td11 wrote:@ditzkoff
While we wait for the Trump-Pence rollout to begin, let's check in on Chris Christie https://t.co/ETVDAoL70q

thank u for reminding me of the moment when Chris Christie angrily defended his M&M container management

Pretty brutal review of the speech, deservedly so

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/16/12205878/d ... -vp-speech

They can pull the graphic, but it's the age of the internet where everything is forever. So we have the Toilet Paper ticket. Stand and sit wipers unite!

The Nightman Cometh wrote:The upside to declaring war would be we can all pretend to hold up our swords and yell "huzzah!". The downside would be the lack of any tangible benefit.

Plus, if we don't declare war, we can do all kinds of nasty things

I could picture Pence ushering people into gas chambers... has that look about him.

whoa, that's dark.

He gives me the creeps

he's hunter's dad right

Bucky wrote:

smitty wrote:It's been going on a long time too:

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/how- ... e-example/

tl;dr

but WWII was the last time right

Only five declared wars. Many, many military actions in our history:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declara ... ted_States

Monkeyboy wrote:

The Nightman Cometh wrote:The upside to declaring war would be we can all pretend to hold up our swords and yell "huzzah!". The downside would be the lack of any tangible benefit.

Plus, if we don't declare war, we can do all kinds of nasty things

Really? Like what?

Murder their families!

Huzzah

smitty wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

The Nightman Cometh wrote:The upside to declaring war would be we can all pretend to hold up our swords and yell "huzzah!". The downside would be the lack of any tangible benefit.

Plus, if we don't declare war, we can do all kinds of nasty things

Really? Like what?

wasn't that part of the justification why we didn't have to follow the geneva convention with terrorist prisoners?

Monkeyboy wrote:

smitty wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

The Nightman Cometh wrote:The upside to declaring war would be we can all pretend to hold up our swords and yell "huzzah!". The downside would be the lack of any tangible benefit.

Plus, if we don't declare war, we can do all kinds of nasty things

Really? Like what?

wasn't that part of the justification why we didn't have to follow the geneva convention with terrorist prisoners?

Good question. I received all my training in Laws of Land Warfare and stuff like that before all this terrorist/ISIS thing. Of course, we were surrounded by terrorists in Europe but I don't remember addressing that issue.

Lots of folks say torture doesn't really work anyway.

Anyway, most of our wars were undeclared and the Laws of War applied. I know they did in Desert Storm.

Can we just make smitty president?

we ARE going to tell ertogan to stuff that extradition shit up where the sun don't shine right

pacino wrote:Warren would be great but I hope Clinton picks Vilsack. He'd be a competent president and Warren gets to remain more powerful in the Senate and won't prevent a Senate flip.

This election will be a battle of the bases. Clinton needs to pick Warren to fire up the left so they actually show up to vote!