Glenn Beck: Breitbart “News” Is the “Goebbels” to Donald Trump’s “Brownshirts”

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How awesome is it that crackpot shouter Glenn Beck is now fighting a tooth-and-nail battle against the far right movement he helped create? It’s almost enough to make an atheist believe in karma.

Following up on our earlier article about Donald Trump crashing Beck’s Nevada speech promoting Ted Cruz, Right Wing Watch now has audio of Beck on his radio show blasting the reliably insane website Breitbart “News,” saying it’s become a propaganda arm of the Trump campaign (which is absolutely true, an unusual occurrence for Beck) and comparing their chairman Steve Bannon to Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

Yes! More of this, please.

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:20:11pm

Wingnut-on-wingnut action is coming to a crest, I believe.

Once Trump seals the nomination there will need be a catharsis of some sort.

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Lidane  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:21:38pm

Circular firing squads are awesome.

J Jonah Jameson Laughing - Spiderman (HD version)

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:24:09pm

They all deserve each other’s shared misery.

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makeitstop  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:24:59pm

Beck should train his (metaphorical) guns on Scarborough and Mika next.

I’m thinking Morning Joke is angling for that sweet Press Secretary gig in the imaginary Clownstick administration.

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makeitstop  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:26:12pm

re: #1 freetoken

Wingnut-on-wingnut action is coming to a crest, I believe.

Once Trump seals the nomination there will need be a catharsis of some sort.

They’ll fall right in line to kiss Trump’s ass once he clinches the nomination, bet on it.

It will be like none of this infighting ever happened.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:26:15pm

when you just can’t tear your eyes away from the train wreck:

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bratwurst  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:28:50pm

Beck’s longtime obsession with Nazis is really fucking creepy. It would almost be easier at this point for him to only mention people and things he DOESN’T compare to them.

As I have mentioned here a few times, I lived in Germany for many years where it is not only considered very bad taste to compare people you disagree with to Nazis, it is also illegal. I personally never had a problem losing my “free speech” in exchange for a slightly higher level of public discourse. Your mileage may vary.

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KGxvi  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:28:50pm

re: #5 makeitstop

They’ll fall right in line to kiss Trump’s ass once he clinches the nomination, bet on it.

It will be like none of this infighting ever happened.

I don’t know, this infighting seems a lot more personal than what we’ve seen in the past. And Trump is in no way beholden to the party machinery the way traditional candidates are.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:29:32pm
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lawhawk  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:29:34pm

In a related development:

“I never expected my movie ‘to become a documentary’”

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Jenner7  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:31:01pm

Bwahahahahahaha.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:32:30pm

re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:32:47pm

re: #11 Jenner7

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Bwahahahahahaha.

Isn’t Mitt backing the guy with some financial uhh irregularities? Man this is just sad.

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:32:50pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:32:53pm

Is it possible we are enjoying this too much? I don’t think so.

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bratwurst  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:33:12pm

re: #11 Jenner7

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Bwahahahahahaha.

Harry Reid told Mitt that Trump hasn’t paid ANY taxes in 10 years! /

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makeitstop  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:35:11pm

re: #8 KGxvi

I don’t know, this infighting seems a lot more personal than what we’ve seen in the past. And Trump is in no way beholden to the party machinery the way traditional candidates are.

Oh, there will definitely be a Butthurt Coalition (Beck will be right there), the GOP equivalent of the Firebaggers.

But Republicans are nothing if they’re not notoriously short-term thinkers. They’ll convince themselves that they can ride Trump back to the White House and all will be forgiven. The possibility of taking back 1600 will be too enticing, even if Trump makes them each eat a pound of dirt to get back in his good graces.

They’ll do it. Gladly.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:35:33pm

Just posted this downstairs in response to Barton’s desire to take the right to vote away from women. Reposting it here since it’s related to Beck:

I was wondering when one of them would get around to that. Prolly shouldn’t let them drive either. Or travel without their husband’s permission. So when do we start stoning them for adultery? //

BTW, I went googling for info on stoning for adultery in the Bible and ran across this piece of apologia over at The Blaze explaining how oh, no-no-no—stoning in “Judeo-Christian texts” is totally different than what you see in (some) Islamic countries. (DoNotLink isn’t working for me so the preceding is a link to the cached page).

Amazing. So don’t worry ladies, if they bring back stoning to death it’ll be in the humane, “lenient,” Judeo-Christian form, not that horrid Islamic kind that’s done for “humiliation or entertainment value” (that last quote doesn’t mention Islam specifically, but it was crystal clear to me that that’s what it was referring to).

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:36:32pm

Tomorrow night’s “debate” ought to provide some fireworks… but unfortunately the emcee is Wolf Blitzer, which puts a wet rag on any affair.

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makeitstop  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:37:03pm

re: #11 Jenner7

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Bwahahahahahaha.

Mr. ‘I’ll only release one year of returns’ calls on Trump to release his tax returns?

This just keeps getting more absurd.

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retired cynic  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:38:31pm

This is so funny. Not really safe for work. I apologize if someone has already posted it: elivalley.com

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:38:36pm

re: #20 makeitstop

Mr. ‘I’ll only release one year of returns’ calls on Trump to release his tax returns?

This just keeps getting more absurd.

And I honestly think that Mitt doing this will only infuriate the GOP base more who don’t trust Mitt and the party establishment. What were they thinking having him call on for Trump to release his taxes of all people.

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:39:35pm
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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:41:00pm

Wow. It must be real tough to be a wingnut right now. Who do you side with when all the people that used to be on the same page and in lockstep are now having fights with one another?

Well, one thing I do hope is that they all get so pissed off with each other they never get over it and can’t speak to each other from this point on. Why it would be like a modern Tower of Conservative Babble!

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Dr. Matt  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:43:22pm
Glenn Beck is now fighting a tooth-and-nail battle against the far right movement he helped create

The Left has been warning these carnival barkers and the mainstream GOP about the Law of Unintended Consequences. Karma assholes…..enjoy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:43:41pm
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blueraven  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:43:47pm

No words for this.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:43:59pm

re: #25 Dr. Matt

The Left has been warning these carnival barkers and the mainstream GOP about the Law of Unintended Consequences. Karma assholes…..enjoy.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of assholes.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:45:06pm

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I just…. I can’t even… What effing sleazy opportunist.

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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:46:06pm

re: #22 HappyWarrior

And I honestly think that Mitt doing this will only infuriate the GOP base more who don’t trust Mitt and the party establishment. What were they thinking having him call on for Trump to release his taxes of all people.

Heh. You put the word ‘thinking’ in a sentence referencing the GOP party establishment.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:46:21pm

re: #1 freetoken

Wingnut-on-wingnut action is coming to a crest, I believe.

That visual, involving Beck, el lardbo, Coulter, etc. will put me off my feed for a month.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:47:02pm

re: #29 CuriousLurker

I just…. I can’t even… What effing sleazy opportunist.

I guess it’s true…NOBODY likes Ted.

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:47:22pm

The religious right and the “institutional” right are doing somersaults over this Trump thing.

National Racists Online are besides themselves. The Trumpiot commenters are roasting the writers, the writers keep writing…. the commenters keep roasting.

Jonah “Leonard Nimoy is a Pornographer” Goldberg trying to float a Rubio-Cruz ticket as the answer is hilarious - as if Cruz has ever cared about his fellow Republicans’ fortunes, and as if Rubio has ever been able to pull off any political victory out of what was handed to him in Florida.

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:48:27pm

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Seats taken.”

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withak  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:49:42pm

re: #33 freetoken

The religious right and the “institutional” right are doing somersaults over this Trump thing.

National Racists Online are besides themselves. The Trumpiot commenters are roasting the writers, the writers keep writing…. the commenters keep roasting.

Jonah “Leonard Nimoy is a Pornographer” Goldberg trying to float a Rubio-Cruz ticket as the answer is hilarious - as if Cruz has ever cared about his fellow Republicans’ fortunes, and as if Rubio has ever been able to pull off any political victory out of what was handed to him in Florida.

Rubio-Cruz is hilarious. I’m sure they hate each other.

In fact, Cruz choosing a running mate is pretty funny in and of itself. Anyone who says “yes” would have to be checked for puppet strings a la Weekend at Bernie’s.

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Belafon  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:50:02pm

I know we keep talking about popcorn, but I’m thinking we need to start preparing picnic baskets for sitting on tops of hills as these two groups really start going at each other.

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:50:48pm
What would the deal look like? A Rubio-Cruz ticket. Cruz won’t work at the top of the ticket for the simple reason that too many GOP quislings fear Cruz more than Trump. But a unity ticket — a la Reagan-Bush in 1980 — in the form of Los Hermanos Cubanos might just do the trick. There are real costs to such a deal (not least the fact that there are better general-election running mates for Rubio).

That’s right, Goldberg calls Republicans who don’t like Cruz - which would include all the elected Republicans in the Senate by the way - “quislings”.

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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:50:54pm

re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth

I guess it’s true…NOBODY likes Ted.

I hate Trump and Rubio…but nothing will be more funny than Teddy getting dumped by the Texas voters in the GOP primary. And the further he falls in that state the more I will laugh. Ideal would be him falling to fourth behind Rubio and Kasich.

Then hopefully the ultimate will happen…the Texas voters will knock him out of the Senate.

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makeitstop  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:51:10pm

OT: This is some ugly shit, and it happened in my neighborhood. The school in question is literally at the end of my block.

Mom claims East Islip principal tried to force her son to confess allegiance to ISIS

An East Islip mother is angry and upset and she is making some serious allegations against the principal and assistant principal of East Islip Middle School, where her son attends school. Nubaisha Amar claimed Mark Bernard and Jason Stanton tried to get her son to write out a false confession saying he was a terrorist and an ISIS supporter. The claim, Amar says is false and now she wants the two administrators fired.

Nashawn Uppal, Amar’s son, is 12 years old and in the seventh grade. He admits he said something he shouldn’t have, but says it came out of his mouth to get a harassing bully to stop saying what he was saying. Over and over he was called a terrorist and asked what he would blow up next. In response, an exasperated Amar said he responded with, “Yes, I am a terrorist and I will blow up the school fence.”

The incident the Uppals say happened last Wednesday. The day after is when Nashawn said he was called out of his final class of the day minutes before the school day ended, brought in to a room with the school’s Principal Mark Bernard and Assistant Principal Jason Stanton.

Nashawn says he was told by both Bernard and Stanton to write what he said, that he was a member of ISIS, a terrorist and would blow up the school.

A 12 year old boy. People around here suck.

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:53:34pm

re: #11 Jenner7

Romney is pissed off because he actually paid taxes (perhaps temporarily) for the two years of tax returns that he ended up showing during the 2012 campaign. He wants Trump to feel the same pain.

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:56:03pm

re: #24 ObserverArt

Wow. It must be real tough to be a wingnut right now. Who do you side with when all the people that used to be on the same page and in lockstep are now having fights with one another?

Well, one thing I do hope is that they all get so pissed off with each other they never get over it and can’t speak to each other from this point on. Why it would be like a modern Tower of Conservative Babble!

I’m more curious about the state of mind of the Republican moderates. After all they are usually capable of thought (unlike wingnuts), and at some level the reality that their party is a dumpster fire laced with plutonium dust has to be sinking in.

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mmmirele  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:58:42pm

Nothing like going out of town without a cold, coming back to town with a cold, being sick for few days while trying to work, and then returning to earth to find that Trump invaded a Glenn Beck rally. *checks head for fever*

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 1:59:25pm

re: #37 freetoken

That’s right, Goldberg calls Republicans who don’t like Cruz - which would include all the elected Republicans in the Senate by the way - “quislings”.

They’re just desperate at this point.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:00:24pm

Instagram

Corgi vs. wild 🐶🐺
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Amory Blaine  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:00:41pm

Republican governor of Nevada Brian Sandoval being considered for Supreme Court

Top Senate Republicans vowed Wednesday to continue blocking President Obama’s nomination to the Supreme Court ahead of November’s presidential election, even if Obama chooses the Republican governor of Nevada to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

Brian Sandoval, a centrist former federal judge who has served as governor since 2011, is among the Supreme Court candidates under White House consideration, according to two people familiar with the selection process. Some key Democrats view Sandoval as perhaps the only nominee President Obama could select who would be able to break a Republican blockade in the Senate.

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nines09  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:01:03pm

Nazis calling other Nazis, Nazis. Where will it end?

Is the rally over?
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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:01:15pm

re: #41 EPR-radar

I’m more curious about the state of mind of the Republican moderates. After all they are usually capable of thought (unlike wingnuts), and at some level the reality that their party is a dumpster fire laced with plutonium dust has to be sinking in.

Agreed. They are awful quiet. They all get what they deserve. I guess I like seeing the wingnuts fighting most because they are always looking for purity and this whole affair is showing the world it has been nothing but a demonstration of assholes.

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:01:40pm
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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:02:07pm

One more thing about NRO - currently the head article is Kevin Williamson arguing that the prisoners at Gitmo should just be executed sans trial.

And this is the same NRO which is lamenting that Trump is the coming of LIBERAL FASCISM! with all the attendant nastiness of Nazi Germany.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:03:55pm

re: #44 Charles Johnson

Is the instagram capability something new? Or am I having a pre-senior moment?

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:04:21pm

re: #50 Dr. Matt

Is the instagram capability something new? Or am I having a pre-senior moment?

Yesterday.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:04:55pm

Instagram

About this time last year, I was starting work on these Wonka kiddo paintings for @gummiboutique.
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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:05:40pm

re: #50 Dr. Matt

Is the instagram capability something new? Or am I having a pre-senior moment?

littlegreenfootballs.com

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Dr. Matt  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:05:56pm

Instagram

Tag your friends 😍 😍 😍
Video by @clari_calahari

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:08:58pm

re: #48 Kragar

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If the decline of whites in America means less people like this fuckwad then I welcome it big time. If the only argument you can find against Cruz and Rubio is they’re of Cuban descent then you suck.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:09:09pm

re: #53 Charles Johnson

littlegreenfootballs.com

Great new feature! Kudos!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:09:27pm

Virginia:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:10:34pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:10:35pm

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

Listened to a little bit of the newscast on it, one was a child inside a mobile home. :/

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CuriousLurker  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:10:36pm

Wait, wut? I’ve heard of burkinis, but now there are facekinis? I had no idea, and it’s not even a Muslim thing.

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:12:03pm
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Shiplord Kirel  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:13:19pm

The yokel Repubs around this (rural) part of Texas are in a lather over a possible Trump win in the Texas primary. It would be the end of their world if the weirdly coiffed New Yorker actually defeated favorite (adopted) son Ted Cruz on the latter’s own turf.
It is worse though in Lubbock.
Being predisposed to conspiracism, the Bircher/Buchananites who control the GOP in that benighted realm really believe the “lefty plant” conspiracy theories, and they absolutely, positively, revile Trump. They are sure he will confiscate guns, require Jewish and Muslim prayers in public schools, and appoint Hillary and Bill to the Supreme Court. (The assumption is that he will assassinate another justice to make room for both of them.)
This raises an obvious question though: If both Lubbock Birchers and Cruz-loving rural types hate Trump, where is his support coming from? To tell the truth, I don’t know a single person who supports Trump.
My guess, and it’s only a guess, is that his supporters are concentrated in some of the mid-size cities (the ones without Bircher influence) and in the sprawling suburbs around the larger cities. Maybe someone has better data, but the primary results will yield a definitive picture in any case.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:13:41pm

re: #54 Dr. Matt

Don’t use the embed code - just copy and paste the link to the picture.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:14:01pm

re: #17 makeitstop

Oh, there will definitely be a Butthurt Coalition (Beck will be right there), the GOP equivalent of the Firebaggers.

But Republicans are nothing if they’re not notoriously short-term thinkers. They’ll convince themselves that they can ride Trump back to the White House and all will be forgiven. The possibility of taking back 1600 will be too enticing, even if Trump makes them each eat a pound of dirt to get back in his good graces.

They’ll do it. Gladly.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:14:32pm

re: #63 Charles Johnson

Don’t use the embed code - just copy and paste the link to the picture.

Embed codes are for lepers.

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:15:27pm

Another baker:

WATCH: Texas Baker Denies Same-Sex Couple a Wedding Cake

[…]

Unlike Oregon, however, Texas doesn’t have laws protecting LGBT people from discrimination, so there’s little that can be done legally in response to Delorme’s and the bakery’s actions.

You can guess their argument:

The baker credited the policy to her Christian faith, but she added there have been other instances when she has refused service for reasons other than sexual orientation.

“We don’t do alcohol-related cakes or risque (ones),” she said. “We’ve turned down cake for, like, ‘Can you make a giant Skoal can?’ … It’s not that we single out one (reason).”

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KerFuFFler  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:15:39pm

re: #48 Kragar

The white race is dying out in America and Europe because we are afraid to be called “racist.” This is our mindset: It’s okay that our government destroys our children’s future, but don’t call me racist. I am afraid to be called racist. It’s okay to give away our country through immigration, but don’t call me racist. It’s okay that few schools anymorehave beautiful white children as the majority, but don’t call me racist. Gradual genocide against the white race is okay, but don’t call me racist. I am afraid to be called racist. Donald Trump is not a racist, but Donald Trump is not afraid.
Don’t vote for a Cuban. Vote for Donald Trump.[no phone numbers allowed]. This call is not authorized by Donald Trump.

It would be glorious if one of the “Cuban” candidates won the primary but could not win the election because white supremacy has become more important to the right wing than small government ideology, anti-abortion fervor or states’ rights BS.

Unlikely, but hey, a girl can dream!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:15:59pm

Pretty sure most of us here already know this, but just in case:

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Great White Snark  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:16:34pm

re: #60 CuriousLurker

Wait, wut? I’ve heard of burkinis, but now there are facekinis? I had no idea, and it’s not even a Muslim thing.

At firstv glance I thought of this old B movie costume, the glory days and latex molds and black and white 35mm films. imdb.com

They look very uncomfortable to say the least.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:16:51pm

re: #66 freetoken

Another baker:

WATCH: Texas Baker Denies Same-Sex Couple a Wedding Cake

You can guess their argument:

Fuckers. Stop hiding behind your faith as a reason to be a bigot.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:16:55pm

re: #62 Shiplord Kirel

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Jenner7  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:17:33pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:19:22pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:19:29pm

You know the funniest thing was when that idiot Crowder acted like a gay stereotype and went ot Flint and actually got refused by more “Christian” bakers than Muslim ones. I’m really really hoping that somewhere out there that an ultra-Catholic baker or florist denies one of these fundamentalist hypocrites theirs and to see the response.

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:19:39pm

Bowing down… in humiliation… before his owners:

Jeb Bush Apologizes for Failed Campaign in Call with Donors

“I’m sorry it didn’t turn out the way I intended,” former Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush says in a phone call with his campaign donors days after ending his presidential campaign.

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:21:12pm

re: #75 freetoken

That would be something to see, if the owners of the GOP feel the need to do something about their Trump problem in public.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:21:25pm

Bad afternoon.
Tornado warning to the east, three different warnings no less!

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:21:29pm

re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth

/sigh

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Rocky-in-Connecticut  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:21:34pm

re: #38 ObserverArt

I hate Trump and Rubio…but nothing will be more funny than Teddy getting dumped by the Texas voters in the GOP primary. And the further he falls in that state the more I will laugh. Ideal would be him falling to fourth behind Rubio and Kasich.

Then hopefully the ultimate will happen…the Texas voters will knock him out of the Senate.

Knowing the typical Cruz voter it might be possible. The thought process would be “if he can’t win the Presidency and be our new King what good is he? We need to look elsewhere for our Theocrat King to force our explicitly Evangelical Chrsitian ideology onto the rest of the country.”

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CuriousLurker  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:22:07pm

re: #69 Great White Snark

At firstv glance I thought of this old B movie costume, the glory days and latex molds and black and white 35mm films. imdb.com

They look very uncomfortable to say the least.

Yeah, doesn’t look very comfortable at all. I’m just glad it’s not a Muslim thing—can you imagine the OUTRAGE!! if it was? I can.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:22:33pm

re: #49 freetoken

One more thing about NRO - currently the head article is Kevin Williamson arguing that the prisoners at Gitmo should just be executed sans trial.

And this is the same NRO which is lamenting that Trump is the coming of LIBERAL FASCISM! with all the attendant nastiness of Nazi Germany.

Kevin Williamson said this about women who have abortions==>

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KGxvi  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:22:40pm

re: #45 Amory Blaine

Sandoval is an outside the box pick. The last politician appointed to the Court was, I think, Earl Warren. He was a District Court judge, which I think is experience/perspective lacking on the current court, rather than an appellate judge. Doesn’t seem like he’d be interested in overturning Roe or Oberfell, so that’s a positive.

Need to read up on some of his rulings though.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:24:19pm

re: #36 Belafon

I know we keep talking about popcorn, but I’m thinking we need to start preparing picnic baskets for sitting on tops of hills as these two groups really start going at each other.

I see what you did there.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:24:47pm

re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth

re: #78 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I am really glad that I’m past childbearing age and that I don’t have any daughters to worry about.

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:24:56pm

re: #79 Rocky-in-Connecticut

Knowing the typical Cruz voter it might be possible. The thought process would be “if he can’t win the Presidency and be our new King what good is he? We need to look elsewhere for our Theocrat King to force our explicitly Evangelical Chrsitian ideology onto the rest of the country.”

That kind of thing is an occupational hazard of running for preacher-in-chief, as Cruz is doing.

But I think what’s going on with Trump and evangelical voters is simpler than this. The Trump campaign gives haters a license to hate, and most of the religious right is far more interested in feeding their hatreds than in their supposed religious views.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:25:24pm

re: #75 freetoken

Bowing down… in humiliation… before his owners:

Jeb Bush Apologizes for Failed Campaign in Call with Donors

“I’m sorry our party has for decades cynically allied itself with the absolute worst, most hate filled, scrotalpated, ignorant-as-fuck troglodytic taint gremlins in our society. It was stupid of us to do that.”

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Bubblehead II  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:27:24pm

Lizards, calling it day to try out Amazon Prime video. Now watching Interstellar.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:27:47pm

re: #86 goddamnedfrank

P.S. I have patent pending on “scrotalpated.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:27:53pm
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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:30:26pm

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:30:31pm

re: #86 goddamnedfrank

“I’m sorry our party has for decades cynically allied itself with the absolute worst, most hate filled, scrotalpated, ignorant-as-fuck troglodytic taint gremlins in our society. It was stupid of us to do that.”

Like that bit of truth telling would ever pass the lips of the likes of Jeb Bush.

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:31:02pm

I’ve pretty much had it with Chris Mooney. He’s just another writer clinging to the apron strings of the corporate media (in this case Amazon Inc.).

When he writes a headline like this:

Top scientists insist global warming really did slow down in the 2000s

… it really is about click-bait headlines.

For those who missed it, some boffins have concluded that the rate of global surface warming for a period of about a decade was indeed less than some models had earlier projected.

But this is where ignorance of real science comes in.

“Warming” is not about “temperature” per se, though it is easy to be mislead into this conclusion, given the English language too often uses the term interchangeably.

“Temperature” is not a self-existing thing. That is, temperature is a method of quantizing something else, and this is what most people forget (or never knew) about physics. What the “thing” is exactly - energy.

And this is what has already been shown - that energy flow into the ocean below the ocean surface was more than expected, meaning less energy in the atmosphere at the surface.

What this means then is that the surface air temp didn’t increase as much as expected, but the ocean temperatures increased more than expected.

So the global warming did not slow down. Because “global” includes the ocean, and ocean includes the water below the surface.

But it is too much of a temptation to provide the click-bait headline.

So what is wrong with such a headline?

Because the denialist propagandists simply use the headlines as bait for the rubes (who probably want to be fooled anyway, but that is another issue.)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:31:09pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:31:10pm

My surprise, let me show you it

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Great White Snark  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:32:20pm

re: #41 EPR-radar

I’m more curious about the state of mind of the Republican moderates.

the people of which you speak are ex republicans, part of the growing plurality-Indie.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:32:37pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:32:38pm

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Wussy.

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:32:51pm

re: #90 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Pathetic.

A real brave Sir Robin, isn’t he? Among their innumerable other faults, the total cowardice of these GOPers still manages to stand out.

The reason they didn’t want Obama to even make a nomination is because they were scared that the media might actually ask a question or two about this kind of obstruction.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:32:58pm

re: #96 goddamnedfrank

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If he sees his shadow, no Supreme Court nomination.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:33:27pm

re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Whiskey is always grand.

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weave  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:33:28pm

The Redstate crowd are freaking out about Trump and are pinning all their hopes on Texas — as if Cruz doing well in that state will suddenly stop Trump. Even if Cruz wins Texas, if all of the other Super Tuesday states go to Trump, it will certainly overshadow anything Texas does.

This is very entertaining.

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Targetpractice  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:33:31pm

re: #96 goddamnedfrank

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Looks like 6 more weeks of dodging the press.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:33:32pm

Instagram

The wall #🌊 #Oahu #Hawaii #shorebreak

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:34:06pm

re: #81 The Vicious Babushka

Kevin Williamson said this about women who have abortions==>

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Something I remember every time one of his faux intellectual articles is posted here.

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:34:51pm

re: #96 goddamnedfrank

Punxsutawney Chuck —- It if sees the shadow of a reporter, then defecates in panic and runs away, the forecast is for several more months of Republican obstruction.

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:34:55pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:35:02pm

I’m reading that Issa is trying to force Kasich and Carson out. This is hilarious to watch.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:35:47pm

Instagram

I’ve been playing music with this one for 15 years, she’s always treated me really well. Hoping for at least another 15. #hasselblad500cm #fuji400h #martinguitars #thefindlab

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:35:59pm

re: #104 HappyWarrior

Something I remember every time one of his faux intellectual articles is posted here.

That seems to be happening less often, which is probably a good thing. My patience for Republican apologists and their little games is gone.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:37:00pm

re: #109 EPR-radar

That seems to be happening less often, which is probably a good thing. My patience for Republican apologists and their little games is gone.

I did notice that. I think the hint was gotten that Williamson and NR’s fake intelligent racist crap isn’t welcomed here.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:37:33pm

I’ve got one of those all over body achy colds. Pretty sure I already died and am typing this from the afterlife.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:37:42pm
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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:38:10pm

re: #111 goddamnedfrank

I’ve got one of those all over body achy colds. Pretty sure I already died and am typing this from the afterlife.

So…
I can have your stuff?

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:38:33pm

re: #111 goddamnedfrank

I’ve got one of those all over body achy colds. Pretty sure I already died and am typing this from the afterlife.

One of those colds where you’re all like, “how the fuck can my hair hurt?!”

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:38:51pm

re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth

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If you were doing your job Chuck, you’d give the Obama nominee a hearing at least. No one’s saying you have to vote for the person but if and when the President chooses someone, a hearing should happen. Be a real shame if you lost that Senate Majority and then President elect Clinton chooses someone far more liberal than Obama would.

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:39:32pm

re: #114 goddamnedfrank

One of those colds where you’re all like, “how the fuck does my hair hurt?!”

It could be Lupus…

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:39:58pm

re: #114 goddamnedfrank

One of those colds where you’re all like, “how the fuck does my hair hurt?!”

Ugh. I’d be really happy if the cough lingering from my X-mas 2015 cold would finally go away.

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:40:13pm
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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:40:27pm

re: #116 Kragar

It could be Lupus…

No doubt about it, definitely some kind of lycanthropy anyway.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:41:24pm
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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:42:22pm

Starting to feel an irresistible urge to go over to the Reagan Library tonight and guard Ronald’s tomb.

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Targetpractice  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:42:26pm

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:42:43pm

re: #118 Kragar

For a GOP apparatchik like Ruffini, there are no conceivable circumstances that would justify a vote for Hillary Clinton in his mind. He’s just preparing the more excitable members of the GOP hive of scum and villainy to fall in line behind Trump.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:43:43pm

re: #118 Kragar

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And yet this guy probably cries about the DNC “ignoring” him and his kind because HE’S THE BASE. Sigh. I swear after 2000 I thought the Lefty purists would get it but I guess Iraq and the debacle of Bush’s economic policies didn’t sink in.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:43:59pm

re: #123 EPR-radar

For a GOP apparatchik like Ruffini, there are no conceivable circumstances that would justify a vote for Hillary Clinton in his mind. He’s just preparing the more excitable members of the GOP hive of scum and villainy to fall in line behind Trump.

Oh he’s a GOPer. Disregard my comment.

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Targetpractice  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:44:17pm

re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) told Iowa reporters Wednesday that he was just doing his job by refusing to advance President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.

“Do you think I spend my days wondering about how Chuck Grassley will go down in history? I don’t care if I ever go down in history,” Grassley said, as quoted by The Hill. “I’m here to do my job.”

Chuck’s job, apparently, being to put party above everything else.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:44:54pm

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

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It’s a wonder he’s lasted this long.

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:45:59pm

re: #126 Targetpractice

Chuck’s job, apparently, being to put party above everything else.

Precisely. That is what he thinks his voters put him there to do.

As usual, it is on relatively moderate Republican voters to prove him wrong, but I don’t think this will happen. It never does.

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:46:01pm

Remember this when some DRILL!DRILL!DRILL!-bot claims there are vast untapped reserves in the Arctic if only those nasty environmentalists would get out of our way:

Arctic Was a Bet That Didn’t Pay Off, Departing Shell Chief Says

The departing chief of Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s U.S. division, who presided over its failed quest to find crude in Arctic waters off Alaska, said the effort was still a point of pride because it demonstrated the company’s technical expertise.

Marvin Odum, 57, is leaving the company in a reorganization announced Wednesday. […]

The Arctic was “a big bet,” Odum said in a telephone interview Wednesday.

“If the oil that we had hoped was there — and probably was there at some point in geological history — in the quantities we were looking for, this would have been a fabulous success,” he said.

[…]

Shell’s Arctic endeavor, launched after the company spent a record-setting $2.1 billion buying 275 Chukchi Sea drilling leases in a 2008 government auction, spanned several years but only led to drilling during two: 2012 and 2015.

The 2012 campaign was marred by mishaps, from a drifting drillship and air pollution permit violations to the grounding of Shell’s Kulluk drilling unit amid a botched tow to Seattle. After two months of drilling last year led only to insufficient quantities of oil and gas in a test well, Shell said it would indefinitely abandon Arctic oil development.

[…]

It’s a common myth propagated to the rubes, that there is this vast supply of oil in the US if only…

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:46:16pm

re: #123 EPR-radar

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:47:10pm

re: #130 Kragar

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Okay nevermind then my comment stands.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:47:36pm

re: #126 Targetpractice

Chuck’s job, apparently, being to put party above everything else.

Sounds very familiar….

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:48:20pm

re: #130 Kragar

Ruffini is most likely a GOP ratfucker. He was the webmaster for Bush-Cheney in 2004, per wikipedia.

I have no interest in anything a GOPer has to say about Clinton vs. Sanders.

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:48:42pm
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Targetpractice  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:48:45pm

re: #128 EPR-radar

Precisely. That is what he thinks his voters put him there to do.

As usual, it is on relatively moderate Republican voters to prove him wrong, but I don’t think this will happen. It never does.

No such creature anymore. They all suddenly decided they were “independents” years ago.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:52:41pm

OT - Warning: Most of the photos are close-ups and some of the disfigurement is horrific, but the essence of the article is positive. It’s about these women having found some measure of happiness and a way to live productive lives in spite of what happened to them.

Still smiling
The women fighting back after acid attacks

Acid burns the skin and eats the flesh - acid attacks can blind and maim and leave a person’s face unrecognisable.

In India it’s estimated that there are 1,000 such attacks per year, maybe more.

But in the shadow of the Taj Mahal a group of strong women, all survivors, have come together to run a cafe and tell their stories to the world.

bbc.co.uk

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:53:10pm

re: #135 Targetpractice

No such creature anymore. They all suddenly decided they were “independents” years ago.

I’m assuming that the GOP voters split between wingnuts and their fellow travelers, and that the fellow travelers might someday see what their votes are enabling.

It’s more optimistic than assuming that all GOP voters are raving wingnuts.

BTW, as a matter of terminology, “independents” who usually/always end up voting Republican are automatically included in “GOP voters”. I’m not one to be distracted by trivia like party registration or stated party self-identification.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:55:07pm

Cool - I think I’ve finally worked out how to correctly set the height of Instagram embeds.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:55:49pm

Instagram

Nip fiend

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:56:30pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:57:45pm

Instagram

Here’s hoping for scenes like this tomorrow morning. #EddieWouldGo #Oahu #Hawaii #WaimeaBay @wsl @quiksilver #EddieAikau

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:57:47pm

re: #133 EPR-radar

Ruffini is most likely a GOP ratfucker. He was the webmaster for Bush-Cheney in 2004, per wikipedia.

I have no interest in anything a GOPer has to say about Clinton vs. Sanders.

A bit more on Patrick Ruffini en.wikipedia.org:

In 2008, he co-founded The Next Right, a forum for rising young leaders on the right shaping the future of the conservative movement.[9] An Atlantic profile published in 2008 concluded that Ruffini “looks poised to become one of the most influential Republican political strategists of his generation.” He has authored a monthly “Digital Democracy” column for Townhall magazine, written for National Review, and appeared as a political analyst on Fox News Channel and C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. Ruffini’s analysis of emerging political trends has also appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, PBS MediaShift, and Newsweek.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:58:40pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 2:59:41pm

re: #143 goddamnedfrank

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:00:35pm

The trick is to get the width and height of the image through Instagram’s API, then scale it to the width/height it’s going to be when posted in a comment or article, then add 96 pixels to that scaled height to account for the header and footer of the embedded picture. Bam. A perfectly sized embedded Instagram image.

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TedStriker  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:00:36pm

re: #116 Kragar

It could be Lupus…

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:01:04pm

re: #140 goddamnedfrank

More recently, Ruffini assisted in the 2010 special election campaign for Scott Brown in Massachusetts.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:01:51pm

re: #147 EPR-radar

More recently, Ruffini assisted in the 2010 special election campaign for Scott Brown in Massachusetts.

Yeah, a total ratfucker.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:02:20pm

Instagram

Turns out penguins are much more romantic than i thought, they mate with the same penguin for life 💙 Happy #PenguinAwarenessDay !

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:03:02pm

My illness has taken an adorable turn btw, I’m 100% Werepanda now, typing this with claw fingers.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:03:35pm

re: #147 EPR-radar

More recently, Ruffini assisted in the 2010 special election campaign for Scott Brown in Massachusetts.

Yeah okay this is the last guy who should be telling Democrats what they should be doing. He can fuck off.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:03:44pm

Ticklish Penguin

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Cheechako  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:04:32pm

re: #115 HappyWarrior

If you were doing your job Chuck, you’d give the Obama nominee a hearing at least. No one’s saying you have to vote for the person but if and when the President chooses someone, a hearing should happen. Be a real shame if you lost that Senate Majority and then President elect Clinton chooses someone far more liberal than Obama would.

And, if Clinton is POTUS and the Dems retake the Senate, I would expect Justice Ginsberg to quickly retire to give Clinton yet another SCOTUS selection.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:04:48pm

This one hits a little close to home.

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:05:32pm

So my bee sting had left a pink puffy patch on my arm from my elbow down to my wrist last night but it has receded to about the size of an egg as of now.

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Targetpractice  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:07:20pm

re: #155 Kragar

So my bee sting had left a pink puffy patch on my arm from my elbow down to my wrist last night but it has receded to about the size of an egg as of now.

So you’re not going to die? Shit, and I had dibs on your new computer too…////

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:07:23pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:07:31pm

Instagram

73 года со дня рождения #GeorgeHarrison Вот что о нем рассказал #RollingStone #TomPetty: “Как-то мы с Джорджем ехали в машине, и по радио завели битловскую “You Can’t Do That”. Помните, она начинается с замечательного риффа на двенадцатиструнной гитаре. Джордж сказал: “Это я придумал”. - “Правда? Как это случилось?” - спросил я. “Я стоял в студии, и мне срочно надо было что-нибудь выдумать”, - ответил он. В этом весь Джордж”. #harrison #quietbeatle #vintage #grass #surreal

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:07:37pm

re: #155 Kragar

So my bee sting had left a pink puffy patch on my arm from my elbow down to my wrist last night but it has receded to about the size of an egg as of now.

Have you considered talking to a doctor about what to have on hand in case you have a more severe reaction the next time?

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:08:25pm

re: #155 Kragar

So my bee sting had left a pink puffy patch on my arm from my elbow down to my wrist last night but it has receded to about the size of an egg as of now.

That’s not all that far from a really bad reaction. You might want to see if your Dr. thinks you should keep an Epipen around.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:08:55pm

re: #160 goddamnedfrank

Great minds, etc., etc.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:09:29pm

re: #159 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Have you considered talking to a doctor about what to have on hand in case you have a more severe reaction the next time?

Yep, because that’s the general trend with bee stings, they tend to get progressively worse and worse.

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:10:17pm

re: #159 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Have you considered talking to a doctor about what to have on hand in case you have a more severe reaction the next time?

I plan to never go outside again ever.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:10:37pm

re: #163 Kragar

I plan to never go outside again ever.

That also works. Up until the bees get inside the house.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:12:35pm

re: #163 Kragar

I plan to never go outside again ever.

Have you heard the good news about Werepandaism? I have some brochures.

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:12:55pm

re: #164 klys (maker of Silmarils)

That also works. Up until the bees get inside the house.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:13:47pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:15:23pm
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Alephnaught  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:15:48pm

Let’s try this Instragram thingy:

Instagram

Waiting for my flight. #photo #iphoneography #Barcelona

Instagram

Morning, everyone! #photo #iphoneography

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:16:05pm

re: #167 Backwoods_Sleuth

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:17:07pm

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

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It is pretty funny.

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Targetpractice  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:18:14pm

re: #167 Backwoods_Sleuth

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CNN, GOP, Wolf Blitzer.

*opens envelope, pulls out card*

List three things that are considered carcinogenic by the Surgeon General.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:18:30pm

Wow. Chuck C. Johnson apparently believes straight men can’t get AIDs.

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makeitstop  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:18:55pm

If Darth Vader woke up in a good mood…

Video

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:19:47pm

re: #167 Backwoods_Sleuth

So, I take it that the GOP is not going to make me pay Time-Warner to see their candidates, unlike the DNC?

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:20:23pm

re: #175 freetoken

So, I take it that the GOP is not going to make me pay Time-Warner to see their candidates, unlike the DNC?

You pay, just in neurons and not a check to Time-Warner.

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:21:30pm
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TedStriker  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:23:42pm

re: #173 Charles Johnson

Wow. Chuck C. Johnson apparently believes straight men can’t get AIDs.

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What a fucking dolt.

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:27:06pm

re: #178 TedStriker

Isn’t it strange how ‘reasoning’ that is just as bad will often get a pass if it is from a more mainstream source?

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Jenner7  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:28:12pm

hdontap.com

Thinking good thoughts for this momma bird. She’s under a severe thunderstorm watch. She’s getting hammered. :(

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Testy Toad T  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:30:06pm

Some mornings I wish Chuck C. Johnson had been birthed to a different sire simply so that we weren’t preoccupied with the twitter/facebook/whatever ramblings of some rapidly-fading RWNJ media star who just happens to have an awkwardly similar name to our gracious host.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:30:56pm

re: #173 Charles Johnson

Wow. Chuck C. Johnson apparently believes straight men can’t get AIDs.

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His wife should be running.

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:31:18pm
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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:32:35pm

re: #183 Kragar

Isn’t it about time for Robertson’s Lord and Master in Hell to call him home?

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:32:36pm

re: #173 Charles Johnson

Poor Chucky doesn’t realize that many gay porn actors are straight in real life.

Flaming Furby fabulist will be flaming Furby fabulist.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:34:52pm

re: #173 Charles Johnson

Wow. Chuck C. Johnson apparently believes straight men can’t get AIDs.

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And Nicole kicks ass.

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:37:33pm
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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:38:40pm

re: #185 Eric The Fruit Bat

Poor Chucky doesn’t realize that many gay porn actors are straight in real life.

Flaming Furby fabulist will be flaming Furby fabulist.

Or that HIV’s spread throughout Africa was predominately among heterosexuals. Though I’m sure he’s got some racist explanation for that up his sleeve.

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:39:22pm

re: #183 Kragar

That Regurgitant, Erick son of Erick, whines:

Now if only Erick would turn the power if his empire on Robertson, the wingnut event horizon will have been breached.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:39:50pm

re: #187 Kragar

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Man, Republicans really get off on violating other people’s bodily autonomy.

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Testy Toad T  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:41:39pm

re: #187 Kragar

Carson Bizarrely Responds to Waterboarding Argument With a Better Idea: ‘Truth Serum’ mediaite.com … via @mediaite

From the BatWhiteHouse!

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:41:51pm
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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:42:17pm

Erickson is quite the work. His own new website fronts an icon which I think might best be summarized as “Christo-fascistic”, and Erickson has long whined about wanting to use the power of the law to enforce his religion… and now he is complaining about Trump.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:42:25pm

Cause this will be a good idea.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:43:53pm

re: #194 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Cause this will be a good idea.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:44:38pm
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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:45:26pm

re: #189 freetoken

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:46:46pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:49:01pm
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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:49:44pm

Erickson is just angry, because he has to pay for his own security but Ben gets his from the government:

Ben Carson Is Bilking Tax Payers Out of Millions

There is no justification for Ben Carson staying in the race other than his consultants continue to get rich off of people who do not know any better.

What they may not realize is that Ben Carson is getting Secret Service protection, even though he has exactly zero shot at being the nominee.

Carson, a man who claims he wants to rein in the federal government and stop wasteful spending in Washington, is perfectly happy to waste taxpayer dollars on a Secret Service detail.

[…]

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:53:53pm
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Ubiq  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:54:29pm

re: #82 KGxvi

Sandoval is an outside the box pick. The last politician appointed to the Court was, I think, Earl Warren. He was a District Court judge, which I think is experience/perspective lacking on the current court, rather than an appellate judge. Doesn’t seem like he’d be interested in overturning Roe or Oberfell, so that’s a positive.

Need to read up on some of his rulings though.

This is what it looks like when the President of the United States trolls an incalcitrant Senate.

Sandoval is a republican. That’s as good as the GOP is likely to get from Obama. Sandoval is still pro-choice and pro-gay rights.

Sandoval is a latino. So the dems can use the GOP’s obstructionism as a cudgel in both the presidential race & many senate races, where latino votes are likely to be key. Sandoval is also a sitting governor in a purple state. If the GOP did approve him, good odds it would flip the seat, which means the GOP likely never would.

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Testy Toad T  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:54:54pm

re: #200 freetoken

Erickson is just angry, because he has to pay for his own security but Ben gets his from the government:

Ben Carson Is Bilking Tax Payers Out of Millions

I hope Carson’s codename is Travelodge.

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:57:15pm

In today’s episode of unintended comedy from a RedState commenter, we have this cry from the heart:

I have visions of a close call with Trump causing the GOP to finally get serious about effective leadership and reclaim this party as a highbrow/upper-middle-class institution…

You know, one that has its primary debates on substantitive issues of macroeconomics, geopolitical strategy and such….

Not a race to the bottom, pandering to people who barely graduated HS.

Poor dear. He just doesn’t want to admit that racing to the bottom while pandering to the worst elements of society is much more popular than the elitist propaganda for war and plutocracy that he would prefer to see.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 24, 2016 • 3:59:48pm

re: #92 freetoken

I’ve pretty much had it with Chris Mooney. He’s just another writer clinging to the apron strings of the corporate media (in this case Amazon Inc.).

When he writes a headline like this:

Top scientists insist global warming really did slow down in the 2000s

… it really is about click-bait headlines.

For those who missed it, some boffins have concluded that the rate of global surface warming for a period of about a decade was indeed less than some models had earlier projected.

But this is where ignorance of real science comes in.

“Warming” is not about “temperature” per se, though it is easy to be mislead into this conclusion, given the English language too often uses the term interchangeably.

“Temperature” is not a self-existing thing. That is, temperature is a method of quantizing something else, and this is what most people forget (or never knew) about physics. What the “thing” is exactly - energy.

And this is what has already been shown - that energy flow into the ocean below the ocean surface was more than expected, meaning less energy in the atmosphere at the surface.

What this means then is that the surface air temp didn’t increase as much as expected, but the ocean temperatures increased more than expected.

So the global warming did not slow down. Because “global” includes the ocean, and ocean includes the water below the surface.

But it is too much of a temptation to provide the click-bait headline.

So what is wrong with such a headline?

Because the denialist propagandists simply use the headlines as bait for the rubes (who probably want to be fooled anyway, but that is another issue.)

Actually, I’d argue that most people don’t read more than the headline.

There was a similar thing this week, an article in the Washington Post that was titled “Biden: No SCOTUS Nominations In An Election Year”. What does the article ACTUALLY say? Biden said, in late June of 1988, that if there were a vacancy then, the President should wait until after the election to nominate, so the process doesn’t get polluted with the electoral politics. And the Senate should wait till then to consider. Not “no nominees till the next President”, but that’s what the headline would make you think.

The headline was a lie. And a friend post it to a thread I’d put up, about the unprecedented Republican obstruction, with the comment ‘What goes around comes around’. And this guy’s not a wingnut, and is, in fact a lawyer. But he didn’t read the article, just the headline.

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:01:38pm

Ouch…

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:02:47pm

re: #206 FormerDirtDart

Nobody likes Ted.

But there are plenty of grifters, like Erickson, who want to tout Cruz as some sort of heaven-sent savior for the US.

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Testy Toad T  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:02:51pm

re: #204 EPR-radar

In today’s episode of unintended comedy from a RedState commenter, we have this cry from the heart:

>You know, one that has its primary debates on substantitive issues of >macroeconomics, geopolitical strategy and such….

>Not a race to the bottom, pandering to people who barely graduated HS.

Ah, so THAT’S what Trump meant when he shouted “I love the poorly educated!”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:04:04pm

re: #206 FormerDirtDart

Ouch…

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:13:10pm
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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:14:16pm

The universe is aligning for Trump, not Rubio:

The wins keep coming for Donald Trump.

Two weeks after the New Hampshire primary, Trump has picked up another delegate from that contest. Marco Rubio has lost one.

The updated count for New Hampshire has Trump winning 11 delegates, John Kasich getting four, Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz winning three apiece, and Rubio getting two.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:17:11pm

He seems to be repeating every word of abuse that Fred Trump loaded on him when he was a kid.

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:18:28pm

Trump supporter, and friend of whacky militants everywhere, sez:

Franklin Graham Calls On North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory To Repeal Charlotte LGBT Protections

“Shame on Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts and the City Council members who voted last night to pass an ordinance that would allow people to use the bathroom of their choice, not based on their biological sex,” Graham wrote in a Facebook post.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:19:04pm

re: #212 The Vicious Babushka

He seems to be repeating every word of abuse that Fred Trump loaded on him when he was a kid.

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So remember to verbally abuse your children, because it might drive them to one day become President! Or at least an obnoxious asshole constantly craving attention and validation.

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Targetpractice  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:19:36pm

re: #210 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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Perhaps the President should come out and say “Fine, you want the next guy to fill the vacancy? Cool. But let’s streamline the process: The next president does not even require a Senate vote to put his nominee on the bench. After all, if the election is about the people deciding who they want to fill those vacancies, then there’s no need for advise and consent, right?”

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Kragar  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:22:33pm
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lawhawk  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:23:04pm

re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth

It snows in Cania and Nessus (planes of Hell). Therefore, there’s a chance./

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:23:24pm

re: #215 Targetpractice

Perhaps the President should come out and say “Fine, you want the next guy to fill the vacancy? Cool. But let’s streamline the process: The next president does not even require a Senate vote to put his nominee on the bench. After all, if the election is about the people deciding who they want to fill those vacancies, then there’s no need for advise and consent, right?”

I think Obama should get together with Biden and Schumer (presumptive new leader of the Senate Democrats) and tell McConnell that if he doesn’t relent, and the Dems take even just enough seats to be tied, as soon as the new Senate is seated, they’ll use Biden’s deciding vote to get rid of filibusters for SCOTUS nominees, then Obama will nominate himself, the Senate will confirm him as Justice, and Joe Biden will become - briefly - the 45th President of the United States.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:24:14pm

re: #41 EPR-radar

I’m more curious about the state of mind of the Republican moderates. After all they are usually capable of thought (unlike wingnuts), and at some level the reality that their party is a dumpster fire laced with plutonium dust has to be sinking in.

What Republican moderates? Do they hang out with Bigfoot?

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retired cynic  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:25:55pm

re: #219 Big Beautiful Door

What Republican moderates? Do they hang out with Bigfoot?

I actually know some lifelong Republican moderates, and they told me they were appalled, and would vote for Hillary before they would vote for Trump. Now, how they feel about the rest of the field, I don’t know, and I won’t ask!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:27:57pm

re: #220 retired cynic

I actually know some lifelong Republican moderates, and they told me they were appalled, and would vote for Hillary before they would vote for Trump. Now, how they feel about the rest of the field, I don’t know, and I won’t ask!

‘Better Hitlery than an ACTUAL Hitler.”

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lawhawk  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:28:29pm

Memo to Bernie:

Cornel West isn’t someone you should have as your spokesperson. Not when he pulls crap like this:

West is out there when it comes to Obama, let alone other elected African American Democrats. Extreme doesn’t begin to cut it.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:30:09pm

I’m curious to see how, and indeed WHETHER Trump pivots after the nomination is secured. So far, it seems he can literally say anything, and not lose support, but he’ll be going after voters who don’t agree with any major position he’s taken.

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:30:59pm

Freepers freeping about a new poll that shows Cruz up in TX over Trump by 15 points.

The problem is, the poll has a relatively low number of respondents, and furthermore:

houstonpublicmedia.org

They still included Jeb! The poll ran over 10 days, and a lot has happened since then.

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lawhawk  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:31:43pm

re: #223 Blind Frog Belly White

I’m curious to see how, and indeed WHETHER Trump pivots after the nomination is secured. So far, it seems he can literally say anything, and not lose support, but he’ll be going after voters who don’t agree with any major position he’s taken.

That’ll be the moment he reveals that he’s Kang and Kodos.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:35:15pm

D_F must be pulling his hair out by now….

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lawhawk  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:36:00pm

And here come the t-storms in the NYC metro area. The heavy stuff is starting to wind its way into the region. The Philly area is still under tornado watches and warnings (particularly in Penn. Dutch country), flood warnings are in NJ, and storm watches and hazardous weather watches all over.

It’s gonna be a crazy evening.

Note: The tornado watches have extended to most of New Jersey other than Bergen, Passaic, and Essex/Union (Northeastern NJ)

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:36:29pm

In which Pierce compares Trump to Huey Long:

There Is Only One Way to Stop Donald Trump Now

[…]

There does not appear to be any way to stop him now. Unless something completely untoward happens, He, Trump will be the Republican nominee for president. At the moment, Ted Cruz can’t catch him because no human being on earth likes Ted Cruz except his mother, and she could be jiving, too. Young Marco Rubio can’t catch him because Young Marco Rubio is a big bag of feathers. Neither one of them is willing to step aside for the other. And John Kasich, quite frankly, is drawing to a low inside straight. In the Republican party in the year of our Lord 2016, He, Trump is simply the man of the historical moment.

Heh.

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Testy Toad T  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:37:32pm

re: #226 Eric The Fruit Bat

D_F must be pulling his hair out by now….

Only because Trump is polling badly in a general. If he gives a single solitary shit about actually having good candidates, rather than (R) candidates, running this country, I’ve sure never seen evidence of it.

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Targetpractice  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:39:42pm

re: #226 Eric The Fruit Bat

D_F must be pulling his hair out by now….

Not to worry, he’ll be like a lot of “serious” conservatives in a couple months: “If it keeps Hillary out of the White House, I’ll vote for him!”

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KGxvi  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:39:45pm

re: #224 freetoken

Freepers freeping about a new poll that shows Cruz up in TX over Trump by 15 points.

The problem is, the poll has a relatively low number of respondents, and furthermore:

houstonpublicmedia.org

They still included Jeb! The poll ran over 10 days, and a lot has happened since then.

This one has Cruz, Trump, and Rubio all within the margin of error at 29-28-25. It’s by Emerson College, which I think is fairly trustworthy. Tuesday is going to be like the final scene in The World’s End

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:39:53pm

re: #101 weave

The Redstate crowd are freaking out about Trump and are pinning all their hopes on Texas — as if Cruz doing well in that state will suddenly stop Trump. Even if Cruz wins Texas, if all of the other Super Tuesday states go to Trump, it will certainly overshadow anything Texas does.

This is very entertaining.

Winning Texas is just the minimum necessary Cruz needs to justify continuing his campaign. He really needs to win at least a couple of other states Super Tuesday to have a real path to the nomination. Everyone was talking about how crafty Cruz was being buddying up to Trump so he could take his voters when Trump inevitably faded, but its now apparent Cruz was only sowing the seeds of his own destruction.

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:42:40pm

re: #232 Big Beautiful Door

More importantly, Texas is not a winner-take-all state. So even if Trump comes in 2nd, he’ll get many delegates. OTOH, Florida is winner-take-all, and Trump will likely take them.

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bratwurst  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:43:21pm

re: #230 Targetpractice

Not to worry, he’ll be like a lot of “serious” conservatives in a couple months: “If it keeps Hillary out of the White House, I’ll vote for him!”

He and all of the National Review types will be singing from that very same hymnal by summer, bank on it.

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lawhawk  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:44:14pm

re: #233 freetoken

Right now, polling out of Texas spells doom for Cruz - 29 for Cruz, 28 for Trump. That means they’d come close to splitting the state.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:44:17pm

There’s still no word on whether those two purported KKK members who showed up to “support Trump” in Nevada last night were real. Snopes:

snopes.com

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:45:29pm

re: #228 freetoken

That’s a quote from a great B.B. King song.

Nobody Loves Me But My Mother

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Targetpractice  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:46:13pm

re: #234 bratwurst

He and all of the National Review types will be singing from that very same hymnal by summer, bank on it.

Ayep, in a few months, we’ll be hearing from all those conservatives screaming about the need to end his campaign about how great a guy he is…if he’s their best shot at the White House.

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Nojay UK  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:46:48pm

re: #236 Charles Johnson

There’s still no word on whether those two purported KKK members who showed up to “support Trump” in Nevada last night were real.

All the news reports I’ve ever seen of real KKK activity, they come mob-handed with lots of supporters not in uniform, ready for trouble and out to make a point. Those two were like that scene in “Blazing Saddles”, you know the one…

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:46:50pm

Wingnuts are freaking out because 45% of Americans do not have enough income to pay tax on.
HURR HURR MAKES THOSE PARASITES PAYS THERE FARE SHAIR!!!11!!

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:47:42pm

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He can take a few more evangelical voters Cruz desperately needs Super Tuesday.

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Skip Intro  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:48:02pm

re: #226 Eric The Fruit Bat

D_F must be pulling his hair out by now….

Actually I think he’d be happy with Trump as long as he keeps an ‘R’ after his name.

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bratwurst  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:49:05pm

re: #238 Targetpractice

Ayep, in a few months, we’ll be hearing from all those conservatives screaming about the need to end his campaign about how great a guy he is…if he’s their best shot at the White House.

If they had thought he was a strong general election candidate who would help down ticket they never would have been against him in the first place.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:50:00pm

re: #129 freetoken

Remember this when some DRILL!DRILL!DRILL!-bot claims there are vast untapped reserves in the Arctic if only those nasty environmentalists would get out of our way:

Arctic Was a Bet That Didn’t Pay Off, Departing Shell Chief Says

It’s a common myth propagated to the rubes, that there is this vast supply of oil in the US if only…

There is, and we have been pumping it out like crazy. That’s why oil is so cheap now.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:53:56pm
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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:54:44pm

re: #244 Big Beautiful Door

A substantial amount of the increase in US liquids came about because when petroleum was highly priced quite a bit of investment was made in difficult to produce locations, such as South Dakota.

Globally, KSA decided to not try to prop up petroleum prices, perhaps a secret request of ours in order to drive down Russian revenues.

So while there are large deposits of low-quality carbon around the world, it is still wrong to claim that the US has vasts amount of “oil”, unless one wants to have very high prices to produce very low quality or difficult to produce deposits.

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Skip Intro  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:54:45pm
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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:57:49pm

Just saw a nice TV ad for Hillary here in Columbus on MSNBC. Morgan Freeman doing the voice and black and white photos of Hillary with different people talking, hugging, etc. throughout her career. I think that is the first one I’ve come across. I had Tweetie Matthews on but wasn’t paying attention and just happened to look up to change the channel when it came on. I guess we are getting close to Ohio primary time.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 4:58:37pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:00:11pm

re: #155 Kragar

So my bee sting had left a pink puffy patch on my arm from my elbow down to my wrist last night but it has receded to about the size of an egg as of now.

Yeah, I quit my family’s bee fighting hobby decades ago.

juneauempire.com

Dave Barry totally didn’t make this up; its about my family

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:04:12pm

Texas Primary results will be important for Cruz? Really? It never occurred to me that I could help fuck over Cruz… I’m not sure if I’m registered as Republican. I need to update my address anyway. I may need to partake in a little bit o’ Democracy next week. Hmm…

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:05:10pm

Caught my first presidential ad of the year. A pro Rubio ad from a PAC. Pretty lame stuff honestly. Just attacks on Cruz and Trump and a select nice quote about Rubio being like Reagan by Limbaugh and how he “can take on Hillary” and start a new generation of conservatism. Granted I know I’m not the target of this ad but if I were a conservative, I wouldn’t be sold because it said nothing about his stances on the issues. I remain unimpressed with Rubio as a Presidential candidate. In fact, I think he’s out of his league in the Senate.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:06:01pm
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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:06:22pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:07:17pm

re: #248 ObserverArt

Just saw a nice TV ad for Hillary here in Columbus on MSNBC. Morgan Freeman doing the voice and black and white photos of Hillary with different people talking, hugging, etc. throughout her career. I think that is the first one I’ve come across. I had Tweetie Matthews on but wasn’t paying attention and just happened to look up to change the channel when it came on. I guess we are getting close to Ohio primary time.

That one sounds a lot better than the Pro-Rubio one I just saw.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:08:24pm

re: #247 Skip Intro

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Yeah that’s pretty much Rubio in a nutshell. Rubio really is an empty suit. He’s got nothing but anti-Obama and youth going for him. He’s not charismatic nor is he particularly likable once you really get ot know him.

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:09:12pm

re: #253 Charles Johnson

“….Well, suffice it to say that [Donald Trump as the nominee] would be an unmitigated, unalloyed, potentially unsalvageable disaster. For the first time in years, the Right’s defenses would be completely destroyed, perhaps never to be rebuilt. Swiftly, the courts would be packed with ideologues; immediately, Congress would run through the remaining items on the Obama-Clinton laundry list; before the voters had a chance to stop them, the White House would usher in an irreversible amnesty; and, Trump having been turned into a pariah by a hostile press, his “anti-PC” attitude would be rendered toxic in perpetuity.”

Sign me up!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:09:22pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:09:53pm

re: #258 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Hey Chuck just resign.

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Testy Toad T  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:10:48pm

re: #253 Charles Johnson

Smell the panic: It’s Time for an Anti-Trump Manhattan Project natl.re

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Targetpractice  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:11:16pm

re: #253 Charles Johnson

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For months, it was “Trump’s a joke, he won’t win, there’s no need to address his lunacy.”

Now, it’s “OH SHIT! Trump is gonna be our nominee! We gotta do something to address his lunacy!”

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:11:24pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:11:52pm

I love it. The panic is very real and it’s obvious to anyone paying attention that the re-branding Preibus talked about was a massive fail and or was for the worse.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:12:41pm

re: #262 Charles Johnson

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That’s the thing. Rubio’s rhetoric and record on choice and gay rights is actually further ot the right than Trump’s is.

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Skip Intro  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:12:51pm

re: #253 Charles Johnson

Too bad for Cooke that the only people who take NRO seriously are the ones who work there.

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Testy Toad T  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:12:52pm

re: #263 HappyWarrior

I love it. The panic is very real and it’s obvious to anyone paying attention that the re-branding Preibus talked about was a massive fail and or was for the worse.

Once an organization falls into an ever-tightening self-radicalizing corkscrew, it’s not a trivial undertaking to pull back out. This is an even more serious problem when the leadership remains above the fray and does not realize how tight the spiral has become.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:15:25pm

re: #233 freetoken

More importantly, Texas is not a winner-take-all state. So even if Trump comes in 2nd, he’ll get many delegates. OTOH, Florida is winner-take-all, and Trump will likely take them.

If Trump wins Florida, he will be the nominee. No way Rubio could recover from that.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:16:26pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:17:31pm
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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:18:01pm

re: #261 Targetpractice

For months, it was “Trump’s a joke, he won’t win, there’s no need to address his lunacy.”

Now, it’s “OH SHIT! Trump is gonna be our nominee! We gotta do something to address his lunacy!”

And these are the people that want to control America. They can’t even control Trump. He has shown the entire GOP national party is ineffective. He has ripped icons like “W” Bush, and McCain. He has set the rules for their debates, threatened to sue half their candidates and calls them names like a bully thirteen-year-old with a potty mouth.

We all read about Sherman’s March to the Sea. It is history.

We are actually witnessing Trumps March to Washington (burning and destroying an American political party as he goes). It is historic!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:18:36pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:19:23pm
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PhillyPretzel  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:19:24pm

re: #269 Backwoods_Sleuth

And Philly has high winds and a tornado watch. :(

weather.gov

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:20:33pm

re: #262 Charles Johnson

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LOL just as you posted this I saw this come across the #tcot feed

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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:20:37pm

re: #263 HappyWarrior

I love it. The panic is very real and it’s obvious to anyone paying attention that the re-branding Preibus talked about was a massive fail and or was for the worse.

I commented about a week ago. Trump has cut that big tent down to a pup tent barely large enough to cover his belly and leaving his orange head out one end and his stinky feet out the other. No room for anyone else but Trump and his gang.

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Sionainn  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:20:50pm

re: #45 Amory Blaine

Republican governor of Nevada Brian Sandoval being considered for Supreme Court

As a Nevadan, I vehemently protest Sandoval becoming a Supreme Court justice.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:20:55pm

Another cool new feature I just implemented - previously when an image was very tall, it would be scaled down in the “fancybox” popup dialog to fit the user’s screen size. If you’re using a small screen that meant sometimes the image would actually be smaller and less viewable in the popup dialog.

Now I’ve figured out the magic code to make the popup dialog have vertical scroll bars if the image is very tall. So you’ll be able to view large images exactly as nature intended.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:21:51pm

re: #264 HappyWarrior

That’s the thing. Rubio’s rhetoric and record on choice and gay rights is actually further ot the right than Trump’s is.

And his war mongering.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:22:32pm

re: #277 Charles Johnson

Thanks for the cool tools Charles.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:23:35pm
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jaunte  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:23:38pm

re: #267 Big Beautiful Door

If Trump wins Florida, he will be the nominee. No way Rubio could recover from that.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:23:55pm

Note that the National Review is really upset that Trump isn’t loony enough! He isn’t 100% against national health insurance and he isn’t in favor of the total destruction of Planned Parenthood.

They’re freaking out because they think he’s a closet leftist, even though on every other issue he’s so far to the right he’s off the scale.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:24:10pm

re: #281 jaunte

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:25:12pm

re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth

Oh my gawd.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:25:38pm

re: #284 Charles Johnson

Oh my gawd.

my feelings exactly….

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:25:51pm

Trump/Hairless Snake Man 2016

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withak  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:26:42pm

re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Isn’t Scott rather unpopular in FL?

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:26:52pm

Rick Scott, America’s eighth least popular Governor
tallahassee.com

A bold choice!

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:27:03pm

Instagram

#Driving back to #Kharkiv from the frontline towns of eastern #Ukraine.
Project almost over. Thousands of pictures to go through as soon as I hit home in London.
#easternukraine #conflict #sunset #road #Europe #winter2016 #trees #ontheroad

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:27:20pm

re: #287 withak

Isn’t Scott rather unpopular in FL?

at this point, does it even matter?

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:28:19pm

Slate warns us:

Think Hillary Clinton Will Crush Donald Trump in the General Election? Don’t Be So Sure.

Mostly just repetitive of what we’ve heard before. But the meat of the article:

The Trump-will-get-crushed theory rests on two central pillars. The first is that independents will take one look at the real estate tycoon and go running into the arms of Clinton. The problem, though, is that there are far fewer swing votes in play than many Americans like to believe. Partisanship dominates modern elections in ways it never did when Barry Goldwater or George McGovern were buried underneath November landslides. Party loyalty will convince many conservative-leaning independents to rethink their personal feelings about Trump—just as it will do the same for those liberal-leaning independents who remain skeptical of Clinton. There’s unlikely to be enough true undecideds left in the middle to turn the election into a blowout.

The second pillar is that a large chunk of hard-core conservatives simply won’t be able to bring themselves to pull the lever for Trump and will either vote for Hillary, stay home, or vote for a third-party candidate, which would be the same as staying home. The first scenario would be laughable—this is Hillary freaking Clinton we’re talking about—but the latter two can’t be taken as a given on a grand scale, especially in a campaign that has now turned, at least in part, into a referendum on the future of the Supreme Court. Democrats tell themselves that the chance to replace the late Antonin Scalia will energize their base, and it likely will. But so too will it likely fire up conservatives who will spend the summer being warned of all they will lose if Clinton wins the White House and is given the chance to replace their conservative hero with a liberal villain. Yes, many in the Republican Party will fear they won’t like Trump’s pick for the high court, but they’ll certainly like it more than anyone Clinton would nominate. The Donald, meanwhile, could put such worries largely to rest by simply announcing a party-approved nominee as his pick while the election is still going on. National Review readers might not want to vote for Donald J. Trump, but I bet they could pull the lever for him if they convince themselves they’re voting to give Don R. Willett or someone else from their SCOTUS wish list a lifetime appointment.

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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:28:55pm

re: #284 Charles Johnson

Oh my gawd.

re: #285 Backwoods_Sleuth

my feelings exactly….

What? Crooks gotta work together. Both manipulated government for financial advancement. Just think what kind of ripping off they can do as the President and Vice President. Why it is a complete synergy!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:29:39pm
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Aunty Entity Dragon  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:31:18pm

Okay.

24 hours and no phone calls from the news, no messages left at the school office and nothing to report from the district offices.

Maybe this is finally going to blow over.

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Skip Intro  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:32:02pm

The BASTARD!

Obama bans US imports of slave-produced goods

I’m sure the GOP pres candidates will have something to say about that!

ksby.com

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:32:04pm

Instagram

That Sunday church white dress

#Goma #sundaymorning #Congo #africaaroundme #africanfashion

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:32:34pm

Instagram

Transportation hummer #sseseislands #Uganda #africaaroundme

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:32:37pm

If Obama really wants to mess with GOP heads, he can nominate Maryann Barry for SCOTUS.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:34:50pm

Excellent. The new code for sizing Instagram embeds is handling everything I throw at it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:35:47pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:36:15pm

Instagram

Mine 🐹🐶 😂

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Targetpractice  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:36:35pm

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

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But how can that be, when we’ve been assured for days now that Nevada’s Dem numbers were down and that spells trouble in November?

//

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:37:37pm

re: #302 Charles Johnson

That’s soooooo cruel….

But it makes a good metaphor:

Cracker - GOP nomination
hamster - Rubio
Dog - Trump

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Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:37:42pm

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

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So six more weeks of bullshit?

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teleskiguy  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:38:45pm

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Sionainn  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:40:25pm

re: #173 Charles Johnson

Wow. Chuck C. Johnson apparently believes straight men can’t get AIDs.

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He apparently believes straight men can’t get herpes, either.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:40:56pm

The function that creates our special Instagram embed code.

<?php
function doInstagram($text, $scaledWidth) {
	return preg_replace_callback(
		$GLOBALS['urlRegex'], 
		function($matches) {
			if (stristr($matches['url'], 'instagram.com/p/') !== FALSE) {
				$id = basename(explode('?', $matches['url'])[0]);
				$info = json_decode(@file_get_contents('https://api.instagram.com/oembed?url=' . $matches['url']));
				$scaled = myImageScale($info->thumbnail_width, $info->thumbnail_height, $scaledWidth);
				$height = $scaled[1] + 96;
				$title = '';
				if (isset($info->title) and $info->title) {
					$title = "\n\n" . '<blockquote class="instaTitle">' . $info->title . '</blockquote>';
				}
				return <<<S
<a class="embedOpen" data-opts='{"type":"iframe","attributes":{"width":"640","height":"{$height}"}}' href="//instagram.com/p/{$id}/embed/">Instagram</a>{$title}
S;
			}
			return $matches[0];
		},
		$text
	);
}
?>

$GLOBALS[‘urlRegex’] is the regular expression that searches for URLs inside text.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:43:58pm
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teleskiguy  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:48:30pm

re: #306 teleskiguy

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:49:05pm

re: #309 Backwoods_Sleuth

Given that Trump is now for sure a public political figure, how can Trump protect his name and likeness like that?

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Skip Intro  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:49:20pm

One last time, let’s hear it for Jeb!

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gocart mozart  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:49:30pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:50:07pm

re: #311 freetoken

Given that Trump is now for sure a public political figure, how can Trump protect his name and likeness like that?

He can’t in court; this is just an intimidation tactic.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:51:58pm

Voter registration updated! Texas does have pretty good online services, IMO. If you have the right information on hand you can do almost everything through the internet easily.

I haven’t voted in a Primary since ‘08 so I had actually forgotten the process. Texas doesn’t have party registration, you just show up and vote and once you’ve voted in one primary, you can’t vote in the other team’s.

I don’t have a dog in the Bernie vs. Hillary fight - I dislike both of them for different reasons. And as much as I loathe the Republicans in general, honestly I’d rather see Trump get the nod, because frankly he’s the least dishonest of the bunch. I’d rather have naked unfiltered fascism, rather than some goddamned snake like Cruz.

If I can help fuck over Cruz, I’ll do it. Even if I have to stand in line with a bunch of Trumpies to do it. >< Hopefully next Tuesday is sunny, I’ll just keep the sunglasses on and wear earbuds to the polling place…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:51:59pm

re: #311 freetoken

re: #314 Big Beautiful Door

I think their official response to the lawyer on February 29 should be ANOTHER TRUMP SONG!!!

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:52:10pm

Instagram

🐹😴 😂️
™️sweeper
@save_this_video📲️

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Belafon  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:53:48pm

re: #315 Pawn of the Oppressor

I’d love for Clinton to get more votes in Texas than Cruz. That’ll be my encouragement to my family.

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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:54:50pm

re: #314 Big Beautiful Door

He can’t in court; this is just an intimidation tactic.

I hope some big ass powerful law firm takes the guys case and takes on Trump in a harassment counter suit or something. There might not be money in it, but there sure is some PR material and a few belt notches to be had.

(No, I am not a lawyer and have no idea if it is possible)

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:55:35pm

re: #315 Pawn of the Oppressor

Voter registration updated! Texas does have pretty good online services, IMO. If you have the right information on hand you can do almost everything through the internet easily.

I haven’t voted in a Primary since ‘08 so I had actually forgotten the process. Texas doesn’t have party registration, you just show up and vote and once you’ve voted in one primary, you can’t vote in the other team’s.

I don’t have a dog in the Bernie vs. Hillary fight - I dislike both of them for different reasons. And as much as I loathe the Republicans in general, honestly I’d rather see Trump get the nod, because frankly he’s the least dishonest of the bunch. I’d rather have naked unfiltered fascism, rather than some goddamned snake like Cruz.

If I can help fuck over Cruz, I’ll do it. Even if I have to stand in line with a bunch of Trumpies to do it. >< Hopefully next Tuesday is sunny, I’ll just keep the sunglasses on and wear earbuds to the polling place…

Good plan. It says something about the GOP that the fascist may actually be their least bad candidate.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:56:06pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:57:30pm

my surprise, etc…

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:58:13pm

re: #253 Charles Johnson

Oh boy are they panicking all right. It’s glorious.

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worldknot  Feb 24, 2016 • 5:59:35pm

Pick a leader first, THEN incite the mob.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:00:02pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:00:59pm

Unclear on the concept.

Instagram

💦😜 #fail 😹
™@matsumotoooooo
@Save_this_video📲

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Mattand  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:01:25pm

re: #41 EPR-radar

I’m more curious about the state of mind of the Republican moderates. After all they are usually capable of thought (unlike wingnuts), and at some level the reality that their party is a dumpster fire laced with plutonium dust has to be sinking in.

The only moderate Republican I’m familiar with posts here and he’s in utter fucking denial of how messed up the GOP is.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:01:34pm

re: #325 Charles Johnson

You should immediately block anyone using Bastiat, FYI.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:02:02pm

re: #328 Eric The Fruit Bat

Yep, I know.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:02:12pm
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teleskiguy  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:02:46pm

The GOP today:

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:03:08pm

re: #327 Mattand

The only moderate Republican I’m familiar with posts here and he’s in utter fucking denial of how messed up the GOP is.

And he has been conspicuous by his absence. Hope things are well for him personally.

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retired cynic  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:04:40pm

re: #250 Big Beautiful Door

Yeah, I quit my family’s bee fighting hobby decades ago.

juneauempire.com

Dave Barry totally didn’t make this up; its about my family

What a wonderful heritage! Zzzzzzzt!

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Targetpractice  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:05:06pm

re: #331 teleskiguy

The GOP today:

Embedded Image

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:05:06pm

re: #332 Eric The Fruit Bat

And he has been conspicuous by his absence. Hope things are well for him personally.

I also have best wishes for DF personally. His party needs to die out.

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scottslemmons  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:05:28pm

Instagram

Infinite hubcaps at Chuy’s Tex-Mex in #Denton.

I don’t know what’s the point of hubcaps all over the ceiling of a Mexican food restaurant, but it looked pretty cool anyway…

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:05:55pm

re: #330 Stanley Sea

Bohemian Grove!!

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:07:14pm

Fever finally broke, now I’ve got that weird heavy, slightly buzzed nitrogen narcosis feeling you get hauling your ass out of after a deep water SCUBA dive.

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:07:35pm

re: #330 Stanley Sea

“In 1695, Count Franz Anton von Sporck founded the society in Bohemia”

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Mattand  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:08:05pm

re: #291 freetoken

Slate warns us:

Think Hillary Clinton Will Crush Donald Trump in the General Election? Don’t Be So Sure.

Mostly just repetitive of what we’ve heard before. But the meat of the article:

Screw Slate. I’ve been saying it for months. We’re a country who re-elected Bush Jr. because he’s someone you’d have a beer with, despite the fact it was becoming readily apparent he was incompetent.

American voters are entirely capable… No, shit, scratch that; willing to elect Trump President. To paraphrase Chuck McGill from Better Call Saul, putting your average American in a voting booth is like a chimpanzee with a machine gun.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:08:55pm

re: #328 Eric The Fruit Bat

You should immediately block anyone using Bastiat, FYI.

Not to be confused with Basquiat.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:09:41pm

re: #339 jaunte

“In 1695, Count Franz Anton von Sporck founded the society in Bohemia”

Embedded Image

He’s Batman?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:09:55pm
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b_sharp  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:10:37pm

re: #334 Targetpractice

Embedded Image

That’s quite the picture of a circle jerk. I hope they all came at the same time.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:10:59pm

re: #320 Big Beautiful Door

Good plan. It says something about the GOP that the fascist may actually be their least bad candidate.

I’ve voted straight D ticket in protest for the last six years. Palin’s schtick didn’t wear off after the election. A Tea Party was formed that, for some reason, had dick-all to do with actual tax reform. Barry turned out to be a compromising moderate instead of the Great Kenyan Islamic Satan Negro Beast Of The Apocalypse. Nobody came for my AR-15. And then, things got REALLY crazy…

But this isn’t just a sabotage vote. If I can help narrow the field between the parties of Fumbling Around and Fuck You, I’d rather the Republicans present a demagogic pig who sounds like Archie Bunker with a couple of beers in him, instead of a slimy, nihilistic Bible-humping liar.

I do think, in his own sick, fucked-up way, that Trump cares about the country a little bit. Underneath the narcissism there may be a tiny element of patriotism. Reality could sink into his brain if presented in business language by people with actual political skill. I can’t say the same for Cruz.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:11:37pm

re: #340 Mattand

Screw Slate. I’ve been saying it for months. We’re a country who re-elected Bush Jr. because he’s someone you’d have a beer with, despite the fact it was becoming readily apparent he was incompetent.

American voters are entirely capable… No, shit, scratch that; willing to elect Trump President. To paraphrase Chuck McGill from Better Call Saul, putting your average American in a voting booth is like a chimpanzee with a machine gun.

I refuse to believe we have degenerated to the point that we would elect Trump President. For one thing, the electorate is a lot less white than it was twelve years ago. But, I concede, if people don’t get out to vote we will get the government we deserve. That’s what we are getting in Kentucky.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:13:40pm
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freetoken  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:16:41pm

re: #345 Pawn of the Oppressor

As we go forward, I expect a great deal of rationalization from the visible Republicans about a Trump candidacy.

Sure, there are those who still think Rubio can get the nomination, and Nate Silver is still holding their hands, but I wonder come a week from today if even that false hope will vanish.

Bottom line if you’re a Republican donor or power broker: Donald Trump is a wheeler-dealer, he wrote a book about that! One can make a deal with Donald.

And that will be good enough to rationalize whatever Donald says.

If he does get the nomination, I do expect Trump to pivot on a couple of issues, but not ones which he thinks that he can leverage against Hillary.

I have concluded that Trump really is the dog who finally will catch the car he is chasing. And once that happens some sort of come-to-Lincoln dinner will sit all the Republicans at a table and they’ll work out their differences.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:16:53pm
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Reality Based Steve  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:17:25pm

We are living at the time of Peak Wingnut. Never before and perhaps never again will the forces of Derp, Ignorance, Hatred and Bigotry form such a perfect alignment in the celestial backdrop of modern politics. That which was unimaginable just years ago has become an everyday occurrence, and each day brings yet a new surprise in how low the bar can go.

Enjoy this moment, but like the 1927 Yankees (arguably the greatest team ever to play the greatest game ever devised by man), this era will pass. We will look back with fondness for that one brief shining moment when being certifiably bat-shit insane was actually a prerequisite to run for the GOP nomination.

RBS

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:17:41pm

re: #312 Skip Intro

One last time, let’s hear it for Jeb!

Embedded Image

Jeb! Dienasty

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Mattand  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:22:19pm

re: #332 Eric The Fruit Bat

And he has been conspicuous by his absence. Hope things are well for him personally.

I do, too. I like the guy, and wish him the best. But, Christ; I cannot wrap my head around an obviously smart person looking at that dumpster fire of a political party and going, “Yep. That’s who I want to support.”

It’s Reince Preibus levels of denial. It’s really kinda scary.

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makeitstop  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:22:50pm

Every time I scroll to that Alfred E. Newman-looking kid in the cowboy hat on Instagram, Chrome crashes. 7 times in a row.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:23:19pm

re: #348 freetoken

I work with a guy who knows Trump is an asshole, but will happily vote for him because he thinks Trump’s remarks are all misreported by the media. Apparently if you “listen to what they’re actually saying” on One America (some kind of new right wing TV channel??) Trump is saying smart things in a dumb way, or something.

This guy’s in his late 50s and thinks that anybody over 20 who votes Democrat is a naive child, because “Republicans think like THIS and Democrats don’t think at all!” Hur hur, blah blah… Same old crap I’ve been hearing in my household since I was a child about how “both sides of Democrat brains are female”. The usual emotional pop-psych bullshit built to justify ossified opinions. My friend seems to be unaware of what Weimar Germany might have looked like from the inside. Obama is a “wimp” and the U.S. is being “kicked around”* and his insurance costs went up under Obamacare, so he’d push the button for R even if Hitler himself was running.

Believe it or not, my friend isn’t actually functionally stupid. He just believes things that aren’t so, as Reagan said once upon a time.

* I pinned him down on this one. “Who’s threatening us? Really? OK so we’re not bombing ISIS every day? China can wipe us out by asking for their money back and Russia has a GDP less than the state of California. They have what, two aircraft carriers between them? Who’s threatening us directly?” He didn’t have an answer…

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Danack  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:23:38pm

re: #308 Charles Johnson

The function that creates our special Instagram embed code.

[Embedded content]

$GLOBALS[‘urlRegex’] is the regular expression that searches for URLs inside text.

Needs a `$info !== null` check……json_decode doesn’t throw exceptions on errors….

Yes, that is an actual ‘lolphp’ thing.

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Mattand  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:24:12pm

re: #346 Big Beautiful Door

I refuse to believe we have degenerated to the point that we would elect Trump President. For one thing, the electorate is a lot less white than it was twelve years ago. But, I concede, if people don’t get out to vote we will get the government we deserve. That’s what we are getting in Kentucky.

I hope you’re right and that I be utterly, definitively proven dead wrong. My cynicism, unfortunately, runs deep.

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:24:52pm

re: #350 Reality Based Steve

We are living at the time of Peak Wingnut. Never before and perhaps never again will the forces of Derp, Ignorance, Hatred and Bigotry form such a perfect alignment in the celestial backdrop of modern politics. That which was unimaginable just years ago had become an everyday occurrence, and each day brings yet a new surprise in how low the bar can go.

Enjoy this moment, but like the 1927 Yankees (arguably the greatest team ever to play the greatest game ever devised by man), this era will pass. We will look back with fondness for that one brief shining moment when being certifiably bat-shit insane was actually a prerequisite to run for the GOP nomination.

RBS

It is premature to talk about the end of peak wingnut while the GOP retains this much power.

This party of cretins and cranks controls both houses of Congress, 50% on SCOTUS, and well over half the state legislatures and governorships. Furthermore, they are in striking distance of winning the presidency in 2016.

All this despite the objective fact that no Republican should be entrusted with responsibility for anything more complicated than toddler’s toys like blocks and brightly colored bits of string.

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Mattand  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:27:35pm

re: #357 EPR-radar

It is premature to talk about the end of peak wingnut while the GOP retains this much power.

This party of cretins and cranks controls both houses of Congress, 50% on SCOTUS, and well over half the state legislatures and governorships. Furthermore, they are in striking distance of winning the presidency in 2016.

All this despite the objective fact that no Republican should be entrusted with responsibility for anything more complicated than toddler’s toys like blocks and brightly colored bits of string.

Pretty much this. As someone pointed out on either this thread or the previous, the GOP’s ultimate weapon is that they unquestioningly fall in line and go full metal Borg for whoever gets nominated.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:28:22pm

re: #355 Danack

Good point. Added that sanity check.

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:29:55pm

re: #352 Mattand

I do, too. I like the guy, and wish him the best. But, Christ; I cannot wrap my head around an obviously smart person looking at that dumpster fire of a political party and going, “Yep. That’s who I want to support.”

It’s Reince Preibus levels of denial. It’s really kinda scary.

I have a reasonably good imagination, used to vote Republican and have been known to play devil’s advocate.

I can’t begin to imagine how I’d defend anything about the Republican party as it stands now here.

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:30:05pm

re: #130 Kragar

Hillary is not better than Trump. She’s just as bad. Bernie, on the other hand, is a man of principle and integrity.

Republicans really don’t want Hillary to be the nominee. They’re dreading a electoral college landslide loss.

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Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:31:10pm

re: #253 Charles Johnson

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We already had a “Manhattan Project” to deal with people like Trump. It was called The Manhattan Project.

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:31:10pm

re: #361 MsJ

Republicans really don’t want Hillary to be the nominee. They’re dreading a electoral college landslide loss.

It’s pretty easy to spot the GOP ratfucker when Wikipedia gives you his life story.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:32:51pm
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teleskiguy  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:36:34pm

re: #345 Pawn of the Oppressor

I’ve voted straight D ticket in protest for the last six years.

November 2014 was the first time in my life I’ve ever voted a straight D ticket. I plan on doing it again this November.

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:38:30pm

re: #365 teleskiguy

November 2014 was the first time in my life I’ve ever voted a straight D ticket. I plan on doing it again this November.

I came to my conversion a littler earlier. I voted for Bush in 2000. So I took the innumerable failures of that administration personally, and haven’t voted (R) since then.

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:39:28pm

re: #155 Kragar

So my bee sting had left a pink puffy patch on my arm from my elbow down to my wrist last night but it has receded to about the size of an egg as of now.

Did you take a couple of Benadryl

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Targetpractice  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:39:29pm

re: #364 Charles Johnson

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Another day, another piece of evidence that nobody in their right mind likes Ted Cruz.

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Swift2991  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:40:05pm

RIP GOP. BORN, 1854, RIPON, WISCONSIN
DIED: FEB 23, 2016, IN A DAMN CASINO IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA

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EPR-radar  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:44:17pm

For connoisseurs of GOP angst, the comments on the latest anti-Trump screed at the NRO are entertaining nationalreview.com .

For example

Umm… it’s over. I’m not a Trump supporter. I call him Neo-Benito Mussolini. But there is no way that Rubio-bot or Cruz can beat him.

Anyway, Hitlery the undead witch will win in November. The blood of Christians, men, traditional Americans, and capitalists will flow like water in the streets as America is introduced to its first great societal purge.

And here I thought the NRO crowd was supposed to be not quite as unhinged as the Freepers…

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:44:19pm

re: #322 Backwoods_Sleuth

my surprise, etc…

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Uncle Jimbo!

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Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:44:53pm

re: #348 freetoken

As we go forward, I expect a great deal of rationalization from the visible Republicans about a Trump candidacy.

Sure, there are those who still think Rubio can get the nomination, and Nate Silver is still holding their hands, but I wonder come a week from today if even that false hope will vanish.

Bottom line if you’re a Republican donor or power broker: Donald Trump is a wheeler-dealer, he wrote a book about that! One can make a deal with Donald.

And that will be good enough to rationalize whatever Donald says.

I think if it comes to that point, and the GOP still holds the House and Senate that the GOP will go whole-hog in terms of their government self-destruction, tax cuts, and social agenda since they don’t think President Trump will veto any of it.
If he does get the nomination, I do expect Trump to pivot on a couple of issues, but not ones which he thinks that he can leverage against Hillary.

I have concluded that Trump really is the dog who finally will catch the car he is chasing. And once that happens some sort of come-to-Lincoln dinner will sit all the Republicans at a table and they’ll work out their differences.

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Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:45:04pm

re: #257 jaunte

…Trump having been turned into a pariah by a hostile press…

I think you skipped the step where the election is moved to a parallel universe where the press has a spine.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 24, 2016 • 6:47:14pm

re: #369 Swift2991

RIP GOP. BORN, 1854, RIPON, WISCONSIN
DIED: FEB 23, 2016, IN A DAMN CASINO IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA

What dies in Vegas, stays in Vegas?


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