Are we dead yet?

RDM · Post by **RDM** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 1:21 pm

It's Trump day in America!

Come on in and check if people are still alive, or if we've been killed by the inevitable death and destruction to come.

Robo Deth Monkey's status: Still Alive

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 4:12 pm

I'm still alive, but check back in an hour please. I live closest to whatever disaster may come.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 4:16 pm

Will let you know if I'm alive by the time I get home.

Vibing_V · Post by **Vibing_V** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 4:36 pm

As a Canadian, I'm not looking forward to the collateral nuclear fallout.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 4:47 pm

Hopefully Canada can be broken off somehow, before it gets too bad.

RDM · Post by **RDM** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 4:48 pm

Depending on where you are in Canada you should mostly be upwind of the doom.

Vibing_V · Post by **Vibing_V** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 4:57 pm

I'm still hoping that someday Cascadia will be a thing. Cascadia!!

Vancouver is pretty close to the border, so

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 5:01 pm

Northern Canada is looking attractive...

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 5:14 pm

How populated is Northern Canada?

RDM · Post by **RDM** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 6:05 pm

Seven. Seven populated.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 6:17 pm

So... you're there, I guess.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 6:32 pm

Just checking back in to confirm I am not yet dead (at the time of posting).

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 6:50 pm

Lord Golbez wrote:How populated is Northern Canada?

7 is pretty close. Most Canadians live near to the US border.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 7:09 pm

Like do you have non-indigenous people up there? Or towns and cities? Seems like the most north you can go and be in a major metropolitan area is Edmonton, and that's not north enough to count as Northern Canada. WTF all of Northern Canada combined only has around 100000? Looks like there are a few places that are big enough to count though (over 10000). You could move to Whitehorse. It's probably roughly livable.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 7:53 pm

Chelsea's mom lived in the Yukon as a kid. But in a town of like 0 people, not Whitehorse.

To be honest, 100,000 in northern Canada is higher than I would have guessed.

Anyway, Trump's climate change policies will help make northern Canada the comfortable paradise we need far away from the US border (and all other borders).

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 7:57 pm

Apparently, the population of Lewisham (London borough that I currently live in) is 275,885

Cid · Post by **Cid** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 9:16 pm

I have died and will begin haunting you all immediately. Please mark any surfaces you want to keep free of ectoplasm.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 10:12 pm

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9efab188 ... 2894fa11f1

George Bush is so excited that he's not going to be the worst president in recent memory.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 10:22 pm

It's true. Just by virtue of their proximity in history, Trump has effectively wiped the slate clean for Bush. The bad stuff Bush did will be no more than a footnote.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Sat Jan 21, 2017 10:32 pm

Those Women's Marches today

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sat Jan 21, 2017 11:51 pm

Even over here there are huge marches. J

Vibing_V · Post by **Vibing_V** » Sun Jan 22, 2017 3:44 am

Cid wrote:I have died and will begin haunting you all immediately. Please mark any surfaces you want to keep free of ectoplasm.

Mark them with what?

Cid · Post by **Cid** » Sun Jan 22, 2017 7:14 am

Vibing_V wrote:
Cid wrote:I have died and will begin haunting you all immediately. Please mark any surfaces you want to keep free of ectoplasm.
Mark them with what?

Banana stickers.

If I see anything without a banana sticker on it I'm assuming you're totally cool with that being covered in phantasmal goop.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Sun Jan 22, 2017 1:27 pm

By the way, I'm still alive. A bit scared about going back to NYC though. Cascadia does sound more appealing.

RDM · Post by **RDM** » Sun Jan 22, 2017 2:08 pm

From what the RDM hears the violence has been few, far between, and largely staged by Trump supporters trying to undermine the protests. It's like the 60's!

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Sun Jan 22, 2017 3:00 pm

I'm not worried about Trump's supporters violence, more worried about living in a prime terrorist target.

RDM · Post by **RDM** » Sun Jan 22, 2017 3:13 pm

Stay away from the southeast corner of Central Park.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Sun Jan 22, 2017 4:20 pm

Shame, I liked that corner. There's a nice statue there.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 9:36 am

The thread went dead. Can we have a quick count of heads, make sure none of us are MIA.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 1:06 pm

I'm not dead yet. But I guess we should check on a weekly basis, so every Friday for the next 4 years?

RDM · Post by **RDM** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 1:11 pm

The RDM is not dead. He was looking over the ACA replacements the Republicans have offered, though, and it looks like a lot of people are going to be before too long.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 1:48 pm

Question: is this a normal amount of executive orders to sign immediately after coming into office? Also... what can't you do with executive orders?

RDM · Post by **RDM** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 1:54 pm

Apparently more than Trump. Lots of his are repeals of old executive orders.
As to what they can and can't do...that's something that the courts decide afterwards when people sue the government for doing illegal things with executive orders.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 2:04 pm

OK. But Trump is president, and when the president does it, it's not illegal.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 2:29 pm

Back on topic: BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Mon Jan 30, 2017 9:36 pm

For posterity, let me just state that the first 10 days of President Trump has been even more insane than I would have anticipated. And I don't think any of us were anticipating sanity.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Mon Jan 30, 2017 10:31 pm

Indeed.

RDM · Post by **RDM** » Tue Jan 31, 2017 12:57 am

The RDM is pretty sure he died.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:04 am

I definitely walked off into an endless chasm a few times.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:52 am

https://www.washingtonpost.com/postever ... 03a9cf656c

Can we rename him Steve Gannon please?

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Tue Jan 31, 2017 3:12 am

Call him Steve Gannon so much, Nintendo puts a reference in Breath of the Wild and the Alt-Right Gamergate crybabies start screaming and wailing about how they have to boycott Zelda now.

RDM · Post by **RDM** » Tue Jan 31, 2017 10:35 am

You're a genius. We just need to find a way to make all good things offend the Alt-Right snowflakes. They'll boycott all the things (which will totally crush them, just like it has Hamilton, Rogue One and Starbucks). It will be wonderful.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Fri Feb 03, 2017 10:07 pm

Ok, I get it, every Friday he's gonna try to piss off someone. I guess occupy Wall Street is gonna be busy during the next few days.

What a massive troll.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Sat Feb 04, 2017 2:23 am

Every Friday? He's been pissing me off every goddamn day.

And not just by virtue of remembering we have an awful president when I wake up each day. He actually does at least one new evil, awful thing every day (sometimes quite a few in one day).

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Sat Feb 04, 2017 2:39 am

Remember how great 2016 was

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Sat Feb 04, 2017 3:26 am

He does do awful things every day, but he clearly keeps the best bits for Fridays. He clearly knows what a cliffhanger is, and he owns the news cycle by doing even worse than usual on Fridays, to make sure people won't forget him during the weekend.

RDM · Post by **RDM** » Sat Feb 04, 2017 3:31 am

It's because Bannon is in charge on the Sabbath. Kushner, the pragmatic-but-evil son-in-law has some modicum of a hold on the Fake President when he's not off-grid. Then the sun sets on the Sabbath day, and Gannon starts kidnapping princesses.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Sat Feb 04, 2017 5:16 am

That makes total sense

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Sat Feb 04, 2017 5:21 am

RDM wrote:It's because Bannon is in charge on the Sabbath. Kushner, the pragmatic-but-evil son-in-law has some modicum of a hold on the Fake President when he's not off-grid. Then the sun sets on the Sabbath day, and Gannon starts kidnapping princesses.

This is canon America: The Final Season for me.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Sat Feb 04, 2017 5:37 am

I have to say, I feel almost sorry for Jared and Ivanka.
Melania seems to be the cleverest of all, staying as far away as possible from this whole mess.