"Strict Constitutionalist" Rush Limbaugh Cheers Trump's Call to Destroy the 14th Amendment

“Strict Constitutionalist” Rush Limbaugh Cheers Trump’s Call to Destroy the 14th Amendment

Trump’s plan “has people standing up and cheering”

PoliticsAugust 2015 • Views: 77,904

The right wing media and talk shows are absolutely smitten with Donald Trump’s immigration plan, because it’s thoroughly down and out vicious. But the revealing part of all the exultations is the way people who fetishize the US Constitution, like Rush Limbaugh for example, are suddenly gung ho about deleting part of it: the 14th Amendment that guarantees birthright citizenship.

Because that would throw a wrench in their mass deportation plans.

Donald Trump Has Released an Immigration Policy Plan and It’s Completely Insane

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417 comments

The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 10:32:53am

You know who else deported people who had lived in the country for generations?

The guy whose face is on the $20 bill!

(What, you thought I was about to Godwin?)

Charles Johnson Aug 17, 2015 • 10:33:53am

Oh, your profile uses the word “cuckservative?” Have you met my block button? Allow me to introduce you!

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 17, 2015

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 10:34:05am

Well of course. Let’s destroy something that we’ve had longer than we haven’t and has worked because the right can’t handle the fact that the children of these immigrants are going to want nothing to do with their bigoted ideology and party. Birthright citizenship fosters assimilation which is funny given that wingnuts like Rush and Trump love to complain about how immigrants don’t assimilate.

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 10:35:22am

I guarantee you most of the white people cheering this on have at least one grandparent or even parent who benefited from birthright citizenship.

The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 10:36:26am

re: #4 HappyWarrior

I guarantee you most of the white people cheering this on have at least one grandparent or even parent who benefited from birthright citizenship.

Two of my kids and a bunch of my GRANDKIDS have birthright citizenship. like Ted Cruz has.

Eclectic Cyborg Aug 17, 2015 • 10:36:47am

$5 says Trump is paying Limbaugh…possibly in Viagra and Vicodin.

Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 10:37:28am

“Mr. Foreman, have you reached verdict?” ”Your Honor, defendant is a loser; everyone agrees I could murder better.” https://t.co/smzOZm9kcx

— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) August 17, 2015

Kragar Aug 17, 2015 • 10:37:52am

After years of saying the only reason the GOP was losing was because they weren’t running candidates which were conservative enough, Rush is now saying the Trump is redefining what it means to be conservative.

And people still take this shit for brains seriously?

Lidane Aug 17, 2015 • 10:38:43am

When was the last time we amended the Constitution to LIMIT rights? And what possible reason would we have for gutting birthright citizenship as a whole?

These people are deranged.

The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 10:40:41am

re: #9 Lidane

When was the last time we amended the Constitution to LIMIT rights? And what possible reason would we have for gutting birthright citizenship as a whole?

These people are deranged.

First step to returning to that “3/5 of a person” thing

Charles Johnson Aug 17, 2015 • 10:41:52am

Chuck Johnson lol - now he’s threatening to sue @deray. pic.twitter.com/KW043m7fyQ

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 17, 2015

Eclectic Cyborg Aug 17, 2015 • 10:42:18am

It’d be funny if some Native Americans jumped on this “birthright citizenship” thing and said “Ok, you want to do this? Fine. All you white people? Get the fuck out.”

Charles Johnson Aug 17, 2015 • 10:42:49am

Yes, he posted that screenshot sideways.

Timothy Watson Aug 17, 2015 • 10:42:55am

re: #11 Charles Johnson

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Top-flight journalist can’t figure out how to rotate an image before posting it to Facebook?

The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 10:43:07am

Rush & Donald are BFF’s

“@BannermanJack: Rush is on fire today!He really does have his finger on the pulse. The @realDonaldTrump shamers can't win against El Rushbo

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2015

blueraven Aug 17, 2015 • 10:43:11am

re: #8 Kragar

After years of saying the only reason the GOP was losing was because they weren’t running candidates which were conservative enough, Rush is now saying the Trump is redefining what it means to be conservative.

And people still take this shit for brains seriously?

Might be a case of; if you cant beat em, join em.
Everyone who has attacked Trump so far has been on the losing end. Limbaugh might be an ass, but he is not stupid.

Eclectic Cyborg Aug 17, 2015 • 10:43:14am

re: #11 Charles Johnson

And apparently CCJ can’t even figure out how to rotate a picture.

Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Aug 17, 2015 • 10:43:17am

From downstairs:

New GOP Fox poll: Trump 25% Carson 12% You love to watch money burn 11% Cruz 10% Bush 9% Huckabee 6% Walker 6% Fiorina 5% Kasich 4% Rubio 4%
— LOLGOP

Who’s the 11% candidate?

And Rubio is still sinking.

Kragar Aug 17, 2015 • 10:43:27am

re: #9 Lidane

Amazing how many people who think gutting birth right citizenship think simply because they’ve got pure white trash bloodlines means they would be exempt.

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 10:43:31am

re: #13 Charles Johnson

Yes, he posted that screenshot sideways.

Fits his personality.

jaunte Aug 17, 2015 • 10:43:43am

re: #9 Lidane

When was the last time we amended the Constitution to LIMIT rights? And what possible reason would we have for gutting birthright citizenship as a whole?
.

Brown people.

retired cynic Aug 17, 2015 • 10:43:56am

re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg

$5 says Trump is paying Limbaugh…possibly in Viagra and Vicodin.

I bet he doesn’t need payment to get in on a hateful bandwagon.

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 10:44:10am

re: #15 The Vicious Babushka

Rush & Donald are BFF’s

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Yeah may want to talk to the people who started the boycotts after Rush called Sandra Fluke about going up against El Rusbo.

jaunte Aug 17, 2015 • 10:44:14am

Yes, it’s a racist party.

Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 10:45:02am

re: #11 Charles Johnson

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Chuck is posting FB stuff from a vertical position now? Can’t drag his sorry butt out of bed?

Eclectic Cyborg Aug 17, 2015 • 10:45:05am

re: #18 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

From downstairs:

Who’s the 11% candidate?

And Rubio is still sinking.

Either made up for humor or…Rand Paul?

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 10:45:11am

re: #19 Kragar

Amazing how many people who think gutting birth right citizenship think simply because they’re got pure white trash bloodlines means they would be exempt.

As I said, I wonder how many people cheering this crap on have a parent or grandparent who benefited from the 14th’s birthright policy. I know my grandparents benefited from it.

Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Aug 17, 2015 • 10:45:33am

re: #18 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

New GOP Fox poll: Trump 25% Carson 12% You love to watch money burn 11% Cruz 10% Bush 9% Huckabee 6% Walker 6% Fiorina 5% Kasich 4% Rubio 4%
— LOLGOP

Who’s the 11% candidate?

Ayn Rand Dr. Paul?

Or is Rand below 4%?

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 10:46:35am

Look at those cavemen go.

Mattand Aug 17, 2015 • 10:46:58am

re: #29 HappyWarrior

Look at those cavemen go.

Alley Oop!

Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Aug 17, 2015 • 10:47:02am

re: #15 The Vicious Babushka

“@BannermanJack: Rush is on fire today!He really does have his finger on the pulse. The @realDonaldTrump shamers can’t win against El Rushbo
— Donald J. Trump

After the Obama presidency, it’s going to be all downhill.

Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 10:47:07am

re: #15 The Vicious Babushka

Rush & Donald are BFF’s

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Yep.
That’s why Rush’s market share is rapidly well into the event horizon and speeding to the black hole of radio relevance.

Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 10:47:47am

re: #27 HappyWarrior

As I said, I wonder how many people cheering this crap on have a parent or grandparent who benefited from the 14th’s birthright policy. I know my grandparents benefited from it.

My mom did.

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Aug 17, 2015 • 10:48:26am

Good morning lizards, hope you all had a great weekend. We’re counting down the days until the plane pull (this saturday). Still trying to raise some donations for the special Olympics.

Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Aug 17, 2015 • 10:49:10am

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

Chuck is posting FB stuff from a vertical position now? Can’t drag his sorry butt out of bed?

Facebook was a nobody social networking site until UpChuck showed up with his dozens of supporters….

Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 10:49:11am

Speaking of “cuckservatives”… the term is fitting for the rest of the mainstream GOP candidates (incl. Paul), who are now helplessly watching a newcomer’s torrid love affair with the debased GOP base they thought was lawfully theirs.

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 10:49:27am

re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth

My mom did.

Lots of people like that out there too who I bet don’t even realize it.

Eclectic Cyborg Aug 17, 2015 • 10:50:19am

re: #29 HappyWarrior

Look at those cavemen go.

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 10:51:43am

re: #38 Eclectic Cyborg

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Mickey Mouse is becoming a cow.

Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 10:52:41am

Mitt must be laughing with relief right now.

Lidane Aug 17, 2015 • 10:52:45am

re: #28 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Ayn Rand Dr. Paul?

Or is Rand below 4%?

The 11% number is just put in for humor. The actual poll results are:

Trump: 25%
Carson: 12%
Cruz: 10%
Bush: 9%
Huckabee: 6%
Walker: 6%
Fiorina: 5%
Kasich: 4%
Rubio: 4%
Paul: 3%
Christie: 3%

Everyone else is at or below 1%.

Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Aug 17, 2015 • 10:53:33am

re: #41 Lidane

The 11% number is just put in for humor. The actual poll results are:

Trump: 25%
Carson: 12%
Cruz: 10%
Bush: 9%
Huckabee: 6%
Walker: 6%
Fiorina: 5%
Kasich: 4%
Rubio: 4%
Paul: 3%
Christie: 3%

Everyone else is at or below 1%.

Wow, Rand, ewww.

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 10:53:37am

re: #41 Lidane

The 11% number is just put in for humor. The actual poll results are:

Trump: 25%
Carson: 12%
Cruz: 10%
Bush: 9%
Huckabee: 6%
Walker: 6%
Fiorina: 5%
Kasich: 4%
Rubio: 4%
Paul: 3%
Christie: 3%

Everyone else is at or below 1%.

Look at Rand, polling below Huckabee and even with Christie.

Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Aug 17, 2015 • 10:54:16am

re: #40 Nyet

Mitt must be laughing with relief right now.

He’s probably regretting not getting in the race.

No Country For Old Haters Aug 17, 2015 • 10:54:40am

re: #8 Kragar

After years of saying the only reason the GOP was losing was because they weren’t running candidates which were conservative enough, Rush is now saying the Trump is redefining what it means to be conservative.

And people still take this shit for brains seriously?

Smart people never took him seriously, and I suspect his audience has been getting dumber over the years as anyone with the slightest bit of sanity left is repelled by the disgusting claims this creep makes daily.

Amory Blaine Aug 17, 2015 • 10:54:47am

I’m ashamed to live here. Walls and deportation?

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 10:55:19am

re: #44 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

He’s probably regretting not getting in the race.

Yeah if Jeb was his worry.

Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 10:55:21am

re: #41 Lidane

The four non-crazy (only relatively speaking) candidates (Bush, Fiorina, Kasich, Christie) have 21%, to Trump’s 25.

No Country For Old Haters Aug 17, 2015 • 10:55:24am

re: #46 Amory Blaine

I’m ashamed to live here. Walls and deportation?

Every country has its worthless, xenophobic conservatives.

Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 10:56:24am

re: #44 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

He’s probably regretting not getting in the race.

I think he’s relieved he didn’t get in only to be trumped by the Donald.

Really, what is happening would be humiliating for any normal person.

gocart mozart Aug 17, 2015 • 10:56:46am

Trump: 25%
Carson: 12%
Cruz: 10%
____________
Crazy 47% (of the three, Trump is the sanest!)

Charles Johnson Aug 17, 2015 • 10:56:52am

The entire right wing blogosphere is drooling today over the prospect of mass deportations. That really gets them excited.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 17, 2015

aagcobb Aug 17, 2015 • 10:57:03am

re: #8 Kragar

After years of saying the only reason the GOP was losing was because they weren’t running candidates which were conservative enough, Rush is now saying the Trump is redefining what it means to be conservative.

And people still take this shit for brains seriously?

Yes, Trump is redefining conservatism as fascism. And the Rightwing talking heads LOVE it!

Amory Blaine Aug 17, 2015 • 10:57:08am

re: #49 No Country For Old Haters

That makes me feel better.
// :p

Lidane Aug 17, 2015 • 10:58:13am

re: #48 Nyet

The four non-crazy (only relatively speaking) candidates (Bush, Fiorina, Kasich, Christie) have 21%, to Trump’s 25.

The results for Don’t Know and None of the Above combine for 9%.

People who haven’t made up their minds or who hate everyone on the list are polling better than everyone except for Bush, Cruz, Carson, and Trump.

Eclectic Cyborg Aug 17, 2015 • 10:58:15am

re: #49 No Country For Old Haters

Every country has its worthless, xenophobic conservatives.

But does every country have those same conservatives in vice grip control of a MAJOR NATIONAL PARTY?

Iwouldprefernotto Aug 17, 2015 • 10:58:36am

Thanks. Zooming in an Rush’s fat head minutes after lunch needs a trigger warning and downloadable barf bags.

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 10:58:41am

re: #56 Eclectic Cyborg

But does every country have those same conservatives in vice grip control of a MAJOR NATIONAL PARTY?

A good point. Sigh.

The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 10:59:08am

re: #56 Eclectic Cyborg

But does every country have those same conservatives in vice grip control of a MAJOR NATIONAL PARTY?

In Israel each and every one of them would have their very own political party.

aagcobb Aug 17, 2015 • 10:59:21am

re: #18 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

From downstairs:

Who’s the 11% candidate?

And Rubio is still sinking.

So much for Rubio being the fresh face who could defeat Hillary!

jaunte Aug 17, 2015 • 10:59:34am

re: #56 Eclectic Cyborg

Not every country has a Mitch McConnell in charge of race-based obstruction.

The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 10:59:41am

Trump with his cabinet picks==>

Trash with Cash? Nooo…Trump oozes dignity worthy of our country's highest office. #GOP check your head. #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/wBkep6QB57

— Michael Abood (@michaelabood1) August 17, 2015

Eclectic Cyborg Aug 17, 2015 • 11:00:41am

re: #62 The Vicious Babushka

Trump with his cabinet picks==>

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I think it’s safe to say he’s got the misogynist vote all locked up.

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:00:51am

re: #60 aagcobb

So much for Rubio being the fresh face who could defeat Hillary!

Yeah I thought he was hip and how Republicans were going to gain the youth vote. Of course, the reality is Marco’s more extreme than Donald is honestly at least when it comes to choice and SSM..

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:01:10am

re: #63 Eclectic Cyborg

I think it’s safe to say he’s got the misogynist vote all locked up.

Why, yes he is his party’s frontrunner.

aagcobb Aug 17, 2015 • 11:01:33am

re: #28 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Ayn Rand Dr. Paul?

Or is Rand below 4%?

Rand is at 3%.

The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 11:01:43am

re: #63 Eclectic Cyborg

I think it’s safe to say he’s got the misogynist vote all locked up.

So that’s why Rush loves him so much.

Amory Blaine Aug 17, 2015 • 11:01:45am

re: #62 The Vicious Babushka

What? Looks like a diverse group. Redheads, blondes, and brunettes.
//

SteveMcGaziBolaGate Aug 17, 2015 • 11:02:06am

re: #64 HappyWarrior

There is no such thing as the youth vote.

SteveMcGaziBolaGate Aug 17, 2015 • 11:02:38am

re: #68 Amory Blaine

Real and fake, too.

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:03:22am

re: #69 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

There is no such thing as the youth vote.

Sarcasm. Come on, you really think I actually believed that an anti-choice at all times, anti-gay guy would have swing with my generation?

Eclectic Cyborg Aug 17, 2015 • 11:03:40am

I’m guessing he didn’t go with the white/black/latina/asian split because he thought it might offend GOP voters.

SteveMcGaziBolaGate Aug 17, 2015 • 11:04:05am

re: #71 HappyWarrior

Sarcasm. Come on, you really think I actually believed that an anti-choice at all times, anti-gay guy would have swing with my generation?

No, I thought you actually believed that young people would vote.

Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 11:04:25am

re: #73 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

No, I thought you actually believed that young people would vote.

Heh.

jaunte Aug 17, 2015 • 11:04:25am

Who's gonna talk sense to this GOP? They even have Jesus on mute right now.
— Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) August 17, 2015

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:04:32am

re: #73 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

No, I thought you actually believed that young people would vote.

Nah. Wish we would more often but we don’t.

Eclectic Cyborg Aug 17, 2015 • 11:04:50am

Here’s the Republican problem in one sentence:

Unless the GOP can figure out how to sell Millenials and independents on far right conservatism, they’re screwed.

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:05:06am

re: #75 jaunte

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The Pope’s too much of a lefty for them. Maybe they’ll get an antipope’s support.

Amory Blaine Aug 17, 2015 • 11:05:31am

re: #70 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

See !?! Everyone is represented.
//

jaunte Aug 17, 2015 • 11:05:51am

re: #78 HappyWarrior

Jesus on mute.

Perfect.

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:06:37am

re: #77 Eclectic Cyborg

Here’s the Republican problem in one sentence:

Unless the GOP can figure out how to sell Millenials on far right conservatism, they’re screwed.

I hope like hell you are right. Unfortunately, i do worry that some millenials are buying libertarianism as a solution. Just saw a quick interview David Simon of the Wire fame and he said he was worried about many people adapting libertarianism. He said something that there’s some points where I (Simon not myself though I agree here too) with them on things like the Drug War but he adds that “Bad governance shouldn’t be solved with no governance.”

Rocky-in-Connecticut Aug 17, 2015 • 11:06:38am

re: #62 The Vicious Babushka

Trump should run for the position of Russian Oligarch. Not Prez of USA.

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:07:07am

re: #82 Rocky-in-Connecticut

Trump should run for the position of Russian Oligarch. Not Prez of USA.

He’s gonna need a bigger beard. Oops I was thinking about the Orthodox clergy not the oligarchs.

Eclectic Cyborg Aug 17, 2015 • 11:08:25am

I think it would be funny as hell if Putin endorsed Trump.

The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 11:09:37am

WTF does this even mean? This Tweet makes utterly no sense whatsoever.

“@RuizSeferino: @paulfincher2 Please have mercy on all Veterans. All we wished to do is serve a county who serves us not. Trump for Pres!”

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2015

Jayleia Aug 17, 2015 • 11:09:56am

re: #83 HappyWarrior

And they have more money…and I’m not sure, but I think some of them got their money in more ethical ways…

…straight-up theft, as opposed to using the bankruptcy code.

Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 11:11:03am

re: #84 Eclectic Cyborg

I think it would be funny as hell if Putin endorsed Trump.

He did endorse Bush over Kerry, so who knows.

Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 11:11:09am

teh stupid that is Teh Donald is stunning:

Donald Trump adds Saudi Arabia to the list of countries ripping off the United States http://t.co/q6rOs7XDqJ pic.twitter.com/aRqLohIbDO

— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) August 17, 2015

“Saudi Arabia, if it weren’t for us, they wouldn’t be here,” Trump said. “They wouldn’t exist.”

Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 11:11:42am

re: #85 The Vicious Babushka

He wants all that oil money Trump has promised.

Eclectic Cyborg Aug 17, 2015 • 11:11:56am

re: #85 The Vicious Babushka

WTF does this even mean? This Tweet makes utterly no sense whatsoever.

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I think it’s supposed to say “country” instead of county. It’s a lame attempt to both comment on the plight of veterans.

jaunte Aug 17, 2015 • 11:12:25am

re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump confusing the U.S. with the Royal Navy.

Eclectic Cyborg Aug 17, 2015 • 11:12:41am

Heh, let’s watch how fast Donald capitulates if the Saudis cut off our oil supply.

The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 11:12:48am

re: #90 Eclectic Cyborg

I think it’s supposed to say “country” instead of county. It’s a lame attempt to both comment on the plight of veterans.

It still makes no sense.

jaunte Aug 17, 2015 • 11:13:47am

re: #93 The Vicious Babushka

I think he’s pleading with Trump to take care of veterans, but it isn’t clear at all.

Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 11:13:53am

re: #85 The Vicious Babushka

WTF does this even mean? This Tweet makes utterly no sense whatsoever.

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His TL is so typically outraged:

HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:14:10am

He has no tact. No wonder why GOP primary voters love this shit. Makes me shiver to think that he’s got someone worse than Bolton in mind for SoS.

Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Aug 17, 2015 • 11:14:12am

re: #62 The Vicious Babushka

Trump with his cabinet picks==>

Trash with Cash? Nooo…Trump oozes dignity worthy of our country’s highest office.

If that country was Italy, perhaps…

Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 11:14:14am

re: #93 The Vicious Babushka

The sense: Obama hates the military, so for the sake of the vets elect Trump who loves them vets.

Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 11:16:37am

LOLOLOLOL!!!!

The developed world has gone mad: IKEA to remove knives to avoid provoking 3rd world immigrants into mass stabbings - http://t.co/hinapjEz8z

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) August 17, 2015

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blueraven Aug 17, 2015 • 11:17:20am

re: #98 Nyet

The sense: Obama hates the military, so for the sake of the vets elect Trump who loves them vets.

He also loves: the Wimmenz, the Mexicans, the Blacks, the Poors…
Cherishes them, actually. Nobody will be better to [insert minority/under served].

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jaunte Aug 17, 2015 • 11:18:36am

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

One store = All IKEA = All retail stores = Developed World.

That’s a hell of a slippery slope.

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 11:18:43am

re: #100 blueraven

He also loves: the Wimmenz, the Mexicans, the Blacks, the Poors…
Cherishes them, actually. Nobody will be better to [insert minority/under served].

HURR HURR!!!!! I WILL BE SO TERRIFIC WITH TEH WIMMENZ & TEH SPANISHES!!!!!! THEY LOVE ME!!!!!!!

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:19:16am

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOLOLOLOL!!!!

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Whatever happened to a business being able to do what it wants to without interference? If IKEA doesn’t want to sell knives, they don’t have to. And yeah it’s one frigging IKEA.

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No Country For Old Haters Aug 17, 2015 • 11:19:19am

re: #85 The Vicious Babushka

WTF does this even mean? This Tweet makes utterly no sense whatsoever.

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@realDonaldTrump Will retweet any #wingnut delusion. @RuizSeferino @paulfincher2

— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) August 17, 2015

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Aug 17, 2015 • 11:19:36am

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

The developed world has gone mad: IKEA to remove knives to avoid provoking 3rd world immigrants into mass stabbings -

Because Real Americans use only guns.

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 11:19:36am

LOL closed span tag mistyped as </spam>

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Aug 17, 2015 • 11:19:53am

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

The developed world has gone mad

OK, but enough about the GOP candidates….

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:20:29am

re: #101 jaunte

One store = All IKEA = All retail stores = Developed World.

That’s a hell of a slippery slope.

We are talking about the person who thinks the immigration paper Trump crapepd out is more important than our Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, or your bar tab.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Aug 17, 2015 • 11:20:48am

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

The developed world has gone mad: IKEA to remove knives to avoid provoking 3rd world immigrants into mass stabbings

Won’t they just buy guns?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Aug 17, 2015 • 11:21:07am

re: #103 HappyWarrior

Whatever happened to a business being able to do what it wants to without interference? If IKEA doesn’t want to sell knives, they don’t have to. And yeah it’s one frigging IKEA.

“Do you suppose that applied just that one particular Piggly Wiggly or does that apply to the whole chain?”

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 11:21:37am

Rush, fellating Donald==>

.@rushlimbaugh on #GOP front-runner @realDonaldTrump! #HistoryInMaking #tcot #ycot #ccot #TRUMP2016 pic.twitter.com/BLAwR5FUFh

— Dan Scavino (@DanScavino) July 24, 2015

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 11:21:58am

Nobody haz knives at home…teh knives can be found only at IKEA!!11!!!

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jaunte Aug 17, 2015 • 11:22:22am

re: #111 The Vicious Babushka

Rush, career sinking, grabbing at a lifeline.

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 11:23:15am

LOL

Larry Klayman: There will be a 1776-style revolution if conservatives don't win the 2016 election http://t.co/5n1ZB96pHK

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) August 17, 2015

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Higgs Boson's Mate Aug 17, 2015 • 11:23:48am

re: #56 Eclectic Cyborg

But does every country have those same conservatives in vice grip control of a MAJOR NATIONAL PARTY?

When you only have two parties then you’re fucked when one of them goes off the rails.

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Decatur Deb Aug 17, 2015 • 11:24:11am

re: #85 The Vicious Babushka

WTF does this even mean? This Tweet makes utterly no sense whatsoever.

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Unless Trump has a Signal Corps messenger pigeon under that combover, there is no “we”.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Aug 17, 2015 • 11:24:14am

re: #114 The Vicious Babushka

Larry Klayman: There will be a 1776-style revolution if conservatives don’t win the 2016 election

1860…2016

Never changes.

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Lidane Aug 17, 2015 • 11:25:05am

re: #114 The Vicious Babushka

Except for the part where the 2016 US military spends more than the next dozen or so countries combined, sure.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Aug 17, 2015 • 11:25:14am

re: #113 jaunte

Rush, career sinking, grabbing at a lifeline.

He sees DT’s candidacy as the validation of his life’s work. And face it, without Rush doing the groundwork, views like this would not have come to gain such widespread approval.

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Decatur Deb Aug 17, 2015 • 11:25:24am

re: #114 The Vicious Babushka

LOL

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If you’re going up against an M1A2, you might as well use a musket.

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CuriousLurker Aug 17, 2015 • 11:25:26am

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOLOLOLOL!!!!

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Just read the article donotlink.com, and I see they failed to show any concern for (or even mention) the innocent Eritrean adults & children in the two centers that were attacked, presumably by xenophobic natives of the “developed” world.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Aug 17, 2015 • 11:25:35am

re: #114 The Vicious Babushka

Larry Klayman: There will be a 1776-style revolution if conservatives don’t win the 2016 election

Is this what they mean by “rule of Law”?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Aug 17, 2015 • 11:26:21am

re: #122 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Is this what they mean by “rule of Law”?

/

“Rule of Higher Law”

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 11:26:47am

re: #121 CuriousLurker

Just read the article donotlink.com, and I see they failed to show any concern for (or even mention) the innocent Eritrean adults & children in the two centers that were attacked, presumably by xenophobic natives of the “developed” world.

Of course they wouldn’t.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 11:27:28am

Sometimes you just gotta dance like nobody is watching…

????? dancefloor artist … ????? pic.twitter.com/i12O1MXY5f

— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) August 17, 2015

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Teukka Aug 17, 2015 • 11:27:38am

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

@AnnCoulter IKEA pulled the knives from their shelves out of concern and respect for their employees… They will come back in a while 1/2

— Teo (@Teukka72) August 17, 2015

@AnnCoulter As to knives in Sweden, you may not carry them in public unless you have a need to do, like work. Law for 20 years or so. 2/2.

— Teo (@Teukka72) August 17, 2015

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:28:54am

re: #114 The Vicious Babushka

LOL

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Waaaah if we don’t lose, we’re going to throw a tantrum. Getty Larry Klayman his baba, he needs a nappy.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:30:04am

re: #117 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

1860…2016

Never changes.

Yep conservatives still thinking throw a toddler like tantrum is the solution to their problems. Not much has changed.

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 11:30:12am

BTW, Glenn Beck is very unhappy about Trump’s popularity with the conservative pundits.

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jaunte Aug 17, 2015 • 11:31:12am

re: #128 HappyWarrior

“2nd Amendment Solutions”
“We came unarmed. This time.”

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Decatur Deb Aug 17, 2015 • 11:31:35am

re: #129 Nyet

BTW, Glenn Beck is very unhappy about Trump’s popularity with the conservative pundits.

You’re jus’ trying to make me feel good, right?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Aug 17, 2015 • 11:31:43am

re: #129 Nyet

BTW, Glenn Beck is very unhappy about Trump’s popularity with the conservative pundits.

scary to see him as the Voice of Reason

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blueraven Aug 17, 2015 • 11:31:45am

re: #113 jaunte

Rush, career sinking, grabbing at a lifeline.

Unfortunately though, it is not just rightwing media. It is MSM as well. The whole goddamn bunch of them have lost their collective mind. Journalism is truly dead.
How many other candidates would be allowed to do a call in interview on every Sunday talk show for weeks now?

They have created this monster along with Fox and the GOP.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:31:46am

re: #129 Nyet

BTW, Glenn Beck is very unhappy about Trump’s popularity with the conservative pundits.

Who does that nut bag like?

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:32:13am

re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

scary to see him as the Voice of Reason

I wouldn’t call it Beck being a voice of reason. He probably sees Trump as a fraud or “fake conservative.”

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Higgs Boson's Mate Aug 17, 2015 • 11:32:23am

re: #128 HappyWarrior

Yep conservatives still thinking throw a toddler like tantrum is the solution to their problems. Not much has changed.

If they’re feeling all that froggy they ought to just go ahead and jump. I’m ready.

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 11:32:41am

re: #129 Nyet

And he has a new book out, called “It IS about Islam”. Wish I was kidding.

One would hope a Mormon would know better.

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Decatur Deb Aug 17, 2015 • 11:33:02am

re: #135 HappyWarrior

I wouldn’t call it Beck being a voice of reason. He probably sees Trump as a fraud or “fake conservative.”

A competitor trying to gull the same rubes.

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Kragar Aug 17, 2015 • 11:33:14am

re: #114 The Vicious Babushka

And by that, he means a bunch of jackasses with rifles line up to take back their country only to find out what close air support and combat drones look like from the wrong end.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:35:00am

re: #138 Decatur Deb

A competitor trying to gull the same rubes.

Yep. Beck’s jealous.

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Kragar Aug 17, 2015 • 11:35:33am

Reince Priebus Asks Trump To Quit Presidential Race

FunnyOrDie Video

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:35:34am

re: #137 Nyet

And he has a new book out, called “It IS about Islam”. Wish I was kidding.

One would hope a Mormon would know better.

You’d think but unfortunately he has no self-awareness at all.

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aagcobb Aug 17, 2015 • 11:35:53am

re: #133 blueraven

Unfortunately though, it is not just rightwing media. It is MSM as well. The whole goddamn bunch of them have lost their collective mind. Journalism is truly dead.
How many other candidates would be allowed to do a call in interview on every Sunday talk show for weeks now?

They have created this monster along with Fox and the GOP.

Trump=ratings. They aren’t in the business of providing news to viewers; they are in the business of selling eyeballs to advertisers.

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Decatur Deb Aug 17, 2015 • 11:37:58am

re: #136 Higgs Boson’s Mate

If they’re feeling all that froggy they ought to just go ahead and jump. I’m ready.

It’s getting harder not to hope they’d try, but it would kill a lot of people who don’t have to die, and would be a setback for the country. Instead we’ll keep getting a trickle of suicidal misfits looking for a loud death.

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EPR-radar Aug 17, 2015 • 11:37:58am

re: #36 Nyet

Speaking of “cuckservatives”… the term is fitting for the rest of the mainstream GOP candidates (incl. Paul), who are now helplessly watching a newcomer’s torrid love affair with the debased GOP base they thought was lawfully theirs.

The term fits Roger Ailes better than anyone else. He was supposed to have clear title to the Pig People (TM Driftglass) via the propaganda operations of Fox News. Trump is interfering with this, big time.

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Iwouldprefernotto Aug 17, 2015 • 11:40:54am

Part of my believes that this is all a big set-up to make JEB like both sane and moderate. Part of my is also looking forward to Trump’s speech at the convention. Can anyone say “Clint’s Chair?” Yes, I’m confused, but with all the craziness we are in uncharted territory. Hold on.

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makeitstop Aug 17, 2015 • 11:41:49am

re: #143 aagcobb

Trump=ratings. They aren’t in the business of providing news to viewers; they are in the business of selling eyeballs to advertisers.

Right. We’re not the the target of advertisers any more, we’re the product being sold.

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 11:42:11am

re: #146 Iwouldprefernotto

Part of my believes that this is all a big set-up to make JEB like both sane and moderate. Part of my is also looking forward to Trump’s speech at the convention. Can anyone say “Clint’s Chair?” Yes, I’m confused, but with all the craziness we are in uncharted territory. Hold on.

Nope. Trump is in it to win it and he’s completely out of control.

BTW every time Jeb! opens his mouth hole he says something so retarded he is making GW look smart.

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 11:42:36am

Interesting. Rush pointed this out:

rushlimbaugh. com/daily/2015/08/14/what_would_mr_buckley_think_of_mr_trump

Probably for lessons there, take a look at what Buckley did to Pat Buchanan. Pat Buchanan had written a couple of columns that were thought by many to be anti-Semitic in his references to Israel and the AIPAC, the lobbying group.

And Buckley did write a piece saying that he, after careful thought, did consider Buchanan to be anti-Semitic in those instances. Buckley, of course, succeeded in excommunicating the John Birch Society from the conservative movement and so forth. So my guess is that Buckley would be amused and would get as much out of it as he could, but, at some point, he would probably denounce Trump.

Then he went on to glowingly quote one of Buchanan’s articles (about how elites want to excommunicate Trump) for the rest of the segment.

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 11:43:00am

re: #149 Nyet

oops, delinkified, sorry.

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Kragar Aug 17, 2015 • 11:44:41am

Oath Keepers plan to arm 50 black Ferguson demonstrators with AR-15 rifles and dare cops to shoot http://t.co/wULF0ALJMJ

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 17, 2015

“Every person we talked to said if they carried they’d be shot by police,” said Sam Andrews, head of the Oath Keepers chapter in St. Louis County. “That’s the reason we’re going to hold this event, and it will be a legal demonstration. I’m sick and tired of law enforcement who doesn’t think they have to abide by the law. They’re narcissistic and that guy (the county police chief) discredited my men.”

He said other Oath Keepers members would surround the black demonstrators as protection.

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Higgs Boson's Mate Aug 17, 2015 • 11:45:17am

re: #143 aagcobb

Trump=ratings. They aren’t in the business of providing news to viewers; they are in the business of selling eyeballs to advertisers.

The media is in this fix regarding Trump because it has signally failed to call bullshit on anything from the Right for decades. Instead of mocking the Tea Party or being taken aback by it the media gave it plenty of coverage and treated its most far-fetched notions as worthy of consideration. The media now routinely mainstreams and legitimatizes the RWNJs paranoid fantasies and so we now have the most fantastical candidate since Joshua Norton ran for Emperor of San Francisco. Nice work.

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 11:45:22am

LIFE DOWN UNDER
There is a reason I put this in spoiler tags. You are warned.
Not responsible for PTSD or screaming fits.
Trigger warning.

Click to Reveal

LIFE DOWN UNDER http://t.co/X6iyvnZ0AU

— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) August 17, 2015

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Iwouldprefernotto Aug 17, 2015 • 11:45:34am

re: #148 The Vicious Babushka

Nope. Trump is in it to win it and he’s completely out of control.

BTW every time Jeb! opens his mouth hole he says something so retarded he is making GW look smart.

TYes. Trump thinks he can win, but who set him up to believe this? I’m only partially kidding. Every time they speak Rush and Trump make it less likely that a republican will win the WH>

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 11:46:31am

re: #154 Iwouldprefernotto

Trump thinks he can win, but who set him up to believe this.

LOL Conspiracy theory says it was the Clintons.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:46:33am

re: #151 Kragar

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What the fuck.

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CuriousLurker Aug 17, 2015 • 11:47:15am

This shit with Trump is so over the top that I’m beginning to wonder if maybe whichever sane establishment Republicans are left made a deal with him to act as a sort of Pied Piper to try to divest themselves of the TP monster they created before the RNC convention next summer.

Yeah, I know—wishful thinking. //

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:47:31am

re: #149 Nyet

Interesting. Rush pointed this out:

rushlimbaugh.com

Then he went on to glowingly quote one of Buchanan’s articles (about how elites want to excommunicate Trump) for the rest of the segment.

Figures that Rush would defend a fellow racist asshole like Pat.

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Lidane Aug 17, 2015 • 11:47:34am

re: #153 The Vicious Babushka

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Higgs Boson's Mate Aug 17, 2015 • 11:47:35am

re: #151 Kragar

What revoltin’ development this is.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 11:47:35am

re: #151 Kragar

He said other Oath Keepers members would surround the black demonstrators as protection.

Kind of invalidates Oath Keepers’ premise right there.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:48:03am

re: #157 CuriousLurker

This shit with Trump is so over the top that I’m beginning to wonder if maybe whichever sane establishment Republicans are left made a deal with him to act as a sort of Pied Piper to try to divest themselves of the TP monster they created before the RNC convention next summer.

Yeah, I know—wishful thinking. //

I dunno. The thing that strikes me about Trump is that money really isn’t his goal here. It’s all ego.

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EPR-radar Aug 17, 2015 • 11:48:24am

re: #149 Nyet

Interesting. Regarding Pat Buchanan, my grandfather thought Buchanan used Nazi talk in his campaign. Grandpa was very conservative (big fan of Reagan etc.), but he knew what real Nazi talk sounds like, having emigrated from Germany to the US as Hitler was gaining power.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 11:48:47am

re: #153 The Vicious Babushka

That’s a Huntsman.

nope, nope, nope…

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Kragar Aug 17, 2015 • 11:49:07am

re: #161 Backwoods_Sleuth

Kind of invalidates Oath Keepers’ premise right there.

Not when you’re tying to start a gun fight with the cops

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Amory Blaine Aug 17, 2015 • 11:49:26am

We have to destroy America to save it!!1!!1tyh ~ self described patriot

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Decatur Deb Aug 17, 2015 • 11:49:57am

re: #151 Kragar

Oath Keepers plan to arm 50 black Ferguson demonstrators with AR-15 rifles and dare cops to shoot

If I were the Black demonstrator, I’d want to zero those things at a range.

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jaunte Aug 17, 2015 • 11:50:16am

re: #151 Kragar

“Let’s you and him fight.”

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 11:51:07am

re: #158 HappyWarrior

He used to make fun of Pat, proposing a Kerry/Buchanan ticket. Interesting that he would take him seriously now, knowing his history and all.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:52:27am

re: #169 Nyet

He used to make fun of Pat, proposing a Kerry/Buchanan ticket. Interesting that he would take him seriously now, knowing his history and all.

He’s an opportunist.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:53:06am

re: #163 EPR-radar

Interesting. Regarding Pat Buchanan, my grandfather thought Buchanan used Nazi talk in his campaign. Grandpa was very conservative (big fan of Reagan etc.), but he knew what real Nazi talk sounds like, having emigrated from Germany to the US as Hitler was gaining power.

It’s always amazed me how much push Pat had in past Republican administrations with the views he has.

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Higgs Boson's Mate Aug 17, 2015 • 11:53:23am

re: #162 HappyWarrior

I dunno. The thing that strikes me about Trump is that money really isn’t his goal here. It’s all ego.

No matter whom you ask, Trump seems to have assets worth a few billions. What better way to top his fellow billionaires than by being elected president?

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:54:18am

re: #172 Higgs Boson’s Mate

No matter whom you ask, Trump seems to have assets worth a few billions. What better way to top his fellow billionaires than by being elected president?

Which is why I think the Russian oligarch analogy fits Trump like a boot here.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 11:54:28am

Most of my fellow Republicans are really pissed off that the central committee is letting Rand Paul attempt to buy the nomination here.

Rand Paul makes $250,000 down payment to fund GOP presidential caucus in Kentucky http://t.co/S8kNtCMhhO

— heraldleader (@heraldleader) August 17, 2015

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul has transferred $250,000 to the Republican Party of Kentucky as a down payment on the presidential caucuses he has asked the party to conduct next March, Paul told members of the state party’s central committee Monday in an email.

Paul is seeking the party’s help in bypassing a state law that prohibits him from running for the presidency and re-election to his Senate seat on the same ballot next year. He wrote the party’s state central committee, which has nearly 350 members, in an effort to quell concern about the cost of a caucus.

There is no way I am going to drive 40 miles roundtrip to get locked inside a caucus room with a bunch of Randfans instead of going to the local polling place to cast a primary vote IN PRIVATE.

Not that I’ll be voting for any of the GOP clown car anyway.

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 11:54:49am

re: #173 HappyWarrior

Which is why I think the Russian oligarch analogy fits Trump like a jackboot here.

ftfy

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 11:54:59am

re: #173 HappyWarrior

Which is why I think the Russian oligarch analogy fits Trump like a boot here.

Well, none of the Russian oligarchs got elected…

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Amory Blaine Aug 17, 2015 • 11:55:04am

Where I work it can be teeming with spiders. I only react if they drop right on me nowadays, I just blow them off me. What I really hate is walking face first into a web.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Aug 17, 2015 • 11:55:17am

Wouldn’t the Oaf Keepers be committing some sort of crime by transferring guns to other people? Straw purchase or something like that?

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Shiplord Kirel Aug 17, 2015 • 11:56:11am

Dumbest RWNJ meme of the day?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 11:56:11am

re: #177 Amory Blaine

Where I work it can be teeming with spiders. I only react if they drop right on me nowadays, I just blow them off me. What a really hate is walking face first into a web.

That’s when you can demonstrate all of the mad kung fu skills you never even knew you had.

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 11:56:43am

re: #179 Shiplord Kirel

Dumbest RWNJ meme of the day?

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The day is not over yet.

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Higgs Boson's Mate Aug 17, 2015 • 11:57:16am

re: #178 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Wouldn’t the Oaf Keepers be committing some sort of crime by transferring guns to other people? Straw purchase or something like that?

Nothing in the law against loaning your gun to a friend.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:57:25am

re: #176 Nyet

Well, none of the Russian oligarchs got elected…

True point.

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No Country For Old Haters Aug 17, 2015 • 11:57:30am

re: #111 The Vicious Babushka

Rush, fellating Donald==>

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.@DanScavino Of course toxic buffoons like @rushlimbaugh are the people who dumbed down the GOP to the point where @realDonaldTrump can win.

— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) August 17, 2015

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 11:57:32am

This “soft” rejection of Buckley by Rush is symbolic.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Aug 17, 2015 • 11:57:33am

re: #153 The Vicious Babushka

LIFE DOWN UNDER
There is a reason I put this in spoiler tags. You are warned.
Not responsible for PTSD or screaming fits.
Trigger warning.

[Embedded content]

I like ‘em meaty beaty big and bouncy.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:58:05am

re: #179 Shiplord Kirel

Dumbest RWNJ meme of the day?

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So when have forced gay marriages happened in churches? If a mosque wants to perform a gay marriage, it can and it will perform one. God these people are so fucking willfully stupid.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 11:58:32am

re: #175 The Vicious Babushka

ftfy

Ha indeed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 11:58:45am

re: #179 Shiplord Kirel

Dumbest RWNJ meme of the day?

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If a mosque wanted to perform a gay marriage, nothing prevented that even before the Supreme Court decision.

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CuriousLurker Aug 17, 2015 • 11:58:53am

re: #162 HappyWarrior

I dunno. The thing that strikes me about Trump is that money really isn’t his goal here. It’s all ego.

He’s certainly got the ego, but he’s a spoiled rich man who doesn’t really have to answer to anyone. Being President is hard work and you can’t just issue decrees from on high. He also has zero executive political experience and has never run for or been appointed to a public office (AFAIK), so I seriously doubt the he could get elected. If he could and did win over a majority (as opposed to a plurality) of Americans, then we basically deserve whatever we get.

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Higgs Boson's Mate Aug 17, 2015 • 11:59:32am

re: #180 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s when you can demonstrate all of the mad kung fu skills you never even knew you had.

One can learn so much from the creatures of the wild. Just the other day a rattlesnake taught me that I can still cover several feet with a standing broad jump.

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 11:59:46am

re: #190 CuriousLurker

then we basically deserve whatever we get.

True, but the rest of us don’t.

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Amory Blaine Aug 17, 2015 • 11:59:56am

re: #180 Backwoods_Sleuth

The most common ones at work are the garden spider.

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CuriousLurker Aug 17, 2015 • 12:00:10pm

re: #179 Shiplord Kirel

Dumbest RWNJ meme of the day?

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Right after the government starts forcing churches & synagogues to perform them? //

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Shiplord Kirel Aug 17, 2015 • 12:00:16pm

re: #181 Nyet

The day is not over yet.

Just a nomination. The competition will no doubt be fierce.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:00:33pm

re: #190 CuriousLurker

He’s certainly got the ego, but he’s a spoiled rich man who doesn’t really have to answer to anyone. Being President is hard work and you can’t just issue decrees from on high. He also has zero executive political experience and has never run for or been appointed to a public office (AFAIK), so I seriously doubt the he could get elected. If he could and did win over a majority (as opposed to a plurality) of Americans, then we basically deserve whatever we get.

Oh I agree, that’s why I don’t think he has a deal. I think he really thinks he can win this. I’d be shocked if he was nominated though. I think the establishment will want someone that is easy to control and to present to the American people as a “moderate” which is why they like guys like Bush, Walker, and Rubio. Not that those guys aren’t radical in their own ways and in many a way worse than Trump but the GOP establishment loves em.

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aagcobb Aug 17, 2015 • 12:00:35pm

re: #176 Nyet

Well, none of the Russian oligarchs got elected…

I would guess Putin has siphoned off enough money to qualify by now.

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Decatur Deb Aug 17, 2015 • 12:00:51pm

re: #190 CuriousLurker

He’s certainly got the ego, but he’s a spoiled rich man who doesn’t really have to answer to anyone. Being President is hard work and you can’t just issue decrees from on high. He also has zero executive political experience and has never run for or been appointed to a public office (AFAIK), so I seriously doubt the he could get elected. If he could and did win over a majority (as opposed to a plurality) of Americans, then we basically deserve whatever we get.

Trump is fascinated by the power of large green. If a billionaire can’t just buy the Whitehouse, it invalidates money, and leaves him just another big spender.

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dell*nix Aug 17, 2015 • 12:01:00pm

re: #167 Decatur Deb

I would want to make sure all the parts were there and the barrel clear.

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EPR-radar Aug 17, 2015 • 12:01:23pm

re: #185 Nyet

This “soft” rejection of Buckley by Rush is symbolic.

The veneer of civilization Buckley tried to give to US conservatism was always a fake. The rise of Trump shows that a significant part of the GOP base sees no need for such pretense any more.

Now we will get to see how well blatant fascism based on scapegoating immigrants will work in the US for seizing political power.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 12:01:24pm

re: #193 Amory Blaine

The most common ones at work are the garden spider.

I generally have a live and let live agreement with spiders because they do good work.

However, I did kill a brown recluse over the weekend.

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 12:01:51pm

re: #197 aagcobb

I would guess Putin has siphoned off enough money to qualify by now.

This would stretch the definition of “elected”.

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Kragar Aug 17, 2015 • 12:02:38pm

re: #179 Shiplord Kirel

April, 2013

Gay Washington Imam marries gay Muslims at mosque

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 12:03:20pm

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

If a mosque wanted to perform a gay marriage, nothing prevented that even before the Supreme Court decision.

Wingnuts for some reason think Christians are being unfairly singled out to bake Teh Ghey Cake but Muslims are not.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:03:21pm

re: #200 EPR-radar

The veneer of civilization Buckley tried to give to US conservatism was always a fake. The rise of Trump shows that a significant part of the GOP base sees no need for such pretense any more.

Now we will get to see how well blatant fascism based on scapegoating immigrants will work in the US for seizing political power.

Indeed, Buckley was a racist and a McCarthy apologist. The difference between him and the others wasn’t ideological, it was that Buckley cared about optics and how the ideology was presented to the public. Welch and the JBS didn’t care if they called President Eisenhower a communist, Buckley knew that wouldn’t go over with the American people.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:04:19pm

re: #204 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts for some reason think Christians are being unfairly singled out to bake Teh Ghey Cake but Muslims are not.

Right. Of course, there aren’t nearly as many Muslims as there are Christians in this country.

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Decatur Deb Aug 17, 2015 • 12:04:45pm

re: #203 Kragar

April, 2013

Gay Washington Imam marries gay Muslims at mosque

Episcopalian Muslim sect.

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aagcobb Aug 17, 2015 • 12:05:07pm

re: #204 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts for some reason think Christians are being unfairly singled out to bake Teh Ghey Cake but Muslims are not.

I’m sure there are jooooge numbers of Muslim wedding cake bakers in the US./

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CuriousLurker Aug 17, 2015 • 12:05:24pm

re: #203 Kragar

April, 2013

Gay Washington Imam marries gay Muslims at mosque

And no one got beheaded or blown up. Imagine that. //

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Higgs Boson's Mate Aug 17, 2015 • 12:05:48pm

re: #190 CuriousLurker

He’s certainly got the ego, but he’s a spoiled rich man who doesn’t really have to answer to anyone. Being President is hard work and you can’t just issue decrees from on high. He also has zero executive political experience and has never run for or been appointed to a public office (AFAIK), so I seriously doubt the he could get elected. If he could and did win over a majority (as opposed to a plurality) of Americans, then we basically deserve whatever we get.

Trump would do what he does already: delegate. His VP can be the éminence grise for one term then run himself when Trump regretfully announces that he won’t run for re-election. Trump’s term will consist of making prepared speeches, collecting salutes and being The Hugest Person in the World.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:05:55pm

re: #209 CuriousLurker

And no one got beheaded or blown up. Imagine that. //

Gay Shariah Law.//

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Lidane Aug 17, 2015 • 12:07:07pm

Rick Santorum is totally fine with judicial review…as long as the Supreme Court agrees with him http://t.co/S6SuEheFK0

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) August 17, 2015

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 12:07:32pm

re: #208 aagcobb

I’m sure there are jooooge numbers of Muslim wedding cake bakers in the US./

Well Steve Crowder went to a bunch of halal bakeries in Dearborn and FOUND ONE that said they wouldn’t bake a TOTALLY FABULOUS GHEY CAKE even though all the other ones said they would and had teh sads that he only wanted to pwn them & not even buy a cake.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Aug 17, 2015 • 12:07:42pm

re: #179 Shiplord Kirel

Dumbest RWNJ meme of the day?

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As soon as all Roman Catholic churches have to perform gay marriages, as it was specified in the Supreme Court decision.

///

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EPR-radar Aug 17, 2015 • 12:07:50pm

re: #210 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Trump would do what he does already: delegate. His VP can be the éminence grise for one term then run himself when Trump regretfully announces that he won’t run for re-election. Trump’s term will consist of making prepared speeches, collecting salutes and being The Hugest Person in the World.

That would be very ugly if Trump and the GOP establishment cut a deal along these lines with Walker as the VP.

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Higgs Boson's Mate Aug 17, 2015 • 12:08:10pm

re: #208 aagcobb

I’m sure there are jooooge numbers of Muslim wedding cake bakers in the US./

If it ain’t a fuckin Starbucks on the corner it’s a fuckin Muslim wedding cake baker.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 12:08:31pm

She just cannot stand to be ignored…

pic.twitter.com/ZefumZGJMR

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) August 17, 2015

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:08:39pm

re: #213 The Vicious Babushka

Well Steve Crowder went to a bunch of halal bakeries in Dearborn and FOUND ONE that said they wouldn’t bake a TOTALLY FABULOUS GHEY CAKE even though all the other ones said they would and had teh sads that he only wanted to pwn them & not even buy a cake.

He’s that conservative “comedian” right. Total fail just like the rest of them.

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Kragar Aug 17, 2015 • 12:09:02pm

re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth

Publicly exposed as as a complete and utter nitwit -> @SarahPalinUSA Not wanted for any public office.

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 17, 2015

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 12:09:08pm

re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth

She just cannot stand to be ignored…

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If it was “seekrit” then how was it even exposed?

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Charles Johnson Aug 17, 2015 • 12:09:17pm

re: #213 The Vicious Babushka

Well Steve Crowder went to a bunch of halal bakeries in Dearborn and FOUND ONE that said they wouldn’t bake a TOTALLY FABULOUS GHEY CAKE even though all the other ones said they would and had teh sads that he only wanted to pwn them & not even buy a cake.

Right wing tools are always pulling these kinds of stunts to impress each other. Nobody else even pays attention to them.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:09:19pm

re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth

She just cannot stand to be ignored…

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Go away Sarah.

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 12:09:21pm

re: #209 CuriousLurker

BTW, CL, what do you know about Quilliam Foundation (beyond wiki)?

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sagehen Aug 17, 2015 • 12:09:51pm

re: #151 Kragar

What could possibly go wrong?

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:10:07pm

re: #212 Lidane

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I had forgotten about that particular clerical fascist running for president.

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thedopefishlives Aug 17, 2015 • 12:10:23pm

Afternoon Lizardim.

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makeitstop Aug 17, 2015 • 12:10:46pm

re: #190 CuriousLurker

He’s certainly got the ego, but he’s a spoiled rich man who doesn’t really have to answer to anyone. Being President is hard work and you can’t just issue decrees from on high. He also has zero executive political experience and has never run for or been appointed to a public office (AFAIK), so I seriously doubt the he could get elected. If he could and did win over a majority (as opposed to a plurality) of Americans, then we basically deserve whatever we get.

I’m currently making that argument to a friend on Facebook, after asking the question why Obama not having much experience was a horrible bad thing, but Trump/Fiorina/Carson having no governmental experience at all is the Best Attribute Ever.

She said people are tired of ‘the same old politicians in government.’ I asked her why we constantly heard that Obama was ‘learning on the job,’ but Trump puts forth an immigration plan that is built entirely on a violation of the Constitution is fine and dandy.

She didn’t know what the 14th Amendment was! I’m in the midst of explaining it to her, maybe I can break her out of the thrall of King Stupid.

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Franklin Aug 17, 2015 • 12:11:34pm

re: #179 Shiplord Kirel

Dumbest RWNJ meme of the day?

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I tell you what, these memes perpetuate the political illiteracy in America far more than El Rushbo et al. Rush doesn’t (necessarily) reach the soccer moms and grandma’s with his stupidity. But every “Crazy Uncle Joe” in America puts this shit on Facebook and it spreads like wildfire.

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CriticalDragon1177 Aug 17, 2015 • 12:11:53pm

Charles Johnson,

Well well well, looks like good old boy Rush Limbaugh has no respect for the constitution. What a surprise, not…

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 12:11:55pm

Rick [Expletive] should shut up.

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 12:12:00pm

#tcot is suddenly full of Rick Perry grift.

We may be seeing a drop out soon.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:12:20pm

re: #227 makeitstop

I’m currently making that argument to a friend on Facebook, after asking the question why Obama not having much experience was a horrible bad thing, but Trump/Fiorina/Carson having no governmental experience at all is the Best Attribute Ever.

She said people are tired of ‘the same old politicians in government.’ I asked her why we constantly heard that Obama was ‘learning on the job,’ but Trump puts forth an immigration plan that is built entirely on a violation of the Constitution is fine and dandy.

She didn’t know what the 14th Amendment was! I’m in the midst of explaining it to her, maybe I can break her out of the thrall of King Stupid.

That’s the GOP base. They think they have “common sense” but they don’t even understand shit. As I said, a lot of the people who are cheering the idea to get rid of birth right citizenship are definitely people with a parent or grandparent that benefited from this policy.

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thedopefishlives Aug 17, 2015 • 12:12:35pm

re: #229 CriticalDragon1177

Charles Johnson,

Well well well, looks like good old boy Rush Limbaugh has no respect for the constitution. What a surprise, not…

He has respect for the Constitution - the original one, without all those pesky amendments.///

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No Country For Old Haters Aug 17, 2015 • 12:12:50pm

re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth

She just cannot stand to be ignored…

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Is there any senile former-politician who's more confused than @SarahPalinUSA ? Doubtful.

— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) August 17, 2015

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Khal Wimpo Aug 17, 2015 • 12:13:15pm

In other news: “the printing presses in Venezuela are smoking” because they’re printing so many 100-bolivar notes (1.9 billion in June alone) to try to keep up with the hyperinflation. Despite this, there is a shortage of bills, as you need a “mountain of cash” to buy a potato.

My grandfather lived through this in the Weimar republic. Bad Things happen in a society when the money becomes worthless.

Cash transactions at banks are limited to 20,000Bs. Back when the exchange rate was 4:1, that made sense (transactions limited to US$5,000). Now? That’s about $28 (1,400Bs=$1 on black market).

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lawhawk Aug 17, 2015 • 12:13:45pm

Ted Cruz thinks that Guam is key to his election campaign strategy, votes are going to be incredibly hard to come by, his campaign is in disarray for even considering this, or this guy did something to deserve being flown out to the middle of the Pacific until further consideration.

Good lord, @tedcruz is sending @dennislennox to Guam?!?! http://t.co/5SzJmGHtBZ

— Derek Wallbank (@dwallbank) August 17, 2015

This seems incredibly wasteful and ignores far richer voter locales, like say, Staten Island NY.

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jaunte Aug 17, 2015 • 12:14:14pm

re: #213 The Vicious Babushka

Well Steve Crowder went to a bunch of halal bakeries in Dearborn and FOUND ONE that said they wouldn’t bake a TOTALLY FABULOUS GHEY CAKE even though all the other ones said they would and had teh sads that he only wanted to pwn them & not even buy a cake.

How does anyone make a living as a low end “right wing comedian?”

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No Country For Old Haters Aug 17, 2015 • 12:14:42pm

re: #237 jaunte

How does anyone make a living as a low end “right wing comedian?”

There’s a high-end?

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:14:55pm

re: #236 lawhawk

Ted Cruz thinks that Guam is key to his election campaign strategy, votes are going to be incredibly hard to come by, his campaign is in disarray for even considering this, or this guy did something to deserve being flown out to the middle of the Pacific until further consideration.

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This seems incredibly wasteful and ignores far richer voter locales, like say, Staten Island NY.

Oh Ted.

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 12:15:06pm

re: #235 Khal Wimpo

I’m sure the fuck-in-charge is blaming the US.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:15:06pm

re: #237 jaunte

How does anyone make a living as a low end “right wing comedian?”

Grift.

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CuriousLurker Aug 17, 2015 • 12:15:06pm

re: #179 Shiplord Kirel

Dumbest RWNJ meme of the day?

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P.S. They couldn’t manage to find a photo of a mosque in the U.S.? Hopefully, they realize that the SCOTUS ruling doesn’t apply in India. //

Anyway, it’s just… SQUIRREL!!

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Charles Johnson Aug 17, 2015 • 12:15:14pm

Misleading click-bait headline. Cranston also said Trump has “horrible ideas and would be a terrible president.” @TIME @Kitwyk

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 17, 2015

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jaunte Aug 17, 2015 • 12:15:15pm

re: #238 No Country For Old Haters

Well, people like Rush have done pretty well.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:15:29pm

re: #240 Nyet

I’m sure the fuck-in-charge is blaming the US.

Maduro? Yeah considering what he said after Chavez’s death, it wouldn’t shock me.

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Higgs Boson's Mate Aug 17, 2015 • 12:15:35pm

re: #215 EPR-radar

That would be very ugly if Trump and the GOP establishment cut a deal along these lines with Walker as the VP.

Bingo! The idea of Trump eventually cutting a deal for one term in the White House in return for building up someone like Walker has been a thought of mine for a while now. It makes sense in a Beach-read sort of way no matter what the reality is.

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jaunte Aug 17, 2015 • 12:15:48pm

re: #241 HappyWarrior

Grift.

Oh yeah. Begging.

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thedopefishlives Aug 17, 2015 • 12:15:50pm

re: #240 Nyet

I’m sure the fuck-in-charge is blaming the US.

When all else fails, just blame America.

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Kragar Aug 17, 2015 • 12:15:51pm

re: #231 The Vicious Babushka

What We Can Learn From Rick Perry’s Brief Rise And Tragic Fall

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 12:16:16pm

re: #235 Khal Wimpo

In other news: “the printing presses in Venezuela are smoking” because they’re printing so many 100-bolivar notes (1.9 billion in June alone) to try to keep up with the hyperinflation. Despite this, there is a shortage of bills, as you need a “mountain of cash” to buy a potato.

My grandfather lived through this in the Weimar republic. Bad Things happen in a society when the money becomes worthless.

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HURR HURR TYPICAL SOSHULIZMZ!!!!! THIS IS WHAT OBAMA WANT TO DO FOR US!!!!!!!!

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 12:16:24pm

re: #248 thedopefishlives

When all else fails, just blame America.

But blame Canada first.

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Lidane Aug 17, 2015 • 12:16:25pm

re: #225 HappyWarrior

I had forgotten about that particular clerical fascist running for president.

So did everyone else. The new Fox poll has Frothy polling at 1%.

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lawhawk Aug 17, 2015 • 12:16:31pm

re: #239 HappyWarrior

This sounds almost like the Madagascar strategy in Risk.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:16:53pm

re: #243 Charles Johnson

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Yep. I see what Cranston is saying too by the way.

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jaunte Aug 17, 2015 • 12:17:10pm

re: #235 Khal Wimpo

When I lived in Venezuela, the Bolivar was worth 33 cents.

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thedopefishlives Aug 17, 2015 • 12:17:23pm

re: #251 Nyet

But blame Canada first.

No, see, everybody else blames the US. We blame Canada. Canada apologizes politely. And so the cycle begins anew.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:17:33pm

re: #252 Lidane

So did everyone else. The new Fox poll has Frothy polling at 1%.

He’s fallen a long way since being the runner up to Mitt.

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Kragar Aug 17, 2015 • 12:17:35pm

re: #236 lawhawk

Did he hire Guiliani’s campaign crew?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Aug 17, 2015 • 12:17:49pm

re: #249 Kragar

What We Can Learn From Rick Perry’s Brief Rise And Tragic Fall

There was a Perry rise?

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Khal Wimpo Aug 17, 2015 • 12:18:13pm

re: #240 Nyet

I’m sure the fuck-in-charge is blaming the US.

Yeah, pretty much. But I’ve been through this - and once the food starts running short, the people don’t wanna hear excuses any more. They take to the streets in another “Caracazo” (or “big strike/riot in Caracas”) banging on pots & pans and protesting the fact that the government makes billions in oil money, steals it all, and now the whole grubby scheme is tottering.

Soon to come, in one form or another, to Russia. Nigeria. Texas. Alaska. Canada. And, of course, the Gulf Oil States.

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Franklin Aug 17, 2015 • 12:18:34pm

re: #207 Decatur Deb

Episcopalian Muslim sect.

The priest who married me stopped performing weddings right after my wedding as a “holy fast”:

Five Episcopal priests in Massachusetts have vowed to stop performing all wedding ceremonies until the Anglican Church allows them to bless same-sex marriages, calling their protest a “holy fast.”

“Gays and lesbians are part of Christ’s body, the church. They are the church, as much, if not more, as I am as a straight white man,” Rev. Robert Hirschfeld, rector of Grace Episcopal Church in the western Massachusetts town of Amherst, told his congregation on Sunday.

reuters.com

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 12:18:58pm

re: #259 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

There was a Perry rise?

Heh, my thought exactly. But it refers to 4 years ago.

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Higgs Boson's Mate Aug 17, 2015 • 12:19:11pm

re: #251 Nyet

But blame Canada first.

Blaming Canada first is a must because Canada always brings coffee and donuts when it comes over to apologize.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:19:22pm

So who does Perry endorse if anyone? Fellow Texan Cruz?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Aug 17, 2015 • 12:19:32pm

re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth

She just cannot stand to be ignored…

Can’t read the Twitters at work—what is Sarah upset about now?

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 12:19:38pm

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

There's a case against mass deportation, but cost isn't it. Experts say it will cost $100B. We spend that on food assistance every year.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 17, 2015

HURR HURR ROUNDING UP & DEPORTING PEOPLE COST TEH SAME AS FOOD STAMPS FOR OTHER PEOPLE1!!!1!!!

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Charles Johnson Aug 17, 2015 • 12:20:10pm

Yeah, don’t worry - mass-deporting millions of people will be super-cheap! Experts say! pic.twitter.com/vJ9NFMTVpf

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 17, 2015

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KGxvi Aug 17, 2015 • 12:20:10pm

re: #236 lawhawk

well, if you figure you’ve got a fractured field with a very early Super Tuesday, it could mean that every single delegate matters. So, if you’re expecting a floor fight/brokered convention, it makes sense. Of course, considering that there’s at least 20 contests before Guam, it doesn’t make that much sense, especially this far out.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:20:13pm

re: #261 Franklin

The priest who married me stopped performing weddings right after my wedding as a “holy fast”:

reuters.com

But but but gay marriage is anti-Christian.

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Lidane Aug 17, 2015 • 12:20:23pm

re: #257 HappyWarrior

He’s fallen a long way since being the runner up to Mitt.

True, but let’s be blunt — the ONLY reason he was runner up to Mitt was because he stayed in the race the longest. The religious bigots kept sending him money to stay in because they refused to vote for a Mormon.

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Khal Wimpo Aug 17, 2015 • 12:20:37pm

re: #250 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR TYPICAL SOSHULIZMZ!!!!! THIS IS WHAT OBAMA WANT TO DO FOR US!!!!!!!!

I have heard that … so, SO much. (sigh)

I try to explain that it is not socialism, but kleptocracy. A government where the elite are stealing everything not nailed down & throwing a few crumbs to key constituencies to keep them numbed to the ongoing theft … well, yes, that *does* look like America these days.

But it ain’t socialism. Not by a damn sight.

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Timothy Watson Aug 17, 2015 • 12:20:42pm

re: #266 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

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$100B my white ass. And only illegal immigrants use food assistance?

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thedopefishlives Aug 17, 2015 • 12:20:52pm

re: #267 Charles Johnson

Well, if you think about it from Shapiro’s perspective, it’s a win-win: All the poor people starve, and all the non-white people get deported. What could possibly go wrong?!

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 12:21:06pm

re: #264 HappyWarrior

So who does Perry endorse if anyone? Fellow Texan Cruz?

I can’t see Perry endorsing Trump. They’re both crazy, but Perry was a bit less crazy about immigrants (and got savaged for it).

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 12:21:19pm

re: #272 Timothy Watson

$100B my white ass. And only illegal immigrants use food assistance?

Illegals do not qualify for food stamps.

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Lidane Aug 17, 2015 • 12:21:26pm

Red Scare: Nebraska school district asks staff to sign McCarthy-era loyalty pledge http://t.co/2et993awsm pic.twitter.com/EwUEFsueOr

— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 17, 2015

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jaunte Aug 17, 2015 • 12:21:35pm

re: #266 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

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And most SNAP assistance doesn’t go to undocumented immigrants.

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 12:21:38pm

re: #266 The Vicious Babushka

His expert is prolly Vox Day.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:22:01pm

re: #266 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

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Oh of course Ben of the Corn loves this.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:22:18pm

re: #270 Lidane

True, but let’s be blunt — the ONLY reason he was runner up to Mitt was because he stayed in the race the longest. The religious bigots kept sending him money to stay in because they refused to vote for a Mormon.

True.

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Lidane Aug 17, 2015 • 12:22:34pm

re: #264 HappyWarrior

So who does Perry endorse if anyone? Fellow Texan Cruz?

I can’t see Perry endorsing Cruz. Walker, maybe?

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Khal Wimpo Aug 17, 2015 • 12:22:40pm

re: #255 jaunte

When I lived in Venezuela, the Bolivar was worth 33 cents.

Most recent quote I saw said 100Bs=14 cents.

When I lived there, it went from 4.3Bs=$1 to 50Bs=$1 in the space from Feb-Dec.

You were there in ‘99-2007?

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Charles Johnson Aug 17, 2015 • 12:23:02pm

Last election the GOP was all about “self-deportation.” This election it’s “Fuck it, bring on the cattle cars!”

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 17, 2015

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Franklin Aug 17, 2015 • 12:23:18pm

re: #243 Charles Johnson

Misleading click-bait headline. Cranston also said Trump has “horrible ideas and would be a terrible president.” @TIME @Kitwyk

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 17, 2015

Thank fucking god. I would have had a mental breakdown if he were a Trump supporter.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:23:22pm

re: #274 Nyet

I can’t see Perry endorsing Trump. They’re both crazy, but Perry was a bit less crazy about immigrants (and got savaged for it).

Yeah it won’t be Trump. And yes that was Perry’s one saving grace though he was starting to pander a little to the know-nothing crowd though in fairness to him, he probably had one of the biggest condemnations of Trump’s attacks on Mexican-Americans.

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CuriousLurker Aug 17, 2015 • 12:23:25pm

re: #223 Nyet

BTW, CL, what do you know about Quilliam Foundation (beyond wiki)?

Not much. I know that I really, really, really dislike Maajid Nawaz. I distrust him on an instinctive gut level. That may not count in terms of logic/empirical evidence, but it kept me alive during the 17+ years that I drove a taxi.

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jaunte Aug 17, 2015 • 12:23:27pm

re: #282 Khal Wimpo

Much earlier: 1960-62

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 12:23:30pm

re: #265 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Can’t read the Twitters at work—what is Sarah upset about now?

No more big money flowing into her slushfund/PAC.

Today she’s outraged about Hillary’s emails and somehow makes a comparison with that goofy kid now living in Moscow…

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:23:41pm

re: #281 Lidane

I can’t see Perry endorsing Cruz. Walker, maybe?

Hmmm. I don’t know much about the guy.

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 12:23:43pm

re: #279 HappyWarrior

Oh of course Ben of the Corn loves this.

Ben the Great Cornholio.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Aug 17, 2015 • 12:24:20pm

re: #266 The Vicious Babushka

There’s a case against mass deportation, but cost isn’t it. Experts say it will cost $100B. We spend that on food assistance every year.
— Ben Shapiro

I wonder how long it took Ben to pull this out of his ass.

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KGxvi Aug 17, 2015 • 12:24:21pm

also, I’m not going to lie, there is part of me that really kind of hopes that the GOP nomination comes down to delegates from territories… even better if it’s America Samoa because people born in AS are US nationals but not US citizens. I mean, I feel bad for whoever has to clean up all the exploded heads, but it’d make damn fine television - just a shame Jon Stewart wouldn’t be there to cover it.

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CriticalDragon1177 Aug 17, 2015 • 12:24:39pm

Look who else is in love with Trumps’ defiling of our constitution.

I don't care if @realDonaldTrump wants to perform abortions in White House after this immigration policy paper. http://t.co/l7nq8gN7i5

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) August 16, 2015

@AnnCoulter I guess human life doesn't mean that much to you as long as you can stick it to the vile Mexicans? Am I right? 2/2

— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) August 17, 2015

IT'S MORNING IN AMERICA, AGAIN! @realDonaldTrump's Immigration policy paper - http://t.co/l7nq8gN7i5

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) August 16, 2015

@AnnCoulter And in case you're so dense you don't understand how Trumps' policy would violate our constitution.. https://t.co/VPHf2Q3UU4 2/2

— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) August 17, 2015

The greatest political document since the Magna Carta - http://t.co/l7nq8gN7i5

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) August 16, 2015

@AnnCoulter I mean, men are just so much more inherently rational and therefor conservative, according to you 2/2

— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) August 17, 2015

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Kragar Aug 17, 2015 • 12:24:40pm

Combine Huckabee and Trump and you've got a world where a guy who raped a 10 year old rates higher than someone born in the US.

— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) August 17, 2015

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:24:45pm

re: #290 Nyet

Ben the Great Cornholio.

Heh.

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CuriousLurker Aug 17, 2015 • 12:25:41pm

re: #227 makeitstop

I’m currently making that argument to a friend on Facebook, after asking the question why Obama not having much experience was a horrible bad thing, but Trump/Fiorina/Carson having no governmental experience at all is the Best Attribute Ever.

My thoughts exactly.

She said people are tired of ‘the same old politicians in government.’ I asked her why we constantly heard that Obama was ‘learning on the job,’ but Trump puts forth an immigration plan that is built entirely on a violation of the Constitution is fine and dandy.

She didn’t know what the 14th Amendment was! I’m in the midst of explaining it to her, maybe I can break her out of the thrall of King Stupid.

You must have the patience of a saint, I just lose it in the face of that kind of derp.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:26:04pm

re: #294 Kragar

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I.E. whoever the GOP nominates for president who will combine the worst of the theocratic world Huckabee represents and the populist dick world Trump represents.

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No Country For Old Haters Aug 17, 2015 • 12:26:11pm

re: #266 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

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HURR HURR ROUNDING UP & DEPORTING PEOPLE COST TEH SAME AS FOOD STAMPS FOR OTHER PEOPLE1!!!1!!!

So make the case against it. The Republicans are rapidly transitioning to a fascist party. Push back against it. @benshapiro

— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) August 17, 2015

I’d be extremely surprised if a reactionary like Ben pushed back against fascism.

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CriticalDragon1177 Aug 17, 2015 • 12:26:46pm

re: #233 thedopefishlives

He has respect for the Constitution - the original one, without all those pesky amendments.///

Which Rush of course, likes so many wingnuts like to pretend, don’t exist.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Aug 17, 2015 • 12:26:55pm

re: #293 CriticalDragon1177

Look who else in is love with Trumps’ defiling of our constitution.

Ann’s challenging Shapiro, Crowder and Dim Jim for SPOTI.

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No Country For Old Haters Aug 17, 2015 • 12:27:11pm

re: #293 CriticalDragon1177

Look who else in is love with Trumps’ defiling of our constitution.

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Someone REALLY likes fascism. @AnnCoulter is sick, but not at all surprising. @realDonaldTrump

— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) August 17, 2015

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thedopefishlives Aug 17, 2015 • 12:27:20pm

re: #299 CriticalDragon1177

Which Rush of course, likes so many wingnuts like to pretend, don’t exist.

Selectively. Because clearly the First and Second Amendments are all-important.

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lawhawk Aug 17, 2015 • 12:27:30pm

re: #268 KGxvi

If your campaign has limited funds/time/space to operate, you’re not going to go where the people aren’t. You need votes, and is the delegate count from Guam going to be the turning point?

I doubt it. Cruz may think he’s going after low hanging fruit by trying to find delegates where others aren’t looking, but there’s a reason for that.

It’s far better to try and get ground game where people are actually located.

thegreenpapers.com

Texas has 155 delegates. An extra guy to help him get as many of those as possible makes more sense than trying to get 9 from Guam. Especially if it’s a winner take all state with something like 70-100 delegates or even in proportional win states.

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 12:27:43pm

re: #298 No Country For Old Haters

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I’d be extremely surprised if a reactionary like Ben pushed back against fascism.

He’ll say that anyone who is instinctively repulsed by this idea of mass deportations is NOT A REAL JEW.

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Khal Wimpo Aug 17, 2015 • 12:28:11pm

re: #287 jaunte

Much earlier: 1960-62

Whoa. That *is* old school indeed. Right when the whole Caribbean basin was the subject of Marxist revolutionary movements (if I recall correctly, there was some sort of aborted revolution in Venezuela - might have been late 50s, but after Cuba went, the U.S. went into Full Freakout Mode, and stayed that way until the late 80s, which is when I was there).

I lived right off the Plaza Altamira, and then a couple blocks away. Beautiful country. Wonderful people. Governed by venal savages.

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No Country For Old Haters Aug 17, 2015 • 12:28:18pm

re: #300 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Ann’s challenging Shapiro, Crowder and Dim Jim for SPOTI.

Can a woman compete for #SMOTI ? SPOTI? @AnnCoulter

— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) August 17, 2015

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jaunte Aug 17, 2015 • 12:28:29pm

Dumb #DonaldTrump promises helicopter ride for 11 million immigrants to their own country �� https://t.co/xilEvQ4BDf pic.twitter.com/EObCiPCGdU

— Latino Initiative (@LatinoInitUSA) August 16, 2015

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:28:40pm

re: #298 No Country For Old Haters

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I’d be extremely surprised if a reactionary like Ben pushed back against fascism.

He is what he is. I hate to play this card but someone should remind him that a lot of people wanted to deport Jewish refugees from Russia in the early 20th century too who were fleeing scary conditions. And he has no idea how much this would cost. He and the other supporters of this crap don’t take in to account three things A) How this would look to the rest of the world, B) that inevitably legal residents and yes even some US citizens would be rounded up, and C) the result economic implosion due to losing millions in the labor force. “Illegal immigrants” are just another right wing scapegoat for their own failed policies.

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Higgs Boson's Mate Aug 17, 2015 • 12:29:26pm

re: #267 Charles Johnson

Ben Shapiro should be called out for the lying little fuck that he is for implying that undocumented immigrants are the only recipients of food aid. If the government actually did cut off all food aid the House would be back in Democratic hands within five years due to the depopulation of the red states.

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makeitstop Aug 17, 2015 • 12:29:35pm

re: #296 CuriousLurker

My thoughts exactly.

You must have the patience of a saint, I just lose it in the face of that kind of derp.

She’s an old friend from high school. I think she might have fallen in with the wrong crowd. ;-)

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 12:29:52pm

re: #295 HappyWarrior

Heh.

haha!
me too!

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thedopefishlives Aug 17, 2015 • 12:29:53pm

re: #304 The Vicious Babushka

He’ll say that anyone who is instinctively repulsed by this idea of mass deportations is NOT A REAL JEW.

The irony is so thick you could cut it with a ~~knife~~ hacksaw.

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Franklin Aug 17, 2015 • 12:29:58pm

re: #307 jaunte

Dumb #DonaldTrump promises helicopter ride for 11 million immigrants to their own country ? https://t.co/xilEvQ4BDf pic.twitter.com/EObCiPCGdU

— Latino Initiative (@LatinoInitUSA) August 16, 2015

HEY WHITEY! WHERE’S YOUR HAT!?!?!

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:30:24pm

re: #309 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Ben Shapiro should be called out for the lying little fuck that he is for implying that undocumented immigrants are the only recipients of food aid. If the government actually did cut off all food aid the House would be back in Democratic hands within five years due to the depopulation of the red states.

He’s convinced himself like so many other wingers that they are the ones that keep the economy running and immigrants and liberals are just takers. He couldn’t be more clueless.

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Teukka Aug 17, 2015 • 12:31:13pm

Speaking of fascism, how far away is the GOP from this?
25-point program

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 12:31:47pm

re: #307 jaunte

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He shoulda been wearing his hat for that photo op.

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CriticalDragon1177 Aug 17, 2015 • 12:33:34pm

re: #267 Charles Johnson

@Green_Footballs Also don't forget the massive amount of human suffering it would inflict.

— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) August 17, 2015

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:33:57pm

re: #315 Teukka

Speaking of fascism, how far away is the GOP from this?
25-point program

The xenophobia towards non-German immigrants. Quite interesting given a certain someone wasn’t from Germany and made the cutoff date right around the time he left Austria.

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Higgs Boson's Mate Aug 17, 2015 • 12:34:46pm

re: #316 Backwoods_Sleuth

He shoulda been wearing his hat for that photo op.

You’d think that a man with his money could hire a competent hairdresser.

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CuriousLurker Aug 17, 2015 • 12:35:17pm

re: #317 CriticalDragon1177

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I’m pretty sure the people who are fans of Trump don’t consider illegal immigrants to be fully human, and certainly not deserving of empathy.

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Lidane Aug 17, 2015 • 12:35:27pm

Ready! Fire! Aim!

Birthers Say 4 GOP Candidates May Be Ineligible To Be President. http://t.co/Eq2FpRRdOk

— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) August 17, 2015

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 12:35:37pm

re: #319 Higgs Boson’s Mate

You’d think that a man with his money could hire a competent hairdresser.

The Hair is the boss.

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thedopefishlives Aug 17, 2015 • 12:36:16pm

re: #320 CuriousLurker

I’m pretty sure the people who are fans of Trump don’t consider illegal immigrants to be fully human, and not deserving of empathy.

Or they just don’t plain have any empathy whatsoever.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:36:55pm

re: #320 CuriousLurker

I’m pretty sure the people who are fans of Trump don’t consider illegal immigrants to be fully human, and not deserving of empathy.

You’d be correct and that’s the exact problem i have and why I can’t discuss the issue with them. When your opponents see illegal immigrants, hell I don’t even like the term that much but I’ll use it here anyhow but when they see these people as not even being people but “parasites” or whatever crap phrase they have to say about them, you just can’t discuss the issue. I’ve known some illegal immigrants I am certain of it and they are just as hardworking if not more so than many American citizens I know.

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Higgs Boson's Mate Aug 17, 2015 • 12:37:14pm

re: #320 CuriousLurker

I’m pretty sure the people who are fans of Trump don’t consider illegal immigrants to be fully human, and not deserving of empathy.

There is a part of the GOP base that would be sharpening sticks at both ends if they thought they’d be able to use them.

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 12:37:21pm

re: #321 Lidane

Even if he was born in Hawaii, that does not make him a natural born citizen. It’s a very strict term.

A lie. Nuff said.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:38:34pm

re: #321 Lidane

Ready! Fire! Aim!

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Give them credit, they’re consistent.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:39:43pm

re: #326 Nyet

A lie. Nuff said.

Yep if one of your parents is a citizen and you’re born in a US state or territory. Like President Obama, my niece had one American citizen parent and one parent who was not. She’s a U.S citizen. She has an American passport.

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 12:39:58pm

And in Rubio’s case and in Cruz’s case I see the argument that well, they both came from Communist countries, but they’ve also left Communist countries for a reason. Even though both of them were economic refugees, actually. Both families were thoroughly anti-Castro. There was never any doubt as to where the allegiances of those families lie. Or that of their sons. So I don’t see it as an issue.

He doesn’t know, does he…

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gwangung Aug 17, 2015 • 12:40:29pm

re: #317 CriticalDragon1177

Pretty sure dim bulb Shapiro is only thinking of the cost to move them (it’s a low ball at that) and not of the economic shock of the loss of those workers.

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CriticalDragon1177 Aug 17, 2015 • 12:40:48pm

re: #301 No Country For Old Haters

Someone REALLY likes fascism. @AnnCoulter is sick, but not at all surprising. @realDonaldTrump

— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) August 17, 2015

@FurlingtonJeff Oh and @AnnCoulter Mexico is not a single “race” nation either, much like the US. http://t.co/LdCNg6hw4z 2/2

— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) August 17, 2015

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Aug 17, 2015 • 12:41:05pm

re: #317 CriticalDragon1177

Feature, not a bug, etc.

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KGxvi Aug 17, 2015 • 12:41:10pm

re: #303 lawhawk

I agree with you that it makes little sense, I was mostly trying to figure the logic behind such a move and “fractured field/possible brokered convention” was the only thing that made anything that resembled sense. I highly doubt that the nomination will come down to a handful of delegates, but in 1997 I highly doubted that a sitting president would be impeached by the House of Representatives for lying under oath and in 2000 I highly doubted someone would lose the popular vote but win the electoral college (or that a statewide race in a large state would come down to less than a thousand votes) and in 2006 I highly doubted whether the US electorate would actually elect an African American as president (let alone one with a “foreign sounding name”).

All that said, it does seem like a waste of money/resources and something of a publicity stunt.

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 12:41:24pm

re: #328 HappyWarrior

If he were born outside the US, it could be tricky (there are rules about mother’s age, etc.), but he was born in the US and that makes him an NBC regardless of the citizenship of his parents (unless they were diplomats).

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CuriousLurker Aug 17, 2015 • 12:41:56pm

Okay, that enough bad crazy for me for now.

BBL

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thedopefishlives Aug 17, 2015 • 12:42:18pm

re: #335 CuriousLurker

Okay, that enough bad crazy for me for now.

BBL

Derp is best taken in small quantities.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:43:03pm

re: #334 Nyet

If he were born outside the US, it could be tricky (there are rules about mother’s age, etc.), but he was born in the US and that makes him an NBC regardless of the citizenship of his parents (unless they were diplomats).

Right. It’s a just a desperate grasping of the straws. The whole thing is.

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BeenHereAwhile Aug 17, 2015 • 12:43:20pm

re: #162 HappyWarrior

I dunno. The thing that strikes me about Trump is that money really isn’t his goal here. It’s all ego.

Frisson

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Aug 17, 2015 • 12:43:49pm

re: #330 gwangung

Pretty sure dim bulb Shapiro is only thinking of the cost to move them (it’s a low ball at that) and not of the economic shock of the loss of those workers.

Not sure how realistic it is to identify and locate, much less deport, all 12 million undocumented immigrants.

But as long as RWNJ world wants it, policy complexity, implementation difficulties, costs, etc, are no object.

Healthcare reform, on the other hand, is too complicated and taxy so it can’t be done. Trainwreck./

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CriticalDragon1177 Aug 17, 2015 • 12:43:55pm

re: #267 Charles Johnson

Yeah, don’t worry - mass-deporting millions of people will be super-cheap! Experts say! pic.twitter.com/vJ9NFMTVpf

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 17, 2015

@Green_Footballs @CriticalDragon1 He made a perfect point AGAINST himself. #Quisling

— Cody Reed (@cody6202000) August 17, 2015

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:44:21pm

re: #331 CriticalDragon1177

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 12:45:21pm

re: #329 Nyet

He doesn’t know, does he…

I guess it’s because Batista (who was the real reason for Cruz and Rubio and elders leaving Cuba) has been dead for a very long time and nobody remembers him, so the Cruzes and the Rubios decided to go with anti-Castro, since that’s the boogeyman that’s still alive.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Aug 17, 2015 • 12:47:14pm

First we deport them, then we make them pay for it, then we take their oil, too. Do you think I’d have a chance with Ann Coulter?

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Charles Johnson Aug 17, 2015 • 12:47:31pm

There are a *lot* of people on that lawsuit list, including yours truly. @deray

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 17, 2015

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:47:38pm

re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth

I guess it’s because Batista (who was the real reason for Cruz and Rubio and elders leaving Cuba) has been dead for a very long time and nobody remembers him, so the Cruzes and the Rubios decided to go with anti-Castro, since that’s the boogeyman that’s still alive.

The Rubio one is even more lamer since his parents fled Cuba I think in ‘57 or so. Everyone on the right loves mocking Elizabeth Warren for repeating a family legend but Rubio blatantly lied about something he would know to be false if he knew the year his folks came but as you said fleeing Batista doesn’t have the same narrative as fleeing the Castro regime does. I mean no doubt Marco’s parents went through hardships to get here but for Marco to describe his parents as fleeing Castro is an abject lie.

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thedopefishlives Aug 17, 2015 • 12:47:39pm

re: #343 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

First we deport them, then we make them pay for it, then we take their oil, too. Do you think I’d have a chance with Ann Coulter?

Yeah, but the real question is, do you want to?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Aug 17, 2015 • 12:47:55pm

re: #330 gwangung

Pretty sure dim bulb Shapiro is only thinking of the cost to move them (it’s a low ball at that) and not of the economic shock of the loss of those workers.

But Obamacare will destroy the health markets and wreck the economy so it can’t be done, and now that it’s done it must repealed because jobs.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Aug 17, 2015 • 12:48:44pm

re: #346 thedopefishlives

Yeah, but the real question is, do you want to?

Somebody’s gotta take one for the team.

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 12:48:49pm

re: #344 Charles Johnson

He’ll sue right after he’ll take over the world. Just you wait.

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Higgs Boson's Mate Aug 17, 2015 • 12:49:05pm

re: #346 thedopefishlives

Yeah, but the real question is, do you want to?

Some guys are leg men. Maybe some guys are Adam’s apple men.

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 12:50:28pm

I hope this won’t devolve into “Mann Coulter” jokes.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:50:46pm

Summer of justice has 35 days left in it.

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Timothy Watson Aug 17, 2015 • 12:51:23pm

re: #331 CriticalDragon1177

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I am pretty sure that Ms. Coulter has compared abortion to murder at some point, so using her “logic”, it’s okay to commit “murder” (abortion) as long as you kick out the brown people?

Between her and Shapiro, I think some Ivy League schools need to reassess their admissions and grading standards.

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b_sharp Aug 17, 2015 • 12:51:40pm

There’s a lot to despise about Coulter, but her looks aren’t one of them.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:51:46pm

re: #353 Timothy Watson

I am pretty sure that Ms. Coulter has compared abortion to murder at some point, so using her “logic”, it’s okay to commit “murder” (abortion) as long as you kick out the brown people?

Between her and Shapiro, I think some Ivy League schools need to reassess their admissions and grading standards.

Cruz too.

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CriticalDragon1177 Aug 17, 2015 • 12:52:01pm

re: #351 Nyet

I hope this won’t devolve into “Mann Coulter” jokes.

I hope so as well. We have enough transphobia out there.

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BeenHereAwhile Aug 17, 2015 • 12:52:20pm

re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth

I guess it’s because Batista (who was the real reason for Cruz and Rubio and elders leaving Cuba) has been dead for a very long time and nobody remembers him, so the Cruzes and the Rubios decided to go with anti-Castro, since that’s the boogeyman that’s still alive.

IIRC, Rubio’s parents left Cuba for the US while Batista was still president of Cuba.

Cruz’s father was an early revolutionary with Castro before Castro proclaimed that he was a communist.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:52:28pm

re: #354 b_sharp

There’s a lot to despise about Coulter, but her looks aren’t one of them.

Indeed, she could be the most physically attractive woman in the world and she would still be an ugly person. Let’s not fall in to the stupid trap of our women are better than your women.

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CriticalDragon1177 Aug 17, 2015 • 12:53:00pm

re: #353 Timothy Watson

I am pretty sure that Ms. Coulter has compared abortion to murder at some point, so using her “logic”, it’s okay to commit “murder” (abortion) as long as you kick out the brown people?

Between her and Shapiro, I think some Ivy League schools need to reassess their admissions and grading standards.

Agreed!

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 12:53:24pm

re: #357 BeenHereAwhile

IIRC, Rubio’s parents left Cuba for the US while Batista was still president of Cuba.

Cruz’s father was an early revolutionary with Castro before Castro proclaimed that he was a communist.

I think Marco’s parents came in ‘56-57 or so. I mean they obviously went through a lot to get here like all immigrants do but I don’t get why Marco has to lie and present them as having fled Castro when that’s obviously not the case.

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Eventual Carrion Aug 17, 2015 • 12:53:48pm

re: #302 thedopefishlives

Selectively. Because clearly the First and Second Amendments are all-important.

Again, for certain “types” of people. Freedom to assemble and petition the government for grievances and that whole freedom to carry firearms anywhere only applies if you are the right “type” of person.

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No Country For Old Haters Aug 17, 2015 • 12:54:31pm

re: #354 b_sharp

There’s a lot to despise about Coulter, but her looks aren’t one of them.

Sure they are. Her meanness is visible on her face at all times. It’s made her hideously ugly.

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EPR-radar Aug 17, 2015 • 12:54:54pm

re: #315 Teukka

Speaking of fascism, how far away is the GOP from this?
25-point program

Quite far, actually. Many of those 25 points are actually socialist.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 12:55:45pm

re: #357 BeenHereAwhile

IIRC, Rubio’s parents left Cuba for the US while Batista was still president of Cuba.

Cruz’s father was an early revolutionary with Castro before Castro proclaimed that he was a communist.

And Cruz the Elder spent his early years in this country doing the Rotary Club circuit giving talks about how great Fidel Castro was.

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Teukka Aug 17, 2015 • 12:55:51pm

re: #363 EPR-radar

Quite far, actually. Many of those 25 points are actually socialist.

But what about the points which aren’t?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 12:59:54pm

How @ChrisChristie got across the Hudson River today, on a morning of traffic and train delays https://t.co/GxSFrFVpQa

— Matt Katz (@mattkatz00) August 17, 2015

.@GovChristie just hopped onto this NJ police chopper and lifted off from the west side heliport in Manhattan pic.twitter.com/Zr9hjoaJI6

— James Allen (@jamesallen) August 17, 2015

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CriticalDragon1177 Aug 17, 2015 • 1:00:19pm

re: #114 The Vicious Babushka

Larry Klayman: There will be a 1776-style revolution if conservatives don't win the 2016 election http://t.co/5n1ZB96pHK

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) August 17, 2015

@RightWingWatch Oh but of course they “love” freedom and the will of the majority, unless it disagrees with them. 2/2

— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) August 17, 2015

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Charles Johnson Aug 17, 2015 • 1:02:14pm

I always love it when somebody on Twitter points out someone making a point that I made the day before.

“Hey did you see what [some other person] said about [an issue]?” — and it’s exactly what I said before that other person.

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No Country For Old Haters Aug 17, 2015 • 1:02:20pm

re: #367 CriticalDragon1177

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@RightWingWatch Of course they'll lose, and probably a few will suicide by cop. It's sad, but they refuse to get the help they need.

— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) August 17, 2015

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EPR-radar Aug 17, 2015 • 1:03:45pm

re: #365 Teukka

But what about the points which aren’t?

The xenophobic and nativist points are a decent match, if one glosses over the lack of anything like the German race in US reality.

My larger point is that fascism in the US, which we are getting dangerously close to, will have its own distinct flavor. It can be a mistake to over-do it with the Nazi analogies, since people who want to deny the proto-fascism in the US right will seize on any inaccuracy in the analogy to deny that we have a problem at all.

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Kragar Aug 17, 2015 • 1:04:54pm

White supremacist Craig Cobb wants to name latest all-white enclave after Donald Trump http://t.co/rgRd8v7OMA

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 17, 2015

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ Aug 17, 2015 • 1:05:15pm

re: #315 Teukka

Speaking of fascism, how far away is the GOP from this?
25-point program

this program was explicitly repudiated around the time that hitler was created chancellor

specifically, the main point of the classical socialist program, the ownership and operation of major industries by the state, was certainly not ever put into practice.

as for pensions and health insurance, these had been inaugurated under bismark, somebody that you could hardly call a socialist, and were not substantially expanded under the nazis

the document, except of course for its many provisions aimed specifically at jews and other “non germans”, does not at all represent the policies of the nazis in practice once they had got into power

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Teukka Aug 17, 2015 • 1:05:21pm

re: #370 EPR-radar

The xenophobic and nativist points are a decent match, if one glosses over the lack of anything like the German race in US reality.

My larger point is that fascism in the US, which we are getting dangerously close to, will have its own distinct flavor. It can be a mistake to over-do it with the Nazi analogies, since people who want to deny the proto-fascism in the US right will seize on any inaccuracy in the analogy to deny that we have a problem at all.

Indeed.

Wasn’t it someone who said that “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross”?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 1:05:33pm

Pundit: #ISIL using mustard gas “is a very significant development on the negative trend.” No, mister. It's BAD. Save yourself 17 syllables.

— Mary W. Matthews (@MWM4444) August 17, 2015

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BongCrodny Aug 17, 2015 • 1:07:54pm

Copying this comment from the downstairs thread.

re: #367 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ever see the scifi show Farscape?

Somebody at Stonekettle must be reading LGF! I did that same joke right here about a month ago. :-)

littlegreenfootballs.com

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ Aug 17, 2015 • 1:08:48pm

What I Learned From Donald Trump’s Supporters

“The support for The Donald on display among the supporters I met was striking for its depth and intensity. They like him, admire him, rise to his defense quickly and instinctively, and speak of him in terms (truth-teller, Reaganesque) that would be the envy of any candidate for any office. When confronted with facts about him that they might find discomfiting, their reflex was to bat those facts away or explain why they don’t matter.”

that’s who we are dealing with, of course. people with some kind of fact-denialist pathological personality disorder

by the way, note that trump is the first rabble rouser to come along who lies big enough to replace Saint Ronald of Imperfect Memory

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Shiplord Kirel Aug 17, 2015 • 1:09:01pm

re: #242 CuriousLurker

P.S. They couldn’t manage to find a photo of a mosque in the U.S.? Hopefully, they realize that the SCOTUS ruling doesn’t apply in India. //

Anyway, it’s just… SQUIRREL!!

Een-Jah? Never been there. Ain’t it kind of like Old Mexico?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 1:09:37pm

The truth behind shark attacks http://t.co/27sKQcn4lc pic.twitter.com/vsXYQSNhka

— The Poke (@ThePoke) August 17, 2015

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 1:09:42pm

re: #373 Teukka

Indeed.

Wasn’t it someone who said that “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross”?

Yeah Sinclair Lewis I believe.

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 1:10:29pm

re: #371 Kragar

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Isn’t this the reject that got rejected because he took a DNA test that showed he was 11% sub-Saharian African.

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Eric The Fruit Bat Aug 17, 2015 • 1:10:35pm

Hey Mr. Tump-how is your border fence going to stop tunnels?

(insert Ban Bidondi “Duh” sound effect)

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 1:10:55pm

re: #378 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Hahahaha.

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CriticalDragon1177 Aug 17, 2015 • 1:11:30pm

Speaking of racists, look who else is an admirer of Donald Trump,

@Kragar_LGF @RawStory I bet it'll be yoooooge and very kkklassy.

— BadExampleMan (@BadExampleMan) August 17, 2015

And thankfully much like Trump, the 14th amendment stands in the way of Craig Cobb being able to get what he wants. Of course in his case, you can add things like the 1964 civil rights act and the 1968 housing rights act stands in his way as well.

Teaching With Documents: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
archives.gov

Civil Rights Act of 1968
en.wikipedia.org

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Kragar Aug 17, 2015 • 1:11:59pm

Department Of Energy Nuclear Site Reportedly On Lockdown @TPM http://t.co/Kewurpu8T7

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 17, 2015

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HappyWarrior Aug 17, 2015 • 1:12:50pm

re: #376 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

What I Learned From Donald Trump’s Supporters

“The support for The Donald on display among the supporters I met was striking for its depth and intensity. They like him, admire him, rise to his defense quickly and instinctively, and speak of him in terms (truth-teller, Reaganesque) that would be the envy of any candidate for any office. When confronted with facts about him that they might find discomfiting, their reflex was to bat those facts away or explain why they don’t matter.”

that’s who we are dealing with, of course. people with some kind of fact-denialist pathological personality disorder

by the way, note that trump is the first rabble rouser to come along who lies big enough to replace Saint Ronald of Imperfect Memory

An interesting read.

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makeitstop Aug 17, 2015 • 1:13:37pm

re: #371 Kragar

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Trump would sue his ass in a heartbeat, unless he got to do all the construction.

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 17, 2015 • 1:14:25pm

OMG I just logged on after coming home and accidentally mouseovered the picture of Rush on the front page.

I have to throw up now.

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Decatur Deb Aug 17, 2015 • 1:14:50pm

re: #384 Kragar

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Hope it’s not the same MP dog who alerted on our Suburban at SETAF HQ in Italy. When they pulled out the rear seat they found the Cheeto.

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lawhawk Aug 17, 2015 • 1:15:55pm

re: #368 Charles Johnson

…

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CriticalDragon1177 Aug 17, 2015 • 1:16:12pm

re: #371 Kragar

White supremacist Craig Cobb wants to name latest all-white enclave after Donald Trump http://t.co/rgRd8v7OMA

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 17, 2015

@Kragar_LGF This is 2015 not 1915, not only has Plessy V Ferguson been overturned, we have the 1964 & 1968 civil rights acts. 2/2

— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) August 17, 2015

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lawhawk Aug 17, 2015 • 1:19:17pm

re: #381 Eric The Fruit Bat

Hey Mr. Tump-how is your border fence going to stop tunnels?

(insert Ban Bidondi “Duh” sound effect)

Defense in depth. Land mines. Trenches. Moats. Drones. Gun platforms. UAV airstrikes.

Behind the first fence (which will now be situated inside Mexico, because why would the US locate a fence on our side of the border.) will be a second fence. /

I swear, the more you listen, the more the GOPers collectively sound like the President in Escape from LA.

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CriticalDragon1177 Aug 17, 2015 • 1:19:57pm

re: #369 No Country For Old Haters

@FurlingtonJeff Most will be too smart to even try, they know they'd lose. - @RightWingWatch

— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) August 17, 2015

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Belafon Aug 17, 2015 • 1:20:34pm

#381 Eric The Fruit Bat:

Obviously the wall will have to go 1000ft into the ground.

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b_sharp Aug 17, 2015 • 1:22:02pm

re: #393 Belafon

#381 Eric The Fruit Bat:

Obviously the wall will have to go 1000ft into the ground.

Wouldn’t having graboids there be a better solution?

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dell*nix Aug 17, 2015 • 1:22:11pm

re: #276 Lidane

(4) could be read to apply to the GOP.

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Eclectic Cyborg Aug 17, 2015 • 1:24:25pm

re: #390 CriticalDragon1177

Actually I think he can if he sets it up as an “Exclusive resort” and charges a membership fee.

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Reno Cowgirl Aug 17, 2015 • 1:25:48pm

I know it’s a fool’s errand to try to find a miniscule speck of logic inside the peculiar mind of Rush, but this Trump thing is genuinely the strangest Twilight Zone ever. The Donald is well to the left of McCain & Romney, and Rush… loves him. Huh? Trump is the phoniest fake “conservative” in the race, and Coulter/Hannity seem genuinely fooled by the con. (Which actually kind of makes sense now that I think about it.)

Meanwhile, who’s the rational rightwing voice of reason on Trump? Glenn Beck! Wow, we’re in unchartered territory when Glenn is the adult in the room, trying to explain to the adolescents that Trump isn’t even a real Republican, let alone a real conservative.

How long can the con go on before the RWNJ wise up?

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No Country For Old Haters Aug 17, 2015 • 1:25:51pm

re: #396 Eclectic Cyborg

Actually I think he can if he sets it up as an “Exclusive resort” and charges a membership fee.

Whites-only clubs are not legal in the U.S.

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No Country For Old Haters Aug 17, 2015 • 1:26:50pm

re: #397 Reno Cowgirl

How long can the con go on before the RWNJ wise up?

Is that a trick question? If they could wise up, they wouldn’t be RWNJs.

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Higgs Boson's Mate Aug 17, 2015 • 1:27:07pm

re: #397 Reno Cowgirl

You can’t cheat an honest man.

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Eclectic Cyborg Aug 17, 2015 • 1:27:40pm

Chuck C Johnshun’s Lawshoot Lizt

Deray Mckesson
All those tools from Gawker!
Twitter
The Fat guy on the street corner who always looks at me funny
John Boehner
CNN
Allen West
LESSER CHARLES JOHNSON!!
Twitter
New York Times
Twitter
Facebook
That one girl who wouldn’t go out with me in college
Capitol Police
Chris McDaniel/State of Mississippi
~~Hot Asian wife~~ (save that one for later)

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Eclectic Cyborg Aug 17, 2015 • 1:28:04pm

re: #398 No Country For Old Haters

Whites-only clubs are not legal in the U.S.

What about the KKK?

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CriticalDragon1177 Aug 17, 2015 • 1:28:05pm

re: #392 CriticalDragon1177

@FurlingtonJeff Most will be too smart to even try, they know they'd lose. - @RightWingWatch

— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) August 17, 2015

@CriticalDragon1 @RightWingWatch They demanded a guaranteed-to-lose culture-war that they immediately lost, so you never know.

— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) August 17, 2015

@FurlingtonJeff But I wouldn't expect much after that, since all of them will end up in jail or dead - @RightWingWatch 2/2

— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) August 17, 2015

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EPR-radar Aug 17, 2015 • 1:29:42pm

re: #387 The Vicious Babushka

OMG I just logged on after coming home and accidentally mouseovered the picture of Rush on the front page.

I have to throw up now.

Having images enlarge on a mouse-over might be a bad idea in general for LGF.

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Higgs Boson's Mate Aug 17, 2015 • 1:31:50pm

re: #402 Eclectic Cyborg

What about the KKK?

Here’s a photographic proof that the KKK isn’t racist.

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Blind Frog Belly White Aug 17, 2015 • 1:32:39pm

re: #404 EPR-radar

Having images enlarge on a mouse-over might be a bad idea in general for LGF.

Yeah, that’s one new feature I’d happily do without.

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Nyet Aug 17, 2015 • 1:37:37pm

re: #401 Eclectic Cyborg

LOL’d at the last one.

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GlutenFreeJesus Aug 17, 2015 • 1:37:56pm

So, Mr. Trump. How do we tell who is here illegally?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Aug 17, 2015 • 1:44:22pm

re: #187 HappyWarrior

So when have forced gay marriages happened in churches? If a mosque wants to perform a gay marriage, it can and it will perform one. God these people are so fucking willfully stupid.

Do not even try to explain the difference between the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony and the civil status of marriage. They are too dense to grasp it. We cannot argue with these people, we can only hope to limit the amount of damage they cause.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Aug 17, 2015 • 1:46:16pm

re: #176 Nyet

Well, none of the Russian oligarchs got elected…

They were “selected”. Had Russia simply opened up its capital markets, the West would have snapped up almost all their major assets. Oligarchs were chosen to keep those assets in Russian hands in exchange for staying out of politics. That was Khodorkovsky’s downfall.

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Tigger2 Aug 17, 2015 • 1:52:03pm

re: #266 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

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HURR HURR ROUNDING UP & DEPORTING PEOPLE COST TEH SAME AS FOOD STAMPS FOR OTHER PEOPLE1!!!1!!!

@benshapiro Yeah but we would still pay close to that 100B because Republicans in poor red states would still be here.
— jim (@jlcoffeecup) August 17, 2015

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CriticalDragon1177 Aug 17, 2015 • 1:52:52pm

re: #405 Higgs Boson’s Mate

LOL!

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Aug 17, 2015 • 1:55:30pm

re: #373 Teukka

Indeed.

Wasn’t it someone who said that “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross”?

Don’t worry: It Can’t Happen Here!

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 17, 2015 • 1:58:38pm

re: #413 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Don’t worry: It Can’t Happen Here!

Upding for Sinclair Lewis.

Great novel.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Aug 17, 2015 • 1:59:12pm

re: #398 No Country For Old Haters

Whites-only clubs are not legal in the U.S.

If it is a private club on private property, it can be all white. Civil Rights laws apply to public access to public businesses.

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taserian Aug 18, 2015 • 5:55:17am

re: #152 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Emperor Norton the I
Emperor of the United States
and Protector of Mexico

Hail ERIS!

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CriticalDragon1177 Aug 18, 2015 • 8:52:35am

re: #179 Shiplord Kirel

Dumbest RWNJ meme of the day?

They already have, actually,

America’s First Openly Gay Imam Performs Same-Sex Marriages
politix.topix.com

I guess I just blew their minds.

Spy Auto

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