Donald Trump Jr. just posted the e-mails

[Mormolyce]

I know I can't really talk as I take bait all the time, but we should really just ignore Shalcker and Haven.

At this point they're just posting walls of text on how water isn't wet.

[Breccia]

The Republican cycle of enabling Trump is much like the cycle of grief. It just has 3 steps.

Denial: "FAKE NEWS!"
Deflection: "BUTTER EMAILS!"
Acceptance: "It's perfectly fine for Trump to do this thing that's highly illegal.

Ah, we have to do better than that.

Bargaining: Look, can we at least agree that the evidence isn't public yet?
Anger: Constant state of being. That's why they voted for someone they knew, deep down, knew would break most of his promises and make their lives worse.

[downnola]

I know I can't really talk as I take bait all the time, but we should really just ignore Shalcker and Haven.

At this point they're just posting walls of text on how water isn't wet.

Those two offer an essential service to these forums. How would you respond if a flat-earther walked up to you and asked, "how can you prove the earth is round?" The claim is so outrageous at first, but the question is a serious one when you think about it. How can I prove the earth is round?

People like them keep the cobwebs out of the grey matter.

[Breccia]

The claim is so outrageous at first, but the question is a serious one when you think about it. How can I prove the earth is round?

And you stop counting at ten reasons, realize the person is trolling you because they personally know five of them, and move on without feeding them.

[downnola]

And you stop counting at ten reasons, realize the person is trolling you because they personally know five of them, and move on without feeding them.

Of course. It still helps to go through the motions from time to time, though.

[Breccia]

Of course. It still helps to go through the motions from time to time, though.

Sometimes. But even the depths of stupidity we've seen on these forums knows limits.

Anyhow back on topic: One two and three separate stories about how Trump's legal team is reshuffling itself to go on the attack, rather than defense, going after Mueller's conflicts of interest. That's gonna be a tall order, and more to the point, doesn't discredit any information he has. I'm sure they're desperate, but I don't see how the support Mueller got from pretty much all non-Trump people when he was nominated is anything other than demonstration of impartiality on display.

[Mormolyce]

Those two offer an essential service to these forums. How would you respond if a flat-earther walked up to you and asked, "how can you prove the earth is round?" The claim is so outrageous at first, but the question is a serious one when you think about it. How can I prove the earth is round?

People like them keep the cobwebs out of the grey matter.

Give me two wells on opposite sides of Greece, a swift horse and a protractor!

[DarkTZeratul]

Give me two wells on opposite sides of Greece, a swift horse and a protractor!

I just need a piece of paper, a pen, and two constellations.

[Breccia]

Give me two wells on opposite sides of Greece, a swift horse and a protractor!

And a sieve, in case I need to catch some prime numbers!

[Kujako]

... but the Earth is an ellipsoid, not round.

[Lothar from accounting]

... but the Earth is an ellipsoid, not round.

Oblate spheroid or oblate ellipsoid if you want to be completely accurate.

[downnola]

Oblate spheroid or oblate ellipsoid if you want to be completely accurate.

Sounds like a load of bull from them fancy learning books the teachin lady tried pushin off on me when I was a youngin.

[alexw]

Sounds like a load of bull from them fancy learning books the teachin lady tried push off me when I was a youngin.

The things flat. My mamma told me never to go to the orizon. I listned to my mamma so's I never fell off.

Those fancy speakin lady's theys don't listen, so whens theys goes theys never comin back.

[downnola]

The things flat. My mamma told me never to go to the orizon. I listned to my mamma so's I never fell off.

Those fancy speakin lady's theys don't listen, so whens theys goes theys never comin back.

There is something really special about the American dialect. I never realized how glorious it was until I came across H.L. Mencken's translation of the Declaration of Independence into "standard" American.

WHEN THINGS get so balled up that the people of a country got to cut loose from some other country, and go it on their own hook, without asking no permission from nobody, excepting maybe God Almighty, then they ought to let everybody know why they done it, so that everybody can see they are not trying to put nothing over on nobody.

All we got to say on this proposition is this: first, me and you is as good as anybody else, and maybe a damn sight better; second, nobody ain't got no right to take away none of our rights; third, every man has got a right to live, to come and go as he pleases, and to have a good time whichever way he likes, so long as he don't interfere with nobody else. That any government that don't give a man them rights ain't worth a damn; also, people ought to choose the kind of government they want themselves, and nobody else ought to have no say in the matter. That whenever any government don't do this, then the people have got a right to give it the bum's rush and put in one that will take care of their interests. Of course, that don't mean having a revolution every day like them South American yellow-bellies, or every time some jobholder goes to work and does something he ain't got no business to do. It is better to stand a little graft, etc., than to have revolutions all the time, like them coons, and any man that wasn't a anarchist or one of them I.W.W.'s would say the same. But when things get so bad that a man ain't hardly got no rights at all no more, but you might almost call him a slave, then everybody ought to get together and throw the grafters out, and put in new ones who won't carry on so high and steal so much, and then watch them. This is the proposition the people of these Colonies is up against, and they have got tired of it, and won't stand it no more. The administration of the present King, George III, has been rotten from the start, and when anybody kicked about it he always tried to get away with it by strong-arm work. Here is some of the rough stuff he has pulled:.....

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/decind.html

Truly a work of art.

[Wyrt]

There is something really special about the American dialect. I never realized how glorious it was until I came across H.L. Mencken's translation of the Declaration of Independence into "standard" American.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/decind.html

Truly a work of art.

That's not standard American, that's southern gibberish.

[DarkTZeratul]

That's not standard American, that's southern gibberish.

Still clearer than frontier gibberish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNC3OciAF3w

[Mekh]

There is something really special about the American dialect. I never realized how glorious it was until I came across H.L. Mencken's translation of the Declaration of Independence into "standard" American.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/decind.html

Truly a work of art.

That was beautiful.

[Breccia]

And now somehow Jill Stein is involved.

I'm not kidding, the Senate wants to talk to her.

I am at a loss. What the hell is going on?

[Edge-]

And now somehow Jill Stein is involved.

I'm not kidding, the Senate wants to talk to her.

I am at a loss. What the hell is going on?

She thinks the Washington establishment gives a shit about the Green party enough to "smear" them? I mean, I know she's nuts but that's a new level of nuts.

Maybe it's related to this image somehow? -

[unfilteredJW]

And now somehow Jill Stein is involved.

I'm not kidding, the Senate wants to talk to her.

I am at a loss. What the hell is going on?

Real life has turned into a fucking cartoon.