The Bridge

> Commonwealth migrants from 54 states - including Australia, Canada, India, Pakistan and Nigeria - could join the electoral roll as long are they are residents in the UK.

two bugs

The pound hitting 30 year lows already. I wonder if the pro-brexit people are starting to realize just how foolish they are (they aren't)

fredley

12:18 PM

@twobugs no ragrets

Unionhawk

They're tired of those "experts" sitting smug in their offices or wherever being right

two bugs

Hopefully this isn't a precursor to The Trumpening

fredley

@Unionhawk Fuck that campaign in particular

badp

@twobugs yes it is

two bugs

@Unionhawk Damn "experts" and their "economies"

badp

12:19 PM

Trump is in the UK today

Kevin van der Velden

QUICK SHUT THE BORDERS. Sorry @fredley @Ronan but it's worth it

badp

He'll be joining his buddies Putin and ISIS in gloating about it

Wipqozn

@twobugs It should be a wake up call to the entire world that Trump is a very real possibility, and that xenophobic sentiment is growing worldwide.

two bugs

Whoa, Trump only says that OBama is buddies with ISIS

Unionhawk

Isn't he there on business though and not politics, or is he trying to like, say he has foreign policy knowledge since he's been to another country

two bugs

12:20 PM

Trump just pals around with Putin and Kim

badp

@Unionhawk like hell he isn't going to take a smiling selfie with ukip dude and make a statement or two

Unionhawk

Except his entire interaction with said country is "fuck you guys I'm building a golf course"

Wipqozn

I'm just happy when Harper tried to make anti-muslim sentiment part of the US election we told him "fuck you", and kicked his part out of office

badp

he's already made his glowing comments about this unmitigated disaster

Unionhawk

He's one of the idiots who thinks this is a great thing isn't he

badp

12:22 PM

naturally

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk Yes

I'm sure he'll be offering to build the UK a giant wall before long

Unionhawk

Goddammit you'd think a man with nonzero business knowledge like him would understand like, how stuff works

Ronan

@Wipqozn When they're over water they're called bridges.

badp

@Unionhawk he understands what people want to hear

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk non zero? He's performed under the market with his billions

Wipqozn

12:23 PM

@badp yeah, didn't he say years go if he ever ran for president he'd just appeal to the lowest common denominator?

badp

and he understands that people are happy to hear fibs and lies and listen to conmen and frauds

Kevin van der Velden

I mean below zero is technically non zero

two bugs

The thing is Trump is slumping in polls, has no fundraising system, AND has no national campaign

He has an uphill battle

MBraedley

@KevinvanderVelden Not to mention the 4 big ventures that have gone bankrupt.

badp

@twobugs people LOVE uphill battles, it's the merican dream

Unionhawk

12:24 PM

@KevinvanderVelden He's got businesses, many failures, but some successes

fredley

@twobugs I'd still be scared tbh. You've got a long road until the election, long enough that everything could change

two bugs

@badp It's not the Trump dream

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley oh yeah america is insane and starts years in advance

two bugs

@fredley The fundraising and the campaign infrastructure are NOT two things that can be easily fixed

Kevin van der Velden

When is the election anyway?

two bugs

12:24 PM

But believe me, I'm still worried

November

Wipqozn

Frankly thinking Trump doesn't have a chance after Brexit is just foolish

5

Kevin van der Velden

That's not as bad as I thought

two bugs

Nobody said he doesn't have a chance, but if you look at the data he's not in a good place right now

Wipqozn

A lot of folks Brexit was foolish without a chance, and looks like many folks stayed home and din't vote because of that. Look where we are now.

Unionhawk

Also, I'm very happy this has been pulled out into a separate video

For use in cases like "need to reply to people who caused brexit to succeed" and "need to reply to people who caused Trump to become president"

fredley

12:26 PM

@twobugs True. Hate finds a way though.

@Wipqozn I don't think they did, the turnout was massive

Turns out there's more hateful xenophobic people here than we thought, whoops!

two bugs

Again, I'm saying Trump is still a very real threat.

BUT!!! He doesn't have the upper hand right now.

Unionhawk

Yeah, him mismanaging shit is very good

fredley

We had a headache, so we shot our foot off. Now we can't walk, and we still have the headache.

Tweeted by PhilipPullman on June 24, 2016 at 8:07 AM

two bugs

Right now he is polling lower than any major candidate has at this point in the last 3 elections

badp

@Unionhawk handy

ardaozkal

12:28 PM

I'm not saying "sorry about your country" as this will affect the rest of the world too.

fredley

@twobugs Oh yeah, polls, polls are great, lets trust polls.

we have the best polls

ardaozkal

Sorry about our world @everyone except @MBraedley, he is an alien

Unionhawk

The polls on brexit were 50-50

ardaozkal

👽

Unionhawk

So

two bugs

12:29 PM

@fredley You can't just disregard them. They're a piece of the puzzle

Unionhawk

They're all we have rn

Wipqozn

Oh hey, it's @Sterno

Unionhawk

Hi @Sterno

Sterno

I'm too lazy to Google. Was the UK dumb?

Unionhawk

The UK did a dumb

Yes

two bugs

12:30 PM

That + the fact that Trump has like 1/10th what either the Clinton or the Sanders campaign has in terms of fundraising and staff

Unionhawk

Let 6/23 forever be known as "Independence Day (United Kingdom)"

ardaozkal

@Wipqozn people might see the economical effects and git gud and not vote trump, bit unlikely

Wipqozn

@Sterno They voted to leave the EU

Sterno

It's okay, guys, you can come live with me in the US. :)

two bugs

The UK cast off their shackles of prosperity

Unionhawk

12:31 PM

At least, let it be known that to the British Donald Trump, and nobody else because that's stupid

two bugs

To enter a new era of stagnation!

Wipqozn

@Sterno and when Trump becomes president you can all come to live with me in Canada!

(Also it felt really good to say that, didn't it @Sterno?)

fredley

@Sterno yes

Sterno

I'm white. Trump won't try to kill me.

2

Ronan

@Sterno Not on purpose.

Sterno

12:32 PM

@Wipqozn I've been waiting like a decade to say it

fredley

@Sterno Can you provide a daughter to marry or something?

Kevin van der Velden

@Sterno But he still will

Sterno

@Ronan There is that. And he'll still sue me.

Wipqozn

@fredley I think you'd need to wait 14 years.

Unionhawk

"Who does this guy think he is, saying I won't kill him. THAT'S LIBEL. WE'RE GOING TO OPEN UP OUR LIBEL LAWS TO DESTROY @STERNO"

two bugs

12:33 PM

@Wipqozn Not in Donald Trump's America, friend

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn I mean, I'm sure we can get trump to lower the age of consent. Given how he talks about his own daughters

fredley

@Wipqozn Or a nephew/niece or anything really.

Wipqozn

@twobugs oh god twobugs, that made me chuckle. nicely done.

fredley

@Sterno Th...this is how it starts...

ardaozkal

Well at least you can take down trump if you regret

fredley

12:33 PM

@twobugs I'm not your friend, buddy

ardaozkal

But no way UK is getting back in EU

Kevin van der Velden

Ooh ooh. @fredley start a bloody revolt before the article is invoked

@ardaozkal they're still in the EU

Unionhawk

At this point, I know who I'm voting for, and that's really all I can do probably

Kevin van der Velden

They've not invoked the thing that starts the leaving of the EU

Unionhawk

Pretty much everyone is entrenched at this point

Wipqozn

12:34 PM

@fredley My sister is recently single. The divorice isn't finalized yet though.

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn That's what murder is for

Sterno

Just think, decades from now everyone will be able to point back to 2016 as the year everyone went stupid

10

two bugs

@Unionhawk I'm honestly considering getting involved in the campaigning

Wipqozn

@Sterno ........oh no

two bugs

The prospect of a Trump presidency terrifies me.

4

fredley

12:35 PM

@Wipqozn Perfect, keep me in the loop. I'm assuming she's basically like you, so if any questions come up I'll be able to answer them perfectly.

Wipqozn

@twobugs As it should

@fredley oh, just one thing, you're a woman right? Because my sister isn't into dudes.

Kevin van der Velden

@Sterno 1934 was also pretty dumb to be honest

fredley

@Wipqozn It isn't going to be that kind of marriage

Wipqozn

@fredley lololol

two bugs

If Democrats gain control of congress, everything would deadlock. If Republicans gain control? We can expect to lose a lot of ground on every issue

Trump appointing 2 or more Justices is BAD

fredley

12:36 PM

@twobugs We have the best Justices.

Unionhawk

Speaking of losing ground, where did we land on Rubio/Cruz's bill that was literally "this bill undoes the thing the FCC did where they reclassified the internet to be a utility, and removes their authority to do that ever again"?

MBraedley

Wow, the lyrics to the first verse of Fastball - The Way are oddly applicable to the current situation.

Unionhawk

Did that ever land anywhere?

two bugs

I don't know and I'm scared

Unionhawk

I mean, I know we've landed in a few 4-4 situations which is SUPER GREAT

fredley

12:37 PM

Republicans blocking Obama's pick is really worrying though. He's president, he's still president for almost a year when Scalia died. It should totally be his pick.

Lazers 2.0

2

Q: Freezing with multiple Mei's

So, I was wondering if more then one Mei are using the freeze attack on a target, does it freeze faster?

overwatch

0

Q: Has anyone for fallout 4 found out the max turret level for each settlement area?

So i Read some the guides about turrets, turret levels, spawning turrets, and what level turret shoots what, but has anyone developed a table of what the max level turret for each settlement area is?

fallout-4

Unionhawk

Dear Democrats: you should have held a sit in on something even more important like that thing

Well, as important, at least

MBraedley

> They made up their minds,
and they started packing.
They left before the sun came up that day.
An exit to eternal summer slacking;
But where were they going
without ever knowing the way?

two bugs

@fredley The most ridiculous part is that Obama picked a very reasonable and centrist Justice

Not shocking given that Obama himself is pretty much center-right

Sterno

@fredley something something tradition something something but only when we're not the ones in power something something

two bugs

12:40 PM

The whole blocking picks thing is ridiculous. Nobody should do it. Not Democrats, not Republicans

If you don't like the pick hold an actual hearing and shoot them down via the actual real democratic process

fredley

@twobugs I can't believe you don't have a proper process for this

two bugs

We do. They're blocking the process.

ardaozkal

@KevinvanderVelden ikno but ignoring the results would cause more issues. Can't fix economy if it keeps going like this too

MBraedley

I mean hopefully this will backfire on the Republicans, and instead of getting a moderate, they'll get someone further left instead.

fredley

It's really important. To be honest I'm surprised it's a sitting president's pick anyway.

two bugs

12:42 PM

What would be particularly funny would be Hillary getting elected and then this appointment getting fast-tracked because Republicans realize it's actually a good middle ground.

@fredley It's one of the President's key powers

The President doesn't have as much direct power otherwise

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley it's also an appointment that's for life

WHY DO YOU HAVE THOSE THINGS?

MBraedley

@fredley But who else would do it? A house or senate committee? That would be insane.

Kevin van der Velden

The next president probably

Unionhawk

It's president nomination, senate confirmation

The process is pretty clear

And if the republicans don't like it they can vote no

OR THEY CAN JUST NOT VOTE BECAUSE FUCK EVERYTHING

two bugs

@KevinvanderVelden The idea is to have Justices that are free from political influence

Since they're appointed for life they just do their thing

fredley

12:44 PM

Well at least you don't elect your whole upper house that way. I mean that would be awful.

two bugs

Which, for people like Scalia, is commit horrible atrocities

Kevin van der Velden

Yeah, in reality it means that you get people who are 40 years behind the times on anything deciding everything

Unionhawk

@twobugs and make up words like SCOTUSCARE

MBraedley

The balance of powers is in theory one of the best parts of the US government. In practice, it can cause problems like a government shutdown, though.

Unionhawk

REMINDER THAT "SCOTUSCARE" WAS A REAL THING THAT HE SAID

two bugs

12:46 PM

Reminder that Scalia explicitly mentioned Gay Marriage in explaining why he endorses the death penalty.

Sterno

@twobugs To be fair, I'm not sure it's a proper process if it can be blocked for pretty much no reason other than as year-long stalling tactic

two bugs

Reminder that Scalia said he would make us pay for legalizing gay marriage

MBraedley

A big part of the problem with US politics is the abnormally long campaign periods. We've been doing this for over 8 months now, and we're still more than 4 months away from the general election.

Sterno

Need time for Facebook memes

Ronan

@MBraedley It's giving people enough time to be sick of Trump.

Unionhawk

12:51 PM

BEGIN COPYABLE "DEAR SENATOR: STAP", REPUBLICAN VERSION

Senator X,

I don't know where you personally sit on the whole obstructing the selection of a 9th supreme court justice issue. However, your party is all for it.

The process is very clear. The current sitting president makes a selection. The senate does hearings and a vote. That's it. There is no rule that says "well if it's the beginning of an election year and your party *might* win the presidency then you can't hold a hearing". **No political party should be allowed to obstruct the process in this manner**. I do not care if the democrats did it back in whenever, it was wrong then too.

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk what even the fuck.Man, fuck greedy politicans being paid off by greedy ISP

user215373

hi

Unionhawk

but it hurts small business innovations like Xfinity video

Wipqozn

EU Referendum Rules triggering a 2nd EU Referendum

user215373

check this out

Unionhawk

12:53 PM