2k17 /pol/

[Drynwyn]

Bottom post of the previous page:

The Senate Republicans "went nuclear" and rewrote the rules because the dems refused to play ball, now supreme court nominees only need 51 rather than 60 votes to get in, still a majority but a smaller majority. Unsurprisingly each side blamed the other. I wonder if the Republicans will revert this decision after Gorsich gets in?

I've only vaguely kept in touch with this, important as it may be, because the news can't be trusted for shit and nobody's made a video about in on youtube. I've heard through the grapevine that Gorsich was a fine judge and it would be totally in-character for the Dems to be assblasted that they lost so hard and try to cockblock Gorsich on principle. Anyone know more?

I'm not a fan of Gorsuch. He has a history of appellate rulings that drastically favor corporations over individuals.

If you aren't a fan of attacking judges based on their results and prefer a critique of their reasoning (a reasonable stance IMO), here's a quick explanation of my problem with him:

-He's a strict originalist on the Constitution.
-Lots of things that didn't exist when the Constitution was being written now exist, and have to be examined in the context of them.
-He is of the opinion that since these things didn't exist when the constitution was written, there is no original intent regarding them, and therefore the constitution cannot be applied to regulate or inhibit them in any way.

That's simply not a good way to think about the constitution, especially since it wasn't even originally intended to be interpreted solely in the context of original intent. The supreme court is there specifically TO figure out how the constitution ought apply to developing problems, not to say that it can't.



Also on a personal note he's a proponent of "natural law" philosophy which I don't care for at all. It boils down to saying:

"western christian virtues and values are inherently detectable as valuable to all who apply their reason, duh"

"what about all those cultures that don't detect them as valuable"

"NAH NAH NAH I CAN'T HEAR YOU"

[InsaneHyena]

>Another terrorist attack in Sweden
Oh no, who could have predicted this

[FantasticFwoosh]

Not much info on the sweden event yet, but the truck with a trailer was about the size of the french one, and armed police are storming the store because its believed that the person has yet gone on foot through there.

Also snipping and pasting this from the NTR hut

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You're forgetting that Trumps current dining with the Chinese President, meanwhile across the world the USA is bombing the shit out of a air-base, convenient much to a three sentence statement that was issued in warning to North Korea a few days ago, and the tension in the south china sea between America's ally Japan v. China disputing over some volcanic islands.

By going through with destroying the infrastructure and the WMD's (If there are any WMD's if there are none on site then that means it wasn't Assad, approving Russia's claim that its simply a cache of IS WMD's that leaked which the bomber from that airbase that they tracked there struck) they aren't declaring war as much as destroying a threat, at most you can claim its just destroying assads property but hardly a cause for war.

In a way it pleases everyone, left hungering for boots on the ground to go play interventionalist in what they think is a direct escalation are made happy, Assad is being put in his place, Russia is pissed because they didn't do it first and they lost a base of operations and are a little weirded out by the ordeal (The Russians were told and were complicit with it happening) and after swinging his Freedom Maga Tomahawk missiles at the base in a show of power, Russia is playing (but uh, "We wont let you get away with this!") to save face.

- Russians did nothing as the actual base was attacked, put on a coy display to play tough by putting a boat between the American ships just to play 'hard man'

Don't get us wrong, everyone wobbles during a earthquake but it was a pretty big quake and the loosest Trump supporters shook off.

> Intelligence indicates that the only reason they are even attacking this is because the supposed jet was mapped out from there, that's where it landed before going on its mission so whether there are WMD's there in the first place or not the USA is doing the responsible thing and blowing it sky high to remove the possibility of more being there.

- Trump is employing Madman philosophy used by Nixon, if you enemies think you are volatile & irresponsible they will be more guarded and hasty about counteracting someone who will do ANYTHING to ensure what they want.

[Lumbermancer]

Clearly we need to ban cars.

[ShadowDimentio]

Ban assault trucks

[FantasticFwoosh]

Ban wheels BAM. booyah take that 4000 years of human civilization.

[Lumbermancer]

Such is the price of progress.

[Malkevin]

Sweden has armed police?

Must be going there to help the poor refugee fulfil his religious commitments by shooting any infidel survivors.

[DemonFiren]

I GOT SPURS THAT JINGLE JANGLE JINGLE

Patrolling reality makes you wish there was never a nuclear winter.

Also, absolutely happening. It's been an honor shitposting with you all, let's hope we don't nuke you in response

the americucks get to play fallout
the cheekis get to play metro
i think i'll emigrate

Do the Brits get to start taking joy as We Happy Few becomes reality after we're dragged to war?

fuck
i completely forgot we happy jew existed

[FantasticFwoosh]

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[InsaneHyena]

"WTF, I love Trump now" - CNN

[DemonFiren]

snip
fuck
i completely forgot we happy jew existed

So did every other sane gamer.

why do games like this always turn out to be shit

[FantasticFwoosh]

Oh shit, Seth Rich is more or less confirmed as the DNC leaker!

[XSI]

Oh shit, Seth Rich is more or less confirmed as the DNC leaker!

How long until he gets a suicide with two bullets to the back of the head?
A 'heart attack' is fine too

why do games like this always turn out to be shit

Because as it turns out, most devs have no idea how to make a good game
Great concepts but they can't figure out how to make it work when letting a player interact with it

[lntigracy]

Oh shit, Seth Rich is more or less confirmed as the DNC leaker!

How long until he gets a suicide with two bullets to the back of the head?
A 'heart attack' is fine too

He's already been murdered.

[onleavedontatme]

How long until he gets a suicide with two bullets to the back of the head?

9 months ago.

[InsaneHyena]

How long until he gets a suicide with two bullets to the back of the head?
A 'heart attack' is fine too

>Being this out of touch

[XSI]

Well, that sure sucks for him then

[Luke Cox]

Wow, who knew that Seth Rich was secretly a Russian spy who hacked the DNC by working there?

[FantasticFwoosh]

Strap in lads, get ready for the thrilling directors cut ending to the Korean War unfolding as we speak, about within the last 10 hours US navy has been on dispatch (according to the media) China agrees that something has to be done and North Korea is squirming threatening war being very close.

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FUCKS SAKE, ITS BEEN 10-12 HOURS AND ALREADY TWO (and one blocked one) ATTACKS.

- Two Coptic churches got attacked by bombers (On palm sunday don't forget)

- Young guy was caught with a bomb in Norway.

[oranges]

another /pol/ happening that predictably doesn't happen

oh what a suprise

[FantasticFwoosh]

Well the CNN blew the US navy's public cover besides the actual navy putting out a tweet so probably not that important. Hyperbole maybe, but it is a shift in events that Trump is gazing over the south china sea.

[InsaneHyena]

It's just joint military training that happens every single year, stop getting your news from digg, Jesus Christ

[FantasticFwoosh]

Nah mate, its plastered all over MSM, thats where i learnt it, you can't type in any three letter word such as KOR without having a news article pop up.

[XSI]

It's literally just dickwaving competitions

Syrian airbase hit by missiles? They told Russia in advance so no Russians would be hit and start an actual war by mistake. And even then it was minimal damage with a lot of missile impacts hitting ground that technically was on the terrain of the airbase
Sailing to Korea? They've been doing this shit for decades just to wave their dicks at N-Korea and tell S-Korea/Japan that they're still protecting them from potential invasions
Russian ship sailing to the spot the missiles were launched from? Waving their dick at the US in a global reality-TV show of 'see, we can respond too!', 'Rawr russia bear stronk!'

But now Trump is in the white house, the media is covering it like it's something new and Trump is an insane fool who will lead the world into Armageddon. Similar events under Obama were downplayed massively and just as common

[FantasticFwoosh]

Preeetty good, also its a good training exercise for the POTUS, just shoot as many missiles as you want at a army base for shits and giggles. Flex those military muscles

[oranges]

For 100MM usd I'd demolish the base myself

30MM to the locals to let me do it
10MM for equipment and travel
That's a cool 60mm in pocket thank you based ally USA

[Malkevin]

Maybe Trump really liked playing Dangerous Waters and spamming cruise missiles from a LA class sub?

[lntigracy]

Well the airbase is pretty unusable, so it's not entirely just a dickwave.

[Grazyn]

Or CMANO, his tweet about tomahawks being ineffective against runways is a matter that's often discussed on the game's forums

[FantasticFwoosh]

Runways can be repaired easily, it was the the infrastructure expensive air-shelters etc. around the site which were expensive and harder to replace,

[InsaneHyena]

Our news suddenly changed the tune to "Trump is an idiot, who can't read FBI reports if there aren't enough pictures in them". Made me think.

[DemonFiren]

Wait, your media are putin the smackdown on Trump already?
They sure are russian that 180.

[XSI]

Preeetty good, also its a good training exercise for the POTUS, just shoot as many missiles as you want at a army base for shits and giggles. Flex those military muscles

It's also using up missiles before they go outdated
That's money the government has spend on missiles 10-20 years ago and they really just have a shitload of the things sitting around collecting dust

May as well use them instead of letting them go obsolete in another 10-20 years

[Cik]

http://imgur.com/a/TNDDT

fucking forum reeee

anyway if you've watched macross you know what i'm talking about

[Cik]

it always worked b4 fam

though thanks for that lecture it clears things up a bit

if it isn't immediately obvious btw that's a picture of a tomahawk barrage from a medium-sized carrier battlegroup

[Grazyn]

I wonder how many of those would actually get through if the target wasn't shithole norh korea but a russian-hardened Syria

[FantasticFwoosh]

Spicer is in trouble over accused holocaust denial. Worst possible timing on passover, i see the point he was trying to make but his word execution was cringeworthy because all the reporters in the room saw red and jumped on it.

Poor man, they've been waiting for a opportunity like this for ages.

[ThanatosRa]

So how about that thing where that new Supreme Court Justice got in with 51 votes because they changed the rules to allow it. Down from 60 senate seats to confirm it.

[ShadowDimentio]

I'm cool with it. The Dems refused play ball, so the Reps changed the rules to win.

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[Cik]

I wonder how many of those would actually get through if the target wasn't shithole norh korea but a russian-hardened Syria

you don't use tomahawks against S-300+

well maybe just for volume, but you use dedicated SEAD weapons instead and they are pretty effective.

tomahawks are just a 3000nm range fuck you to anything that isn't a modern anti-access system, which is nothing that NK has. you can destroy the whole country without even using the planes on your carrier.

[ThanatosRa]

I'm cool with it. The Dems refused play ball, so the Reps changed the rules to win.

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It's short sighted and against the spirit of the law.

[ShadowDimentio]

Perhaps, but what were the Reps to do? The Dems wouldn't vote for anyone they picked. Hell, even if Trump picked that mayor guy that they wanted I'd bet that they'd turn on him too.

[lntigracy]

I'm cool with it. The Dems refused play ball, so the Reps changed the rules to win.

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It's short sighted and against the spirit of the law.

And so is completely stonewalling all progress because your president choice lost.

[Drynwyn]

I'm cool with it. The Dems refused play ball, so the Reps changed the rules to win.

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It's short sighted and against the spirit of the law.

And so is completely stonewalling all progress because your president choice lost.

So is refusing to hear nominees at all because it's an election year.

[Luke Cox]

It's one thing to block legislation you don't like, it's another to block supreme court justices because you don't agree with your views. The DNC is sinking to the level of the Tea Party.

[ShadowDimentio]

I never said the GOP were totally innocent, but at that moment their options were to either leave the seat open for four+ years making nobody happy or change the rules and piss some people off.

[Drynwyn]

I never said the GOP were totally innocent, but at that moment their options were to either leave the seat open for four+ years making nobody happy or change the rules and piss some people off.

Or, you know, nominate someone without the extremely partisan record and ideology of Neil Gorsuch who would stand a chance of obtaining support from some Democrats.

[Drynwyn]

I never said the GOP were totally innocent, but at that moment their options were to either leave the seat open for four+ years making nobody happy or change the rules and piss some people off.

Or, you know, nominate someone without the extremely partisan record and ideology of Neil Gorsuch who would stand a chance of obtaining support from some Democrats.

[Drynwyn]

I never said the GOP were totally innocent, but at that moment their options were to either leave the seat open for four+ years making nobody happy or change the rules and piss some people off.

Or, you know, nominate someone without the extremely partisan record and ideology of Neil Gorsuch who would stand a chance of obtaining support from some Democrats.

[Super Aggro Crag]

Dont triplepost