Random Politics & Religion #14

Is she one of the smart ones or one of the dumb ones?

Is she one of the smart ones or one of the dumb ones?

I think the more important question here is, "is she one of the hot ones?"

That's my sister you are talking about!

But yeah. Looks are subjective to me, but my brother-in-law used to be gay until he met her, so yeah.........

Ha, I've been in a similar situation many times. I can't count the number of girls who turned gay after they met me. I must be really good looking.

U.S.—As anti-Trump rallies nationwide turned hostile overnight with widespread reports of violence, looting, vandalism, and death threats against the president-elect and his supporters, police in numerous major cities were able to instill calm and regain control by handing out participation trophies to all millennial protesters who were enraged about losing the election, sources confirmed.

The shrewd tactic was the idea of New York Police Officer Joe Butler, who has three twentysomething children himself, and noted to reporters Thursday that he remembered how his children “never had to deal with losing as they were growing up.”

“It’s a foreign notion to them. Even in sports—win or lose, everyone won, and everyone got a trophy no matter what. This is the millennial way,” he said. “So I had the idea—hey, why not start handing out participation trophies to the protesters, and telling them ‘Hey, you know what? You may have lost the election, but look—everyone gets a trophy. Everyone’s a winner.'”

Seeing how the trophies had an instantaneous calming effect on the millennials and filled them with a sense of fulfillment and achievement, word spread quickly among police departments nationwide, and emergency trophies were procured by the thousands for use at the rallies.

At publishing time, police had regained control in cities across the country, and the crowds of now-content protesters were heading home with their trophies, according to sources.

Sounds like an Onion article, but it's actually reala different satire site entirely!

The Babylon Bee is Your Trusted Source For Christian News Satire.

I heard a story on the radio about a guy saying if you vote for Trump we can't be friends. It was the most petty thing I've heard of recently.

He was actively un friending all Trump voters he was friends with.

Well ***.

He's a twist.

Insightful piece from HuffPo about a major problem with social media and the internet. (Apologies if this is a repost, but I've not seen it shared here.)

Bernie Sanders Could Replace President Trump With Little-Known Loophole

4. If you care about facts, ignore the blatantly slanted.
Having a slant or taking a position on a story is not wrong in itself. What is wrong is when these ideas are taken as unbiased fact. You can avoid all of this by simply avoiding those sites to start with. Any website with the words: Conservative, Liberal, Democrat, Republican, etc. in the title are just advertising how slanted they are. That’s ok if you choose to live in your side’s bubble but please don’t have any delusions that these stories reflect the whole picture.

Did they just punk themselves?

Potentially. I'd like to think it's a learning experience for them too, though.

I mean, then again. Maybe the actual Onion said it best:

Nation Admits It Probably Going To Come Out Of This Having Learned Completely Wrong Lessons

As a nation, we're like the team that consistently runs the football right through the middle and gets blocked every time. We don't want to change the strategy, we just keep telling ourselves that we're not running hard enough.

As a nation, we're like the team that consistently runs the football right through the middle and gets blocked every time. We don't want to change the strategy, we just keep telling ourselves that we're not running hard enough.

While, at the same time, telling the other team they are touchdown-phobes because they are scared of us scoring.

I'm just imaging trying to explain this to two drunk Bears fans full of bratwurst and shitty beer and this is how you have to do it.

Sorry, but Texas Germans > Pennsylvania Germans.

/puts foot and sausage down.

Is this an argument you wanna have now?

Why can't we both just enjoy a sausage party!