#43 - Episode XIII - Prop Pardons Edition

[Dantrag]

Send em, ain't nothing there about if or when they make it.

That's what I'm saying. Even sending within 4 years seems very... not possible.

[BerenTebogo]

That's what I'm saying. Even sending within 4 years seems very... not possible.

We could send people “to” mars next week. They’d just die in terrible agony long before they ever got there, if ever.

[Cail]

So doing something about COVID doesn't make the top 4?

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Didnt you hear? We're rounding the corner

[BaneTheBrawler]

We could send people “to” mars next week. They’d just die in terrible agony long before they ever got there, if ever.

This is only a bad thing if we send good people.

Quick, someone tweet at Trump that only the coolest presidents move their administration to mars.

[6souls]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54674313

During the conference call with Sudan's Abdalla Hamdok & Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said that Egypt should blow up the dam Ethiopia is building along the Nile.

Egypt relies for the bulk of its water needs on the Nile and is concerned supplies could be cut off and its economy undermined as Ethiopia takes control of the flow of Africa's longest river.

Once complete, the $4bn (£3bn) structure on the Blue Nile in western Ethiopia will be Africa's largest hydro-electric project.

The speed with which Ethiopia fills up the dam will govern how severely Egypt is affected - the slower the better as far as Cairo is concerned. That process is expected to take several years.

The subject of the dam came up and Mr Trump and Mr Hamdok expressed hopes for a peaceful resolution to the dispute.

But Mr Trump also said "it's a very dangerous situation because Egypt is not going to be able to live that way".

He continued: "And I said it and I say it loud and clear - they'll blow up that dam. And they have to do something."

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status...90103701065728
https://twitter.com/JesseLehrich/sta...00919372468224

[Aerin]

Trump taking a step closer to being able to legitimately fire Fauci, as well as any other federal employee he doesn’t like.

Under the [Executive Order],which undermines the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act — a law that came into effect in 1883 to ensure government employees were hired based on merit and protected from political retribution — an estimated 100,000 or more will see their jobs reclassified from "competitive service" to "excepted service."

Under this bureaucratic sleight of hand, a reclassified federal employee engaged, for example, in setting policies for social distancing on public transit systems during the pandemic would have fewer protections from disagreements with the White House. By removing the word "competitive" and replacing it with "excepted," the order eliminates the employee's ability to appeal a dismissal and lumps him or her among political appointees — essentially serving at the pleasure of the President.

...

Depending on how quickly the administration implements the order, a defeated Donald Trump could potentially eliminate the jobs of thousands of American government workers as he exits the Oval Office and replace them with Republican loyalists who could then hold on to positions in government and resist Joe Biden. Even if Biden rescinds the order as the incoming president, trying to reverse Trump's actions will inevitably prove to be a headache.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/24/opini...ett/index.html

[archibaldcrane]

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status...258289152?s=19

[Vaspinne]

Even Putin is starting to distance himself

Putin appeared less friendly towards Trump in remarks broadcast by Russian state TV on Sunday. In what may be seen by some analysts as an attempt to try to curry favour with the Biden camp, he took the time to knock down what he made clear he regarded as false allegations from Trump about the Bidens.

“Yes, in Ukraine he (Hunter Biden) had or maybe still has a business, I don’t know. It doesn’t concern us. It concerns the Americans and the Ukrainians,” said Putin.

“But well yes he had at least one company, which he practically headed up, and judging from everything he made good money. I don’t see anything criminal about this, at least we don’t know anything about this (being criminal).”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN27A0TA

Edit: Netanyahu a couple days ago lol https://twitter.com/therecount/statu...81169315811329

[Byrthnoth]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/b...nal-trump.html

What I take away from this story is that, were it not for the peculiarities and incompetence of one geriatric mayor and the hubris of the Wall Street Journal editors, the Hunter Biden story likely would have come out in the WSJ and the Russian intelligence would have been much more successfully laundered.

The media truly did learn nothing from 2016, or the WSJ actually just doesn't care.

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1...525038593?s=20

[Dimmauk]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1...525038593?s=20

I can't believe black people didn't know how to be successful until these rich kids told them how. Im sure many more black people will vote for Trump now.

[Tyrath]

I can't believe black people didn't know how to be successful until these rich kids told them how. Im sure many more black people will vote for Trump now.

[NynJa]

Kinda obvious he's implying that there are plenty of people out there perfectly content crying "systematic racism hold me down", but you do you.

[Tyrath]

Yes the dog whistles are pretty obvious.

[Zealot]

Look people we can show you how to live without a knee on your neck but if you're not willing to stop whining about the one we pushed into yours I don't know what else we can tell you.

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[Lucavi]

Kinda obvious he's implying that there are plenty of people out there perfectly content crying "systematic racism hold me down", but you do you.

Yeah, that's what he's doing. Just work harder and everything's even Steven. Damned blacks in their welfare. Wait, aren't there more white folks on welfare? Aren't there more red states draining welfare than blue?

Just work harder and your house will be appraised for as much as when your white girlfriend is home alone and gets a second appraisal.

Just work harder and the banks will offer you the same rate as they do when an average white guy rolls in for one.

Get the fuck outta here with this nonsense. We don't have to pretend that everything is doom and gloom, but we certainly don't have to pretend that shit's even either.

[Fhloston]

Yeah, that's what he's doing. Just work harder and everything's even Steven. Damned blacks in their welfare. Wait, aren't there more white folks on welfare? Aren't there more red states draining welfare than blue?

Just work harder and your house will be appraised for as much as when your white girlfriend is home alone and gets a second appraisal.

Just work harder and the banks will offer you the same rate as they do when an average white guy rolls in for one.

Get the fuck outta here with this nonsense. We don't have to pretend that everything is doom and gloom, but we certainly don't have to pretend that shit's even either.

Boom.

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[Gredival]

It's a white guy saying black people have no problems, you really expected Nynja to say anything differently?

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[NynJa]

Go on and quote me where I said "black people have no problems"