American Family Association Loon Bryan Fischer: Dinosaurs Were Just Giant, 1,000-Year-Old Lizards

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Bryan Fischer has a theory about dinosaurs, and it is his theory, which is his, even though he’s “not a scientist or whatever.” It’s a really good theory, based on the Bible of course, because what else do you need to know?

If the Bible says Methuselah was a thousand years old there’s no reason whatsoever to doubt it, right? I mean, what are you, crazy or something, doubting the literal truth of the Bible?

And if Methuselah could live that long back in the day a couple thousand years ago, so could ordinary reptiles, right? It just makes sense, people! And since reptiles never stop growing… they eventually turned into giant dinosaurs! It’s so obvious.

(Actually, this isn’t really Bryan’s original theory. It’s an old creationist idiocy that’s been circulated by religious fanatics for a long time. For example.)

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321 comments
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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:44:37pm

Should have just stopped after not a scientist or whatever, Bry because you clearly are fucking stupid.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:46:58pm

some people have altogether too much time on their hands…

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:48:14pm

re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

some people have altogether too much time on their hands…

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So call me maybe in 5000 years.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:48:39pm

So, Methuselah was like really really tall?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:49:33pm

re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth

So, Methuselah was like really really tall?

He was huuuuuuuuuuuuge!

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:50:24pm

re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

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William of Orange  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:51:03pm

Today, one year ago. The best video of all time was uploaded to YouTube. For all you games geeks to enjoy: Portal trickshots!

Portal Trick Shots

I wonder how Fisher would explain these…

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:52:02pm

1000 year old lizards with feathers.

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Kragar  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:52:31pm

“ITS JUST COMMON SENSE, YOU BRAIN DEAD LIBTARDS!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:52:51pm

So we live in a country where this is discussed as a valid point…

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:53:07pm

How come humans didn’t get that big?

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:53:49pm

Well, Bryan’s theory really isn’t a theory. It’s not even an hypothesis. Or an educated guess. It’s just wishful thinking.

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Kragar  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:54:13pm

re: #11 The Vicious Babushka

How come humans didn’t get that big?

Because shut up.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:54:30pm

re: #12 b_sharp

Well, Bryan’s theory really isn’t a theory. It’s not even an hypothesis. Or an educated guess. It’s just wishful thinking.

It’s just a deranged old contrarian asshole babbling some nonsesense

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ausador  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:54:41pm

Holy fucking crap…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:54:41pm

After thorough examination, NASA managers have decided to suspend the planned March 2016 launch of the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission. The decision follows unsuccessful attempts to repair a leak in a section of the prime instrument in the science payload.

“Learning about the interior structure of Mars has been a high priority objective for planetary scientists since the Viking era,” said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “We push the boundaries of space technology with our missions to enable science, but space exploration is unforgiving, and the bottom line is that we’re not ready to launch in the 2016 window. A decision on a path forward will be made in the coming months, but one thing is clear: NASA remains fully committed to the scientific discovery and exploration of Mars.”

The instrument involved is the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS), a seismometer provided by France’s Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES). Designed to measure ground movements as small as the diameter of an atom, the instrument requires a vacuum seal around its three main sensors to withstand the harsh conditions of the Martian environment.

I am disappointed, but better to discover the problem now while it can be fixed.

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Mattand  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:54:49pm
Bryan Fischer has a theory about dinosaurs, and it is his theory, which is his, even though he’s “not a scientist or whatever.”

Monty Python reference?

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:56:10pm

re: #15 ausador

“I think losing the Supreme Court for two generations is a safer choice for people with progressive goals than a Hillary presidency”

Whut an idjit.

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b.d.  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:57:11pm

It’s hard to argue with Bryan’s logic.

It really, really is….

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makeitstop  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:57:42pm

re: #17 Mattand

Monty Python reference?

Ann Elk! (Not ‘an elk.’)

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:57:58pm

re: #17 Mattand

Monty Python reference?

Miss Anne Elk?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:58:17pm

re: #20 makeitstop

Ann Elk! (Not ‘an elk.’)

beat me to it

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Lidane  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:58:33pm

re: #15 ausador

That’s the same facile horseshit that far left types used to vote for Nader in 2000. Pfft.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 12:59:59pm
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Whack-A-Mole  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:00:19pm

re: #15 ausador

Letting (his) perfect be the enemy of the good.

This is the exact same thing we see with the Tea Party. The only candidate they’ll accept is one who is rigidly, absolutely, 100% ideologically pure.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:01:44pm

re: #15 ausador

Holy fucking crap…

Only the purest of pure ideology for me, please. The world may collapse, civil rights might be set back for generations, but I voted for the purest ideological candidate possible, so there.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:02:19pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:03:14pm

re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump says he doesn’t deserve “Lie of the Year” award ]

Lord, it’s hard to be humble…

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:03:24pm

re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth

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IT SHOULD BE LIE OF THE CENTURY!!!!! TEH LIE OF ALL TIME!!!!!11!!!!

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:04:02pm

re: #15 ausador

Holy fucking crap…

Many more feel this way. This is why a Trump presidency is very likely.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:07:14pm

re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Well, there’s another lie that got in under the wire for this year.

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Kragar  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:09:23pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:10:29pm

re: #15 ausador

Holy fucking crap…

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This is why we can’t have nice stuff.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:11:11pm
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Testy Toad T  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:11:49pm

Note: “people with progressive goals”. Fuck worrying about, like, the country or anything. A GOP win would absolutely set the stage for lots of coffee-shop hand-wringing and second-guessing, and that’s what’s really important. If Hillary wins, the country might just, like, kinda roll on and just sorta work.

Fucking worthless rag.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:13:20pm

re: #35 Testy Toad T

Note: “people with progressive goals”. Fuck worrying about, like, the country or anything. A GOP win would absolutely set the stage for lots of coffee-shop hand-wringing and second-guessing, and that’s what’s really important. If Hillary wins, the country might just, like, kinda roll on and just sorta work.

Fucking worthless rag.

It’s like they never had anyone tell them, “No, you can’t have that. You can have what’s on the menu.”

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KGxvi  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:14:25pm

re: #1 HappyWarrior

I had this reaction, more or less:

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Alephnaught  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:14:50pm

re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Miss Anne Elk?

Is that a Monty Python argument?

Argument Clinic

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:14:55pm
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makeitstop  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:16:03pm

re: #22 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

beat me to it

You gotta be quick on the draw ‘round here, pardner. :)

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KingKenrod  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:16:24pm

re: #15 ausador

Holy fucking crap…

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I see these “tear it down so we can rebuild” stories every cycle, usually someone who doesn’t like the moderate (relatively speaking) party choice. It either scare people away from the moderate choice now, or fantasize about the radical (relatively speaking) choice coming to power later. I give them the same credibility as people who say they are moving to Canada if their guy doesn’t win.

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gwangung  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:18:10pm

re: #41 KingKenrod

I see these “tear it down so we can rebuild” stories every cycle, usually someone who doesn’t like the moderate (relatively speaking) party choice. It either scare people away from the moderate choice now, or fantasize about the radical (relatively speaking) choice coming to power later. I give them the same credibility as people who say they are moving to Canada if their guy doesn’t win.

It’s stupid, short-sighted and incredibly privileged.

THEY might be able to live through the meantime, but it’s going to be hell on the poor and non-white.

And the law of unintended consequences are gonna bite them on the ass long term…

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:20:55pm

re: #39 Charles Johnson

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Testy Toad T  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:21:12pm

I just don’t understand what electing even an incredibly moderate Democrat is supposed to break. Life will be too boring to agitate for change? They’ll roll back all the stuff that the last president did (which duh a Republican will fight even harder to do)?

It’s a lazy unthinking ad-hoc retroactive justification for wanting to take your ball and go home.

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b_sharp  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:22:02pm

Are all wingnuts spoiled children?

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:22:57pm

re: #15 ausador

Holy fucking crap…

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I’m not even mad. But the whole “look at me, look at me” vibe is kind of pathetic.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:24:35pm

LOL! Frank is really scraping for something…anything…

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ausador  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:25:51pm

re: #36 Blind Frog Belly White

It’s like they never had anyone tell them, “No, you can’t have that. You can have what’s on the menu.”

President Bernie would somehow change everything overnight even though both houses of the legislature are controlled by Republicans…

While I admire a couple of Bernie’s stated goals in regards to financial policy I am also realistic enough to realize that he doesn’t have a chance in hell of making them law.

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Testy Toad T  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:26:49pm

re: #48 ausador

While I admire a couple of Bernie’s stated goals in regards to financial policy I am also realistic enough to realize that he doesn’t have a chance in hell of making them law.

Maybe you could shout louder, or make a sign and hold it up on a freeway overpass. I think that might do it!

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sagehen  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:30:10pm

re: #25 Whack-A-Mole

Letting (his) perfect be the enemy of the good.

This is the exact same thing we see with the Tea Party. The only candidate they’ll accept is one who is rigidly, absolutely, 100% ideologically pure.

That’s their preference in the primary, but come the general they still turn out to vote for whoever the R’s have put on the ballot.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:30:12pm

welp…

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BlueSpotinAL  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:30:35pm

re: #7 William of Orange

Today, one year ago. The best video of all time was uploaded to YouTube. For all you games geeks to enjoy: Portal trickshots!

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Video

I wonder how Fisher would explain these…

I know the kids who started the trick shot videos that this Portal video is a parody of. Very well done.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:30:35pm

re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL! Frank is really scraping for something…anything…

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Well, he’s seeing Trump hop in and drive off in the spiffy new car he just spent decades building, before he had a chance to drive it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:32:44pm

Note the very essential bottle on the right.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:33:34pm

BREAKING: Graham is out.

No! He’s just a Confirmed Bachelor!

Oh! You mean out of the RACE.

Nevermind….

What’s all this fuss I hear about endangered feces?
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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:35:07pm

Baby Snidely Whiplash going off on Lena Dunham again. He really does fap to her picture 24/7

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:36:13pm

re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth

Note the very essential bottle on the right.

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Where is the laudanum?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:36:17pm

re: #56 The Vicious Babushka

Baby Snidely Whiplash going off on Lena Dunham again. He really does fap to her picture 24/7

Stay classy, Ben.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:36:37pm

re: #56 The Vicious Babushka

Baby Snidely Whiplash going off on Lena Dunham again. He really does fap to her picture 24/7

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If I were her, I’d consider getting a TRO against him. He seems creepily obsessed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:37:25pm

re: #57 The Vicious Babushka

Where is the laudanum?

maybe the bottle that doesn’t have a label on it anymore.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:37:45pm

re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth

maybe the bottle that doesn’t have a label on it anymore.

LOL

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:37:50pm

Liberal media at work:

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BlueSpotinAL  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:37:51pm

Trump support 28%
Jar Jar Binks support 29%

The same people?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:39:21pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! I can hear the giant footsteps as the man himself heads to MSNBC to watch “Citizen Trump” with the rest of us at 7 PM.
— Chris Matthews

LOLwhut?

WTF is “Citizen Trump”?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:40:09pm

re: #64 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

LOLwhut?

WTF is “Citizen Trump”?

I’m hoping there’s a really creepy Rosebud at the end.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:41:59pm

Chucky is number 5.

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:42:20pm

Usually there are elderly women selling burritos door to door. Today there were two teen aged boys selling cream puffs. I asked them who made them and they said, ‘We did.’ I got an ‘Oreo cream puff’. Some behavior simply MUST be rewarded.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:42:51pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

Liberal media at work:

”..Tonight, MSNBC premieres a new original documentary entitled Citizen Trump (airing at 7/6c). Hosted by Chris Matthews, the hour-long special chronicles Trump’s rise in politics by looking back at his personal life and career. In the exclusive clip below, the filmmakers explore Trump’s celebrity status and rapid expansion of his empire, thanks to the construction of high-profile casinos such as Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal-where he rubbed elbows with Michael Jackson during the building’s grand opening.”

Chris Matthews’ Celebrity-Worship Hour

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:48:30pm

re: #68 jaunte

Chris Matthews’ Celebrity-Worship Hour

Is Trump going to stuff a sock in his jockstrap like Dumbya did and will that trigger another pearl clutching episode from Tweety?

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:49:58pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

Liberal media at work:

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Chris was licking Trump’s taint today. It was disgusting, just disgusting, I can’t even talk about it.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:50:01pm

re: #68 jaunte

high-profile casinos such as Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal

LOL that’s the one that went bankrupt.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:50:24pm

re: #70 goddamnedfrank

Chris was licking Trump’s taint today. It was disgusting, just disgusting, I can’t even talk about it.

*throws up in mouth*

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:51:16pm

The word definitely came down from management that they need to treat Trump like a legit candidate, and start denying that his campaign is openly fascist.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:52:23pm

re: #71 The Vicious Babushka

Trump must be the least successful high-profile casino owner.

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gocart mozart  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:52:35pm

it’s actually pretty much the same theory that Brian has.
Monty Python’s Flying Circus: Brontasauraus Theory

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Timothy Watson  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:56:14pm

re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL! Frank is really scraping for something…anything…

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That poll really needs some unskewing, why the heck isn’t Han #1 and why are Lando and Darth Vader so low?

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:56:40pm

re: #73 goddamnedfrank

The word definitely came down from management that they need to treat Trump like a legit candidate, and start denying that his campaign is openly fascist.

Ayep, the closer they get to the primaries, and the greater his lead grows, the more pressure there is on them to actually start treating his like a legit candidate rather that entertaining predictions that he’s gonna implode “any day now.”

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:57:40pm
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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 1:58:37pm

re: #43 Teukka

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:02:40pm

re: #77 Targetpractice

Ayep, the closer they get to the primaries, and the greater his lead grows, the more pressure there is on them to actually start treating his like a legit candidate rather that entertaining predictions that he’s gonna implode “any day now.”

As if him winning the nomination should change anything. What’s he’s doing is objectively abhorrent, the fact that it appeals to the significant chunk of our population comprised of revenge oriented, mostly male, uneducated white racist trash is utterly irrelevant.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:04:15pm

re: #77 Targetpractice

Ayep, the closer they get to the primaries, and the greater his lead grows, the more pressure there is on them to actually start treating his like a legit candidate rather that entertaining predictions that he’s gonna implode “any day now.”

The GOP cannot possibly nominate someone other than Rubio or Jeb!

Right?

I’m starting to think they might actually do it this time. They’ve flirted with crazy before, in 2012…they put a crazy up for VP in 2008. But they’ve never actually gone all the way Crazy. One more month should start to tell us.

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gocart mozart  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:04:20pm

re: #15 ausador

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:04:55pm

re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Gov. Bevin files executive order to remove names of county clerks from Ky marriage licenses. ^JC

So Beshear spent weeks making excuses for why he couldn’t do anything, including hauling the legislature back in to change the law, to address Davis’ refusal to obey the law. But Bevin has no compunction about getting her off the hook via EO, which the legislature is likely not to raise much of a fuss about.

I can think of no more stark contrast between the parties right now. And, unlike most examples, this is not an inspiring one.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:09:26pm

re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth

EXECUTIVE ORDERS?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!

I thought this was TYRANNY?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:09:28pm

re: #82 gocart mozart

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It’s selfish.

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:09:41pm

re: #79 WhatEVs

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:13:04pm

re: #83 Targetpractice

So Beshear spent weeks making excuses for why he couldn’t do anything, including hauling the legislature back in to change the law, to address Davis’ refusal to obey the law. But Bevin has no compunction about getting her off the hook via EO, which the legislature is likely not to raise much of a fuss about.

I can think of no more stark contrast between the parties right now. And, unlike most examples, this is not an inspiring one.

So Kim Davis thinks her G-d who hates the gay is gonna be OK with her as long as her name isn’t on the form granting the gay the right to marry?

This is the kind of stuff that just drove me batty in fundamentalism.

Whatevs. Just follow the law, Kim.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:14:36pm

re: #87 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

So Kim Davis thinks her G-d who hates the gay is gonna be OK with her as long as her name isn’t on the form granting the gay the right to marry?

This is the kind of stuff that just drove me batty in fundamentalism.

Whatevs. Just follow the law, Kim.

I want some ultra traditional Catholic clerk to deny hypocritical evangelicals like her on their third marriage a licensee and see how they feel about it.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:15:59pm

re: #86 Teukka

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[trump]But FIRST CLASS Douchebags! Not ordinary douchebags - Classy Douchebags! YOOOGE Douchebags![/trump]

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:17:07pm

Really I’m tired of Evangelicals thinking their religious beliefs should triumph over secular law. Want to attend a church opposed to SSM, so be it, but you have a fucking job as a county clerk. And for BEvin to enable this is disgraceful.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:19:54pm

re: #90 HappyWarrior

Really I’m tired of Evangelicals thinking their religious beliefs should triumph over secular law. Want to attend a church opposed to SSM, so be it, but you have a fucking job as a county clerk. And for BEvin to enable this is disgraceful.

And then screaming that Muslims put their religion ahead of ‘Murrica!

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:20:01pm

Really why worry about Shariah LAw when there are millions of Evangelicals in our country who have elected officials and presidential candidates telling them it’s okay ot thumb their noses out at secular and settled law. I may not like a lot of laws either but it’s pathetic that no one on the right can tell these bigoted assholes that “NO, sorry, same sex marriage is settled law, grow up children.”

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:20:35pm

re: #91 Blind Frog Belly White

And then screaming that Muslims put their religion ahead of ‘Murrica!

No kidding, the hypocrisy of these theocratic fucks.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:23:20pm

re: #93 HappyWarrior

No kidding, the hypocrisy of these theocratic fucks.

It’s not about not wanting religion in government. It’s about not wanting any other religion in government. Just like it’s not about small government, it’s about government they control. And it’s not about freedom for all, it’s about freedom for THEM to do what THEY want, and the authority to prevent others from doing what they DON’T want.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:23:21pm

You don’t like gay marriage being legal. Fine. I don’t like laws that forbid the sell of alcohol on Sundays much. I don’t get to say my beliefs mean those laws shouldn’t be applied. For all the right wing claims that gay couples want “special rights”, this just takes the prize. Kim Davis and peole like are nothing more than a modern day GEorge C. Wallace who can’t accept that equality is settled federal law.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:23:36pm

re: #94 Blind Frog Belly White

It’s not about not wanting religion in government. It’s about not wanting any other religion in government. Just like it’s not about small government, it’s about government they control. And it’s not about freedom for all, it’s about freedom for THEM to do what THEY want, and the authority to prevent others from doing what they DON’T want.

NNailed it.

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:27:42pm
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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:28:34pm

Fact is Republicans don’t give a damn about religious liberty for all. They care about certain people having religious liberty. If you’re a liberal Christian, you don’t get the liberty to bless same sex marriages. If you’re a Muslim, oyu don’t get the liberty to attend your religious services without fear of armed thugs threatending you. And if you’re a general non-Christian, you’re told that acknowledging your religion in school is “brainwashing our kids.” Really fuck the Republican Party for enabling the Christian Right and a major fuck you to Ronald Reagan for using them only for his own power even though his own wife was using an astrologer and he only used religion to come off as this devout man to the religious right who rejected a man who actually lived up to the principles of Christianity in favor of a fraud like Ronald Wilson Reagan.

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CuriousLurker  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:30:12pm

From the fever swamps deep in the bowels of the internet: This has to be close to the mother of all conspiracy theories, brought to you by a British tabloid (the Daily Star).

ARK OF GABRIEL: Russia ‘given ancient apocalyptic weapon uncovered in Saudi Arabia’

Wild rumours that a fabled device or weapon called the “Ark of Gabriel” has been found under the Masjid al-Haram Mosque — the holiest site in Islam — are sweeping across the darker corners of the internet.

Legend tells the Archangel Gabriel — who told the Virgin Mary she would give birth to Jesus and dictated the Koran to the Prophet Muhammed — also entrusted an ark or box of “immense power” to the founder of the Muslim faith.

Muhammed was told to bury the ark in a shrine at a “place of worship” — for it to be brought out as the end of the world approaches.

Paranoid survivalists believe Saudi Arabia has uncovered the ark during a major construction project at the Grand Mosque — and handed it to the Russians.

They claim the Russian military is taking the ark to the Antarctic - possibly to a former Nazi UFO base. […]

donotlink.com

The only thing missing is Jews/Zionists/Israel. I mean, c’mon, how can a CT be complete without them? Freaking amateurs over there.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:31:06pm

“I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton.”

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:31:18pm

re: #98 HappyWarrior

Fact is Republicans don’t give a damn about religious liberty for all. They care about certain people having religious liberty. If you’re a liberal Christian, you don’t get the liberty to bless same sex marriages. If you’re a Muslim, oyu don’t get the liberty to attend your religious services without fear of armed thugs threatending you. And if you’re a general non-Christian, you’re told that acknowledging your religion in school is “brainwashing our kids.” Really fuck the Republican Party for enabling the Christian Right and a major fuck you to Ronald Reagan for using them only for his own power.

If you asked them, they wouldn’t say they want universal religious liberty. They want religious liberty for the right religion, and most of them at least have the balls to come out and say that. That’s the whole point of the “America is a Christian Nation” meme that the right wing spreads. They are trying to rewrite history to put Christianity in the Constitution so that they can have legal justification for enforcing their morality.

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:32:24pm

re: #97 wrenchwench

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Around this time last year, I had a “serious” wingnut insisting to me that Martinez was a great choice for the GOP nomination, because as a minority and a woman, she could be the face of diversity for the GOP.

A year later, he’s trying to keep his options open by defending Trump but openly praying for Cruz to win the nomination.

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gocart mozart  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:32:37pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:32:52pm

re: #99 CuriousLurker

From the fever swamps deep in the bowels of the internet: This has to be close to the mother of all conspiracy theories, brought to you by a British tabloid (the Daily Star).

The only thing missing is Jews/Zionists/Israel. I mean, c’mon, how can a CT be complete without them? Freaking amateurs over there.

//

Where’s the adventurous anthropologist and his plucky ex-girlfriend to outwit the evil Gestapo FSB agents and their SS Spetznaz troops?

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:32:58pm

Most (if not all) of today’s evangelicals are nothing more than the American Taliban. Instead of the Sharia they want to use the Old Testament to replace the Constitution.

You would think that Prohibition would have taught us a lesson of legislating morality-but it’s beginning to look like Idiocracy is being played out in real life and people have a lost a sense of history, and we will probably have to re-live it.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:33:27pm

re: #101 thedopefishlives

If you asked them, they wouldn’t say they want universal religious liberty. They want religious liberty for the right religion, and most of them at least have the balls to come out and say that. That’s the whole point of the “America is a Christian Nation” meme that the right wing spreads. They are trying to rewrite history to put Christianity in the Constitution so that they can have legal justification for enforcing their morality.

Right.

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:34:09pm

re: #101 thedopefishlives

If you asked them, they wouldn’t say they want universal religious liberty. They want religious liberty for the right religion, and most of them at least have the balls to come out and say that. That’s the whole point of the “America is a Christian Nation” meme that the right wing spreads. They are trying to rewrite history to put Christianity in the Constitution so that they can have legal justification for enforcing their morality.

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”

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BeachDem  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:34:19pm

re: #48 ausador

President Bernie would somehow change everything overnight even though both houses of the legislature are controlled by Republicans…

While I admire a couple of Bernie’s stated goals in regards to financial policy I am also realistic enough to realize that he doesn’t have a chance in hell of making them law.

No—it’s even more convoluted than that because, don’t you know, according to the Koskid Berniacs, he’ll fight everyone in Congress, accomplish nothing, then get re-elected in a WAVE election in 2020, sweeping progressives into office in both houses and across the country in every state. I’d put sarc marks, but some of them really think that because reasons.

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Great White Snark  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:34:34pm

re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth

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As is? He’s right. It really should be in the plural. Lies.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:35:35pm

re: #108 BeachDem

No—it’s even more convoluted than that because, don’t you know, according to the Koskid Berniacs, he’ll fight everyone in Congress, accomplish nothing, then get re-elected in a WAVE election in 2020, sweeping progressives into office in both houses and across the country in every state. I’d put sarc marks, but some of them really think that because reasons.

“We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:36:25pm

re: #108 BeachDem

No—it’s even more convoluted than that because, don’t you know, according to the Koskid Berniacs, he’ll fight everyone in Congress, accomplish nothing, then get re-elected in a WAVE election in 2020, sweeping progressives into office in both houses and across the country in every state. I’d put sarc marks, but some of them really think that because reasons.

Tehy just have no idea how things actually work. I’m still going to vote for Bernie in February out of principle but I don’t like this selfish bullshit either.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:36:46pm

re: #90 HappyWarrior

Really I’m tired of Evangelicals thinking their religious beliefs should triumph over secular law. Want to attend a church opposed to SSM, so be it, but you have a fucking job as a county clerk. And for BEvin to enable this is disgraceful.

And how much it turns people off of religion in general. I think most people are not as angry (call it radical) as I am in how much I hate religion because of this. The only good thing that comes from this crap is that it turns off so very many people.

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:37:07pm

re: #108 BeachDem

No—it’s even more convoluted than that because, don’t you know, according to the Koskid Berniacs, he’ll fight everyone in Congress, accomplish nothing, then get re-elected in a WAVE election in 2020, sweeping progressives into office in both houses and across the country in every state. I’d put sarc marks, but some of them really think that because reasons.

And if he loses in 2020, then he was insufficiently progressive and they’ll find a “true progressive” in time for 2024.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:37:18pm

re: #105 Eric The Fruit Bat

Most (if not all) of today’s evangelicals are nothing more than the American Taliban. Instead of the Sharia they want to use the Old Testament to replace the Constitution.

You would think that Prohibition would have taught us a lesson of legislating morality-but it’s beginning to look like Idiocracy is being played out in real life and people have a lost a sense of history, and we will probably have to re-live it.

I have to confess I used to hate the American Taliban moniker but they made the argument for me.

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:38:58pm

re: #102 Targetpractice

Around this time last year, I had a “serious” wingnut insisting to me that Martinez was a great choice for the GOP nomination, because as a minority and a woman, she could be the face of diversity for the GOP.

A year later, he’s trying to keep his options open by defending Trump but openly praying for Cruz to win the nomination.

‘Serious’ Republicans used to look to Martinez to slow their hemorrhaging of women and Latinos. Now they are slicing the jugular, even with Hispanics on their ticket.

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CuriousLurker  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:39:53pm

re: #99 CuriousLurker

From the fever swamps deep in the bowels of the internet: This has to be close to the mother of all conspiracy theories, brought to you by a British tabloid (the Daily Star).

The only thing missing is Jews/Zionists/Israel. I mean, c’mon, how can a CT be complete without them? Freaking amateurs over there.

//

P.S. You’ve gotta love how they tie it to recent events in Saudi Arabia (the crane collapse & the people getting trampled during Hajj). I guess that’s what makes CT believable for people of a certain mindset, huh? If it incorporates genuine current events, then the whole thing MUST be true.

I’ll be you President Obama is at fault somehow… They’ve got Putin looking kinda Jesus-y there—I wonder if he’s supposed to be the world’s savior? He’s SO gonna steal all of Herr Trump’s thunder. //

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Testy Toad T  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:40:43pm

re: #107 Targetpractice

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”

Has it weirded out anybody else how little the evangelicals seem to care that Trump is, at best, just going through the motions in the context of religion?

Silly me, I thought many of them really actually did demand at least the appearance of piety, rather than just hating brown people.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:40:47pm

re: #113 Targetpractice

And if he loses in 2020, then he was insufficiently progressive and they’ll find a “true progressive” in time for 2024.

What I’ve been thinking about is say Bernie does get nominated and elected. he still is going to have to get his legislation passed. And frankly as much as I do like the guy, I don’t think he is the type of personality for that part of the job. Being president is more than just about ideology which is precisely why I think Clinton would stomp CRuz. Honestly, while I idenitfy with the progressive wing of the party, I also think too many in that wing are selfish and think their ideology should triumph over all else. In that sense, they remind me of the TPers and I ahte making that analogy but they really do see the presidency and any office as being about ideological purity.

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ausador  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:41:31pm

re: #83 Targetpractice

Because what Bevin just did is technically illegal according to the existing state law. Not that Republicans worry themselves over minor matters like state or federal constitutional law mind you…

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:42:00pm

re: #117 Testy Toad T

Has it weirded out anybody else how little the evangelicals seem to care that Trump is, at best, just going through the motions in the context of religion?

Silly me, I thought many of them really actually did demand at least the appearance of piety, rather than just hating brown people.

It’s actually kind of surprised me. I have been expecting his lack of true religiosity to bite him in the ass for months now.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:42:27pm

re: #15 ausador

Holy fucking crap…

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Salon: “Hey, has anyone seen our wallet? It’s the one with “Dumb Motherfcker” on it.”

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Testy Toad T  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:42:36pm

re: #118 HappyWarrior

I think the whole DNC database episode quite conclusively demonstrated that Bernie Sanders does not have the temperament to be an effective executive. I’d obviously still vote for him over any of the GOP options, but it shifted me way, way to the Clinton side.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:43:16pm

re: #113 Targetpractice

And if he loses in 2020, then he was insufficiently progressive and they’ll find a “true progressive” in time for 2024.

That sounds familiar. Where have I heard that before…let me think… *cough* Romney *cough* *cough* McCain *cough*

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:43:41pm

re: #122 Testy Toad T

I think the whole DNC database episode quite conclusively demonstrated that Bernie Sanders does not have the temperament to be an effective executive. I’d obviously still vote for him over any of the GOP options, but it shifted me way, way to the Clinton side.

I was out of town when this happened. Only got the one side of the story from the Bernie die hards I know on FB.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:44:21pm

re: #117 Testy Toad T

Has it weirded out anybody else how little the evangelicals seem to care that Trump is, at best, just going through the motions in the context of religion?

I think their true faith is resentment.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:44:27pm

re: #123 WhatEVs

That sounds familiar. Where have I heard that before…let me think… *cough* Romney *cough* *cough* McCain *cough*

To be fair, I remember it in 2004. WE SHOULD HAVE NOMINATED DEAN OR KUCINICH OR CLARK.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:45:50pm

Ah the anti-choice extremists are busy swarming all over the Rand Paul announcement of an investigation into PP based on the CMP BS videos.

All the same BS talking points too. Abortion is murder. Any money to PP is used to fund abortions. Etc. Etc. Etc.

Of course, every single investigation into PP based on the CMP videos has found absolutely no wrongdoing by PP. Not a single violation. Nothing. Even when the GOP AGs try to invent violations, they can’t sustain them (as in FL, where they tried to claim that PP was doing abortions they weren’t licensed to do based on the FL AG redefining trimester and ignoring state law on point).

Congress held hearings on this, and came up with nothing too. Now Paul’s pushing yet another witch hunt.

All of this is designed to wear down PP and its supporters, and force them to spend on defending PP rather than providing health care services that are badly needed because the GOP is moving to deny health care access at every turn.

It also means my block button is getting a hearty workout due to the fact-challenged nonsense spewed forth.

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:46:32pm

re: #119 ausador

Because what Bevin just did is technically illegal according to the existing state law. Not that Republicans worry themselves over minor matters like state or federal constitutional law mind you…

And that’s the thing. What he did was technically illegal, so now the legislature will just quietly change the law to make it legal. Meanwhile, Beshear absolutely refused to take any action on the grounds that it was outside the boundaries of his powers and he would not call the legislature in to change the law, but instead would leave it to the courts to decide. He could have taken action and then used the uproar to drive Democrats to the polls to uphold his choice. But no, instead he stood by the law and is now replaced by an ideologue who couldn’t give a fuck less about the law.

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gwangung  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:47:20pm

re: #122 Testy Toad T

I think the whole DNC database episode quite conclusively demonstrated that Bernie Sanders does not have the temperament to be an effective executive. I’d obviously still vote for him over any of the GOP options, but it shifted me way, way to the Clinton side.

Yeah, having good ideas isn’t enough. It’s being able to wheedle the legislative side to do your bidding. It’s being flexible enough to meet with changing events. It’s being quick enough to come up with the right ideas.

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:48:50pm

re: #127 lawhawk

Now Paul’s pushing yet another witch hunt mass murder.

It will happen. Words matter.

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:49:37pm

re: #118 HappyWarrior

What I’ve been thinking about is say Bernie does get nominated and elected. he still is going to have to get his legislation passed. And frankly as much as I do like the guy, I don’t think he is the type of personality for that part of the job. Being president is more than just about ideology which is precisely why I think Clinton would stomp CRuz. Honestly, while I idenitfy with the progressive wing of the party, I also think too many in that wing are selfish and think their ideology should triumph over all else. In that sense, they remind me of the TPers and I ahte making that analogy but they really do see the presidency and any office as being about ideological purity.

I have compared Bernie supporters, time and time again, to Paulians. And while I know that not all of his supporters are that crazy, it seems the most vocal ones are. They are basically pushing the same BS we heard from Paulians in 2012, that Crazy Uncle Liberty winning in 2012 would be evidence that the American people supported his brand of lunacy and any in Congress who opposed it would be swept away in the following election.

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BeachDem  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:52:40pm

So, I guess Ben Carson was in town today (it’s a day ending in y, so there’s always a Republican running his/her mouth here.) Was at the dentist and the hygienist was telling me about how they went for their Christmas lunch at the same restaurant where Ben was apparently eating. There were Secret Service folks there and they went through everyone’s bags and jackets etc. (sounds like it was more intense than the security at the Dem Forum last month, but whatever.)

Anyway, the telling of that tale then led to one of the other hygienists coming in to say, “It’s like when Obama went to Mexico with the Secret Service guys and they all did cocaine with hookers.”

As my mouth was full of tubes (and my hygienist had sharp implements in her hand), I rolled my eyes and said, “Uh, that’s really not what happened” when I wanted to say, “You are an ignorant asshole and do not have clue fucking one what you’re talking about.”

Sigh.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:52:47pm

It didn’t help that Cornell West came out the other night after the debate to introduce Bernie and in the process basically say, “are we going to support another Wall-Street-friendly establishment politician like Hillary?” There were definitely some loud screams of “no.” Not everyone was cheering, but it is worrying.

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Testy Toad T  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:56:01pm

To be honest, I kind of just want him to go away. He’s wasting everyone’s time, and if he doesn’t know that he’s a fool.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:57:03pm

re: #131 Targetpractice

I have compared Bernie supporters, time and time again, to Paulians. And while I know that not all of his supporters are that crazy, it seems the most vocal ones are. They are basically pushing the same BS we heard from Paulians in 2012, that Crazy Uncle Liberty winning in 2012 would be evidence that the American people supported his brand of lunacy and any in Congress who opposed it would be swept away in the following election.

It’s a fair analogy.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:58:20pm

re: #129 gwangung

Yeah, having good ideas isn’t enough. It’s being able to wheedle the legislative side to do your bidding. It’s being flexible enough to meet with changing events. It’s being quick enough to come up with the right ideas.

That’s what a lot of people don’t get. I mean LBJ probably wasn’t our most personally left wing president but he probably got more progressive legislation accomplished than many more progressive than him would have since he understood the legislative process.

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gwangung  Dec 22, 2015 • 2:59:53pm

re: #136 HappyWarrior

That’s what a lot of people don’t get. I mean LBJ probably wasn’t our most personally left wing president but he probably got more progressive legislation accomplished than many more progressive than him would have since he understood the legislative process.

I think you will get more progressive legislation out of a conservative Dem president and a progressive Congress than out of a progressive Dem president and a conservative/Republican Congress.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:00:42pm

re: #137 gwangung

I think you will get more progressive legislation out of a conservative Dem president and a progressive Congress than out of a progressive Dem president and a conservative/Republican Congress.

I have to agree with that.

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:01:16pm

From a series she may still be doing. I recommend it for anyone who has not been nor known a homeless person.

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:02:55pm

This just came across my news feeds:
When Donald Trump’s words scared this Muslim girl, these Army vets responded perfectly.

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BeachDem  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:04:15pm

re: #136 HappyWarrior

That’s what a lot of people don’t get. I mean LBJ probably wasn’t our most personally left wing president but he probably got more progressive legislation accomplished than many more progressive than him would have since he understood the legislative process.

From the top diary on the kos rec list:


The infinitely complex strands of history have produced, by whatever strange math or magic, an anomalous and serendipitous opportunity to change directions as a society in a significant and unprecedented way. A no doubt, once in a lifetime chance to exert massive leverage on a whole range of stubbornly entrenched problems, correcting for the most egregious mistakes of history and culture.

(AND, if we all don’t get a pony, we’ll try something else next time)

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:05:05pm

re: #139 wrenchwench

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From a series she may still be doing. I recommend it for anyone who has not been nor known a homeless person.

Less well people off have more empathy and heart. You can have all the riches in the world but if you don’t attempt to even try to empathize with someone, you’re really not worth my time. That’s not to say all wealthy people are incapable of empathy but most of the ones in power like Trump certainly are.

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:05:56pm

re: #141 BeachDem

From the top diary on the kos rec list:

The infinitely complex strands of history have produced, by whatever strange math or magic, an anomalous and serendipitous opportunity to change directions as a society in a significant and unprecedented way. A no doubt, once in a lifetime chance to exert massive leverage on a whole range of stubbornly entrenched problems, correcting for the most egregious mistakes of history and culture.

(AND, if we all don’t get a pony, we’ll try something else next time)

It’s like I said, if Bernie doesn’t win the nomination, or if he does but loses the election, then he will be deemed “insufficiently progressive” and the search will begin for a new “true progressive” in time for 2020.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:08:08pm

re: #143 Targetpractice

It’s like I said, if Bernie doesn’t win the nomination, or if he does but loses the election, then he will be deemed “insufficiently progressive” and the search will begin for a new “true progressive” in time for 2020.

I don’t know about blaming it on him being insufficiently progressive but I definitely agree they’ll find an excuse and some new progressive white horse to jump on. It’s too bad. I agree with a lot of what he stands for but I also know that just merely electing Sanders alone isn’t the key to more progressive legislation and frankly I don’t think his supporters or maybe even him get that.

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Testy Toad T  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:08:39pm

re: #141 BeachDem

That reads like the dust jacket teaser on a particularly rank romance novel.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:09:13pm

re: #141 BeachDem

From the top diary on the kos rec list:

The infinitely complex strands of history have produced, by whatever strange math or magic, an anomalous and serendipitous opportunity to change directions as a society in a significant and unprecedented way. A no doubt, once in a lifetime chance to exert massive leverage on a whole range of stubbornly entrenched problems, correcting for the most egregious mistakes of history and culture.

(AND, if we all don’t get a pony, we’ll try something else next time)

I’ve heard that song before.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:10:18pm

On an OT note, all this hummus I’ve eaten today is making me crave falafel like a mad man.

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:11:50pm

re: #147 HappyWarrior

On an OT note, all this hummus I’ve eaten today is making me crave falafel like a mad man.

Must … not … make … radicalization … joke …

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:11:56pm

Well, he seems….weird.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:12:13pm

re: #148 Teukka

Must … not … make … radicalization … joke …

Ha.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:12:51pm

re: #149 WhatEVs

Well, he seems….weird.

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God help the other guy with those horns and tattoo if this ever happens again. //

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Testy Toad T  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:14:25pm

re: #151 HappyWarrior

God help the other guy with those horns and tattoo if this ever happens again. //

I’m preferring to imagine that those are, like, a head-claw.

RAUUUUUUUGH IMMA PINCH YOU LIKE A LOBSTER

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HappyWarrior  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:15:29pm

re: #152 Testy Toad T

I’m preferring to imagine that those are, like, a head-claw.

RAUUUUUUUGH IMMA PINCH YOU LIKE A LOBSTER

I wonder how drunk he was when he came up with that idea.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:18:16pm

Ha!

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BeachDem  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:18:57pm

re: #145 Testy Toad T

That reads like the dust jacket teaser on a particularly rank romance novel.

And the comments fulfill the promise of lust, love and lascivious longing!!

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:19:14pm

re: #149 WhatEVs

Well, he seems….weird.

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Facial tattoos and poor life choices go hand-in-hand.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:20:39pm

re: #156 Single-handed sailor

Facial tattoos and poor life choices go hand-in-hand.

Those facial tattoos take poor life choices to a whole ‘nother level.

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:22:04pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:22:08pm

Well I dunno, are there any candidates who DON’T use their kids as “political props”?

I don’t like Ted Cruz but this was just stupid==>

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Testy Toad T  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:22:57pm

re: #153 HappyWarrior

I wonder how drunk he was when he came up with that idea.

Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You’re on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?

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Brian J.  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:25:01pm

re: #100 jaunte

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“I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton.”

Even given its military significance, I hope Grant kept the receipt.

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ausador  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:25:23pm

re: #153 HappyWarrior

I wonder how drunk he was when he came up with that idea.

Odds are he was sober, those are prison tatoos.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:28:41pm

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:28:44pm

re: #162 ausador

Odds are he was sober, those are prison tatoos.

and the P is so badly done that in the photo it looks like “CODS”

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Testy Toad T  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:31:48pm

re: #164 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

and the P is so badly done that in the photo it looks like “CODS”

Maybe he had a bad reaction to seafood once.

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Kid A  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:32:21pm

re: #149 WhatEVs

Well, he seems….weird.

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Shocked that this happened in Oklahoma.
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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:32:33pm

Travels w SS update: Orlando airport is a shitshow. I’ve never seen so many people coming & going. There are 4 planes’ luggage at this carousel. Ahhhh

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Jebediah, RBG  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:32:39pm

re: #160 Testy Toad T

That reminds me, wasn’t there supposed to be a hip-hop follow-up to Spinal Tap? “None More Wack,” I think it was supposed to be called.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:33:04pm

re: #163 Charles Johnson

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:33:39pm

Binye du bist a grubber yung. Oib du wolst geven meins a kind, volt ich dir gegeben aza frosk! Geh beshtek zich in mistkasten, oisvorf vos du bist, chilul Hashem un a shanda for klal Yisroel.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:33:54pm

Heh:

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:34:52pm
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Testy Toad T  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:35:54pm

re: #167 Stanley Sea Toujours

Travels w SS update: Orlando airport is a shitshow. I’ve never seen so many people coming & going. There are 4 planes’ luggage at this carousel. Ahhhh

MCO is the worst airport in the country and I don’t think it’s particularly close. All the herded demon children and colossal tourists and just no organization whatsoever. I’d never previously been legitimately afraid I might get crushed to death.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:36:04pm

Luggage coming. People just started clapping. Happy holidays!

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:38:21pm

re: #172 WhatEVs

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And the critics don’t quite get that he, as a theocratic, couldn’t give a fuck less what the secular law says.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:39:42pm
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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:40:47pm

re: #174 Stanley Sea Toujours

Luggage coming. People just started clapping. Happy holidays!

Happy Holidays to you!!

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blueraven  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:41:02pm

What an AssHole.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:41:44pm

re: #176 Charles Johnson

Have we ever heard from our beloved rage furby?

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:42:32pm

re: #176 Charles Johnson

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:45:28pm

re: #169 thedopefishlives

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:46:44pm

re: #179 thedopefishlives

Oh yeah, he’s back spewing drunken craziness on Facebook again.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:48:01pm

re: #181 Charles Johnson

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:49:33pm

A interesting version of Mein Herz brennt, from 0:25:

Вечерний Ургант. Светлана Крючкова поет Rammstein - Mein Herz Brennt

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:50:24pm

re: #180 WhatEVs

Chuck and his hapless lawyer filed motions for discovery, so they could go on a fishing expedition in Gawker’s email and internal memos. Gawker’s lawyers want more time to respond to the motions.

The more Chuck makes Gawker’s lawyers work, the more money he’s going to end up owing them when he has to pay Gawker’s legal fees.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:51:14pm

re: #182 Charles Johnson

Oh yeah, he’s back spewing drunken craziness on Facebook again.

Ah. So that explains the pungent odor.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:52:16pm

re: #183 thedopefishlives

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Bubblehead II  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:53:19pm

re: #163 Charles Johnson

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CuriousLurker  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:53:38pm

re: #171 lawhawk

Heh:

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Coincidentally, it just so happens that I ran across Norman Rockwell’s “Golden Rule” painting a little while ago.

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:53:53pm

re: #185 Charles Johnson

Chuck and his hapless lawyer filed motions for discovery, so they could go on a fishing expedition in Gawker’s email and internal memos. Gawker’s lawyers want more time to respond to the motions.

The more Chuck makes Gawker’s lawyers work, the more money he’s going to end up owing them when he has to pay Gawker’s legal fees.

I just got the mental image of Burns and Chucky in the former’s office when they got the copy of this filing, Burns slowly sinking lower in his seat as the realization that Gawker’s running up the bill they’re gonna smack his client with in the end, while Chucky’s got this big shit-eating grin and going “This is good, right? We’ve got them scared, don’t we?”

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Mike Lamb  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:55:29pm

re: #176 Charles Johnson

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I love this type of bullshit…File a lawsuit and then request permission to promulgate discovery to see if it can withstand a motion to dismiss. That’s some solid due diligence by Mr. Burns…

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:57:23pm

I am off to watch bad television (Wheel of Fortune) and good television (Jeopardy!)

Catch ya all later!

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 3:57:47pm

re: #188 Bubblehead II

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gocart mozart  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:01:31pm

re: #125 jaunte

Has it weirded out anybody else how little the evangelicals seem to care that Trump is, at best, just going through the motions in the context of religion?

I think their true faith is resentment.

Their true faith is fear, fear and resentment; two true faiths, fear, resentment, and ruthless idiocy! Er, among their true faiths are: fear, resentment, ruthless idiocy, and near fanatical devotion to the hating of liberals! Um, I’ll come in again…

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:03:06pm

Is one of them near Dim Jim Hoft’s place?

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:10:04pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:13:05pm

Yep. Wingnuts already screaming that the cartoon “mocks Christianity” and is “racist” because it shows Cruz’s kids as dancing monkeys.

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:13:42pm

re: #196 Charles Johnson

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“THEY INSINUATED CRUZ’S KIDS ARE MONKEYS! WHAT IF WE PORTRAYED THE OBAMA DAUGHTERS AS MONKEYS?!?!”
“Shall we bring up the times in the past that political cartoons have portrayed the President as an ape or insinuated that an ape on the cartoon was a stand-in for the President? And how you argued til blue in the face that it was just a joke and we liberals were humorless?”
“THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!”

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:15:29pm

re: #197 Charles Johnson

Yep. Wingnuts already screaming that the cartoon “mocks Christianity” and is “racist” because it shows Cruz’s kids as dancing monkeys.

It’s lame as fuck. There is plenty of stuff to mock Ted Cruz for without dragging in his kids.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:16:55pm

re: #199 The Vicious Babushka

It’s lame as fuck. There is plenty of stuff to mock Ted Cruz for without dragging in his kids.

I agree, it was a terrible idea. But I suspect it was done on purpose to provoke exactly this kind of click-bait response.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:18:22pm

re: #197 Charles Johnson

Yep. Wingnuts already screaming that the cartoon “mocks Christianity” and is “racist” because it shows Cruz’s kids as dancing monkeys.

i have a notion that democrats whipping up the right wing into a seething frenzy might work well

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:18:37pm

re: #199 The Vicious Babushka

It’s lame as fuck. There is plenty of stuff to mock Ted Cruz for without dragging in his kids.

I follow Talnaes’ rule: Family is off-limits until they involve themselves in the political process in some fashion. But in this case, the target of the mockery is not his children, it’s Ted for using his children as stage props.

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Mike Lamb  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:20:35pm

re: #202 Targetpractice

I follow Talnaes’ rule: Family is off-limits until they involve themselves in the political process in some fashion. But in this case, the target of the mockery is not his children, it’s Ted for using his children as stage props.

Feh…nuance is for suckers.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:21:02pm

seems some guy named brent crude got beat up today

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:21:30pm

It’s not racist because there is no history of associating whites - incl. Hispanic whites - with monkeys.
Still a terrible idea.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:21:40pm

re: #202 Targetpractice

I follow Talnaes’ rule: Family is off-limits until they involve themselves in the political process in some fashion. But in this case, the target of the mockery is not his children, it’s Ted for using his children as stage props.

if the republican party wants to fight this out at the seventh grade level, let’s give em what they want and see how they like it

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Bubblehead II  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:21:42pm

re: #199 The Vicious Babushka

It’s lame as fuck. There is plenty of stuff to mock Ted Cruz for without dragging in his kids.

Agreed. Just because their father is an ass and used his kids in a political ad isn’t a valid reason to drag them into the muck. He was wrong to use them and she is wrong to mock them.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:21:43pm

re: #195 The Vicious Babushka

There’s hundreds of these kinds of sites across the nation. Quite a few here in the NYC metro area, including Manhattan and Staten Island and Queens. Some are the result of work during the Manhattan Project, and some were part of AEC programs after WWII.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:24:19pm

re: #205 Nyet

It’s not racist because there is no history of associating whites - incl. Hispanic whites - with monkeys.

Of course, but right wingers like to deliberately misconstrue any depiction of a white person as a monkey as “racist,” while simultaneously denying depicting black people as monkeys is racist. It’s just how they do.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:25:37pm

There’s plenty of things to mock Cruz with and for. This cartoon is clickbait.

I’d rather mock Cruz for his Islamophobia. Or fact free tax redistribution plan that favors the rich. Among others.

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Skip Intro  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:25:38pm

re: #199 The Vicious Babushka

It’s lame as fuck. There is plenty of stuff to mock Ted Cruz for without dragging in his kids.

Except he does in his ads.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:26:04pm

I thought Ann Telnaes had more class than Andy Branco and Mike Ramirez. I guess not.

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CuriousLurker  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:26:20pm

re: #197 Charles Johnson

Yep. Wingnuts already screaming that the cartoon “mocks Christianity” and is “racist” because it shows Cruz’s kids as dancing monkeys.

It’s obnoxious to bring young kids into it, but I don’t understand where they’re getting the “mocks Christianity” part from. There’s nothing remotely religious about the caricature, at least not that I can see.

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:26:26pm

re: #211 Skip Intro

Except he does in his ads.

And we shouldn’t stoop to his level.

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Skip Intro  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:26:47pm

re: #204 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

seems some guy named brent crude got beat up today

Is that why gas prices went up around $.30 a gallon in the last week?

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makeitstop  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:27:09pm

I was out doing Christmas shopping today, and I pulled up at a red light behind a car that had a bumper sticker saying ‘The only good Communist is a dead Communist.’

Could someone please remind me what year this is again?

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:27:18pm

re: #213 CuriousLurker

It’s obnoxious to bring young kids into it, but I don’t understand where they’re getting the “mocks Christianity” part from. There’s nothing remotely religious about caricature.

They are mocking a Christian saint. Guess which one! //

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Skip Intro  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:27:31pm

re: #214 Nyet

And we shouldn’t stoop to his level.

I don’t like the cartoon at all, but Cruz uses his kids a props every chance he gets.

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:27:35pm

re: #216 makeitstop

I was out doing Christmas shopping today, and I pulled up at a red light behind a car that had a bumper sticker saying ‘The only good Communist is a dead Communist.’

Could someone please remind me what year this is again?

1955.

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Skip Intro  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:29:08pm

re: #219 Targetpractice

1955.

At least it didn’t say “liberal” - yet.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:29:16pm

re: #218 Skip Intro

I don’t like the cartoon at all, but Cruz uses his kids a props every chance he gets.

Who was the GOP candidate who kept going “My daughter said this… my daughter asked me..” making it sound like she’s 6 years old or something, when she’s actually a young adult. Kasich?

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:29:37pm

He wears fucking cowboy boots in that ad. That’s the real scandal there.

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CuriousLurker  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:29:40pm

re: #217 Nyet

They are mocking a Christian saint. Guess which one! //

Oh right, St. Nick!

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:29:44pm

re: #216 makeitstop

1955, just the way the GOP wants it. Or wishes it to be. /let’s do the time warp again…

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:30:01pm

It’s a feeding frenzy

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:30:16pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:30:34pm
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Nyet  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:31:39pm

You know what’s beneath basic human decency? Agreeing with Trump on Muslims. As Teddy did.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:31:47pm

From my FB timeline posted by a friend, a short doc on a champion sidecar racer from the the 1950s; really cool:

twistedsifter.com

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:32:03pm

Has Hillary even made any ads that mention she has a grandkid? And if Chelsea campaigns, so what? She’s a grown up.

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Bubblehead II  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:32:52pm

re: #211 Skip Intro

Except he does in his ads.

And your point is? The kids have no clue about what they are being used for, because you know, they are kids. Just because Cruz used his kids as a political prop doesn’t make them culpable for his actions. Leave them alone.

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CuriousLurker  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:33:08pm

re: #228 Nyet

You know what’s beneath basic human decency? Agreeing with Trump on Muslims. As Teddy did.

Thank you.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:33:51pm

Wait, what?

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Skip Intro  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:34:12pm

re: #231 Bubblehead II

Leave them alone? I don’t recall doing anything to them.

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:34:21pm

re: #233 The Vicious Babushka

Here’s my *eyeroll*.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:34:35pm

seems to me that the fundie part of the base might squirm uncomfortably at “schlonged”

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Mike Lamb  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:35:20pm

re: #230 The Vicious Babushka

Has Hillary even made any ads that mention she has a grandkid? And if Chelsea campaigns, so what? She’s a grown up.

No, which is completely lost on these people.

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CuriousLurker  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:35:30pm

Why do they do this shit? I know they’re desperate for clicks, but Cruz is the last person I wanna see getting an opportunity to act like a frigging martyr.

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:35:50pm

The wingnuts are perfectly capable of being outraged over the political cartoon without our joining in.

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Bubblehead II  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:36:35pm

re: #234 Skip Intro

Leave them alone? I don’t recall doing anything to them.

The leave them alone was aimed at political cartoonists/pundits.

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Mike Lamb  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:36:54pm

re: #231 Bubblehead II

And your point is? The kids have no clue about what they are being used for, because you know, they are kids. Just because Cruz used his kids as a political prop doesn’t make them culpable for his actions. Leave them alone.

But as someone pointed out upthread—the intent of the cartoon is to mock Cruz, not the kids.

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:38:25pm

1. That cartoon is a terrible idea.

2. It’s terribleness doesn’t rise above merely being in very, very bad taste.

It’s not racist, it’s not threatening and it’s one of the least unethical things during this campaign season.

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:38:47pm

re: #240 Bubblehead II

The leave them alone was aimed at political cartoonists/pundits.

They are leaving them alone. They’re going after Cruz for his shameless exploitation of his children.

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makeitstop  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:41:48pm

Well, at least now that they have a new chew toy maybe they’ll stop jabbering about Hillary Clinton’s potty habits.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:42:02pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:42:53pm

re: #245 Charles Johnson

The picture this asshole tweeted at me is a collection of death porn..

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Tigger2  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:43:07pm

re: #15 ausador

Holy fucking crap…

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Skip Intro  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:43:10pm

re: #240 Bubblehead II

The leave them alone was aimed at political cartoonists/pundits.

If we acted like Republicans we’d say a RWNJ did it on purpose to set us up.

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CuriousLurker  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:43:24pm

Okay, I’m not in the mood for all the manufactured outrage from the right wingers who’ve been spewing venomous racism, misogyny, and bigotry non-stop for the past eight years. Nope, not gonna give it any more of my day. Khalas!

Later, lizards.

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:43:44pm

re: #245 Charles Johnson

“Sticks & Stones may brake my bones, but words will never hurt me. Get over it! “

Or images. Oh wait…

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:43:53pm

re: #244 makeitstop

Well, at least now that they have a new chew toy maybe they’ll stop jabbering about Hillary Clinton’s potty habits.

i say give em a whole bunch of bullshit to get all upset about

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:44:35pm

Lamest tweet of the day? Well, OK, day not over.

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:45:44pm

Santa kneeling before a giant gun in a giant boot.

Your wingnut surrealism for today.

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Skip Intro  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:45:45pm

re: #242 Nyet

1. That cartoon is a terrible idea.

2. It’s terribleness doesn’t rise above merely being in very, very bad taste.

It’s not racist, it’s not threatening and it’s one of the least unethical things during this campaign season.

Meanwhile, this is how Breitbart headlined their story of the Trump fan Muslim bomber guy.

Hillary Clinton Fan Threatens Mosque; Media Blame Trump

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:46:47pm
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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:48:09pm

thishyar trump is part of the moral turpentine that has been dissolving the thin varnish of civvy lie zation that lies accrost our great country

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:48:28pm

Stalkers hate that Twitter block feature.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:50:02pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:50:05pm

re: #257 jaunte

Stalkers hate that Twitter block feature.

I love it that they think it’s going to hurt my tender feelings to call me a “coward” for blocking them. Sick freaks.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:52:50pm

That is not what it means you putz

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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:54:09pm

re: #258 The Vicious Babushka

Once again, #MSM is dishonest. “Schlonged” is not vulgar. When I said Hillary got “schlonged” that meant beaten badly.

Billionaires get their own dictionary.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:56:15pm

re: #260 The Vicious Babushka

When I said Hillary got “schlonged” that meant beaten badly

feeling the heat are we, donald?

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WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:57:10pm

re: #261 Decatur Deb

Billionaires get their own dictionary.

And it’s in a wiki dictionary as Beaten Badly by the time I’ve written this comment.

I sucked at Jeopardy today. (Sigh)

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:57:49pm

re: #258 The Vicious Babushka

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Is your schlong badly beaten, Mr. Trump? Or beaten badly?

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:58:09pm

Why are you so happy at the thought of beating up women you abusive shmuck

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:58:21pm
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jaunte  Dec 22, 2015 • 4:58:29pm

The Brits are so longing to bar Trump.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:00:09pm

re: #266 Charles Johnson

You can’t really think anyone is buying this transparent lie. Not even your right wing followers believe it.

“Fucked” isn’t vulgar. “Fucked” means your fanbelt broke.

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:00:10pm

There are some instances of to schlong in the sense of to beat in Google Books, albeit very rare.

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blueraven  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:01:42pm

re: #269 Nyet

There are some uses of schlong in the sense of to beat in Google Books, albeit very rare.

To beat, with a giant penis.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:02:12pm
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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:02:40pm

re: #270 blueraven

To beat, with a giant penis yooooge dick.

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bratwurst  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:03:11pm

In case you didn’t already hate BuzzFeed:

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:03:18pm

re: #159 The Vicious Babushka

Here’s the key quote:

But when a politician uses his children as political props, as Ted Cruz recently did in his Christmas parody video in which his eldest daughter read (with her father’s dramatic flourish) a passage of an edited Christmas classic, then I figure they are fair game.

Cruz had his daughter read outloud an ‘edited passage’. Cruz crossed the line by having his daughter become an active participant instead of being passive.

Now you know what kind of a sleazebag Cruz really is.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:03:51pm

re: #273 bratwurst

In case you didn’t already hate BuzzFeed:

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I think that’s Milo’s idea of a joke.

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:04:09pm

re: #270 blueraven

Not necessarily. Although penis-based meanings (in the sense of to fuck or to have a big penis) are more frequent.

What I think is responsible for those rare occurrences is the confusion between shlong and shlogn (from German schlagen - to beat):

yiddishwordoftheweek.tumblr.com

Shlogn - שלאגן \SHLOG-en\ Verb:
To beat, hit, strike; mint (money); fight [with zikh].

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Bubblehead II  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:04:42pm

re: #241 Mike Lamb

re: #243 Targetpractice

My point is that to even bring the kids in, even tangentially was wrong. And that’s where I am going to leave it.

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blueraven  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:05:07pm

re: #273 bratwurst

In case you didn’t already hate BuzzFeed:

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I just think that is not true…a social justice editor? No.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:05:44pm

re: #276 Nyet

Not necessarily. Although penis-based meanings (in the sense of to fuck or to have a big penis) are more frequent.

What I think is responsible for those rare occurrences is the confusion between shlong and shlogn (from German schlagen - to beat):

yiddishwordoftheweek.tumblr.com

Shlong (n.) and shlugen(v.) are two entirely different words, completely unrelated.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:05:58pm

Cartoonists should have plenty of material with the adult members of the
Cruz family.

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gocart mozart  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:06:05pm

re: #197 Charles Johnson

Yep. Wingnuts already screaming that the cartoon “mocks Christianity” and is “racist” because it shows Cruz’s kids as dancing monkeys.

The cartoon is stupid because every (most) politician uses their kids as “props” whatever that means. What did Cruz do? I suppose there is a line, did Cruz cross it?

How does it mock “Christianity”? Because Santa!!!!!!!!! ????????? WTF. Racist??? Someday a conservative will use that word in a correct context but is it monkeys? Is it because the kids are part Hispanic? Is it because Hispanic children should only be referred to as terror babies or future rapist and drug dealers?* This is outrage refrigerator magnets.
*Not all of them, I’m sure some are great people.

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:06:14pm

re: #278 blueraven

I just think that is not true…a social justice editor? No.

Next thing you tell me Milo won’t be joining the New York Times as the chief investigative reporter.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:06:44pm

re: #276 Nyet

Not necessarily. Although penis-based meanings (in the sense of to fuck or to have a big penis) are more frequent.

What I think is responsible for those rare occurrences is the confusion between shlong and shlogn (from German schlagen - to beat):

yiddishwordoftheweek.tumblr.com

I’ve heard the word “schlong” many times in my life in many different circumstances, and it only meant “penis.” I’ve never heard it used to mean “beat up.”

Not saying it’s never been used that way, but the fact is it’s very very commonly understood as referring to a dick. Trump knows that. He’s just lying, as he does.

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:06:46pm

re: #279 The Vicious Babushka

Shlong (n.) and shlugen(v.) are two entirely different words, completely unrelated.

I don’t think anybody said they’re the same word or were related.

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:07:04pm

re: #277 Bubblehead II

My point is that to even bring the kids in, even tangentially was wrong. And that’s where I am going to leave it.

And my point is if we cannot attack Cruz for using his kids as stage props, something I would hazard to guess we both believe to be wrong, then we should be able to mock him for doing so. Him, not his children. Else we allow him and other politicians to use their children both as props and shields from criticism for using them as props.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:07:25pm

re: #281 gocart mozart

The cartoon is stupid because every (most) politician uses their kids as “props” whatever that means. What did Cruz do? I suppose there is a line, did Cruz cross it?

How does it mock “Christianity”? Because Santa!!!!!!!!! ????????? WTF. Racist??? Someday a conservative will use that word in a correct context but is it monkeys? Is it because the kids are part Hispanic? Is it because Hispanic children should only be referred to as terror babies or future rapist and drug dealers?* This is outrage refrigerator magnets.
*Not all of them, I’m sure some are great people.

Who TF even thinks of Ted Cruz as “Hispanic”? He’s Canadian FFS.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:08:43pm

Trump’s no linguist.

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:09:30pm

re: #283 Charles Johnson

I’ve heard the word “schlong” many times in my life in many different circumstances, and it only meant “penis.” I’ve never heard it used to mean “beat up.”

Not saying it’s never been used that way, but the fact is it’s very very commonly understood as referring to a dick. Trump knows that. He’s just lying, as he does.

In Trump’s case this is clear.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:09:30pm

re: #287 Barefoot Grin

Trump’s no linguist.

Even I wouldn’t go for the punchline.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:10:03pm

Yup. Gateway Dumbditz is ON IT.

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:10:16pm

re: #289 Decatur Deb

GDF would. ;)

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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:11:18pm

re: #290 Charles Johnson

DISGUSTING! Leading Leftist Rag Portrays Ted Cruz’s Kids as Monkeys - The Gateway Pundit

“Disgusting” is our new Word of the Week.

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danarchy  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:11:58pm

Trump could have just as easily said she got screwed and while still vulgar I doubt it would have gotten half the attention. Instead he said schlonged and he gets three days of media coverage.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:12:07pm

I’ve thought schlong and hard, and there can be only one conclusion.

The GOP will use anything and everything and project their inanities on others. Trump especially.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:13:30pm

re: #294 lawhawk

I’ve thought schlong and hard, and there can be only one conclusion.

The GOP will use anything and everything and project their inanities on others. Trump especially.

That’s needlessly rigid.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:14:04pm

Here’s a good cartoon topic:
Texas Governor Abbott is now defending the state of Texas from the Bill of Rights.

Abbott complains that FFRF’s Bill of Rights display is “tasteless sarcasm” and that FFRF mocks “our Nation’s Judeo-Christian heritage.” Ironically, Abbott cited a fake George Washington quote, while claiming the FFRF display “promotes ignorance and falsehood.”
………
FFRF received a permit for the display, which was placed in the ground floor rotunda on December 18.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:15:02pm

Baby Snidely Whiplash is hot & bothered over Lena Dunham. This is stalker creepiness.

Click to Reveal
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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:15:16pm

re: #295 Decatur Deb

Well, I do have a certain oral flexibility. /

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:16:46pm

I wonder what happens to Trump’s hair when in coitus.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:17:23pm

re: #298 lawhawk

Well, I do have a certain oral flexibility. /

After analyzing your skills, I find them bottomless.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:18:28pm

re: #299 Barefoot Grin

I wonder what happens to Trump’s hair when in coitus.

You mean when it’s screwing a nutria?

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:18:48pm

re: #299 Barefoot Grin

I wonder what happens to Trump’s hair when in coitus.

err, I take that back. I’m usually thinking about other things.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:19:57pm

re: #302 Barefoot Grin

err, I take that back. I’m usually thinking about other things.

They should never have stopped teaching sentence diagramming.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:21:32pm

re: #303 Decatur Deb

I agree.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:21:46pm

re: #303 Decatur Deb

They should never have stopped teaching sentence diagramming.

We did that. My diagrams eventually became the basis for Yoda-speak.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:21:55pm

re: #299 Barefoot Grin

I wonder what happens to Trump’s hair when in coitus.

I’ll bet dollars to donuts that Trump is impotent. His constant crowing over his superior strength and stamina compared to others smacks of a man living in severe denial.

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makeitstop  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:22:55pm

re: #281 gocart mozart

The cartoon is stupid because every (most) politician uses their kids as “props” whatever that means. What did Cruz do? I suppose there is a line, did Cruz cross it?

He had one daughter recite a line about Hillary’s email server in that stupid Christmas video he did.

Like I said yesterday - chances are good that those kids are going to grow up hating the old man’s guts.

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gocart mozart  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:25:14pm

re: #276 Nyet

What I think is responsible for those rare occurrences is the confusion between shlong and shlogn (from German schlagen - to beat)

Shlagen the shlong.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:25:39pm

Cruz in Arkansas

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TedStriker  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:27:41pm

re: #28 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Lord, it’s hard to be humble…

Apologies to Mac Davis, but “It’s Hard to be Humble” seems tailor-made for Trump.

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gocart mozart  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:28:44pm

re: #296 jaunte

Texas Governor Abbott

They should have went with Costello.

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makeitstop  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:30:59pm

re: #299 Barefoot Grin

I wonder what happens to Trump’s hair when in coitus.

He has people to hold it in place.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:34:33pm

re: #312 makeitstop

He has people to hold it in place.

LOL. “Mr. Trump, it’s going to be huge.”

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blueraven  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:35:10pm

re: #281 gocart mozart

The cartoon is stupid because every (most) politician uses their kids as “props” whatever that means. What did Cruz do? I suppose there is a line, did Cruz cross it?

How does it mock “Christianity”? Because Santa!!!!!!!!! ????????? WTF. Racist??? Someday a conservative will use that word in a correct context but is it monkeys? Is it because the kids are part Hispanic? Is it because Hispanic children should only be referred to as terror babies or future rapist and drug dealers?* This is outrage refrigerator magnets.
*Not all of them, I’m sure some are great people.

He used his kids in a negative ad and they were active participants. Pretty low class if you ask me

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BeachDem  Dec 22, 2015 • 5:38:02pm

re: #306 goddamnedfrank

I’ll bet dollars to donuts that Trump is impotent. His constant crowing over his superior strength and stamina compared to others smacks of a man living in severe denial.

The short-fingered vulgarian once said:

My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body.

So draw your own conclusions.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:05:00pm

re: #273 bratwurst

In case you didn’t already hate BuzzFeed:

[Embedded content]

The fuck?

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:07:05pm

re: #307 makeitstop

He had one daughter recite a line about Hillary’s email server in that stupid Christmas video he did.

Like I said yesterday - chances are good that those kids are going to grow up hating the old man’s guts.

As Ann telanes explained. He used them.

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TedStriker  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:42:28pm

re: #173 Testy Toad T

MCO is the worst airport in the country and I don’t think it’s particularly close. All the herded demon children and colossal tourists and just no organization whatsoever. I’d never previously been legitimately afraid I might get crushed to death.

On my Orlando trip last year, I had much more trouble transiting through Atlanta on my way home than I had on either arrival to or departure from Orlando.

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TedStriker  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:49:08pm

re: #216 makeitstop

I was out doing Christmas shopping today, and I pulled up at a red light behind a car that had a bumper sticker saying ‘The only good Communist is a dead Communist.’

Could someone please remind me what year this is again?

If you see one that says, “Better Dead Than Red!”, then you’re driving behind Frank Burns.

/

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TedStriker  Dec 22, 2015 • 6:55:43pm

re: #294 lawhawk

I’ve thought schlong and hard, and there can be only one conclusion.

The GOP will use anything and everything and project their inanities on others. Trump especially.

Well, “hard” and “schlong” do go together, like chocolate and peanut butter.

///

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Alephnaught  Dec 23, 2015 • 2:46:35am

re: #299 Barefoot Grin

I wonder what happens to Trump’s hair when in coitus.

The Senior Dads already mused on this very subject back in July, via Todd Starnes and his declaration of love for Trump’s All-American “man parts”.


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