Board 8 > Politics Containment Topic 168: Chemical Attacks are Syria's Business

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Corrik, for future reference, the vast majority of Trump Criticizes Trump tweets are from prior to 2016.
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Very exciting day! Hopefully the bombs start falling on Animal Assad by this evening.
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Very exciting day! Hopefully the bombs start falling on Animal Assad by this evening.

hopefully it will accomplish something unlike the last time trump attacked syria and you went "OMG I'M CRYING TEARS OF AMERICAN PRIDE"
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Will be interesting to see what they do with aircraft there.
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

Nelson_Mandela posted...

Very exciting day! Hopefully the bombs start falling on Animal Assad by this evening.

hopefully it will accomplish something unlike the last time trump attacked syria and you went "OMG I'M CRYING TEARS OF AMERICAN PRIDE"

Well that's why we need a full scale liberation with 500,000 BotG (boots on the ground). I'll settle for some serious tonnage if we are just sticking to airstrikes though.
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Anonymous GOP Congressman on Trump:
https://tinyurl.com/ybeqgz68

Apparently he thinks that Trump would be impeached if Trump were to fire Mueller... as long as it happened after the primaries were over
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I guess today will be a day of checking every so often to see if we're trading blows with Russia, so that's cool.
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I would rather pull out of Syria completely. Our hands are tied though. No way we could do so with chemical attacks going on. It would be a huge sign to the rest of the world to do as they please.
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I don't know if I should be happy or upset that Donald Trump is basically destroying the Republican party. It has been weak and inefficient for years due to infighting. However, Paul Ryan is a mighty blow.
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Corrik posted...

I don't know if I should be happy or upset that Donald Trump is basically destroying the Republican party. It has been weak and inefficient for years due to infighting. However, Paul Ryan is a mighty blow.

How do you think they recover, especially if Trump gets re-elected?
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Corrik posted...

I don't know if I should be happy or upset that Donald Trump is basically destroying the Republican party. It has been weak and inefficient for years due to infighting. However, Paul Ryan is a mighty blow.

Depends on your definition of weak and inefficient. The GOP stonewalled Obama for 6 years and made that presidency far less disastrous than he hoped to be.
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Corrik posted...

I don't know if I should be happy or upset that Donald Trump is basically destroying the Republican party. It has been weak and inefficient for years due to infighting. However, Paul Ryan is a mighty blow.

Depends on your definition of weak and inefficient. The GOP stonewalled Obama for 6 years and made that presidency far less disastrous than he hoped to be.

They can't ever agree on anything besides to stop democrats.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Anonymous GOP Congressman on Trump:
https://tinyurl.com/ybeqgz68

Apparently he thinks that Trump would be impeached if Trump were to fire Mueller... as long as it happened after the primaries were over

It's like Forrest Gump won the presidency, but an evil, really fucking stupid Forrest Gump. He can't help himself. He's just a fucking idiot who thinks he's winning when people are b*tching about him. He really does see the world as ratings and attention. I hate Forrest Gump. I listen to your podcast and heard you hate it too. What an overrated piece of shit movie. Can you believe it beat the Shawshank Redemption?

I don't know who this guy is, but I would like to go drinking with him just to see what insane rants he spirals off into.
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Jakyl25 posted...

Corrik posted...

I don't know if I should be happy or upset that Donald Trump is basically destroying the Republican party. It has been weak and inefficient for years due to infighting. However, Paul Ryan is a mighty blow.

How do you think they recover, especially if Trump gets re-elected?

The question is, if the party is becoming better or worse.

It depends what it morphs into.
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Corrik posted...

Nelson_Mandela posted...

Corrik posted...

I don't know if I should be happy or upset that Donald Trump is basically destroying the Republican party. It has been weak and inefficient for years due to infighting. However, Paul Ryan is a mighty blow.

Depends on your definition of weak and inefficient. The GOP stonewalled Obama for 6 years and made that presidency far less disastrous than he hoped to be.

They can't ever agree on anything besides to stop democrats.

There has absolutely been a leadership vacuum at the top even since Bush spiraled into unpopularity, and the only thing that seems to unite all the fractioning pieces of the GOP is "well who cares the democrats are worse".
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Suprak the Stud posted...

Corrik posted...

Nelson_Mandela posted...

Corrik posted...

I don't know if I should be happy or upset that Donald Trump is basically destroying the Republican party. It has been weak and inefficient for years due to infighting. However, Paul Ryan is a mighty blow.

Depends on your definition of weak and inefficient. The GOP stonewalled Obama for 6 years and made that presidency far less disastrous than he hoped to be.

They can't ever agree on anything besides to stop democrats.

There has absolutely been a leadership vacuum at the top even since Bush spiraled into unpopularity, and the only thing that seems to unite all the fractioning pieces of the GOP is "well who cares the democrats are worse".

You can almost pinpoint exactly to the Tea Party crap for the fracturing of the Republican party.
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All the GOP care about are identity politics and reverse Robin Hooding our nation. This is nothing new.
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Corrik posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

Corrik posted...

I don't know if I should be happy or upset that Donald Trump is basically destroying the Republican party. It has been weak and inefficient for years due to infighting. However, Paul Ryan is a mighty blow.

How do you think they recover, especially if Trump gets re-elected?

The question is, if the party is becoming better or worse.

It depends what it morphs into.

Well in my hypothetical Trump term 2 scenario they would morph into the party of Trump values
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All his supporters will blame us for what we have or have not done, but he hasn't led. He wakes up in the morning, shits all over Twitter, shits all over us, shits all over his staff, then hits golf balls. Fuck him. Of course, I can't say that in public or I'd get run out of town."

My favorite excerpt from the article.
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Suprak the Stud posted...

Corrik posted...

Nelson_Mandela posted...

Corrik posted...

I don't know if I should be happy or upset that Donald Trump is basically destroying the Republican party. It has been weak and inefficient for years due to infighting. However, Paul Ryan is a mighty blow.

Depends on your definition of weak and inefficient. The GOP stonewalled Obama for 6 years and made that presidency far less disastrous than he hoped to be.

They can't ever agree on anything besides to stop democrats.

There has absolutely been a leadership vacuum at the top even since Bush spiraled into unpopularity, and the only thing that seems to unite all the fractioning pieces of the GOP is "well who cares the democrats are worse".

Which is fine when you are the opposition, but is useless when you are in power.
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charmander6000 posted...

Suprak the Stud posted...

Corrik posted...

Nelson_Mandela posted...

Corrik posted...

I don't know if I should be happy or upset that Donald Trump is basically destroying the Republican party. It has been weak and inefficient for years due to infighting. However, Paul Ryan is a mighty blow.

Depends on your definition of weak and inefficient. The GOP stonewalled Obama for 6 years and made that presidency far less disastrous than he hoped to be.

They can't ever agree on anything besides to stop democrats.

There has absolutely been a leadership vacuum at the top even since Bush spiraled into unpopularity, and the only thing that seems to unite all the fractioning pieces of the GOP is "well who cares the democrats are worse".

Which is fine when you are the opposition, but is useless when you are in power.

Honestly it's not really fine when you're the opposition, either. You can sort of function, but not really as well as you should be.
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Corrik posted...

Suprak the Stud posted...

Corrik posted...

Nelson_Mandela posted...

Corrik posted...

I don't know if I should be happy or upset that Donald Trump is basically destroying the Republican party. It has been weak and inefficient for years due to infighting. However, Paul Ryan is a mighty blow.

Depends on your definition of weak and inefficient. The GOP stonewalled Obama for 6 years and made that presidency far less disastrous than he hoped to be.

They can't ever agree on anything besides to stop democrats.

There has absolutely been a leadership vacuum at the top even since Bush spiraled into unpopularity, and the only thing that seems to unite all the fractioning pieces of the GOP is "well who cares the democrats are worse".

You can almost pinpoint exactly to the Tea Party crap for the fracturing of the Republican party.

That certainly didn't help. They are a fringe of the Republican Party, but they pushed out a lot of moderates in the name of purity, and spend a lot of their time rallying for causes that are so far out of line with the typical American that they have no hope of ever getting passed. They're basically just there to puff out their chest and brag about how conservative they are without ever attempting to get anything substantive done. They've also contributed to claiming the careers of many well respected Republicans, including Boehner and now Ryan.

I mean, establishment Republicans are also at fault here because when the Tea Party emerged they sort of half supported them and propped them up to show how mad the "average" American was with Obama. They weren't prepared for them to turn on them and start gobbling up the seat of better politicians.

In comparison, in what might also be a wave election (in the house, not the senate, I don't care what the crazy ranting republican guy says - the democrats aren't winning the senate), conservative democrats aren't getting pushed out the same way liberal republicans were when this happened last time:

https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/illinois-house-district-3-primary-election

I don't quite know what this means or if the trend can continue, but it looks like the democrats are okay with keeping a bigger tent while the republicans seem hellbent on shrinking theirs.
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Jakyl25 posted...

Corrik posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

Corrik posted...

I don't know if I should be happy or upset that Donald Trump is basically destroying the Republican party. It has been weak and inefficient for years due to infighting. However, Paul Ryan is a mighty blow.

How do you think they recover, especially if Trump gets re-elected?

The question is, if the party is becoming better or worse.

It depends what it morphs into.

Well in my hypothetical Trump term 2 scenario they would morph into the party of Trump values

There is no reason to do this as he would be in the tail end and could not run again. That said, Trump's positions for the most part isn't the problem. It is how he goes about them and what he says.
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Suprak the Stud posted...

I don't care what the crazy ranting republican guy says - the democrats aren't winning the senate

not with that attitude

It's actually not as silly impossible as it used to be with Jones picking up the AL seat but yeah.
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Corrik posted...

Nelson_Mandela posted...

Corrik posted...

I don't know if I should be happy or upset that Donald Trump is basically destroying the Republican party. It has been weak and inefficient for years due to infighting. However, Paul Ryan is a mighty blow.

Depends on your definition of weak and inefficient. The GOP stonewalled Obama for 6 years and made that presidency far less disastrous than he hoped to be.

They can't ever agree on anything besides to stop democrats.

Stopping evil even if you are not advancing good can still be a worthy cause.
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I mean, I'm not saying they shouldn't try! Crazier things have happened. But if I was a betting man, I would bet on them, best case scenario, not gaining seats.

They have to defend WV, IN, MT, MO, ND, FL, and aren't sure things in states like OH, MI, and maybe WI/MN (probably not MN but its a weird special election so who knows). On the flip side, the Dems have good shots at NV, with possible AZ/TN weirdness depending on how things are looking at the time.

It isn't a good map.
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Seph certainly woke up with his Vlado pants on today
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Jakyl25 posted...

Seph certainly woke up with his Vlado pants on today

Difference is that under those pants is a circumcised penis!
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Seph is totally incapable of making serious posts anymore. He's exclusively in troll mode.
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LapisLazuli posted...

Seph is totally incapable of making serious posts anymore.

anymore?
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Can you believe it beat the Shawshank Redemption?

it beating pulp fiction was worse.
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Suprak the Stud posted...

LordoftheMorons posted...

Anonymous GOP Congressman on Trump:
https://tinyurl.com/ybeqgz68

Apparently he thinks that Trump would be impeached if Trump were to fire Mueller... as long as it happened after the primaries were over

It's like Forrest Gump won the presidency, but an evil, really fucking stupid Forrest Gump. He can't help himself. He's just a fucking idiot who thinks he's winning when people are b*tching about him. He really does see the world as ratings and attention. I hate Forrest Gump. I listen to your podcast and heard you hate it too. What an overrated piece of shit movie. Can you believe it beat the Shawshank Redemption?

I don't know who this guy is, but I would like to go drinking with him just to see what insane rants he spirals off into.

I mean, he brings up some really good points
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

Can you believe it beat the Shawshank Redemption?

it beating pulp fiction was worse.

both deserved to win
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Ive always thought that its dumb that we award things like films or music (or wrestling matches) by best of the year

Should be more like HoF voting IMO. Does a film deserve an Oscar or not?
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Jakyl25 posted...

Ive always thought that its dumb that we award things like films or music (or wrestling matches) by best of the year

Should be more like HoF voting IMO. Does a film deserve an Oscar or not?

implement the BCS
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

Seph certainly woke up with his Vlado pants on today

Difference is that under those pants is a circumcised penis!

This is the hardest I've ever laughed at something SephG has said.
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

LapisLazuli posted...

Seph is totally incapable of making serious posts anymore.

anymore?

There was a time when he at least attempted to come off as a normal human.
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TheRock1525 posted...

This is the hardest I've ever laughed at something SephG has said.

i dunno, "i hate trump more than anyone else on the board" probably gave me a bigger laugh.
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LapisLazuli posted...

There was a time when he at least attempted to come off as a normal human.

i've seen sephy post since he first came to the board and i can't say i remember this.
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I mean it's always funny when he insists that the 6 years of Republican pissbaby tantrums under Obama was "bravery".
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it's also funny that he doesn't offer the slightest explanation as to what horrendously evil things obama would have done that the republicans so bravely prevented.
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LapisLazuli posted...

I mean it's always funny when he insists that the 6 years of Republican pissbaby tantrums under Obama was "bravery".

He believes that the Democratic agenda is evil and will destroy America as we know it. Viewed from that perspective, yes anything that stops that fate would be heroic.
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https://www.opcw.org/news/article/opcw-will-deploy-fact-finding-mission-to-douma-syria/

Would be nice to let them do their thing before escalating matters further...but I guess we never learn.

4/11/2018
VICE - The leading Republican running for Paul Ryans seat is a white nationalist

Longshot candidate and self-described pro-white politician Paul Nehlen is now the leading Republican to take over Ryans Wisconsin seat now that Ryan, the current Speaker of the House, is not running for reelection.

Nehlen incited international outrage in February, when he tweeted a photo of Prince Harrys fiance Meghan Markle with an image of a dark-skinned, prehistoric human known as Cheddar Man. (Markles mother is black.) Alongside the image, Nehlen tweeted, Honey, does this tie make my face look pale?

That racist tweet prompted Twitter to permanently ban Nehlen, though it wasnt the first time hed drawn criticism on the platform. In January, he posted a list of his critics and claimed most of them were Jewish. Hes also used the hashtag #ItsOkayToBeWhite, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which dubbed Nehlen an outrage artist.

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgzpd/the-leading-republican-running-for-paul-ryans-seat-is-a-white-nationalist

Glad he's a longshot, but that's not a good look to see this guy trying to fill in Paul Ryan's shoes.
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Someone will fill in the gap. I heard Scott Walker might run.

The Republican party is not turning into some extremist party. (Assuming accurate facts are even facts in this scenario)
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Looking good guys.

https://www.apnews.com/45e28f10baa2460fb17a0b101c366067
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/984374422587965440

"i'm not saying when we're attacking syria BUT ANYWAY WE BEAT ISIS!"
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/984374422587965440

"i'm not saying when we're attacking syria BUT ANYWAY WE BEAT ISIS!"

I just learned from the top response that the Syria thing was just a false flag hoax anyway so I guess there's no need to care anymore.
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Apparently some of the Trans community think FOSTA, a bipartisan plan, is a Republican attack on the trans community because trans people are blackballed from real every day lives and have to resort to sex work to make a living.

(Hopefully the "some" in my comment is limited to the few I have seen say it). Anecdotal you would say. Maybe.
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Corrik posted...

The Republican party is not turning into some extremist party.

Technically accurate!
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