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goldendoodle 12-21-2020 10:53 PM

I've always liked the idea of hunting people in a forest tbh (or at the very least, tying them to a chair in a theater while I present several Powerpoints/rambling TED talks basically about my current obsessive interests alternated with my theories about what's wrong with all my family members, with song and dance numbers in between, so basically a tortuous unending one-woman variety show). Especially Jeff Bezos (he would get the torture labyrinth though, not a variety show). I'm very non-threatening however so I would need my powered exoskeleton and trained cassowaries to assist me.

The Batlord 12-21-2020 11:07 PM

Give me a Grinch costume and a machete and I'll make your Bezos fantasies a reality.

goldendoodle 12-21-2020 11:32 PM

Please.

Literally me watching the security camera footage from my lair to make sure he is being properly terrorized:
https://i.imgur.com/v3Vk1nP.jpg

Psy-Fi 12-23-2020 11:41 AM

Twitter to wipe Trump's followers before Biden handover

adidasss 12-23-2020 05:21 PM

So what's happening, I lost track, are there any more legal or other avenues for Trump to remain president, is he still fighting? Can we crack open the champagne or should we wait for the inauguration?

Lucem Ferre 12-23-2020 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi (Post 2151753)

I like how Biden was like, "Ewww, gross, no, don't dump that on me."

Lucem Ferre 12-23-2020 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by adidasss (Post 2151818)
So what's happening, I lost track, are there any more legal or other avenues for Trump to remain president, is he still fighting? Can we crack open the champagne or should we wait for the inauguration?

He's trying to egg on a revolt.

His die hards that aren't coping so well have been threatening it for a while but they keep moving the goal posts on at what point that should happen.

OccultHawk 12-31-2020 07:14 AM

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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday called a tweet by President Donald Trump demanding his resignation a “distraction” and said he was focused on the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and upcoming runoff elections for two U.S. Senate seats.

Trump said earlier in the day that Kemp, a fellow Republican, was an “obstructionist who refuses to admit that we won Georgia, BIG!” Trump lost the state to Democrat Joe Biden but has repeatedly made baseless accusations that illegal votes cost him the state’s electoral votes. He has also previously criticized Kemp, who has rejected his demands to undermine the results. In Wednesday’s tweet, he said Kemp “should resign from office.”
Trump is right about one thing, Kemp should resign since he stole the election through racist voter suppression.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/05/90996...ary-appearance

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Between 2016 and 2018, at least 17 million voters were purged from the voter rolls, according to a study by the Brennan Center for Justice. In just one month alone — July 2017 — more than half a million voters were removed from Georgia's voter rolls, many because they didn't vote in previous elections, according to an investigation from APM Reports, Reveal and NPR member station WABE.
She would’ve been the first black woman governor in American history because DEMOCRACY! I mean, it’s only fair that there’s never been a black woman governor if that’s what the majority wants. Will of the people and all that.

Trollheart 12-31-2020 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2153112)
Trump is right about one thing, Kemp should resign since he stole the election through racist voter suppression.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/05/90996...ary-appearance



She would’ve been the first black woman governor in American history because DEMOCRACY! I mean, it’s only fair that there’s never been a black woman governor if that’s what the majority wants. Will of the people and all that.

Read that as "kill all the people" at first. Probably closer to what you mean. :laughing:

OccultHawk 01-01-2021 05:34 AM

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At least 140 House Republicans to vote against counting electoral votes, two GOP lawmakers say
That’s pretty wild

OccultHawk 01-01-2021 06:10 AM

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Trump returns to Washington early ahead of Republican plan to disrupt certification of Biden's win
Damn this fool ain’t got no quit

Norg 01-01-2021 10:29 AM

got my 600 bucko wired into my account from daddy yannkee

Trollheart 01-01-2021 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Norg (Post 2153355)
got my 600 bucko wired into my account from daddy yannkee

Should have got them to wire it direct to the strip club, save time.

Marie Monday 01-01-2021 11:19 AM

https://media.tenor.com/images/ad48d...908a/tenor.gif

OccultHawk 01-05-2021 03:32 AM

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DALTON, Ga. (AP) — With mounting desperation, Donald Trump declared he would “fight like hell” to hold on to the presidency and appealed to Republican lawmakers to reverse his election loss to Joe Biden when they convene this week to confirm the Electoral College vote.

Electoral voters won by President-elect Biden are “not gonna take this White House!” he shouted as supporters cheered at an outdoor rally Monday night in Georgia. Trump’s announced purpose for the trip was to boost Republican Senate candidates in Tuesday’s runoff election, but he spent much of his speech complaining bitterly about his election loss — which he insists he won “by a lot.”
The AP

Janszoon 01-05-2021 09:33 AM

Trump election lawyer Lin Wood calls for Pence to be ‘executed by firing squad’

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Trump election attorney Lin Wood tweeted that Vice President Mike Pence will “face execution by firing squad,” in a string of tweets that prompted questions about his sanity. He called Mr Pence a “coward” who will “sing like a bird and confess ALL”.

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The lawyer has lost several lawsuits challenging Donald Trump’s election loss. In the Friday afternoon thread, Mr Wood said the focus had been on the Democrats during the effort to overturn the election but one of the main culprits of Mr Trump’s loss was his own party. Mr Wood also represented Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with shooting two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin during this summer’s racial justice protests.

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Mr Wood has also pushed the Qanon theory and promoted the idea that Chief Justice John Roberts is a member of a ring of murderous paedophiles.

Janszoon 01-05-2021 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2153985)
ofc he did

He is a living, breathing Venn diagram of right-wing garbage.

OccultHawk 01-05-2021 09:58 AM

We may disagree on the why but hell yes on the what.

YorkeDaddy 01-05-2021 01:57 PM

https://i.imgur.com/JokPUC4.jpg

The view out my main living room window since like...early October.

Obviously there are a ton of ****s around me with Trump signs still up but at least I don't have to see those every single day. These people have been politicizing their children's ****ing trampoline that faces a road that leads directly to multiple schools for months with no indication that it's coming down any time soon.

The Batlord 01-05-2021 02:02 PM

Get a bullhorn and start reading Mao quotes at them.

YorkeDaddy 01-05-2021 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2154051)
Get a bullhorn and start reading Mao quotes at them.

As satisfying as that sounds, I'm choosing to just...keep to myself as much as possible. Don't want to be painting any targets on my back if I can avoid it in an area as ****ing wacky as northern, semi-rural Indiana.

The Batlord 01-05-2021 02:14 PM

Sneak into their backyard at night and replace the Trump banner with an Antifa flag.

OccultHawk 01-05-2021 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy (Post 2154049)
https://i.imgur.com/JokPUC4.jpg

The view out my main living room window since like...early October.

Obviously there are a ton of ****s around me with Trump signs still up but at least I don't have to see those every single day. These people have been politicizing their children's ****ing trampoline that faces a road that leads directly to multiple schools for months with no indication that it's coming down any time soon.

Is that like a barn or something? Why doesn’t that HUGE wall have any windows?

Marie Monday 01-05-2021 02:26 PM

That would be fitting, those people sound like pigs

OccultHawk 01-05-2021 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday (Post 2154060)
That would be fitting, those people sound like pigs

Those windows it does have look like an afterthought, too. That building is a monstrosity. Besides that though it looks like a beautiful place to walk your dog. I like the bleak wintery look. The bare trees and the brown grass. It’s a nice little piece of earth. That banner is obnoxious af though. It looks like a used car lot thing.

The Batlord 01-05-2021 02:33 PM

Yes it's clearly a barn.

OccultHawk 01-05-2021 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2154063)
Yes it's clearly a barn.

Are barns really that tall?

YorkeDaddy 01-05-2021 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2154057)
Is that like a barn or something? Why doesn’t that HUGE wall have any windows?

It's honestly one of the ugliest houses in any of the suburbs around me, and it happens to be facing one of the major roads. Pretty gross. Also poorly maintained as you can observe that hideous black algae on their roof.

I'm guessing that big wall is where their kitchen and like a bathroom are, so I guess that's why the lack of windows. Still a gross looking house. Obviously my hatred for them is accelerated by the Trump banner

Marie Monday 01-05-2021 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2154062)
Those windows it does have look like an afterthought, too. That building is a monstrosity. Besides that though it looks like a beautiful place to walk your dog. I like the bleak wintery look. The bare trees and the brown grass. It’s a nice little piece of earth. That banner is obnoxious af though. It looks like a used car lot thing.

It looks exactly how I picture rural central US. A weird magical land.

OccultHawk 01-05-2021 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy (Post 2154067)
It's honestly one of the ugliest houses in any of the suburbs around me, and it happens to be facing one of the major roads. Pretty gross. Also poorly maintained as you can observe that hideous black algae on their roof.

I'm guessing that big wall is where their kitchen and like a bathroom are, so I guess that's why the lack of windows. Still a gross looking house. Obviously my hatred for them is accelerated by the Trump banner

Can you google the Zillow estimate on it or the property tax valuation? Obvs no link or anything I’m just curious if they have an approximate value listed for it.

OccultHawk 01-05-2021 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday (Post 2154069)
It looks exactly how I picture rural central US. A weird magical land.

I’ve spent some unfortunate time in rural Tennessee (actually there’s some cool **** there) and seen lots of barns (I get that’s not a barn -thankfully for the animals) but I mean that is freakishly ugly. And not just urban decay ugly. Someone planned that thing.

That thing would probably get burnt down in the south for ****ing up property values and I’m not even joking.

YorkeDaddy 01-05-2021 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2154071)
Can you google the Zillow estimate on it or the property tax valuation? Obvs no link or anything I’m just curious if they have an approximate value listed for it.

Can't find the exact house but a similar one on the same street has a "Zestimate" (****ing Zillow lmao) of $191,139

OccultHawk 01-05-2021 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2154070)
the photo triggers me because it's reminds me of military housing growing up

There has to have been at least one suicide in there.

Hell there’s probably a child being molested in there right now.

Marie Monday 01-05-2021 02:53 PM

^lol+cringe
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2154073)
I’ve spent some unfortunate time in rural Tennessee (actually there’s some cool **** there) and seen lots of barns (I get that’s not a barn -thankfully for the animals) but I mean that is freakishly ugly. And not just urban decay ugly. Someone planned that thing.

That thing would probably get burnt down in the south for ****ing up property values and I’m not even joking.

But that's exactly what's so romantic and appealing about America. That specific combination of beauty and ugliness, this picture is a great example

OccultHawk 01-05-2021 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy (Post 2154074)
Can't find the exact house but a similar one on the same street has a "Zestimate" (****ing Zillow lmao) of $191,139

You’d need someone without an iota of esthetics

Which wouldn’t be a problem

OccultHawk 01-05-2021 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday (Post 2154078)
^lol+cringe

But that's exactly what's so romantic and appealing about America. That specific combination of beauty and ugliness, this picture is a great example

I guess if you’re a tourist. Which is totally legit. What little I’ve seen of Europe all had cohesive architecture that I found very pleasant. I went to Belfast and people were like oh it’s so ugly but I thought the architecture was very impressive.

YorkeDaddy 01-05-2021 03:37 PM

also just to paint the full picture here:

https://i.imgur.com/NxOd0l2.jpg

My backyard isn't ALL bad. This lovely sort of natural fence of foliage and **** goes down into a little creek. Helps make the yard feel a lot more private which I value personally. During the spring/summer our yard gets all sorts of birds and bunnies and frogs and ****. Only makes the winter more depressing...there's ****ing nothing out there except cold and wind during this season.

Marie Monday 01-05-2021 03:46 PM

That's a lovely view, only it's a pity that it's so flat. That **** could be Holland

Janszoon 01-05-2021 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2154087)
it's actually insane how different our cities are to rural 'merica having lived in both

this place is 2 countries

It's a first world country strapped to a third world country.

The Batlord 01-05-2021 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy (Post 2154088)
This lovely sort of natural fence of foliage and **** goes down into a little creek.

An odd combination of fence materials to be sure.


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