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Oct 26, 2017
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shiba5

I shed
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Oct 25, 2017
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Something we never think much about is the deal that Flynn got for immunity. What did he give up? It had to be something substantial otherwise he wouldn't have been offered the deal.

It must have been really good since his idiot son continues to run his mouth on Twitter.
 

Sobriquet

The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
9,891
Wilmington, NC
PEOPLE ARE HAND-WHITTLING GUNS???
Artisanal, house-made, fair-trade, organic, GMO-free, gluten-free guns.

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sphagnum

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Oct 25, 2017
16,058
someone explain QAnon to me

On October 28, someone calling themselves Q began posting a series of cryptic messages in a /pol/ thread titled "Calm Before the Storm" (assumedly in reference to that creepy Trump quote from early October). Q claimed to be a high-level government insider with Q clearance (hence the name) tasked with posting intel drops — which he, for some reason, called "crumbs" — straight to 4chan in order to covertly inform the public about POTUS's master plan to stage a countercoup against members of the deep state. It was, in short, absolutely insane. However, thanks to some rather forced coincidences — like Q kind of, sort of guessing that Trump would tweet the word "small" on Small Business Saturday, and this one time the internet decided that Q was "totally on Air Force One"because he posted a blurry picture of some islands while Trump was on his trip to Asia — and a whole heck of a lot of wishful thinking, people believed he was the real deal.

According to Q, Trump was never really involved with Russia, and isn't actually under investigation by Mueller & Co. On the contrary, Q insists that it's actually Clinton and Obama who were corrupted by Putin(and are now actually under investigation by Mueller) because they're obviously just evil, money-hungry globalists who'll do anything for the highest bidder. (Oh, yeah, and they're also apparently into raping and killing children, though the crowd is split over whether this is because they're satanists or just part of some weird blackmail scheme involving the CIA.) Q also claims that Trump, the genius that he is, figured all of this out way back when he was just a measly presidential candidate, and has been pretending to love Putin and/or be involved with Russia ever since as a way to force a third party to investigate these horrors — without drawing the attention of those evil Dems-who-must-not-be-named, of course — because he's just that selfless of a leader.

In this fantasy world, all of the far right's wildest dreams come true: Q promises that Clinton, Obama, Podesta, Abedin, and even McCain are all either arrested and wearing secret police-issued ankle monitors, or justabout to be indicted; that the Steele dossier is a total fabrication personally paid for by Clinton and Obama; and that the Las Vegas massacre was most definitely an inside jobconnected to the Saudi-Clinton cabal.

They believe all of this will be coming to a head any day now. That "The Storm" — of arrests, political turmoil, and Republican vindication — is coming. Though there have been some, uh, miscalculations as for exactly when.

http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/12/qanon-4chan-the-storm-conspiracy-explained.html

Boomers are particularly susceptible because they don't understand 4chan.
 

Teggy

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Oct 25, 2017
14,892
It's OK. Plastic guns are illegal, therefore no one will make and use them. They will only do crimes with legal guns.

 

Clowns

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Oct 25, 2017
7,873
Suffolk poll that has Heller up 1 also has Laxalt up 1. Surprising, since he's been dominating the airwaves with negative ads, at least in the north.
 

Autodidact

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Oct 25, 2017
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I need to revisit the Nevada poll, but as I recall it had Trump's approval 47/48 and tied at 47/47 among young voters.

Very unlikely.

Probably a wonky sample, and even then Heller only leads by one.

We also shouldn't forget pollsters' tendency to undercount Hispanic voters there.
 

Kusagari

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Oct 25, 2017
18,436
If Nevada polling has the Dem in margin of error I just assume they're going to win at this point.

They always underestimate the Democrats.
 

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Oct 27, 2017
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"I can't believe what a snake in the grass that Michael Wolff is, just printing the things I say. Am I right, Bob?"

Edit:

Trump allies said they were bracing themselves for a book that will enrage the president – and that he will therefore promote, intentionally or not. Trump's rage tweets, in the past, have helped to boost book sales, while his promotional tweets about books that depict the administration – including by former aides like Sean Spicer and Fox News allies like Judge Jeanine Pirro, as well as lesser-known fans – in a positive light have failed to move the needle in the same way.

His tweets about people like Wolff, who he called "a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really boring and untruthful book" and former FBI Director James Comey, who he deemed an "untruthful slime ball" are credited with helping those books become international bestsellers. Wolff's book sold 1.2 million hardcovers, and has been translated into 35 languages. Comey's memoir, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership," sold more than 600,000 copies in its first week on sale.

We're gonna need to rename the Streisand Effect.
 
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B-Dubs

That's some catch, that catch-22
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Oct 25, 2017
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Poor Haberman, even Woodward beat her to the punch.

Given his history with corrupt presidents why would they even let Woodward in the goddamned building, let alone talk to him enough for him to be able to write a book?

"I can't believe what a snake in the grass that Michael Wolff is, just printing the things I say. Am I right, Bob?"
"I can't imagine. Can you speak louder so the recorder can pick you up?"
 

chadskin

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Oct 27, 2017
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PennyStonks

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May 17, 2018
4,401
someone explain QAnon to me
4chan LARP about 'Q' being a White house insider with the highest level of security clearance in America. All his posts are vague riddles that mean nothing so they can be interpreted in any possible way. These are usually accompanied by religious quotes or a call to higher meaning, and there is also often something added to let the reader know that only the smartest of people can actually understand his posts. i.e "Think logically" after every bizarre riddle.

So, his fan-base is pretty much the craziest of the religious right, and they think they are in on a massive secret that only their intelligence can handle.

The last time I checked, Q was saying the Muller investigation is actually targeting John Podesta and a child sex ring, and that the Devil is controlling the Deep state.
 

Poodlestrike

Smooth vs. Crunchy
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Oct 25, 2017
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Look, these things can fire one shot, maybe two, without busting.

One shot, maybe two, is enough to be worried about since the only real way they're going to be detected are by the firing pin used, the hammer spring used, and the bullets themselves. Being small, they might be easier to conceal than something bulky, like even the smallest of guns.

No offense, but the build quality here doesn't really matter, as they're not supposed to be used frequently, or over and over again. They don't even need to have threaded barrels to be extremely dangerous.

We're talking derringer levels, here. With a design meant to snap into place with itself, easier to assemble than an actual gun, easier to conceal. This is why the man who made it called it 'the liberator.' It's built to be a single shot handgun that anyone can simply print, point, and shoot.

So it doesn't matter if it melts. You can print more. But it's about as accurate as a shitty handgun, and shitty handguns still kill thousands a year AND aren't as easily concealable.

You ONLY need one shot.
Are we talking about mass shooters or more garden-variety murderers, or assassins? Because I was thinking the first, for whom repeatability is the big concern. For everybody else, "one shot" might be enough, but... again, I gotta wonder about use case. Most murders could be done with this method, but right now the biggest impediment to solving murders isn't tracing the weapon it's getting the resources at all. Most high-unsolved-murder-rate areas are ones suffering from police abuse and neglect, and that's not a coincidence. For, like, assassinations, the range on these weapons is absolutely contingent on build quality, and if you have to get right up in somebody's face to kill them, it doesn't really matter how untraceable your weapon is, there's probably other means to identify you.

You're not wrong, but the technology is moving fast and this certainly could be a thing 20 years down the road. It's probably a lot easier to nip it in the bud now than it will be when it's an established thing that certain market forces are invested in, and when people have grown comfortable with the idea due to a lack of major incidents.

Whenever I hear the "this is not a thing" argument I can't help but imagine 18th century politicians saying "the idea that a firearm could ever cause mass havoc is absurd! Sure, maybe the shooter would be able to wound one man, but the crowd would easily deal with him while he's reaching for his powder horn!"

But I (and the articles freaking out over this) aren't talking about 10, 20 years down the road, they're talking about tomorrow.
 

RDreamer

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Oct 25, 2017
14,106
I find it really hilarious this administration tries to be ridiculously non-transparent in every way shape or form and yet somehow they keep allowing book writers to just hang around with unfettered access to whatever.
 

chadskin

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Oct 27, 2017
11,013

Maria Butina and Paul Erickson were moving loads of cash

But bankers also saw that Erickson was often in dire financial straits. His personal and business accounts were overdrawn by a total of $2,300. He was hit with 77 overdraft fees. He took out payday loans of about $3,000 and had a balance of just $9 in one of his accounts.
Influential political operative in dire financial straits is the textbook target of a foreign spy.
 
Jan 18, 2018
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I'm with Yglesias that "latin" is a better option for english-language use because "latinx" doesn't really translate well.

This is absolutely correct.

Latinx is pretty insulting to Spanish speakers.

If you want to remain gender neutral, say Latin or Hispanic.

Don't borrow a word from another language and then turn around and lecture people about how the word is wrong, and then double down by attempting to replace it with a new word that cannot be pronounced in the original language.
 

Vimes

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Oct 25, 2017
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"We decided to put it all above board so that we at least had some visibility into it," recalled Dan Pfeiffer, a former communications director for Obama, who said press aides would often sit in on interviews Woodward conducted with senior officials. "We put in place a process to facilitate cooperation to help shape a book that was going to be written."

Now Woodward is taking on the Trump administration. Simon & Schuster, Woodward's publisher, announced Monday that it plans to release his 19th book, entitled "Fear: Trump in the White House," on Sept. 11.

Thursday's PSA is gonna be fucking wild
 

JayC3

bork bork
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Oct 25, 2017
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From that Politico article about the Woodward book:
The Trump administration was officially participating in another project – a book by the journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. Their "inside the room" books on the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns relied on methods similar to Woodward's – conducting hours of interviews on background, and then using an omniscient voice to recreate scenes that put readers in the room where the decision-making happened.
I was going to say, a book by these two hacks that would obviously put everything in as good of a light as possible. But here's the kicker:
Their book on 2016, however, was canceled after sexual harassment allegations against Halperin.
Womp womp.
 
Oct 27, 2017
7,885
someone explain QAnon to me

Trump and a cavalcade of chuds are secretly working with Huber (USA AG in Utah) to bring down a shadowy group (globalists, pedophiles and DEEEEEEEERP STATE) and the only people who get the message are Q devotees that use a constantly changing set of cypher keys and innocuous seeming code words to signal to the cultists that there are things going on in the background, and all the people you don't like are really pedophiles and international criminals, and they're going to be arrested en-mass thanks to thousands of blank subpoenas in districts around the country.

Simple, right?
 

Ogodei

One Winged Slayer
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
10,256
Coruscant
I feel confident in Florida and North Dakota but think both will be too close to call down to the end.

Missouri and Indiana I think will also be that way, but I'd still put Indiana as lean R.

Rosen's a lock in Nevada, the state's just impossible to poll as a lot of misplaced 2016 bedwetting showed.
 
Oct 25, 2017
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Trump and a cavalcade of chuds are secretly working with Huber (USA AG in Utah) to bring down a shadowy group (globalists, pedophiles and DEEEEEEEERP STATE) and the only people who get the message are Q devotees that use a constantly changing set of cypher keys and innocuous seeming code words to signal to the cultists that there are things going on in the background, and all the people you don't like are really pedophiles and international criminals, and they're going to be arrested en-mass thanks to thousands of blank subpoenas in districts around the country.

Simple, right?

You forgot it all originates from nonsense on 4chan
 
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