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Trollheart 02-16-2018 09:56 AM

Would have worked better if the toy had been a tiny M16 or Uzi. :laughing:

Cuthbert 02-16-2018 09:58 AM

:laughing:

Frownland 02-16-2018 09:59 AM

I know a liquor store that has them, but idk if that's because of deregulation or lack of ****s to give.

OccultHawk 02-16-2018 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey (Post 1926904)
I take it you agree with the video? Or do you just find it sad how some outside the US see it all?

He didn’t say anything I disagree with except that hotel staff should look in your bags.

My impression of the international reaction to events in the US is unlikely to be aligned with reality. You’d have to deeply study the foreign media to even hazard a guess. But I still have a take based on what I’ve seen. I used to watch Japan’s NHK news, Germany’s Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera, BBC and the PBS News Hour. I had a cable news package that included English translation. It also had some more East Asian shows as well, South Korea, China, and Indonesia - I think. After 9/11, I found to my surprise that Al Jazeera was the most pro-American foreign news station. But to me there was always a kind of snarky bitterness toward America, especially from the BBC... until Sandy Hook. And after Sandy Hook when we remained stuck in the same rut the tone became more sorrowful and empathetic. We’re like a neighbor who used to be a rich ******* who’s now wandering around homeless muttering to ourselves.

People are saying they want our schools to have the same security as our airports. As a former teacher, that’s just ****ing heartbreaking man.


https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2018/...b-rooms-daily/

Caesars says they’re going to check rooms even with Do Not Disturb signs. I don’t think I’m being trite when I say laying around naked all day with your drugs on the table in Las Vegas is an important freedom. For me, hanging that do not disturb sign on the door in Vegas was a ****ing rite of passage. I don’t want people insisting on barging in when I’m getting blown by a crackhead transvestite. I’m not joking, either. If you can’t have privacy in a casino hotel in Vegas we’re really losing it.

OccultHawk 02-16-2018 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 1926938)
did you take a look at the link I posted

we now know he trained with white nationalists

The Republic of Florida?

It appears they’re still uncertain. Probably the most horrifying name I’ve ever heard. That’s the kind of **** that’ll make you miss ISIS.

Frownland 02-16-2018 01:48 PM

ICE nabs 195 criminal illegal immigrants during workplace inspections in Los Angeles

You know every time I hear people push for stricter immigration, it's coupled with fears of how terrible MS-13 is and how they're revolutionizing prison gang structures in a bad way (which is true). Given that, why does the Gestapo seem to think that drug lords want to work a midnight shift at 7/11? Why aren't the businesses being shut down for not abiding by minimum wage laws? What about the half of the group that had no criminal history or known affiliations with criminal behaviour, how long will they be held in ICE's concentration camps? I know someone who's been in holding with his whole family since No****ingvember for getting caught at a checkpoint with no sign of deportation, release, sentencing, court date, nothing. I'm told that this is "common sense" immigration.

Frownland 02-16-2018 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 1926985)
thing with MS-13 is the more the current administration talks them up and the more hostile we are to immigrants

Man you need help if that's all takes for you to be hostile towards illegal immigrants.

OccultHawk 02-16-2018 02:20 PM

https://www.google.com/amp/abcnews.g...%3fid=53123508

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Immigration bills fail in the Senate, fate of Dreamers murkier than ever
Is this where we learn first hand why the German people let it happen?

Chula Vista 02-16-2018 02:46 PM

Mueller's special counsel indicts 13 Russians for tampering in the 2016 US election.

From the indictment:

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"Defendant ORGANIZATION had a strategic goal to sow discord in the U.S. political system, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Defendants posted derogatory information about a number of candidates, and by early to mid-2016, Defendants' operations included supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump ("Trump Campaign") and disparaging Hillary Clinton. Defendants made various expenditures to carry out those activities, including buying political advertisements on social media in the names of U.S. persons and entities. Defendants also staged political rallies inside the United States, and while posing as U.S. grassroots entities and U.S. persons, and without revealing their Russian identities and ORGANIZATION affiliation, solicited and compensated real U.S. persons to promote or disparage candidates. Some Defendants, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities."
Gonna be more plea deals worked out in the next couple of months.

Michael Flynn: deal made
Richard Pinedo: deal made
George Papadopoulos: deal made
Rick Gates: deal in the works
Paul Manafort: about to be charged with contempt. Plea deal to follow.
Jared Kushner: TBD
Donald Trump Jr.: TBD

Trollheart 02-16-2018 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1926993)
Mueller's special counsel indicts 13 Russians for tampering in the 2016 US election.

From the indictment:

And in reality, what's likely to happen? I'm not being facetious; I actually want to know if this means anything or if it's another non-event that Trump and his acolytes will sweep under the carpet of the White House?


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