@Unionhawk best timeline

@GodEmperorDune worst timeline

@GodEmperorDune it does make you think like, how much does this happen where they don't freak out and call for backup

well i am not surprised because cops

although these are canadian so i expected better

cops are not supposed to sample the things they confiscate, but there are too much of the "threaten to arrest sex workers unless quickie" type stories

the dudes with money in the freezer

that jerk that was using his badge to repeatedly rape people and then cried at his trial because "who knew"

i mean only the most egregious are going to make the news

In any case

i'm sure there are some good cops who are upstanding and ethical and trying to do the right thing always but they need to be responsible for thin blue line and police overall not being accountable

@Unionhawk this is a separate but similar issue

Yes BUT meh

You've also got stuff like this which is different but related

i mean it is already illegal for cops to abuse their authority or do these things, which is why the cops end up on corruption trials

goddamn, onebox

Don't worry he's fine it's fake blood lmao

anyway i feel the "fascist, oppressive" part of the thing is more related to overuse of force which is still fuct but astoundingly still WITHIN the law, as opposed to stuff which is still blatantly illegal

Right yeah some cops are Just Bad instead of Bad, But Acting Within The Law

right

and maybe there is something to "cops feel like they are above ALL the laws" as a systemic thing, but if cops break the specific cop laws and then go to trial and are punished, then that part of the system is actually functioning properly

love to not be a wiki

Ah, yes, the real sanctions were the idea of sanctions all along

@GodEmperorDune "I have information on Chuck Schumer, but I'm worried about security, do you have a securedrop?" securedrops the definition of the word wiki

after all the trouble they've gotten into with over russia, why are they trying this again?

@Unionhawk "chuck schumer is also not a wiki"

@TimStone yeah last year's bill undercutting the Iran deal to by your logic the admin into also sanction Russia

Bunch of geniouses

@Unionhawk unfortunately they can still do a lot of lasting damage

Oh, no, I'm talking about the dems

Being genious

@Unionhawk sadly it applies to both parties

@GodEmperorDune Oh, so I wasn't that off then

@TimStone you must be part of the deep state

It is oddly coincidental

@GodEmperorDune I mean as a possibly furloughable person, by definition

@GodEmperorDune Love too cause fights, what a higher purpose

Oh man, this guy is on tucker

@Unionhawk looking forward to the "tucker's thoughts" screenshots on this

@GodEmperorDune one of the named plantiffs, a DSA member and podcast person, responded to fox's original story with "lol"

and adjunct at nyu as well

Hue

Welcome back to the resistance or whatever I dunno drinks more wine

@TimStone Doug jooooooones doing his part

goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/…

@Unionhawk lol?

(also the rest of this is really good if you for some reason crave legal type content)

(it's also the first and only podcast, so)

Okay but why?

Both Sides or something

idk

gotta keep these guys failing up

or sideways, I guess

ABC contributor and NJ governor is basically a lateral move

So about them sanctions

@TimStone I actually saw a thread on this, searching

Tl;dr: it’s that media people assume white cis het man is “neutral POV” and therefore if you are going for “unbiased” then that’s who you go to for making coverage decisions

Protip: nothing is unbiased

I mean, also that you assume if you just have Chris Christie on with Generic Centrist Pundit #37 (codename: cillizza), then it's balanced

I actually don't know what #37's politics are

other than "the president sometimes reads words and this is amazing"

@GodEmperorDune yeah but I thought he was going to be relegated to sportscasting and yet here he is

Here we go

There are quotes threads within

And among the only good things to come from the manifestbro is that it introduced me to some ultra woke googlers and xooglers that put fantastic pieces out there

@Ash I saw, ughhhhhh :(

Ah, we've come full circle

@TimStone I mean probably

Yeah, it's just horrid. There are some scary, scary people out there and I dunno how they become those kinds of monsters

@TimStone Wait, Russia has elections?

I mean technically

Hold on, let me find a thing

Shit I forgot who did this take

Apparently Moscow Times

Under Grudinin, Russia’s Communist Party Gets a Capitalist Makeover

lol

> Although there is no doubt that Grudinin will be easily defeated by Vladimir Putin

I feel like Russia actually having an election would be evidence of interference with their election.

I don't see a value in trying yeah but also like I wouldn't put it past the CIA to try

that's totally a thing they'd do

I mean, if Putin really wants to throw a wrench at the US, he could try "losing" the election and then claiming the US interfered. In which case, I'd actually believe him.

@Unionhawk is that the dude that was jailed for the rest of the campaign season?

@TimStone Standard disinformation technique. Accuse your opponent of exactly the kind of crap you get up to, spread distrust and a sense of 'everyone does it that's just how the game is played'

@fredley I mean we do influence foreign elections though

Probably not Russia's, mind you, but

lmao we tried to interfere in Bolivia 2002 to prevent the election of a socialist and it backfired

Wait, what. "Names of campaign donors to be flashed during live stream of Trump’s State of the Union speech"

Ah cool, now you can buy your way into the state of the union address

@KevinvanderVelden Can America sink any lower?

Actually yes, but it's pretty bloody low at this point.

Yeeaaah this is just disgusting

SOTU sponsored by: the Koch PAC, the other Koch PAC, the Mercer PAC, the other Mercer PAC, and by viewers like you

It's also, isn't the "State of the Union" speech supposed to be about america. Not about whomever is currently the president due to rounding errors

It's going to be a shitshow

It was always going to be a shitshow

The toddler in chief can't pretend to be competent for a little while but we already knew that

and yet Generic Pundit 37 will think it was an amazing speech

This country is Incredibly Stupid and Probably Doomed

theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/30/…

But not as Incredibly Stupid as the UK

Hang on, I have a gift for you

rekt

but not as rekt as the UK

rUKt

Theresa may is far too busy running the country into the ground to run the country.

Well at least there was good news out of the UK, Ryanair pilots won union recognition

@KevinvanderVelden tbf, she's completely hampered by the infighting in her own party over Brexit.

She hasn't got the leadership to take a stand and pick a side

So the result is there is still no official stance on what we want to get out of Brexit

It's okay though, it's not like you've started a process with a timer ticking down on you yet

pls

When the timer runs out, we will stay in the same position, because we can't get out. Still in ECJ, Customs Union etc. We will lose our seats in parliament and gain nothing. Everyone will still be angry, and Brexit debates will continue for the rest of our lives.

👌

If you're wondering if you read that sentence right, you did

the billionares will save us

Next day hip replacement

Jeff Bezos is going to break your face then charge you to fix it

I'd let swole Bezos break my face if he bought me a house

lol

hue

We don't have to provide health insurance if we just form our own healthcare company and give them vouchers to spend there right

What do you mean we can't pay our employees in amazon gift cards

@Unionhawk I mean it seems like a natural pivot since Berkshire Hathaway does realty for some inexplicable reason and JP Morgan Chase or just literally Jeff Bezos himself could do financing

I've got a hundred of these

(I don't actually)

@TimStone Well, now hold on, most of his wealth isn't a large salary it's just from owning Amazon

Yeah but if your house is built with Amazon-ordered parts checkmate economists

an amazon town with private police where your boss is also the lord of the town

This is literally Coal Town, USA and we're trying to bring that shit back for some reason

Feudalis'm is back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl)

They're gonna bring back house call doctors by just including them in shipping routes

I mean to be fair home health care is cool and good and we should pay people who do home health aid more

Absolutely. But mostly they'll just get some debt-ridden MDs to ride shotgun with the UPS driver

Not even that, with the Amazon Flex driver

since amazon does some last mile shipping by just loading up an employee's car

and paying them poverty wages to do it

Ah right

I've only had that happen once or twice which is odd because the warehouse is literally around the corner across the street

I think we have a warehouse near the airport like 30 miles away

or something, probably farther

That said, having read the Bloomberg breakdown, if it does actually provide affordable care for their employees it's not the worst thing to happen. Looks like the effort is being driven by Buffett, not sure why he brought World's Most Punchable Financial Villain on board but I guess if you want to do this Swole Bezos has enough people in his warehouses to make it appropriately scaled

I mean, I dunno, Buffett and Bezos might be T1 for that title

Think those are technically different types of villainy

hmm

I think I'll allow it

But how many bank CEOs' faces do you know? I only know Dimon's, because he's just that much of an assshole

That's true

"bank CEO" just word associates to "henry kissinger" for some reason though which is very clearly not right but

Also how wrong is it though

I guess Jamie Dimon probably wasn't involved in Vietnam

Ah, good, we're entering the "Saying bad things about Dear Leader is a crime or whatever" phase

Ryan has also just said that Rosenstein is doing a "fine job" so Trump shouldn't fire him

So when Trump does fire him we can expect Ryan to do nothing

@TimStone We've been there since the beginning.

Wasn't it declared like "USA Presidents Appreciation Day" 4 days after the election?

@Unionhawk lol, love too be a scary google search

All that time spent on the UI (which was valid, granted) and it turns out that it was, in fact, the climate in which a missile attack on Hawaii would be likely was what caused the problem

> According to a preliminary FCC report, a supervisor's recorded message included the phrase "exercise, exercise, exercise" but also mistakenly included the phrase "this is not a drill."

:/

@Yuuki I can't wait for Stephen Colbert to mercilessly satirize this in his monologue

@Yuuki Who among us doesn't get exercise running to the nearest shelter?

I excercise running to the nearest shelter so I can buy birthday cakes on the regular

Whomst amongst us indeed.

And the replies

What. The. Hell

> gonna be savage

wtf, is a 12 year old running this Twitter?

Probably

They don't have to pay them if it's an internship

> "Is that the one where they made chilis the national vegetable?" - @VA_GOP on the Hatch Act, probably

Like the assertion that McCabe violated the Hatch Act versus literally anything else is just so mind-boggling stupid that we are so screwed

I had like the smallest amount of hope before but if people believe that kind of stupid shit and are willing to voice it on that kind of platform we are done

Pack up America everyone

Ah. I see

Everything has actually been stupid forever

lol this asshole

Does California's recall election law apply to federal House Representatives? Asking for a friend

I mean, to be fair, probably

If you're rich and you're in russia, you're a russian oligarch

I hate

@TimStone I am getting word that there are events all across the state at bars and such to just eat and drink as much as possible

lol

Whew

?????????????????????????????????????????????

The unifying message will be "Joe Kennedy retire already"

bangs head against wall

I mean, to be fair, I also would consider that a great achievement

Love too manufacture problems* which only I can solve

*the problems existed anyway but we all know "unity" in this conversations is "white people at peace"

What are you talking about america was already great before he messed it all up

No problems existed before 11/9/2016

or after 1/20/2009

@Unionhawk The next tweet also references the fact they think he'd get distracted by the memo and not prepare for the speech because he's an idiot

is this him talking in the third person

meanwhile though, some kid posting about how he was reporting people to ICE got doxxed and expelled, to which I say, lol

@quartata This is a staffer speaking in third person

lol

they spent a hundred thousand dollars on that

@Unionhawk love too do a stupid thing then get someone else to brag about it on Twitter for me

@TimStone 'damn it why aren't our citizens up on all the hip memes'

@TimStone Well, well, well, how the turntables...

Ah fine group of pals they got there

@TimStone Hey, his best friend sometimes drives to the gas station to employ undocumented workers.

That's how you know he's not racist.

Also, paul nehlen lol

@Unionhawk Ugh

Also there's a special election in Ohio in August for the 12th District's House seat? Didn't even know

@TimStone He got his ass kicked so badly by RCCC's boy that I don't understand why he's trying again

like unless paul drops out the day before the primary

gets out shocked face

@TimStone The WH has refused to enforce new sanctions on like 98% of the people on the list.

I think Naryshkin may have been subject to preexisting sanctions

So it's like a double-dip of clearly not giving af

Ah, right, Gosar did the "white nationalists are just a false flag operation by Soros" crap

Then they killed Heather Heyer so you know, maybe not

It's brutal because it's barely even satire

yes

lol at how badly milo is going to get owned/has gotten owned/wouldn't have gotten owned if he didn't go pro se

(he self-published his book and sold $3,000 worth)

(so like maybe two hundred copies)

(he previously had very good copyright attorneys that had a decent case of "no the contract says this thing" but now he doesn't)

nice, nice

Also the bit from the Guardian about how there's a second albeit flimsier dossier that also references the pee tape

oh boy

yeah

love too s/Russiagate/Watergate

speedrunning the nixon admin to own the libs

or something

> I believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. One year of Watergate is enough.

@Ash The Purge is a horror/slasher movie series.

About the US having a yearly "Purge" where nothing is illegal for 24 hours.

And so people kill each other because they can get away with it.

The series has been getting increasingly political.

The last one revealed that the Purge is a way for the elite to distract the general populace by letting them kill poor people or something.

I dunno, haven't really watched the series.

I guess the new one is a prequel or something?

Although given that the US is split into 4 timezones, does the Purge in California begin at the same time as the Purge in New York or are they staggered?

I assume since Trump is now the genesis of the purge we did away with time zones altogether because they confused him so the point is moot

Could some guy start in New York with a bunch of ammo and gasoline and perform a 27-hour long driveby shooting?

I mean, this guy did it (drive from coast to coast, not the shooting though) in 31 hours and he definitely had to obey speed limits at some points.

And during the Purge, there would presumably be no speed limits.

@Ash Everybody does marijuana!

Wait, that's already legal in several states.

And restaurants donate leftover food to homeless people!

And Houstonians carry around fence cutters in their pockets!

Never mind, that was a felony until 1973.

@Ash I mean, left anarchist types set up villages and such now, whether to block a pipeline or with probably a nonzero amount of permission to shelter the homeless

Well, perhaps not with nonzero permission lol

as well

Oh, I see

"the purge wouldn't be good" is different from "we don't need a purge to do the thing"

The slightly cheekier direct action that DSA chapters have done (and ours should do) is brake light replacements, which both promotes safe driving and at the same time seeks to minimize police interaction

Plus you don't need to take over two blocks of green space and risk having your village broken up by the city to do it

breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/27/…

Huh.

Store by store basis though from what I understand

I'm sure it's just by numbers... Guess we'll see what the court thinks