there was a reddit post by a guy from france that broke it down very nicely what is going on. https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/com...he_riots_in_france/?utm_source=reddit-android cant link to the comment to I linked to the best of subreddit and you have to click once from there
And his general arrogance on the issue. When people complained about yet another increase on fuel taxes, he suggested they carpool. Any one paying attention to the Huawei issue? Canada arrested the CFO on behalf of the US for circumventing sanctions and other fraud allegations. China is losing its shit.
Basically China is saying “release her without incident or pay the price”, and we’re saying “Fuck you, you’ll see her in forty tears”. China is used to pushing only their own people around.
Yeah, there is no downside for Canada just keeping her in custody. The US is slowly stroking itself in a dimly lit corner watching Canada stick it to China.
Since this whole thing is veering toward the hilarious, here's an SNL skit from last weekend that seems fitting for this thread:
So the Stable Genius is now going to be pimping Clean Coal at a climate change summit. He’s not going to stop embarrassing your country until he’s stopped. And this is pretty fucking embarrassing.
I always felt like dubya was embarassing. To the point where once when I was in France, a guy sitting near me on the train wanted to know how we liked “Boosh” before he determined if we were cool to talk to. There were times I felt like being American out there placed me in danger. Now? At this point, I wouldn’t put an American flag on anything I own if I traveled overseas and would probably claim to be Canadian.
I haven't encountered this myself, but if anyone asked if I was American I would say "I'm Californian."
You guys have travelled with our flags for years. We’ve dedicated many comedy skits and song lyrics to it. When he was POTUS Obama tried to show openness to climate change. He went to the climate change summit to listen to what people have to say. ...And it turn he gets ghosted by the monstrously retarded James Inhoff, the Snowball Senator, who proceeds to tell all the geniuses with the PHD’s that they don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about. That ding-dong was head science ambassador for your entire country.
When I was in Europe under Bush's presidency I did say I was Canadian so anyone who asked. During that time, only thing more dangerous than saying you were American was saying you were Texan. Now though, if traveled outside of the country and someone asked I'd just tell them trump is a joke, a laughing stock, and I don't support him or like anyone who does. Not only is that truthful, I feel like that's also a great way to meet people who aren't likely to kill me.
The Judge in the Manafort case has asked for more details regarding his lies to Mueller's team. Basically, she wants to know what these lies involve so she can decide whether or not it should make a difference in his sentencing (which has been pushed back to January). So we're gonna learn some more about fucks ups of the person who is, in my opinion, the most interesting in this whole disaster.
Today is also the Google hearing about the "manipulated search results" that only shows bad shit for the Republicans... you know, part of the FAKE NEWS thing. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-hearing-congress-ted-lieu-steve-king-2018-12 This is fucking hilarious: Lieu read headlines from a Google search about House Majority Whip Steve Scalise. Noting that the first few articles about Scalise were favorable to him and included those from conservative media outlets, Lieu asked Pichai whether people at Google were manipulating those results to favor Scalise. "You don't have a group of people at Google sitting there thinking, 'Hey, we like Steve Scalise, so we're going to generate positive articles on these search results,'" he said. "That's not what's happening, right?" Pichai said no, adding, "We don't deal with individual queries and with any viewpoint." But then Lieu pivoted, pulling out his smartphone for a Google search in real time and entering King's name. King, who was sitting across the room on the powerful House panel, became visibly perturbed. "I'm going to change one word. So I'm going to search for 'Congressman Steve King,' I'm going to hit the 'News' tab," Lieu said. "First article that pops up is from ABC News. It says 'Steve King's racist immigration talk prompts calls for congressional censure.' That's a negative article. But you don't have a group of people at Google sitting there thinking and trying to modify search results — every time Steve King comes up, a negative article appears. That's not what's happening, right?" Pichai again said no, reiterating that Google does not manipulate results for people in that way. "So let me just conclude here by stating the obvious," Lieu responded. "If you want positive search results, do positive things. If you don't want negative search results, don't do negative things. "And to some of my colleagues across the aisle, if you're getting bad press articles and bad search results, don't blame Google or Facebook or Twitter — consider blaming yourself," he added.
King is demanding to know the Google employees names who wrote the algorithm to find out if they’re liberals. Seriously. Here’s a response: “Why don’t you sit down and shut the fuck up, crybaby?” Another for the pile of clueless twat who refuses to to accept the fact that most people think they’re a piece of shit. He wants to know why his iPhone is telling him this, to which google replies “We don’t make the iPhone”.
Wait... how did trump's temper tantrum rise to the level of an actual hearing? I thought we all just laughed at him for even suggesting that, like he was the crazy guy in the nursing home accusing the nurse of shorting him on his meds. This is a fantastic use of tax dollars.
Welcome to the last ten years of the Republican House, nice to meet you. The Comey hearing the other day was the exact same shit. I read the transcript and it was nothing but Gowdy continuing his witch hunt of Peter Strzok, which Comey had basically nothing to do with. The worst offense was when Kevin McCarthy (potential minority leader come the new session) bragged that the Benghazi hearings ruined Clinton's reputation even though they didn't find anything.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/goo...or-idiot-turns-up-pictures-of-trump-1.4214594 It's almost as if by holding a Congressional Hearing it made it even more likely that you'd get pics of Trump when searching Google for "idiot". It's fucking scary to think that these morons are running your country. It's right up there with Guam tipping over...