This Is Fine

Unionhawk

00:30

Please RT @PortlandPolice throwing a flash grenade at journalists attempting to film a violent arrest. Video by… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/907662804416524288

Tweeted by Pdx_resistance on September 12, 2017 at 5:50 PM

Jesus Christ

CW: literally the police tossing a flashbang and the cameraman running the fuck away in first person

Private Pansy

00:47

Vicente Fox is Running for President of the United States

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Avery

didn't watch the video but I don't think that he can if he wasn't born in states or smth

Private Pansy

No, of course not. He's just taking a dump on Trump.

Avery

I can approve

Unionhawk

pee tape covfefe send tweet

take that donald drumpf #owned #sheetcake

posting is like warfare

Avery

I want all those hats

Unionhawk

01:47

Ugh

A current anti issue 2 ad is literally just pointing out that the initiative if passed would pay reasonable attorneys fees to the petitioners

Which feels like standard language

(it's the issue that would force Medicare to pay what the VA does in Ohio)

(it failed in CA so it has no fucking chance in Ohio)

(because California opposition couldn't run ads with the specific language "A CALIFORNIA CEO WHO RUNS AN ORGANIZATION THAT SELLS PRESCRIPTION DRUGS IS BEHIND THIS")

(politifact rates technically correct)

GodEmperorDune

04:44

@Unionhawk what the fuck

@Unionhawk because the drug companies effectively argued "if you try to limit us, we will fuck things up for the veteran population so quick"

so all the veterans groups came out against it

it really needs to be a country-wide or world wide thing so that they are forced to deal with it

but they would much rather sacrifice a state's worth of profits in order to make an example so other states stay in line

yay capitalism

GodEmperorDune

05:30

sofi, the uber of banks

Private Pansy

05:46

@GodEmperorDune "Ah, so they offer peer-to-pe... oh."

GodEmperorDune

@PrivatePansy yeah

fredley

12:13

Theresa May asks MPs to stop telling people that Brexit will cost jobs

Unionhawk

Actually there won't be any economic impact of brexit

Everybody knows this

MBraedley

Coffee vs. climate change: The news is not good

Oh no!

Tim Stone

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Unionhawk

inb4 "go to starbucks buy a venti pumpkin spice latte and tell them your name is 'global warming' to own the libs"

Avery

12:31

@Unionhawk tfw no pumpkin spice on atlantis starbucks

Unionhawk

rekt

The Mattbat999

@MBraedley if coffee becomes rare, I will die

fredley

Coffee is a surprisingly primitive crop in many ways

In that it hasn't had the extensive development of, say, wheat

Unionhawk

Yeah that's because it doesn't grow in america

Kevin van der Velden

Wheat has a lot shorter grow cycle and has been cultivated for a lot longer

Unionhawk

12:37

AND it grows in industrialized countries

Kevin van der Velden

We cultivated it before we had industrialized countries

As in, 9600 BCE apparently

While coffee was somewhere 15th century

Tim Stone

With Irma and Harvey devastation, Tax Cuts and Tax Reform is needed more than ever before. Go Congress, go!

Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on September 13, 2017 at 12:36 PM

Unionhawk

ugh

YOU SEE

TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS

SO THAT... UH

HURRICANE

THING

HAPPEN

you see, if you tie noncontroversial hurricane relief to controversial tax cuts the democrats have to vote for it

it's science

and it'd be their fault not yours

Tim Stone

13:01

Clinton: Comey letter was the "most important factor" in Trump beating me http://hill.cm/vZ4cgIq https://t.co/2pgkdSWRPN

Tweeted by thehill on September 13, 2017 at 12:57 PM

FFS

Unionhawk

If Hillary's book was called "I Should Have Shot Robby Mook Out Of A Fucking Canon" and just described that in detail it would be great

Tweeted by Papapishu on September 13, 2017 at 3:25 AM in reply to Papapishu

Tim Stone

Hahah, yes

Unionhawk

She might have won MI if she actually did that

Tim Stone

It's just crazy that she's ignoring the fact that people just dislike her. It's totally fair to question whether that's all her fault, but basically completely ignoring that reality while campaigning was super, super dumb

Unionhawk

Well you see

Both the far left and the far right are bad

we should be somewhere between the center left and the center right

Tim Stone

13:08

Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel

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Unionhawk

@Unionhawk said the woman whose PAC literally used Heather Heyer's name to promote her god damn book

Tim Stone

Yo, I read that email and went "Uh huh, yeah, okay…oh, oh no, noo no no"

Private Pansy

@TimStone I actually don't think she's wrong on that count

Unionhawk

It's certainly a contributing factor

Tim Stone

It was definitely people's latent dislike for her that allowed any of those things to become An Issue for voters

Unionhawk

13:14

This is true

It's almost like the least popular politician ever should just... stop... please...

(she isn't running in 2020)

Tim Stone

I think the Comey letter just made people extra sure they weren't going to vote for her rather than make a significant number of people suddenly decide to not vote for her

Unionhawk

That and all the sanders voters who voted for trump

(NARRATOR) 12% of sanders voters did this thing. 25% of clinton voters voted for mccain in 2008

Mad Scientist

@Unionhawk Anyone that actually does was either not actually a potential Sanders voter, or was simply voting for any non-establishment candidate.

Tim Stone

The secondary trigger in last tweet is seen on the Carl-Gustaf M4 VR Experience, an opportunity for visitors at… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/907941588436963329

Tweeted by Saab on September 13, 2017 at 12:18 PM

Hrmm

Unionhawk

DID YOU EVER WANT TO FIRE A SHOULDER MOUNTED MISSILE IN GOLF-GRADE VR? NOW YOU CAN

Tim Stone

13:31

Stevie Wonder: Anyone who doesn’t believe in climate change "must be blind" http://hill.cm/idgCuw8 https://t.co/BxFkofid6F

Tweeted by thehill on September 13, 2017 at 1:31 PM

badp

vintage fake news

Unionhawk

That's actually true

Ever heard of the galaxy note 7

Private Pansy

@TimStone (1) I thought Saab makes cars (2) Why does a global arms and munitions company need a Twitter account?

Unionhawk

@PrivatePansy Because it's important that people have a positive view of the military industrial complex that runs the entire world

badp

@Unionhawk it doesn't really explode. The battery overheats and ruptures its shell but that's no explosion

right?

Unionhawk

13:43

But also yes Saab Automobile was a thing

Saab AB the aerospace and defense company had a project to design a small car and founded another company for it

Tim Stone

That let them use "Born from Jets" as a marketing slogan

@PrivatePansy The real question to be asking is why global defense contractors run Twitter ads

Unionhawk

Oh yeah I'm pretty sure I've seen BAH promoted tweets before

Or maybe it was SAIC. One of those.

Also motion to call them arms dealers instead of defense contractors

Yuuki

> The Supreme Court issued two orders blocking rulings from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas invalidating redistricting plans for two Congressional districts in Texas - held by Rep. Blake Farenthold (R) and Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D) - and the Texas House of Representatives.

:|

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk The motion to refer to them as Nicolas Cage passes

Unionhawk

@Yuuki These were both 5-4 decisions

Apparently they don't have to reveal their votes but they can?

Wow holy shit they have 15 cosponsors

> Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ)
Senator Al Franken (D-MN)
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA)
Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA)
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI)
Senator Tom Udall (D-NM)
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

notably missing: Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)

👀

Tim Stone

14:02

@Yuuki Not a great sign, but the rulings were delayed pending appeal by the state, so there's still a final outcome to be had

MBraedley

14:40

@TimStone Well if a blind man says so, it must be true!

Yuuki

@TimStone why why why why why why why why why why why do I insist on looking at the ~~retweets~~ reblogs?

Unionhawk

(replies)

(retweets is another thing)

(close enough)

ToxicFrog

@Yuuki deep-seated masochistic tendencies?

Private Pansy

@ToxicFrog I'm masochistic enough to work on a pure JS stack, and even I don't do that

Wipqozn

15:36

@Yuuki Some context? Is this in a response to gerrymandering?

Yuuki

@Wipqozn Yes. Lower courts have ordered that Texas redo redistricting plans because they were too gerrymandered.

Unionhawk

They're allowed to be gerrymandered, yo be clear

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk That's dumb

Unionhawk

But they have to be gerrymandered to get republicans to win not to disenfranchise black people

Wipqozn

So like, political corruption is allowed by law? Because that's basically what gerrymandering is

Yuuki

15:41

Well, the lower districts ruled that the redistricting plans were discriminatory (i.e. gerrymandered) and rejected them and told Texas to try again.

But the Supreme Court has now decided that the rejection is too close to the October 1 deadline and Texas can go ahead with the redistricting plans.

Even though the first rejection was sometime last year I think.

Texas has just been appealing non-stop since instead of going back to the drawing board.

Unionhawk

16:02

Guys

Did you know that Medicare for all would require government funding

Nobody is taking about this

I just learned this from a GOP video

Yuuki

Did the GOP also inform you that defense spending would require government funding?

Unionhawk

That's Taliban talk

We're keeping America safe

MBraedley

@Yuuki FAKE NEWS! Defense pays for itself through mandatory end-user subscriptions (a.k.a. taxes).

Unionhawk

I am happy that dsa calls brought the bill from Medicare for all with copays to Medicare for all no copay including vision and dental

Yuuki

16:23

So by sabotaging Obamacare, Republicans may have just sped up the development of single-payer/Medicare for all?

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone 20+ years of being smeared by right wing radio will do that to a person

@Yuuki unlikely

entrenched insurance industry still has the power to block single payer

on the other hand if congress can 1) make trump stop sabotaging obamacare and 2) fix some of the easier problems with it, it will probably be good enough

badp

@MBraedley OH NO NOT THE THEFT BY THREAT OF VIOLENCE

GodEmperorDune

people seem to forget that most of "wasteful spending" is not money sitting in a pile somewhere, it's people's jobs and salaries. So cutting $billions out of healthcare spending will result in people getting laid off and congress is very scared of that

Unionhawk

16:39

we're not protecting profits we're protecting jobs

This bill is also not going to pass, but it's an important part of bringing the party leftward and giving then a free message they can run on

MBraedley

@GodEmperorDune Yeah, I'd like to see some spending break-downs, but I suspect the largest single line item for all departments, even DOD, is salaries, and for some departments may even make up the majority of the spending.

Unionhawk

Take it run on it it's way better than "DONALD TRUMP IS THE WORST AMIRITE"

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk oh no doubt

Unionhawk

You idiots tried that in 04

ToxicFrog

@GodEmperorDune burn down the insurance industry, cut defence, return tax rates on the rich to historical values, use the money to implement UBI? :D

s/insurance/health insurance/

GodEmperorDune

16:43

@ToxicFrog love it, but probably not gonna happen

Unionhawk

@ToxicFrog There's a reason I'm glad I work at a strictly P&C insurance company and not a health insurance company lol

Well, P&C and Life

But hopefully the days that health insurance sells main line plans in this country (the current bill keeps supplemental plans as a thing) are numbered

I have a feeling that number is... very large

Certainly more than 1500

Probably along the lines of 5000 days

Unionhawk

17:11

> @DSACincy is discussing "Are Prisons Obsolete?" by Angela Davis at a brewery

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk \o/

Unionhawk

@GodEmperorDune It's also a really good brewery so

GodEmperorDune

17:31

nah we're not overreacting

inb4 russia responds by banning microsoft, google, etc

Unionhawk

Best Buy stopped selling their products too

Avery

I mean antiviruses are dum

and kaspersky loves destroying all resources you have available

Unionhawk

mother of god

it's a russian bitcoin mining op

I knew it

GodEmperorDune

rekt

Avery

I mean

unless people run kaspersky on their asics it's unlikely that they'll get anything but eh

Unionhawk

17:35

I am actually a russian psyop to misdirect from the real purpose why it takes a lot of resources

@Unionhawk Also this book is not on google play nor is it at the library so

:/

it is on amazon

Yuuki

17:50

@GodEmperorDune Russia responds by removing Trump from the US, wait that's a good thing.

Also, I guess it wouldn't make sense in that analogy since the US is banning Russian-made antivirus and Russia would respond by banning US-made stuff not Russian-made stuff.

Unionhawk

lmao Fired4Truth just made a fake google autocomplete "James Damore is (awesome, right, a hero)"

(the actual autocomplete you get is "James Damore is(land, lam)")

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk ugh, can't wait until he gets into the Trump admin as heads of some science agency

what a dumbass

Unionhawk

He'll be in charge of Title IX or something

I for one do not want to go to James Damore island

that sounds awful

murgatroid99

@Unionhawk obviously there's going to be a difference if you don't have a space after the last word. Also, I don't get any autocompletes at all

Unionhawk

Yeah I get nothing with a space

GodEmperorDune

18:02

@Unionhawk same

murgatroid99

I actually don't get anything with or without a space

GodEmperorDune

also doesn't the autosuggest thing only work based on what you've previously searched?

so diff people will get diff suggestions?

Unionhawk

I do know results in purple are previous searches but I don't remember if it tailors suggestions too

This makes the two possibilities 1) he made it up, or 2) he spends his time googling for articles about how he's awesome or something like that

GodEmperorDune

i know a bunch of people have tweeted screencaps of them getting dumb stuff in suggestions and the replies being "ummm, that's tailored to you so you only have yourself to blame"

Yuuki

James Damore(rrung, ring saga)

Yuuki

19:10

badp

23:00

@Unionhawk I love how casual that was

he had it ready, in hand, and waiting for the perfect opportunity

Unionhawk

23:14

Yep

badp

@Unionhawk he must have been disappointed the flashbang didn't activate on contact

giving the person ample time to look away

Unionhawk

23:34

Meanwhile in congress_edits

It's official. We've got a comrade in the Congress. https://t.co/DdoAq7caIK

Tweeted by basebenzi on September 13, 2017 at 9:36 PM

Like there's not a single doubt in my mind that we have an inside man working as a congressional intern

user15026

I don't get the significance

Avery

I don't get the significance (of this one)

Isn't carly rae jepsen that one artist that makes music and stuff

user15026

She's a singer of some flavour yes

Unionhawk

23:50

I don't either but the entire series of edits spells out "GO ON (vulgar name of a leftist podcast)"

Which cannot be an accident

Apparently there were more edits later than I saw earlier

Avery

@Unionhawk why even would you pick that as a podcast name smh

actually

I give the seal of approval.

user15026

....but like...what does that even get us, really?

user15026

Like it feels too weirdly like some ARG or other hidden whatever conspiracy junk

user15026

what's the point

Unionhawk

Nothing

user15026

23:52

I'd say I see, but I don't

Unionhawk

A sense of "what the fuck is this real" but other than that

user15026

Part of me is like "why do we care about this crap when the world is on fire" but then agin I read romances to handle it, some people put secret messages in wikipedia edits.

user15026

Whatever gets you through

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