“We’re going to continue to mindlessly funnel money to Pakistan so they can train people to kill us, irregardless of whatever that HippieLeaks fruit posted on the Internets.” [The Hill: Twitter Room]
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Can Riley start a Twitter account in which he simply retweets government twats in translation (twatlation)?
irregardless?
Fuck yeah, stay the course! Now your talkin’ ‘Merican.
Daniel Schoerr’s second posthumous leak.
No, you don’t want to know anything more about the first one.
[re=626688]Birdcrash[/re]: How sad that that is what I noticed, too. Wanna get married?
Come on guys! Afghanistan and Iraq are shitty, awful, worthless, wars, true… but they’re the only ones we’ve got!*
*non-covert
It would be even better if we friended these two countries on their facebook pages.
Then the loss f life and cash would be more acceptable.
Adm. Mullen: Arr, here be a fine vessel– the yarest river-going boat thar be.
Homer: I’ll take it! [The raft sinks]
Adm. Mullen: [sadly] Arr, I don’t know what I’m doing.
It’s confusing! These leaks contain nothing new, yet their disclosure is a terrible threat to our security, except we already knew all this stuff, but we have to find some Private E1 to hang for it. Irregardless of the refudiation implicit in the previous “sentence.”
Imagine the twitter fun we’d have had if it been around, say, during the Warren Commission.
@ArlenSpec Srsly?! no1 wil ever beleve yr 1x bullet theory!! LOL!
Wait, since when do we have an Afghanistan strategy?
Perhaps the “Islamic Republic of Pakistan” is not the best ally to have in what some* see as our “War on Islam”.
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* Beck, Tancredo, Gingrich, Dove Church. Also Beck.
I think I want to change my handle to “The Joint Staff”.
In the future, Wikileaks, please make sure to include cover art prominently featuring the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) with photoshopped tits wrapped in bacon or whatever to help cock up the situation over in the Mideast even more. Admiral Mullen would appreciate the support.
Thank goodness in this time of war, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has nothing better to do than send out a twat.
Still, what is Mullen worried about? If the last 60 years has taught us anything, it is that Americans don’t stop wasting lives in hopeless wars just because they are unwinnable. His job is secure at least until after the Iranian, North Korean and Franco/Belgium wars.
I love it that our military and foreign policy can be explained in Tweets. It’s a big step forward from the SoundBiteTM approach during Bush years — e.g. “proof in the form of a mushroom shaped cloud”.
Dumb question: If 92,000 documents were leaked, does that mean 92,000 “pages”, or might the docs each be comprised of multiple pages? This is all I really care about right now.
[re=626688]Birdcrash[/re]: [re=626711]V572625694[/re]: Yikes that’s a hat trick on that portmanteau
turdword irregardless in a single thread. Oops now a four-fer.[re=626711]V572625694[/re]: FVHS 66 – small world.
Relax Admiral. We’ve already established that because our economy is in the toilet, Americans stopped caring about other countries a long time ago. I mean seriously, Wikileaks could tell us that special forces ops are selling heroin to Russian gansters and we could give a rat’s ass.
[re=626712]trondant[/re]: Or the Revolutionary War- Paul Revere could have been saved from that really long horse ride.
SUPPORT OUR KNIGHTS TEMPLAR!!!!
[re=626774]Hooray For Anything[/re]: Finalizing the text of the Treaty of Westphalia would’ve been a bitch, tho.
No wonder we’re failing.
Sadly, Twitter is the No. 3 place for Washington bureau stenographers to get their story angles (after Drudge and Mike Allen’s e-mail). So Mullen wins the afternoon!
Admiral, sir
Maybe we pay you to spend less time with your twat and more more time figuring out how to get the US out of two fucking quagmires?
[re=626725]jus_wonderin[/re]: It sounds like a bad Marley cover band.
[re=626733]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: Now, history tells us the US will end an winnable war once the American soldier deaths approach 60,000 (non-American deaths don’t matter). Luckily, thanks to advances in body armor and battlefield medicine turning a lot of would-be deaths into mere permanent disabilities, we might have decades before reaching that number.
[re=626727]Snarkalicious[/re]: clearly, it’s wikileaks that hates our freedumbs.
I’m not sure whether “TheJointStaff” sounds more like gay porn or something to do with smoking pot. He is in the navy so either double entendre (or both simultaneously) are likely.
“As you know, you go to tweet with the characters you have, not the characters you might want or wish to have at a later time. #SecDefRummy”
[re=626688]Birdcrash[/re]: Apologies for piling on, Riley, but really – making up words is much funnier when some idiot from Alaska does it. (If you’re by some chance from Alaska, my bad; I am referring to her)
[re=626685]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: “Lost in Twatslation”? “Twats in Lost Nation”?
Irregardless, I would re-twat the ever-loving shit outta it.
Speaking of “irregardless”:
Perhaps Riley’s use of the equally ungrammatical “the Internets” in the very same sentence refudiates the impotance of through copy editing?
Canada City refudiates wikileaks.
How did Cheech & Chong not snap up that Twitter handle?
[re=626760]weejee[/re]: weejee (et al.) I think Riley’s being ironical.
Appalled by twatting leak & decision to post. It changes nothing on Clusterfuck strategy or our ineptitude w/ Pakistan.
Free Bradley Manning.
[re=627041]Heywood Jablome[/re]: Introducing THE PREPOSTEROSSA NO COMMAS ALL CAPS CATNEUTER YERINARY-CRISTALZ
whoa I’m hammered.
[re=626802]Advocatus_Diaboli[/re]:
No way he’ll do that. There’s no money in it for the M-I complex.
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