US Politics

PostRe: US Politics by **Lex-Man** » Wed Sep 12, 2018 5:16 pm

I don't see any problem with setting off nukes inside America. It would damage anything valuable.

PostRe: US Politics by **captain red dog** » Wed Sep 12, 2018 7:17 pm

Right so are we nuking this hurricane or what? Might as well use the nukes for something!

PostRe: US Politics by **Moggy** » Wed Sep 12, 2018 7:20 pm

captain red dog wrote:Right so are we nuking this hurricane or what? Might as well use the nukes for something!

By aiming a nuke at 725 5th Ave, New York, we can solve all our problems. :shifty:

PostRe: US Politics by **captain red dog** » Wed Sep 12, 2018 7:22 pm

Moggy wrote:
captain red dog wrote:Right so are we nuking this hurricane or what? Might as well use the nukes for something!

By aiming a nuke at 725 5th Ave, New York, we can solve all our problems.

Well not really, he doesn't live there and he'll just get a heck of a lot more real estate to ban minorities from! :lol:

PostRe: US Politics by **Alvin Flummux** » Wed Sep 12, 2018 8:09 pm

captain red dog wrote:Right so are we nuking this hurricane or what? Might as well use the nukes for something!

*Dons science coat*

If you detonate one or more nuclear warheads in the hurricane, you risk creating what we scientists call a "Nukenado," or to use the scientific terminology, a Radioactive Fuckbomb.

PostRe: US Politics by **Monkey Man** » Wed Sep 12, 2018 8:24 pm

twitter.com/atrupar/status/1039852649896701953

Woof woof.

PostRe: US Politics by **Alvin Flummux** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 1:59 am

twitter.com/NWSColumbia/status/1040008782871494656

Florence loomed menacingly off-shore, her ill intent well known to all. There was nothing to be done in that moment but flee inland to more sheltered regions, for she would not be appeased, nor sated by any earthly offering. No, Florence would only be satisfied when she had taken her pound of flesh.

Meanwhile, far up the coast, the nation's leader wandered the quiet, dimly lit, and for the most part empty halls of the White House late into the night. He brooded darkly over sordid revelations yet to come. He used to be able to handle the press; throw out a distraction or two and off they'd go, tails wagging happily, then double down on the denials to his loyalists. But it was all happening too quickly now; no sooner than he dispatched one story, three more popped up in its place. It was a mess, and it was getting worse daily.

Just as millions of Americans waited with grim determination for Florence to tear into the American coastline, so too did Donald Trump await his own person Hurricane Florence.

PostRe: US Politics by **Lagamorph** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 2:54 pm

twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1040217897703026689

twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1040220855400386560

PostRe: US Politics by KK » Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:02 pm

I think you'll find what actually happened is that 3000 people died (maybe of old age, maybe because the TV blew up in their face or they farted too hard, whatever) at the same time as the hurricane hit (completely unrelated, BTW). One of those Russian coincidences.

PostRe: US Politics by **Moggy** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:03 pm

3000 US citizens die and the odious orange one just calls it fake news.

Wanker.

PostRe: US Politics by KK » Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:05 pm

Semantically US citizens. They may as well have been from Belarus.

PostRe: US Politics by **Moggy** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:06 pm

KK wrote:Semantically US citizens. They may as well have been from Belarus.

Not semantically, literally.

PostRe: US Politics by KK » Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:11 pm

Over 50% (or thereabouts) of Americans didn't know Puerto Ricans are US citizens, Trump possibly didn't know either. They're USCINOs.

US citizens in name only.

PostRe: US Politics by **Hexx** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:11 pm

I'm sure it's great comfort to everyone prepareing to be hit by Florence, that should the unthinkable happen the President will deny they ever existed.

PostRe: US Politics by **Moggy** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:15 pm

KK wrote:Over 50% (or thereabouts) of Americans didn't know Puerto Ricans are US citizens, Trump possibly didn't know either. They're USCINOs.

US citizens in name only.

It doesn't matter that 50% of Americans don't know it. They are still US citizens.

PostRe: US Politics by **Hexx** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:22 pm

Moggy's right - and I've no idea what point KKK is trying to make

PostRe: US Politics by KK » Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:36 pm

I thought it was pretty obvious. There's the piece of paper that says they're US citizens...and then there's the reality of the situation - that they're not seen as US citizens by the government, an irrelevancy to at least half of the population of the US itself; i.e they may as well have been from anywhere else for all the help they've received.

The UK is guilty of this as well, of course, just to a much lesser extent.

PostRe: US Politics by **Moggy** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:46 pm

KK wrote:I thought it was pretty obvious. There's the piece of paper that says they're US citizens...and then there's the reality of the situation - that they're not seen as US citizens by the government, an irrelevancy to at least half of the population of the US itself; i.e they may as well have been from anywhere else for all the help they've received.

The UK is guilty of this as well, of course, just to a much lesser extent.

Trump is not the same thing as the government.

Puerto Ricans are American citizens. There are no ifs or buts, they are American citizens.

PostRe: US Politics by KK » Thu Sep 13, 2018 4:02 pm

Meh, on a piece of paper that isn't worth a toss. History, its treatment of the island, and reality says otherwise. As was covered at the time of the hurricane, Puerto Ricans don't see themselves as (imposed) American citizens because they've never been treated as American citizens, and I'd be inclined to agree with them.

fake edit: and you can read a quick summerisation of their treatment here https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/op ... a5230595f7

PostRe: US Politics by **Moggy** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 4:39 pm

KK wrote:Meh, on a piece of paper that isn't worth a toss. History, its treatment of the island, and reality says otherwise. As was covered at the time of the hurricane, Puerto Ricans don't see themselves as (imposed) American citizens because they've never been treated as American citizens, and I'd be inclined to agree with them.

fake edit: and you can read a quick summerisation of their treatment here https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/op ... a5230595f7

But they are American citizens. They can have American passports and they have the right to move to America. That’s worth more than a toss.

Sure they are treated like gooseberry fool, but that doesn’t change their citizenship status. It’s like arguing that Scottish people aren’t British because the UK has historically treated them badly.

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