It’s kind of…poignant, I guess? …that one of the players he’s pokering against is using the nick Semper Fi. It’s quite clearly visible, there, on the original picture.
Or is that McCain, being ironic?
Somewhere out there someone is already babbling about subliminal mind-control messages embedded in the app by the Illuminati lizard people.
All we need now is a video of Obama casually putting a phone in his pocket right before giving a speech.
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Where I work, we have policies against using your cell phone at work. Playing games during a meeting would definitely be grounds for disciplinary action at best. I’m not being paid anywhere near what he is, and my decisions don’t mean the difference between life and death for thousands of people in my country and abroad. For him to dismiss this as a “Whoops, ha ha” moment should be an embarrassment for our whole senate, and they should treat it as such.
Is it just me or is your country completely confused about poker? It’s an illegal criminal activity/endlessly televised harmless game?
Comparable would only result in hyperbole because this is (or should be) an extreme situation. However, that doesn’t mean people aren’t people. Do you know what we call the people firing others for fiddling with a phone during a meeting? Assholes.
His extreme bias is a problem, in fact it’s the largest problem I have with his actions because he would use someone else doing this to push his extremist agenda. However, just because it would profit my ideology is not a reason to crucify John McCain. John McCain has been pushing the war machine openly for decades, and people support him all the more for it (after all, hero). That doesn’t mean that I’m going to sit here and over-analyze his actions in the Senate. He knows everything he needs to, as everyone else on the floor, to push the agenda he’s pushing forward. Just the nature of the beast there is a vocal minority that pushes forward a public agenda unwavering, and all those guys int eh middle are the true meat of who should be listening and engaging. It doesn’t matter he decided what he was doing on day 1, because he’s one of the largest supporters. I would be far more bothered if someone on the fence about the issue was playing poker on their phone than this case.
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I think this is a destructive emotional opinion that will never, ever be the reality. The fact is that the government is run by very charismatic people, but people non the less.
People firing people in meetings to decide on the new campaign slogan are
assholes, yes.
What about someone in a meeting to decide on treatment options for a
patient in critical condition? How about a jury member in court? What about
a committee that’s deciding how millions of dollars of publicly donated
money is to be spent?
The office meeting metaphor is cute, but distracting. Hyperbole? We’re
talking about bombing people; it’s difficult to exaggerate when comparing
something to the scale of a war.
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Considering how technophobic McCain appeared to be during the 2008 campaign this almost counts as a really f***ed-up sign of progress.
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Oh, we have a winner. Actually missile command would be great with touchscreens (well, great-ER).
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When it comes to international politics, “you gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run.”
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It’s an endlessly televised harmless game when it is being played in legally sanctioned areas (ie American casinos/other countries with less restrictive gambling laws). It’s illegal criminal activity when it’s done as a form of unsanctioned gambling in an area where the government can’t tax the shit out of it. I don’t see the confusion, really.
“Why don’t you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?”
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Call of Booty:
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In this context, it looks like his Sharpie is standing at full attention. See also: Kuleshov effect
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The office meeting metaphor loses a lot against the gravity of the situation, it does. The situation with Syria is extremely important and complex. What I’m trying (with limited success) to express is that a Senate seat is a position that has to make life and death decisions, decisions that impact the economy, decisions that greatly impact people’s lives, etc. all the time. A career of that would make these meetings the daily meeting about pens even though to any layman it’s a different experience.
I don’t support John McCain’s political positions, and I find him aggravating as any person who leans on their military history to “win” conversations. I can’t gather even half of a fuck to give over him playing on his cell phone when his contribution to the debate is presenting his side as the one the Senate should follow.
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Meanwhile… we haven’t even attacked Syria yet and just the intent to do so is already causing the situation to destabalize even further…
So, uh… after we attack Assad… do we then attack the al-Qaeda rebels who may be possibly empowered by such a strike? Also, Crazy-McCain wants to arm the rebels. Do we really want to arm al-Qaeda? I mean, it’s a profitable move for the military-industrial complex… but not sure it’s great for anyone else…
Gee, this is a mess. Too bad no one saw this mess coming, huh? ಠ_ಠ
Oh, that’s right… I’m a “paranoid leftist” because I thought this was a complex issue and factions of the rebels just might be a problem. Silly me.
Meanwhile, some people are still ignoring the fact that if this wasn’t about money and the United States government inventions intentions were truly humanitarian… then we would’ve been in the Congo by now. Critical thinking, it’s a life saver.
Wouldn’t be the first time!
I heard some nonsense being thrown around this week about arming the rebels with anti-tank missiles because those kinds of weapons could only be used to harm Assad’s assets. Because there’s absolutely no way that terrorist organizations which have already wreaked untold havoc with explosive devices cobbled together out of scrap metal could ever, ever figure out how to do any harm to U.S. interests with something so innocent as an anti-tank missile.
arming the rebels with anti-tank missiles
What’s the next plan after that? To arm the al-Qaeda rebels with jumbo jetliners so they can strike them into buildings?
