Well played. I have no recollection of that whatsoever, but I stand by my statement in the context of this thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
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Well played. I have no recollection of that whatsoever, but I stand by my statement in the context of this thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
Huh. That poll lists Yoshi as white. The wiki stated otherwise.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...4&d=1475350525
My name is Legion, for we are many.
Yeah, I hate the way EVERY president always is accused of being Muslim and not being born in the US.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Weird. Someone should update it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew
It's like it started right after he took the oath of office! Remember how nobody ever hurled any insults or accusations at Dubya?Quote:
Originally Posted by AstroBlue
Ah, the good ol' days when people still shocked to find out I was white, lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
Wait what.
https://calliander.net/lol/wat.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
I knew he was white but he wears a mask everywhere
Every president gets insulted and accused, and most of it is partisan crap, but the level was taken up a few notches with Obama. I've never seen such vitriol used before. It goes well beyond typical politics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew
I don't know, it sure reminds me of somethingQuote:
Originally Posted by Melf
It ramps up each term due to - identify politics, more advanced marketing of the news, the strength the emotion fear has over other emotions, and how those push you into one of the two points in the the binary structure of two-party US politics - so that you will be a dedicated and repeat customer, no matter how shoddy of a product the brand continues produce.
Why are we surprised our politicians are suffering from the same decline in quality control (which is exchanged for greater profit without the necessary innovation to drive price) everything else the USA has manufactured from beer, to automobiles, to even iPhones (my 5c lasted 1 year over my 3 lasting 4).
Clinton was a womanizer. Bush was a retard. Obama was a Muslim. Now Trump... were there nude statues of Barack Obama in city parks in 2008?
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Originally Posted by Fe 26
Hey, this is playing at the Theater Oswald was caught at tomorrow at 5:30!
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During a speech honoring Mel Brooks as a Kennedy Center Honoree, President Barack Obama mentioned going to see Blazing Saddles (1974) at the age of 13. When Brooks asked how he got in with the ratings restriction, the president replied, "I think I had a fake ID,"
I am no fan of Dubya, and am a fan of Obama, but I really don't think this is true. Bush was compared to a chimp, Hitler, a movie came out about him getting assassinated, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
The New York Times obtained what they say is one of Donald Trump's tax returns and experts say it's possible he could have avoided paying taxes for more than a decade.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/us...ump-taxes.html
If it takes you 20 years to earn back the money you lost, why should you pay taxes while you are in the red? Chances are, by the 2000 dot com boom, his earnings were back to enough to be in the black and pay taxes. Also, read closer, Trump leaked that story himself.
Claiming losses to reduce or eliminate tax liability is not tax evasion.
Yes, nobody cares.
Your mom is nobody.
Regardless, this is almost the most important facet to the story:
4D Chess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
Who needs campaign money, really.
The response to this article is just evidence of how little people know about taxes.Quote:
Originally Posted by dog$
You don't pay taxes on money you lose. Shocking.
The question is what did he lose that money on.
That said NYT only has his 1995 return. For all we know he had a 916 million dollar gain in 1996 and paid taxes on it (I doubt it, but nobody knows).
He should have hired Sam Rothstein.
Yeah, my wife brought it up and was shocked that I wasn't up in arms about it. I explained about my broker having run a scam/stealing money from me and other clients, and how I get to declare that as losses - probably won't have to pay taxes for a few years. Made sense to her then. The important thing, like you said:Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
He wouldn't have sent that if there was a chance the real reason could be discovered. It's probably settling lawsuits/scrapped building projects/etc. since those are his forte.Quote:
The question is what did he lose that money on.
What is the strategy here? I thought whistle blowers cared only about uncovering truth, not attention, publicity, hype, etc.
Why does motive matter if it's the truth? Snitches and CI's are usually criminals too.
I'm concerned about it simply because it benefits stop-and-frisk Trump. Seems he might be President at this rate.
Meh, Bush was compared to a chimp because he said (literally) a book's worth of stupid shit. The Hitler comparison was indeed unfair, but I don't recall the attacks being as personal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Also, Trump not paying taxes doesn't make him an evader if the system allows it. It does make him obviously full of shit, but his supporters don't seem to care that he lies all the time. Personally, I'm not as offended at him actually lying as I am of him doing it so openly and brazenly.
Nope, Trump not paying taxes isn't unfair or dishonest. When he does it, it makes him smart.
I wanted to edit my post, but it comes up blank. Hmm.
Anyway, my point was that there's nothing legally wrong with what Trump did tax-wise. It just proves he's a horrible businessman and completely full of shit.
Trump should have just asked for a loan like GMC and the banks did.
That NYT article hints at what may have caused the loss.
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The 1995 tax records, never before disclosed, reveal the extraordinary tax benefits that Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, derived from the financial wreckage he left behind in the early 1990s through mismanagement of three Atlantic City casinos, his ill-fated foray into the airline business and his ill-timed purchase of the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan.
Failure is the greatest loophole.
So when he gets assassinated everyone can be like, "OH SNAP CLINTON." It's circular reasoning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
How's that rape case going, Julian?
lol: https://twitter.com/JesseRodriguez/s...rc=twsrc%5Etfw
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Due to security concerns at the Ecuadorian Embassy, Julian Assange's balcony announcement on Tues has been cancelled, per @wikileaks
Why does he need a press event for something that can be done with a mouse click?
Because he's a bullshit narcissist rapist who loves attention. I really fucking hate that dude.
Haha, now when he dies mysteriously in his room it can still be pinned on Clinton.
He can just kill himself whenever, the True Believers will know what they know.
Snowden is the same way, minus the rapey bits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Satsuki
We get the whistleblowers we deserve.
IA. I dislike them both and think their punishments are due tbh. They both exhibit as criminals and I will regard them as such.
Good thing my wife isn't allowed to vote. Not that she would ever vote for Hillary, but still.
Is that real? That can't be real, it's too funny.
I can't tell. A Google news search runs like a greatest hits playlist of all the daffy shit he has ever said. One hint that it might be fake is that he doesn't appear to be obsessed with gay sex, and that's typically a Pat Robertson hallmark.
Oh, my sweet summer child.Quote:
Originally Posted by GohanX
I mean, you love Martin Shkreli and hate Snowden because Snowden is a criminal? At this rate, I would say we as a people deserve Trump.Quote:
Originally Posted by Satsuki
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Originally Posted by Space Pirate Roberts
What a sweetheart.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Robertson
Election 2016 Battle of the Smarmy Smugs!
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Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
It still doesn't top this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b19Iheu_Tts
I'm on the fence about Shkreli's criminality. The jacking up the price of the drugs wasn't criminal, but did he engage in insider trading? probably. He's just a sexy criminal. The other dudes are not sexy. very different.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anthony
I admire your honesty.
I like both of them. Fuck these people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Satsuki
I was more along the line that, shkreli's moves probably SHOULD have been illegal, and Snowden should have had an avenue that had any chance of exposing this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Satsuki
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This sums up the human mind pretty well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Satsuki
This election year would be a lot easier if one of them was attractive.
Yeah, wow, all those white people and their shit-eating line delivery. The worst.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
Yes, I watched it. Get mad at me. Wah.
Good point, actually. I'll have to consider that in future discussion. (On Snowden's account I mean)Quote:
Originally Posted by Anthony
Shkreli, its more of a systemic thing. He's doing the same shit Pfizer and the like do on a daily basis. I don't like our healthcare system, it should be in sync with the rest of the world, but it's hard for me to shit on a guy who is maneuvering his livelihood in a corrupt system. I don't necessarily condone his actions, but I don't fault them either. Congress attempting to bully him into feeling bad is like a bully picking on another bully - it got nowhere and both looked ridiculous. I believe he is a case that needs to have non televised and an extremely well vetted jury when he goes to trial next year - he gets off on ANY attention and the public has fed heartily off the mightier than thou vibes. The jury will undoubtedly do the same - I have zero faith that he will be tried fairly, because they will be basing their verdict on the price gouging as opposed to the actual crime - insider trading. I hope he doesn't do jail time, as I feel he is a victim of easy scapegoating and media BS. The same people who bash CNN and Fox News and other media outlets eagerly buy into the story that he is "evil," and that's a huge disconnect.
Obviously, I have no issue with people who find issue with HIM....that would be hypocritical. But I encourage anyone to recognize the bias, and realize no human, nor criminal's story is black and white. (I say this to myself as well in taking Snowden under consideration. Assange is still a jackass tho, I won't give that one up lol)
On the subject of attractiveness, I'm very sure I'm in the minority on that one - I think there's a handful of chicks out there who have fame crushes on him, but most find him about as attractive as Trump. I don't think he's conventionally attractive and is yet another reason why he's been demonized - he's short, shrimpy, and vaguely foreign looking, all good reasons for the crowd to turn against him. By his own assumption, he's "the people's heel," and it's very true.
I could seriously write a book about this dude I think about it way too much
After reading more about him, I took the price gouging as a form of protest.
And it worked. But big corp wants to take the light off their collective practices and put it all on his shoulders.
Rumor is he's talking to Hiro about buying 4chan.
If by "rumor" you mean "public tweets" then you're right.
Yeah he tweets about stupid shit he never follows through with all the time, lol. He also emailed some geneticist about becoming Harambe, so I think we can be rest assured that 4chan is safe.
Assange did a publicity stunt and now the Alex Jones crowd is crying on their keyboards. Betrayal! Sell out! Wah!
im so excited for dad debate 2k16 tonight!!!!!!
I swear, the only (and I mean ONLY) thing appealing to me about Hillary winning is four years of great Onion articles about Tim Kaine. I'm gonna miss Diamond Joe.
Oh man, I didn't even think about that. He's such a dorkus!!!!! I love it
Onion Joe will live forever in our hearts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew
Onion Joe was so influential that even SNL copied him.
https://calliander.net/lol/biden.jpg
Let's go, Hillary!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhYgGudYJQI
So which candidate is going to fix all of that?
Do I get a refund if I vote for the one they're implying and it doesn't happen? Like all that shit Obama said he would do?
And what if I disagree? Nothing is going to change my mind on guns. Nothing in the realm of reality. They would literally have to become Megatons. They would have to float around, and kill Optimus Prime.
Kaine is incapable of letting Pence speak. It's not a good look.
Give him a break. He's excited he's on television.
I'm SCREAMINGQuote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
Tim Kaine is seriously shit. This whole "dork dad" thing needs to die.
All of my liberal friends have the same status: "When we vote in November, we don't vote for the VP."
So Pence won.
Dick Cheney/Joe Biden made the VP slot insanely pointless
also: Republicans voting for Hillary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k8ET53ab7E
The thing about the VP job is that it is only as powerful as the Prez allows it. For most of history the VP has been a useless appendage to the President. Recently that's changed. My guess is that Tim Kaine would be forgotten (until Hillary dies from parkinson's amirate?) but Pence would basically be the guy running things while Trump MAGAs all over the place.
"I'm also very pleased that [Indiana is] well on our way to becoming the most pro-adoption state in America."
That implies there are states who oppose adoption. That's not a thing. Pro-adoption is not a thing.
Looks like we got ourselves an anti-pro-adoption activist on our hands. You scum.
Except for when you have kids, you mean.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
I was too busy playing Horizon last night to watch this. I tried to watch it a few minutes ago. Stopped halfway into the first response to the first question when it became woefully apparent that instead of addressing the questions being asked this was just going to be a recital of prepared statements.
I haven't watched any debates but I've read about Pence's governing of Indiana and it seems in stride with Walker and Wisconsin. Using their respective states as stepping stones for higher federal offices by pandering to the national GOP ultra conservative base while ruining their states reputation and economy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
I was a little disappointed bc the dad jokes weren't flying as freely as I would have liked.
Trump gives us gems like "a very against police judge," but this is the grammar gaffe that leaves you breathless?Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
His point is not calling it a grammar gaffe.
Except in the English speaking world, that's exactly what it is. Pence clearly meant to convey something along the lines of "state with the highest adoption rate" and flubbed it. Unless you really think he believes there are states actively opposed to adoption. Of course, then you run into the problem of that not jiving in the context of the rest of his answer.Quote:
Originally Posted by bbobb
Or just keep the snark turned up to eleven. Either way.
It's not the grammar. It's the doublespeak.
He doesn't believe other states are opposed to it, but he does believe people will be impressed by his landing a blow on that straw man. Do people who say All Lives Matter actually think some believe No Lives Matter? No, but they're arguing against a position that doesn't exist to dodge having to own up to what they're really trying to say, which is, in Pence's case, that Indiana is doing everything it can to reduce the availability of abortions.
Doing shit like trying to pass a law mandating burial or cremation for fetal remains isn't being "pro-adoption."
Please never quit tnl.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
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Anyone who thinks Trump doesn't love him some abortion hasn't been paying attention.
Aw :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Anthony
Aw :(Quote:
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You know who pays the least attention to all the shit Trump says?Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew
Trump.
This is very true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
http://www.270towin.com/2016-simulation/daily-trends/
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/...tion-forecast/
Heuristics, Trump has a less than 1 in 10 chance. Nate Silver, Trump has a 1 in 4 chance.o
Now-cast remains fun. http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...8a881396aa.jpg
Found 'im. I found the right's answer to the left's popular political comics:
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/...oreilly-factor
He goes around Chinatown asking people for whom English is not a first language if they know karate and who they're voting for. Some people don't respond because they don't have the same command of the language as regular people because they're not from here like regular people! Ha ha!
I found a couple of the comments to be humorous at least!
When hyperbole goes wild.Quote:
In this year of cruel xenophobia, this venom from @jessebwatters is far and away the most heartless thing I have seen.
Crueller than the police stone cold murdering people
I would be more offended from that bit as a comedian than as Chinese.
"Do I bow?" seems racist, but to be fair, you really don't know how you're going to react to your first encounter with an unwhite until it happens.
Environmental racism...Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
I want Trump to win, just so I can taste their sweet, delicious tears.
There might be some truth to that. Climate change deniers are almost all racist.
I'm not sure "environmental racism" is the best term, but I get what she's saying and so do you: climate change disproportionately affects brown people.