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[Madrun Badrun]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4174519.stm

Source:  The brits just got 30 Rock.

[Mupepe]

oh god.  I was in the break room at work buying some shit off of newegg on my phone when a contractor that works here started talking to me.

Him: I don't get it.  All the branches have special forces.

Me: What?

Him: *Points to Fox News on the tv* All the branches have Special Forces.  Send them in, kill all the Islamists they can.  Get them out and bomb it to hell from a Navy ship.

Me: Oh.  I don't know.

Him: I don't get what's so hard.  It's what we used to do.

Me: *sigh* Everyone is just paranoid about getting sucked in long term by putting boots on the ground.

Him: What?  We used to do this all the time.  We don't even act like we have the greatest military anymore.  What's going on nowadays?  I don't get it.

Me: Yeah.  I don't get it either

I don't know why but the fact that this guys is a

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super overweight, short and dopey Asian with thick glasses and a heavy accent

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made the whole thing hilarious.  What a badass.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Great post A++ wow

We can't all compete with your standard shitposting sir. We can just try our best but since we don't suffer from the innate social failures you carry around like a bucket we must accept second best.

[tiesto]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4174519.stm

Source:  The brits just got 30 Rock.

Preliminary tests for this bomb were held adjacent to the data center where the Bore is hosted...

[Am_I_Anonymous]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4174519.stm

Source:  The brits just got 30 Rock.

Preliminary tests for this bomb were held adjacent to the data center where the Bore is hosted...

LOL, now that shit is funny.

[brawndolicious]

Didn't the Sacred Band of Thebes suggest soldiers loving each other makes them harder to kill? You definitely see an element of homoeroticism in US military culture.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Didn't the Sacred Band of Thebes suggest soldiers loving each other makes them harder to kill? You definitely see an element of homoeroticism in US military culture.

Uh and where would that be?

[brawndolicious]

Movies.

[CatsCatsCats]

was about to say, c'mon AiA, you're old enough to have seen top gun when it came out

[benjipwns]

Send them in, kill all the Islamists they can.  Get them out and bomb it to hell from a Navy ship.
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Him: I don't get what's so hard.  It's what we used to do.
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Him: What?  We used to do this all the time.

When was this? Grenada?

[Great Rumbler]

"You bring a lot of people here from another culture and what they will tend to do is congregate together, that’s a natural thing, which makes them much easier targets for radicalization," Ben Carson said on Breitbart News Radio. "Particularly if you bring them into an environment where a lot of people are resentful of the fact that they are here. That’s just going to create incidents that will increase further the likelihood of radicalization."

That's some serious truth-talking right there, but I don't think he realizes just how incredible what he just said is.

[benjipwns]

Trump da god, standing up to lieberal media, insulting losers 

http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/11/30/trump-mulls-debate-boycott-unless-cnn-donates-5m/

Donald Trump proposed demanding $5 million from CNN in order for him to participate in the next Republican presidential debate during a rally in Macon, Ga. on Monday.

Trump felt the payment — which he promised to donate to “Wounded Warriors or the vets” — was in order because CNN “doesn’t treat me properly” and because he felt he was responsible for the high ratings CNN got during the GOP debate it hosted in September.

“CNN had 23 million people. It was the biggest show in the history of CNN,” Trump said. And the billionaire businessman is reopening negotiations over whether he will lend his star power to the debate the network is hosting Dec. 15.

“How about I tell CNN that I’m not gonna do the next debate?” Trump asked the crowd.

“I won’t do the debate unless they pay me $5 million, all of which money goes to the Wounded Warriors or to vets,” Trump said, following a segue into how people who are “really, really, really smart like I am,” don’t need teleprompters.

Trump was particularly stung by what he felt was unfair coverage of his closed-door meeting with African-American ministers earlier Monday.

Trump predicted the television pundits will call him “chicken” if he carries out his threat, but he attached little value to the opinions of the “talking heads, who are not smart people at all.”

“They call them elite,” Trump said. “My education is better than any of them. I’m smarter than they are.”

After saying that he didn’t want to point the finger at any specific pundits, he added:

“Guys like Karl Rove. He spends hundreds of millions of dollars on campaigns, he wins nothing. There are some people that are losers.”

[Joe Molotov]

was about to say, c'mon AiA, you're old enough to have seen top gun when it came out

50 Shades of Grey is basically a hetero remake of Full Metal Jacket.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/671792600052027393

Donald J. TrumpVerified account
‏@realDonaldTrump
Highly untalented Wash Post blogger, Jennifer Rubin, a real dummy, never writes fairly about me. Why does Wash Post have low IQ people?

[Tasty]

was about to say, c'mon AiA, you're old enough to have seen top gun when it came out

50 Shades of Grey is basically a hetero remake of Full Metal Jacket.

Can't wait for the re-remake, 69 Shades of Ghey.

[Steve Contra]

Had a good year, remembered my annual JayDubya abortion donation

[Tasty]

Wait, if you donate enough does JayDubya get aborted?

[Madrun Badrun]

Paying money to murder children; the free market is awesome.

[Phoenix Dark]

the invisible vacuum

[Brehvolution]

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Had a good year, remembered my annual JayDubya abortion donation

Jaydub: "Jokes on you, sociopath. Less than 3% of that will go toward abortion. Wait..."

[Phoenix Dark]

 
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/fox-news-host-floats-new-muslim-smear-then-loses-it-on-twitt?utm_term=.wpRg3XKBg#.bmGVOjBrV

[Samson Manhug]

It's interesting being raised on the internet and experiencing all different sorts of trolls, flamers, board warriors, etc. and thinking these were only contained in small groups of internet hobbyists—and then seeing public figures exhibit the same traits on social media.

[Shadow Mod]

It's interesting being raised on the internet and experiencing all different sorts of trolls, flamers, board warriors, etc. and thinking these were only contained in small groups of internet hobbyists—and then seeing public figures exhibit the same traits on social media.

Douchebags douchebag no matter the medium.

[Phoenix Dark]

A person's amount of master's degrees certainly trumps the amount of 911 victims a person knows, logically.

[Madrun Badrun]

Though to be fair, it trumps almost everything. 

[Joe Molotov]

You also need to account for whether their IQ is over 160.

[Joe Molotov]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/261757-trump-on-terrorists-you-have-to-take-out-their-families

"I would do my best, absolute best – I mean one of the problems we have or one of the reasons we're so ineffective, you know, they're trying to, they're using them as shields. It's a horrible thing," the real estate tycoon said.

"But we're fighting a very politically correct war. And the other thing is with the terrorists, you have to take out their families," Trump said.

"When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don't kid yourself. But they say they don't care about their lives. You have to take out their families."

Comrade Trump will being back collective punishment like we had in the good ol' days. 

[Madrun Badrun]

Honestly he isn't wrong.  Didn't OBL have letters telling his kids not to become terrorists? 

Terrorism would stop if everyone just decided to give imperialism a chance again.  And I don't mean wussy 1910's onword British imperialism, since that was full of terrorists, like the irish, jews, and Gandhi.   

[Tasty]

It was a joke, calm yourself bigot.

[Joe Molotov]

Police/FBI investigated reports of 8 people allegedly celebrating on an alleged roof. President Trump confirmed, not a single pant left unjizzed at Breitbart.

Dishonest left-wing outlets like MTV, National Journal and Mediaite are desperately spinning the revelation of these contemporaneous reports as proof  Trump lied. In a burst of Orwellian memory-holing, MTV even brought back one of the witnesses so she could recant her story 14 year later.

Nevertheless, all that spin cannot change the fact that news reports of American Muslims cheering the fall of the World Trade Center have been found.

[CatsCatsCats]

Oh okay well if they really cheered we should probably just glass the region and round up all the ones hiding in free countries

[brob]

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123885&page=1

what if the muslims in new jersey were actually mossad

[Great Rumbler]

Carson last week visited Jordan to tour Syrian refugee camps in an effort to bolster his foreign affairs credentials, something he has been criticized for lacking. Carson called the camps "really quite nice" and suggested they should serve as a long-term solution. On TODAY, he called the Jordanians "very generous people" who have set up camps and hospitals "that work very well" but just lack to the resources to support the efforts.

Here is a picture of life in Azraq: The camp is a bleak expanse of row after row of white sheet metal shelters. There is no electricity or air conditioning or heat against the scalding desert summer temperatures or cold winds of winter. Lack of electricity adds further hardship, as people are forced to choose between having light to see their way to the bathroom at night (six shelters share one bathroom) and charging their cellphones, which connects them to family and the outside world.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/12/syrian-refugee-camps-really-quite-nice-or-brutal-hellhole-ben-carson-explains

 

[benjipwns]

Police/FBI investigated reports of 8 people allegedly celebrating on an alleged roof. President Trump confirmed, not a single pant left unjizzed at Breitbart.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/12/01/7-pieces-of-documentation-that-vindicate-trumps-claim-of-911-muslim-celebrations/

This list has been updated from 7 to 9.

UPDATE: A just uncovered CBS News report about “swarms of suspects” cheering 9/11 from rooftops has validated Trump’s “thousands” claim.

Losers take on Trump at their own folly.

[Madrun Badrun]

http://video.vanityfair.com/watch/the-reagan-administration-s-chilling-response-to-the-aids-crisis

[benjipwns]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/top-fundraiser-quits-ben-carsons-campaign-amid-internal-strife-1449094732

One of Ben Carson’s top fundraisers told the Republican presidential candidate on Wednesday that he is quitting the campaign after he was unable to orchestrate a shake-up of its senior staff.

Bill Millis, an heir to a High Point, N.C., sock-manufacturing fortune, told the retired neurosurgeon in an email Wednesday morning that he is leaving the campaign’s three-man board, Mr. Millis said in an interview. He still believes Mr. Carson would make the best president, he said, but is no longer confident the staff values his input.

“I disagree with the campaign, but I’m hoping and praying that the concerns I have are wrong,” Mr. Millis said. “I’m one, and they are the masses. And they decided to move forward with the campaign as is.”

Mr. Millis said he first became disillusioned in late October when Mr. Giles, a Carson confidant since 1994 who was the chief executive of Mr. Carson’s pre-campaign apparatus, was forced out. Mr. Giles had personally hired Mr. Bennett and Ed Brookover, the chief strategist, among other senior officials, before leaving the campaign in May to launch a 501-C(4) organization to research and write Mr. Carson’s policy papers.

A Houston attorney with no prior political campaign experience, Mr. Giles spent the summer developing policy white papers. After a federally mandated 120-day “cooling off period” for campaign officials to coordinate with super PACs, Mr. Giles contacted the two major super PACs backing Mr. Carson and asked them to consolidate resources.

“Literally on the 121st day, Terry called me and said, ‘Let’s get together and figure out how we can work together,’ ” said John Philip Sousa IV, chairman of the 2016 Committee, one of the two leading pro-Carson super PACs.

But Mr. Giles’s efforts to get the super PACs to coordinate went for naught, Mr. Sousa said. “There are at this point not a lot of coordinated efforts between the two organizations,” Mr. Sousa said in an interview on Tuesday.

Mr. Giles then attempted a return to the campaign after severing his ties with the super PACs on Oct. 17. But the campaign’s leadership was no longer interested in his help. None of the policy papers Mr. Giles spent the summer preparing have been released.

“He had a disagreement with the campaign over priorities and messaging and who knows what else,” Mr. Sousa said. “It’s really a shame.”

[benjipwns]

[Samson Manhug]

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123885&page=1

what if the muslims in new jersey were actually mossad

This is really worth reading. Pretty interesting little piece of history.

[Human Snorenado]

Oh yay, after today I look forward to President Trump next year

[Madrun Badrun]

the ad



Having kids imply Hilary is going to bring world peace and end gun violence.  Also that its going to be hard being both a president and a grandmother

[Joe Molotov]

Come sit on Gram Gram Hillary's lap, Arvie.

[Trent Dole]

Oh Hillary, I'm not opposed to voting for you because you have a cunt, I'm opposed to voting for you because you ARE a cunt. Jesus. (less of one than the entire field of the opposing party, but still.)

[Phoenix Dark]

man someone needs to put together a top 10 list of the worst online-only political ads of this year. That shit is trash.

[Steve Contra]

http://www.vox.com/2015/12/3/9843670/donald-trump-anti-semitic

Donald Trump, Republican Frontrunner

[Madrun Badrun]

Meh that is not nearly bad as the other insensitive things he has done.  Definitely not anti-Semitic. 

He stood in front of a pro-Israel crowd and told them Israel was (at least partially) to blame for the failure to come to terms with the Palestinians.

Well no shit.  If he has already told you he doesn't want your money, or votes I guess, he might as well tell the truth then. 

[Steve Contra]

He's done worse things, sure, but not to a highly influential group of REPUBLICANS.  And yes, the old Jews are crafty negotiators is definitely time worn anti-semitism.

[Phoenix Dark]

Didn't you watch Gran Torino, Steve? That's just how friends talk to each other, you old...wait, what ethnicity are you again?

[Steve Contra]

The day after Thanksgiving my friend's (my friend is openly gay) dad was in town.  He started complaining about the Irish and the "Poles" like it was 1905, started ranting about the "Imperial Japanese" to a Korean girl who he thought was Japanese (his excuse was "you're so pretty I thought you were Japanese when she blew up on him), complimented her people for being good at golf (a stereotype only an old white guy would care about).  We bailed before he got on to the blacks and the Mandarks.  It was basically Trump's campaign in miniature.

[Joe Molotov]

Hillary be all like

[Mandark]

started ranting about the "Imperial Japanese" to a Korean girl who he thought was Japanese (his excuse was "you're so pretty I thought you were Japanese when she blew up on him)

This is my favorite part.  "Sorry I assumed you were a different nationality, it's cause girls from your actual nationality usually aren't attractive!"  Smooth.

[Tasty]

Hillary be all like

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[benjipwns]

http://thehill.com/opinion/ab-stoddard/261892-ab-stoddard-christie-campaign-a-winner

Christie can't lose

By A.B. Stoddard - 12/02/15 07:33 PM EST

Nine months ago a savvy political junkie told me Chris Christie would soon announce a presidential campaign, simply because he had to.

Making our way through the nation’s capital, my cab driver made his case: running was the only way for the New Jersey governor to clean up his image and come out ahead. He didn’t have to win, or even come close, he just had to do well.

As the cabbie predicted, Christie joined the crowded field late, when most of the campaign money and talent was already spoken for. The result, two months before voting, is an indisputable improvement in his image.
Despite his baggage with the GOP base for embracing President Obama after Hurricane Sandy, his ethical cloud under Bridgegate and the nine downgrades that ratings agencies have handed down to New Jersey, Christie has grown as a candidate. He’s stood out in debates and come from the back of the pack to become a contender in New Hampshire in a year when that state’s primary is likely to matter more than the Iowa caucuses.

By any standard, Christie is doing well. His actual poll standing in New Hampshire is still quite low, but a surge is anticipated in light of his growing crowds and support from key Republicans in the state, along with the coveted endorsement of the conservative Union Leader newspaper. Christie has saturated the state not only with events — nearly 50 town halls in 50 days — but also with hours spent behind the scenes, which led to endorsements from more than 100 state leaders who say no other candidate has put in even close to as much time wooing key Republicans there as the two-term governor has.

...

Trump still maintains the lead in New Hampshire and every other state, and Christie has not been shy about criticizing him. While he has toned down his trademark blunt talk, what he still offers up seems far more civil and reasonable next to Trump’s controversial bombast. When asked about Trump’s trumped-up story about “thousands and thousands of Muslims celebrating” in Jersey City after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Christie said point-blank this week that the real estate mogul’s statements are factually wrong: “I know it, and he knows it.”

Trump will surely target Christie soon, likely attacking him on his record. The Union Leader endorsement already prompted complaints that the admiring editors hadn’t bothered to study his record at home, according to an editorial in the Star-Ledger, which stated that lawmakers in New Jersey can no longer get their phone calls returned as Christie focuses on his campaign instead of his job. “This editorial confirms my worse [sic] fears about this presidential race,” wrote Tom Moran. “It’s all about performance, not substance.”

That may or may not be true, yet at this point my cabbie was right: The nomination, a Cabinet position or another great job await Christie if he keeps playing it smart. There doesn’t seem to be any downside.

[Samson Manhug]

"Additionally we asked voters about an assault weapons ban and only 20% of Trump voters support it to 66% who are opposed. We then asked about a ban specifically on assault weapons for Muslims, and 56% of Trump voters support that to only 22% who are opposed."

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2015/12/trump-still-leads-in-nh-but-christie-rising-clintonsanders-closely-matched.html

[Am_I_Anonymous]

You assholes are never going to let this bullshit die, are you?


http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1149039

[benjipwns]

Get ready for JEBMENTIUM!!!!

Voters will soon get 15 unfiltered minutes of the Jeb Bush story.

Right to Rise, the “super PAC” supporting Mr. Bush, has produced a 15-minute documentary featuring him and will release it online on Saturday and will later show it on television.

Mike Murphy, the super PAC’s executive director, briefed Bush donors on the video at a breakfast meeting in Washington on Thursday morning before the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual gathering, at which Mr. Bush spoke. Right to Rise confirmed the group’s plans.

The documentary, which includes interviews with Mr. Bush and his wife, Columba, will talk about Mr. Bush’s record as the governor of Florida, as well as describe his vision for the future, including his plans to defeat the Islamic State and overhaul the federal government.

The plan is to air the spot in 30-minute blocks on the New England Sports Network, which would reach voters in New Hampshire — a crucial state for Mr. Bush, who has seen his poll numbers stagnate in the single digits. Voters in additional early primary states would also be targeted with the video digitally.

The documentary is the brainchild of Mr. Murphy, who produced a similar, 30-minute town hall-style infomercial for Meg Whitman’s unsuccessful bid for governor in California in 2010.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/12/03/bush-super-pac-to-tell-jebs-story-in-15-minute-documentary/

[Phoenix Dark]

"The documentary is the brainchild of Mr. Murphy, who produced a similar, 30-minute town hall-style infomercial for Meg Whitman’s unsuccessful bid for governor in California in 2010."

Man I'm in the wrong profession. Milking money from donors in a presidential campaign seems like the GOAT hustle. Jeb! is around 5-8% in polls, ranging from fourth to sixth place. What better way to change that than an expensive 15 minute doc ad!

[benjipwns]

On the regional sports network! In half hour chunks!

[benjipwns]

As a sort of historical note, this actually used to be very common and a primary form of candidate advertising. The most famous one probably being Reagan's A Time For Choosing in support of Goldwater.

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[Samson Manhug]

One of the two people accused of killing 14 at a holiday party in California apparently pledged allegiance to a leader of Islamic State militant group, according to numerous reports on Friday.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/04/san-bernardino-shooting-tashfeen-malik-isis-connection

Wrap it up, everyone. Trump wins! 2016-2024 should be very interesting, entertaining, and horrifying times.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

One of the two people accused of killing 14 at a holiday party in California apparently pledged allegiance to a leader of Islamic State militant group, according to numerous reports on Friday.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/04/san-bernardino-shooting-tashfeen-malik-isis-connection

Wrap it up, everyone. Trump wins! 2016-2024 should be very interesting, entertaining, and horrifying times.

If he wins I will gladly move to Canada and pledge my allegiance to Hockey, Maple Syrup, and Tim Hortons.