Author Topic: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster (Read 1653271 times)

remy · « **Reply #8640 on:** May 21, 2020, 05:14:19 AM »

Quote from: Rufus on May 12, 2020, 12:15:23 PM

Quote from: Madrun Badrun on May 12, 2020, 10:40:37 AM
Before I decide if he is guilty, I need to know where those come from.
Vampirella on the right.

No idea about the other one.

disappointed it was basic bitch vampirella and not some crazy hentai figure

Momo · « **Reply #8641 on:** May 21, 2020, 07:09:40 PM »

Quote from: Nintex on May 19, 2020, 06:11:17 PM

Looks like *checks notes* Ethiopia and Egypt are going to war

https://twitter.com/eha_news/status/1262843507154305030

I doubt this results in a war, while they have walked away from the negotiation table around the fillrate of the dam, the Egyptians have essentially accepted this is happening and are just trying to get the best possible outcome for themselves via negotiation shenanigans

Nintex · « **Reply #8642 on:** May 21, 2020, 07:51:51 PM »

https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1263516072969474049

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1263474293150814208

And in the chaos of COVID-19 China moves to end Hong Kong's independence.

team filler · « **Reply #8643 on:** May 21, 2020, 07:53:04 PM »

Good!

Momo · « **Reply #8644 on:** May 22, 2020, 02:23:47 AM »

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-putin/putin-asks-court-if-he-can-amend-constitution-to-run-again-for-president-idUSKBN2110U2

Have you guys covered this yet? Also why is the news so shit, they pitch this as Putin amending the constitution so he can stay in power (which is factual) when the real changes are that's he's making amendments for a post Putin era that relies on cooperation and making it so Russia's strong man style presidents will no longer be a thing after him.

team filler · « **Reply #8645 on:** May 22, 2020, 07:32:10 AM »

putin da gawd

Momo · « **Reply #8646 on:** May 22, 2020, 07:36:48 AM »

https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/lockdown-dlamini-zuma-pushes-for-tobacco-alcohol-ban-to-continue-until-level-1-20200522

and so, 57 days after national lockdown, the second violent South African revolution starts

EDIT: Well third I guess.

Tripon · « **Reply #8647 on:** May 22, 2020, 09:45:03 AM »

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1263814015219884032

team filler · « **Reply #8648 on:** May 23, 2020, 12:20:45 AM »

tulsi warned us

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #8649 on:** May 23, 2020, 01:09:30 AM »

benjipwns · « **Reply #8650 on:** May 23, 2020, 01:21:41 AM »

first everyone says we gotta have more tests, so they're like okay, we'll have more tests, now they're all like no not that kind of test like jeez get your acts together lieberals

Nintex · « **Reply #8651 on:** May 23, 2020, 05:56:07 AM »

Quote from: hhkcvaoitsso on May 23, 2020, 12:15:00 AM

https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1263999634575417345

we're all going to fucking die

team filler · « **Reply #8652 on:** May 23, 2020, 05:04:36 PM »

https://twitter.com/robkajiwara/status/1264292985790849024

EchoRin · « **Reply #8653 on:** May 23, 2020, 11:28:54 PM »

Quote from: hhkcvaoitsso on May 23, 2020, 11:19:32 PM

(Image removed from quote.)

We're all going to die

Nintex · « **Reply #8654 on:** May 24, 2020, 05:53:15 AM »

Quote from: Esch on May 23, 2020, 09:02:59 PM

https://twitter.com/michaelgove/status/1264126108733186050

https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/1264465698849513472

Sounds like they need another leadership contest

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #8655 on:** May 24, 2020, 05:59:39 AM »

Why not, Boris has done another runner and hasn’t been seen for a while too

i've got no love for the tories but you have to give them credit for not fucking about when it comes to knifing each other in the back

who is ted danson? · « **Reply #8656 on:** May 24, 2020, 12:38:02 PM »

Boris has turned up for the first time in weeks to the beerflu daily conference to bat for Cummings

No-one else would get this treatment. Proof that Dom is in charge of the government

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #8657 on:** May 24, 2020, 12:40:36 PM »

boris johnsons unearned confidence in the face of his back benchers audibly sharpening their knives

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #8658 on:** May 24, 2020, 12:47:02 PM »

we're ruled by a cuck, boys

who is ted danson? · « **Reply #8659 on:** May 24, 2020, 01:00:20 PM »

https://twitter.com/UKCivilService/status/1264600481688702977

archive before it gets nuked: http://archive.vn/7INl8

Nintex · « **Reply #8660 on:** May 24, 2020, 04:57:54 PM »

The Daily mail

Raist · « **Reply #8661 on:** May 24, 2020, 06:00:28 PM »

Quote from: who is ted danson? on May 24, 2020, 01:00:20 PM

https://twitter.com/UKCivilService/status/1264600481688702977

archive before it gets nuked: http://archive.vn/7INl8

https://twitter.com/cabinetofficeuk/status/1264613950790008835

Nintex · « **Reply #8662 on:** May 24, 2020, 06:03:46 PM »

Apparently his uncle died and that's why he had to make the family visit but instead of apologizing and explaining the situation they handled it in the worst way possible.

Cummings will probably resign himself citing some dumb shit about how a media assault on him and his family blah blah blah and then Boris hires him again for another job sometime.
Or he wants to drag Boris down with him as some sort of act of revenge.

It's weird Boris of all people should know the dangers of the virus so Cummings really has him by the balls.

Raist · « **Reply #8663 on:** May 24, 2020, 07:04:24 PM »

Quote from: Nintex on May 24, 2020, 06:03:46 PM

Apparently his uncle died and that's why he had to make the family visit

Yes and also his dog ate the print copy of the rules saying people should stay home especially if they have symptoms.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #8664 on:** May 24, 2020, 07:06:20 PM »

Post the hairy biker 4-page pullout, you coward.

Nintex · « **Reply #8665 on:** May 24, 2020, 07:32:28 PM »

Coldwar Steve nails it again
https://twitter.com/Coldwar_Steve/status/1264615276492062720

Tripon · « **Reply #8666 on:** May 25, 2020, 10:48:25 AM »

https://twitter.com/2012_foundation/status/1264873364059049984

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #8667 on:** May 25, 2020, 10:52:37 AM »

that sounds like the wettest fight of all time if true

who is ted danson? · « **Reply #8668 on:** May 25, 2020, 11:14:11 AM »

Prime Minister Cummings gonna address the nation

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #8669 on:** May 25, 2020, 11:22:35 AM »

i hope raab does a run in and gives him a noogie

Raist · « **Reply #8670 on:** May 25, 2020, 12:32:11 PM »

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #8671 on:** May 25, 2020, 12:33:19 PM »

rules for thee not for me

Raist · « **Reply #8672 on:** May 25, 2020, 01:41:34 PM »

If you're joining us:

Dom: My wife got sick, we were worried we would end up not being able to take care of our 4yo, so we drove to my parents' place 260 miles away.

BoJo: Fatherly instincts!

Dom: Absolutely. Also, we didn't want to expose anyone in London to a potentially deadly virus. So my 17yo niece said she could take care of the kid if needed. But you know, we strictly self isolated and all that.

Journos: Multiple people saw you around Barnard Castle though. A 30mins drive from your parents' place.

Dom: Oh that. Yes akshually, a couple of days before returning to London my wife was worried about my eyesight, so we went for a test drive and somehow ended up at the castle. That was on her birthday but that's totally irrelevant. And we had the kid with us. Because my fatherly instincts told me that I should test my eyesight this way.

Dom: Also akshually my wife wasn't really sick sick, she threw up. So clearly she didn't have covid because that makes you cough and stuff, so it was OK for us to not stay at home. Don't ask me why we were worried we couldn't take care of the kid then.
Plus did I mention that I've been the target of harassment in London? So we were scared and all that. Also, my uncle died. All right I'm off, fuck you everyone!

Tripon · « **Reply #8673 on:** May 25, 2020, 01:54:06 PM »

Is rabb that important to the current Tory government to not sack him immediately?

Raist · « **Reply #8674 on:** May 25, 2020, 05:30:56 PM »

Raab? That's Cummings.

BisMarckie · « **Reply #8675 on:** May 25, 2020, 05:31:55 PM »

All pasty Englishmen look the same to me.

Nintex · « **Reply #8676 on:** May 25, 2020, 05:56:49 PM »

#cumgate is trending on twitter

Raist · « **Reply #8677 on:** May 25, 2020, 05:57:24 PM »

https://twitter.com/jwiechers/status/1264953956758884354

https://twitter.com/jwiechers/status/1265005030622593027

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #8678 on:** May 25, 2020, 06:34:35 PM »

He must have some juicy dirt on Boris, even the daily mail are calling him a bald cunt who should fuck off

team filler · « **Reply #8679 on:** May 25, 2020, 09:06:53 PM »

https://twitter.com/adelso_Car/status/1264756578919596036

https://twitter.com/SY_Amirali/status/1264828342102040576

Nintex · « **Reply #8680 on:** May 26, 2020, 03:51:39 AM »

Trump: Obama is in my walls!

Boris: Halp I'm cucked by my advisor

Bolsonaro: I can't even lift

Merkel: I hate my job

Absolute queen:
https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1264863530051940352

Raist · « **Reply #8681 on:** May 26, 2020, 07:30:53 AM »

Unfuckingbelievable

https://twitter.com/Imagineyourdad/status/1265197398407733248

Nintex · « **Reply #8682 on:** May 26, 2020, 07:59:16 AM »

These bois

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #8683 on:** May 26, 2020, 09:37:01 AM »

is there anyone who looks as much like a snitch as michael gove?

what a vile creature he is

Tripon · « **Reply #8684 on:** May 26, 2020, 11:30:39 AM »

Quote

More
LONDON — A junior minister in Boris Johnson's government resigned on Tuesday over top aide Dominic Cummings' alleged breach of the U.K.'s lockdown guidelines, saying he could not "in good faith" tell his constituents that the advisers' actions were justifiable.

Douglas Ross, under secretary of state for Scotland, wrote to Johnson saying that the public reaction to reports of Cummings' 260-mile drive from London to Durham in late March demonstrated that the adviser's "interpretation of the government guidance was not shared by the vast majority of people who have done what the government asked."

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/26/uk-minister-resigns-over-dominic-cummings-lockdown-trip-281706

Nintex · « **Reply #8685 on:** May 26, 2020, 03:51:50 PM »

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #8686 on:** May 26, 2020, 03:53:39 PM »

Can’t wait for all the Corbyn die hards on my TL to change their tunes to “Cummings

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Raist · « **Reply #8687 on:** May 26, 2020, 04:22:32 PM »

It just keeps getting better

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1265365343163363334

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #8688 on:** May 26, 2020, 05:27:37 PM »

Once you've promised a vicar, it's set in stone, mate.

Nintex · « **Reply #8689 on:** May 26, 2020, 06:16:57 PM »

Not honoring a Vicar means that the Mace of the House of Commons has to displayed on the far end of the London bridge before 4PM but after the pigeons have taken flight from Windsor Castle.
If the Speaker of the House does not bring the Mace back wrapped in the Handkerchief of King Richard V before tea time the next day it automatically triggers a leadership contest in the Conservative Party.

Or so article 5B, Paragraph 6 of the rules of Parliament states, which can be superseded by calling for the Endfield amendment of 1845 which triggers a gun fight to the death between the Chief of the Royal Carriages and the Admiral of the Navy after flipping six coins sideways opposite from the river Thames.

team filler · « **Reply #8690 on:** May 26, 2020, 07:04:38 PM »

https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/1265417195208626177

Nintex · « **Reply #8691 on:** May 26, 2020, 07:15:06 PM »

Raist · « **Reply #8692 on:** May 27, 2020, 11:19:40 AM »

https://twitter.com/DublinAirport/status/1265641616787767302

Raist · « **Reply #8693 on:** May 27, 2020, 12:23:44 PM »

https://www.brewdog.com/uk/barnard-castle-eye-test

Quote

Short sighted beer for tall stories. Our New England, Old School IPA is locked down and loaded.

Dry-hopped for a juicy hit with pineapple, mango and hint of zesty lime.

All profits will go to funding our production of free sanitiser for the NHS & Health Care Charities.

Nintex · « **Reply #8694 on:** May 27, 2020, 05:18:57 PM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8695 on:** May 27, 2020, 06:51:44 PM »

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-27/pompeo-finds-hong-kong-is-no-longer-autonomous-from-china

BisMarckie · « **Reply #8696 on:** May 28, 2020, 05:09:09 PM »

Playing with their phones?

This twitter user doesn't know what a Backgammon board looks like and doesn't even mention it.

BisMarckie · « **Reply #8697 on:** May 28, 2020, 05:13:58 PM »

I'd rather hang out with the Spanish girl than with that stuck up blonde though. Not sure what this cartoon is trying to accomplish.

Nintex · « **Reply #8698 on:** May 28, 2020, 06:42:14 PM »

We're not paying a single cent until summer 2021 (the next election)

Nintex · « **Reply #8699 on:** May 28, 2020, 07:58:46 PM »

It is clearly a lazy Greek and his Italian thot drinking coffee and whine near their tax-free pool,
playing backgammon and searching social-media for the next orgy

Meanwhile the hard working blue-collar Dutch worker has to turn the gears of manual labor on his bare feet
while his stuck-up wife looks down on him as she tries to booty call her way up the ladder as a businesswoman and is turning bald because of the stress.

The Dutch Dream(TM)

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Author Topic: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster (Read 1653271 times)