@TimStone wow, shows how lazy ICE is

> we got a report of an illegal, rather than fact checking we'll arrest them anyway

anyone else seeing ICEing as the new SWATing

i was watching this thing on SBS about Trump's first 100 days (ie was before VS Arashi and i was getting comfy to watch that while having my tea) and they were showing this focus group being asked about ICE's work since Trump got elected. one woman said that ICE is doing great work since Trump got in because now they can stop illegal aliens stealing their jobs.

that reminded me of a skit from Will Anderson during one of the Melborune Comedy Festivals saying how if you are loosing your job to an illegal immigrant that means they are more skilled at the job that you are, so it's you're fault you lost the job

Shot & Chaser

it's funny how you'll have some people come out against this using the tired old line of "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" when.....

^ that guy didn't have a gun (as far as i can read) and disarmed the naked guy

probably way more brave than any "good guy with a gun"

*rifle?

@quartata yeh spelling mistake

So apparently trump has a new insult/nickname for chuck todd at the NBC

That insult was part of a list of physical descriptions the gestapo/other nazis were meant to look out for when searching for jewish people. Chuck Todd is jewish

@KevinvanderVelden do we have a list of thing that make him NOT a Nazi?

like he doesn't condemn violence by Neo Nazis but instead says "it's the other group's fault aswell"

he's slowly trying to turn people to state endorsed news programs which is a slippery slope to state run propaganda

quite sure i read somewhere that he reads Hitlers speeches which while not a bad thing on it's own, kinda looks back with everything else

oh my god

…damn, that article title

@KevinvanderVelden Yeah, even in the most charitable reading where Trump doesn't know the context, he obviously surrounds himself with people who knowingly use the phrase for him to have picked it up, sooo 🤔

@Unionhawk This legit happened? I am dead

apparently

It sounds like something that would happen

you know his people

I mean duh, but

hard hitting reporting at the new yorker

Actually though

Excuse me? to all of that

🤔

Counterpoint: Being a dick on television is actually against FCC rules

@TimStone I like how the entire argument boils down to "Well, we don't call it a Republican event, so they're fine"

I mean, conservatism is bigger than just the party technically speaking but from a practical standpoint the American right is pretty well represented by the party so

It depends on is the standard political or partisan

but like practically speaking those things are virtually the same on the right

but on the other hand lolnothingmatters

@TimStone I have found the tweet in question and, yes, it does indeed exist but it's way funnier than even just that

You can't make this shit up (and apparently there's more than one)

wuhhhhh

> don't see anything in twitter's rules that says twitter users only

there are so many layers to this

Yes

Don't even try to peel apart that onion it's rotten

one second I need more sausages to handle this

It's truly amazing

I think the more important implication is that, really, you can only be an SJW snowflake if it's about standing up for someone who isn't conservative

the actual "Twitter rules, I don't make the rules" part people are doing is just sad, I can't wring any consistency from that

Twitter has moved on to Kanye sharing Scott Adams redpill videos, so

Happy Monday etc

i feel bad for liking dilbert a long time ago tbh

of course now you can take your pick of what undertones his comics are filled with

like the Sunday strip he did making fun of climate change models, yes this was a real thing in actual newspapers on a Sunday

yeah

At least your name isn't @Wipqozn

I mean, to be fair, this was before he came out saying that fossil records are fake news

I think that was like, what, 2005 or something

Yeah, as I understand it he wasn't at least openly off the wall a bit back, but then he went full nosedive right into the crazy

Looking back on it with my newly cynical perspective even early on a lot of the interactions of Dilbert with other people come off as really mansplain-y and Alice was a total trope

but we had Catbert which numbed the senses a bit

dont trust cats

@TimStone didnt really show up in full force in the non-Saturday comics until after the 2016 election

big surprise, people have bad opinions and feel more comfortable evangelizing them because we have a Cheeto for a president, news at 11

@quartata You really shouldn't

The idea that you can't like a thing made by a shitty person is just wrong

An argument can be made that supporting such a person is immoral , since they may use their financial success to harm certain groups, but that's a different thing all together.

@Wipqozn a byproduct of him being a shitty person is he now makes shitty comics

there are multiple factors involved in that sentence

@quartata Yeah that's fair, but doesn't mean you need to feel bad for liking it in the past if it wasn't crazy shittiness before

I'm just strongly opposed to this growing sentiment that people that like a thing made by a shitty person should be shamed and treated like a shit.

Curious if they're just enjoying the weather or it's a subtle environmental jab

Well that gets progressively more absurd. "Look it was consensual, but I wasn't even there, and even if I was and I did it you can't pin it on me, plus the pills I definitely didn't give her because of the above would surely not have knocked her out"

/cc @Unionhawk lmao

"I'vvvvvvvvvvvvve got Left Fever! kicks plastic bag into the recycling"

> Trump EPA to recognize burning wood as being carbon neutral

-1 tree + 1 fire = 0 carbons, checks out

I mean it's carbon in the atmosphere and we're carbon-based lifeforms so what's a little carbon between friends? Carbon man, let it go.

@TimStone He's running way more scared than the neera tanden "nixon is 47 points back" number lol

which gooooooooooood

kellyanne conway is at it again :/

It's okay, she'll have to stop a moment to hold Erick Erickson's beer

> The menu will consist of three courses, which will include American dishes with French influences. The main course will be a rack of spring lamb with Carolina gold rice jambalaya.

@TimStone wut

The most unpronounceable and elitist of foods checks notes jambalaya and lamb

@TimStone it's extremely surprising that he even has a personal cell phone, I'd assume that it would be far too dangerous to have such a potentially vulnerable listening device close to the president

@MadScientist obama gave his up

You would think that, wouldn't you? Plus all the information retention requirements

there is an episode of the bear grylls show where he hiked around alaska with obama and obama had trouble both unlocking the phone and taking a selfie because he literally never uses it

Is the oval office a SCIF?

(i don't remember which bear grylls show it was, the names all kind of blur together but the landscapes are so pretty)

@MadScientist i thought SCIF didn't have windows for obvious reasons

It's not a completely restricted area of course, but I'd assume that you'd still do something like ensuring no mobile phones are in the room when you discuss anything classified

That would be pretty interesting tbh 🤔

@MadScientist reminder that staffers used cell phones as flashlights to illuminate classified documents at mar a lago when kim jong un was doing missile tests and trump was hosting someone

lol

hue

so froo froo

Just incredible

Nine dead, 16 injured in the Toronto van incident

:(

@TimStone does Erick think the president handles the menu or

I assume because the First Lady selects it he would impose his will, on account of being the MR. PRESIDENT MAN

@TimStone or if she did something wrong then trump would move onto the 4th lady

Oh, I was talking about the Hypothetical President Erickson but lol, yes

oh right

From a private account so can't embed but someone pointed out that Trump will likely have his lamb well done, hank-hill-bwaa.gif

i dunno about lamb so not sure what that means

cues lazers BREAKING NEWS: Rand Paul will, in fact, flip and acquiesce to Trump on Pompeo's nomination

@TimStone siiiiiiiiiiiiiigh

that gardening dispute did a number on him

Van mows down pedestrians in Toronto

Everyone I know there is safe

Sounds like he killed a lot of people..

Jeez

@GodEmperorDune It's basically the steak debate

waffle house pulled a starbucks (unrelated to the naked white shooter whose guns were going to be confiscated before the shooting but the dad promised the cops that he wouldn't let the shooter use them)

washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/04/23/…

Ah, cool, cool

@TimStone more blackwater crap

goddamn

Good thing Rand Paul won't bless his Secretary of State nomin remembers a few minutes ago Oh right

@TimStone this is the worst, i remember that the young turks were mentioned as a problematic org but i have no idea why

@Ash wtf

Do they know why he did it

@GnomeSlice way too early for that sort of analysis

i predict that it will be blamed on mental illness (if the perp is white), religion (if the perp is not christian), and various terror groups around the world will claim credit even if they had nothing to do with it because its publicity for their fundraising

real analysis will take weeks/months/years

@GodEmperorDune why do you predict that

@GodEmperorDune well not if he tells them

@Ash you mean people seriously talking about the end of times, when they actually have the power to make that happen? I don't think "fucking terrifying" is strong enough here

@GnomeSlice because the public immediately wants more info before the info is available, so lots of fringe sites make things up and it spreads like wildfire on social media, sometimes even making it onto actual news outlets

@MadScientist there is a certain sect of christianity that goes "rapture happens around the time of the apocalypse, so if we make the apocalypse happen faster then the rapture will happen faster"

the top execs at blackwater (including betsy devos's brother eric prince) are into this

I seriously don't understand evangelical Christians. We don't really have them, Christians are much more moderate in general around here. I have serious trouble convincing myself that someone truly believes that stuff

@MadScientist this is more extreme than standard evangelical stuff

prosperity gospel is the other thing that I just can't believe is real

lol, I had forgotten about that

I assume Trump will tout his carbon neutral wood burning stance and immediately set it on fire

@MadScientist Every get rich quick scheme ever

Nigerian prince with some Jesus dressing

@puzzlepiece87 pretty much this

@TimStone I'm sure no one else will Flake

@TimStone hue, sadness

@TimStone Wait, will be?

@MadScientist Ugh, I used to work for a printing company that printed Don Stewart's letters

I have never hated someone as much as I hated that sack of shit when I read his letters specifically aimed at people who didn't have enough money to feed themselves, telling them to send him their money

@SaintWacko I guess in like the photo op sense, they set the tree up and then they come out to throw some extra dirt on it

@TimStone will be planting? as in they haven't planted it yet....despite it being in the ground? or is the tree the lamp post

@Memor-X Assuming you and I both understand the situation correctly, I assume also that you've never been to a groundbreaking ceremony?

Often they don't actually break/have already broken ground, they just take pictures with shovels

and hard hats

@puzzlepiece87 nope, never been to one

(Isla Vista killings)

@TimStone love to pass for white

@TimStone notable foreign dish jambalaya

these people make no sense, if they were actually trying to appeal to the deep south they'd make fun of dishes that didn't come from the deep south

@GodEmperorDune in general with this sort of thing the spin is to claim they were radicalized by Islam unless they were like a protestant priest or something

@quartata "inspired by"

yes, sorry, my bad

"inspired by not-Christianity" fixed it

yeah exactly

ugh this is so fuct

canada i'm sorry

blaming it on Islam is convenient because it can be a substitute for race while still being applicable to white people if it turns out they weren't arabic

here in the states we have this all the time

y'all were still dealing with the hockey team crash

the safest spin is the one they have to modify the least after more details come out

get a head start on repeating it

it'll stick

it's disgusting

(But also in Canada)

and they're actually prosecuting

lol

i'm surprised someone hadn't done it by accident sooner

@TimStone this is the guy that downloaded too many files?

@GodEmperorDune yes, he was too online

@GodEmperorDune Look they were super secretly sequentially ided

hey siri what is UUID

lmao

@TimStone did they really have sorta confidential documents publicly available online with sequential IDs and no other security?

i don't know man, it's 2018, why don't these people know better

@GodEmperorDune Apparently and the URL is literally FOIA

@GodEmperorDune """confidential""</html>

Which maybe means something different in Canada but is nevertheless on the nose

@quartata i mean FOIA documents are technically public

oh yeah, maybe its the canadian abbreviation for the "FOI, eh?"

lmfao what?!

The random ass doctor is apparently Quite Bad instead of just being unqualified and the last person Trump talked to!

@TimStone chain the teachers to the whiteboard

@TimStone reminds me of when trump overfed the fish that one time

i'm sure the next picture is going to be him aggressively flinging dirt at the tree

er how did the press sec phrase it

@quartata no, he'll drive an old ass heavy polluting dump truck in

you know, one of those ones which bellow thick black smoke as it's running