So I guess 2016 claimed its biggest victim yet - America

Yes you are. ;-)

It’s “rusted”, by the way.

Not anymore it isn’t.

Haha, yes, I just got that!

Looks like the job numbers are going to be fake again
(Of course on the flip side … more drivel about something something tax cuts.)

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I read that they blamed the job loss numbers on hurricanes and the like.

That makes sense (initial post a weak attempt at humor on my part …)

I hope one of those Grumman Avengers’ super power is to be able to turn themselves into a WWII era torpedo bomber. Useful for those rainy days when the F-35 can’t get airborne.

I’m somewhat surprised it took this long for Disney to start collaborating with arms manufacturers.

Never forget that Ike Perlmutter is a Trumpster.

The twitterverse is loving this partnership.

Oh. Another official promo image.

Make your Vision a reality…

Slogan fail. Take d20 psychic damage.

Everyone knows that Stark industries is Lockheed, not NG.

Holy fucking shit. That’s not real.

Tell me it’s not real.

I say this because I would like to enjoy ridiculous superhero fantasy stories.

Well, flagrant incompetence and a terrible personality didn’t harm him for the first 70 years of his life; why would they start now?

I was about to post this in the optimism thread.

Because after all re-electing Trump, means that we avoided a nuclear war, a civil war, and Trump actually agreed to an election. All very optimistic events given the last 9+ months.

I think an agent of the government abusing his power qualifies.

A lawless, corrupt regime is being (somewhat) blocked by the courts:

Edit:
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/916857685735219200

Hopefully not too big: customer backlash has caused them to drop it. Still mindboggling that they thought it was a good idea in the first place of course.

Marvel issued a statement by email on Saturday.

“The activation with Northrop Grumman at New York Comic Con was meant to focus on aerospace technology and exploration in a positive way,” it said. “However, as the spirit of that intent has not come across, we will not be proceeding with this partnership, including this weekend’s event programming.