The News Thread

[Blurry_Dreams]

if transexuals becomes the norm then no more teenage pregnancy

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

if transexuals becomes the norm then no more teenage pregnancy

this was a snarky comment aimed at @Onder and @TechnicalBarbarity

People are always the angriest over the things they suppress, and that guy has the face of a foot fetishist too.

or at least recognizes that some people would consider toe-sucking to be sex

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

watching ABC World News Tonight with David Muir .... "not only are the Russians helping Trump, but it looks like they are also helping Sanders.." amazing. Our "news" stations are a fucking joke.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

haha now im watching all of our "non-bias" local news networks trash Trump again. I honestly cant believe there are morons out there who actually think the media plays it right down the middle. Those people are either genuine idiots or genuine liars. But im pretty sure its the latter.

 

[CiG]

Also it turns out you can get reinfected and the symptoms are even worse than the first time.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Looks like Bernie's running away with Nevada, at least so far

 

[CiG]

Setting aside the whole electoral college vs direct democracy debate, it's hilarious how easily Bernie makes the rest of these candidates look like scumbags.

 

[Slammed]

Awe shit, now we'll never know if the earth really is flat

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/02/23/mad-mike-hughes-dead/

 

[CiG]

Chris Matthews talking with Nina Turner tried to compare Bernie's campaign promises (universal healthcare, free college etc) to what Bloomberg is doing (dropping $300k on the DNC so they'd change their debate rules, spending millions in advertising (more than HRC spent on her entire election campaign lmao) to make up for the fact that he has no real support base).

Even if you completely disagree with Bernie's plans I still don't see how you could conflate the two. Laziest most hamfisted attempt at a gotcha moment I've seen in a hot minute.

 

[Sedition and Pockets]

Chris Matthews is the living embodiment of Old Man Yells at Cloud.

 

[CiG]

 

[Onder]

Coronavirus: Outbreak spreads in Europe from Italy

The news is full of this so here's a repost. There are now deaths in Italy and France, first cases in Austria. Getting close to my town every day.

 

[Einherjar86]

President Donald Trump on Wednesday appointed Vice President Mike Pence to lead a task force to combat the spread of the coronavirus, defying calls to appoint an outside expert to coordinate the response.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/26/trump-puts-pence-in-charge-of-coronavirus-response-117790
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/26/trump-puts-pence-in-charge-of-coronavirus-response-117790

This is probably fine.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Awe shit, now we'll never know if the earth really is flat

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/02/23/mad-mike-hughes-dead/

it's must of been a cover-up
Mike was killed by the people trying to promote the round-earth theory

-the other people who believe the earth is flat​

 

[Slammed]

That dudes PR man said Mike wasn't a flat earther he just pretended to be one to take flat earthers money. If I was doing something so stupid I'd tell my PR guy to tell the media that too. But flat earther or not the guy decided he could get in a $30K rocket and fly, that's flat earth level stupid anyway.

 

[CiG]

Tulsi Gabbard: Presidential candidates must also condemn election interference by US intelligence agencies.

Reckless claims by anonymous intelligence officials that Russia is “helping” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are deeply irresponsible. So was former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s calculated decision Tuesday to repeat this unsubstantiated accusation on the debate stage in South Carolina. Enough is enough. I am calling on all presidential candidates to stop playing these dangerous political games and immediately condemn any interference in our elections by out-of-control intelligence agencies.

A “news article” published last week in the Washington Post, which set off yet another manufactured media firestorm, alleges that the goal of Russia is to trick people into criticizing establishment Democrats. This is a laughably obvious ploy to stifle legitimate criticism and cast aspersions on Americans who are rightly skeptical of the powerful forces exerting control over the primary election process. We are told the aim of Russia is to “sow division,” but the aim of corporate media and self-serving politicians pushing this narrative is clearly to sow division of their own — by generating baseless suspicion against the Sanders campaign.

 

[CiG]

I didn't even know our PM was deporting New Zealand-born criminals back over there.

Anyway the New Zealand PM is a fuckwit and I hope we keep doing it.

 

[Slammed]

We deported some father of a footballer before the grand final a few years back and it made news all over the place because it was unfair not to let a guy with OMC connections who had been in and out of jail watch his son play in his first grand final. The same son who'd been reprimanded several times throughout his career for having associations with OMC members. I don't know if Mr Potatohead Dutton chose his time to deport the guy just as his son's team got in the grand final or if it was just how the timing worked but it was big news and I believe two years later when the same team got back into the grand final dad was here to see the game anyway, and that year they won.

I don't know how many others are being deported but honestly there should be a line at the airport a mile long....and even though his not a Kiwi ScoMo should be at the front of the line.

 

[CiG]

Apparently we've deported something like 4k.