B-bad liberals exist too!!

I'm done.
(for at least 2 posts)

[Giest118]

So you agree that Islamic terrorism is bad. But the collective response to it is to impotently look for the root causes of it.

Meanwhile the collective response to nazi terrorism is to encompass more and more unrelated ideologies into the umbrella of the "alt-right" so as to maximize the number of people that can be punched.

Kay.

[Durandal]

"Racism is evil" - Donald Trump

[Rob]

Liberals are so intolerant and violent,

It's sad/funny because it's true. There is near universal glee when a person they don't like gets attacked, zero hesitation to engage in mob justice and zero self-reflection.

[Xyga]

But for some reason we're to believe nazis encompass the totality of all problems everywhere.

Says you.

You know the #1 demographics stating what people on the left think, believe and say, are right wing people themselves.
Roughly 90% ridiculously exaggerated, ignorant drivel expanded to the whole left political spectrum without any form of distinction.
Typical tactics that consist in producing an amount of bullshit so ridiculous and requiring considerable amounts of time and effort to refute that it's technically impossible for the libtard to even attempt or bother replying.
Also disagreeing with an abusive rightwinger leaning much too far to the right = being a libtard period.

But what do I know, I see a guy holding a swastika flag screaming racist shit, and I dare oppress him calling him a nazi. Fuck me the stupid liberal, right?
His pals celebrate the attack and make jokes about that dead woman and your fucking asshole of a president runs away from his responsibility to condem those pieces of shit and call them what they are. But no let's get to the internet and blame liberals.
And there are guys calling themselves legit conservatives who line up to defend those mentals and curse the violent intolerant liberal.

If there's a side that's been betraying its own ideas and values on a daily basis and giving ever-more voices to the far-right, it's the right.
There may be a little Stalin sleeping in many leftist minds, but in recent years there's an awakening Hitler in droves of right wing minds.
Fuck the left, but fuck the right hundredfolds.

[Bananamatic]

^utter shite =]

White supremacist mimics Islamic terrorism, drives car into a crowd with intent to maim, murders woman.

Geist's response: B-bad liberals exist too!!

I'm done.
(for at least 2 posts)

How about the time when that black lives matter dude killed 5 cops in 2016? Or when GOP members got shot during baseball practice by a bernie dude not too long ago? I guess that's perfectly fine and not political at all?
both sides are trash, especially those who bring weapons to a goddamn protest expecting to achieve something other than bad publicity for their group

[Giest118]

How about the time when that black lives matter dude killed 5 cops in 2016? Or when GOP members got shot during baseball practice by a bernie dude not too long ago? I guess that's perfectly fine and not political at all?

That doesn't count because there exist nazis. As long as nazis exist, the proper response to left-wing violence is to celebrate it followed by pretending it doesn't exist.

[Xyga]

Thanks for confirming my point.