Video: White House Spokesman Josh Earnest Calls Out Donald Trump

“Carnival barker routine”
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Today, Josh Earnest pulled no punches calling out Donald Trump’s fascist call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, saying it “disqualifies him from serving as president.”

What he said is disqualifying and any Republican who’s too fearful of the Republican base to admit it has no business serving as president either.

Earnest also described Trump’s style as a “carnival barker routine.” Which is pretty accurate, if the carnival barker also has a little Hitler mustache.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:38:13pm
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Testy Toad T  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:40:17pm

I think ridicule is probably the most effective weapon against Trump. The man cannot tolerate insults to his ego. He is now probably going to say something very stupid.

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:40:22pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hope they aren’t counting on the locals being eager customers.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:40:48pm

A Trump loving coworker of mine just said “I have no problem with Muslims, I just don’t want them in this country.”

This was during an offsite lunch. I nearly laid into him but I didn’t want to cause an “HR issue”.

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darthstar  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:41:55pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:41:57pm

Expect Trump, the man who complains about political correctness, to go apeshit over these types of accurate insults.

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darthstar  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:42:37pm
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nines09  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:43:22pm

The GOP has been cultivating stupid for decades. Trump is just harvesting them.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:43:26pm

Muslim anti-radicalism activist detained in Texas because airline passengers thought he looked scary

A Muslim anti-radicalization advocate was detained by authorities after landing at Houston’s Hobby Airport because other passengers on his flight from Newark thought he looked suspicious.

According to ABC News, Dr. Bilal Rana is an anesthesiologist who was returning home to Houston after a conference in New Jersey when he was taken into custody and interrogated.

Rana — who is the president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association, a youth group that seeks to prevent Muslim teens from embracing radicalism — said that he believes another passenger profiled him based on his appearance and acted out of fear. Flight crew deactivated the wireless Internet on his flight from Newark and he was greeted by the FBI on landing.

We are going to see a lot more of this.

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lawhawk  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:43:51pm

re: #2 Testy Toad T

Every one of the candidates in the race is possibly hoping the other will sacrifice themselves to call out Trump, except all of them need Trump’s voters if they have any chance of winning. Trump has set the tone of the conversation - and if you challenge him on the facts, logic, or substance, Trump claims they’re acting PC or worse.

So, Trump is completely controlling the shape of the discussion.

Complicating matters is that the GOP rank and file believe the same things Trump is saying - so the problem goes much deeper than Trump. It’s the GOP that is divorced from facts and reality. We see it time and again - whether its creationism and pushing that agenda into science classrooms or climate change and global warming or Benghazi and foreign policy or immigration and deportations or Muslim refugees. Or 9/11-related events.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:43:56pm

so the republican party has decided that the issue that will split the party is a religious test for immigration

i applaud the republicans opposing trump on this for making an honorable choice of a hill to die on

but will they wimp out and back down?

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darthstar  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:44:08pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Just because he won’t let Muslims into America doesn’t mean he can’t do business with them.

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Skip Intro  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:44:43pm

re: #5 darthstar

Charles Pierce has a suggestion for Jeb!

It’s Time for Jeb (!) to Old Yeller His Campaign

Travis: No, Mama!

Katie: There’s no hope for him now, Travis. He’s suffering. You know we’ve got to do it.

Travis: Yes, Mama. But he was my dog. I’ll do it.

-Old Yeller (1957)

It’s your campaign, Jeb (!) Only you can do it, Jeb (!) Take it out back, tie it to a tree and, you know…Do it quick, Jeb (!), before you have a chance to think on it.

esquire.com

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ausador  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:45:20pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

He said he was against Muslims immigrating, he never said he was against making yuuugge deals with them or taking their money. ..

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:45:21pm

for a party to split, there has to be some point where the two factions cannot and will not accept the position of the other

is this it?

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Belafon  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:45:26pm

re: #9 Dr. Matt

Muslim anti-radicalism activist detained in Texas because airline passengers thought he looked scary

We are going to see a lot more of this.

There was a radical on the plane who needs to be removed from this country, and it wasn’t the Dr.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:45:30pm

re: #9 Dr. Matt

Muslim anti-radicalism activist detained in Texas because airline passengers thought he looked scary

We are going to see a lot more of this.

I’m going to start doing this to 20 something white kids and middle age bearded white dudes.

(Not really, but what the fuck, America.)

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Skip Intro  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:45:53pm

re: #9 Dr. Matt

Muslim anti-radicalism activist detained in Texas because airline passengers thought he looked scary

We are going to see a lot more of this.

Just doing what Trump says to do.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:46:21pm

re: #15 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

for a party to split, there has to be some point where the two factions cannot and will not accept the position of the other

is this it?

Not by a long shot. They agree with him. They just don’t want him saying it.

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:46:35pm

It’s so disingenuous how Trump is selling this too. He talks like he doesn’t want to have to do this but he just *has* to. Like this is some kind of twisted “tough love” policy.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:47:14pm

re: #9 Dr. Matt

Muslim anti-radicalism activist detained in Texas because airline passengers thought he looked scary

We are going to see a lot more of this.

Poor guy.

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:48:31pm

re: #9 Dr. Matt

WTF.

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BeachDem  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:48:33pm

Back to the Almost think that it would be useful to get all of these gun “experts” in a room, give them all paintball guns (like those that would be used in police academy training).

ABC did something similar 6 years ago

Proof that Concealed Carry permit holders live in a dream world, Part One

Proof that Concealed Carry permit holders live in a dream world, Part One

Edited to add: Notice the number of “dislikes” on the video. Doesn’t matter what you prove, ammosexuals ain’t buyin’ it.)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:48:45pm
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:49:00pm

What worries me is what happens if Trump does get the GOP nomination. Given his violent rhetoric towards immigrants, the media, muslims and basically anyone who opposes him imagine what his attacks against democrats will look like. And since we’ve already seen his supporters get physically violent imagine what might happen at a dem rally.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:49:15pm

Puerto Rican With 300 Twitter Accounts Accused of Harassment

A Puerto Rico man accused of creating 300 Twitter accounts to harass people online has been arrested in the first case of its kind for the U.S. territory, authorities said Tuesday.

The island’s Justice Department said 27-year-old Omar Falcon Torres is suspected of operating under the name “MedeaBot” for two years. He faces charges that include stalking, misappropriation of identity and intimidating witnesses in part by sending people “violent sexual imagery” and using violent language, authorities said.

A judge in September issued a warrant for Falcon, who was arrested late Monday at a relative’s house in the central mountain town of Comerio.

CCJ and Zimmerman should pay attention. Assholery can get you arrested.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:51:41pm

I predict Jeb will hang on until Iowa, then bail.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:51:50pm
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Lidane  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:52:15pm
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Testy Toad T  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:53:12pm

re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg

I predict Jeb will hang on until Iowa, then bail.

At this point, I think he just wants to avoid being lumped in with Scott Idon’tevenrememberhislastname. Lumper. I’m going with Scott Lumper.

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Belafon  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:53:24pm

re: #25 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

What worries me is what happens if Trump does get the GOP nomination. Given his violent rhetoric towards immigrants, the media, muslims and basically anyone who opposes him imagine what his attacks against democrats will look like. And since we’ve already seen his supporters get physically violent imagine what might happen at a dem rally.

Democrats can, and had better, handle it. Blacks, muslims, and immigrants deal with it every day. Women get harassed. Us white men can step up as well.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:53:34pm

So now CNN has a paid Trump supporter on its payroll….

News outlets have busied themselves securing opinions on Donald Trump’s call for a “shutdown” against Muslims entering the United States. Politicians, commentators and other elites have pretty uniformly trashed the idea, sending all manner of scoffing in its direction.

Yet CNN managed to corral one committed backer. He happens to be on CNN’s payroll, too.

Commentator Jeffrey Lord this morning delivered a pro-Trump viewpoint on CNN’s “New Day.” “I am utterly astounded here,” said Lord. Astounded not by Trump’s insane proposal, but by the backlash. Lord cited three presidential proclamations of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, including “Alien Enemies — Japanese” (No. 2525); “Alien Enemies — German (No. 2526).” Lord noted that these proclamations instituted tight limits on such people, who were “liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies.”

And this was the work of revered President Roosevelt, noted Lord. So why are people criticizing Trump? “We have been here before… . We need to focus on the fact that Franklin Roosevelt was Donald Trump on steroids, and everybody thinks FDR is a great president,” said Lord.

At that point, “New Day” co-host Alisyn Camerota noted that FDR’s proclamations were aimed at hostile nations in World War II and said the United States is not at war with Muslims at large. “We’re at war with radical Islam,” said Lord.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:55:06pm

*yawn*

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Skip Intro  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:55:20pm

re: #32 Eric The Fruit Bat

CNN would cut off Wolf Blitzer’s left nut if that meant they could have Trump as a guest every day.

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ObserverArt  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:55:52pm

Hey! Thanks for using that image of Trump with blonde/orange comb over toothbrush mustache Charles.

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jaunte  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:56:32pm
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darthstar  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:56:43pm
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Jenner7  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:58:04pm
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jaunte  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:58:14pm
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William Lewis  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:58:26pm

re: #37 darthstar

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That would be VicePresident Darth Cheney’s job.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:58:37pm

re: #23 BeachDem

Back to the Almost think that it would be useful to get all of these gun “experts” in a room, give them all paintball guns (like those that would be used in police academy training).

ABC did something similar 6 years ago

Proof that Concealed Carry permit holders live in a dream world, Part One

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Video

I would love to see a surprise “active shooter drill” on the Dana Loesch show, after she agrees to have a guest “shooting instructor” interview.

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bratwurst  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:59:23pm

I am really starting to fear that either by intention or happy accident, this whole Trump business is going to leave Cruz standing as the slightly more acceptable face of fascism.

He was already in a great position to win Iowa before this…I think now Cruz is ready to take off. Even as Limbaugh attempted to “distance” himself from the Trump plan, he pointed out that Cruz is the only GOP candidate who is not completely bashing The Donald.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:59:23pm

re: #23 BeachDem

Back to the Almost think that it would be useful to get all of these gun “experts” in a room, give them all paintball guns (like those that would be used in police academy training).

ABC did something similar 6 years ago

Proof that Concealed Carry permit holders live in a dream world, Part One

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Video

That was quite good.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:59:28pm

watch out for the day when trump nazis can beat up hispanics, muslims, and liberals with impunity

then we’ll know that trump fascism has actually taken over

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 8, 2015 • 12:59:38pm

re: #29 Lidane

When was Todd released?

/

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lawhawk  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:00:05pm

Early for an OT, but I think this is an awesome palate cleanser - especially for the guitar folks out there:

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:00:31pm

re: #41 The Vicious Babushka

I would love to see a surprise “active shooter drill” on the Dana Loesch show, after she agrees to have a guest “shooting instructor” interview.

What I liked is they had people of different ages and genders involved. Good experiment.

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ObserverArt  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:01:15pm

re: #11 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

so the republican party has decided that the issue that will split the party is a religious test for immigration

i applaud the republicans opposing trump on this for making an honorable choice of a hill to die on

but will they wimp out and back down?

Yes they will. There is not a one of their candidates that is willing to take the bullets for the party. If anyone will, it will be Graham once he realizes he has nothing to lose. He is of the age he may never run again and can say fuck it. Maybe Kasich, but he may fear the backlash from the idiots here in Ohio.

And the rest all think they can serve America and protect it. Here is their big chance and they will most likely fail.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:01:28pm

re: #42 bratwurst

I am really starting to fear that either by intention or happy accident, this whole Trump business is going to leave Cruz standing as the slightly more acceptable face of fascism.

He was already in a great position to win Iowa before this…I think now Cruz is ready to take off. Even as Limbaugh attempted to “distance” himself from the Trump plan, he pointed out that Cruz is the only GOP candidate who is not completely bashing The Donald.

Cruz is my pick to win iowa at this point. He does really well with the RR who dominate the Iowa caucuses.

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darthstar  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:01:43pm

re: #13 Skip Intro

Charles Pierce has a suggestion for Jeb!

It’s Time for Jeb (!) to Old Yeller His Campaign

esquire.com

Having just Old Yellered one of my dogs, I know how painful this is. I don’t think Jeb! is nearly as attached to his ambitions as I was to Fozzie.

This was taken last summer on a near 100 degree day about half way through a six mile hike. Yeah…I carried him all the way back.

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:02:05pm

re: #38 Jenner7

Am I in a twilight zone? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

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Lidane  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:02:45pm
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:04:21pm

re: #53 Lidane

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But Atheism is a religion because….something something…

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BeachDem  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:04:26pm

re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth

*yawn*

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Hey, Nikki knows what being an embarrassment looks like up close and perso…nah—nothing embarrasses SC Republicans.

(And if Trump gets nominated, Nikki will do a spectacular pole dance to promote herself as VP)

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:04:32pm

re: #53 Lidane

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What a lunatic.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:05:03pm

re: #55 BeachDem

Hey, Nikki knows what being an embarrassment looks like up close and perso…nah—nothing embarrasses SC Republicans.

(And if Trump gets nominated, Nikki will do a spectacular pole dance to promote herself as VP)

She’d have to really impress Donald since I think Donald has his mind on Cruz.

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darthstar  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:05:26pm

re: #49 nines09

Trump has read some speeches from a certain someone, according to ex-wife. 1990.

It’s only bad to be like Hitler if you’re Obama. For Trump and his supporters (aka the GOP base) it’s a badge of honor.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:06:47pm
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Dr. Matt  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:06:58pm

re: #53 Lidane

Religious Right leader backs Trump’s plan; says it doesn’t violate religious freedom since Islam is not a religion t.co
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) December 8, 2015

Prior to 2012, Religious Right leaders said Mormonism was a cult and not a religion. Goal posts shifting as usual.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:07:28pm

re: #51 darthstar

Having just Old Yellered one of my dogs, I know how painful this is. I don’t think Jeb! is nearly as attached to his ambitions as I was to Fozzie.

This was taken last summer on a near 100 degree day about half way through a six mile hike. Yeah…I carried him all the way back.
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Oh, man. I’m tearing up over here.

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lawhawk  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:07:43pm

Meanwhile, it looks like Carson’s packing it in:

Note that he’s not quitting or suspending his campaign, but it looks to be heading in that direction. He’s another witless wonder who had no business running for anything more than dog catcher. No character or judgment, and ignorant about world events, the economy, and government.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:08:35pm
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UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:08:57pm

re: #62 lawhawk

I guess the book tour is winding down.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:09:02pm

re: #62 lawhawk

Meanwhile, it looks like Carson’s packing it in:

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Note that he’s not quitting or suspending his campaign, but it looks to be heading in that direction. He’s another witless wonder who had no business running for anything more than dog catcher. No character or judgment, and ignorant about world events, the economy, and government.

Wonder who he throws his support to.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:09:22pm

re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Love seeing stuff like this.

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nines09  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:09:30pm

re: #58 darthstar

It’s only bad to be like Hitler if you’re Obama. For Trump and his supporters (aka the GOP base) it’s a badge of honor.

Maybe they think they found their Cowboy?

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:09:41pm
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ObserverArt  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:10:26pm

re: #23 BeachDem

Back to the Almost think that it would be useful to get all of these gun “experts” in a room, give them all paintball guns (like those that would be used in police academy training).

ABC did something similar 6 years ago

Proof that Concealed Carry permit holders live in a dream world, Part One

[Embedded content]

Video

Edited to add: Notice the number of “dislikes” on the video. Doesn’t matter what you prove, ammosexuals ain’t buyin’ it.)

I just posted a comment in the last thread about how an experimental shooting like this would not convince a heroic nutjob. They would probably say they could do better or they wouldn’t get shot, etc.

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lawhawk  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:11:27pm

No, he’s not Jonah. The GOP is in thrall with extremists and the entire slate of WH pretenders is pushing an extremist agenda. Trump surpassed Jeb and Cruz on the anti-Muslim/Islamophobia hysteria front with a more audacious proposal. But the rest of the party is falling in line behind them (and Trump). And many more GOPers don’t think it goes nearly far enough.

That’s on the GOP, not Trump. Trump’s just publicly going out there with this. The rest of the field is more circumspect.

Oh, and this is the clincher for why Trump isn’t yanking anyone’s chain. The rest of the GOP field still stands by their pledges to support Trump if he wins the nomination - and Trump still leads on that front too.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:11:42pm
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Barefoot Grin  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:11:48pm

re: #69 ObserverArt

I just posted a comment in the last thread about how an experimental shooting like this would not convince a heroic nutjob. They would probably say they could do better or they wouldn’t get shot, etc.

Of course, because that person has run all the various scenarios through his or her mind hundreds of times between the head hitting the pillow and sweet mind-blank sleep.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:11:58pm
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Kryptik  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:12:15pm

re: #69 ObserverArt

I just posted a comment in the last thread about how an experimental shooting like this would not convince a heroic nutjob. They would probably say they could do better or they wouldn’t get shot, etc.

Everyone’s a fucking action hero in their own mind. Even John McClane, for the most part, didn’t go in guns blazing unless it was absolutely necessary.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:12:54pm
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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:12:55pm

re: #70 lawhawk

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No, he’s not Jonah. The GOP is in thrall with extremists and the entire slate of WH pretenders is pushing an extremist agenda. Trump surpassed Jeb and Cruz on the anti-Muslim/Islamophobia hysteria front with a more audacious proposal. But the rest of the party is falling in line behind them (and Trump). And many more GOPers don’t think it goes nearly far enough.

That’s on the GOP, not Trump. Trump’s just publicly going out there with this. The rest of the field is more circumspect.

Oh, and this is the clincher for why Trump isn’t yanking anyone’s chain. The rest of the GOP field still stands by their pledges to support Trump if he wins the nomination - and Trump still leads on that front too.

If he is Jonah, don’t you think it says a lot about your party and ideology that he’s so popular? Maybe you should rewrite Liberal Fascism. Trump’s bullshit is all the GOP and right wing. Nice try though. Maybe try some of that personal responsibility on yourself more often.

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nines09  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:13:20pm

Trump has his heros. Anne Frank wasn’t one of them. And Ben Carson said she should have packed.

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Skip Intro  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:13:55pm

Trump locks up the Nazi vote.

“Heil Donald Trump - THE ULTIMATE SAVIOR.”

That’s what Andrew Anglin, publisher of the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, had to say in response to Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s call for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

“Finally: someone speaks sense,” Anglin wrote, pasting Trump’s new proposal under the headline “Glorious Leader Calls For Complete Ban on All Moslems.”

“Make America White Again!” his post concludes.

huffingtonpost.com

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William Lewis  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:13:57pm

re: #46 lawhawk

Early for an OT, but I think this is an awesome palate cleanser - especially for the guitar folks out there:

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I love the fact that he plays his collection, this one especially.

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Skip Intro  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:14:43pm

re: #73 Dr. Matt

Probably not. He might hit his hero in the head.

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:14:49pm

It’s terrifying how many people cannot distinguish fantasy from reality. The entire world is subjective according to the republican party.

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lawhawk  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:15:02pm

re: #74 Kryptik

McClane was a NYPD cop, so he had at least some kind of training in various real-world scenarios, as opposed to target practice in static environment. Even then, the LAPD wanted him to do nothing, since it could jeopardize the other hostages.

You’re right though. All the gun nuts think that they’re McClane. Even though odds are most of them would end up dead or seriously injured, and their firearms in the hands of the attacker. Or injure or kill others in the room with them not the attacker.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:15:56pm

re: #62 lawhawk

Meanwhile, it looks like Carson’s packing it in:

Note that he’s not quitting or suspending his campaign, but it looks to be heading in that direction. He’s another witless wonder who had no business running for anything more than dog catcher. No character or judgment, and ignorant about world events, the economy, and government.

He has, or had, a shitpile of money. Could hang around for a while. Maybe he’s just bored. I think he’d rather be king instead.

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nines09  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:16:33pm

re: #46 lawhawk

If ever you get the chance to see Joe live, do not pass it up. Get the best seat you can and just soak it up. The man is a monster of a talent.

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lawhawk  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:16:37pm
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Dr. Matt  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:17:01pm

re: #74 Kryptik

Everyone’s a fucking action hero in their own mind. Even John McClane, for the most part, didn’t go in guns blazing unless it was absolutely necessary.

John McClane was too politically correct.

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lawhawk  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:17:08pm

re: #84 nines09

If ever you get the chance to see Joe live, do not pass it up. Get the best seat you can and just soak it up. The man is a monster of a talent.

That’s my plan. Next time he comes around, I’m on it.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:17:19pm

re: #65 HappyWarrior

Note that he’s not quitting or suspending his campaign, but it looks to be heading in that direction. He’s another witless wonder who had no business running for anything more than dog catcher. No character or judgment, and ignorant about world events, the economy, and government.

But he hates Obamacare and Obama and he hates Political Correctness and we hate Political Correctness!!!!1

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Skip Intro  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:17:28pm

re: #83 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

He has, or had, a shitpile of money. Could hang around for a while. Maybe he’s just bored. I think he’d rather be king instead.

He made pretty good money endorsing worthless quack health products. No doubt he’d like to get back to doing that.

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[deleted]  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:18:04pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:18:51pm

Should be chock full of substance…
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UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:19:18pm

re: #90 Ifnifreeze

Barring a catastrophic financial/international event, Hillary beats Trump.

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Lidane  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:19:32pm

re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth

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lawhawk  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:19:32pm

re: #83 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Carson is raising a bunch of money, but nearly all of it is going to raise money. It’s not going to much else than fundraising for sake of fundraising.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:19:48pm

re: #89 Skip Intro

He made pretty good money endorsing worthless quack health products. No doubt he’d like to get back to doing that.

All the big money people and those without big money who threw dollars at his phony campaign must be feeling a little let down, like someone who just sunk their fortune in a get rich quick scheme.

Not that I’m crying over here for them or him…..

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:20:01pm

re: #62 lawhawk

Meanwhile, it looks like Carson’s packing it in:

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Note that he’s not quitting or suspending his campaign, but it looks to be heading in that direction. He’s another witless wonder who had no business running for anything more than dog catcher. No character or judgment, and ignorant about world events, the economy, and government.

I wish people would stop using this outdated stereotype of a useless elected office. In most communities animal control officers are trained professionals, not elected, who have training, skill and experience dealing with wildlife and domestic animal situations. “Dogcatchers” are much more useful than most politicians.

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Testy Toad T  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:20:08pm

re: #90 Ifnifreeze

We’ve got a live one!

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darthstar  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:21:03pm

re: #70 lawhawk

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No, he’s not Jonah. The GOP is in thrall with extremists and the entire slate of WH pretenders is pushing an extremist agenda. Trump surpassed Jeb and Cruz on the anti-Muslim/Islamophobia hysteria front with a more audacious proposal. But the rest of the party is falling in line behind them (and Trump). And many more GOPers don’t think it goes nearly far enough.

That’s on the GOP, not Trump. Trump’s just publicly going out there with this. The rest of the field is more circumspect.

Oh, and this is the clincher for why Trump isn’t yanking anyone’s chain. The rest of the GOP field still stands by their pledges to support Trump if he wins the nomination - and Trump still leads on that front too.

I think he is yanking everyone’s chains. Yes, the GOP base believes it and accepts it. And yes, the other candidates are so afraid of losing the base that they refuse to call out Trump…or if they do call him out they do it as pathetically as possible (see Jeb!) so it’s all forgotten or at worst forgiven if they survive the primary.

But Trump himself doesn’t believe this shit…nobody in their right mind could.

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Kryptik  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:21:04pm

re: #82 lawhawk

McClane was a NYPD cop, so he had at least some kind of training in various real-world scenarios, as opposed to target practice in static environment. Even then, the LAPD wanted him to do nothing, since it could jeopardize the other hostages.

You’re right though. All the gun nuts think that they’re McClane. Even though odds are most of them would end up dead or seriously injured, and their firearms in the hands of the attacker. Or injure or kill others in the room with them not the attacker.

And he gladly would’ve done nothing if the LAPD folk weren’t gun-ho idiots.

I still love Die Hard because of how it flips the script. Villains are intelligent, magazines aren’t bottomless, and the macho gun-ho crap runs into the problems it would usually find against well planned surprise.

In other words, their McClane would survive a lot shorter than the actual McClane.

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Testy Toad T  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:21:08pm

re: #94 lawhawk

Carson is raising a bunch of money, but nearly all of it is going to raise money. It’s not going to much else than fundraising for sake of fundraising.

I will always believe that Carson campaigned exclusively for the purposes of this form of graft, not because he thought he actually could somehow become, for a little while at least, an allegedly plausible candidate.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:21:22pm

Clinton beats Trump easily. Cruz, Rubio, someone else, not so easy.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:21:55pm

re: #100 Testy Toad T

I will always believe that Carson campaigned exclusively for the purposes of this form of graft, not because he thought he actually could somehow become, for a little while at least, an allegedly plausible candidate.

He’s a lot like Trump in that way, just wanted to run for president for the fun of it. Only now Trump actually has people following him.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:22:12pm

re: #90 Ifnifreeze

(Oh and the minor detail that she should be imprisoned for her treatment of classified information.)

Please explain.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:22:38pm

re: #97 Testy Toad T

We’ve got a live one!

Back for an encore performance…

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nines09  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:22:42pm

re: #90 Ifnifreeze
Tell us more.

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gocart mozart  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:22:55pm

I’ve got some bad news for you sunshine,
GOP isn’t well, it stayed back at the hotel
And they sent Trump along as a surrogate man
We’re gonna find out where you folks really stand.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:23:29pm

re: #103 Dr. Matt

Please explain.

Please don’t. I’ve busted Clinton’s chops for the email thing, but I never said she should go to jail over it.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:24:46pm

re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth

Should be chock full of substance…
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Is FB the GOP’s replacement host after banning NBC?

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jaunte  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:24:58pm

SMH at drawing equivalence between Trump’s fascist blather and Hillary’s ‘lack of charisma.’

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Testy Toad T  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:25:15pm

Even if Clinton had mishandled classified material, we already know what happens to high officials to engage in this kind of impropriety. Conservative Fantasy Superhero Badass General David Petraeus knowingly, even intentionally leaked classified stuff. He’s several paygrades below Clinton, yet ended up only paying a $100k fine and serving two years probation.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:25:25pm

re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth

Back for an encore performance…

Hopefully it starts back up with some Vince Foster references.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:25:39pm

re: #109 jaunte

SMH at drawing equivalence between Trump’s fascist blather and Hillary’s ‘lack of charisma.’

hatching is askeert of the muslins.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:25:50pm

The next GOP debate could be epic! I might even watch it.

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:26:00pm

The problem I foresee is not the very slight chance that Trump becomes president. It’s what happens to his supporters when he loses? It is their backlash that I fear more than anything when they lose yet another presidential election. Take the 2008 anger, add Trumpism, and you get a lot of people inspired to act violently to “take their country back.”

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jaunte  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:26:14pm

re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth

We should be made of sterner fabric!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:26:20pm

re: #101 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Clinton beats Trump easily. Cruz, Rubio, someone else, not so easy.

I think she’d beat Cruz easily. Rubio, Kasich, Jeb! or Christie would be closer.

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whitebeach  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:26:21pm

re: #97 Testy Toad T

We’ve got a live one!

Fuck, and I accidentally updinged the idiot, mainly out of habit just because I almost never downding. Lizards, please help make up for the error.

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Kryptik  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:26:52pm

re: #114 UrbanAchiever

The problem I foresee is not the very slight chance that Trump becomes president. It’s what happens to his supporters when he loses? It is their backlash that I fear more than anything when they lose yet another presidential election. Take the 2008 anger, add Trumpism, and you get a lot of people inspired to act violently to “take their country back.”

I’m still worried about that ‘very slight chance’, but yeah, as we’re seeing already, the well’s already poisoned. The damage is already being done.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:26:59pm

re: #117 whitebeach

Fuck, and I accidentally updinged the idiot, mainly out of habit just because I almost never downding. Lizards, please help make up for the error.

Just downding to cancel it out.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:27:06pm

re: #117 whitebeach

Fuck, and I accidentally updinged the idiot, mainly out of habit just because I almost never downding. Lizards, please help make up for the error.

I’m going to downding you for updinging the dolt. ///

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:27:11pm

re: #90 Ifnifreeze

ummm….lol.

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Jenner7  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:27:22pm
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goddamnedfrank  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:27:53pm

re: #117 whitebeach

Fuck, and I accidentally updinged the idiot, mainly out of habit just because I almost never downding. Lizards, please help make up for the error.

Dings are mutable. Mutate it.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:28:04pm

re: #122 Jenner7

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Doesn’t surprise me.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:28:44pm

re: #114 UrbanAchiever

The problem I foresee is not the very slight chance that Trump becomes president. It’s what happens to his supporters when he loses? It is their backlash that I fear more than anything when they lose yet another presidential election. Take the 2008 anger, add Trumpism, and you get a lot of people inspired to act violently to “take their country back.”

That’s very true.

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:28:54pm

re: #122 Jenner7

Remember, Trump’s supporters are “passionate.”

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Dr. Matt  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:29:00pm
Ifnifreeze
Karma: -30
No. of comments posted: 4

Well played.

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[deleted]  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:29:09pm
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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:29:09pm

I actually thought the GOP couldn’t get any worse.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:29:23pm

re: #117 whitebeach

Fuck, and I accidentally updinged the idiot, mainly out of habit just because I almost never downding. Lizards, please help make up for the error.

You can reverse your dings.

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jaunte  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:29:42pm

re: #127 Dr. Matt

“Just asking questions”

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William Lewis  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:30:31pm

re: #128 Ifnifreeze

Did you whine about it when it happened in the previous administration?

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:30:34pm

What I was always afraid about regarding Trump’s original scapegoating of illegal aliens (that morphed into Islamaphobia) was that the rest of the GOP will pretend they’re all chock full of principle when they condemn his views on their way to another Obamacare/PP funding vote or another Benghazi hearing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:30:55pm

UNTHINKABLE!!11!!

Like the GOP did with the Bush administration servers.

lolololol!

Watch out lizards, we got an expert here!

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Testy Toad T  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:31:35pm

re: #128 Ifnifreeze

Removing classified data from physical program space or from a secure, encrypted, classified, off-the-grid network is unthinkable. UNTHINKABLE! You get caught doing it, even accidentally, you’re OUT. (That is, if you’re a normal person, not a Clinton.)

Good thing the Justice Department’s investigation into this found out she didn’t do that.

But, like, facts. Whatever.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:31:47pm

re: #128 Ifnifreeze

Removing classified data from physical program space or from a secure, encrypted, classified, off-the-grid network is unthinkable. UNTHINKABLE!

Your faux outrage is sort of amusing.

Post “unthinkable” again….please

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:32:16pm

re: #128 Ifnifreeze

Which congressional committee do you sit on?

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whitebeach  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:32:44pm

re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth

Just downding to cancel it out.

Thanks. Did so. Then downdinged for reals.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:32:47pm

re: #128 Ifnifreeze

INCONCEIVABLE!

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nines09  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:35:02pm

re: #127 Dr. Matt

Well played.

Had a thought. Played it. Snake Eyes.

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gwangung  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:35:04pm

re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth

UNTHINKABLE!!11!!

Like the GOP did with the Bush administration servers.

lolololol!

Watch out lizards, we got an expert here!

Maybe it can tell us if it got handled before or after it was determined to be classified. Bonus points for what level of classification.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:36:37pm

re: #128 Ifnifreeze

Removing classified data from physical program space …

Like the time Man-on-Dog Ricky removed classification from a physical space to show it on live TV? UNTHINKABLE!!! UN-THINK-A-BLE!!!!!

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Charles Johnson  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:37:34pm

Notice that you’re not hearing very much about Hillary Clinton’s email “scandal” any more? That’s because she didn’t break any laws, according to the DOJ. This fake controversy is dead, Jim.

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Kryptik  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:38:21pm

re: #143 Charles Johnson

Notice that you’re not hearing very much about Hillary Clinton’s email “scandal” any more? That’s because she didn’t break any laws, according to the DOJ. This fake controversy is dead, Jim.

You should know better than that, Charles. That’s why they call them ‘zombie lies’.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:38:32pm
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EPR-radar  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:39:07pm

re: #143 Charles Johnson

Notice that you’re not hearing very much about Hillary Clinton’s email “scandal” any more? That’s because she didn’t break any laws, according to the DOJ. This fake controversy is dead, Jim.

It’s just pining for the fjords.

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:39:17pm

re: #143 Charles Johnson

Following in the tradition of a long line of prior fake Clinton “scandals.”

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Charles Johnson  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:40:06pm

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jaunte  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:42:59pm

re: #147 UrbanAchiever

Sekrit drug flights into Mena, Arkansas and Ft. Marcy Park.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:43:09pm
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ausador  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:43:30pm

re: #145 Charles Johnson

Somebody needs to shop a DNC logo onto the plant and change it to “democrat plant”.
;)

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[deleted]  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:43:58pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:44:46pm
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Dr. Matt  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:45:17pm

re: #152 Ifnifreeze

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:45:21pm

did we hurt somebody’s delicate fee fees???

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gwangung  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:46:04pm

re: #152 Ifnifreeze

Weak sauce.

Son, you’d do better if you brought some substance to an argument. Specifics help. Details help. It helps even more if they’re accurate.

All you’re doing is arm waving (and it’s too cold to enjoy the breeze).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:46:43pm

re: #156 gwangung

Weak sauce.

Son, you’d do better if you brought some substance to an argument. Specifics help. Details help. It helps even more if they’re accurate.

All you’re doing is arm waving (and it’s too cold to enjoy the breeze).

and quite a lot of stench in the process.

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nines09  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:47:00pm

re: #152 Ifnifreeze

Wait. Don’t go. We need the clicks.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:47:38pm

re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Of course they do. They do however think Christians are persecuted by the existence of same sex marriage though.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:47:49pm

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bratwurst  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:48:19pm

re: #152 Ifnifreeze

Wow, and here you had me fooled that you just started supporting Trump because you are close to San Bernadino

You are not even good as a troll. Nobody bought it. Some of our warm hearts around here go along with Berniebot trolls etc…but not one person here believed you were for real. Find a new hobby.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:48:32pm

re: #152 Ifnifreeze

Calling Stinky

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darthstar  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:48:37pm

re: #160 Dr. Matt

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I call that stuff hillbilly speed.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:48:57pm

re: #148 Charles Johnson

Quite successful.

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:48:57pm

Notice how we’re also not talking about the economy lately. Unemployment hit 5%. How much attention has this gotten from the media? Ho, hum, another 200,000 jobs. It’s more important to broadcast Trump’s fascist pronouncements.

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BlueSpotinAL  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:49:09pm

re: #62 lawhawk

Meanwhile, it looks like Carson’s packing it in:

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Note that he’s not quitting or suspending his campaign, but it looks to be heading in that direction. He’s another witless wonder who had no business running for anything more than dog catcher. No character or judgment, and ignorant about world events, the economy, and government.

In other words, perfectly qualified to be a Republican!

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makeitstop  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:49:40pm

re: #152 Ifnifreeze

Pro tip - If you’ve been banned five times at one site, maybe you should, y’know, take the hint.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:50:10pm

re: #167 makeitstop

Pro tip - If you’ve been banned five times at one site, maybe you should, y’know, take the hint.

or open your own stalker site…

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:50:50pm

WAKE UP SHEEPLE#$(%*$&(%&$#(%&

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[deleted]  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:51:08pm
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Dr. Matt  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:51:22pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:52:29pm

re: #152 Ifnifreeze

Who could ever have guessed.

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kirkspencer  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:52:40pm
Click to Reveal

re: #170 Ifnifreeze

Want substance? All the dead Americans. Lying in pools of blood on American soil. Desperate times. Desperate measures. It’s different now. Hence the Trump phenomenon.

Ah. Colorado Springs.

Hidden, as the troll’s been deleted.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:52:56pm

Who is supplying ISIS with arms?

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Dr. Matt  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:53:16pm

re: #170 Ifnifreeze

The “Trump phenomenon” comes from the radical right electorate that is occupied solely by low-information voters.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:53:37pm

All those American dead, and hatchling only gets upset after San Bernardino.

good freaking grief, what a lame troll.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:54:37pm

re: #173 kirkspencer

Ah. Colorado Springs.

ah. Sandy Hook.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:56:17pm

re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth

All those American dead, and hatchling only gets upset after San Bernardino.

good freaking grief, what a lame troll.

Yup, the trolls were completely silent about the “pools of blood” caused from Adam Lanza and Dylann Roof and James Holmes….

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:56:36pm

re: #174 The Vicious Babushka

Who is supplying ISIS with arms?

Dubya promised us at the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom that no terrorist would ever receive arms or supplies from Saddam Hussein.

Mission accomplished!

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Jack Burton  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:58:09pm

re: #174 The Vicious Babushka

Who is supplying ISIS with arms?

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Reading comprehension is obviously not Rand’s strong point. It says “obtained from the Iraqi Army” without having to even click on the article.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:59:13pm

re: #180 Jack Burton

Reading comprehension is obviously not Rand’s strong point. It says “obtained from the Iraqi Army” without having to even click on the article.

I suspect RP is quite aware, but he knows that most of his readership will not be…

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bratwurst  Dec 8, 2015 • 1:59:51pm

At least Ike didn’t BOW to them like Obummer…Ike was a real ALPHA MALE!!11!!

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ObserverArt  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:00:02pm

re: #101 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Clinton beats Trump easily. Cruz, Rubio, someone else, not so easy.

I think Cruz gets hammered on just overall likability. The man is a complete turn-off to anyone with a brain and a gram of compassion and humanity.

Rubio is more difficult, but I think he would get hit hard in a debate when he would have to think quickly. He has a hard time with being off the cuff.

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Jack Burton  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:00:45pm

re: #172 Charles Johnson

Who could ever have guessed.

I’ve never really understood why they think the claim you “switched sides for money” is reasonable. It’s their side that is a massive graft machine. Sucking cash out of Red State rubes is very profitable.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:00:57pm

re: #182 bratwurst

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At least Ike didn’t BOW to them like Obummer…Ike was a real ALPHA MALE!!11!!

In some ways, I think we’ve gotten worse.

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nines09  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:01:21pm

Dammit. There goes his/her/its clicks….

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:01:35pm

re: #183 ObserverArt

I think Cruz gets hammered on just overall likability. The man is a complete turn-off to anyone with a brain and a gram of compassion and humanity.

Rubio is more difficult, but I think he would get hit hard in a debate when he would have to think quickly. He has a hard time with being off the cuff.

I think Cruz would be quite beatable. The guy just is not likable. I do concede that Rubio, Christie, and Bush would be more difficult but all are beatable.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:03:13pm

re: #167 makeitstop

Pro tip - If you’ve been banned five times at one site, maybe you should, y’know, take the hint.

and he’s now up to six times.

:D

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:05:31pm

Trump has been waiting all day for this poll.
ALL DAY!!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:06:23pm
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darthstar  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:06:38pm

and my responses after he told another critic they “didn’t read the piece”:

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Skip Intro  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:07:26pm

Pentagon: Anti-Muslim rhetoric undermines US national security

Oh, what the hell do those assholes know compared to draft dodgers like Trump?

rawstory.com

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:07:54pm

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

Stupid and mean sure is popular in the republican party this year.

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darthstar  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:07:58pm

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump has been waiting all day for this poll.
ALL DAY!!!

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YOOGE if true.

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ObserverArt  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:08:12pm

re: #143 Charles Johnson

Notice that you’re not hearing very much about Hillary Clinton’s email “scandal” any more? That’s because she didn’t break any laws, according to the DOJ. This fake controversy is dead, Jim.

But it will live on forever in Wingnuttia.

All hail Wingnuttia!

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bratwurst  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:08:14pm

re: #185 HappyWarrior

In some ways, I think we’ve gotten worse.

I don’t think there is any question about it!

I just completed the 750+ page Eisenhower in War and Peace book from 3 years ago. He was a man of his times who had flaws like anyone, but there is not anyone in today’s GOP fit to carry his briefcase.

The biggest takeaway for me: quite overrated as a general, quite underrated as a president!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:08:54pm

make her something else instead of a lizard…

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jaunte  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:09:01pm

re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth

All those American dead, and hatchling only gets upset after San Bernardino.

good freaking grief, what a lame troll.

It’s weird how predictable they are, always appearing with the first comment late in an inactive thread.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:09:18pm

re: #184 Jack Burton

I’ve never really understood why they think the claim you “switched sides for money” is reasonable. It’s their side that is a massive graft machine, sucking cash out of Red State rubes is very profitable.

Remember these are people who think climate change scientists are just hired guns but the corporate denying hacks are pure as snow.

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wrenchwench  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:09:23pm
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Testy Toad T  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:09:28pm

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

So, as I had been suspecting, they’re going to try to get Cruz to beat Trump in Iowa, then position Rubio as the vry srs nontoxic establishment rallying pick for NH and beyond.

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:09:32pm

re: #191 darthstar

BOTH SIDES FAIL!

Oh wait… One is leading by more than ANYONE ELSE and one is flailing about in the kiddie pool? How are their situations in any way alike again?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:10:46pm

re: #196 bratwurst

I don’t think there is any question about it!

I just completed the 750+ page Eisenhower in War and Peace book from 3 years ago. He was a man of his times who had flaws like anyone, but there is not anyone in today’s GOP fit to carry his briefcase.

The biggest takeaway for me: quite overrated as a general, quite underrated as a president!

I have Ike in my top third of presidents maybe even on the fringes of the top ten.

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sagehen  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:15:39pm

re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth

All those American dead, and hatchling only gets upset after San Bernardino.

good freaking grief, what a lame troll.

Mass shootings are only problematic if the shooter is someone you would have already hated, even before he shot anybody.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:15:55pm

re: #201 Testy Toad T

So, as I had been suspecting, they’re going to try to get Cruz to beat Trump in Iowa, then position Rubio as the vry srs nontoxic establishment rallying pick for NH and beyond.

I think they’re in trouble either way. They either nominate an establishment favorite like Rubio and piss off the nuts in the base or they actually nominate someone like Trump or Cruz.

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Skip Intro  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:16:05pm

re: #193 UrbanAchiever

Stupid and mean sure is popular in the republican party this year.

Stupid has been there a long time. It took Rush Limbaugh and Fox News decades to really develop the mean.

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ObserverArt  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:16:24pm

re: #165 UrbanAchiever

Notice how we’re also not talking about the economy lately. Unemployment hit 5%. How much attention has this gotten from the media? Ho, hum, another 200,000 jobs. It’s more important to broadcast Trump’s fascist pronouncements.

Most of the media’s dear leaders switched stories a few months ago. I think it was a business decision. You know, more TV viewers, website clicks and ad revenues. Maybe they can switch back if market conditions shift.

: )

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Testy Toad T  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:16:26pm

re: #205 HappyWarrior

I think it’s their best play, really their only play. I dunno if it’ll work, but it’s what I’d be doing.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:17:30pm

Afternoon/Evening Lizardim from the warm, cloudy, rainy wild north country. It is December 8 and the snow has melted from the ground. I, for one, welcome our new global warming overlords./// How go things among the lizardfolk on this unseasonable evening?

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sagehen  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:18:28pm

re: #203 HappyWarrior

I have Ike in my top third of presidents maybe even on the fringes of the top ten.

He’s in my top 3 (along with Teddy R and Abe L)

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:18:53pm

Trump Drives GOP Into The Pit

priebus says party insurance policy does not cover takeover by fascism

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Skip Intro  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:20:03pm

re: #211 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

Trump Drives GOP Into The Pit

priebus says party insurance policy does not cover takeover by fascism

But if he’s the nominee we’ll enthusiastically support him.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:22:47pm

re: #211 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

Trump Drives GOP Into The Pit

priebus says party insurance policy does not cover takeover by fascism

I beg to differ. Wouldn’t that fall under the force majeure clause? “Acts of God”?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:22:52pm

re: #210 sagehen

He’s in my top 3 (along with Teddy R and Abe L)

What about Washington and FDR or Truman? He’s definitely underrated though.

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Skip Intro  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:23:33pm

Trump’s Muslim ban idea pushes GOP toward chaos

Well done, Bill.

chron.com

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nines09  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:24:41pm

Donald Trump has the GOP licking his shoes. Cowards are afraid to upset the Neo Nazi White Supremacist Ammosexuals. Them thars votes, boy! Skairt. Fraidy. Moist pantys in that party.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:26:25pm

407-19

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makeitstop  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:27:06pm

re: #215 Skip Intro

Trump’s Muslim ban idea pushes GOP toward chaos

Well done, Bill.

chron.com

The money quote:

The Republican Party, said Jeb Bush adviser Ana Navarro, is stuck between “a rock and a jerk” less than eight weeks before the first primary-season votes are cast in Iowa.

Heh.

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Alephnaught  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:27:28pm

re: #46 lawhawk

Early for an OT, but I think this is an awesome palate cleanser - especially for the guitar folks out there:

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I know I’ve posted some slightly left field music on here before, but here’s a more straight ahead piece of guitar beauty. I saw this guy playing this following tune at an acoustic night in Glasgow (Monday nights in Nice ‘n’ Sleazys, hosted by Gerry Lyons), and it appeared on a subsequent official CD of regular artists from the night. (Which I also have.) I found this Youtube vid of the song, which appears to be a fairly contemporaneous live record of the song in his flat:

Gareth Dickson - Harmonics

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BeachDem  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:27:39pm

re: #183 ObserverArt

I think Cruz gets hammered on just overall likability. The man is a complete turn-off to anyone with a brain and a gram of compassion and humanity.

Rubio is more difficult, but I think he would get hit hard in a debate when he would have to think quickly. He has a hard time with being off the cuff.

Rubio has a hard time being spontaneous because you need to be smart to do it effectively and (at least from where I’m sitting) he’s a bit dim.

All of the Dem candidates are fast on their feet, as was demonstrated during the forum with Rachel Maddow.

I agree that just about nobody on either side (except, of course, the Rage Furby) likes Cruz.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:27:40pm
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Belafon  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:27:44pm

re: #210 sagehen

He’s in my top 3 (along with Teddy R and Abe L)

I wouldn’t put him up there because he’s the one that got us first involved in Vietnam. Otherwise, he’s definitely well above half.

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Skip Intro  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:27:47pm

Carly’s getting testy.

“Maybe you should quit focusing on Donald Trump so much,” she told reporters.

Hell yes. She’s every bit the total asshole Trump is but no one is paying any attention.

chron.com

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Amory Blaine  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:28:09pm

Menard’s contract threatens managers with 60% pay cut if union forms on their watch

It’s no secret that John Menard is opposed to unions. But the Progressive magazine has obtained a copy of a contract agreement between Menard’s home-improvement store chain and managers that enshrines the billionaire’s anti-union stance in company policy.

The Progressive published a story Tuesday with wording from the contract that threatens Menards store managers with a 60-percent pay cut if they allow employees to vote in a union.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:28:56pm

re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:29:28pm

re: #225 Amory Blaine

Menard’s contract threatens managers with 60% pay cut if union forms on their watch

Classy.

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nines09  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:30:54pm

re: #224 Skip Intro

Carly’s getting testy.

“Maybe you should quit focusing on Donald Trump so much,” she told reporters.

Hell yes. She’s every bit the total asshole Trump is but no one is paying any attention.

chron.com

“WHERE THE FUCK IS MY CUT!!??!!!!!!”

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thedopefishlives  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:31:00pm

re: #224 Skip Intro

Carly’s getting testy.

“Maybe you should quit focusing on Donald Trump so much,” she told reporters.

Hell yes. She’s every bit the total asshole Trump is but no one is paying any attention.

chron.com

I actually happen to agree with her on this, for once. He’s pulling a P.T. Barnum on us, and it’s working. That being said, she’s just as much a first-rate moron as he is, and I wish they would both just shut the hell up and die in a fire.

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makeitstop  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:31:01pm

re: #216 nines09

Donald Trump has the GOP licking his shoes. Cowards are afraid to upset the Neo Nazi White Supremacist Ammosexuals. Them thars votes, boy! Skairt. Fraidy. Moist pantys in that party.

And the people voting for them are cowards, too. All that bluster to try and cover up the fact that Daesh has them pissing themselves - despite the fact that they’re more likely to be killed by a fellow gundamentalist than a Muslim.

I have no use for anyone who will let abject fear of something that has an extremely remote chance of even happening rule their lives.

Suck it up, babies. Get your mommies to hold your hands if you think it’ll help.

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nines09  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:31:50pm

re: #225 Amory Blaine

Menard’s contract threatens managers with 60% pay cut if union forms on their watch

Gee. If they were in a Union they could fight that…..

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Lidane  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:32:29pm

True story: If you Google the title of Trump’s new book, “Crippled America” and look at the images, this happens:

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The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:35:06pm

re: #225 Amory Blaine

Carin Clauss, emeritus professor of law at the UW-Madison and former U.S. Solicitor of Labor, told Lueders that the company could face a valid legal challenge were a complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board because it’s illegal to “interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees” who are exercising their union rights.

Please! That guy is such a prick. He has a monopoly up here in his hometown. I loath Menard.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:35:16pm

One of the key features of H.R. 158, or the Visa Waiver Program Improvement Act of 2015, is that it adds “terrorism risk” as a factor for evaluating whether a foreign traveler should be allowed in the country.

The House bill, introduced by Rep. Candice Miller (R-MI), also gives the Secretary of Homeland Security the ability to suspend a country from the program, without prior notice, “if the country fails to comply with an agreement to share information regarding whether its citizens and nationals traveling to the United States pose a U.S. security threat.”

snip

Under the new bill, visitors from waiver countries would have to go through the visa process if they had recently been to Iraq, Iran, Syria or Sudan.

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bratwurst  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:35:26pm

This format is so fucking tired and obnoxious. Having a despicable talking head vs. a somewhat less despicable talking head is NOT any kind of novel twist either.

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ObserverArt  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:37:01pm

re: #225 Amory Blaine

Menard’s contract threatens managers with 60% pay cut if union forms on their watch

That man is pure evil. And rich because of it. I have read several web sites with comments from former business associates, Indycar racing people and disgruntled employees.

Here is just one such site if anyone is interested.

The Menards Expose

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:37:42pm

Menard. I’ve heard that name here before.

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The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:39:41pm

re: #236 ObserverArt

Oh, he is. He has a long list of people he’s pissed off. Pretty much the only people that back him are those that are getting paid. He’s not a popular man.

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BeachDem  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:39:56pm

re: #224 Skip Intro

Carly’s getting testy.

“Maybe you should quit focusing on Donald Trump so much,” she told reporters.

Hell yes. She’s every bit the total asshole Trump is but no one is paying any attention.

chron.com

She could try what she did in Columbia when Hillary was speaking—show up outside an event and hold an “impromptu” press conference in the street. Oh yeah. Nobody paid much attention to her then either.

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Great White Snark  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:40:10pm

re: #200 wrenchwench

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lawhawk  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:40:28pm

re: #98 darthstar

But Trump himself doesn’t believe this shit…nobody in their right mind could.

Assumes facts not in evidence.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:41:13pm

re: #237 HappyWarrior

Menard. I’ve heard that name here before.

There’s several flavors of Menard. Wonder if you’re thinking of the Canadian version, who is associated with their version of sovereign citizen?

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nines09  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:41:18pm

re: #237 HappyWarrior

Menard. I’ve heard that name here before.

Think Lowes. Home Depot. Big Box store mostly in mid west. Corporate is in Wisconsin. Menards.

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wrenchwench  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:42:18pm

re: #240 Great White Snark

[ I heard he was on the no fly list but no problem, he actually walked here.]

He must have brought a couple loaves to go with the fishes to make that trip.

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Skip Intro  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:42:31pm

re: #237 HappyWarrior

Menard. I’ve heard that name here before.

Menards has been involved in a number of incidents concerning environmental regulations, including:

Wisconsin DNR officials have cited Menards at least 13 times since 1976 for ignoring or violating state regulations related to air and water pollution and hazardous waste.[8]

In 1994, Wisconsin obtained a civil judgment against Menards for the unlicensed transportation and disposal of ash produced by incinerating “CCA”-treated lumber. Wood treated with CCA contains chromium, copper, and arsenic - both chromium VI and arsenic are categorized by the US EPA as carcinogens. It is considered hazardous waste and requires proper disposal in a licensed landfill. The company was fined $160,000.[8]

In 1997, John Menard was found using his personal pickup truck to haul plastic bags of chromium and arsenic-laden wood ash to his home for disposal with his household trash. Menard pleaded no contest to felony and misdemeanor charges involving records violations, unlawful transportation, and improper disposal of hazardous waste. Menard and his company were fined $1.7 million for 21 violations.[8]

In 2003, the Minnesota attorney general charged that Menards manufactured and sold arsenic-tainted mulch in packaging labeled “ideal for playgrounds and for animal bedding.” Warning labels from the CCA-treated wood were found in the mulch. The EPA recommends that CCA-treated wood not be converted into mulch. As of 2008 the case was still pending.[8]

In 2005, Menards agreed to a $2 million fine after Wisconsin DNR officials found a floor drain in a company shop that they believed was used to dump paint, solvents, oil and other waste into a lagoon that fed into a tributary of the Chippewa River. The sanction broke the previous record fine of $1.7 million set by Menard in 1997.[8]

In 2006, the construction of a $112 million warehouse became a campaign issue in the Wisconsin governor’s race. The warehouse was to be erected by filling in a 0.6-acre (0.24 ha) bean field the DNR considered a seasonal wetland used by migrating tundra swans. Menards offered to build a wetland more than twice its size as a replacement, but was rejected by Scott Humrickhouse, a DNR regional director. Humrickhouse said that solution could be used “only when every alternative for saving the original wetland was exhausted.” The increasingly heated dispute got considerable media coverage, with a DNR warden calling Menards’ general counsel a “legal bitch” and the company threatening to move jobs out of Wisconsin. Tempers seemed to cool after Gov. Jim Doyle arranged $4.2 million in state aid to help the company expand its Eau Claire manufacturing headquarters. Menard had previously contributed $20,000 to Doyle’s campaign.[8]

In 2006, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an administrative order against Menards for damaging a stream in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, that ran through its property by placing a 66-inch storm sewer pipe on the stream for 1,350 linear feet and filling over top soil.[8][9]

They have to advertise on Limbaugh’s show.

en.wikipedia.org

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It's on his hat!  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:42:45pm

SAVE BIG MONEY AT MENARDS

oh god what have I done

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BeachDem  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:43:01pm

re: #232 Lidane

True story: If you Google the title of Trump’s new book, “Crippled America” and look at the images, this happens:

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Does he really think that scowly frown is a good look for him? Apparently so, if he chose it for his book cover. Not working for me…

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lockjawcanbefun  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:43:36pm

It’s a Giant Spider Invasion of Savings at Menard’s!

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nines09  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:43:41pm

re: #200 wrenchwench

Trump would front the nails at a small percentage. He has hammers too, oh, and lumber.

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ObserverArt  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:43:43pm

re: #238 The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin

Oh, he is. He has a long list of people he’s pissed off. Pretty much the only people that back him are those that are getting paid. He’s not a popular man.

I can’t find the one site I thought I had bookmarked where one guy that worked with him a long time went into all his ways he tries to get around labor laws, EPA laws, selling questionable and old-out-of-date goods, etc.

I was familiar with him being a big Indycar racing fan all through the CART years of 1980 through 2003 or so.

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:45:35pm

re: #245 Skip Intro

Ah nice, a business model that tries to out-Walmart Walmart.

I’ll stick with Target.

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ObserverArt  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:46:12pm

And John Menard (of Wisconsin) was also a big backer of Scooter Walker…of course.

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:46:35pm

re: #247 BeachDem

So Donald Trump also hates cripples?

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The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:47:41pm

re: #250 ObserverArt

Yeah, his kid drives. He used to live a few blocks away. Menard has been pissing off people around here for decades. But here’s the grift(there’s always a grift) there are no other lumber/home repair stores in the area. He’s been threatening for decades that he’ll put them out of business if they show up here. How’s that for the free market?

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BeachDem  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:47:48pm

re: #254 UrbanAchiever

So Donald Trump also hates cripples?

Add ‘em to the list.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:48:04pm

re: #252 UrbanAchiever

Ah nice, a business model that tries to out-Walmart Walmart.

I’ll stick with Target.

Target, I will note, is headquartered here in the wild north country. For all our Bachmanns, we do pretty good business up here.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:48:46pm

re: #253 ObserverArt

The 1990s we had the great home-improvement store wipeout, where whole chains went out of business-Builder’s Square, Hechingers, HQ, Forest City come to mind.

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nines09  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:48:47pm

re: #247 BeachDem

Does he really think that scowly frown is a good look for him? Apparently so, if he chose it for his book cover. Not working for me…

He’s promising to fuck people up. Have to look the part. Mean. Cold. Calculating. Ready to numb up the wife.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:49:29pm

re: #253 ObserverArt

And John Menard (of Wisconsin) was also a big backer of Scooter Walker…of course.

That’s how I know the name.

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No Depression  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:51:02pm

re: #254 UrbanAchiever

So Donald Trump also hates cripples?

The feeling is mutual.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:51:40pm

re: #251 gocart mozart

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What’s interesting is that both Capra and Stewart were conservative Republicans.

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ObserverArt  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:51:40pm

re: #255 The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin

Yeah, his kid drives. He used to live a few blocks away. Menard has been pissing off people around here for decades. But here’s the grift(there’s always a grift) there are no other lumber/home repair stores in the area. He’s been threatening for decades that he’ll put them out of business if they show up here. How’s that for the free market?

I bet he has been awarded a few “A Great American” awards from Wisconsin politicians over the years. He always seems to come out of all the scrapes one way or another. He’s a huge bully. I bet he loves him some TRUMP®.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:55:17pm
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wrenchwench  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:57:48pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 2:59:46pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:02:18pm
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jaunte  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:05:01pm

Phenomenally tiny.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:07:05pm

re: #268 jaunte

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Phenomenally tiny.

That’s what SHE said.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:07:58pm

re: #267 Backwoods_Sleuth

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It’s a stretch to call Jerry Falwell, Jr a leader.

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TedStriker  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:08:21pm

re: #12 darthstar

Just because he won’t let Muslims into America doesn’t mean he can’t do business with them.

No doubt that Trump ultimately only gives a damn about only one color: green.

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jaunte  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:08:29pm

Arends appears to be a scam artist.

Veterans group hosting Republican candidate Donald Trump lost nonprofit status

The group’s chairman, Joel Arends of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, said the organization was appealing the IRS decision. He would not provide AP with copies of any tax returns, which would show how much money the group has collected over the years and how it spends its money. By law, such records are supposed to be available to the general public for inspection.
usnews.com

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Lidane  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:08:43pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:09:01pm

no surprise…

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:09:41pm

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

no surprise…

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Maybe we should deport all Australian assholes, eh Rupert?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:10:46pm

re: #272 jaunte

Arends appears to be a scam artist.

Veterans group hosting Republican candidate Donald Trump lost nonprofit status

Arends absolutely is a scam artist.
He is the only member of his organization and none of the money goes anywhere but to Arends’s personal benefit.

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ObserverArt  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:11:13pm

re: #270 HappyWarrior

It’s a stretch to call Jerry Falwell, Jr a leader.

As it is to call Hannity a fair and balanced journalist/commentator.

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jaunte  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:11:44pm

re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth

There are so many of them it’s hard to stay current.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:13:17pm

re: #278 jaunte

There are so many of them it’s hard to stay current.

Some religious charities that give nothing to the flock should be called ‘Not For Prophet’.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:14:43pm

re: #278 jaunte

There are so many of them it’s hard to stay current.

I only know about him as a result of his associations with Sarah Palin.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:15:03pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:16:00pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:17:02pm

re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth

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If I got those I could become as well-read as I pretend to be!

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:17:04pm

re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I’ll have to let my brother know about this. He really wants to get into the classics.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:17:44pm

I don’t know if this has been posted anywhere, but I doubt you will see anything more fantastic on the topic of The Donald. From the first Muslim Congresscritter, Keith Ellison (D-MN):

My response to Donald J. Trump calling for an end to Muslim immigration:
Most people know more about what keeps our country strong than the leading Republican presidential candidate. Donald Trump should reread the words of our Constitution about religious freedom and tolerance. Do we really want someone who doesn’t understand our values speaking to the world on our behalf?
The President is supposed to bring everyone together, not divide through hateful rhetoric and fear mongering about an entire religion.
The fact that Donald Trump is leading in the Republican Presidential primary polls should raise deep concerns about where Republicans want to lead our country.
Demagogues like Trump appeal to the worst in people. They have never been celebrated in our history books - from Joseph McCarthy on.
Americans know that we are braver and better than this.

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TedStriker  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:18:16pm

re: #78 Skip Intro

Trump locks up the Nazi vote.

“Heil Donald Trump - THE ULTIMATE SAVIOR.”

That’s what Andrew Anglin, publisher of the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, had to say in response to Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s call for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

“Finally: someone speaks sense,” Anglin wrote, pasting Trump’s new proposal under the headline “Glorious Leader Calls For Complete Ban on All Moslems.”

“Make America White Again!” his post concludes.

huffingtonpost.com

We say that to mock and pillory Trump; the neo-Nazis say it because they’re fucking serious.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:18:19pm

re: #285 thedopefishlives

I don’t know if this has been posted anywhere, but I doubt you will see anything more fantastic on the topic of The Donald. From the first Muslim Congresscritter, Keith Ellison (D-MN):

This is an excellent response. Well said Keith.

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teleskiguy  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:18:47pm

Aw shucks, I missed a troll grilling. Oh well. From the looks of it said troll was pretty lame.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:19:20pm

re: #288 teleskiguy

Aw shucks, I missed a troll grilling. Oh well. From the looks of it said troll was pretty lame.

Raw troll isn’t good for you.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:19:47pm

re: #288 teleskiguy

Aw shucks, I missed a troll grilling. Oh well. From the looks of it said troll was pretty lame.

That makes two of us. They only seem to come out and play when I’m at work. Oh well, it keeps the blood pressure down.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:20:42pm

re: #288 teleskiguy

Aw shucks, I missed a troll grilling. Oh well. From the looks of it said troll was pretty lame.

Me too. Took my Minions to a holiday lunch. We ate, we laughed, we drank. I paid. It was cheaper when I was the one being taken to lunch, but I don’t mind.

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teleskiguy  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:21:34pm
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freetoken  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:23:22pm

One week to go before the next GOP “debate”. Which gives time for one more round of polling, post Trump speech about banning Muslims.

If these polls still show him with a solid lead, and thus Trump is placed in the middle of the TV lineup on stage, how many of the others on the stage will openly rebuke him on live TV?

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freetoken  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:24:48pm

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

no surprise…

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The sugar-daddy of hate-politics.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:25:43pm

re: #219 Alephnaught

I know I’ve posted some slightly left field music on here before, but here’s a more straight ahead piece of guitar beauty. I saw this guy playing this following tune at an acoustic night in Glasgow (Monday nights in Nice ‘n’ Sleazys, hosted by Gerry Lyons), and it appeared on a subsequent official CD of regular artists from the night. (Which I also have.) I found this Youtube vid of the song, which appears to be a fairly contemporaneous live record of the song in his flat:

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Tasty.

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Jebediah, RBG  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:34:16pm

re: #198 jaunte

It’s weird how predictable they are, always appearing with the first comment late in an inactive thread.

If there’s no one there to say you’re wrong, you must be right!

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makeitstop  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:35:53pm

re: #293 freetoken

One week to go before the next GOP “debate”. Which gives time for one more round of polling, post Trump speech about banning Muslims.

If these polls still show him with a solid lead, and thus Trump is placed in the middle of the TV lineup on stage, how many of the others on the stage will openly rebuke him on live TV?

None.

The most we’ll get is mild disagreement, complete with that pleading look of ‘Please don’t hurt me for saying this, Mr. Trump.’

As scared as the occupants of the Klown Kar are of Muslims, it’s nothing compared to the fear of being called out by Trump and not being able to get some of those votes after Trump bails (if he does end up bailing).

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BeachDem  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:36:48pm

re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth

Arends absolutely is a scam artist.
He is the only member of his organization and none of the money goes anywhere but to Arends’s personal benefit.

And a piece of shit lawyer. It’s nice when wingnuts help each other out/gather in one place. Bosworth was a piece of work herself.

Former U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth blamed bad legal advice from her former attorney for the 12 election law felonies she is now facing.

In a news conference Wednesday at her medical office, Bosworth’s spokesman said Joel Arends told her to submit petitions she had falsely sworn were signed in her presence.
argusleader.com

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Jenner7  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:42:18pm

Hahaha. Beautiful.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:45:27pm

re: #299 Jenner7

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Hahaha. Beautiful.

He seems reasonable.

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ObserverArt  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:45:34pm

re: #297 makeitstop

None.

The most we’ll get is mild disagreement, complete with that pleading look of ‘Please don’t hurt me for saying this, Mr. Trump.’

As scared as the occupants of the Klown Kar are of Muslims, it’s nothing compared to the fear of being called out by Trump and not being able to get some of those votes after Trump bails (if he does end up bailing).

Kasich will go after him for sure. I think that will be the build up to Kasich’s last stand. He’ll say he isn’t afraid of a jerk bully like Trump. Then comes New Hampshire where he will bow out of the race if he doesn’t some way come way up in the polls. He has put a lot of his effort there and not so much Iowa.

I said earlier today, it comes down to if Kascih wants to piss off the Ohio Trump fans as he will still be governor of this state for a few years. I also think the Ohio and National GOP will want Kasich to push for Rob Portman to keep his seat in the senate next year, so they may make him dance to keep as many Ohioan RWNJs on board in what is looking to be a very tight race.

But if Kasich decides he is gonna go super-prick he will unload on The Trump and be nasty at it. He has that streak in him.

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Testy Toad T  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:47:12pm

re: #299 Jenner7

Conservatives do seem to have a habit of doublethinking their opposition, don’t they?

Obama is a weak nimby pimby nancy boy who is ALSO an evil scheming mastermind. Hispanics are lazy goodfornothings who want to mooch AND they’re here to take jobs away from hardworking white people. ISIS “agents” or whatever have enough resources, dedication, and planning to cause many more WTC-level attacks AND they’re too dumb or incompetent to blend 20 dudes in with the thousands and thousands of southern-border undocumented immigrants or just, like, lie or do something else clever.

I guess it’s easy to maintain mutually inconsistent worldviews when you never bother to actually try to think about anything or adjust beliefs based on new facts.

303
No Country For Old Haters  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:47:18pm

re: #299 Jenner7

It looks like he’s used to bullshitting without anyone questioning whether his beliefs are grounded in reality. They should only do that inside the bubble.

304
Jenner7  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:47:46pm

Stupid question.

305
TedStriker  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:48:02pm

re: #139 The Vicious Babushka

INCONCEIVABLE!

306
thedopefishlives  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:48:08pm

re: #304 Jenner7

[Embedded content]

Stupid question.

Wow. She pitches slow-pitch softball.

307
makeitstop  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:49:09pm

re: #299 Jenner7

[Embedded content]

Hahaha. Beautiful.

He’s creepy.

308
Mike Lamb  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:49:21pm

re: #300 HappyWarrior

He seems reasonable.

Don’t tell me I’m Islamophobic. I hate them…I ain’t skurred of them.

309
SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:49:24pm

re: #281 Backwoods_Sleuth

Lawrence O’Donnell has been pretty savvy about Trump.

310
makeitstop  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:51:59pm

re: #309 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Lawrence O’Donnell has been pretty savvy about Trump.

He’s the Doremus to Trump’s Windrip.

311
Decatur Deb  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:52:38pm

re: #270 HappyWarrior

It’s a stretch to call Jerry Falwell, Jr a leader.

“Christian spawn” sounds too evolutiony.

312
SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:54:14pm

Not sure I’m a real fan of Anonymous, but I’m really curious about how ISIS Trolling Day is going to unfold.

313
Decatur Deb  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:54:54pm

re: #301 ObserverArt

Kasich will go after him for sure. I think that will be the build up to Kasich’s last stand. He’ll say he isn’t afraid of a jerk bully like Trump. Then comes New Hampshire where he will bow out of the race if he doesn’t some way come way up in the polls. He has put a lot of his effort there and not so much Iowa.

I said earlier today, it comes down to if Kascih wants to piss off the Ohio Trump fans as he will still be governor of this state for a few years. I also think the Ohio and National GOP will want Kasich to push for Rob Portman to keep his seat in the senate next year, so they may make him dance to keep as many Ohioan RWNJs on board in what is looking to be a very tight race.

But if Kasich decides he is gonna go super-prick he will unload on The Trump and be nasty at it. He has that streak in him.

We’ll know if he shows up for the debate in a red shirt.

314
No Depression  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:55:12pm

re: #299 Jenner7

[Embedded content]

Hahaha. Beautiful.

Aww she killed his hate boner. So sad :(

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Jenner7  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:57:32pm
316
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:57:36pm
317
SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:58:39pm

re: #315 Jenner7

Is he opening a golf course or a casino?

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thedopefishlives  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:58:44pm

re: #315 Jenner7

[Embedded content]

Think he’ll get any shoes thrown at him?

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:58:56pm

re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Wow. My parents had a set of that they got for a wedding present. When I was in high school I opened one. The pages were never cut.

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gocart mozart  Dec 8, 2015 • 3:58:58pm

re: #311 Decatur Deb

Evangelical Christianity is not a religion, it’s a political movement. Falwell, Jr is a politician/businessman first and foremost, just like his father.

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makeitstop  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:00:39pm

re: #299 Jenner7

[Embedded content]

Hahaha. Beautiful.

Watching that clip again - what the fuck with that glance t the ceiling/lip curl thing he does?

No wonder he Tweets junk pics - women must break out in hives at the very sight of him.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:00:44pm

re: #316 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

lol.

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The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:00:47pm

Walker & Menard:

yahoo.com

324
Pawn of the Oppressor  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:00:55pm

Imaginary Out-of-Fucks-to-Give Obama on TV, sometime in the next day or two:

“You know… Have you ever noticed? It’s uh, been my observation that, *awkward chuckle* That when somebody starts a sentence with ‘Now this isn’t politically correct to say’, that means there’s some racist-ass shit coming right behind it. I mean like, top shelf bullshit. It’s like the mating call for assholes, when you hear that phrase. It’s like a guy introduces himself by sticking out his hand and saying ‘Hi everybody! I’m a dick!’…”

*giggles from the assembled press*

This needs to happen on television. Pleeeease White House, make it so

325
HappyWarrior  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:01:43pm

re: #324 Pawn of the Oppressor

Imaginary Out-of-Fucks-to-Give Obama on TV, sometime in the next day or two:

“You know… Have you ever noticed? It’s uh, been my observation that, *awkward chuckle* That when somebody starts a sentence with ‘Now this isn’t politically correct to say’, that means there’s some racist-ass shit coming right behind it. I mean like, top shelf bull*BEEP*. It’s like the mating call for assholes, when you hear that phrase. It’s like a guy introduces himself by sticking out his hand and saying ‘Hi everybody! I’m a dick!’…”

I read that in his voice.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:04:07pm

yep

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wrenchwench  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:04:38pm
328
Decatur Deb  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:04:48pm

re: #320 gocart mozart

Evangelical Christianity is not a religion, it’s a political movement. Falwell, Jr is a politician/businessman first and foremost, just like his father.

And now it’s a political movement disguised as a religion that stockpiles weapons. There must be some common-sense popular way to protect ourselves from such holy warriors.

329
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:06:51pm

In Flint, Michigan:

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:07:05pm

re: #325 HappyWarrior

I read that in his voice.

I was imagining that slightly awkward, knows-about-comedic-timing-but-isn’t-100%-smooth, intellectual kind of way he delivers a punchline. Little bit of a lean, looks into the corners of the room, strikes the pose where the wingnuts take a screenshot that makes him look “haughty” and then call him arrogant…

It just needs to be said by somebody at the White House. I keep seeing this “it’s not politically correct, BUT…” preamble in every printed or spoken justification for hate. It needs to be called out from the top.

331
EPR-radar  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:08:11pm

re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth

Nothing to see here. Merely two citizens making full and proper use of their second amendment rights. ///

332
Targetpractice  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:09:43pm

re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth

In Flint, Michigan:

[Embedded content]

I do think too many of these morons forget that “an armed society is a polite society” was meant to be satire, namely that in such a society, everybody is “polite” because they’re constantly scared to death that saying or doing the wrong thing could mean a death sentence.

333
Decatur Deb  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:09:53pm

re: #331 EPR-radar

Nothing to see here. Merely two citizens making full and proper use of their second amendment rights. ///

Very responsible gun owners, or else they’d have had their firefight right there in the Sesame Street aisle.

334
thedopefishlives  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:11:41pm

re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth

In Flint, Michigan:

[Embedded content]

“I challenge you to a duel!”
“Dude, that’s a cap gun.”
“Yeah, but the one I’m carrying concealed ain’t!” *BLAM*

335
Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:11:49pm

re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth

In Flint, Michigan:

[Embedded content]

What’s the current rip off toy of the season that everyone must have?

There’s one every year.

336
UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:12:22pm

re: #332 Targetpractice

What they really mean is, “An armed society is an obedient society.”

337
wrenchwench  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:12:29pm

Oh, good heavens.

338
UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:12:49pm

re: #335 Stanley Sea Toujours

Stand Your Ground Barbie.

339
Decatur Deb  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:13:07pm

re: #335 Stanley Sea Toujours

What’s the current rip off toy of the season that everyone must have?

There’s one every year.

Tacticool Barbie.

340
goddamnedfrank  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:13:10pm

nHtC0si3OdheO11sr2lo0En80w6uGmv6XpiuSLmtR99XTVJxhjQ6D0uldzSH9SYRTjSGFyqdPRqHuOZqRdGyNtRctSLT5pXHi6ZGg9IWrUAExBoYyHXRayNn9FtABVxteYEArYuWBd/FzhyqYqMgj7gfWbgF10s3EOb1ag9LW1U=

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:14:20pm

re: #340 goddamnedfrank

[Embedded content]

You make it sound so tempting……

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TedStriker  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:15:19pm

re: #145 Charles Johnson

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE THAT TRUMP IS A PLANT PLEASE CREDIT TINA NGUYEN pic.twitter.com

— Tina Nguyen (@tina_nguyen) December 8, 2015

Mrs. White: Are you a cop?
Mr. Green: No, I’m a plant.
Miss Scarlet: A plant? I thought men like you were usually called a fruit.
Mr. Green: Very funny.

/Clue

343
Patricia Kayden  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:15:32pm

re: #275 HappyWarrior

Maybe we should deport all Australian assholes, eh Rupert?

YAAAAASSSS!!!! He must have forgotten that he’s a foreigner too.

344
Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:16:09pm

re: #338 UrbanAchiever

Stand Your Ground Barbie.

Winner, I don’t need to read any further.

Edit: Sorry Deb.

345
Decatur Deb  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:16:15pm

re: #339 Decatur Deb

Tacticool Barbie.

Jeez, y’all. I was goofing when I made that up:

ink361.com

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:16:29pm

re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth

In Flint, Michigan:

[Embedded content]

I was sitting here for a full minute trying to work out just what happened that would leave cases on the ground in that pattern… Like, were the shooters little people, who had a duel at thirty paces with revolvers, firing 15-20 shots each? Because there’s just no freaking way to get your empties in little circular stacks of five with some of them upright. I was completely perplexed.

Then I saw the small print:

Image: Crime scene investigator at shooting (shutterstock.com)

video.vulture.com

347
dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:17:43pm

freeper:

Trump is running on the Savage Platform, Borders, Language, Culture.

fascist style rhetoric sounds like fascism

348
Patricia Kayden  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:18:02pm

re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth

Arends absolutely is a scam artist.
He is the only member of his organization and none of the money goes anywhere but to Arends’s personal benefit.

That’s a shame. Trump should be embarrassed to be affiliated with someone who’s exploiting vets to make $$$.

349
Decatur Deb  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:18:54pm

re: #347 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

freeper:

Trump is running on the Savage Platform, Borders, Language, Culture.

fascist style rhetoric sounds like fascism

Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Hairpiece.

350
Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:20:16pm

Schlichter is getting torn on twitter.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:20:22pm

YfD+Y+exNyZc63TWAcfLrHHkZb279bHsuhSgWeepqoFhK8PL/X2/YVck5YJlMPiuFiuCOwk7BMrP5b1D7YAPY2JpwR/X/XINk7RE+NxLQQUWxVIF+oE+GxKPTG1P8Loc8hsRmEQXqafW1dYGVgkhNsYKuKQ98YcYamFTkfMQgsqBhuT0oMUHpCqcUYwAIuag5BMhkNG0BTX/kb9IFz7qA2Jl1MMzF5AnwIht785HeaR+nDwI5+4BqHwvK0wDIpkRSUh70f+H0ua3j1BRgmRL/SBnVdCugSyNP6tbmLXybT6O/mNDaUhXoK+BabLvZ8f/3JFsdT/hgMf8ZZJIvc+Yk+Uj5EJPYeHQ71/rBao3BjE7uHyoTG9ocV/lu7gIVbbISzbtxm5Ek+UTzjPiQhEzpTnLn6ueq0//

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kirkspencer  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:20:23pm

re: #337 wrenchwench

Oh, good heavens.

[Embedded content]

I find myself knowing I don’t know enough. The article says they were in a retirement home and the 93 year old wife was suffering from a terminal illness. It was severe enough that his statement to staff that his wife was dead was met with absolutely no surprise.

353
wrenchwench  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:21:34pm

[…]

“She said, ‘No, I just want to share the flowers with you,’” Meiloud said, when they asked for her name.

A note attached to the flowers reads, “You are loved. From one human to another, please know there is more love than hate … I hope you have a great day.”

[…]

Kinda sad that it’s newsworthy.

354
Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:21:46pm

re: #351 goddamnedfrank

[Embedded content]

You put that god awful karz for kidz jingle in my head Frank.

355
UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:22:07pm

re: #345 Decatur Deb

Truth really is stranger than fiction.

356
GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:22:27pm

re: #342 TedStriker

I’m going to sleep with my wife!

357
Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:22:45pm

re: #353 wrenchwench

[Embedded content]

Kinda sad that it’s newsworthy.

Actually a great idea.

358
UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:23:29pm

re: #351 goddamnedfrank

If you don’t get a taker, you can always donate. I know NPR is always begging for donated vehicles.

359
wrenchwench  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:23:39pm

re: #352 kirkspencer

I find myself knowing I don’t know enough. The article says they were in a retirement home and the 93 year old wife was suffering from a terminal illness. It was severe enough that his statement to staff that his wife was dead was met with absolutely no surprise.

I’m pretty sure he did what he thought was best, but clearly the two of them needed more help than they got.

360
Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:24:00pm

re: #351 goddamnedfrank

[Embedded content]

1-877-KARS4KIDS,

K-A-R-S, KARS4KIDS…..

361
Decatur Deb  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:24:15pm

re: #358 UrbanAchiever

If you don’t get a taker, you can always donate. I know NPR is always begging for donated vehicles.

And Habitat, usually more local.

362
Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:25:24pm

re: #358 UrbanAchiever

If you don’t get a taker, you can always donate. I know NPR is always begging for donated vehicles.

I once had a car refused by a charity.

363
John Vreeland  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:26:23pm

He reminds me of a real estate agent, one who tries to sell ideas instead of miserable properties.

I have this idea, it’s such a great idea, you’re gonna love it. You will have such a great life living at this idea. No, I can’t show it to you now.

Oh, well, one of your neighbors keeps hamsters. Very clean animals, but sometimes they escape. They’re harmless! Cute like fuzzy bunnies.

Well, there is another advantage to having high real estate prices; it keeps out the riff-raff. I mean, would you want to live next to those people?

364
Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:26:40pm

re: #360 Blind Frog Belly White

1-877-KARS4KIDS,

K-A-R-S, KARS4KIDS…..

everyone knows that song. so sad.
must be sung in a kids voice.

GAH

365
Decatur Deb  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:26:51pm

re: #359 wrenchwench

I’m pretty sure he did what he thought was best, but clearly the two of them needed more help than they got.

Can you appreciate how impressive a life sentence is when you’re 91?

366
Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:27:33pm

re: #362 Blind Frog Belly White

I once had a car refused by a charity.

Please tell

367
Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:27:48pm

re: #364 Stanley Sea Toujours

everyone knows that song. so sad.
must be sung in a kids voice.

GAH

Or that baritone with the annoying tremolo.

368
UrbanAchiever  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:28:52pm

re: #362 Blind Frog Belly White

Heh that’s really something. I have to ask what kind of car?

369
Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:30:49pm

re: #368 UrbanAchiever

Heh that’s really something. I have to ask what kind of car?

86 Acura Legend, in about 2000, in need of a clutch, and with heavily oxidized paint.

370
Decatur Deb  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:31:43pm

re: #369 Blind Frog Belly White

86 Acura Legend, in about 2000, in need of a clutch, and with heavily oxidized paint.

High school auto shop classes suck up cars like that.

371
TedStriker  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:31:59pm

re: #225 Amory Blaine

Menard’s contract threatens managers with 60% pay cut if union forms on their watch

Holy shit, that’s illegal as fuck.

372
b_sharp  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:33:05pm

re: #351 goddamnedfrank

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:33:30pm

re: #370 Decatur Deb

High school auto shop classes suck up cars like that.

Don’t think they do those anymore hereabouts.

Somebody gave us $300 for it, bad clutch and all.

374
Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:37:18pm

re: #373 Blind Frog Belly White

Don’t think they do those anymore hereabouts.

Somebody gave us $300 for it, bad clutch and all.

I sold my 2000 Focus with a blown head gasket for 500. Went to Tijuana most likely & is cranking more miles as we speak I would bet.

I loved that car. I named it Brad.

375
Decatur Deb  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:38:39pm

re: #373 Blind Frog Belly White

Don’t think they do those anymore hereabouts.

Somebody gave us $300 for it, bad clutch and all.

A local school took a newish beater, and turned it into an ADA accomodation trainer for a orthopedic rehabilitation clinic.

376
Decatur Deb  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:39:13pm

re: #374 Stanley Sea Toujours

I sold my 2000 Focus with a blown head gasket for 500. Went to Tijuana most likely & is cranking more miles as we speak I would bet.

I loved that car. I named it Brad.

Then you jacked Brad up.

377
makeitstop  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:41:08pm

re: #367 Blind Frog Belly White

Or that baritone with the annoying tremolo.

There’s a ‘rock’ version that’s even worse.

It was produced by a departed friend of mine, Peppi Marchello from Long Island’s legendary Good Rats.

That didn’t save it. Peppi was talented, but his version sucked, too.

378
goddamnedfrank  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:41:50pm

re: #374 Stanley Sea Toujours

I loved that car. I named it Brad.

I see what you did there.
379
Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:42:07pm

re: #377 makeitstop

There’s a ‘rock’ version that’s even worse.

It was produced by a departed friend of mine, Peppi Marchello from Long Island’s legendary Good Rats.

That didn’t save it. Peppi was talented, but his version sucked, too.

Even the most talented need SOMETHING to work with.

380
BeachDem  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:43:20pm

re: #301 ObserverArt

But if Kasich decides he is gonna go super-prick he will unload on The Trump and be nasty at it. He has that streak in him.

And you and I both know, he’s been dying to show that side of himself all along. It’s really Kasich’s sweet spot!

381
BeachDem  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:51:09pm

re: #335 Stanley Sea Toujours

What’s the current rip off toy of the season that everyone must have?

There’s one every year.

If you go by my great-nieces, it’s Lego sets (in the new “for girls” shades.) Not that they’re spoiled, but their wish lists include about 15 different configurations and probably think they’re getting all of them.

382
Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 8, 2015 • 4:53:06pm

I googled ‘cars for kids’ to get the number right, and now guess what shows up in all the google ad spaces?

383
CuriousLurker  Dec 8, 2015 • 5:44:29pm

re: #299 Jenner7

[Embedded content]

Hahaha. Beautiful.

Seconded!


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