Donald Trump: In 2008, Hillary “Got Schlonged”

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I turned off the cable channels after Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton “disgusting” for using the bathroom. But this right wing caveman wasn’t finished; he proceeded to say that Hillary “got schlonged” in the 2008 Democratic primary.

Later in the night, Trump told the crowd that he could not picture Clinton as president because she never wins at anything. He then brought up the 2008 Democratic primary, which Clinton lost to Barack Obama.

“She was favored to win, and she got schlonged,” Trump said, turning a vulgar noun for a large penis into a verb.

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Jenner7  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:04:04pm

Schwing!

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jaunte  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:08:11pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:08:52pm

Wow, there was actually a black guy there?

/

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Big Beautiful Door  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:09:35pm

So classy. Such presidential.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:11:31pm

re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg

Wow, there was actually a black guy there?

/

Grad student working up an Abnormal Psych thesis.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:15:52pm

I would love to get a bunch of folks to go to one of his campaign appearances and just flip him the bird.

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Brian J.  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:16:38pm

So what happens if the current polls are right and Raffy Cross makes Trumpy Dumpy a loser in Iowa? What depths are left for him to plumb?

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Big Beautiful Door  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:18:31pm

re: #7 Brian J.

So what happens if the current polls are right and Raffy Cross makes Trumpy Dumpy a loser in Iowa? What depths are left for him to plumb?

You had to ask. Trump accepts your challenge!

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:18:44pm

OT, but here’s one reason to be thankful you were stoned throughout the 1980’s: there was a cartoon show called Rubik The Amazing Cube, starring the aforementioned Mr. (?) Cube, with theme song by Menudo:

*Rubik* The Amazing Cube* Cartoon ~ Opening Intro

On second thought, stoners were probably the show’s main demographic.

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jaunte  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:21:53pm

“…The Republican presidential candidate, Pendergraft [ a national organizer for the Knights Party, a standard-bearer for the Ku Klux Klan] told The Post, has become a great outreach tool, providing separatists with an easy way to start a conversation about issues that are important to the dying white supremacist movement.

“One of the things that our organization really stresses with our membership is we want them to educate themselves on issues, but we also want them to be able to learn how to open up a conversation with other people,” Pendergraft said.”
washingtonpost.com

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Reality Based Steve  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:22:48pm

Hillary was asked about Trump’s statement, she simply replied “It’s Tuwe, it’s tuwe”.

sorry, I’ll be standing in the corner.

RBS

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Charles Johnson  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:26:23pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:26:35pm
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Reality Based Steve  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:26:42pm

re: #10 jaunte

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“…The Republican presidential candidate, Pendergraft [ a national organizer for the Knights Party, a standard-bearer for the Ku Klux Klan] told The Post, has become a great outreach tool, providing separatists with an easy way to start a conversation about issues that are important to the dying white supremacist movement.

“One of the things that our organization really stresses with our membership is we want them to educate themselves on issues, but we also want them to be able to learn how to open up a conversation with other people,” Pendergraft said.”
washingtonpost.com

ok, so it turns out that’s he basically a recruiting tool for home-grown white supremacists. Much better than being one for ISIS. /snark

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jaunte  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:27:38pm

re: #14 Reality Based Steve

Much better than being one for ISIS.

And that’s only a matter of time.

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WhatEVs  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:31:24pm

And this is who Lawrence O’Donnel thinks Hillary should apologize to.

I’m glad I turned off cable news long ago. I’d have lost my shit hearing him say that.

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:31:39pm
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WhatEVs  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:32:11pm

re: #14 Reality Based Steve

ok, so it turns out that’s he basically a recruiting tool for home-grown white supremacists. Much better than being one for ISIS. /snark

He’s a recruiting tool for both.

He’s a total tool.

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:33:28pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:35:20pm

Oh, just wanted to tell the Lizards that I renewed my annual subscription to LGF today. Well worth the $60 per annum, the website runs so much smoother and looks much slicker without ads. And Charles has built something that is the best of the web. Thanks Charles! I love this place.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:35:34pm

A Trump vs. Clinton metaphor from 1966:

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jaunte  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:35:47pm

A Trump voter weighs in:

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Jenner7  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:35:47pm
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jaunte  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:37:03pm

Remember the great Lincoln-Douglas schlongings?

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Lidane  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:38:05pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:39:14pm

Does “schlonging” have anything wo do with “schwinging”?

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Lidane  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:39:26pm
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Romantic Heretic  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:39:47pm

re: #25 Lidane

Wanted: A Republican candidate who understands what the word “existential” means

As long as we’re wishing I’d like a pony.

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jaunte  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:40:16pm

re: #26 teleskiguy

Does “schlonging” have anything wo do with “schwinging”?

Trump’s unmedicated schwinging days are over.

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FormerDirtDart  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:40:51pm

Sanity Break
Teaching Baby Pygmy Goat to Hop

Baby Pygmy Goat Attempts to Eat Sheep Dog

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:42:32pm

The film Wayne’s World was the first time I ever heard the phrase “that’s what she said.”

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Lidane  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:43:09pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:44:18pm

re: #20 teleskiguy

Oh, just wanted to tell the Lizards that I renewed my annual subscription to LGF today. Well worth the $60 per annum, the website runs so much smoother and looks much slicker without ads. And Charles has built something that is the best of the web. Thanks Charles! I love this place.

Thank you very much!

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jaunte  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:47:22pm

Trump, elevating the nation’s discourse!

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WhatEVs  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:53:41pm

re: #30 FormerDirtDart

So cute!!

If you watch them, another video for Gansta Goat shows up. I almost pissed myself laughing at that one.

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:55:10pm
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GORE AND ELK MOUNTAINS/CENTRAL MOUNTAIN VALLEYS-
WEST ELK AND SAWATCH MOUNTAINS-FLAT TOPS-
945 PM MST MON DEC 21 2015

…WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM MST
WEDNESDAY…

* LOCATIONS INCLUDE THE CITIES OF…COLUMBINE…TOPONAS…
SKYWAY…ASPEN…VAIL…SNOWMASS…CRESTED BUTTE…TAYLOR
PARK…MARBLE…BUFORD…TRAPPERS LAKE.

* TIMING…SNOWFALL WILL CONTINUE…AND BECOME HEAVY AT
TIMES…THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING.

* SNOW ACCUMULATION…10 TO 20 INCHES.

* WINDS…WEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH.

* IMPACTS…ROADS…INCLUDING MOUNTAIN PASSES…WILL BECOME ICY
SNOWPACKED…AND SLICK. GUSTY WINDS WILL CREATE BLOWING SNOW
AND VERY POOR VISIBILITIES FROM TIME TO TIME.

Looks like a White Christmas for me. And deep at that!

White Christmas

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jaunte  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:56:57pm

“…At 04:48 UTC tomorrow morning (or 23:48 tonight Eastern US time), the Earth’s north polar axis will be tipped as far away from the Sun as it will be all year. This means the Sun will reach its most southern position on the sky. It also means we have the day with the least amount of daylight in it*, and the longest night.
In other words, it’s the winter solstice (or, out of respect for southern hemisphereans, the December solstice).”

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Big Beautiful Door  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:57:13pm

re: #32 Lidane

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:57:14pm

Congratulations to the SpaceX team, but I’ve got a bad feeling about where this is heading…

Jack “King” Kirby
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Reality Based Steve  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:58:00pm

re: #36 teleskiguy

Looks like a White Christmas for me. And deep at that!

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so, you’re getting “Snow Schlonged”?

RBS

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2015 • 8:59:09pm

re: #40 Reality Based Steve

so, you’re getting “Snow Schlonged”?

RBS

The snow schlonging could get quite ski pornographic. Might need to take out the fat sticks.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:00:00pm

re: #41 teleskiguy

The snow schlonging could get quite ski pornographic. Might need to take out the fat sticks.

Reminds me of the old joke where the ski wife is talking about the 8 inches she got on her honeymoon…

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jaunte  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:00:03pm

re: #41 teleskiguy

Try not to shout out anything that might sound like “ISIS”

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:02:45pm

As it so happens today is my Friday. If this storm pans out, the cold smoke will be a welcome respite from busy 10 hour days at the ski shop. Thank you universe for landing some powder days on my days off!

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Jenner7  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:05:39pm

Fred Armisen’s Thom Yorke impression is HI-larious…

Video

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:06:40pm

Remember when Republican Senator Al D’Amato called Dem challenger Charles Schumer a “putzhead” on tv? That was a big deal here in NYC and had a lot to do with ending D’Amato’s political career.

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Reality Based Steve  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:07:13pm

Well, I’m off to bed. Had a very difficult day today, I had to visit a German butcher shop, and you see… I have a deep rooted fear of sausages.

Yes, I fear the wurst.

You’ve been great, remember to tip your server.

RBS

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:11:24pm

re: #46 De Kolta Chair

I remember the debate between D’Amato and Robert Abrams on Imus’s show. Imus wound up yelling at both of them to SHUT UP!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:11:24pm

re: #46 De Kolta Chair

Like 6 year-olds in the playground: “You big stupid head!”

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Charles Johnson  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:12:12pm

Chucky’s getting hammered by his own Facebook followers for trying to take credit for Lindsey Graham dropping out.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:13:49pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

Chucky’s getting hammered by his own Facebook followers for trying to take credit for Lindsey Graham dropping out.

Haha lame even for him and his own followers know it.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:14:15pm

re: #46 De Kolta Chair

Remember when Republican Senator Al D’Amato called Dem challenger Charles Schumer a “putzhead” on tv? That was a big deal here in NYC and had a lot to do with ending D’Amato’s political career.

Yeah I do remember D’Amato. Don’t know what he’s up to these days.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:17:28pm

re: #48 Eric The Fruit Bat

I remember the debate between D’Amato and Robert Abrams on Imus’s show. Imus wound up yelling at both of them to SHUT UP!

LOL The only thing I liked about Imus was he had Levon Helm on his program once in a while.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:18:54pm

re: #52 HappyWarrior

Yeah I do remember D’Amato. Don’t know what he’s up to these days.

Lobbying probably. Come to think of it, so is Schumer, only from an office on Capitol Hill. Not to defend Al of course. That guy was un grande stronzo.

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:19:27pm

re: #46 De Kolta Chair

Remember when Republican Senator Al D’Amato called Dem challenger Charles Schumer a “putzhead” on tv? That was a big deal here in NYC and had a lot to do with ending D’Amato’s political career.

And that was after D’Amato got in trouble in 1995 for going after the OJ Simpson trial’s judge, Lance Ito, by saying: “Judge Ito never let the trial end, judge Ito love the limelight.
That’s part of why D’Amato got hit so hard for going after Schumer with a Yiddish word (Charles Schumer is Jewish); His attack on Schumer proved he’d learned nothing since the last time he attacked someone for their ethnicity.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:21:03pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:24:01pm

re: #56 Joe Bacon

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Poor Rick, snuffling around Trump’s table for some scraps of approval. He’s so 2012; the clown show of that GOP race now looks quaint compared to the Trumpenstein.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:24:24pm

re: #32 Lidane

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Does that mean they will name Carly Fiorina the Queen of Fries????

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:24:26pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

Chucky’s getting hammered by his own Facebook followers for trying to take credit for Lindsey Graham dropping out.

His opinion of his own importance cannot be dented by mere facts.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:25:19pm

re: #58 Joe Bacon

Does that mean they will name Carly Fiorina the Queen of Fries????

More like the Queen of Fires.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:26:27pm

re: #54 De Kolta Chair

Lobbying probably. Come to think of it, so is Schumer, only from an office on Capitol Hill. Not to defend Al of course. That guy was un grande stronzo.

Right, makes sense.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:26:52pm

re: #59 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

His opinion of his own importance cannot be dented by mere facts.

I’m enjoying every syllable of those posts! Ginger Snapped has truly run off the rails!

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:27:13pm

re: #59 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

His opinion of his own importance cannot be dented by mere facts.

Indeed such a huge ego for someone wo has accomplished so little.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:27:44pm

re: #55 Dark_Falcon

And that was after D’Amato got in trouble in 1995 for going after the OJ Simpson trial’s judge, Lance Ito, by saying: “Judge Ito never let the trial end, judge Ito love the limelight.
That’s part of why D’Amato got hit so hard for going after Schumer with a Yiddish word (Charles Schumer is Jewish); His attack on Schumer proved he’d learned nothing since the last time he attacked someone for their ethnicity.

“Senator Pothole.”

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Big Beautiful Door  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:27:46pm

re: #58 Joe Bacon

Does that mean they will name Carly Fiorina the Queen of Fries????

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:27:59pm

re: #63 HappyWarrior

Indeed such a huge ego for someone wo has accomplished so little.

A legend in his own mind

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:28:43pm

re: #66 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

A legend in his own mind

Yep.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:30:06pm

Hmmm more House of Cards or celebrate the first day of witner with Carpenter’s The Thing?

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:30:11pm

re: #58 Joe Bacon

Does that mean they will name Carly Fiorina the Queen of Fries????

No, she’s the Little Bo Peep of Demon Sheep.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:31:00pm

re: #51 HappyWarrior

I think we’re going to have to try out a new moniker for the ol’ boy-how about the Flaming Fabulist Furby?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:32:30pm

re: #70 Eric The Fruit Bat

I think we’re going to have to try out a new moniker for the ol’ boy-how about the Flaming Fabulist Furby?

I dunno. My personal favorite is Rage Furby.

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:32:38pm

re: #70 Eric The Fruit Bat

I think we’re going to have to try out a new moniker for the ol’ boy-how about the Flaming Fabulist Furby?

Sounds good. The flaming is also nice because UpChuck will insist we’re calling him gay even though we’re not. Ideally, nicknames for him should take advantage of his lack of contact with reality.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:33:39pm

I was always amused by his attempts to get people who actually have pull with the right wing movement to go out for drinks with him. He’s the kind of guy that they won’t mind doing sleazy shit for them but probably wouldn’t be caught dead being seen with since he’s ya now such a pathetic little douchewad.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:37:40pm

re: #70 Eric The Fruit Bat

I think we’re going to have to try out a new moniker for the ol’ boy-how about the Flaming Fabulist Furby?

I’m going to stand by my prediction that Ginger Snapped is going to wind up on Skid Row in Los Angeles shuffling a cart while trying to make ends meet on a SSI check…

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:38:56pm

Well after what happened to Pharma Bro, I’m hopeful that guys like Chuck and Lil Ben Shapiro and Stevie Crowder will get their just desserts for being absolutely shitty human beings.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:44:25pm

re: #75 HappyWarrior

Well after what happened to Pharma Bro, I’m hopeful that guys like Chuck and Lil Ben Shapiro and Stevie Crowder will get their just desserts for being absolutely shitty human beings.

Well, I’m anticipating Rush Limbaugh’s karmic revenge when his current contract expires. He’s going to be forced to take a very steep pay cut with a further loss of major stations.

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:44:54pm

And Fox News made clear its management is not so hot on Donald Trump by announcing that Megyn Kelly will be on the moderator panel for the 2nd Republican debate on that network. This will give Trump the change to alienate any women who were still entertaining the idea of voting for him.

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:46:40pm

re: #76 Joe Bacon

Well, I’m anticipating Rush Limbaugh’s karmic revenge when his current contract expires. He’s going to be forced to take a very steep pay cut with a further loss of major stations.

That fucker still got paid a quarter billion dollars over a decade’s time. That ain’t chump change. He was going in on buying an NFL team once upon a time.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:47:41pm

Is unreasonable to assume that some of the women voting for Trump will vote for him because their husbands want them to?

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:49:37pm

re: #79 Eclectic Cyborg

Is unreasonable to assume that some of the women voting for Trump will vote for him because their husbands want them to?

No, that’s a reasonable assumption.

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Jenner7  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:50:51pm

Just heard on my local news (Utah) that Donald Trump is 4th on a list of who they’d vote for. Ted Cruz is 1st.

Yeah, I wanted to scream at the TV too.

Morons.

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BeachDem  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:54:23pm

re: #9 De Kolta Chair

OT, but here’s one reason to be thankful you were stoned throughout the 1980’s: there was a cartoon show called Rubik The Amazing Cube, starring the aforementioned Mr. (?) Cube, with theme song by Menudo:

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On second thought, stoners were probably the show’s main demographic.

Why, just last night, this was Miss Hungary’s costume…

As Tom and Lorenzo described it: “Because Hungary believes women are a puzzle with a crotch!”

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ausador  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:56:49pm

re: #81 Jenner7

Just heard on my local news (Utah) that Donald Trump is 4th on a list of who they’d vote for. Ted Cruz is 1st.

Yeah, I wanted to scream at the TV too.

Morons.

It’s a good thing that the birthers will never let it get that far since he was born in Canada to a U.S. immigrant…right?

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:56:58pm

re: #79 Eclectic Cyborg

Is unreasonable to assume that some of the women voting for Trump will vote for him because their husbands want them to?

Absolutely not. Patriarchy is alive and well in fundamentalist/evangelical circles and many parts of the South.

That reminds me of a Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper series from the Charleston Post & Courier called “Till Death Do Us Part”. There are plenty of men out there that are afraid that women are gaining more power and independence and influence, and these men sometimes become violent and deadly. Todd Kincannon, former executive director for the South Carolina Republican Party (and a dude that’s just a year older than me) was arrested for egregiously harming his wife.

You’re assumption, IMO, has merit.

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bratwurst  Dec 21, 2015 • 9:58:08pm

re: #76 Joe Bacon

Well, I’m anticipating Rush Limbaugh’s karmic revenge when his current contract expires. He’s going to be forced to take a very steep pay cut with a further loss of major stations.

This is going to be a VERY interesting situation to follow. While he has cost the industry many millions of dollars in the last 4 years, he is still generating more revenue in that time slot than anyone ever dreamed. For that reason, I will not be surprised at all if he is back with a new deal that is spun to not appear to be a significant pay cut.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 21, 2015 • 10:00:11pm

That’s amazing: The GOP has now gone so far down the rabbit hole that Ted Cruz is considered the LESS crazy one!

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BeachDem  Dec 21, 2015 • 10:01:56pm

re: #46 De Kolta Chair

Remember when Republican Senator Al D’Amato called Dem challenger Charles Schumer a “putzhead” on tv? That was a big deal here in NYC and had a lot to do with ending D’Amato’s political career.

Mark Halperin called the President a dick on national TV, and now he has a show on Bloomberg and MSNBC.

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 21, 2015 • 10:08:55pm

re: #87 BeachDem

Mark Halperin called the President a dick on national TV, and now he has a show on Bloomberg and MSNBC.

Alphonse D’Amato calling Charles Schumer a “putzhead” was an Italian attack an ethnic and religious Jew using a Yiddish word. As such it was taken as an attack Jewish people, not just on Schumer personally. That a big part of why it hurt D’Amato as much as it did.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 21, 2015 • 10:10:58pm

If “dick” and “putzhead” were directed toward Trump, he’d lose his shit. So much for that “we are a weak PC nation” bluster.

I just wish someone… anyone interviewing him would just stop him mid-rant and tell him to fuck off with his fascist bullshit. Cut his mic and kick him out.

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BeachDem  Dec 21, 2015 • 10:19:17pm

re: #88 Dark_Falcon

Alphonse D’Amato calling Charles Schumer a “putzhead” was an Italian attack an ethnic and religious Jew using a Yiddish word. As such it was taken as an attack Jewish people, not just on Schumer personally. That a big part of why it hurt D’Amato as much as it did.

And I repeat, Halperin called THE PRESIDENT a dick on national television and now has his own show.

And I don’t think it was taken as an attack on Jewish people. It was taken as crass and obnoxious, as were his comments about Nadler, and his use of Holocaust images and stories to campaign against Schumer. My opinion. YMMV.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 21, 2015 • 10:20:28pm

re: #82 BeachDem

Why, just last night, this was Miss Hungary’s costume…

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As Tom and Lorenzo described it: “Because Hungary believes women are a puzzle with a crotch!”

knowing hungarians, i can imagine ms hungary cursing sarcastically for four hours straight about her styoopid fucking costume

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 21, 2015 • 10:21:57pm

schlonged

being over 60 must be getting to me because i just can’t imagine anybody that vulgar being seriously considered for the presidency of the united states

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bratwurst  Dec 21, 2015 • 10:23:22pm

re: #89 GlutenFreeJesus

If “dick” and “putzhead” were directed toward Trump, he’d lose his shit. So much for that “we are a weak PC nation” bluster.

I just wish someone… anyone interviewing him would just stop him mid-rant and tell him to fuck off with his fascist bullshit. Cut his mic and kick him out.

There were 8 cowards on stage with him last week who were more concerned about his unfamiliarity with the term “nuclear triad” than his desire to have a religious test for entry into the US. Personally, I think it is more likely he can learn military terminology than unlearn being a vituperative bigot.

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BeachDem  Dec 21, 2015 • 10:24:50pm

re: #91 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

knowing hungarians, i can imagine ms hungary cursing sarcastically for four hours straight about her styoopid fucking costume

Tom and Lorenzo categorized all the costumes in groups. They were out there.
Angels, Birds and Flowers
tomandlorenzo.com
Good Girls and Supervillains
tomandlorenzo.com
Showgirls and Bigass skirts
tomandlorenzo.com
Freak Flag Flying Fun Gals
tomandlorenzo.com

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 21, 2015 • 10:25:23pm

re: #78 teleskiguy

That fucker still got paid a quarter billion dollars over a decade’s time. That ain’t chump change. He was going in on buying an NFL team once upon a time.

Rush has two things going against him in regards to NFL team ownership or even part ownership:

1. The team owners don’t want him as a member of their club.

2. He doesn’t have enough money.

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ausador  Dec 21, 2015 • 10:28:17pm

Now this woman is really in trouble, driving up onto the sidewalk repeatedly to purposefully hit pedestrians is one thing, but it turns out that her license was suspended too!

mobile.reuters.com

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BillinGlendaleCA  Dec 21, 2015 • 10:43:09pm

re: #90 BeachDem

Halperin called the President a dick on MSNBC, was suspended for a week or so. He now has a show on MSNBC(I refuse to watch it).

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Unabogie  Dec 21, 2015 • 11:37:07pm

re: #97 BillinGlendaleCA

Halperin called the President a dick on MSNBC, was suspended for a week or so. He now has a show on MSNBC(I refuse to watch it).

Proof that MSNBC is the mirror image of Fox News!

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2015 • 11:47:49pm

Blowing the doors off! He’s a tornado!

He’s got the anti-Trump Trump voter demographic down pat.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 21, 2015 • 11:52:35pm

Yo lizards!

Are you into fly fishing?

Are you against child trafficking?

Then go to flyfishingcollaborative.org and buy a fucking fly ass fly wallet or go on one of their fishing trips and catch some fish and help out a good cause.

I don’t usually shill for random bullshit but the fly wallet is well made and it’s a good cause. Their model is built around going to overseas orphanages and building efficient and sustainable aquaculture (tilapia farms).

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:12:11am

re: #96 ausador

Now this woman is really in trouble, driving up onto the sidewalk repeatedly to purposefully hit pedestrians is one thing, but it turns out that her license was suspended too!

mobile.reuters.com

And she will turn out to be a Hillary supporter!!!

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freetoken  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:17:37am

MP3 Audio

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:45:43am

re: #94 BeachDem

Tom and Lorenzo categorized all the costumes in groups. They were out there.
Angels, Birds and Flowers
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Good Girls and Supervillains
tomandlorenzo.com
Showgirls and Bigass skirts
tomandlorenzo.com
Freak Flag Flying Fun Gals
tomandlorenzo.com

Miss USA’s costume is just plain awful, like she ran headlong into a shop selling bling for 4th of July.

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Kate1230  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:52:11am

re: #79 Eclectic Cyborg

While I’m sure there are some women whose husbands still tell them who to vote for, hopefully these women will have enough guts to vote for who they want! I don’t know any woman personally who would even allow her husband to try to tell her who to vote for, let alone listen to him.

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Kate1230  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:05:51am

I think about the position we’re in with Trump actually being representative of our country and am actually nauseous. We have nobody to blame but our media. They followed this ignorant blowhard from day one due to greed. Instead of ignoring him and letting his rallies be heard only by those who were there, they were broadcasting the entire thing, basically giving him hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free publicity for the last several months. They make noises about how he’s inappropriate, etc. but they come right back and follow him around with their nose up his butt, waiting for him to come on their show, usually insult them afterwards, if not during, and then beg him to come back again for more! He’s brought out the worst in Americans who say he’s telling it like it is. No, he’s not telling it like it is, he lies about everything from Muslims cheering on 9/11 to his not inciting others to join ISIS. He’s shown in all the ME countries on TV talking about the ban on Muslims, does anyone really think that’s not a drawing card for the crazies to martyr themselves? I heard Chris Matthews ask tonight why the rules don’t apply to Donald Trump as a lead-in to a special they are doing on him tomorrow night. The rules don’t apply because the media hasn’t enforced them.

If any other candidate in a previous election said what he did about Hillary Clinton, it would have been the end of him. Instead, we have journalist actually asking if he went too far! WTF is there integrity? We should all turn off the media for 24 hours, nothing, no internet, no TV, and let them know that we don’t want to be represented by the likes of Trump. My sister-in-law is in the U.K. and has said that people ask her if it’s really this crazy in the U.S. and why we went from someone who’s respected (she’s repeating what she’s hearing) to someone like Trump?

When a candidate for President mocks HRC for using the ladies’ room on a break and says it’s disgusting, he should be banned from TV. How dare he say she’s not Presidential when the likes of him would be a huge step down for the country? How many other candidates would get away with saying they hate reporters but they’d never kill them. He called them lying, disgusting people and yet President Obama was vilified when he complained about one reporter at Fox! Why is Trump being given a free ride?? Who did he pay off to get this non-stop attention? This is infuriating!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:25:18am

re: #105 Kate1230

Because the presidential campaign has turned into a reality TV show, and every reality show needs one person who is so outrageous that people keep coming back to what shit he or she does next.

To wit, Simon Cowell (rude and insulting). Paula Abdul (wackaloon). That loudmouthed chef guy whose name I’ve forgotten (rude, obscene and insulting).

Trump is the ratings draw. No need for a script. Just fire up the cameras and let him do his shtick.

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Kate1230  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:32:06am

re: #106 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

So we’ll sacrifice our country’s reputation and the Presidency? I don’t buy it and I don’t think the majority of the American people do, either. Trump is such an embarrassment, I can’t even dare to think of what it would be like if he was President. He has NEVER given a campaign speech that wasn’t about him or what he would allegedly do but never any details and we’re six months into the campaign. In early September he was scheduled to do a foreign policy speech, almost 4 months later, he’s proven he knows nothing about foreign policy or about how our government functions. Yet he has idiots following him by the millions! They’re idiots if they follow Trump no matter what their education level IMO. They are also frightening as all hell.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:35:25am

And speaking of reality TV, here is the latest in the Chuck C. Johnson courtroom drama series.

Yesterday, his ace lawyer in Missouri filed a motion for leave to conduct discovery, three days after he moved to allow plaintiffs to conduct discovery, based on his johnny-come-lately reading of the Law. I guess he read over his motion filed on Friday and realized he asked to conduct discovery, but failed to also ask for the time to do so. Oops!

So, it’s a delaying tactic, one I hope the judge will deny and then either dismiss the case or send it to another venue for another judge to deal with.

Tomorrow afternoon is the hearing in California about Chuck’s motion to quash the subpoena filed by the National Abortion Federation. He has invoked the state’s reporter’s shield law in an effort to protect the identity of the person who gave him those bogus anti-Planned Parenthood videos. Given the judge’s dismissive attitude toward CMP and David Daleiden, I kind of doubt he will be any more gentle with Chuckie.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:43:38am

re: #107 Kate1230

The media are not the voters, and to some extent the public airing of Trump’s outrageous behavior and statements will work against him. His fanbase may love Trump, but most Republican voters (I hope) want to keep him as far from the nuclear football as possible.

If we had a Fourth Estate that would once again do its fucking job, journalists would be fact-checking and challenging Trump and the rest of the clown car every step of the way. As it is, they just let the cameras roll and lob softball questions at them. Only rarely do they challenge the candidates with goshdarn facts.

The people in power in other nations, especially ones that are not already democratic, are looking at this so-called presidential campaign in the USA and nodding their heads, thinking, “That’s why we should never have democracy in our country! The mob is crazy!”

But, as others here have said, the primaries haven’t even started yet. If Trump starts winning primaries, then we need to get really worried. Until then, it’s just a lot of hot air.

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freetoken  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:44:10am

MP3 Audio

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Timothy Watson  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:45:03am

I really should use these things called “comments” when writing PHP code.

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Rocky-in-Connecticut  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:01:23am

Once again, I will reiterate that Trump is not the problem. he is simply the vessel. The problem is that about 60% or so of white Americans either completely or mostly agree with Trump on several troubling issues, regardless of any amount of real world facts, evidence, history, or world opinion. Trump is merely the carnival barker confirming a significant percentage of America is wanting to keep a high cultural wall separating us from the rest of the world, separate from real facts, and ignorant of the scientific method.

It’s not working. This percentage of America will lose in the long run, but can cause siginicant damage to this country and to the world in the short term.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:28:28am

re: #96 ausador

Now this woman is really in trouble, driving up onto the sidewalk repeatedly to purposefully hit pedestrians is one thing, but it turns out that her license was suspended too!

mobile.reuters.com

But was she affiliated with ISIS or BlackLivesMatter!

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:36:51am

BREAKING — The Trump campaign is asserting that all of the walk outs during Trump’s speech last night were only women going to the bathroom, and not protesters as claimed by “the haters in the media,” and plan to hand out boxes of Depends at their next rally, “at fair market value.”

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Kate1230  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:37:10am

re: #112 Rocky-in-Connecticut

It’s that short term damage that concerns me. I used to think Trump wasn’t really serious about the Presidency and at times, especially with the things he said last night, I still do. I also can’t imagine a candidate who has to sleep in his own bed every night managing to navigate the Presidency and all that is required 24/7. He says he gets things done but as in everything I’ve ready about him, favorable and otherwise, it’s because he buys his way in or bullies his way in and then when things don’t go the way he wants, he drops the problem on others and walks away. I can’t imagine him working with Congress or even his cabinet members.

When I heard his spokesperson say, “What good is the nuclear triad if we can’t use it?” I found that to be frightening and something that could be accomplished in too short an amount of time as President.

I’ve never been one to be worried about who wins the Presidency. I’ve certainly had my preferences, like everyone else, and yet this year I was more concerned than ever because of SCOTUS. Now with Trump, I really do find it frightening. Even worse, for all his ranting on the campaign trail, it’s become more obvious than ever that he’s clueless as to how government works, even the basic functions. Yet he ignorantly brags about his education.

I realize there’s not much we can do as individuals but I’ll feel better if I get involved locally again, at least I’ll feel like I tried.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:42:26am

re: #92 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

schlonged

being over 60 must be getting to me because i just can’t imagine anybody that vulgar being seriously considered for the presidency of the united states

Trump dropped the F bomb at a campaign event. A fucking “fuck”. At a campaign event. Schlonged ain’t shit next to that.

I swear like a sailor on leave, but I’m offended that Trump is as crass as he is.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:54:05am

Uh Bryan, do you know what “Global” means?

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:54:38am

re: #108 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

And speaking of reality TV, here is the latest in the Chuck C. Johnson courtroom drama series.

Yesterday, his ace lawyer in Missouri filed a motion for leave to conduct discovery, three days after he moved to allow plaintiffs to conduct discovery, based on his johnny-come-lately reading of the Law. I guess he read over his motion filed on Friday and realized he asked to conduct discovery, but failed to also ask for the time to do so. Oops!

So, it’s a delaying tactic, one I hope the judge will deny and then either dismiss the case or send it to another venue for another judge to deal with.

Tomorrow afternoon is the hearing in California about Chuck’s motion to quash the subpoena filed by the National Abortion Federation. He has invoked the state’s reporter’s shield law in an effort to protect the identity of the person who gave him those bogus anti-Planned Parenthood videos. Given the judge’s dismissive attitude toward CMP and David Daleiden, I kind of doubt he will be any more gentle with Chuckie.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:56:41am

re: #109 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The media are not the voters, and to some extent the public airing of Trump’s outrageous behavior and statements will work against him. His fanbase may love Trump, but most Republican voters (I hope) want to keep him as far from the nuclear football as possible.

If we had a Fourth Estate that would once again do its fucking job, journalists would be fact-checking and challenging Trump and the rest of the clown car every step of the way. As it is, they just let the cameras roll and lob softball questions at them. Only rarely do they challenge the candidates with goshdarn facts.

The people in power in other nations, especially ones that are not already democratic, are looking at this so-called presidential campaign in the USA and nodding their heads, thinking, “That’s why we should never have democracy in our country! The mob is crazy!”

But, as others here have said, the primaries haven’t even started yet. If Trump starts winning primaries, then we need to get really worried. Until then, it’s just a lot of hot air.

The problem is that worry follows every republican; every last one of them is nuts.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:57:51am

re: #117 The Vicious Babushka

Uh Bryan, do you know what “Global” means?

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And it’s 52 F here in Virginia with an expected high of 62 F. Thursday has a high of 77 F.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:22:10am

A student has just written about Matilda the Hun in an essay I’m grading.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:23:17am

re: #121 Barefoot Grin

A student has just written about Matilda the Hun in an essay I’m grading.

LOL.

Damn you, autocorrect?

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:23:27am

re: #121 Barefoot Grin

A student has just written about Matilda the Hun in an essay I’m grading.

How old is your student?

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Kent Dorfman  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:23:51am

Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is.

The phenomenon was first tested in a series of experiments during 1999 by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of the department of psychology at Cornell University.[1][2] The study was inspired by the case of McArthur Wheeler, a man who robbed two banks after covering his face with lemon juice in the mistaken belief that, because lemon juice is usable as invisible ink, it would prevent his face from being recorded on surveillance cameras.[3] The authors noted that earlier studies suggested that ignorance of standards of performance lies behind a great deal of incorrect self-assessment of competence. This pattern was seen in studies of skills as diverse as reading comprehension, operating a motor vehicle, and playing games such as chess or tennis.

Randomness…

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:24:01am

re: #123 WhatEVs

How old is your student?

Probably 20 or 21.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:24:03am

BREAKING UPDATE — The Trump campaign is denying reports that they will be handing out Depends at their next rally. “Mr. Trump is vehemently against going potty at anytime, even in one’s home.” said spokesperson Katrina Pierson. “and believes it is contrary to human nature and the will of God. Contrary to what Hillary Clinton and other homocrats may think, real Americans are not animals.”

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:24:55am

re: #119 WhatEVs

The problem is that worry follows every republican; every last one of them is nuts.

And with that you insulted my father, my best friend, several members of my family, and me personally. Have a downding, schnook.

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Kent Dorfman  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:25:05am

re: #121 Barefoot Grin

Matilda the Hun is from England and makes a really mean tart.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:26:46am

re: #128 Kent Dorfman

Matilda the Hun is from England and makes a really mean tart.

Apparently, she’s quite viscous.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:33:35am

re: #125 Barefoot Grin

Probably 20 or 21.

Alrighty then.

What did your student think of Matilida? Girl Power!

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:34:06am

re: #121 Barefoot Grin

A student has just written about Matilda the Hun in an essay I’m grading.

The wrestler?

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:34:11am

re: #127 Dark_Falcon

And with that you insulted my father, my best friend, several members of my family, and me personally. Have a downding, schnook.

Your father is running for POTUS? Who knew.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:37:54am

re: #130 WhatEVs

Alrighty then.

What did your student think of Matilida? Girl Power!

Well, the question was about the Mongols, so the student was off by a few centuries. But Matilda was ruthless (I wonder where Ruth is)….

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:38:57am

re: #131 De Kolta Chair

The wrestler?

I had no idea! Maybe I’ll need to rethink this essay from a more post-modern perspective. I’m kind of a slave to chronology.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:48:17am

re: #134 Barefoot Grin

I had no idea! Maybe I’ll need to rethink this essay from a more post-modern perspective. I’m kind of a slave to chronology.

Funny you should say that. My PhD thesis was on Hagar the Horrible and Pope Leo I’s dispute with Dioscorus of Alexandria over the ecclesiastical practice of tag team wrestling. ;-)

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:50:16am

re: #120 Timothy Watson

The ratio of record highs to record lows does speak volumes. It isn’t pretty, as yet another month and another year record temperature is set. Globally.

El Nino has a strong effect on the record temps being seen in the US so far in this extended fall/early spring. And there’s no end in sight to the warm temps.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:52:23am
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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:53:52am

re: #136 lawhawk

The ratio of record highs to record lows does speak volumes. It isn’t pretty, as yet another month and another year record temperature is set. Globally.

El Nino has a strong effect on the record temps being seen in the US so far in this extended fall/early spring. And there’s no end in sight to the warm temps.

I am in Canada and we have early spring/late fall weather here. At the end of December. We should have had multiple feet of snow and sub zero weather for more than a month now.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:57:38am

Predicting 60° for tomorrow (SE Michigan). It’s gonna be a brown Christmas.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:59:11am

re: #139 The Vicious Babushka

Predicting 60° for tomorrow (SE Michigan). It’s gonna be a brown Christmas.

It’s gonna be a green Christmas. Our grass is growing. Hubby cut the lawn last weekend.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:00:20am

re: #135 De Kolta Chair

Funny you should say that. My PhD thesis was on Hagar the Horrible and Pope Leo I’s dispute with Dioscorus of Alexandria over the ecclesiastical practice of tag team wrestling. ;-)

LOL

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:02:08am

re: #132 WhatEVs

Your father is running for POTUS? Who knew.

You said “The problem is that worry follows every republican; every last one of them is nuts.” That sentence reads as every person was is a member of the Republican Party is nuts. If you meant to say that the current GOP presidential candidates are nuts then you should have written “The problem is that worry follows every republican presidential candidate; every last one of them is nuts.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:02:49am

re: #139 The Vicious Babushka

Predicting 60° for tomorrow (SE Michigan). It’s gonna be a brown Christmas.

NWS in Wilmington, Ohio, sent an alert this morning to us severe weather spotters that we might be activated Wednesday night due to possible severe thunderstorms resulting from El Niño.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:03:02am

re: #138 WhatEVs

The NYC metro area has been above normal by a wide margin all month, and Christmas eve is supposed to be 72. The low temperature is going to be 57.

72. On 12/24. The normal temperatures are usually around 41 for a high and 30 for a low.

Heck, the “low” temperature is 16 degrees above normal for the day.

In climate data, when you usually see record monthly data, it’s usually by a few tenths of a degree, or even a degree. This month is on pace to absolutely shatter the NYC record by 5-6 degrees.

That’s el Nino for ya.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:05:48am

re: #142 Dark_Falcon

You said “The problem is that worry follows every republican; every last one of them is nuts.” That sentence reads as every person was is a member of the Republican Party is nuts. If you meant to say that the current GOP presidential candidates are nuts then you should have written “The problem is that worry follows every republican presidential candidate; every last one of them is nuts.”

You should consider improving your reading.

He said:

But, as others here have said, the primaries haven’t even started yet. If Trump starts winning primaries, then we need to get really worried. Until then, it’s just a lot of hot air.

And I said:

The problem is that worry follows every republican; every last one of them is nuts.

Feel free to take offense. Your party is fucking nuts.

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Alyosha  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:06:03am

re: #142 Dark_Falcon

Ted Cruz is nuts and you’d vote for him over Clinton.
Just two facts.
BBL

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:07:21am

re: #146 Alyosha

Ted Cruz is nuts and you’d vote for him over Clinton.
Just two facts.
BBL

PARTY OVER COUNTRY! The Republican motto.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:07:25am

TRUMP’S BRINGING US TOGETHER!!!!!1

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Mike Lamb  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:07:53am

re: #117 The Vicious Babushka

Uh Bryan, do you know what “Global” means?

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A sham, scam, and hoax? Oh my.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:09:34am

SPOILER ALERT — Half of The Force Awakens is set on the planet Eeyore, and the other half takes place in a tree in Hundred Acre Wood.

Goddamn Disney tie-ins.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:19:01am

It’s gonna be a very long four years…

Yes, the Republican party is fucking nuts, and it’s not just the GOP presidential candidates.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:20:00am

Dark,

In 2012, the GOP was already moving to the far right, and they began considering Mitt Romney a RINO. Today? The GOP wouldn’t even give Romney the time of day. Heck, they disregard the last GOP president to hold the WH - GWB. When GWB is too moderate for this GOP, that should send up all kinds of red flags.

Bush was very good on dealing with relations with the Muslim community, and made it clear that we were not fighting all Islam. The current GOP Islamophobia wants to see a clash of civilizations and more than a few candidates wouldn’t mind genocide or war crimes to see it done (carpet bombing IS anyone?) The rank racism and misogyny coming out of the GOP is a deluge of hate. And fear.

And it will only cause suffering. For millions of people, Republicans included. Many GOP voters think that someone like Trump has their interests in mind, but the fact is that the entire GOP tax policy is all about shifting tax burdens from the rich on to everyone else. It’s a return to trickle down voodoo economics (as another Bush once said), and they’d do away with minimum wages, seek repeal of Obamacare, and replace it with a more costly and damning policy that would saddle millions with health care costs that would make it more likely to seek bankruptcy - both as the individual seeking care and the hospitals that provide them.

The GOP doesn’t have an alternative to Obamacare. It has had years to offer up a tangible bill, and they’ve never managed it. Not once. There’s no bill/proposal to score. It doesn’t exist. It’s vaporware. It’s malware. And you have to know that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Now, take the GOP stance on civil rights, and they’d roll back equal rights and protections for gays. And women. And minorities.

This isn’t mere hyperbole on a blog posting. They’ve repeatedly stated this is exactly what they’d do. Watch for this to be included in their platform.

They want to roll back 50 years of progress.

That’s hardly conservative. That’s reactionary. And it’s bad for the nation.

This is a GOP that has gone completely off the rails mental. And it starts with the candidates who are pushing ever more extreme positions in order to gain favor with the GOP voters. It will not end well for the nation if a GOP is in the WH (and they still manage to hold Congress) because a whole lot of programs that folks hold important will find themselves gutted.

And a whole lot more that people don’t care that much about will suddenly be under assault and it may take years to fix the damage. Take for instance the NPS system, and protections for federal lands. The GOP would seek to gut those federal protections, enabling exploiting mineral assets all over the place, including up to and in national park and wildland boundaries.

Or gutting NASA or NOAA climate science, because the GOP has totally bought into junk science about climate change - and will do everything possible to suppress data that doesn’t fit their worldview. Just as they’ve done on collecting firearms statistics data.

On and on it goes, and where it stops? Nowhere good. Unless GOPers who should know better stand up against the nutters and put their principles ahead of a party that has completely gone off the rails.

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:21:56am

Two pigs’ heads are dumped outside Muslim school after plans to build a mosque at the site sparks protests

This happened in Blackburn, England. In response, Donald Trump has vowed to have campaign staff pitch the heads huuuugge wild hogs at mosques in the US.

/Kidding about that last part, but its something Trump is capable of.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:23:08am

re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s gonna be a very long four years…

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Yes, the Republican party is fucking nuts, and it’s not just the GOP presidential candidates.

God, an American Governor linking to WND.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:25:54am

re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s gonna be a very long four years…

Yes, the Republican party is fucking nuts, and it’s not just the GOP presidential candidates.

So Matt Bevin is taking social media tips from Greg Abbott….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:27:10am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:27:55am

re: #117 The Vicious Babushka

Uh Bryan, do you know what “Global” means?

My Maryland Christmas is supposed to reach 70.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:28:22am

This is what passes for right wing “news”:

This is what passes for analysis. It’s all about pumping up the hate and vitriol to 11ty.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:30:10am

re: #158 lawhawk

This is what passes for right wing “news”:

This is what passes for analysis. It’s all about pumping up the hate and vitriol to 11ty.

Makes the Senate’s diagnosis of Terri Schiavo look rational and expert.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:31:40am
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Teukka  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:33:21am

re: #157 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

My Maryland Christmas is supposed to reach 70.

Sunday was practically T-shirt weather here in freaking Stockholm, in freaking Sweden, near the freaking Midwinter solstice.

In other news, some of the environmental scientists the Reich Wing like to call “Korrupt and Moneyhungry” are becoming concerned that the combination of climate change and an unusually strong El Niño may cause drastic or even catastrophic effects in the coming year.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:34:43am

Sanity break:

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:35:15am

re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s gonna be a very long four years…

The Kentucky GOP legislative caucus is so diverse that I went blind from looking at their group photos.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:37:56am

re: #163 De Kolta Chair

The Kentucky GOP legislative caucus is so diverse that I went blind from looking at their group photos.

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DISGUSTING! They’re not wearing ties!!! DISRESPECTFUL!

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:42:07am
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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:44:59am

Christ, WTF?

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FormerDirtDart  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:46:19am

re: #117 The Vicious Babushka

Uh Bryan, do you know what “Global” means?

Bryan Fischer @BryanJFischer
Global warming sham, scam, and hoax alert: -51 degrees in Colorado. Yes, 51 degrees below zero.

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:48:16am

Normally Sarah Palin’s actions deserve ridicule and not praise, but this latest thing she’s done is actually a clever reversal:

Sarah Palin gets her own back on Tina Fey with ‘31 Rock’ spoof advert after comic reprized her impression of the Republican on Saturday Night Live

Sarah Palin has got revenge on Tina Fey with a spoof advert for ‘31 Rock’ after the comic actress reprized her role as the former Alaska governor for Saturday Night Live.

The 60-second sketch is presented as an advert for the first season of ‘31 Rock’, a spoof of Fey’s show of a similar name.

It stars Palin starring in the role Lynn Melon, ‘a small-town TV writer who moves to NYC in hopes of creating a hit variety show.’

The clip features the Republican dressed up as Fey as she yells at 31 Rock’s writers, gets stressed about her coffee and lack of bagels, and ‘puts the smack down on political correctness.’

And John McCain parodying Alec Baldwin is funny as well.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:48:33am

re: #17 teleskiguy

Is it me or are hearing more people say Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays? Political correctness now out fashion? Trump factor?
— Rick Santorum

It’s not me, it’s you.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:48:59am

re: #17 teleskiguy

Is it me or are hearing more people say Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays? Political correctness now out fashion? Trump factor?
— Rick Santorum

Derp.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:50:59am

What the huh ?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:51:16am

re: #50 Charles Johnson

Chucky’s getting hammered by his own Facebook followers for trying to take credit for Lindsey Graham dropping out.

This guy, man…..

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makeitstop  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:52:21am

re: #127 Dark_Falcon

And with that you insulted my father, my best friend, several members of my family, and me personally. Have a downding, schnook.

AFAIC, she’s right until I see proof otherwise.

You party is now run by insane people. And if you blindly vote for them, you’re deserving of the same classification.

Hve a downding yourself. Time for you and your family to start owning what your party has become.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:52:36am

re: #168 Dark_Falcon

More proof that conservatives can’t do and don’t do comedy. Your side should just stick with fake outrage over bathroom breaks and gay marriage.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:52:47am

re: #63 HappyWarrior

Indeed such a huge ego for someone wo has accomplished so little.

Wasn’t he off the grid for like a week? I’d expect a little more than a Graham exit for all that time away.

/

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:53:52am

re: #171 De Kolta Chair

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:54:17am

re: #171 De Kolta Chair

What the huh ?

Who is this Chris Christie?
//

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:54:25am

re: #168 Dark_Falcon

Sarah Palin’s feeble and pathetic attempt to “get back” at Tina Fey is a real-life jerk store “comeback”:

Seinfeld- The jerk store called (the comeback)

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:54:35am

re: #173 makeitstop

And it’s time for you to fuck off.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:54:40am

re: #174 Dr. Matt

More proof that conservatives can’t do and don’t do comedy. Your side should just stick with fake outrage over bathroom breaks and gay marriage.

I watched that last night and it was stupid beyond belief. The only thing funny was Lindsay Graham popping up…the rest was funny to conservatives who have shown over and over that they have no ability when it comes to comedy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:55:50am

re: #173 makeitstop

AFAIC, she’s right until I see proof otherwise.

You party is now run by insane people. And if you blindly vote for them, you’re deserving of the same classification.

Hve a downding yourself. Time for you and your family to start owning what your party has become.

There was a time when I would consider a GOP candidate for most offices, heck, I have even voted for a few in my lifetime. But when it comes to any national office, Congressional or Presidential. NO F*ING WAY.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:56:03am

re: #179 Dark_Falcon

And it’s time for you to fuck off.

Why? You are the one who came here and started fighting over your inability to comprehend.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:56:14am

jeebus

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:57:07am

re: #180 WhatEVs

I watched that last night and it was stupid beyond belief. The only thing funny was Lindsay Graham popping up…the rest was funny to conservatives who have shown over and over that they have no ability when it comes to comedy.

It’s a sad state of affairs when Lindsay Graham was the least radical of the GOP clown car.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:57:41am

re: #166 WhatEVs

Christ, WTF?

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They fought tooth and nail a couple years against a proposal to make it illegal for someone convicted of misdemeanor sexual battery or stalking to purchase a firearm, and won unfortunately. (Sexual battery, which is different from sexual assault, will land someone on the sex offenders registry if committed against a minor, hey, why shouldn’t they have access legally to a firearm?)

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:58:38am

re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Same here, as I have voted for Christie (first term as Gov) and Bush (2004). But no more. And it starts at the local level. The GOP reactionary right is moving more and more to the right, and it must be countered. If not from within (as Dark shows - the party is incapable of dealing with the extremism and racism and hate within itself), then it must be contained from without.

And that means supporting Democrats at all levels of government. Because the GOP is that much of a threat.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:59:10am

re: #165 Dr. Matt

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Or as the National Trust calls it, Litterbugger Off Day. ;-)

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:00:59am

re: #186 lawhawk

And that means supporting Democrats at all levels of government. Because the GOP is that much of a threat.

If you want to keep the gains society has made over the past 50 years in personal freedoms, or gay, women’s and minority rights then you cannot begin to vote for a party that is working hard to have them revoked. Hell, look what they have done to labor rights over the past decades.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:01:12am

re: #187 De Kolta Chair

Well, that’s just sad.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:01:51am
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De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:02:26am

re: #177 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Who is this Chris Christie?
//

A bridge troll.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:02:45am

re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth

Donald Trump, on the journalists who cover him: “I would never kill them.”

Who will rid me of these bothersome priests?

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:03:40am

Trump’s speech technique of repeating every sentence twice is so annoying. It’s just so fucking annoying.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:04:18am

re: #193 The Vicious Babushka

Trump’s speech technique of repeating every sentence twice is so annoying. It’s just so fucking annoying.

Someone’s already mentioned the character from Goodfellas, right?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:04:32am

re: #153 Dark_Falcon

Two pigs’ heads are dumped outside Muslim school after plans to build a mosque at the site sparks protests

This happened in Blackburn, England. In response, Donald Trump has vowed to have campaign staff pitch the heads huuuugge wild hogs at mosques in the US.

/Kidding about that last part, but its something Trump is capable of.

Yet you’re still going to vote for him.

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FormerDirtDart  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:05:33am

Jeeez…
This may be more damaging to peoples reputations than the Ashely Madison breach.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:05:41am

re: #187 De Kolta Chair

Or as the National Trust calls it, Litterbugger Off Day. ;-)

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WTF!? That’s awful

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William Lewis  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:06:29am

re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Of course not. “Who will rid me of this troublesome priestReporter?”

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:08:34am

re: #195 GlutenFreeJesus

Yet you’re still going to vote for him.

No, I won’t. Like the song says, I love the Republican party and I’ll do anything for it, but I won’t do that. If Trump were to be the nominee, i would see voting against him as being for the good of the GOP.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:10:20am

re: #199 Dark_Falcon

No, I won’t. Like the song says, I love the Republican party and I’ll do anything for it, but I won’t do that. If Trump were to be the nominee, i would see voting against him as being for the good of the GOP.

Uh huh.

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:10:51am

re: #193 The Vicious Babushka

Trump’s speech technique of repeating every sentence twice is so annoying. It’s just so fucking annoying.

0_o

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:12:05am

Baby Snidely Whiplash thinks Trump is SO MUCH TEH FUNNIES!!!!!!!

Click to Reveal
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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:12:41am

re: #187 De Kolta Chair

Or as the National Trust calls it, Litterbugger Off Day. ;-)

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That reminds me, I still haven’t started cleaning the house up for Christmas supper.

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Lidane  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:13:03am

*facepalm*

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:13:08am

re: #199 Dark_Falcon

No, I won’t. Like the song says, I love the Republican party and I’ll do anything for it, but I won’t do that. If Trump were to be the nominee, i would see voting against him as being for the good of the GOP.

Is Trump really such an outlier? He’s just the best one at fanning the right wing rage. The other guys are just as anti-everything, they just pretend to hide it better.

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:14:30am

The only disaster for the Republican Party greater than Donald Trump as the nominee for President of the United States would be Trump actually winning the election.

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Lidane  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:14:36am

re: #205 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Is Trump really such an outlier? He’s just the best one at fanning the right wing rage. The other guys are just as anti-everything, they just pretend to hide it better.

That’s the problem. Trump exposes the willful ignorance and rank bigotry that’s endemic in the Republican party base. He’s pulled back the curtain for everyone to see just how dysfunctional the GOP is.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:15:13am

re: #205 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Is Trump really such an outlier? He’s just the best one at fanning the right wing rage. The other guys are just as anti-everything, they just pretend to hide it better.

Yep, Kasich is a “moderate” despite being as anti-choice as Ted Cruz.

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Lidane  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:17:17am

re: #206 Dark_Falcon

The only disaster for the Republican Party greater than Donald Trump as the nominee for President of the United States would be Trump actually winning the election.

You’d better hope that some folks in the party have a crisis of conscience if Trump becomes the nominee. If there’s not a “Vote For the Democrat, It’s Important” movement in the party if Trump is at the top of the ticket, and if the GOP just rallies around him because party uber alles, then you might as well just write them off as a national party.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:17:30am
“I’m sorry, I can’t help you — you’re subject to bird law now.”
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William Lewis  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:18:20am

re: #199 Dark_Falcon

No, I won’t. Like the song says, I love the Republican party and I’ll do anything for it, but I won’t do that. If Trump were to be the nominee, i would see voting against him as being for the good of the GOP.

Yet you have said that you’d vote for Cruz over Clinton and Cruz is, in terms of actual beliefs, a far worse danger to the nation than Trump. But because he’s not as openly pandering to the hate elements in your party you’ll still vote for him?

I’m sorry DF, there is nothing that can be done to salvage the Grand Old Fascist party. If you are serious about a real conservative party, along Burke’s lines rather than those of Buckley & his quaint racism as espoused by the National Racists Online, you’ll realize that you need to create a new party.

All that’s left of the GOF is a rotting corpse and the stench of it is getting worse.

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Lidane  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:19:04am
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Dark_Falcon  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:19:19am

re: #205 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Is Trump really such an outlier?

Yes, he is. The man has a dislike of women as wide as the Mississippi at Rock Island, IL. He also has an ego that will not allow him to accept having made a mistake and an utter contempt for the Constitution, federalism and liberty. That makes him an outlier.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:20:24am

re: #199 Dark_Falcon

No, I won’t. Like the song says, I love the Republican party and I’ll do anything for it, but I won’t do that. If Trump were to be the nominee, i would see voting against him as being for the good of the GOP.

Yet Cruz, Rubio, and the rest of the clown car are just as reactionary, extremist, and pushing policies that are antithetical to the rights of all Americans. Yet you’re willing to vote for them, even as their policies are indistinguishable from those of Trump.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:20:41am

re: #213 Dark_Falcon

Yes, he is. The man has a dislike of women as wide as the Mississippi at Rock Island, IL. He also has an ego that will not allow him to accept having made a mistake and an utter contempt for the Constitution, federalism and liberty. That makes him an outlier.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *breath* hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:21:09am

re: #213 Dark_Falcon

Yes, he is. The man has a dislike of women as wide as the Mississippi at Rock Island, IL. He also has an ego that will not allow him to accept having made a mistake and an utter contempt for the Constitution, federalism and liberty. That makes him an outlier.

Makes him a Republican.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:21:21am

Donald Trump Quits (Full CNN Interview)

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:23:43am

re: #215 Timothy Watson

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *breath* hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

More like La La La La La La *cover ears* LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA

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Lidane  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:24:03am

re: #213 Dark_Falcon

And yet his policy positions (such as they are) really aren’t that much different than what Cruz or any of the other Republicans in the race are selling. He’s just more blunt and vulgar about it all.

It’s an article of faith in the GOP that 11 million undocumented people need to be deported and that the border needs to be secured. Trump turned that into shipping off 11 million people in two years, then building a wall and having Mexico pay for it.

It’s an article of faith in the GOP that not only does ISIS need to be stopped, but that we can wipe out terrorism if we kill enough people. Trump turned that into killing the relatives and associates of known terrorists.

How is any of what he says really that different from the rest of the candidates in the race?

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makeitstop  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:24:43am

re: #179 Dark_Falcon

And it’s time for you to fuck off.

Heh, nice retort. As classy as your presidential frontrunner when he hears something that threatens the info bubble.

But no, Dark. Not fucking off any time soon. Sorry to disappoint.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:26:26am

Good one, lawhawk. It’s funny because it’s true.

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freetoken  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:26:50am

The big news is the Quinnipiac poll which shows Cruz dramatically closing on Trump nationally.

If Cruz keeps up this momentum, I wonder if in the Jan debate Trump will finally turn on Cruz full blast?

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andres  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:27:00am

re: #206 Dark_Falcon

The only disaster for the Republican Party greater than Donald Trump as the nominee for President of the United States would be Trump any Republican actually winning the election.

Fix that for you.

Trump isn’t the problem. If you listen closely to the other guys (and a gal) running for President, they all say almost the same thing, at varying degrees of dog whistling.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:27:02am
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andres  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:29:21am

re: #221 De Kolta Chair

Good one, lawhawk. It’s funny because it’s true.

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Good God! I thought I was having it bad, seeing Christmas articles since mid October.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:29:54am

re: #206 Dark_Falcon

The only disaster for the Republican Party greater than Donald Trump as the nominee for President of the United States would be Trump actually winning the election.

Your prioritization of party before country does not go unnoticed.

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:30:58am

Charles, can we get a mute button?

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:31:01am

What’s with all the GOP coloring books? Is that the reading level of their base?

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ipsos  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:31:31am

re: #225 andres

Some year I’m going to start in, oh, August or so and try to chronicle EVERY bit of Christmas this Jew sees and hears in the culture around me through to the end of the year. Every store display, every song on the radio, every decorated house I drive past, all of it.

Won’t change any minds, but it would be an interesting experiment at least.

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freetoken  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:32:34am

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:32:58am

As of now, I’m declaring a War On Paulidays.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:34:18am

re: #225 andres

Good God! I thought I was having it bad, seeing Christmas articles since mid October.

Some stores were putting out Christmas-related items Labor Day. I think even Costco was on that, with Christmas trees and decorations being put out even before Halloween and Thanksgiving related stuff.

Yeah, it’s some war. Christmas won. Or at least the business of Christmas won.

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freetoken  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:34:24am

Hmm… the pdf isn’t loading for me.

So, here’s the latest Qunnipiac poll.

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Lidane  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:34:25am

Mental health break:

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FormerDirtDart  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:35:05am

Merry GOPmas

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:36:01am

re: #229 ipsos

A few stores, like Nordstroms wont put out Christmas stuff until after Thanksgiving, but for many others, they’re pushing Christmas themes in their stores even before the leaves begin turning.

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freetoken  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:36:03am
Republicans say 70 - 24 percent that Trump has a good chance of winning.

So there.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:36:16am
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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:36:45am

re: #230 freetoken

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Hot air?

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:37:46am

re: #230 freetoken

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I’ve seen blanks before, but your blank is yoooooggge.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:38:28am

I have to wonder the same thing. There really isn’t much about Trump that separates him from people DF said has said he would vote for in a GE. Hell if anything, I appreciate Trump more since he’s honest about what he is. As opposed to a scumbag like DF’s pal Rubio who tries to act like a moderate and “above it” all the while opposed to ALL legal abortion and essentially believing that the states can forbid interracial marriage as well as same sex.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:40:11am
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Lidane  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:40:34am

re: #241 HappyWarrior

I have to wonder the same thing. There really isn’t much about Trump that separates him from people DF said has said he would vote for in a GE. Hell if anything, I appreciate Trump more since he’s honest about what he is. As opposed to a scumbag like DF’s pal Rubio who tries to act like a moderate and “above it” all the while opposed to ALL legal abortion and essentially believing that the states can forbid interracial marriage as well as same sex.

Rubio is the bought and paid for spokesman for PNAC. Voting for him is an endorsement of the same lying neocon hacks that have had us stuck in the Middle East since 2004.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:40:37am

re: #234 Lidane

Reminds me a bit of the following exchange by Commander Scott from Star Trek:

Drunk Scotty

Simple is sometimes best. That goes double for a gin and tonic. Though, there is a caveat for that - if you use good ingredients, it will make it that much better.

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Bubblehead II  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:40:37am

re: #233 freetoken

Hmm… the pdf isn’t loading for me.

So, here’s the latest Qunnipiac poll.

Loaded fine for me.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:41:08am

re: #243 Lidane

Rubio is the bought and paid for spokesman for PNAC. Voting for him is an endorsement of the same lying neocon hacks that have had us stuck in the Middle East since 2004.

Yeah not to mention his ultra hawkishness. Good point.

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:41:19am

re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I’d put scotch in my eggnog, but I’m afraid it would transform into haggis.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:41:26am

re: #243 Lidane

Rubio is the bought and paid for spokesman for PNAC. Voting for him is an endorsement of the same lying neocon hacks that have had us stuck in the Middle East since 2004.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:42:23am

Nothing closeted about this, nope.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:43:07am

re: #248 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Yes, me lobbyist overlord.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:44:07am

re: #249 De Kolta Chair

Nothing closeted about this, nope.

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But I thought there was a war on Christmas. So much for that.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:45:03am

re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Bourbon.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:46:11am
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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:46:11am

re: #252 HappyWarrior

Bourbon.

Dump the egg nog in the trash, and go straight to the bourbon. Or whiskey. Or rum.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:46:46am

re: #254 lawhawk

Dump the egg nog in the trash, and go straight to the bourbon. Or whiskey. Or rum.

Ha yep!

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andres  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:47:06am

re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I understand. Neither egg nog should be taken without any booze in them.

Speaking of which, I gotta go make some coquito for gifts.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:47:38am

re: #253 Dr. Matt

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A REpublican with no sense of economic reality? Waht a shock.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:48:58am

The war on guns is going about as predicted.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:49:00am

re: #253 Dr. Matt

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Is that the same Mike Lee (R-UT) who directed Do The White Thing?

I’ll see myself out…

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:50:00am

re: #258 lawhawk

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The war on guns is going about as predicted.

To be expected I guess. We spend way too much on guns as a society.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:50:20am

re: #259 De Kolta Chair

Is that the same Mike Lee (R-UT) who directed Do The White Thing?

I’ll see myself out…

Throws popcorn.

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freetoken  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:51:48am

Polls may actually underestimate Trump’s support, study finds

[…]

Their results suggest that the higher figure probably provides the more accurate measure. Some significant number of Trump supporters, especially those with college educations, are “less likely to say that they support him when they’re talking to a live human” than when they are in the “anonymous environment” of an online survey, said the firm’s polling director, Kyle Dropp.

With Trump dominating political debates in both parties, gauging his level of support has become a crucial puzzle. The Morning Consult study provides one piece of the solution, although many other uncertainties remain.

Among the complicating factors is this: The gap between online and telephone surveys has narrowed significantly in surveys taken in the last few weeks. That could suggest that Republicans who were reluctant to admit to backing Trump in the past have become more willing to do so recently.

The “base” is hardening, I gather.

Whether it is Trump supporters or Cruz supporters, the “base” is coming to embrace it’s own identity at the far edge of the traditional GOP party. The center of mass of the GOP has now shifted clearly toward the discontented, the angry, those in full backlash against the 21st century (and the 20th century too.)

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Lidane  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:51:58am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:52:42am

A Wisconsin Republican state senator has been accused of inciting a “vigilante uprising” after he called on law-abiding gun owners to “clean our society of scum bags”

Rep. Bob Gannon (R) responded to a recent shooting at East Towne Mall in Madison by saying that the incident could have been stopped if more people were carrying guns. During the incident over the weekend, a teen was shot in the leg and suffered non-life threatening injuries.

“Wisconsin does not have a death penalty law, but with significant practice and careful aim, law-abiding citizens can help clean our society of these scumbags,” Gannon said in a statement on Monday. “Criminals no longer have any fear of our courts or our prisons, so it’s time that the citizens of this fine state stand up and fight back.”

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:54:08am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:54:24am
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Romantic Heretic  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:54:37am

re: #258 lawhawk

It is the season where a person shows their faith after all. So followers of the American faith (as opposed to the American nation) are going to buy holy icons of their faith.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:54:52am

re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth

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So much for law and order eh cons? Fuckers just want gun violence because ti gets their little right wing wee wees going.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:55:53am
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Lidane  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:56:27am

re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth

with significant practice and careful aim

*cough*

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:57:46am
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Romantic Heretic  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:59:08am

re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gannon said in a statement on Monday. “Criminals Dissidents like Democrats and RINOS no longer have any fear of our courts or our prisons our power, so it’s time that the citizens of this fine state stand up and fight back kill them until they learn to keep their mouths shut.”

What the fascist scumbag really meant.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 22, 2015 • 7:59:16am

Did anyone mention this last night?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:01:15am
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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:01:31am

“Further restriction”? How have GUNS been restricted in any way Ms. Muhgunz?

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:02:19am

re: #273 Timothy Watson

Did anyone mention this last night?

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That’s disgusting!

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:03:30am

re: #275 The Vicious Babushka

“Further restriction”? How have GUNS been restricted in any way Ms. Muhgunz?

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Further restirction? Geee I heard that when people hoarded guns in 1996, I heard it in 2008, and 2012 too? Your guns aren’t being restricted Dana. Look at your own gun collection, you probably have more now than you do when Obama became president, does that indicate any sort of gun restriction. Frankly though, your guns should be limited since you clearly aren’t responsible with them and they’re a status thing with you.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:04:06am

re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth

You know what’s really sad…things like this don’t shock me any more. It should shock, offend, upset and this loser should immediately lose his seat. But that’s not America any longer.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:04:20am

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Of all the lame issues, this one may take the prize. I’m not even a big Clinton fan and this one really pisses me off because of how stupid it is.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:05:02am

re: #278 WhatEVs

You know what’s really sad…things like this don’t shock me any more. It should shock, offend, upset and this loser should immediately lose his seat. But that’s not America any longer.

I know what you mean. I’ve given up being shocked by what GOP memebrs say. It’s a whole party of crazy drunk uncles at Thanksgiving.

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Lidane  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:05:24am

This explains a lot:

Facebook Post

Two notes: First, the Garfield art was done by Jim Davis. It’s legit. Second, the typo in Vader’s name was left in by Berkeley Breathed since he didn’t want to edit any of Davis’s work.

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:05:44am

re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Idiot thinks using deterrents is the only way to reduce crime. Hell, he thinks deterrents are effective, which implies he only follows the law because he’s afraid not to.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:07:35am

re: #276 Barefoot Grin

That’s disgusting!

What did it say? I couldn’t read it.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:08:34am

re: #283 WhatEVs

What did it say? I couldn’t read it.

I can’t make out of all it but “I think I may need a bathroom break.” is part of it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:08:51am
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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:10:48am

re: #285 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Aka the Republican base. Cruz however is leading Trump with boys who eat their own boogers. A key demographic.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:11:21am

re: #285 Backwoods_Sleuth

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:14:04am

I have a feeling that if we do elect Clinton, it’s going to unleash inner sexism the way Obama’s election unleashed inner racism. We’re already seeing it with how Trump in particular treats Clinton and women in general but it’s not just Trump. There’s been stories that show John Kasich being quite condescending to women including his own daughter as well.

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Lidane  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:16:28am

re: #288 HappyWarrior

I have a feeling that if we do elect Clinton, it’s going to unleash inner sexism the way Obama’s election unleashed inner racism. We’re already seeing it with how Trump in particular treats Clinton and women in general but it’s not just Trump. There’s been stories that show John Kasich being quite condescending to women including his own daughter as well.

Oh, no question. If Hillary gets elected, expect 4-8 years of the worst sexist impulses from the right along with repeated attempts to impeach her because Benghazi.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:18:28am

re: #289 Lidane

Oh, no question. If Hillary gets elected, expect 4-8 years of the worst sexist impulses from the right along with repeated attempts to impeach her because Benghazi.

We need the Senate and god I’d love the House back but I think that’s a tall order for both so I’d just take one back. We need to kick the Republicans ass and make sure their ass stays kicked.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:19:49am

re: #283 WhatEVs

What did it say? I couldn’t read it.

It’s the “I need to go to the bathroom” note that George W. Bush sent to Condoleezza Rice while at the United Nations.
snopes.com

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:20:13am

re: #291 Timothy Watson

It’s the “I need to go to the bathroom” note that George W. Bush sent to Condoleezza Rice while at the United Nations.
snopes.com

Oh yeah, that’s right.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:23:15am

re: #284 HappyWarrior

I can’t make out of all it but “I think I may need a bathroom break.” is part of it.

Either that or “Freedom on the March!.”

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:24:01am

re: #291 Timothy Watson

It’s the “I need to go to the bathroom” note that George W. Bush sent to Condoleezza Rice while at the United Nations.
snopes.com

Ah. Thank you.

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:26:38am

Mental health break:

Facebook Post

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ObserverArt  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:27:18am

re: #152 lawhawk

Dark,

In 2012, the GOP was already moving to the far right, and they began considering Mitt Romney a RINO. Today? The GOP wouldn’t even give Romney the time of day. Heck, they disregard the last GOP president to hold the WH - GWB. When GWB is too moderate for this GOP, that should send up all kinds of red flags.

— CUT- -

On and on it goes, and where it stops? Nowhere good. Unless GOPers who should know better stand up against the nutters and put their principles ahead of a party that has completely gone off the rails.

Nice post. But, why waste your time? There will be nothing to ever change Dark_Falcon’s set-in-his-ways mind, stance, party, thinking, etc.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:28:02am

Hmmm….

A new report by the Pulitzer-winning veteran journalist Seymour Hersh says the Joints Chiefs of Staff has indirectly supported Bashar al-Assad in an effort to help him defeat jihadist groups. Hersh reports the Joint Chiefs sent intelligence via Russia, Germany and Israel on the understanding it would be transmitted to help Assad push back Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State. Hersh also claims the military even undermined a U.S. effort to arm Syrian rebels in a bid to prove it was serious about helping Assad fight their common enemies. Hersh says the Joints Chiefs’ maneuvering was rooted in several concerns, including the U.S. arming of unvetted Syrian rebels with jihadist ties, a belief the administration was overly focused on confronting Assad’s ally in Moscow, and anger the White House was unwilling to challenge Turkey and Saudi Arabia over their support of extremist groups in Syria. Hersh joins us to detail his claims and respond to his critics.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:29:46am

re: #288 HappyWarrior

I have a feeling that if we do elect Clinton, it’s going to unleash inner sexism the way Obama’s election unleashed inner racism. We’re already seeing it with how Trump in particular treats Clinton and women in general but it’s not just Trump. There’s been stories that show John Kasich being quite condescending to women including his own daughter as well.

I fully expect it. It’s another boil that needs to be lanced. Not only could this election see the end of the current republican party but it could really reshape things as more people see what a lot of us have been saying for years. Is it going to suck? Yeah, it’s sucked to live through watching what the right has done to Obama and we already know what they’ll have in store for Clinton.

I grew up around Trump’s current supporters (most of the people I want to high school with and many family members are all rabid trumpistas) and I knew even then what the right was about as a kid. It’s going to be a long year.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:29:50am

re: #296 ObserverArt

Nice post. But, why waste your time? There will be nothing to ever change Dark_Falcon’s set-in-his-ways mind, stance, party, thinking, etc.

The most ironic thing is that he is supporting a label and nothing more. The GOP has gone so far to the right and the democrats, for the most part, followed along. Voting what used to be sentient Republicans is now voting for Democrats. There are virtually no liberals left any longer.

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Lidane  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:31:00am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:31:10am

re: #295 Teukka

Mental health break:

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heh.
took me a while…

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:31:58am

re: #299 WhatEVs

The most ironic thing is that he is supporting a label and nothing more. The GOP has gone so far to the right and the democrats, for the most part, followed along. Voting what used to be sentient Republicans is now voting for Democrats. There are virtually no liberals left any longer.

What gets me upset is he’ll condemn the extremism of someone like say Cruz but then tell us he’d vote for him over Clinton. It really is like a sports team to him, that’s all I can conclude.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:33:09am

re: #298 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Misogyny against Clinton started long ago. This isn’t even the start…but it’s pretty graphic in its misogyny.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:33:17am

re: #300 Lidane

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My favorite Mel Brooks movie.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:33:43am

re: #303 WhatEVs

Misogyny against Clinton started long ago. This isn’t even the start…but it’s pretty graphic in its misogyny.

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True, guess what I meant, it’s only going to get worse.

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:33:54am

re: #295 Teukka

Mental health break:

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7 from bottom, 4 from right.

Now, find the penguin.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:34:03am

re: #303 WhatEVs

Misogyny against Clinton started long ago. This isn’t even the start…but it’s pretty graphic in its misogyny.

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They are terrified of vaginas…

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Kent Dorfman  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:35:30am

Interesting read on how someone can’t accept the consequences of his or her actions.

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:35:51am

re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth

They are terrified of vaginas…

So should we all.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:36:34am
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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:36:53am

re: #305 HappyWarrior

True, guess what I meant, it’s only going to get worse.

Of course it will. Honestly, it is going to take a lot of people dying off for racism and the other ism’s and gyst’s to go away…another generation at least. Sure, there will always be people who hate, but as time goes by, as generations die off, it will get better.

I have to remind myself at times that the Inquisition went on for 400 years. How many generations was that? How many generations worth of people lived their entire lives under that?

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:37:18am

re: #309 b_sharp

So should we all.

Why? Most people began their life by being freaking squeezed out thru one.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:37:49am

re: #311 WhatEVs

Of course it will. Honestly, it is going to take a lot of people dying off for racism and the other ism’s and gyst’s to go away…another generation at least. Sure, there will always be people who hate, but as time goes by, as generations die off, it will get better.

I have to remind myself at times that the Inquisition went on for 400 years. How many generations was that? How many generations worth of people lived their entire lives under that?

400 years? That’s easily 10 generations.

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:38:27am

re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The loons will be out & sightings of a fat old elf flying through the air in a sleigh pulled by giant bats who look like reindeer will abound.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:38:54am
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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:39:09am

re: #312 Teukka

Why? Most people alive began life by being freaking squeezed out thru one.

They have immense power.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:39:32am

re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh.
took me a while…

Me too!

re: #306 b_sharp

7 from bottom, 4 from right.

Now, find the penguin.

Really? Yellow scarf? If not, I don’t see it.

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:39:49am

re: #315 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Where’s the pickup?

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Kent Dorfman  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:39:51am

re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth

Rudolph Screams

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:39:53am

re: #316 b_sharp

They have immense power.

A vagina is stronger than a penis.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:40:27am

re: #315 Backwoods_Sleuth

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It has a face, and hair like Donald Trump.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:41:16am

re: #321 The Vicious Babushka

It has a face, and hair like Donald Trump.

Yeah but it makes much more beautiful sounds than Trump ever does so I think we can call it a draw :).

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:41:23am
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Teukka  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:41:24am

re: #316 b_sharp

They have immense power.

Indeed.
re: #320 HappyWarrior

A vagina is stronger than a penis.

My point exactly.

So what about creating an idiom about having one big set of brass ovaries? :P

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:41:26am

re: #317 WhatEVs

Me too!

Really? Yellow scarf? If not, I don’t see it.

There isn’t one. I just wanted to pull some legs.

But, yes, the yellow scarf is the one that reminded me of a penguin too.

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:41:45am

re: #320 HappyWarrior

A vagina is stronger than a penis.

Tell me about it.

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ObserverArt  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:42:37am

re: #179 Dark_Falcon

And it’s time for you to fuck off.

Wow…just like Trump.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:42:46am

re: #325 b_sharp

There isn’t one. I just wanted to pull some legs.

But, yes, the yellow scarf is the one that reminded me of a penguin too.

Ouch! Stop it! (rubbing legs) :-)

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Kent Dorfman  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:44:05am

Betty White quote:

Why do people say “grow some balls”? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:44:34am

re: #326 b_sharp

Tell me about it.

I think I saw a post a few days back about what Trevor Noah said about how it’s stupid to call someone a pussy. to imply they’re weak.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:45:14am

re: #329 Kent Dorfman

Betty White quote:

Heh good old Betty, she’s a treasure.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:47:34am
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:47:40am

re: #305 HappyWarrior

True, guess what I meant, it’s only going to get worse.

That’s my take as well.

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Kent Dorfman  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:48:01am

re: #331 HappyWarrior

Of course I pronounce Betty White annoyingly, along with Wil Wheaton and Cool Whip.
Family Guy- Best Of Cool Whip

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:48:41am

re: #332 Charles Johnson

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Gee, Jim, considerign your asshole pal Trump actually uses Nazi sources, you can shut your ugly face up.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:49:15am

re: #334 Kent Dorfman

Of course I pronounce Betty White annoyingly, along with Wil Wheaton and Cool Whip.
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Gotta love the King of Comedy spoof in that episode (OT), aquile.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:49:16am

re: #327 ObserverArt

Wow…just like Trump.

Trump’s base in one line.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:49:46am

re: #333 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

That’s my take as well.

These guys won’t be satified until a conservative white Christian straight guy is back in the WH.

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Shiplord Kirel  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:50:38am
“got schlonged”

Sheesh! Billionaire robber barons just aren’t what they used to be. Except for the occasional “public be damned” outburst (by William Vanderbilt), people like Rockefeller and Carnegie were almost unfailingly dignified in public and courteous to those around them, even as they were picking their pockets. It was part of their image. There was an aura around them that had to be maintained, lest the proles realize they were human after all and start asking inconvenient questions.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:50:55am

re: #334 Kent Dorfman

That cracks me up every time I watch it. wHew!

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:52:17am

re: #340 WhatEVs

That cracks me up every time I watch it. wHew!

Good old fashioned American fun. I forget if Sandra Bernhard used the line on Jerry Lewis in the movie. That movie FWIW I think is Scorsese’s most underrated. One of my favorite dark comedies.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:54:06am

re: #338 HappyWarrior

These guys won’t be satified until a conservative white Christian straight guy is back in the WH.

And with shifting demographics that becomes less and less likely to happen. The right in this country refuses to accept any progress and yearns for the mythical land they think they grew up in. Take for instance where I grew up. It was a small town, looked a lot like it did going back generations and most of the families had been there for generations. Nothing had “changed”.

Then introduce the internet and cable, the outside world is changing and the fear is that change is coming to the town as well (and it did even if they were denying it) and it is really too much for a lot of them to process. So rather than adapting they just regress and thus “make america great again” and “take our country back” become their slogans.

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Jenner7  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:54:48am

Morning Lizards. We are getting quite a bit of snow. I’ve already slipped and got a boo boo. Supposed to snow on Christmas. Yay! We’ve needed this for a long time.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:55:41am

re: #343 Jenner7

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Morning Lizards. We are getting quite a bit of snow. I’ve already slipped and got a boo boo. Supposed to snow on Christmas. Yay! We’ve needed this for a long time.

down here in So-Cal we are getting some much needed rain but the wind is ridiculous, one gust nearly knocked me off balance on the train platform.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:56:22am

re: #342 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

And with shifting demographics that becomes less and less likely to happen. The right in this country refuses to accept any progress and yearns for the mythical land they think they grew up in. Take for instance where I grew up. It was a small town, looked a lot like it did going back generations and most of the families had been there for generations. Nothing had “changed”.

Then introduce the internet and cable, the outside world is changing and the fear is that change is coming to the town as well (and it did even if they were denying it) and it is really too much for a lot of them to process. So rather than adapting they just regress and thus “make america great again” and “take our country back” become their slogans.

Right, they’re afraid of a changing America. And I can see why change can be intimidating. I felt that way when I first had to live on my own in college but part of being an adult is growing up. So ti’s time for them to accept that a son of a Kenyan immigration whose middle name is Hussein can be president just like their sons or a woman named Hillary can as well. And I could say the same about things like gay marriage and other issues. Conservatism in its present form in this country is all about rejecting modernity with anger.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:57:00am

Gah. Time for a meeting I do not want to go to. Cheers.

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Whack-A-Mole  Dec 22, 2015 • 8:59:14am

re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ugh….Someone with some photoshop skills needs to rework that Days Since Being A National Embarrassment pic for Wisconsin. So disheartening to see my home state becoming New Texas.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:00:17am

re: #266 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wrong move, IMO. Someone says something that stupid and insulting to you and you should respond.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:01:36am

re: #334 Kent Dorfman

Or as Trump would say it….

Triumph of the Whill.. /

Thanks, I’ll be here all wheek.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:03:16am

So she’s going to ignore that the GOP will not treat women equally, and are pushing misogynistic policies at every turn.

Gotcha.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:03:36am

Baby Snidely Whiplash making quite the case for Martin Shkreli

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:04:39am

re: #345 HappyWarrior

Right, they’re afraid of a changing America. And I can see why change can be intimidating. I felt that way when I first had to live on my own in college but part of being an adult is growing up. So ti’s time for them to accept that a son of a Kenyan immigration whose middle name is Hussein can be president just like their sons or a woman named Hillary can as well. And I could say the same about things like gay marriage and other issues. Conservatism in its present form in this country is all about rejecting modernity with anger.

Yup. It really is.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:05:26am

re: #351 The Vicious Babushka

Government tax breaks help fund drug development. Government incentives also fund pharmaceutical companies to provide drugs (orphan drug law) for diseases that need treatments, but have too few suffering to make drug companies give a damn.

And those breakthroughs can lead to breakthroughs on other drugs.

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ChuckJager95  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:06:12am
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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:07:16am

re: #351 The Vicious Babushka

Baby Snidely Whiplash making quite the case for Martin Shkreli

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I think he’s the kind of guy who would deride Dr. Salk for refusing to patent the polio vaccine. He really is the ugly face of everything wrong with his ideology.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:07:38am

re: #354 ChuckJager95

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Somehow I think Lil Ben is askeered of rap.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:07:46am

Strychnine or hemlock?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:08:01am

re: #350 lawhawk

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So she’s going to ignore that the GOP will not treat women equally, and are pushing misogynistic policies at every turn.

Gotcha.

She’s a hack on a network filled with them.

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:09:32am

re: #343 Jenner7

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Morning Lizards. We are getting quite a bit of snow. I’ve already slipped and got a boo boo. Supposed to snow on Christmas. Yay! We’ve needed this for a long time.

I hate snow.

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:09:59am

re: #349 lawhawk

Or as Trump would say it….

Triumph of the Whill.. /

Thanks, I’ll be here all wheek.

Why?

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Jenner7  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:12:03am

re: #359 b_sharp

I hate it too.

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:15:58am

re: #361 Jenner7

I hate it too.

Last year we had snow & my snow blower didn’t work.

I had to shovel.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:16:35am

re: #362 b_sharp

Last year we had snow & my snow blower didn’t work.

I had to shovel.

Ouch. Been there, done that, got the blisters.

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blueraven  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:17:00am

re: #297 WhatEVs

Hmmm….

Oh good grief. Seymour Hersh has gone off the deep end (once again). He offers not one iota of proof for his ridiculous allegations.

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:20:03am

re: #363 Eclectic Cyborg

Ouch. Been there, done that, got the blisters.

I cleaned the carb out this summer, so I’m hoping it works now.

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:20:20am

re: #365 b_sharp

I cleaned the carb out this summer, so I’m hoping it works now.

Actually, I better go test it.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:23:11am

I just can’t even

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:24:22am

re: #367 The Vicious Babushka

I just can’t even

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Imagine Alex Jones as the head of the Department of Education.

Yep. I can see Trump doing that.

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makeitstop  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:25:09am

re: #357 jaunte

I think it easily could be a two man race between Donald & me.

He seems to think that he’ll face Trump in the general. He’s forgetting about the woman who’s waiting to take either one of them to the woodshed.

And I think that presents a good choice to the American people.

Sure, a fascist or an end-times loon. Some choice.

/

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:25:40am

re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Wisconsin does not have a death penalty law, but with significant practice and careful aim, law-abiding citizens can help clean our society of these scumbags,” Gannon said in a statement on Monday. “Criminals no longer have any fear of our courts or our prisons, so it’s time that the citizens of this fine state stand up and fight back.”

And there”s the rub. If you wanna defend yourself and family at home, that”s your constitutional right.

But to stop a shooter in a live public setting, you need nerves of steel, good situational awareness and a lot of experience and practice. That is not a skills set you can acquire over the counter at the local Wal Mart sporting goods section.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:26:29am

There he goes again.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:27:31am

re: #368 Dr Lizardo

Imagine Alex Jones as the head of the Department of Education.

Yep. I can see Trump doing that.

Or Martin Shkreli as Surgeon General.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:28:12am

re: #371 Charles Johnson

There he goes again.

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Do a lot of Hillary supporters say they’ll follow Trump to the ends of the earth?

Asking for a friend.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:28:24am

re: #372 Eclectic Cyborg

Or Martin Shkreli as Surgeon General.

Nah…..Food and Drug Administration.

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Bubblehead II  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:28:45am

re: #371 Charles Johnson

There he goes again.

SMOTI obviously didn’t read the part of his Facebook page that shows he’s a Rump supporter.

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teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:29:28am

We have The Donald™ to thank for injecting “shlonged” into the ether.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:33:11am
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BeachDem  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:33:54am

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I am just astonished (not really) that the fucking bathroom break is a “thing” that “very serious newspeople” are still fucking talking about three fucking days after the debate. Spit.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:34:29am

Conservative pundits plumbing new lows.

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ausador  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:35:22am

Hadn’t considered this…

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teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:35:50am

We live in the greatest most fantastic beautiful country in the world, believe me.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:37:19am

My Rant of the Day===>

I’d be happy with either Dem candidate (as far as I can tell O’Malley is running for veep), but, as a Sanders supporter wisecracked in a NY Times comments section today, “Hillary Milhouse Clinton”?

Oh please.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:38:06am

Never forget!!!!

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ObserverArt  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:39:19am

re: #332 Charles Johnson

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That boy just ain’t right.

I know you all say he is the stupidest man on the internet…but he really is so much more than that.

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Mike Lamb  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:39:29am

re: #367 The Vicious Babushka

I just can’t even

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It’s Arizona…you totally can even…

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:40:39am

re: #371 Charles Johnson

There he goes again.

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He’s so pathetic.

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:42:48am

re: #385 Mike Lamb

It’s Arizona…you totally can even…

She’s from Snowflake, AZ, as is Sen. Flake who is a descendant of the ‘Flake’ of SnowFlake. She has favored compulsory church attendance.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:43:08am

re: #383 Dr. Matt

Never forget!!!!

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Put “40 seconds” on there.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:43:21am

re: #387 wrenchwench

She’s from Snowflake, AZ, as is Sen. Flake who is a descendant of the ‘Flake’ of SnowFlake. She has favored compulsory church attendance.

Compulsory church attendance? Yeah no right wing fascism.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:43:56am

re: #364 blueraven

Oh good grief. Seymour Hersh has gone off the deep end (once again). He offers not one iota of proof for his ridiculous allegations.

Yeah, that was really weird.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:43:56am

Dumbass wingnut takes a picture of Donald Trump & puts John Kerry’s name on it==>

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teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:44:14am

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has to be sitting on some real sludge from The Donald’s™ past to be loosed on the public at the most opportune time, like a lurid sex/murder-for-hire scandal.

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William Lewis  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:44:53am

re: #380 ausador

Hadn’t considered this…

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Google machete order. It’s even better.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:45:16am

re: #391 The Vicious Babushka

Dumbass wingnut takes a picture of Donald Trump & puts John Kerry’s name on it==>

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They were okay with terrorists when Reagan was President, REagan even acleld the Contras the heirs of our founding fathers.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:45:38am

re: #392 teleskiguy

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has to be sitting on some real sludge from The Donald’sTM past to be loosed on the public at the most opportune time, like a lurid sex/murder-for-hire scandal.

We can only hope.

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Jebediah, RBG  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:46:19am

re: #229 ipsos

You won’t have time to pee.

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:46:27am

re: #389 HappyWarrior

Compulsory church attendance? Yeah no right wing fascism.

Her campaign website sure is weird. allenforazsenate.com It’s in Japanese.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:46:46am

re: #397 wrenchwench

Her campaign website sure is weird. allenforazsenate.com It’s in Japanese.

That is weird.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:48:48am
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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:48:59am

re: #392 teleskiguy

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has to be sitting on some real sludge from The Donald’sTM past to be loosed on the public at the most opportune time, like a lurid sex/murder-for-hire scandal.

What’s that quote….?

She has Donald fucking a dead boy on video? (something like that)

Isn’t that what it takes to kill a Republican’s campaign these days?

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:49:07am

This Stupid Guy===>

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teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:49:52am
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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:49:54am

re: #400 WhatEVs

What’s that quote….?

She has Donald fucking a dead boy on video? (something like that)

Isn’t that what it takes to kill a Republican’s campaign these days?

Edwin Edwards- A dead girl or live boy. Also vote for the crook.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:50:40am

re: #401 De Kolta Chair

This Stupid Guy===>

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Schlong is dick. He said Hillary got dicked (raped).

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:52:04am

re: #401 De Kolta Chair

This Stupid Guy===>

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His first mistake was attempting to think.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:52:19am

re: #399 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, looks like the Drugs won the war after all.

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Mike Lamb  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:54:03am

re: #401 De Kolta Chair

This Stupid Guy===>

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Oh good fucking grief.

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Whack-A-Mole  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:54:36am

I wasn’t around for this morning’s dustup with Dark Falcon, but I’m going to chime in late here:

It’s really pointless to castigate Dark Falcon about his views towards the GOP and think you can change his mind.

He’s intelligent enough to see the racism, misogyny, selfishness, and hatred that his party has to offer and has enough morals and scruples to know it’s wrong, yet will still vote to put those people in power. He might follow through on his pledge to not vote for Trump (though I personally harbor my doubts about that) but he could never bring himself to vote for a Democrat, even if that Democrat were a better person and had infinitely more to offer the country. He has completely bought into the nonsense that liberals and Democrats are the enemy, to the point that he puts party loyalty above the needs of himself, his fellow citizens, and the country as a whole and do it enthusiastically and without hesitation.

The idea that the GOP is good and Democrats are bad isn’t a political view for him. It’s an article of faith, almost a religious belief. You aren’t going to be able to convince him of the contrary with facts, logic, and common sense, any more than you could convince Ken Ham that evolution is real or Bryan Fisher that gays aren’t lurking behind every tree waiting to pounce on the unsuspecting.

DF doesn’t need convincing - he needs deprogramming.

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Mike Lamb  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:55:21am

re: #404 HappyWarrior

Schlong is dick. He said Hillary got dicked (raped).

Or fucked.

Or that she couldn’t handle things in a “man’s world”.

I don’t think he was going with a rape angle, but the alternatives aren’t much better.

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:55:22am

re: #379 jaunte

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Conservative pundits plumbing new lows.

I saw what you did there.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:55:27am

re: #380 ausador

Hadn’t considered this…

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I saw a similar reaction from a 36-year old who is a student of mine; she’d never seen the original Star Wars trilogy, and when that line drops, “No. I am your father” she was all like “WHAATTT?!”

LOL

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Shiplord Kirel  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:56:46am

re: #402 teleskiguy

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Nah, Vlad would never settle for second place. Otoh, he would have no trouble convincing the average RWNJ that he was actually born in the US, probably to a virgin.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:57:05am

re: #409 Mike Lamb

Or fucked.

Or that she couldn’t handle things in a “man’s world”.

I don’t think he was going with a rape angle, but the alternatives aren’t much better.

Yeah fuckced is probably more likely.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:57:22am

WTF

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:57:55am

re: #408 Whack-A-Mole

DF doesn’t need convincing - he needs deprogramming.

Sometimes, life arranges deprogramming all on its own, a sequence of events which jars the mindless sheep out of their sleep.

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Jenner7  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:58:25am

re: #414 Dr. Matt

Jeebus. Are they trying to get our President killed??? Damn.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:58:30am

re: #414 Dr. Matt

*headdesk*

Have the qualifications to work for SS been lowered or something? I swear that department has had more mishaps in the past three years than in the 10 before that.

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:58:45am

re: #414 Dr. Matt

WTF

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BeachDem  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:58:57am

And of course…

Fox News host Eric Bolling resurrected the theory that Chelsea Clinton, who is expecting a second child, “timed out” her pregnancies to boost her mother Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on Monday’s episode of the “O’Reilly Factor.”

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:59:16am

The problem is DF thinks WE are the ones who need deprogramming…and he’s not going to waver from that.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:59:39am

“She was favored to win, and she got schlonged,”

the same thing could happen to you, asshole

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 9:59:58am

Good news:

I just tested my snow blower & it works fine. Started on the first rev & ran smooth as Trump in a vat of H2SO4.

I know, I know. I’m posting inane meaningless drivel, but frankly the US process to select a new president is insanely long & brings out too much derp for me to handle in bites larger than an O’Henry bar floating in your neighbour’s pool for 3 weeks.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:00:02am

re: #419 BeachDem

And of course…

Fox News host Eric Bolling resurrected the theory that Chelsea Clinton, who is expecting a second child, “timed out” her pregnancies to boost her mother Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on Monday’s episode of the “O’Reilly Factor.”

talkingpointsmemo.com

Now can you imagine if this kind of crap was sadi about Fiorina or any woman Republican expecting grandchildren? Congratulations ot Chelsea btw. Bolling can go choke on his own baby cock.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:00:21am

re: #419 BeachDem

Uhh, she had the other one last year. There were no presidential elections last year. WTF?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:00:40am

re: #421 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

“She was favored to win, and she got schlonged,”

the same thing could happen to you, asshole

I’m going ot enjoy watching this asshole lose.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:01:25am

Really I’ve never been a big Clinton fan but the right wing needs to shut their fucking mouths about this sutpid shit.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:01:55am

I wonder if we’ll ever see a female president pregnant while in office…

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:02:39am

re: #427 Eclectic Cyborg

I wonder if we’ll ever see a female president pregnant while in office…

Maybe but we’d need a young president obviously. We haven’t had a president younger than 45 since JFK was elected.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:03:16am

re: #417 Eclectic Cyborg

*headdesk*

Have the qualifications to work for SS been lowered or something? I swear that department has had more mishaps in the past three years than in the 10 before that.

Over the weekend I was listening to an interview with Dan Bongino who is a former USSS agent that is running for congress. He said in the past such mistakes were kept in-house and rarely brought to the public’s knowledge. He believes the age of social media/instant media is allowing such events to be more easily disseminated.

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blueraven  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:03:24am

re: #427 Eclectic Cyborg

I wonder if we’ll ever see a female president pregnant while in office…

Well you have to be at least 35 years old, so the chances diminish somewhat after that.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:03:59am

re: #429 Dr. Matt

Over the weekend I was listening to an interview with Dan Bongino who is a former USSS agent that is running for congress. He said in the past such mistakes were kept in-house and rarely brought to the public’s knowledge. He believes the age of social media/instant media is allowing such events to be more easily disseminated.

That sounds about right ot me.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:04:46am

re: #430 blueraven

Well you have to be at least 35 years old, so the chances diminish somewhat after that.

Yeah true though people are having children later these days.

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Shiplord Kirel  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:05:00am

re: #380 ausador

Can’t prove it now, but I actually guessed the big revelation before I saw Empire Strikes Back.
A friend of mine returned from seeing it the first night and declared, “There’s a fantastic surprise toward the end but I won’t give it away.”
I said, “Darth Vader is Luke’s father.”
He was dumbfounded. “How did you know?”
“I’ve read Joseph Campbell.”

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Whack-A-Mole  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:05:00am

re: #427 Eclectic Cyborg

Though medically it’s certainly possible, it’s unlikely given the age requirements of the office. Besides, the stress of being in the office would probably be a very big hurdle to overcome in terms of safely carrying a child to term.

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BeachDem  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:05:15am

re: #424 Eclectic Cyborg

Uhh, she had the other one last year. There were no presidential elections last year. WTF?

But she knew Hillary would run for something sometime, so reasons.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:05:51am

re: #421 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

“She was favored to win, and she got schlonged,”

the same thing could happen to you, asshole

Trump could’ve simply said, “She was favored to win, and she got screwed over” without resorting to a word like “schlonged”. I presume he wanted to say “…and she got fucked (over)”. I’ve heard that use…..”Oh, man, I got fucked by the boss today when I didn’t get the promotion. I thought it was in the bag.”

But that’s Trump for you.

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ObserverArt  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:05:57am

re: #408 Whack-A-Mole

I wasn’t around for this morning’s dustup with Dark Falcon, but I’m going to chime in late here:

It’s really pointless to castigate Dark Falcon about his views towards the GOP and think you can change his mind.

He’s intelligent enough to see the racism, misogyny, selfishness, and hatred that his party has to offer and has enough morals and scruples to know it’s wrong, yet will still vote to put those people in power. He might follow through on his pledge to not vote for Trump (though I personally harbor my doubts about that) but he could never bring himself to vote for a Democrat, even if that Democrat were a better person and had infinitely more to offer the country. He has completely bought into the nonsense that liberals and Democrats are the enemy, to the point that he puts party loyalty above the needs of himself, his fellow citizens, and the country as a whole and do it enthusiastically and without hesitation.

The idea that the GOP is good and Democrats are bad isn’t a political view for him. It’s an article of faith, almost a religious belief. You aren’t going to be able to convince him of the contrary with facts, logic, and common sense, any more than you could convince Ken Ham that evolution is real or Bryan Fisher that gays aren’t lurking behind every tree waiting to pounce on the unsuspecting.

DF doesn’t need convincing - he needs deprogramming.

He will never be deprogrammed. This all seems to be much deeper than that. Ingrained from birth and never to be challenged.

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gwangung  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:06:21am

re: #429 Dr. Matt

Over the weekend I was listening to an interview with Dan Bongino who is a former USSS agent that is running for congress. He said in the past such mistakes were kept in-house and rarely brought to the public’s knowledge. He believes the age of social media/instant media is allowing such events to be more easily disseminated.

Or leaked strategically for some ulterior purpose.

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retired cynic  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:07:26am

re: #367 The Vicious Babushka

I just can’t even

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Wow: looks like Dolores Umbridge!

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:08:05am
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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:08:56am

We have had one president become a father for the first time as president.re: #440 lawhawk

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Won’t stop fatheads like Christie from lying about Obama though.

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blueraven  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:09:07am

re: #432 HappyWarrior

Yeah true though people are having children later these days.

Both of my kids were born after I was over 35. (35 and 38) I can’t imagine the stress level though. Age does matter with pregnancy and I was in pretty good shape.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:09:42am

Look at Baby Snidely Whiplash with a light saber==>

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:10:32am

re: #442 blueraven

Both of my kids were born after I was over 35. (35 and 38) I can’t imagine the stress level though. Age does matter with pregnancy and I was in pretty good shape.

Yeah being President and being pregnant. i can’t imagine.

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Whack-A-Mole  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:11:20am

re: #437 ObserverArt

He will never be deprogrammed. This all seems to be much deeper than that. Ingrained from birth and never to be challenged.

I agree. Nothing we can ever do is going to change his mind and that was my point. It’s a waste of time to try to convince him that anyone with a D after their name isn’t an enemy. Call out bullshit where you see it but, when doing so, don’t harbor any illusions about bringing him over to the other side. It’s not going to happen.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:11:33am

Anyhow I’m hoping the Clintons get a boy. If you’re going to have two kids, I like that symmetry though I know Chelsea and her family will be happy with eitehr as they should.

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sagehen  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:14:36am

re: #434 Whack-A-Mole

Though medically it’s certainly possible, it’s unlikely given the age requirements of the office. Besides, the stress of being in the office would probably be a very big hurdle to overcome in terms of safely carrying a child to term.

Maybe a pregnant Veep suddenly elevated through tragedy…

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Nojay UK  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:15:36am

re: #440 lawhawk

Any time I hear the phrase “war on police” I am reminded of this image from the excellent Shorpy historical picture archive.

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ausador  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:16:12am

“Liberty Council” showing how Orwellian their name is once again…

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:17:24am

re: #449 ausador

“Liberty Council” showing how Orwellian their name is once again…

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My home county. And look another “Christian” organization who sees Christianity as a license to be a dick to someone for being different.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:17:52am

re: #449 ausador

Aren’t these the same nutjobs that were working for Kim Davis?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:17:59am

re: #450 HappyWarrior

My home county. And look another “Christian” organization who sees Christianity as a license to be a dick to someone for being different.

says so right there in the bible, you know…

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:18:11am

re: #449 ausador

“Liberty Council” showing how Orwellian their name is once again…

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Looks like someone has been fondling the grape a little too much!

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:19:31am

re: #332 Charles Johnson

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:21:34am

re: #454 GlutenFreeJesus

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Someone could say that they were inspired directly and 100% by Jim Hoft and he’d blame Obama or Clinton. That pig fucker has no scruples.

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ObserverArt  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:25:33am

re: #451 Eclectic Cyborg

Aren’t these the same nutjobs that were working for Kim Davis?

One and the same. They want the liberty to be able to hate and discriminate just like Jesus did. And since our country was founded on Jesus’ hate, they can hate legally. Or, something.

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thecommodore  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:31:44am

WARNING: The link goes to VDARE.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:32:15am

re: #1 Jenner7

Schwing!

Are you saying that Trump is trying to win the “Schwing States?”

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:32:45am

Merry Christmas! Odds are someone wasn’t quite in the holiday spirit.

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ObserverArt  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:32:48am

re: #455 HappyWarrior

Someone could say that they were inspired directly and 100% by Jim Hoft and he’d blame Obama or Clinton. That pig fucker has no scruples.

Can you have scruples if you do not have a brain?

Hmmm. I don’t know, but was this answered in The Wizard of Oz???

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:33:10am

re: #457 thecommodore

WARNING: The link goes to VDARE.

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Soemthing funny about a McCarthy fan complaining about blacklisting.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:33:25am

re: #460 ObserverArt

Can you have scruples if you do not have a brain?

Hmmm. I don’t know, but was this answered in The Wizard of Oz???

Ah, good point.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:34:59am

re: #459 lawhawk

Just wishing the folks a Patriotic Christmas!

*headdesk*

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BeachDem  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:34:59am

re: #449 ausador

“Liberty Council” showing how Orwellian their name is once again…

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Were Andrea and Marsha Blackburn separated at birth?

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Lidane  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:36:09am

THIS ASSHOLE:

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freetoken  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:36:13am

re: #457 thecommodore

WARNING: The link goes to VDARE.

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Of course it does. Coulter is an outright supporter of racists.

How the so called “liberal” elite keep asking her to come back on their talking-head shows is beyond me. None of them call her out on her blatant support of racists.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:36:41am

re: #465 Lidane

THIS ASSHOLE:

It would be irresponsible not to…..

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:37:02am

re: #466 freetoken

Of course it does. Coulter is an outright supporter of racists.

How the so called “liberal” elite keep asking her to come back on their talking-head shows is beyond me. None of them call her out on her blatant support of racists.

Well in Maher’s case, he actually fucked her.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:37:58am

re: #457 thecommodore

This is amazing. Thank God for the Internet. Blacklisted conservative writer reveals his secrets! t.co
— Ann Coulter

Blacklisted!!!! All true patriot conservative writers are blacklisted!!!!

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ausador  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:38:53am

New hashtag trending…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:40:08am

re: #459 lawhawk

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Merry Christmas! Odds are someone wasn’t quite in the holiday spirit.

“He got the last Star Wars toy! GET HIM!!”

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:40:21am

Trump certainly does his share of incitement, but Max Abrahms makes a good point. Daesh doesn’t need excuses to slaughter people, including Muslims:

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thecommodore  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:41:12am

re: #468 HappyWarrior

Well in Maher’s case, he actually fucked her.

Ewwwwww!

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Timothy Watson  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:41:40am

re: #469 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Blacklisted!!!! All true patriot conservative writers are blacklisted!!!!

Coming from someone who though McCarthy was right about everything and the Hollywood Blacklist was great.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:41:48am

re: #473 thecommodore

Ewwwwww!

I know. That amount of ego in one bed is just not healthy.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:42:07am

re: #449 ausador

“Liberty Council” showing how Orwellian their name is once again…

So…the government nearest to the people is the best government, which means local government is preferred to state government, and big government is tyranny…except when Liberty Counsel says the opposite.

Seriously. These people….

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:42:12am

re: #474 Timothy Watson

Coming from someone who though McCarthy was right about everything and the Hollywood Blacklist was great.

Hahaha seriously.

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Lidane  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:42:28am
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freetoken  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:43:38am

re: #478 Lidane

“Former”?

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Lidane  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:44:27am

re: #479 freetoken

“Former”?

Maybe Trump usurped the title?

EDIT: Ah, no. Wonkette has given the Raging Furby Dim Hoft’s old crown.

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freetoken  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:45:48am

re: #480 Lidane

I’m pretty sure that Hoft is vastly more stupid than Trump.

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ObserverArt  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:46:01am

re: #464 BeachDem

Were Andrea and Marsha Blackburn separated at birth?

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Nah. They just all look the same.

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Kragar  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:46:29am

re: #479 freetoken

“Former”?

Chuckles took the crown.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:47:14am

re: #480 Lidane

Maybe Trump usurped the title?

EDIT: Ah, no. Wonkette has given the Raging Furby Dim Hoft’s old crown.

Is Upchuck actually still someone on the Internets?

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:47:25am

re: #479 freetoken

Wonkette had passed off title of SMOTI in 2013 to Chucky in 2014.

And there’s an interesting point Wonkette makes about Hoft v. Chucky:

Let heavenly choirs sing songs of joy! Let earthly men tremble on their knees! For we have seen the glory of Jim Hoft, the Stupidest Man on the Internet, handing off his crown (the one that says “Stupidest Man on the Internet,” DO try to keep up!) to the pure, righteous, fuckin’ dumb that is New Blogger on the Block Chuck C. Johnson. Let us rejoice and be glad!

For years — eons! geologic ages! — Jim Hoft reigned supreme over our fair land, a man of spite and viciousness who never saw something he couldn’t fuck up. (Though he saw many things he couldn’t pay the fuck up.) But once he abdicated his throne to become president of the Stormfront Junior Auxiliary, it was time to crown a new king of stupid.

Sadly for those who would have had to fight it out with caps-lock and spittle, one man was so obvious an heir, so easily did he pull his keyboard from the stone, that all other pretenders backed away, tongues sheathed and heads hanging. That man was Award-Winning Journalist Chuck C. Johnson, and sweet Jesus Christ, this guy! He is what would happen if Hoft wasn’t just playing dumb (FYI, we have met Hoft, and he is just playing dumb; he knows perfectly well he’s lying all the way to the bank) but was actually mentally challenged.

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freetoken  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:47:28am

Where a judge doesn’t intervene to stop a witch hunt:

UTAH CAN BLOCK PLANNED PARENTHOOD FUNDS WHILE SUIT PROCEEDS

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Utah can cut off federal funds to the state’s Planned Parenthood organization, a move the Republican governor ordered after the release of secretly recorded videos by an anti-abortion group.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups reversed an earlier decision temporarily ordering the money to keep flowing to the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah.

[…]

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freetoken  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:49:18am
Even though the Utah group has not engaged in wrongdoing, it is affiliated with other Planned Parenthood entities “that have allegedly engaged in illegal conduct,” Waddoups said in his ruling.

The judge said Utah’s government has an interest “in avoiding the appearance of corruption,” and any harm from ending the contracts is outweighed by the risk to the state if it’s denied its right to end contracts at will.

Allowing the contracts to continue, Waddoups said, could reasonably be perceived by Utah citizens as approval of wrongful conduct.

Ok, so I don’t keep up on every bit of news on this topic…. but I thought all the charges around the nation against PP arising from those videos have shown to be false allegations of wrongdoing?

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ObserverArt  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:52:38am

re: #465 Lidane

THIS ASSHOLE:

Talking Points Memo ✔ @TPM

Fox host speculates Chelsea Clinton timed pregnancy to boost campaign (VIDEO) bit.ly

11:44 AM - 22 Dec 2015

Now I wonder what kind of funny business was going on in the Bush home to have two candidates separated enough to run for President 10-12 years apart?

I think it must have been some kind of a diabolical plot.

Maybe FOX can get Bolling to the bottom of it.

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Bubblehead II  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:54:00am

re: #487 freetoken

Ok, so I don’t keep up on every bit of news on this topic…. but I thought all the charges around the nation against PP arising from those videos have shown to be false allegations of wrongdoing?

Since when do facts/truth mean anything to a wingnut/partisan hack if it contradicts their world view?

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Shiplord Kirel  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:56:13am

re: #487 freetoken

Even though the Utah group has not engaged in wrongdoing, it is affiliated with other Planned Parenthood entities “that have allegedly engaged in illegal conduct,” Waddoups said in his ruling.

Even though the Utah Republican Party has not shot up a Planned Parenthood clinic, they are affiliated with other right-wing assholes who have, and should therefore be rounded up and sent to FEMA camp forthwith.

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Kragar  Dec 22, 2015 • 10:59:19am
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Alephnaught  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:00:32am

Front cover of today’s edition of the UK’s biggest free newspaper.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:00:45am

re: #491 Kragar

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Stomfront 2.0.

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BeachDem  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:01:34am

Heh.

(Note to TV reporters, especially Kasie Hunt: referring to “schlong” as a “vulgar term for the male anatomy” is to define the entire male anatomy completely by, well, the schlong. I am offended and am taking myself to the fainting couch immediately.)

esquire.com

Although, in Trump’s case, it’s probably an accurate description.

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CuriousLurker  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:01:48am

Drive-by: Just dropping this off because we don’t get much good PR these days.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:02:53am

re: #351 The Vicious Babushka

Without all that (very) basic research funded by government, there would be much slower and fewer advancements. All the piddly-shit research funded by grants wouldn’t get done in the private sector.

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:02:58am

Looks like my cat without his nose smudge.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:04:02am
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Kragar  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:04:35am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:05:09am

re: #491 Kragar

It’s Obama’: Fox News Posts Photo Of Orangutan In Santa Hat, Racists Do Their Thing (SCREENSHOTS) t.co
— Ivan Roberson

Stop trying to shut us up with Political Correctness which is rooning this great Nation!!!11

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:05:30am

re: #498 jaunte

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Yes, Donald Trump is masculinity’s last hope. // Man some guys are pathetically insecure with their masculity. I’m comfortable with mine with or without Trump’s pathetic act.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:05:56am

Conservative males are a bunch of sissies. They need a bigot like Trump to validate their manhood.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:06:32am
I think this is a different game,” Tantaros insisted. “I think people are sick and tired — men are sick and tired of being feminized, people are sick and tired of having to apologize, they’re sick and tired of hurt feelings, they’re tired of it all and the political correctness is not going to win.”

I’m sure she welcomes all the polically incorrect material that comes her way.

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Alephnaught  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:06:38am

re: #497 wrenchwench

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Looks like my cat without his nose smudge.

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Looks like a younger version of my cat too.

Ellie Sleeping
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ObserverArt  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:07:21am

re: #499 Kragar

Kragar @Kragar_LGF

Vigilante uprising: GOP lawmaker calls on gun owners to ‘clean our society of scum bags’ rawstory.com …

2:03 PM - 22 Dec 2015

You know, I think I saw a similar tweet up thread, but it just now hit me.

I don’t think it is too cool for this GOP lawmaker to be telling all his GOP mates to turn those guns on themselves like that.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:08:26am

re: #503 jaunte

I’m sure she welcomes all the polically incorrect material that comes her way.

There are so much worse things than “political correctness.” There are really are. Oh waaah, I can’t get away with being a bigoted sexist fuckstickle anymore. Big fucking deal. How about actually treating people with respect. Nah too much to ask for conservative males who want to be able to treat everyone not like them with contempt because they can’t get over the fact that they’re not going ot be just given respect for being conservative males.

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:08:39am

re: #504 Alephnaught

Looks like a younger version of my cat too.

[Embedded content]

Sleeping beauty!

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:09:22am

re: #472 lawhawk

Trump certainly does his share of incitement, but Max Abrahms makes a good point. Daesh doesn’t need excuses to slaughter people, including Muslims:

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Daesh doesn’t use Trump to kill, it uses Trump to recruit. His point is connecting two things that really aren’t. We can go after Daesh while still saying that Trump is helping the other side.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:09:26am

re: #501 HappyWarrior

Yes, Donald Trump is masculinity’s last hope. // Man some guys are pathetically insecure with their masculity. I’m comfortable with mine with or without Trump’s pathetic act.

It’s pretty pathetic if white masculinity (because sure as heck, he doesn’t give a crap about minorities as he’s made abundantly clear) is defined by racism, hate mongering, and xenophobia, to say nothing of belittling women at every opportunity.

Sounds more like an outdated form of white privilege that belongs in the ash heap of history - from the pre-1950s in fact, which is where the GOP wants to take the nation.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:10:29am

re: #499 Kragar

Vigilante uprising: GOP lawmaker calls on gun owners to ‘clean our society of scum bags’

He’s proposing mass suicide?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:10:32am

re: #509 lawhawk

It’s pretty pathetic if white masculinity (because sure as heck, he doesn’t give a crap about minorities as he’s made abundantly clear) is defined by racism, hate mongering, and xenophobia, to say nothing of belittling women at every opportunity.

Sounds more like an outdated form of white privilege that belongs in the ash heap of history - from the pre-1950s in fact, which is where the GOP wants to take the nation.

Yep precisely.

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:13:52am

re: #497 wrenchwench

[Embedded content]

Looks like my cat without his nose smudge.

Embedded Image

Your cat looks like he’s pissed at the world.

Or just you.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:14:41am

re: #505 ObserverArt

re: #510 Blind Frog Belly White

I see you got there first.

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ObserverArt  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:15:26am

re: #510 Blind Frog Belly White

He’s proposing mass suicide?

I got you by 5 comments. But mine was a bit more subtle…so…

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:16:35am

re: #512 b_sharp

Your cat looks like he’s pissed at the world.

Or just you.

I’m probably petting his brother. We can’t have two happy cats in the room at the same time, but we can have two pissed cats in the room.

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BlueSpotinAL  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:18:39am

re: #419 BeachDem

And of course…

Fox News host Eric Bolling resurrected the theory that Chelsea Clinton, who is expecting a second child, “timed out” her pregnancies to boost her mother Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on Monday’s episode of the “O’Reilly Factor.”

talkingpointsmemo.com

Yeah, why isn’t Chelsea having babies 5 months apart? //

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gocart mozart  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:22:47am

re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:30:42am

re: #516 BlueSpotinAL

Yeah, why isn’t Chelsea having babies 5 months apart? //

Who do you think she is, a Palin?

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gocart mozart  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:33:11am

re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2015 • 11:34:25am

re: #517 gocart mozart


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