The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

Trollheart · 06-20-2018, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by [MERIT]

Man dies after testing ‘stab-proof vest’ by stabbing himself – BGR

Is there a point to this story? Someone take a stab at it; you could cut the tension here with a knife.

Trollheart: Bad puns quota for 20/06/18 filled. Check.

Key · 06-20-2018, 07:40 PM

Donald Trump signs executive order to end family separations

About goddamn time.

Key · 06-20-2018, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

lol so they get detained in the same cell

It's not necessarily a step forward but it's better than separating them.

Key · 06-20-2018, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

embarrassing display

rawr we're tough, we're conservative, uhh nevermind this is the Democrats law anyway!

but still no tolerance, cage the children

Yeah, I don't disagree. It's just funny that he took a step backwards from his rhetoric over the past couple days. He's pretty embarrassing in himself.

Anteater · 06-20-2018, 08:13 PM

Lol it would have taken the previous administration like 3 months to do anything if this type of **** happened. According to Homeland Security personnel who served under Obama's watch, they don't even have the data of how many kids were separated from their parents over an 8 year period. That's fairly interesting considering how meticulous they were compared to this administration in regards to bookkeeping. But it wasn't worth keeping track of apparantly...or maybe they just scrubbed it out because the truth was inconvenient.

In other Trump news, taste the rainbow.

Business Insider - Trump reportedly threw Starbursts on a table before Germany's Angela Merkel at the G7 summit and said, 'Don't say I never give you anything'

Key · 06-20-2018, 08:20 PM

^I do remember reading that the numbers were so small that it wasn't worth keeping count. I haven't really done a lot of research so I don't know the actual numbers of kids being separated, but I suppose all in all, kids shouldn't be separated in the first place.

The Batlord · 06-20-2018, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

Business Insider - Trump reportedly threw Starbursts on a table before Germany's Angela Merkel at the G7 summit and said, 'Don't say I never give you anything'

Real talk that's cold ****.

Anteater · 06-20-2018, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

always waving the poms poms for Trump, pathetically forced

this is a result of Sessions and Trump's enforcement of the laws, nothing else, he doesn't get a hand for walking back part of the humanitarian disaster his administration created, and we all know he wouldn't have done **** if the backlash wasn't so heavy

Lol bull****. There are a multitude of factors at play in this manufactured crisis. The fact Trump responded as quickly as he did is pretty remarkable. I've read reports from Human Rights First going back to last year about people supposedly being turned away from ports of entry and in the vast majority of cases the problem is on the Mexican government's end. Like needing "government official approval" to be officially recognized or some other garbage. Trump has nothing to do with any of that nor has control over them. Though if we played "pin the tail on the tariff" maybe they'd change their tune hmn?

You might find this illuminating as well.

Rich Lowry - Immigration - The Truth About Separating Kids: History & Precedents

**Frownland** · 06-20-2018, 09:16 PM

Yep, the ambiguous laws that are in place are defo the product of former administrations. Different levels of selective authoritarianism is what's caused this particular controversy though.

Chula Vista · 06-21-2018, 01:10 PM

Once the SOTH and GOP senate walked back, you knew this EO was going to happen fast.

*Trump gets forcibly led into a darkened room and sat in a hard chair. Duct tape seals his mouth and hands. A bright hot light comes on directly over his head. He starts to sweat. Mitch and Paul start circling him ominously.

Mitch: You gotta stop this ****.
Paul: You're ****ing over the party.
M: We have mid-terms coming up.
P: We have to maintain control.
M: Put your ego in check Donnie.
P: If you don't, your last 2 years in office,
M: are going to be as impotent,
P: as your 70 year old dick.

Both: GOT IT?????

Trump signs EO under the pretense that it was his wife and his morals that made him do it.*

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Yep, the ambiguous laws that are in place are defo the product of former administrations. Different levels of selective authoritarianism is what's caused this particular controversy though. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Once the SOTH and GOP senate walked back, you knew this EO was going to happen fast. Trump gets forcibly led into a darkened room and sat in a hard chair. Duct tape seals his mouth and hands. A bright hot light comes on directly over his head. He starts to sweat. Mitch and Paul start circling him ominously. Mitch: You gotta stop this *. Paul: You're ing over the party. M: We have mid-terms coming up. P: We have to maintain control. M: Put your ego in check Donnie. P: If you don't, your last 2 years in office, M: are going to be as impotent, P: as your 70 year old dick. Both: GOT IT?????** Trump signs EO under the pretense that it was his wife and his morals that made him do it.* __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.” Last edited by Chula Vista; 06-21-2018 at 02:54 PM.

06-20-2018, 07:40 PM	#12272 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	Donald Trump signs executive order to end family separations About goddamn time.

06-20-2018, 08:20 PM	#12276 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	^I do remember reading that the numbers were so small that it wasn't worth keeping count. I haven't really done a lot of research so I don't know the actual numbers of kids being separated, but I suppose all in all, kids shouldn't be separated in the first place.