Octopus Overlords

Jaymann wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 2:06 pm Consider the source.

Paingod wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:39 pm Did they Photoshop 30lbs off Trump's image there?

noxiousdog wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 2:53 pm

Paingod wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:39 pm Did they Photoshop 30lbs off Trump's image there?

Yes. This is a thing.

Zarathud wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 2:26 pm Pocketbook. Trump inherited the Obama economy and hasn't ruined it yet--despite trying!

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 1:52 pm Yes, it's low but who the fuck approves of that?

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2019 1:52 am

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 1:52 pm Yes, it's low but who the fuck approves of that?

Sociopaths. Why?

coopasonic wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2019 9:04 am I really want to say "not all sociopaths" here.

Holman wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2019 5:30 pm Maybe this is an overreaction, but it doesn't feel like it.

Thread:

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2019 8:16 pm I don't get it. Stop them from what? Making assertions?

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2019 10:06 pm I read the tweet. If it were a headline I might have understood there was an article to go with it.

It seems counter-intuitive to have an in depth discussion 128 characters at a time.

I disliked Twitter when it was used to tell the world what shoes you're trying on at the store. I'm fundamentally opposed to the idea that it is a forum for public debate.

Now get off my lawn you kids.

Holman wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2019 10:31 pm
Whether you like it or not, Twitter is now journalism's first draft. Significant threads indicated as such are the equivalent of yesterday's blockbuster headline+article.

Holman wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 10:47 am Speaking of Twitter, Trump has gone on some kind of bender, tweeting or retweeting more than 50 times in 24 hours.

Nearly all of it is rage at the media, at Democrats, and at the Mueller Report, which he continues to claim is the work of corrupt and dirty cops who exonerated him.

He also went off a weird rant against Twitter itself, declaring that it censors conservatives, that it is "hard to log onto" (?), and that it keeps taking followers away from him.

In related news, Twitter just did a sweep and deleted the accounts of thousands of Russian and Saudi bots. Also, this is a pretty sure sign that Trump obsessively keeps track of his number of followers. He has almost 60 million, but a few thousand going away is still something that registers and enrages him.

Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States of America.

El Guapo wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 11:01 am Hey, those bots are some of his best friends.

Democrats are demanding testimony from high-ranking current and former White House officials, as well as years of Trump’s financial records and the unredacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report.

Caught at the center of the crossfire is former White House counsel Don McGahn, who was cited by Mueller more than any other Trump official in the 448-page report on Russian election meddling, possible Trump-campaign coordination with the Kremlin and possible obstruction of justice by Trump himself.

On Tuesday, Trump told The Washington Post that he did not see any reason to “go any further” in allowing his aides to testify before congressional committees, “especially in Congress where it’s very partisan — obviously very partisan.”

YellowKing wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 12:07 pm I'm kind of tired of the whole "Well that's just Trump being Trump!" argument. The guy is sick in the head and needs to be removed from office.

YellowKing wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 12:07 pm I'm kind of tired of the whole "Well that's just Trump being Trump!" argument. The guy is sick in the head and needs to be removed from office.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 10:48 am Similar to the Kardashians, I suspect he is an attention vampire. If we could somehow just completely ignore them (and him) they'd starve to death from lack of attention. Instead, we elected one as President so we're all boned.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 12:33 pm

YellowKing wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 12:07 pm I'm kind of tired of the whole "Well that's just Trump being Trump!" argument. The guy is sick in the head and needs to be removed from office.

I'm sick and tired of the whole "x is liberal Trump hater" dodge, where if you criticize Trump you are an extreme liberal to be dismissed. What do they call that? Affirming the consequent? Arguing in circles?

Response to everything political:
P1: Criticism of Trump is exclusively the province of an extremist liberals
P2: Extremist liberals are to be dismissed
P3: Disagreeing with P1 is a criticism of Trump
C: Profit!

This dissonance is unshakable or at least it has been to date. I can't be even be in listening distance of that behavior any more.

pr0ner wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 1:24 pm

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 10:48 am Similar to the Kardashians, I suspect he is an attention vampire. If we could somehow just completely ignore them (and him) they'd starve to death from lack of attention. Instead, we elected one as President so we're all boned.

Maybe we need to stick Colin Robinson in a room with him and see what happens.

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 3:03 pm

pr0ner wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 1:24 pm

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 10:48 am Similar to the Kardashians, I suspect he is an attention vampire. If we could somehow just completely ignore them (and him) they'd starve to death from lack of attention. Instead, we elected one as President so we're all boned.

Maybe we need to stick Colin Robinson in a room with him and see what happens.

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Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2019 9:44 am We have a "Cheif" Hostage Negotiator?