War Room Lounge v123: I will powerbomb you on legos and micro machines

[My Spot]

are we still talking about guts?

“Let’s go to Mo for the rules - Mo!”

 

[Possum Jenkins]

Is it just me or are their some guys like Danny Devito, Rob Mac, and Jason Alexander whose gut fat just seems firmer and less gelatinous than others'?

Need a @senri analysis here

 

[CubicleGangster]

No clue really. I just find her mom to be obnoxious.
Her mom has never talked about environmental issues to my recollection she has more voiced her pro immigration views and everybody that does not agree with her are nazi / brown right trash. Brown as in fascists.

Give me a minute to grab some tin foil before I go all "Look into it"-bro on you

It is way too coincidental to me that Greta and her solo protest went viral right before her mom's new book, which talked quite a bit about Greta in it, came out

just saying

 

[lsa]

Give me a minute to grab some tin foil before I go all "Look into it"-bro on you

It is way too coincidental to me that Greta and her solo protest went viral right before her mom's new book, which talked quite a bit about Greta in it, came out

just saying

The book is actually a family project so its not her moms book.
They wrote it together. Both kids and mommy and daddy are authors.

 

[lsa]

Give me a minute to grab some tin foil before I go all "Look into it"-bro on you

It is way too coincidental to me that Greta and her solo protest went viral right before her mom's new book, which talked quite a bit about Greta in it, came out

just saying

btw tin foil is bad for the environment you dick!
Did you even think about that? Go recycle that!

 

[AgonyandIrony]

I'm pro 2nd Amendment, but I don't know why people bring weapons like this to these demonstrations?

is it to flaunt their rights?

do they expect to get in a fire fight with local authorities or counter protestors?

An unfulfilled life mostly. These people strike me as /k/ommandos. I eventually quit going to /k/ because the neo Nazis bled over from /pol/ into it. Instead of fun stuff like how to take out MRaps it turned into what kind of firearm you're going to use to kill blacks.

I just want to bitch about the price of Mosins these days.

 

[Limbo Pete]

"EVERYONE'S looking at it it's massive"

 

[Lord Coke]

Big documentary coming out on Monday on PBS re Clarence Thomas. 6 pacific time 9 eastern


@Trotsky the line about voting rights being the ring made me laugh so I imagine it will you as well
https://abovethelaw.com/2020/05/the-week-we-learned-that-clarence-thomas-is-really-into-hobbits/

After years of diligent silence during oral argument, Justice Clarence Thomas has already piped up twice since the Supreme Court started livestreaming arguments. It’s almost as if the notoriously disengaged jurist has spent the last 29 years waiting for an audience. Perhaps this is why the Court remained so steadfastly opposed for so long.

While hearing argument on Colorado Department of State vs. Baca, the faithless elector case, Thomas jumped in to ask counsel if there could be any check on an elector’s discretion:

“The elector, who had promised to vote for the winning candidate, could suddenly say ‘you know, I’m going to vote for Frodo Baggins. I really like Frodo Baggins,'” said Thomas. “And you’re saying, under your system, you can’t do anything about that.”

As Jason Harrow, the attorney for the faithless elector from 2016, immediately pointed out, this question is remarkably stupid since electors have to vote for real people. Also, if Hawaiian birth certificates couldn’t be trusted, good luck dealing with the bureaucracy of the Shire.

Unfortunately the other side picked up on this strawhobbit argument and cited it later in the argument as proof that electors cannot be legally bound by states lest mischief ensue. It was a disingenuous jab but at least it helps the right side. Efforts to replace the archaic role of the Electoral College with one that simply hands the presidency to the winner of the popular vote hinge on the power of states to keep electors faithful so if it takes freaking out over halflings to get that result, so be it.


But all this raises more interesting questions about Clarence Thomas: Low-Key High-Fantasy Nerd. The references people deploy can reveal a lot about who they are. He could’ve asked about Jay Gatsby or Gregor Samsa or a Republican who opposes de facto segregation — they’re all fictional characters, so why does his mind jump to the hero of the Lord of the Rings trilogy? There are a lot of reasons to appreciate Tolkien, but the fantasy genre does feed a Manichaean worldview, an unhealthy romanticization and whitewashing of the past, and a politics that sees people as defined by birth — dwarves are violent miners because they’re dwarves and not because they live in economically distressed mountain communities. Not that there aren’t other reasons to appreciate the books, but if he’s the sort of superfan ready to drop Frodo in a Supreme Court argument it certainly suggests he’s thought a little more deeply about the books than people probably should and now that it’s been highlighted, it’s hard not to see these strains in his jurisprudence.

Does Justice Thomas see his Supreme Court as an ersatz Fellowship? Perhaps one he envisions as sent on a grand quest to destroy the One Ring, or “voting rights” as we call them? In this model, I assume Roberts holds the Fellowship together as its Gandalf, Alito is believable exuding that Samwise sidekick-y vibe, Kavanaugh doing the Boromir thing and trying to take stuff without consent.

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But seriously, is Thomas a big Tolkien guy? Or is this more of a Zeppelin thing where he’s only vaguely following the plot from the lyrics of epic ballads about love and longing and Hobbits? So many questions.

Wait, did Long Dong Silver ever do a Lord of the Rings parody?

 

[Gregolian]

An unfulfilled life mostly. These people strike me as /k/ommandos. I eventually quit going to /k/ because the neo Nazis bled over from /pol/ into it. Instead of fun stuff like how to take out MRaps it turned into what kind of firearm you're going to use to kill blacks.

I just want to bitch about the price of Mosins these days.

I missed the boat on Mosins and AKs.

When I first turned 18 you could get a case of like 5 to a case of them in plastic wrap and the cosmoline still for like.. $300.

NOW, Century Arms garbage is the only shit you can get for that nice price.

 

[Trotsky]

From the beginning of his campaign, it's always been a bit unclear what Biden's actual motivation is. But over these long months, through tireless repetition, he's slowly made it clear: Joe Biden ran for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States so that he can tell each and every distinguishable group of people in America not to vote for him.

Former Vice President Joe Biden said in an MSNBC interview on Thursday that Americans who believe Tara Reade’s allegations of sexual assault against him probably shouldn’t vote for him—which follows a long pattern of Biden telling people not to vote for him.

August 24, 2019: Biden, 77, responded to voters’ concerns about his age by declaring, “I say if they're concerned, don't vote for me," to a group of reporters in Keene, N.H.

November 22, 2019: When Carlos Rojas, an immigration activist, pressed Biden at an event in November on the issue of deportations during the Obama administration, Biden told Rojas, “you should vote for Trump.”

January 29, 2020: Environmental activist Ed Fallon confronted Biden on his climate positions, and Biden responded, "you have to go vote for someone else. You're not going to vote for me in the primary."

May 14, 2020: Biden said in an MSNBC interview that voters who believe Tara Reade’s allegation that he sexually assaulted her in 1993 “probably shouldn’t vote for me” and should instead “vote their heart,” adding “I wouldn’t vote for me if I believed Tara Reade.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrew...mes-joe-biden-told-people-not-to-vote-for-him

 

[CubicleGangster]

The book is actually a family project so its not her moms book.
They wrote it together. Both kids and mommy and daddy are authors.

Initially she wasn't even on the cover though, it was originally just Malena on it....
"Greta’s name and picture may grace the book cover of the newly released German edition — which also lists her parents’ and sister’s names — but for the most part, Scenes from the Heart was written by her mother."

The conspiracy grows

btw tin foil is bad for the environment you dick!
Did you even think about that? Go recycle that!

Motherfuck an environment

 

[Gregolian]

From the beginning of his campaign, it's always been a bit unclear what Biden's actual motivation is. But over these long months, through tireless repetition, he's slowly made it clear: Joe Biden ran for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States so that he can tell each and every distinguishable group of people in America not to vote for him.




https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrew...mes-joe-biden-told-people-not-to-vote-for-him

I want to make fun of Biden for being very obviously mentally deteriorating in front of our very eyes.

But it also makes me sad cause I know my dad saw HIS mom deteriorate the same way and my mom and I are seeing my own dad slowly fall down that path as well as he gets older.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

Just put on Dazed & Confused and realized that if they made that movie today it would be based in the year I graduated high school... 2003

 

[Trotsky]

Big documentary coming out on Monday on PBS re Clarence Thomas. 6 pacific time 9 eastern


@Trotsky the line about voting rights being the ring made me laugh so I imagine it will you as well
https://abovethelaw.com/2020/05/the-week-we-learned-that-clarence-thomas-is-really-into-hobbits/

Sorry, but I have plans to watch a documentary about a rabid squirrel with explosive diarrhea that became a delegate for the United Nations.

 

[Fawlty]

I think it's just that they are fit underneath the flab. I would add Ricky Gervais (tentative, haven't seen him lately. Just a hypothesis, mind.

He got freaking jacked at one point iirc

 

[weed]

Just put on Dazed & Confused and realized that if they made that movie today it would be based in the year I graduated high school... 2003

that era was weird. I forgot where I read it, but it was 'cool' to take crushed cans & wear them in the heels of your boots back then. a bunch of other trends that were fucking odd (fake moles being another one, which chicks seem to do to this day still).

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

that era was weird. I forgot where I read it, but it was 'cool' to take crushed cans & wear them in the heels of your boots back then. a bunch of other trends that were fucking odd (fake moles being another one, which chicks seem to do to this day still).

76 or 03?

 

[JDragon]

]

From the beginning of his campaign, it's always been a bit unclear what Biden's actual motivation is. But over these long months, through tireless repetition, he's slowly made it clear: Joe Biden ran for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States so that he can tell each and every distinguishable group of people in America not to vote for him.




https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrew...mes-joe-biden-told-people-not-to-vote-for-him

This thing is not gonna go away.

 

[weed]

76 or 03?

my bad haha, the 70s. apparently guys like the guy Macchonheigholesefjhw played were a dime a dozen, always preying on high school girls etc.

 

[lsa]

Initially she wasn't even on the cover though, it was originally just Malena on it....
"Greta’s name and picture may grace the book cover of the newly released German edition — which also lists her parents’ and sister’s names — but for the most part, Scenes from the Heart was written by her mother."

The conspiracy grows



Motherfuck an environment

On the book cover yes.
But the original book has listed her husband and her as authors and the text also mentions Greta as a writer.
Straight from the publisher and from the first edition.
https://www.bokforlagetpolaris.se/scener-ur-hjaertat/t-0/9789177951117

"Hon, maken Svante Thunberg och dottern Greta skriver också om planetens kris" = She her husband Svante Thunberg and the daughter Greta also writes about the planets crisis.
Thats the text from the first edition from the publishers website.
It says "1. Utgåva, 1. Upplaga" = 1 edition
In other words Greta was involved in writing the first book it is not an "after construction".

Also the Publisher is Polaris
Polaris is owned by Danish JP/ Politiken which is a media company that also owns several news papers that are mostly Conservative one being JP known for the Muhammad drawings.