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#1039610
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/26/in-his-first-major-tv-interview-as-president-trump-is-endlessly-obsessed-about-his-popularity/?utm_term=.2ee1e3fd9389

I’m not going to quote any of it because the entire thing is full of insanity and I’d have to quote it all. The man is a legitimate psychopath who has disconnected his brain from reality to protect himself from it. And we elected him president.

I came to post the exact thing with almost the exact words. Let me pull some choice quotes here:

“That speech was a home run,” Trump told ABC News just a few minutes into his first major television interview since moving into the White House. “See what Fox said. They said it was one of the great speeches. They showed the people applauding and screaming. … I got a standing ovation. In fact, they said it was the biggest standing ovation since Peyton Manning had won the Super Bowl, and they said it was equal. I got a standing ovation. It lasted for a long period of time.”

So his speech at the CIA with 350 people was the biggest standing ovation since February 2016 at a game with an attendance of 71,088.

“I would’ve won the popular vote if I was campaigning for the popular vote,” Trump said. “I would’ve gone to California, where I didn’t go at all. I would’ve gone to New York, where I didn’t campaign at all. I would’ve gone to a couple of places that I didn’t go to. And I would’ve won that much easier than winning the electoral college.”

Then why didn’t you do that?

“You have people that are registered who are dead, who are illegals,” said Trump, who has called for an investigation. “You have people registered in two states. They’re registered in New York and New Jersey. They vote twice. There are millions of votes, in my opinion.”

You’d think we’d be able to find more than 4 or 5 an election when the people who are paid to find these things look. And that they wouldn’t mostly be Republicans.

“You know,” Trump continued, “I always talk about the reporters that grovel when they want to write something that you want to hear, but not necessarily millions of people want to hear, or have to hear.”

That’s not what groveling is.

“We’re going to launch an investigation to find out,” Trump said. “And then the next time — and I will say this: Of those votes cast, none of them come to me. None of them come to me. They would all be for the other side. None of them come to me.”

Millions of fraudulent votes, and none for him? If they do an investigation and find that there was this huge fraud and EVERY SINGLE VOTE was for Hillary, its a scam designed to restrict minority voting perpetrated by his people.

“We had a massive crowd of people. We had a crowd. I looked over that sea of people and I said to myself: ‘Wow.’ And I’ve seen crowds before. Big, big crowds. That was some crowd. When I looked at the numbers that happened to come in from all of the various sources, we had the biggest audience in the history of inaugural speeches."

“Here’s a picture of the crowd,” the president explained to the nation he now leads. “Now, the audience was the biggest ever, but this crowd was massive. Look how far back it goes. This crowd was massive. And I would actually take that camera and take your time [scanning the crowd] if you want to know the truth.”

So Trump is doing what I said Spicer should have been more clear on; he’s making an important distinction between worldwide audience and the crowd that was gathered there. Of course, he is still harping on it when the media was complaining about Spicer’s half-truth, no one is going to deny that the crowd that did show up showed up.

JEDIT: From the VF piece:

“I think he has to say that. I’m just telling you there will be a payment. It will be a form, perhaps a complicated form.”

It could be any form. “Choose your Destructor” style? Or maybe it’ll be in the form of POG’s. I miss POG’s.

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#1039592
Topic
General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
Time

Lord Haseo said:

Sougouk said:

WHAT?! Really? Some people are quite clueless. It was probably one of the people who was playing with their phone while at the movie theater.

Or someone who didn’t see the film at all. People not seeing the film and shitting on it by rehashing other people’s recycled arguments is getting to be a thing these days.

Rehashing arguments? Don’t be ridiculous.

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#1039590
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

Jay said:

Watch the personal attacks, everyone. This is starting to look like the old politics thread.

Expressing disdain over someone’s opinion or 4th-grade-level humor is fine, but just calling them an asshole doesn’t cut it.

Thanks Jay, I was having fun with this thread until I started catching up with the last couple pages.

Tyrphanax said:

AP News said:
BREAKING: Trump administration mandating EPA scientific studies, data undergo review by political staff before public release.

Because that’s not a totalitarian move at all.

I guess the justification is that if you help pay for it, you should be able to make sure it’s something you agree with? Because that’s how science works now?

I know a bunch of us were all doom and gloom leading up to this (Warbler), but I honestly never expected this much drastic shit would come down in the first week. The Republican Party must be pleased, they can pass all of their extreme ideas using Trump’s executive orders as a scapegoat. “What, I didn’t think bringing back torture was a good idea, TRUMP did!” “I honestly didn’t think Mexico would pay us to build a wall keeping their people out, TRUMP did!”

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#1039237
Topic
Opening Crawl for Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Time

doubleofive said:

Lord Haseo said:

Tobar said:

I suspect they might even open it with a scene depicting Hux delivering Kylo to Snoke.

I could have sworn Rian said that the first scene would pick up exactly where TFA left off.

This movie is going to start right where the last one left off.

Could be interpreted however you like. Also, we’re 11 months away, the edit could change a lot. Rogue One was a completely different movie at this point last year.

New Star Wars Show has the presenters flat out say that the movie begins “right where TFA left off, with Rey presenting Luke Skywalker his long-lost lightsaber.” So that’s canon.

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#1039192
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

Look, my state is shitty even without Pence!

https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/285#document-79282dd2

A responsible public official shall, not later than fifteen
(15) minutes after first learning that a mass traffic obstruction
exists in the official’s jurisdiction, dispatch all available law
enforcement officers to the mass traffic obstruction with directions
to use any means necessary to clear the roads of the persons
unlawfully obstructing vehicular traffic

Yeah, that’s a bill to let local law enforcement have free reign over protesters that may be blocking traffic! It literally uses the phrase “by any means necessary”!

Surely that won’t be used if traffic slows down near protesters or a rally near a road to violently disperse them. Surely not!

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#1039153
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

Jetrell Fo said:

doubleofive said:

This hatred or complete misunderstanding of journalism is probably the scariest part of this new world we live in now.

Well, maybe you could become a writer, and use your abilities for the actual truth instead of these places printing half-truths like they’re the gods-honest, hand on the holy book gospel.

The FIRST time the PRESS SECRETARY got in front of the PRESS, he LITERALLY told them a half truth. It’s not hard to NOT say “the biggest numbers in person” UNLESS the President flat out told you to go out there, say this, then leave WITHOUT TAKING QUESTIONS.

The fact that this was even the topic of a press conference, let alone the FIRST ONE, is complete insanity. IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MANY PEOPLE SAW IT.

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#1039139
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

Jetrell Fo said:

doubleofive said:

Jetrell Fo said:

doubleofive said:

Jetrell Fo said:

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/25/we-asked-people-which-inauguration-crowd-was-bigger-heres-what-they-said/?utm_term=.6d4b8e87069d

Depressing.

It’s clear even in this quote below that the media addresses only 1 piece of the evidence presented.

"On the first full day of the Trump administration, White House press secretary Sean Spicer admonished the news media for reporting that the crowd that witnessed Trump’s inauguration was smaller than other recent inauguration crowds, claiming, “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe.”

It’s very clear that he said it was the most people to watch in person AND around the globe. If he didn’t mean physical people, he would have said “around the globe” only and stressed that during the conference. These are people who are supposed to be professional speakers, we’re supposed to believe that their phrasing is very important.

It is the media’s job to report the truth, not disquise the truth to make it look like a lie, I don’t think I misread the article.

It’s also the media’s job to point out that the guy who’s supposed to be telling them the truth is telling them lies about easily observable things.

They make the assumption that he’s lying without bringing any of their facts about “around the globe” and the only part of the numbers they used were the photo of the mall as proof.

You’re saying the Washington correspondents for every major news outlet weren’t looking out their windows or actually at the Inauguration and could PHYSICALLY SEE that it wasn’t the biggest crowd ever?

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#1039124
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

Jetrell Fo said:

doubleofive said:

Jetrell Fo said:

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/25/we-asked-people-which-inauguration-crowd-was-bigger-heres-what-they-said/?utm_term=.6d4b8e87069d

Depressing.

It’s clear even in this quote below that the media addresses only 1 piece of the evidence presented.

"On the first full day of the Trump administration, White House press secretary Sean Spicer admonished the news media for reporting that the crowd that witnessed Trump’s inauguration was smaller than other recent inauguration crowds, claiming, “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe.”

It’s very clear that he said it was the most people to watch in person AND around the globe. If he didn’t mean physical people, he would have said “around the globe” only and stressed that during the conference. These are people who are supposed to be professional speakers, we’re supposed to believe that their phrasing is very important.

It is the media’s job to report the truth, not disquise the truth to make it look like a lie, I don’t think I misread the article.

It’s also the media’s job to point out that the guy who’s supposed to be telling them the truth is telling them lies about easily observable things.

Post
#1039118
Topic
The Death Star trench run
Time

NeverarGreat said:

The one thing I never noticed was that the dish bisected the equatorial trench in the plans. I wonder if that is something Ady will fix for his new Star Wars Revisited project.

He did that almost 10 years ago now:

But he is changing it back thanks to Rogue One, I believe with the argument the Story Group came up with that the plans contain all of the variations and each one had the exhaust port.

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#1039115
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

Jetrell Fo said:

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/25/we-asked-people-which-inauguration-crowd-was-bigger-heres-what-they-said/?utm_term=.6d4b8e87069d

Depressing.

It’s clear even in this quote below that the media addresses only 1 piece of the evidence presented.

"On the first full day of the Trump administration, White House press secretary Sean Spicer admonished the news media for reporting that the crowd that witnessed Trump’s inauguration was smaller than other recent inauguration crowds, claiming, “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe.”

It’s very clear that he said it was the most people to watch in person AND around the globe. If he didn’t mean physical people, he would have said “around the globe” only and stressed that during the conference. These are people who are supposed to be professional speakers, we’re supposed to believe that their phrasing is very important.

Post
#1039084
Topic
Opening Crawl for Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Time

Lord Haseo said:

Tobar said:

I suspect they might even open it with a scene depicting Hux delivering Kylo to Snoke.

I could have sworn Rian said that the first scene would pick up exactly where TFA left off.

This movie is going to start right where the last one left off.

Could be interpreted however you like. Also, we’re 11 months away, the edit could change a lot. Rogue One was a completely different movie at this point last year.

Post
#1038805
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

Tyrphanax said:

Warbler said:

Trump is again claiming widespread voter fraud. He’s nuts.

It was sad before, but it’s getting pathetic at this point. You won, dude, let it go!

I had to have someone point it out to me, but you’d think if Hillary was able to get 4-5 million people to commit voter fraud, you’d think she’d do it in states that she wouldn’t have won otherwise. What a waste of what is apparently the perfect scheme since there’s no evidence of it having ever happened!

Post
#1038644
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

Jetrell Fo said:

doubleofive said:

Jetrell Fo said:

TV’s Frink said:

http://www.vox.com/identities/2017/1/23/14356582/trump-global-gag-rule-abortion

The global gag rule goes much further than simply banning US foreign aid from paying for abortions directly — which is already the law, and which has its own detrimental consequences for women.

Instead, the gag rule tries to control how international organizations use their own funds, raised from other sources. Just like Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood in the United States, it’s an attempt to stop abortion from happening by forcing organizations that provide it to make a choice: stop providing or promoting abortion, or lose the large amounts of funding that you get from the US government to support your other medical services.

The reality is simple and brutal. Reinstating the global gag rule will not reduce abortions. Sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, had higher abortion rates after George W. Bush reinstated the gag rule, because it reduced women’s access to contraception and caused more unwanted pregnancies, which women then chose to terminate.

The gag rule will, however, lead to more women dying across the developing world. Marie Stopes International, a major global family planning organization, estimates that without alternative funding, the loss of its services alone will cause 6.5 million unintended pregnancies, 2.2 million abortions, 2.1 million unsafe abortions, and 21,700 maternal deaths just in Trump’s first term, from 2017 to 2020. The organization says it will also be prevented from reaching 1.5 million women with contraception every year.

Studies conducted by PAI have shown that every time the global gag rule returns, more women in developing countries bear unwanted pregnancies, die or become disabled due to unsafe abortions, or lose crucial medical care.

So much for respecting life.

Directed at personal use of one’s body ONLY, taking precautions or abstinence is every persons right and responsibility if they could not afford the possible outcome. In cases of medical necessity (life/death of fetus/mother) or sexual assault/attack, I would think they’d be wise enough to allow it. I’m not them nor am I privy to the actual details of all this gag rule encompasses so this is just my opinion based on information I know of.

If any organization mentions the word “abortion”, they can no longer have any American government funding, even for contraception. There is no wisdom to any of this. You can’t expect the entire third world to stop having sex because they can’t get condoms anymore.

You mean they cannot abstain? They must have sex constantly to survive like breathing air? They shouldn’t need American funding to take care of their own country should they? Those countries cannot raise the money themselves and/or find better ways to educate their populations on their own?

So we can be the world’s police, but not the world’s health advocates?

Pence did something similar in my state and we had an AIDS EPIDEMIC. IN INDIANA. Can you IMAGINE what it’s like in Africa?

JEDIT: Ok, it was HIV, and it was due to closing down drug rehabilitation centers. Still, I’m sure that some of the organizations that mention the word “abortion” also provide rehabilitation.