Today’s program on our podcasting affiliate, The Bob & Chez Show:
The Hairless Bigfoot: Farewell to the Tarp Man; The Oregon Militia Takes Its First Casualties; Oregon Militia Doofus Screams About the Cops; Trump vs Fox News Channel; Trump Fans Tweet Sexist Slurs at Megyn Kelly; Sarah Palin Defends Trump Against Fox News; Robert Reich’s Bernie Sanders Video; and much more.
Some “Patriots” turning on Pete Santilli. #Oregonstandoff pic.twitter.com/3gMLQMoJuW
— HGTomato (@HGTomato) January 29, 2016
Obama administration confirms for 1st time Clinton’s unsecured home server contains some closely guarded secrets: https://t.co/NRiMg5IYNA
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 29, 2016
*sigh*
Tune in to @OPBTOL at 12:06. I will have the latest on FBI negotiations with militants. Live stream: https://t.co/8q2CsQP6jM
— Ryan Haas (@ryanjhaas) January 29, 2016
re: #1 Tigger2
KNO TRUE PATRIOT!!11!
The only question is how soon will the militanuts be rewritten into tree hugging ecoterrorists that none of the real true Murkans ever supported?
And now, the click-baitiest headline of the day. https://t.co/bQhLKz1g11 @TIME
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 29, 2016
If anyone gets the chance, listen to Chez’s description of Brian Kilmeade in the last podcast.
I am having a “I’m a 12 year old boy” moment…maybe afternoon.
I so love the internet. God bless DARPA.
re: #1 Tigger2
HGTomato @HGTomato
Some “Patriots” turning on Pete Santilli. #Oregonstandoff
2:51 PM - 29 Jan 2016
No surprise. I almost posted a comment when it was going down and Santilli was caught away from the compound. That all sounded a bit fishy. And even if he is not an informant, the fact they are all eating each other is a good thing.
Before this is all over, I bet there are going to many more ‘patriots’ identified that were not even in Oregon. These fools can’t shut up their yaps!
Yes, there is a blue tarp
David Fry is up again with a video, about a minute ago https://t.co/57FMZ7Dngz
— John Sepulvado (@JohnLGC) January 29, 2016
what’s left of the #bundymilita — the deal was almost done, then at the last minute, fell apart. https://t.co/A7pwqDzTvl
— John Sepulvado (@JohnLGC) January 29, 2016
I have a theory of my own.
When word of the Bundy arrests reached Burns, and Santilli called Blaine Cooper at the refuge to tell him he was now in charge, Cooper said something that completely freaked out Santilli. (All of this caught on video as it was happening).
Santilli is arrested right there and remains in jail.
Cooper packs up his wife and (kidnapped) kids and they depart the refuge in the dark of night, past checkpoints, to parts unknown…leaving the rest of the losers holding the collective bag of flaming dog poop and no porch.
Cooper has no recognizable means of support but lives extremely well and has managed to insert himself into every militia group he can find.
In the FBI complaint filed in court, Blaine Cooper is referred to in text and photos as “unidentified man”.
Who’s the potential inside guy?
re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth
I have a theory of my own.
When word of the Bundy arrests reached Burns, and Santilli called Blaine Cooper at the refuge to tell him he was now in charge, Cooper said something that completely freaked out Santilli. (All of this caught on video as it was happening).
Santilli is arrested right there and remains in jail.
Cooper packs up his wife and (kidnapped) kids and they depart the refuge in the dark of night, past checkpoints, to parts unknown…leaving the rest of the losers holding the collective bag of flaming dog poop and no porch.
Cooper has no recognizable means of support but lives extremely well and has managed to insert himself into every militia group he can find.
In the FBI complaint filed in court, Blaine Cooper is referred to in text and photos as “unidentified man”.Who’s the potential inside guy?
Sounds plausible to me that Cooper’s a rat.
re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth
Also, my theory also includes someone putting bugs in the bird sanctuary:
i’m wearing a tin foil hat. beams straight into my head. jk jk can’t tell you. https://t.co/q2YFggpI2j
— John Sepulvado (@JohnLGC) January 29, 2016
not replying. all i can say is we’re hearing conversations on the compound. https://t.co/uh8SLtxVJ0
— John Sepulvado (@JohnLGC) January 29, 2016
militants spoke to fbi today — david fry says first demand about meeting with fed prosecutors hasn’t been met. https://t.co/57FMZ7Dngz
— John Sepulvado (@JohnLGC) January 29, 2016
What is it that the remaining morons think they have to offer that gives them any leverage to have “demands?”
re: #14 BeachDem
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What is it that the remaining morons think they have to offer that gives them any leverage to have “demands?”
david fry cites @HillaryClinton’s friend — Mark Richt — getting pardoned as a precedent https://t.co/57FMZ7Dngz
— John Sepulvado (@JohnLGC) January 29, 2016
re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth
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and correction — i meant to type marc rich’s pardon with @HillaryClinton — i transposed him with old Georgia Bulldog’s Coach Mark Richt
— John Sepulvado (@JohnLGC) January 29, 2016
re: #14 BeachDem
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What is it that the remaining morons think they have to offer that gives them any leverage to have “demands?”
A bird’s nest from an endangered species.
re: #14 BeachDem
What is it that the remaining morons think they have to offer that gives them any leverage to have “demands?”
The refugeniks are acting like they have a royal flush, when all they have is a pair of threes.
re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And again I ask, why do these morons think they’re such very special snowflakes?
Right handed no doubt. Pistol on right hip, and gun under left armpit. Nice catch. #Oregonstandoff https://t.co/B16KlLMK3Q
— Stupor Nova (@Stupor_Nova) January 29, 2016
re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth
I have a theory of my own.
When word of the Bundy arrests reached Burns, and Santilli called Blaine Cooper at the refuge to tell him he was now in charge, Cooper said something that completely freaked out Santilli. (All of this caught on video as it was happening).
Santilli is arrested right there and remains in jail.
Cooper packs up his wife and (kidnapped) kids and they depart the refuge in the dark of night, past checkpoints, to parts unknown…leaving the rest of the losers holding the collective bag of flaming dog poop and no porch.
Cooper has no recognizable means of support but lives extremely well and has managed to insert himself into every militia group he can find.
In the FBI complaint filed in court, Blaine Cooper is referred to in text and photos as “unidentified man”.Who’s the potential inside guy?
Someone who is sitting in jail right now. That would be my guess.
re: #18 TedStriker
The refugeniks are acting like they have a royal flush, when all they have is a pair of threes.
I don’t even think they have a pair of threes.
re: #14 BeachDem
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What is it that the remaining morons think they have to offer that gives them any leverage to have “demands?”
As someone pointed out to me the other day, time is now on the FBI’s side. They’ve got the place surrounded, there’s no reinforcements coming, and there’s not enough militants left to set up even a half-assed watch system. Mix in the paranoia that will prevent them from getting even cat naps and it won’t be long before their own exhaustion undoes them.
re: #18 TedStriker
The refugeniks are acting like they have a royal flush, when all they have is a pair of threes.
But they’re both spades!
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re: #21 WhatEVs
Someone who is sitting in jail right now. That would be my guess.
And Cooper managed to leave the refuge, past the checkpoints without being arrested, while others who attempted to leave were arrested.
re: #19 BeachDem
And again I ask, why do these morons think they’re such very special snowflakes?
@PatrioticChoice @Hutch_USA Aint gonna take away my guns! Not after what they did at #Oregonstandoff and #JadeHelm15 pic.twitter.com/1rq7rkzKpO
— Tea Party Amercan (@BarryWirth) January 29, 2016
. @BarryWirth @PatrioticChoice @Hutch_USA teatard logic: laws don’ apply to me ‘cause I’m a “speshul” snowflake an’ ahm bein’ oppressed!
— Annemarie Dickey (@Scottishlizard1) January 29, 2016
re: #14 BeachDem
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What is it that the remaining morons think they have to offer that gives them any leverage to have “demands?”
Nothing, of course, but it sounds more like simply making the “demands” is the main point: to buy time. Time for more publicity, more clicks, more breathless bullshit FB posts, more “martyrdom” sympathy from Wingnuttistan, etc. Of course it’s all a waste of time, but then, these assclowns don’t seem to have much of anything else to do with their lives…
re: #24 Targetpractice
As someone pointed out to me the other day, time is now on the FBI’s side. They’ve got the place surrounded, there’s no reinforcements coming, and there’s not enough militants left to set up even a half-assed watch system. Mix in the paranoia that will prevent them from getting even cat naps and it won’t be long before their own exhaustion undoes them.
The feds should send them some more beer.
re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth
And Cooper managed to leave the refuge, past the checkpoints without being arrested, while others who attempted to leave were arrested.
Not disputing the possibility. If it was my shitshow, that’s just how I would handle someone on the inside.
David Fry is completely and totally mentally ill.
I am not joking. He needs serious psychiatric help.
re: #5 Charles Johnson
Master baiting heading of the day eh?
re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth
And Cooper managed to leave the refuge, past the checkpoints without being arrested, while others who attempted to leave were arrested.
Cooper has been accused of theft from other groups and there is general suspicion on patriot boards of how he has a lot of expensive toys and no job or income.
I have been wondering how the hell he ran out to Idaho myself.
re: #34 withak
@BarryWirth has got to be a Poe.
Barry Wirth is a parody account that has been around for a very long time.
re: #1 Tigger2
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Jesus, I’d hate to belong to that outfit. They seem to run on suspicion and paranoia.
re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth
And Cooper managed to leave the refuge, past the checkpoints without being arrested, while others who attempted to leave were arrested.
Not only that, but the FBI didn’t come after them after Cooper and his wife pretty much kidnapped their kids from the relative that was taking care of them after that relative called CPS about the kids’ welfare (and, IIRC, CPS was enroute to the kids and passed Cooper and family on the road).
Anywhere or anybody else, that would have been an instant AMBER Alert.
re: #34 withak
@BarryWirth has got to be a Poe.
I think so. This was the clincher…
@gerfingerpoken2 This is why I taked my kids out of gov schools. Obama wont brainwash MY KIDS! I’ll tech them myself pic.twitter.com/bXxXS8N7fU
— Tea Party Amercan (@BarryWirth) January 29, 2016
re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth
David Fry is completely and totally mentally ill.
I am not joking. He needs serious psychiatric help.
How old is he? Can’t remember. And have his parents returned from vacation yet? Anybody know?
re: #43 BeachDem
How old is he? Can’t remember. And have his parents returned from vacation yet? Anybody know?
He’s 27 based on OPB. I don’t know about the parents.
re: #19 BeachDem
And again I ask, why do these morons think they’re such very special snowflakes?
We’re True Muricans. The holy land Murica, which we worship and defend, protects us!
re: #43 BeachDem
How old is he? Can’t remember. And have his parents returned from vacation yet? Anybody know?
He’s 27, I think.
His parents are back from vacation and have been in contact with him and the authorities and the press.
oh, good luck with THAT you guys:
militant supporters are meeting online RIGHT NOW to discuss a potential rescue attempt. this as PPN calls for this https://t.co/Pn4JotPMZy
— John Sepulvado (@JohnLGC) January 29, 2016
re: #46 Aunty Entity Dragon
RINO!!!
re: #2 Targetpractice
*sigh*
Every one of these types of articles should include a statement saying “and the House of Representatives provided everyone with access to the emails.”
re: #36 Aunty Entity Dragon
Cooper has been accused of theft from other groups and there is general suspicion on patriot boards of how he has a lot of expensive toys and no job or income.
I have been wondering how the hell he ran out to Idaho myself.
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He is really David Blaine Cooper, Jr. Or DB, for short….
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re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth
He’s 27, I think.
His parents are back from vacation and have been in contact with him and the authorities and the press.
Did I miss this before? According to the Plain Dealer, he was on vacation WITH his parents and left to go to Oregon—so they would have known all along.
Fry reportedly was on vacation with his parents in Costa Rica when he left them and traveled to Oregon to join the occupation. He told reporters in Oregon he drove through a blinding snowstorm to get there.
This says he actually did an interview with the Plain Dealer (and counts fetuses as people):
“I’m holding up alright,” Fry told The Plain Dealer. “Everybody is still holding their ground. We did get the women, children, most of them out of here — all the children. I think there’s one woman who’s pregnant. That still counts as a child.”
re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth
I have a theory of my own.
When word of the Bundy arrests reached Burns, and Santilli called Blaine Cooper at the refuge to tell him he was now in charge, Cooper said something that completely freaked out Santilli. (All of this caught on video as it was happening).
Santilli is arrested right there and remains in jail.
Cooper packs up his wife and (kidnapped) kids and they depart the refuge in the dark of night, past checkpoints, to parts unknown…leaving the rest of the losers holding the collective bag of flaming dog poop and no porch.
Cooper has no recognizable means of support but lives extremely well and has managed to insert himself into every militia group he can find.
In the FBI complaint filed in court, Blaine Cooper is referred to in text and photos as “unidentified man”.Who’s the potential inside guy?
No doubt the whole movement is infested with informants and agents. This would be especially true of the most radical elements; that is, the nutburgers who take it seriously. Some of these may not be working for the government, or our government at any rate. NGO monitors, media, foreign agents, and maybe even wealthy free lance activists would all have a potential interest.
re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth
We should all start whispering so none of them notice that stuff online is insanely insecure.
But seriously. There are lemur troupes with better grasps of sigint.
re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth
His parents left him alone?
I’m guessing his grip on reality wasn’t so tenuous until very recently.
re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth
militant supporters are meeting online RIGHT NOW to discuss a potential rescue attempt.
If the occupiers need to be rescued, why did they choose to occupy the reserve in the first place?
re: #56 Romantic Heretic
His parents left him alone?
I’m guessing his grip on reality wasn’t so tenuous until very recently.
I’m thinking his parents felt the need for a break.
re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh, good luck with THAT you guys:
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Who would be dumb enough to get involved at this point?
re: #52 The Vicious Babushka
@BarryWirth is definitely a parody account.
His stuff is funny as hell.
re: #54 Shiplord Kirel
No doubt the whole movement is infested with informants. This would be especially true of the most radical elements; that is, the nutburgers who take it seriously. Some of these may not be working for the government, or our government at any rate. NGO monitors, media, foreign agents, and maybe even wealthy free lance activists would all have a potential interest.
The whole movement is also filled with drama llamas and people who are basically fraudsters. The former would totally dime someone because of a grudge, the latter because fuck it, more income.
re: #59 calochortus
Who would be dumb enough to get involved at this point?
BJ Soper and his band of sooper patritos…
Nevada Assemblywoman Shelley Shelton believes FBI playing tricks w/ Finicum video. https://t.co/mB3eDc8Gd7 pic.twitter.com/lnWrAFYxX1
— Karin Hildebrand (@Karimala1) January 29, 2016
re: #57 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
If the occupiers need to be rescued, why did they choose to occupy the reserve in the first place?
If it’s safe for nuthatches, must be safe for nutbars.
/they figgered
David Fry and his parents live in Blanchester, Ohio. His parents run a dental clinic.
I know this because they live within a couple of hours from me and it’s typical small town stuff between here and there.
re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth
Dammit, now I’m hungry for patritos and salsa.
re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth
BJ Soper and his band of sooper patritos…
He’s calling for a response, but is he heading out to help get arrested himself?
re: #63 FormerDirtDart
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@Karimala1 She won by 68 votes in 2012 and is up for re-election.
— TRKessler (@TRKessler55) January 29, 2016
re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth
David Fry and his parents live in Blanchester, Ohio. His parents run a dental clinic.
I know this because they live within a couple of hours from me and it’s typical small town stuff between here and there.
Had you read anywhere else that he was on vacation WITH the parents when he left for Oregon as the Plain Dealer article says?
littlegreenfootballs.com
First you start in the 97-98 strong El Nino year then claim very little warming since. Of course if you were to start in 79 when the satellite records began it shows definite warming, but Cruz conveniently ignores that.
Ted Cruz keeps saying that satellites don’t show warming. Here’s the problem https://t.co/7YvNaxedM8 pic.twitter.com/ZdkO8tCw3A
— Post Green (@postgreen) January 29, 2016
re: #57 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
I’m still trying to figure out what the fuck their point was in the first place. All this bullshit about the Hammonds and freedumb is just a load of horseshit. They were poorly supplied and organized, hell, I’ve seen little kids plotting to run away to grandma’s who were more prepared for a journey than these dipshits.
Honestly, there probably are a few core members who are totally serious about taking the government away from all of us and enforcing their own rules and laws and blah, blah, but the rest of them? I honestly think this was just the idea of getting their drink on with their boys and being all manly and comparing, um, firearms. Who plans for an indefinite occupation and brings literally nothing to sustain that? That idiot Ritzenheimer or whatever his name is MISSED FREAKING CHRISTMAS with his kids because he’s been grifting around following all these fools, like some sort of band groupie. And really, don’t these people work? And if they’re collecting disability from their hated government, then how in the hell are they managing to travel around and tote a bunch of guns and stuff? Shouldn’t someone be looking into the validity of those benefits?
re: #60 Aunty Entity Dragon
His stuff is funny as hell.
He used to be but now he can’t keep up with the real deal.
The seditious militia-right reminds me of an NFL team: About 50 players with millions of fans and hundreds of media collaborators cheering them on.
re: #71 A Mom Anon
They were leading uninteresting, not very successful lives and saw their chance to Be Somebody. To take the lead in a Great Thing. Death or Glory. No longer to be the little guy. (See also: terrorism recruitment)
A nice one just hopped up:
#frogOTD Leptopelis parkeri females have bright red eyes, the species is endemic to Tanzania @AmphibiaWeb HT @ARKive pic.twitter.com/fF0u11REOX
— Phil Bishop (@AmphibianPhil) January 29, 2016
A mean looking one came up yesterday:
Spinomantis aglavei, in-situ. Andasibe region, #Madagascar. pic.twitter.com/gX1wVRMXtQ
— Shea M Lambert (@shea_ml) January 27, 2016
Or the day before. Whatever.
re: #70 ausador
First you start in the 97-98 strong El Nino year then claim very little warming since. Of course if you were to start in 79 when the satellite records began it shows definite warming, but Cruz conveniently ignores that.
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I guess I should have kept watching that last night since I missed Cruz getting his ass kicked by everybody.
Natch, Sacramental Rod Dreher is very upset with all of us the GOP candidates:
All these guys offer on religious liberty is a lame mix of emotionalism and Eisenhower civil religion.
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) January 29, 2016
Rubio not talking realistically abt religious liberty. Deeply frustrating that none if the Republican candidates are. It’s so urgent.
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) January 29, 2016
But Rod can still make a funny! (allegedly)
Disappointed that the GOP candidates & Fox moderators are COMPLETELY ignoring the twin menaces of univocity and nominalism.
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) January 29, 2016
re: #57 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
If the occupiers need to be rescued, why did they choose to occupy the reserve in the first place?
They may be talking about ‘rescuing’ Ammon, even though he’s in a Fed facility somewhere.
re: #67 calochortus
He’s calling for a response, but is he heading out to
helpget arrested himself?
He was actually physically there the other night when Jason Patrick was supposed to “surrender” to him.
Why Jason would surrender to BJ and not the FBI is a mystery…
re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth
David Fry is completely and totally mentally ill.
I am not joking. He needs serious psychiatric help.
I swear I went to art school with a guy that looked just like Fry. And this dude was just a little weird too. Painfully shy and scared of his own shadow. Thin as a rail too, just like Fry. Had the same mustache and really long hair kept in a pony tail. I would think Fry is his son, but his last name was not Fry.
re: #76 Aunty Entity Dragon
I don’t understand how what Rob Dreher wants converts into policy, at all, such that any politician could address them.
#breakingnews Feds want #oregonmilitia defendants held pending trial #koin6news pic.twitter.com/9PllhcmU02
— Dan Tilkin (@DanTilkinKOIN6) January 29, 2016
re: #69 BeachDem
Had you read anywhere else that he was on vacation WITH the parents when he left for Oregon as the Plain Dealer article says?
littlegreenfootballs.com
Nope, first I heard of that was when you posted that.
David supposedly drove all the way from Cincinnati to Oregon in a blizzard.
His car is there at the refuge.
re: #80 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis
I don’t understand how what Rob Dreher wants converts into policy, at all, such that any politician could address them.
Government run religion, you know:
. @CrownMeJKing @CONSMILITIA Git out the PBR and the Doritos chips! We’s gonna git a rescue together!https://t.co/2gNvlPWVGy
— Annemarie Dickey (@Scottishlizard1) January 29, 2016
The FBI and DOJ has decided to allow the Bundy “militia” to occupy a federal facility for years…. pic.twitter.com/vKHLlqLttP
— Lee Goaa (@LeeGoaa) January 29, 2016
LOLOLOLOL!!!
@JohnLGC are they aware that the ENTIRE internet can see this?
— Sral (@fatdownjacket) January 29, 2016
wait, what? https://t.co/aGRnCq41IT
— John Sepulvado (@JohnLGC) January 29, 2016
re: #80 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis
I don’t understand how what Rob Dreher wants converts into policy, at all, such that any politician could address them.
Rod has been wandering further out into the weeds with his obsession that all the damned world is wrong and the 12th Century is right.
Dan Tilkin @DanTilkinKOIN6 is posting reams of court documents on Bundy clan detention hearing
twitter.com
re: #81 FormerDirtDart
Of course they’d want them held pending trial - they have a history of threatening violence (and in fact, one of their (now dead) co-conspirators attacked federal agents), they’re probably a flight risk, and conviction is pretty straight forward since we have, what, three weeks worth of news footage of them breaking the damn law?
re: #87 Aunty Entity Dragon
Rod has been wandering further out into the weeds with his obsession that all the damned world is wrong and the 12th Century is right.
EDGY
re: #87 Aunty Entity Dragon
Rod has been wandering further out into the weeds with his obsession that all the damned world is wrong and the 12th Century is right.
There’s either a novel series or TV series worth writing about the feudal system surviving the industrial revolution… But I don’t think it’d be as great as Rod thinks it would be.
re: #53 BeachDem
Did I miss this before? According to the Plain Dealer, he was on vacation WITH his parents and left to go to Oregon—so they would have known all along.
Fry reportedly was on vacation with his parents in Costa Rica when he left them and traveled to Oregon to join the occupation. He told reporters in Oregon he drove through a blinding snowstorm to get there.
This says he actually did an interview with the Plain Dealer (and counts fetuses as people):
“I’m holding up alright,” Fry told The Plain Dealer. “Everybody is still holding their ground. We did get the women, children, most of them out of here — all the children. I think there’s one woman who’s pregnant. That still counts as a child.”
The Plain Dealer? Is the little creep from Cleveland or that area of Ohio?
re: #87 Aunty Entity Dragon
Rod has been wandering further out into the weeds with his obsession that all the damned world is wrong and the 12th Century is right.
If he likes the 12th Century so much, maybe he should move to the Islamic State.
re: #76 Aunty Entity Dragon
Rubio not talking realistically abt religious liberty. Deeply frustrating that none if the Republican candidates are. It’s so urgent.
— Rod Dreher
I wonder what religious liberties Rod feels he is unfree to exercise?
re: #76 Aunty Entity Dragon
Dreher’s idea of ‘religious freedom’ being the Church Militant burning heretics at the stake, no doubt.
In fact, Dreher should just shut up about religious freedom because it is one of the core ideas of the Enlightenment, which he rejects.
re: #95 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
I wonder what religious liberties Rod feels he is unfree to exercise?
The God-given ability to stone others.
re: #91 KGxvi
There’s either a novel series or TV series worth writing about the feudal system surviving the industrial revolution… But I don’t think it’d be as great as Rod thinks it would be.
But it would be sacramental and have none of that nominalism!!!!! Those self willed nominalist hyper-pluralized icky tranny fake wimminz ( I hates them I hates them) would never exist and the gheyz would be invisible!!!!!
re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nope, first I heard of that was when you posted that.
David supposedly drove all the way from Cincinnati to Oregon in a blizzard.
His car is there at the refuge.
Sorry to keep bugging you ;-) but you said his parents have been in touch with the press since he’s been out there—know where there are any articles? What did they say to the press?
re: #93 ObserverArt
The Plain Dealer? Is the little creep from Cleveland or that area of Ohio?
Blanchester, just a few miles NE of Cincinnati.
re: #76 Aunty Entity Dragon
Shorter Dreher: Goddamnit, you’re not theocratic enough!
re: #95 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
I wonder what religious liberties Rod feels he is unfree to exercise?
He has been pretty specific about that.
He feels he shouldn’t have to let us into his place of business, rent any facility to us, acknowledge our marriages in a legal sense or have us as employees. All of those things oppress him.
re: #99 BeachDem
Sorry to keep bugging you ;-) but you said his parents have been in touch with the press since he’s been out there—know where there are any articles? What did they say to the press?
Amanda Peacher and others from OPB have talked with his parents. Maybe other reporters too, but I know OPB has been in contact with them.
re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth
David Fry and his parents live in Blanchester, Ohio. His parents run a dental clinic.
I know this because they live within a couple of hours from me and it’s typical small town stuff between here and there.
Well, there is my answer for why the Cleveland Plain Dealer interviewed him. They still have a couple of actual journalists up there unlike The Columbus Dispatch.
I’ve never heard of Blanchester, so it must be small. Gonna look it up on Google maps.
re: #79 ObserverArt
I swear I went to art school with a guy that looked just like Fry. And this dude was just a little weird too. Painfully shy and scared of his own shadow. This as a rail too, just like Fry. Had the same mustache and really long hair kept in a pony tail. I would think Fry is his son, but his last name was not Fry.
I really hate to stereotype but I, too, met an IT guy who looked just like Fry. Actually, I think two (IT is my industry) that were close, but one was pretty much dead on.
re: #63 FormerDirtDart
Nevada Assemblywoman Shelley Shelton believes FBI playing tricks w/ Finicum video. facebook.com …
1:45 PM - 29 Jan 2016
What is it with Nevada Assemblywomen?
re: #104 ObserverArt
Well, there is my answer for why the Cleveland Plain Dealer interviewed him. They still have a couple of actual journalists up there unlike The Columbus Dispatch.
I’ve never heard of Blanchester, so it must be small. Gonna look it up on Google maps.
straddles the line between Clinton and Warren Counties.
re: #106 Emoprog Refugee
What is it with Nevada Assemblywomen?
All that desert iconoclastic contrarionism.
re: #76 Aunty Entity Dragon
Rod Dreher:
Disappointed that the GOP candidates & Fox moderators are COMPLETELY ignoring the twin menaces of univocity and nominalism.
Maybe they might address the issue(s) if they had any idea WTH Dreher is talking about?
I like to think of myself as reasonably well-read; and I had to look these terms up. And STILL don’t really understand what Dreher is talking about.
But then, IIRC, this IS the guy who converted to some sort of Orthodoxy or other because the Roman Catholic Church wasn’t authoritarian enough for him …
re: #93 ObserverArt
The Plain Dealer? Is the little creep from Cleveland or that area of Ohio?
Nope—Cincinnati area. But the Plain Dealer article SAYS they did an actual interview with him.
Rep. Darrell Issa: FBI Director ‘Would Like To Indict’ Clinton
So…is there any fallout if he’s lying…which he does, and is likely doing yet again?
But if there is an indictment, doesn’t this throw doubt on the motives and objectivity of the FBI director?
re: #108 Aunty Entity Dragon
All that desert
iconoclastic contrarionismsun on their brains.
Tweaked that a bit.
re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth
Amanda Peacher and others from OPB have talked with his parents. Maybe other reporters too, but I know OPB has been in contact with them.
Ah, thanks. Can’t find anything with “the google” about any articles.
re: #109 Jay C
Rod Dreher:
Maybe they might address the issue(s) if they had any idea WTH Dreher is talking about?
I like to think of myself as reasonably well-read - and had to look these terms up. And STILL don;t really understand what Dreher is talking about.
But then, IIRC, this IS the guy who converted to some sort of Orthodoxy or other because the Roman Catholic Church wasn’t authoritarian enough for him …
I looked up all that stuff myself when he first started using it as the basis for his screeds against transgendered people and the rest of the GLBT community.
I have little patience for metaphysical philosophy and less still for vainglorious efforts to disguise bigotry behind 25 cent words.
So I take it there are still four Patritos at the refuge? I am actually a little bit impressed that they are all hanging tough so far. I wonder how their stash of snacks and beer (and pot!) are doing.
I am very impressed with law enforcement catching Tarp Man’s entire flight and crash and subsequent thrashing around and trying to get his gun out of its holster on camera. That took both planning and skill. It won’t convince the dead enders, of course, but most people can plainly see that LE was doing its damnedest to avoid bloodshed and this was suicide by cop.
I was griping about the slow response to this situation a few days ago, but I take it all back. These people have learned from previous run-ins and are being professional and thorough so far.
I shudder to think what the refuge will look like after all of this. :-(
About thirty ppl turned out so far in support of occupants, LaVoy Finicum
— John Sepulvado (@JohnLGC) January 29, 2016
re: #109 Jay C
I’d at least heard of nominalism, but ‘univocity’ was new to me. Theocrats take theology terribly seriously, while it bores just about everyone else to tears.
re: #110 BeachDem
Nope—Cincinnati area. But the Plain Dealer article SAYS they did an actual interview with him.
Plain Dealer probably did do an actual interview with him.
David is so full of himself as some sort of huge freedum fighter/martyr, he’s talking to anyone who calls him on the phone.
re: #117 Tigger2
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— FormerDirtDart (@FormerDirtDart) January 29, 2016
re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth
Plain Dealer probably did do an actual interview with him.
David is so full of himself as some sort of huge freedum fighter/martyr, he’s talking to anyone who calls him on the phone.
Good thing they called him, instead of going the p/m on the fake twitter account route like so many of the media morons did with the fake Ammon Bundy account.
re: #111 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis
“I think the FBI director would like to indict both Huma and Hillary as we speak,” the congressman told the Examiner at a debate-watch party for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).
There is no evidence that the FBI is targeting Clinton with its investigation into the security of the private email server she used to conduct business as secretary of state. Last year, The New York Times erroneously reported the Justice Department was asked to open a criminal probe into Clinton’s use of the private email server and added several corrections to the story.
I think pigs might fly out of your butt, Issa. Doesn’t mean it might be true.
re: #118 EPR-radar
I’d at least heard of nominalism, but ‘univocity’ was new to me. Theocrats take theology terribly seriously, while it bores just about everyone else to tears.
I wold sooner chew my own arm off. I know that stuff I can relate to in mineralogy would just absolutely bore most other people into a drunken stupor…but this shit is actually bizarre.
Anyway, he is all excited by this book amazon.com showing how the Protestant Reformation has just destroyed everything for everybody forever. He has been bragging about it in his twitter feed.
All I can say is thank God nobody like Dreher or Santorum has ever been handed the keys to the White House.
re: #111 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis
Rep. Darrell Issa: FBI Director ‘Would Like To Indict’ Clinton
So…is there any fallout if he’s lying…which he does, and is likely doing yet again?
But if there is an indictment, doesn’t this throw doubt on the motives and objectivity of the FBI director?
Director Comey is a registered Republican. He may well have told people like Issa that he would personally like to indict Hillary, but that the evidence doesn’t support it. That wouldn’t surprise me at all. After all the Harris County Prosecutor wanted to indict Planned Parenthood, but the investigation resulted in the grand jury indicting Daleiden and Meritt instead.
re: #116 EmmaAnne
So I take it there are still four Patritos at the refuge? I am actually a little bit impressed that they are all hanging tough so far. I wonder how their stash of snacks and beer (and pot!) are doing.
I am very impressed with law enforcement catching Tarp Man’s entire flight and crash and subsequent thrashing around and trying to get his gun out of its holster on camera. That took both planning and skill. It won’t convince the dead enders, of course, but most people can plainly see that LE was doing its damnedest to avoid bloodshed and this was suicide by cop.
I was griping about the slow response to this situation a few days ago, but I take it all back. These people have learned from previous run-ins and are being professional and thorough so far.
I shudder to think what the refuge will look like after all of this. :-(
In retrospect, the feds were VERY patient. They waited until ALL the leaders were off the reserve to cut off the head. And they waited until they were on a road that was winding, isolated and with obstructed visibility; all other roads apparently had tens of miles of visibility.
That’s decent planning.
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re: #118 EPR-radar
I’ve been rereading a series of alt-history SF books set in the 6th century where Monophysitism is a minor but recurring feature, mentioned quite often and playing a part in some of the storyline. The authors, being Bastards of the first water, never ever explain exactly what Monophysitism is to the modern reader. I approve.
re: #120 FormerDirtDart
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PPN’s call for patritos to come to Harney County.
They’re calling on ppl from throughout the country to come to Harney County.
— John Sepulvado (@JohnLGC) January 29, 2016
re: #5 Charles Johnson
So I guess we can mark this tweet as the moment @TIME lost what little was left of their respectability as a magazine. @Green_Footballs
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 29, 2016
@JohnLGC Don’t any of these people have jobs or are they part of the welfare queens they complain about all the time.
— jim (@jlcoffeecup) January 29, 2016
re: #118 EPR-radar
I’d at least heard of nominalism, but ‘univocity’ was new to me. Theocrats take theology terribly seriously, while it bores just about everyone else to tears.
I think they take it seriously because they need to keep convincing themselves. So they keep researching and digging and conjuring and hoping, wishing and praying it is all true.
re: #125 goddamnedfrank
Director Comey is a registered Republican. He may well have told people like Issa that he would personally like to indict Hillary, but that the evidence doesn’t support it. That wouldn’t surprise me at all. After all the Harris County Prosecutor wanted to indict Planned Parenthood, but the investigation resulted in the grand jury indicting Daleiden and Meritt instead.
Right, wanting to indicate someone and there being enough evidence to is a different story. Issa’s being his usual unprofessional self.
re: #28 Aunty Entity Dragon
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re: #135 Patricia Kayden
Pay close attention to the grammatical errors in that tweet. These racists are just not that bright.
They wouldn’t understand it if it was spelled right./
re: #63 FormerDirtDart
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I’m sure she believed that Mike Brown charged Darrin Wilson, sooooooo……
re: #42 Aunty Entity Dragon
I think so. This was the clincher…
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Okay. It’s someone taking the mickey out of Rightwingers. LOL.
re: #106 Emoprog Refugee
What is it with Nevada Assemblywomen?
It is about rationalizing, rather than inciting, hatred of the federal government. The GOP’s gentry/grifter/wannabe base in that part of the world already hate the feds with a white hot rage, since it is the federal government that brings EPA, OSHA, the Department of Labor, integration, consumer protection, and countless other restrictions on their liberty. They can’t say so directly, at least most of them can’t, so they need a strawman they can hang their hate on. The hate is real, the stated reasons are bullshit.
re: #137 Mike Lamb
I’m sure she believed that Mike Brown charged Darrin Wilson, sooooooo……
Yeah, look who’s all “Hands up, don’t shoot” now.
re: #137 Mike Lamb
I’m sure she believed that Mike Brown charged Darrin Wilson, sooooooo……
@Karimala1 Comments on her page are interesting.
— Grandma Knows NO GMO (@Kauairockchick) January 29, 2016
@Karimala1 I grew up in Vegas. Just looked at her district. Her seat will be up 4 grabs. She is not in the rich white part of town.
— Grandma Knows NO GMO (@Kauairockchick) January 29, 2016
This reporter for the Oregonian is bringing the derp.:
Well…? https://t.co/Psrs9UYsWE
— Ian Kullgren (@IanKullgren) January 29, 2016
.@IanKullgren What difference would it make?
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) January 29, 2016
OFFS - what the heck does this have to do with someone heroic like Schindler? You’re a lout @AnnCoulter @kausmickey @TuckerCarlson
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 29, 2016
re: #133 ObserverArt
I think they take it seriously because they need to keep convincing themselves. So they keep researching and digging and conjuring and hoping, wishing and praying it is all true.
Honestly, I think a certain type of person loves to read and talk about this kind of thing were they can throw polysyllabic Greek jargon around and (pseudo) intellectualize a Grand Unified Theory of why they have better beliefs and morals than anybody else, why they absolutely should be able to silence and humiliate GLBT people, and that the world is all going down the drain.
In fact, that is actually going to be Rod’s next book (not joking).
It’s about The “Benedict Option” where he will discuss how special believers can hide their children from the tyranny of unsanctified nominalist culture and keep their enclaves safe from wicked transgendered people and “Moral Therapeutic Deists”. (his made up term for everybody who isn’t quite as zealous as he is)
I wouldn’t normally care, except that Rod has been one of the louder anti trans-women voices out there and conservative Christians of that particular type have been hawking him as a “serious intellectual”. Moreover, he is a senior editor of one of the better regarded conservative online periodicals. His attempts to dress up anti GLBT bigotry and give it elocution lessons do affect me and others.
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re: #139 Shiplord Kirel
It is about rationalizing, rather than inciting, hatred of the federal government. The GOP’s gentry/grifter/wannabe base in that part of the world already hate the feds with a white hot rage, since it is the federal government that brings EPA, OSHA, the Department of Labor, integration, consumer protection, and countless other restrictions on their liberty. They can’t say so directly, at least most of them can’t, so they need a strawman they can hang their hate on. The hate is real, the stated reasons are bullshit.
Can you imagine the hellholes some of these states would be without some of the Fed agencies?
If people are making fun of the trash heaps left at the refuge in Oregon imagine that on a grand scale.
And yes, some states probably had some of that going on prior to people learning to freaking live a little cleaner forced by government to get their acts together.
Hair on fire, cow chasing, top list of ridicuous reasons people are late for workhttps://t.co/FUwOM6MQHz pic.twitter.com/hvHm5RBU4N
— The Poke (@ThePoke) January 29, 2016
That’s NOT a ridiculous example, though.
OK—this is fucked up, but it’s South by dog Carolina, so what else would you expect?
South Carolina Bill Would Create Registry For Police To Track Refugees
Though the bill does not single out refugees from Syria, Mulvaney did when speaking to state senators.
“If you let in the wrong Irishman-I’m fourth generation- if you let in the wrong Irishman the downside is really not that serious, okay,” he said, according the AP. “You let in the wrong Syrian refugee, one, then people can die as a result.”
talkingpointsmemo.com
Why Mulvaney and Duncan felt compelled to add their idiocy to the already overwhelming GOP idiocy in the state leg, I don’t know.
re: #142 goddamnedfrank
This reporter for the Oregonian is bringing the derp.:
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This is deeply shameful and the Senate should fix it. https://t.co/RuEumnw4DS
— Lizzie O’Leary (@lizzieohreally) January 29, 2016
Days after the new contract was signed, a cafeteria manager quietly began calling some workers into his office. He demanded they sign paperwork acknowledging new job titles.
“I’m a cook, and I’ve always been a cook,” said 45-year-old Bertrand Olotara. “Now suddenly he’s telling me I’m a ‘food service worker.’ “
Olotara’s duties didn’t change; he’s still cooking burgers, eggs and Philly cheesesteaks, just as he always had.
Rather than getting the big raise Olotara expected as a cook — which would have upped his pay to $17.45 — he was entitled to just $13.80 as a “food service worker.”
Sure, that’s better than his old pay (which was $12.30). But it’s nowhere near what he was promised — or what senators proclaimed workers such as Olotara were entitled to.
Maybe the difference between $13.80 and $17.45 doesn’t sound like much. To Olotara, a single father of five children, it would have meant everything.
re: #142 goddamnedfrank
This reporter for the Oregonian is bringing the derp.:
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Plus they only protect and side with police when they are shooting African Americans, Hispanics, Muslims and White Punks on Dope.
“Okay LaVoy…get your gun out of your jacket and then we will count to ten before unloading. So, you can get in a few free shots or take off running into the woods. Sound fair? ‘kay? Here we go…1…2…3…
re: #145 ObserverArt
And yes, some states probably had some of that going on prior to people learning to freaking live a little cleaner forced by government to get their acts together.
They have been living with the benefits of clean water, clean air and safe food for a generation or more and the anti-regulationists believe that is the natural state of the world and if outsiders would just stop telling them what to do they’d be even better off.
The idea that an untreated and unmonitored water supply could sicken and kill, that untested food might be swimming in harmful bacteria and the air they breathe could be thick with toxic waste from smokestacks upwind is not something they consider.
re: #147 BeachDem
OK—this is fucked up, but it’s South by dog Carolina, so what else would you expect?
South Carolina Bill Would Create Registry For Police To Track Refugees
Though the bill does not single out refugees from Syria, Mulvaney did when speaking to state senators.
“If you let in the wrong Irishman-I’m fourth generation- if you let in the wrong Irishman the downside is really not that serious, okay,” he said, according the AP. “You let in the wrong Syrian refugee, one, then people can die as a result.”
talkingpointsmemo.comWhy Mulvaney and Duncan felt compelled to add their idiocy to the already overwhelming GOP idiocy in the state leg, I don’t know.
I think there are some serious constitutional problems with that proposal.
re: #143 lawhawk
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Really Tucker is like Oskar Schindler. I missed where Tucker risked his life and saved the lives of thousands of people by standing up for Ann’s fascist asshole friend Donny.
Yeah…why do I have the feeling that most of the people are members of the Harney County Committee of Public Safety?
Courthouse protest Burns pic.twitter.com/Ja1Lv6jxRF
— Pat Dooris (@PatDooris) January 29, 2016
Anger over killing of LaVoy Finicum shows at Harney co courthouse. pic.twitter.com/RMNs6xtLWh
— Pat Dooris (@PatDooris) January 29, 2016
re: #147 BeachDem
OK—this is fucked up, but it’s South by dog Carolina, so what else would you expect?
South Carolina Bill Would Create Registry For Police To Track Refugees
Though the bill does not single out refugees from Syria, Mulvaney did when speaking to state senators.
“If you let in the wrong Irishman-I’m fourth generation- if you let in the wrong Irishman the downside is really not that serious, okay,” he said, according the AP. “You let in the wrong Syrian refugee, one, then people can die as a result.”
talkingpointsmemo.comWhy Mulvaney and Duncan felt compelled to add their idiocy to the already overwhelming GOP idiocy in the state leg, I don’t know.
Pretty rich shit Mick considering they said our people were dangerous. Really, you’re a disgrace to any Irish-American who actually knows what our ancestors went through. Way to go Mick, you’re just like Bill the Butcher and the Bowery Boys.
re: #152 Aunty Entity Dragon
I think there are some serious constitutional problems with that proposal.
Hasn’t stopped them before.
re: #151 Nojay UK
And yes, some states probably had some of that going on prior to people learning to freaking live a little cleaner forced by government to get their acts together.
I can’t find the reference right now, but troops were used to enforce New York City sanitation standards at times in the 19th Century.
re: #154 FormerDirtDart
Yeah…why do I have the feeling that most of the people are members of the Harney County Committee of Public Safety?
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Link goes to entire memorandum in support of pretrial detention for all defendants
Latest Criminal Complaint in the Bundy Bunch case. All will remain in jail. https://t.co/LmuVQPnfp7 #Malheur #Oregonstandoff
— Karin Hildebrand (@Karimala1) January 29, 2016
So Bristol Palin is whining about Tina Fey’s portrayal of her mother. “It’s been seven years.” Ah yes Bristol but your mother chooses to insert herself in the spotlight and act like we should somehow give a goddamn what she has to say.
The great surrenderer… pic.twitter.com/g8vDw0xbKj
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) January 28, 2016
Yay!
Read about Brandi’s reaction to her first GRAMMY nomination! https://t.co/XiFoT34Kot
— Brandi Carlile (@brandicarlile) January 29, 2016
re: #162 wrenchwench
Yay!
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I’ve heard some of her stuff. Good artist. Congrats to her.
re: #161 Dr. Matt
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Actually, not going was freaking brilliant. He still made it all about himself and being an outsider while allowing the others to pile on Ted Cruz.
Trump is smarter than the populist bullshitter he plays for the camera, which should be alarming us all.
re: #152 Aunty Entity Dragon
I think there are some serious constitutional problems with that proposal.
Absolutely, but my lovely state morons love to spend money on worthless lawsuits (that way, they don’t have to use it to, you know, actually provide anything for the people of the state.) The whole thing is head-shakingly stupid, but his comment stood out as even more moronic than usual.
re: #166 Aunty Entity Dragon
Actually, not going was freaking brilliant. He still made it all about himself and being an outsider while allowing the others to pile on Ted Cruz.
Trump is smarter than the populist bullshitter he plays for the camera, which should be alarming us all.
That’s why I don’t think he really believes a lot of that stuff that pops out of his mouth. But I still don’t want him to be the President.
re: #158 Aunty Entity Dragon
Robespierre and Louis Antoine de St-Just would be amused.
The irony is that a lot of the fed-hating grifters and their tools would be carted off to the guillotine forthwith if the federal regulatory and law enforcement structure they profess to hate so much did somehow collapse. I have always thought that FDR, a bluebood and aristocrat of the highest order, created the New Deal to head off the kind of totalitarian revolution he saw sweeping the world in those days. It can’t happen here because we didn’t, and haven’t, let it happen. There is a whole political party and mass movement stupidly attempting to change that.
re: #169 Aunty Entity Dragon
That was a tasty little set right there!
If they’ve ever had a bad Tiny Desk Concert, they must have had the desk eat them.
Great now it’s whack a mole with Constitutional conspirators who think arresting felons is unconstitutional. #Oregonstandoff
— Waidertot (@Waidertot) January 29, 2016
re: #145 ObserverArt
Can you imagine the hellholes some of these states would be without some of the Fed agencies?
If people are making fun of the trash heaps left at the refuge in Oregon imagine that on a grand scale.
And yes, some states probably had some of that going on prior to people learning to freaking live a little cleaner forced by government to get their acts together.
I see it firsthand here in Texas. Before I left Lubbock, a certain local business was fined $40K plus six figures in restitution for not paying overtime to its hourly employees. These workers received an average wage of $8.40/hour during the period involved. The louts who own the place live in huge, if grossly tacky, mcmansions and drive the biggest 4WD crewcabs that will fit in the driveway, this being the apparent limit of their definition of the good life. One of them is a prominent leader and Sunday school teacher at one of the local gun-churches, widely praised for his love of the Lord and his inspiring lessons.
People like this are honestly perplexed that I despise them.
re: #152 Aunty Entity Dragon
I think there are some serious constitutional problems with that proposal.
I think Irishmen everywhere feel slighted.
re: #153 HappyWarrior
Really Tucker is like Oskar Schindler. I missed where Tucker risked his life and saved the lives of thousands of people by standing up for Ann’s fascist asshole friend Donny.
It’s probably about bow ties.
re: #127 WhatEVs
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re: #105 WhatEVs
Fry is going to be very sad when he realizes that he’s going to miss the releases of the next 3 or 4 versions of Fallout, HALO, Call of Duty and Angry Birds…
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