Dave Koller, Malcolm Fleschner, and Steve Oh play the usual Friday games. Unfortunately, no Steve travel stories were told; however, he did contribute to a “Totally True Or Totally Bullshit.” Also, the trio discuss the delicate nature of Armenian-Azeri geopolitics.
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Nugs man, nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggghhhhhsssss!
Haircuts
Dave: I wish I hadn’t been a dick to a woman because she was hot.
Sweden: *facepalm*
I still love you Dave.
Malcolm, next time you need to make one of the questions easy enough for Steve to get right. Then we don’t have to listen to him complain during the whole quiz. :)
Reba, I thought I had! But I guess it’s just his nature to go Oh-fer.
Hillary was the electable candidate tho. Get it right, Bernie Bros! /s
The election should be known as Hawthorne’s America because of his quote from the Scarlett Letter:
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.”
http://www.studymode.com/essays/Scarlett-Letter-No-Man-Any-Considerable-Period-Can-Wear-65120989.html
A little discussed reason so many people are upset about Trump is how his ascension puts that quote square in our faces as a nation because a Clinton victory would have allowed the illusion to continue.
I love the show too.
Love this show, proud to be part of the handful or so that does lol
Unlike Donald “Tonnahands” Trump, you must have extraordinarily large hands to be able to describe the upwards of 18 TYT MEMBERS who consider themselves fans of the Friday postgame as a “handful.”
I thought Democrats and/or the Left believed science? If we believe Trump and Republicans are going to ignore climate change, it feels like game over to me. There is not enough time left to change the DNC from inside or form a new Party and then take control of US government. Civilization will begin to collapse somewhere around 2035 when the land available to grow food shrinks beyond what’s needed to feed the planet.
It might already be too late. Obama’s world agreement is acknowledged to be inadequate without carbon sucking technology that does not exist and few believe will exist. The world is emitting carbon weighing each year as much as all the trees in the world. Even if it was possible to suck this much, in 50 years this pile of carbon would be 50 times all the trees in the world. Where would we store it?
Please, include climate change time limits in your discussions on how we react to the Trumpocalypse. Otherwise I’ve lost all hope.
You must be forgetting that in the end Gollum was the one who destroyed the ring not Frodo. Yes, it was by accident but he still deserves the credit because Frodo couldn’t do it; Frodo would have kept the ring and Middle Earth would have been destroyed. So in the end it was Gollum who saved the day :)
I know! The only hero in the volcano was poor Sam, not Frodo or Gollum. I think Frodo was lucky Sam loved him so much because if it was me I would’ve told everybody what he did.
Hillary’s problem: she offered nothing, all she said was Trump is evil I am just bad. At least Trump offered something, be it a meaningless cliché. Make America Great Again.
The name of the Senegal’s president is Macky Sall
Yes, “Macky Sali,” actually. I had made a graphic of him and forgot. Someday when the Friday postgame gets assigned the level of staffing we so richly deserve (George Soros, are you listening?), every aspect of production, including tracking down Dave and Steve to get them on set in a timely fashion, won’t fall to me. But until that day, look forward to lackluster graphics that are sometimes forgotten about entirely. Ah well.
I misheard Dave’s question and assumed he was asking about Karabagh. The piece of land not attached the Azerbaijan, but is still part of the country, is an exclave known as Nakhchivan and was also a region disputed between Armenia & Azerbaijan. It is currently an autonomous area of Azerbaijan governed by its own legislature.
I was about to comment to say just that! Thanks for the correction, Gigi. :)
Armenia did won the war, even though the formal border was not changed to reflect that; David is correct on that.
And yes, Russia sells arms to anywhere and everywhere it can, just as the USA (minus the Wahhabi/Salafi terrorists in MENA region and monarchies that are built upon this ideology). Russia does not like selling arms to Azerbaijan, but if it would not, then the country will start buying the arms from the USA, which would mean not only the loss of the market, but also make the probability of a conflict much higher.
We could see an example of what would be happening in Georgia war of August of 2008, when USA-armed and trained regime has attacked South Ossetia just days after Condoleezza Rice has visited Georgia. That war was used by Republicans to turn things upside-down and blame it on Russia then to say that Obama as commander in chief would be weak against Putin, unlike tough MacCain. This did not work out as a tool of politics, Obama was elected, but whole point of the war was only this; even such an unstable puppet as then-leader of Georgia Saakashvili could not possibly think that Russia, as a UN-mandated guarantor of peace in the region, would be defeated.
Thus allowing yet another country of Caucasus to become a puppet of USA’s neolib/neocon policies would be a catastrophe for the region.
At the same time, Russia tries to calm the fire that rekindles over and over again in Karabakh as it has happened this year. Russia is forcing the peace on the hawks from both sides to not allow an actual war to unfold, but it leaves both sides of the conflict bitter as they want to have a decisive victory over each other, and many blame Russia for not allowing them to finish off the opposing side. Both Putin and Medvedev had to cancel their schedules to stop the war this year.
As to Iron Dome, it does not make much sense to buy it, even if it would be possible, since the new Russian rockets represent a totally different level of technology from what Hamas is doing; it would be useless. But since Azerbaijanis are worried and bitter about Russia, buying such system or at least talks about it would be good politically for the government.
Russia, of course, is always balancing between keeping the peace, selling the arms and losing Azerbaijan completely to Turkey and the USA, so they try to continue to please the Azerbaijani government in some ways, which makes Armenians bitter. This mess is a lose-lose situation to almost every party.