Believe me Buds, I've been missing the finger shaking more than anyone 🤯🤬

:)

BUUUUUUUDDDDDZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!111 <3

Braden has a nicer phone than me.

Preemptive as fluff. Capcha 50 years in advance.

At least you're the maid of honor and not that chick on the end. Is that 4 in a row in 2nd?

HERE HERE!!!!!!!

Its amusing to read but Darkness sees thru the shadows. Gonna take 10 minutes to find him if hes tagged, and 10 minutes to farm him if he's not. I hope ARCH upgrades their flip fones, because these dogs will wall you to death. Wouldn't be the first time nor the 2nd I got top ten with 300 defends. And it wouldn't be the first time nor the 2nd celphi broke 1000.

If you wanna bark about your pups, don't forget darkness IS the HOUNDS! WOOF! I'll drink to the future blood of civilians and armies destroyed in your underwhelming plot to foil the darkness. But you may not. The darkness will envelop you and you'll be left regretting your feeble attempts to stop it. If it's arms they want, I'll gladly use my missiles on my enemies lands than my allies oil destocks. And we shall dance as long as you're merry to do so. Perhaps you can beat mobs restart record.

RAWR,
Derrick, Lord Commander of Darkness Hounds

Hey invictus. You used to play with Gasconade on team, right? Didn't you play with him here before too? I thought you did but i could just be losing my mind.

Either way, i know you from the solos well enough and you're obviously welcome in LoC. If you decide to run solo though, you'll usually be ok. If netting in a tag here results in netting like 90% of the time, doing it in a solo works like 80%. It's pretty comparable if you keep your nose clean and stick to the bots. Solos only rarely get blindsided.

If you're fat you might get topfed but they just narfed the rules on that so it might be ok haha.

I went inactive during the holidays and never really recovered. I'll be back with some big boys this set provided we roll out good. Felt bad handing over no competition haha.

Will be interesting to play with the new changesets.

Like if a changeset was invented for netters where when you guys spent 30 mins in the game, you were penalized for it, would you not quit playing for that 30 mins?

I dont think it needed to be as dramatic as it was, but players who spend time on this game should have positive not negative results in their country. The idea of penalizing people for activity is absurd.

Yeah and all the nw records would get crushed with 15 aiding 20% to one.

But seriously. Why would you penalize someone for activity walling? I dont necessarily see why rewarding them is necessary but why penalize them on their restart? I thought wallers got a bonus because you blow thru stock walling. A slight bonus means you basically get back what you'd have if you didnt wall, but you burn more stock of the enemy.

Why do people want to take walling out of the game here and make not walling better? That seems extremely counterintuitive. Walling = activity. Time spent playing should be rewarded not penalized.

Im curious. Why would you want a restart bonus to be shorter the more a person walls? Walling costs money so wallers will already start with less stock the more they wall. Thus having a flat rate will actually cause people who wall more to start with less by nature. Why would you want to penalize someone for walling tho? I think it was way too powerful before, but i don't think a players restart bonus should be penalized for walling to a point that not walling is a better solution.

Its at 97% now but i think fluff You Tom Perez is right (donno if you know the reference. But Tom Perez is known as fluff You Tom Perez to some. Rules are rules for that douche). I think they absolutely have to recanvass. I don't think a recount is totally necessary but people were still pointing out inconsistencies last night. Either way, it seems Bernie and Pete are gonna be top dogs moving on. Though i have my doubts that Pete will still be in after super Tuesday. Looking like a lot of Biden and Bernie states on the horizon.

Hope for change! No change here! Just a lot of hoping for it! Haha.

The truly sad thing is that either he or Trump was probably the best president of my life because the unmitigated disaster of each of their presidencies didn't quite rise to the level of their predecessors.

Yeah or "unregistered corporate lobbying." It does certainly seem that way.

*casually looks at all the career politicians and corporate executives Trump has appointed*

Yeah. He really delivered on that promise, eh?

Yeah. I like all those people and they represent the American dream etc. I guess if one of those guys was an unapologetic racist and sexist piece of fluff I'd be pretty bummed they got it too.

That said, the typical trump debate of other people also being awful still holds up. I'm glad the goalposts are still just that Obama was also awful so Trump is fine.

The goalposts shouldnt be well the dems are awful too so trump being awful is cool. That's called status quo folks.

Lol word. Makes sense.

I could see the accusation that all these fmr state department officials and US business partners and other western leaders (such as the fmr president of poland) were recieving exorbitant wages in return for political favors. That's not called money laundering but is indeed a form of illegal unregistered lobbying. Similar to what Manafort was arrested for.

Is that what you mean?

Or is this just one of those things where you yell Burisma loudly in a mirror and maybe the Bidens will go away.

Guilty of what tho? Like who are they laundering money to? Politicians for lobbying purposes?

Throw me a bone here. You drop a theory I've literally never heard of. Gimme details man. I wanna dig. Burisma has been accused of a number of things, but i don't ever recall money laundering being one of them. Thats been pretty unique to GEP.

Hit me with this theory. How's it work?

I still didnt get my question answered...

Do you think the Burisma money laundering op is similar to what GEP has been accused of? I'm actually genuinely trying to understand what y'all think is happening.

I don't see any investigations into Burisma that have found anything other than tax evasions from long ago that were paid. And i thought the biden thing was all about joe shielding his son, not money laundering. This is the first ive heard of that. That's not even a conservative media trope as far as I know...it's a unique idea on these forums and I'm trying to understand the theory...

Yeah, there's a pile of really weird stuff there. Lots of unregistered lobbyists and offshore tax evasion and money laundering schemes etc. Several of which have been connected to Trump's associates and yes, democratic lobbyists, etc. Ironically Burisma seemed to fare the best of all the NABU investigations into the energy sector there. There's so much like actual corruption that is right in our face that people have been arrested for like Parnas and Manafort, but if it can't give you dirt on the Bidens, it's chill.

Look up Fruman, Parnas and Giuliani enshula.

It's the same thing as always. It's like sin said. What's ok for their team is not for the other team. There's literally an energy company personally connected to the presidents lawyer that has had people arrested for filtering money to US politicians.

It's called Global Energy Partners.

When your guy does something wrong, you just accuse the other side of also doing it and that makes it ok.

The most common defense of Trump in the US now is, "You think Trump is bad and corrupt? Well look at this democrat. He too is corrupt!!!!! Corrupter maybe!!!!"

Yeah. And the former president of Poland right. Aleksander Kwaśniewski. He's in that money too. And Archer. And that one staffer or advisor to then secretary of state John Kerry. It's probably not even an energy company. It's just a massive money laundering operation yeah? Pizzagate 2.0?

And the ten months of investigations that occurred after Shokin was removed that resulted in $7m in tax fines to Burisma for a period of time before all these guys joined the board was just a cover up of their more sinister plots amirite? It certainly couldn't be that the company was trying to be more international.

I'll play ball tho. Let's go ahead and assume all these guys are involved in a massive money laundering operation despite the fact that an independent ethics commission and NABU has investigated the company and found no wrongdoing by the company after they joined the board. I'll bite anyways.

Explain how, in your view, this works? If we're laundering dirty money here, where does it come from and who does it go to? And why? What purpose does this operation serve? If we're going to speculate on a money laundering operation, we should at least be able to speculate on how it works and why, correct? Is it similar to the charges brought against Fruman and Parnas? And if it is similar, why is Global Energy Partners not also on your radar? Were they doing the same thing? I know it doesn't fit the narrative, but Guiliani associates have been arrested and charged with this, no? Like funneling money to US politicians via illegal campaign donations? The money the company makes is not dirty, but has in the past been moved offshore to avoid taxes, fines for which have been paid and according to NABU, the company hasnt done in nearly a decade. So someone gives the company money for nothing and then they give it to the Bidens for no reason or something?

I dont think i understand...

Still remain suprised that a xenophobe sexist getting the medal of freedom didn't outmeme pelosi ripping rondom pages of paper.

People need to get their meme priprities straight

Nah rush is bad for calling chelsea clinton the white house dog because of her appearance. He's bad for saying that every criminal mugshot he sees looks like jesse jackson because he's black. He's bad for saying feminism is just a way for ugly women to have a voice in mainstream society. He's legitimately a voice for xenophobia and cultural racism/sexism. And also the fact that he's legitimately done nothing for freedom ever aside from further dividing people.

I just assumed you had to do more than campaign for the president to receive the highest civilian honor. Otherwise that guy was a worthless fat idiot on the radio.

But MOSTLY, im surprised trump didnt win meme 2020 politics by doing so.

I hate 2020 troll politics so bad. Lol

I was like Oooooo when trump snubbed nancy on the hand shake and then i was like ooOOooo when nancy didnt say she had the honor and distinction of introducing our preaident. Then i was like oooo oooo oooo when trump gave a xenophobic sexist warmonger the medal of freedom and then I OOOOF when nancy shredded the papers.

It's so 5th grade up in here. Ffs.

I hope the next leftist president gives fluffin rachel maddow a medal of freedom. Tit for tat and that. I'm surprised that troll didnt win. Its pretty epic. Elevating that fluffhead to the same level of Rosa Parks is a heavy handed jab at equal rights activists. Haha

You'd think with Trump's popularity within his party that doing the exact opposite would be the way to pander to his base most logically. But ok.

Sin wins this threads cookies tho.

Yeah. Even McCain used to cross over once in a while if he was so convicted. That's kind of a dying breed tho. Now if you don't want to assassinate the other side you're worthless in your party haha.

Impeachment isnt the only thing he crossed over on. I'm at work now and haven't even checked the voting. But I'm not surprised he crossed the aisle. He votes how he feels often even though voting on party lines would be more politically savvy. Joe Manchin is like your democrat equivalent. It's pretty rare and pisses off people who like when their party is "WINNING EVERYTHING." I even enjoy a good democrat no vote on a democrat policy. They make me feel like the person actually has an opinion instead of just pandering.

If romney is attempting to play the middle, he's doing a seriously awful job at it

I actually like Romney more than most at this point. He doesn't really give a fluff about what it does for him politically, he votes for his convictions rather than just along party lines. There's like a total of 5 senators that will cross over atm. Two on each side unless you count Murkowski as a republican rather than sometimes independent.

It's like Obama said, "I could send a republican bill to them and they'd just reject it because I sent it." I think the same holds true for Trump in the opposite way. I dig those few that actually put some thought into it rather than just supporting their party blindly and trolling their opponents because it makes them more politically viable.

Yes you can.

It's actually currently happening in this thread.