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Mindfulness 12-21-2019 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2096504)
Space Force is officially here motha****assssss.

https://boxden.com/smilies/dZQ5Tm2.png

The Batlord 12-21-2019 07:48 PM

Yeah that's some goofy ****. He was gonna get us to Mars but instead he just declares a fake space fleet.

jwb 12-21-2019 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2096504)
Space Force is officially here motha****assssss.

Who is it exactly that we need to fight in space?

The Batlord 12-21-2019 08:01 PM

Sputnik

Anteater 12-21-2019 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2096508)
Who is it exactly that we need to fight in space?

https://media1.tenor.com/images/a902...itemid=8969856

The Batlord 12-21-2019 08:20 PM

So Donald Trump was the one to antagonize the bugs the first time. Honestly fits with the vibe of the movie.

OccultHawk 12-21-2019 09:23 PM

The failure of humankind to explore space in a cooperative peaceful manner is predictable and sad.

Anteater 12-21-2019 10:13 PM

My body is ready to become a Space Marine and fight the Burning Legion.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/27/03...d5c69fb090.gif

Psy-Fi 12-22-2019 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2096525)
My body is ready to become a Space Marine and fight the Burning Legion.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/27/03...d5c69fb090.gif

I'd like the title of "Chief of Space Operations" along with the $186,998 yearly base pay.

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The law requires that the four-star general who will lead Space Force, with the title of Chief of Space Operations, will be a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but not in Space Force’s first year.
United States Air Force General Pay Grade

The Batlord 12-22-2019 03:20 AM

I'll bet the rest of the Joint Chiefs don't let the new guy sit with them at lunch.

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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2096525)
My body is ready to become a Space Marine and fight the Burning Legion.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/27/03...d5c69fb090.gif

Of course you're a Warhammer fan.

Psy-Fi 12-22-2019 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2096508)
Who is it exactly that we need to fight in space?

They're already here...

A cancerous green slime was found oozing onto a highway in a Detroit suburb, officials say



Good thing we have an alert Commander-in-chief on top of these types of situations and looking out for the safety of the American people.

https://i.ibb.co/hsGMD26/Trump-2016-1.jpg

jwb 12-22-2019 05:18 PM

Next stop: Flint, Michigan


Plankton 12-23-2019 06:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi (Post 2096305)

That's a ridiculously juvenile name, but...

ayyyy

Cosmic Commanders would be so much more demanding of respect.

debaserr 12-23-2019 09:15 AM

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Former Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill (Mo.) said on Sunday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has “presided over absolutely destroying Senate norms” amid partisan tensions in the upper chamber.

“I think the Senate was broken, Congress was broken, before impeachment came along,” she said during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “My first year in the Senate, I voted on 306 legislative amendments.”

“This year, there’s fewer than 30,” she continued.

“Mitch McConnell has presided over absolutely destroying Senate norms, from Merrick Garland to killing legislative debate," she said. "The Senate is no longer what it was, and the people of this country are going to have to be the ones politically to put pressure on this dysfunction and say we want unity, we want stuff to get done, we want you to quit the partisan food fight."

WATCH: Former Democratic Senator @clairecmc says the "Senate is no longer what it was."

"People of this country are gonna have to be the ones politically to put pressure on this dysfunction and say ... we want you to quit the partisan food fight." pic.twitter.com/SOQjT7eQHE
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) December 22, 2019

Last week, a number of Democratic senators took to social media to share photos of a pile of hundreds of bipartisan House-passed bills that still await action in the Senate.

“This is the pile of House-passed bills, 90% bipartisan, dead on Mitch McConnell’s desk in the Senate #LegislativeGraveyard,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said in a tweet at the time that featured a photo of a stack of papers labelled “Bills stuck in the Senate.”

This is the pile of House-passed bills, 90% bipartisan, dead on Mitch McConnell’s desk in the Senate #LegislativeGraveyard pic.twitter.com/f3DR25yii1
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) December 18, 2019

The stack included several high-profile bills, like the Equality Act, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act and the Raise the Wage Act.

The demonstration came as a number of Democratic senators have continued to make jabs at McConnell — who has vowed to be the “Grim Reaper” when it comes to progressive policies in the Senate — over the pace of legislation in the chamber.

Republicans have sought to place blame over the stalled bills on what they call "impeachment obsession” as the House-launched investigation into President Trump has continued to dominate headlines.

“There are things that we have to do that ... we’re not making any progress on because of the impeachment obsession over in the House," McConnell told reporters last month. "I heard a number of Democrats in the House say they can walk and chew gum at the same time. Now is the time to prove it."

However, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats have pushed back on that notion.

“The idea that the House impeachment inquiry is some sort of distraction from other issues is plain wrong,” he said in November, adding, “We have over 200 House-passed bills we could consider here on the floor, and plenty of bipartisan Senate bills.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...troying-senate

OccultHawk 12-29-2019 10:44 AM

Yang is getting called out for rolling out a health care plan that reinforces the status quo, abolishes the public option, and strengthens our dependence on private insurance and the big pharma. He calls it Medicare for All but in practice it’s the most right wing health care plan of any Democratic candidate. I think he’s surprised at his own staying power and now that he’s catching a whiff of a real (but still small) possibility of winning he’s decided to let the corporate elite know that he’s their strongest Democratic ally.

Why can’t UBI find a genuine messenger?

Frownland 12-29-2019 10:57 AM

That's because it's using a politician as its vehicle. He sounds more honest than the other candidates imo, but I still don't trust him.

He also wants the US government to begin an AI cold war with China starting with global AI regulations that, if it goes forward with how he proposed it, would only shoot China in the dick and make it easier for the US to retain dominance. Sounds nice when he's candidly describing it in a more forgiving way than I phrased it, but a lot of his ideas outside of his key issue have tons of repurcussions that he glosses over.

DMBFFF 12-29-2019 05:40 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_astronauts

maybe 12 people who've gone over 1000 km from the Earth and they're all past 70—maybe older than Bernie Saunders—yeah, Space Force!




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Mindfulness
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Interesting^...
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great post please come again thanks hope your posting good and merry

OccultHawk 12-31-2019 05:17 AM

https://thehill.com/opinion/educatio...ackfire-in-the

Ensuring schools are 'inclusive' can backfire in the classroom

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The problem is that this policy framework also applies to students whose disturbed, violent and even psychotic behavior has earned them a diagnosis of EBD. Schools are pressured to keep these students in traditional classrooms and then tie school staff’s hands when it comes to disciplining them. It’s a straightforward recipe for disruptive, if not outright dangerous, classrooms.
The teachers I’m still in touch with say it’s more even more ****ed up now than ever before.

School is not for everybody.

The good thing about this is that it’s part of a movement that is destroying public schools. The bad part is so many people have to suffer. Kids shouldn’t be forced to spend time with other kids they don’t like. It’s fascist as **** and drives people crazy. Teachers need discretion as to who they let stay in their classrooms. If they can’t be trusted with that authority they shouldn’t be around children anyway. I saw it over and over again where kids with weird ****ed up problems terrorized others and made the environment untenable for everyone. It may not be the kids fault but still it’s stupid to let one kid destroy everything for everybody. There’s no pleasant solution. Life is like that.

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K-12 education policy has not been a mainstay of the 2020 Democratic primary contest, but in the last Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) touted her “plan” to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), an act that stipulates how schools should treat students with disabilities to attempt to ensure that they all receive a “free and appropriate education.”
Hypocritical ****. She wouldn’t expose herself to these psycho kids (that’s why she quit after one year) and she damn sure wouldn’t have let her own kids be subjected to this ****ing torture.

Psy-Fi 12-31-2019 10:55 AM


Frownland 12-31-2019 11:17 AM

Lol because it worked so well all the other times we used that bill to throw money at a broken justice system.

The Batlord 12-31-2019 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2098053)
https://thehill.com/opinion/educatio...ackfire-in-the

Ensuring schools are 'inclusive' can backfire in the classroom



The teachers I’m still in touch with say it’s more even more ****ed up now than ever before.

School is not for everybody.

The good thing about this is that it’s part of a movement that is destroying public schools. The bad part is so many people have to suffer. Kids shouldn’t be forced to spend time with other kids they don’t like. It’s fascist as **** and drives people crazy. Teachers need discretion as to who they let stay in their classrooms. If they can’t be trusted with that authority they shouldn’t be around children anyway. I saw it over and over again where kids with weird ****ed up problems terrorized others and made the environment untenable for everyone. It may not be the kids fault but still it’s stupid to let one kid destroy everything for everybody. There’s no pleasant solution. Life is like that.



Hypocritical ****. She wouldn’t expose herself to these psycho kids (that’s why she quit after one year) and she damn sure wouldn’t have let her own kids be subjected to this ****ing torture.

At my old school system they'd throw the kids with problems in with the retards and just write them off. They didn't even have to be psychos. Just weird. **** teachers.

OccultHawk 12-31-2019 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2098104)
At my old school system they'd throw the kids with problems in with the retards and just write them off. They didn't even have to be psychos. Just weird. **** teachers.

Yeah I’ve seen my share of that.

I might just forget about education issues since I’m a goddamn cook now anyway

Anteater 12-31-2019 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2098100)
he sucks, he was never our ally

what did you expect from a venture capitalist

I'll take an extra 12k a year, thx.

Lucem Ferre 12-31-2019 04:10 PM

You don't need it.

Anteater 12-31-2019 05:45 PM

Who cares, I want my moohlah.

jwb 12-31-2019 06:02 PM

"why can't UBI get a genuine messenger?"

Nobody else will touch it with a 10 ft pole

OccultHawk 01-01-2020 04:00 AM

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BAGHDAD — Protesters broke into the heavily guarded compound of the United States Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday and set fires inside in anger over American airstrikes that killed 24 members of an Iranian-backed militia over the weekend.
The men did not enter the main embassy buildings and later withdrew from the compound, joining thousands of protesters and militia fighters outside chanting “Death to America,” throwing rocks, covering the walls with graffiti and demanding that the United States withdraw its forces from Iraq.
FLARLY I offer support and solidarity.

The Batlord 01-01-2020 06:28 AM

Will we, won't we, will we, won't we... I mean we know we will so can we just invade Iran already and stop with the tedious foreplay?

OccultHawk 01-01-2020 06:34 AM

Gotta get the idiocracy reved up for the Super Bowl. I mean the election. I mean the war.

jwb 01-01-2020 10:23 AM

I don't think Trump wants a war. If he was more Machiavellian he might figure out how such a war could work to his benefit. But I don't think he's smart enough to make that kind of calculation.

The Batlord 01-01-2020 02:53 PM

Do you think he's smart enough to keep us out?

jwb 01-01-2020 03:12 PM

I think he scurred.

We got too many wars to fight.

jwb 01-01-2020 03:14 PM

He wants to seem tough but not get into an actual fight. Everything's a "negotiation" to him.

The Batlord 01-01-2020 03:25 PM

It's hard to look tough while looking like you're ducking a war. Obama looked like a bitch for trying to duck Syria. Clinton looked like a bitch for trying to duck Kosovo. There was a whole lot going on that made those wars something the public didn't want but Obama and Clinton still looked like bitches.

OccultHawk 01-01-2020 03:29 PM

No modern American president has ever been afraid to start a war.

The Batlord 01-01-2020 03:33 PM

I just pointed out two instances. Try to keep up.

jwb 01-01-2020 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2098237)
It's hard to look tough while looking like you're ducking a war. Obama looked like a bitch for trying to duck Syria. Clinton looked like a bitch for trying to duck Kosovo. There was a whole lot going on that made those wars something the public didn't want but Obama and Clinton still looked like bitches.

Yea he could definitely stumble into a war via posturing, also there are people around him who definitely want a war. But his inclination is not to start one but to bluff. You can tell by his answer when the cnn reporter asked him about it he said he doubts Iran really wants a war. If he wanted to hype it up he would do so. Trump isn't once to mince words for the most part.

OccultHawk 01-01-2020 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2098239)
I just pointed out two instances. Try to keep up.

Were Obama and Clinton in the infantry or something?

The Batlord 01-01-2020 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2098240)
Yea he could definitely stumble into a war via posturing, also there are people around him who definitely want a war. But his inclination is not to start one but to bluff. You can tell by his answer when the cnn reporter asked him about it he said he doubts Iran really wants a war. If he wanted to hype it up he would do so. Trump isn't once to mince words for the most part.

I mean if he knew how to mince words I'm sure he would. I suspect his bluntness is largely based on him not being good at subtlety. Anyone who lies like he does who was good at subtlety would do it.

I don't think he's trying for a war though, but if he feels like the situation is getting away from him and his only option to save face is to start pounding the podium and demanding the Ayatollah's head on a plate he'd do it in a heartbeat.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2098241)
Were Obama and Clinton in the infantry or something?

Loss of public approval is like shrapnel in the ass to a politician.

jwb 01-01-2020 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2098242)
I mean if he knew how to mince words I'm sure he would. I suspect his bluntness is largely based on him not being good at subtlety. Anyone who lies like he does who was good at subtlety would do it.

I don't think he's trying for a war though, but if he feels like the situation is getting away from him and his only option to save face is to start pounding the podium and demanding the Ayatollah's head on a plate he'd do it in a heartbeat.

Oh I don't think he's against it on principle, I think he sees it as political suicide based on the last couple of wars. He could easily find himself in a position where iran either makes him look weak or he has to put his money where his mouth is.

But as far as revving up for the election. He already has all the reason in the world to cling to this issue and hype it up in order to deflect from impeachment. The fact he would say something that deescalates the tension (that he doesn't believe iran wants war) instead of instantly going into beef mode and doubling down like trump usually does indicates clearly what his preference is. You can see the same thing with regard to NK. Trump has too many potential battles on his hands to be in war mode right now.


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