GOP Debate Thread 3: Trump to Hugh Hewitt: “Very Few People Listen to Your Radio Show”

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Here’s a third thread to discuss the thrilling aftermath of tonight’s complete fiasco.

For me, this was the absolute best moment of the night:

UPDATE at 2/25/16 8:39:23 pm by Charles Johnson

Another classic line from Dr. Sleepy, talking about what he would look for in a Supreme Court justice:

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641 comments
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Reality Based Steve  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:33:05pm

I’m off to bed. A bit of study and then off to sleep. Have a good evening, and remember to Make America Greatly Dynamic!!

RBS

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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:33:44pm

Trump, should he actually win the nomination, and assuming he still wants to continue after that, can pivot easy enough.

He will never give up on his strong anti-Clinton talking points, but Trump can easily change characters as the settings change. And while his ego will never allow the RNC to tell him what to do, the Republicans will gladly back-fill his empty spots with wonky experts on this or that.

Hewitt represents Salem Communications, in other words, the religious right talk show empire. They are the ones afraid of Trump because they know that Trump isn’t one of them. This scares them deeply.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:35:10pm

The picture of Hugh Hewitt really is the very definition of a “shit-eating grin.” The archetype, if you will.

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withak  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:35:31pm

Facebook just gave me a popup over the search box that says:

Type “#GOPDebate” into the search box to see what happened during tonight’s Republican debate.”

No thanks, Facebook, I’ll pass. I can only take that stuff through a filter, namely the comments here, and chatting with my brother…

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Jenner7  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:35:32pm
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Dr. Matt  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:35:50pm
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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:37:04pm

And of course, even with today’s mass shooting, not a thing about gun violence … or failing infrastructure (e.g., Flint, MI) … or any of the many other topics about which Americans are interested.

Tonight was all about fine tuning the difference in hating brown people.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:37:12pm

re: #7 Dr. Matt

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I can just imagine The President and First Lady watching this, laughing so hard that they may have knocked the popcorn bowl on to the floor!

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Jenner7  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:39:17pm

Trump says he’d look at someone like Judge Diane Sykes for the SCOTUS.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:39:17pm

re: #8 freetoken

And of course, even with today’s mass shooting, not a thing about gun violence … or failing infrastructure (e.g., Flint, MI) … or any of the many other topics about which Americans are interested.

Tonight was all about fine tuning the difference in hating brown people.

Well they are giving the people (the GOP base) what they want. Not solutions but hate for the other.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:39:58pm

re: #10 Jenner7

Trump says he’d look at someone like Judge Diane Sykes for the SCOTUS.

Don’t know anything about her.

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Lidane  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:44:45pm
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teleskiguy  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:44:45pm

I’m pretty much convinced that The Donald™ has a lock on the nomination.

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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:45:02pm

re: #12 HappyWarrior

en.wikipedia.org

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Lidane  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:45:45pm

re: #14 teleskiguy

I’m pretty much convinced that The Donald™ has a lock on the nomination.

So is the rest of the GOP. Hence the shitshow that apparently happened earlier.

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jaunte  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:46:58pm
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teleskiguy  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:49:16pm

Why ski?

Yup.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:53:03pm
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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:56:26pm

Cruz will try to play Trump’s defense of PP against him, but while that will affect some people I think the effect is limited.

I did notice how quiet the hall was when Trump made the point about PP and the medical services they provide.

Cruz didn’t respond, maybe because he thought he “won” because he can get video clips to use against Trump.

But here, like with Trump’s declaration of not letting anyone die in the street, Trump is clearly playing for the larger population, and it is something that I think the Dems underrate about Trump. Trump knows that if he’s going through with this thing that he’s only going to win (if in fact he wants to be President) then he’s going to have to do something about his negative ratings with women.

It’s here that Trump shows he’s more aware of national politics than Cruz, the latter being blinded by his religious right ideology.

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Jenner7  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:56:47pm

re: #12 HappyWarrior

I just looked at her wiki page. She was nominated to the seventh circuit by George W. Bush.

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jaunte  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:57:37pm

re: #20 freetoken

Trump shows he’s more aware of national politics than Cruz, the latter being blinded by his religious right ideology.

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MsJ  Feb 25, 2016 • 8:59:43pm

re: #8 freetoken

And of course, even with today’s mass shooting, not a thing about gun violence … or failing infrastructure (e.g., Flint, MI) … or any of the many other topics about which Americans are interested.

Tonight was all about fine tuning the difference in hating brown people.

Why would they bring up Flint? Cruz put a hold on legislation to provide help.

Republicans are the most horrible, psychopathic people.

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retired cynic  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:04:26pm

re: #18 teleskiguy

Why ski?

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Yup.

Others of us feel that way about other things: horseback riding, for instance!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:05:28pm

re: #15 freetoken

en.wikipedia.org

Thanks. Nothing really stands out.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:05:50pm
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Khal Wimpo (not-so-Super Tuesday's Child)  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:06:06pm

One of the few things I got from MSNBC tonight:: the annoying “Squealer” that caused my audio to peak, was basically a hired shill planted in the audience by Rubio.

Hey. Is there any way we can track this person down? I’d pay real money to have that freak exposed on national TV.

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teleskiguy  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:10:41pm

Did y’all catch this?

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Sends Fake Fox News Girls to Trump Rally • Triumph on Hulu

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Charles Johnson  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:10:43pm
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Lidane  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:11:17pm
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SpaceJesus  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:18:34pm

who won the clown fight?

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retired cynic  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:19:58pm

re: #31 SpaceJesus

who won the clown fight?

I can tell you that we lost.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:22:43pm

re: #18 teleskiguy

Why ski?

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Yup.

Because it’s fun?

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:26:20pm

re: #28 teleskiguy

Did y’all catch this?

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teleskiguy  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:27:41pm

18 people shot, four killed in Kansas today.

Just an ordinary day in the United States. Fuck.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:32:32pm

Gun laws (lack thereof) in Kansas:

en.m.wikipedia.org

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philosophus invidius  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:36:34pm
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teleskiguy  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:36:54pm
The year 2016 is not even two months old, and America has already dealt with a number of mass shootings to start the year. The latest came Thursday evening when four people, including the suspect, were killed and 14 were injured at an industrial park in Newton, Kansas.

Last Saturday, an Uber driver killed six people and injured two others near Kalamazoo, Mich. Four of the fatalities took place at a Cracker Barrel, and two people were killed at a nearby car dealership.

On Feb. 8, eight people were shot, one of them killed, in Rochester, NY. The shooting took place at a Mexican restaurant.

On Feb. 7, two people were killed and nine were injured in Orlando, Fla. at a nightclub. A 23-year-old man was later arrested in connection to the shooting.

On Jan. 30, three were killed and five were injured in a shooting in Glendale, Ariz. The shooting happened at a house party, where 80 to 100 people were gathered. No one has been arrested in connection to the shooting.

This shit makes me ill. I’m a citizen and resident of a sick country.

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teleskiguy  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:39:50pm

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SpaceJesus  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:40:11pm

Wonderful article:

huffingtonpost.com

For those hoping to blunt Trump’s momentum, the late start on opposition research is no small problem. One operative compared it to not having ammunition at the precise moment when there is a collective realization that a Trump candidacy needs to be shot down. Shauna Daly, the former research director for the Democratic National Committee and the opposition research firm American Bridge, called it “malpractice.”

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:45:55pm

re: #40 SpaceJesus

Still with the cult?

I haven’t heard from my best friend since I explicitly said I was a Clinton supporter yesterday. So, I am a little antsy and grumpy with Sanders supporters right now.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:47:46pm

‘Night all. Here’s an ace book cover.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:48:06pm

Just checked and my current karma score is 88,888.

Word to the motherfucking street, yo!

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teleskiguy  Feb 25, 2016 • 9:51:31pm

This has helped my mood tonight.

Jerry of the Day, Maximum Send.

WARNING: HILARIOUS SKI AND SNOWBOARD CRASHES.

Maximum Send

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Single-handed sailor  Feb 25, 2016 • 10:01:42pm

Vandenberg AFB will be test launching a Minuteman III ICBM tonight. Beginning of the launch window is 11 PM PST. They plan to launch at start of target window.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 25, 2016 • 10:07:15pm
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teleskiguy  Feb 25, 2016 • 10:07:28pm

What the fuck, Twitter?!?

As seen on my home page:

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 25, 2016 • 10:09:39pm

re: #47 teleskiguy

What the fuck, Twitter?!?

As seen on my home page:

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Must be the new algorithm.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 25, 2016 • 10:10:18pm
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teleskiguy  Feb 25, 2016 • 10:17:37pm

re: #48 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Must be the new algorithm.

The “Who To Follow” tab *was* helpful! It really was. A lot of my skiing follows have been recommended in the “Who To Follow” tab.

This shit? What. The. Fuck.

I don’t know, man. I can tell that Twitter’s brain trust feels like they’re walking on eggshells, and I’m just some dude with 419 followers that uses the service more than anybody I know personally. It is a great service, unfortunately the designers and proprietors are currently out to lunch.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 25, 2016 • 10:21:10pm

re: #50 teleskiguy

The “Who To Follow” tab *was* helpful! It really was. A lot of my skiing follows have been recommended in the “Who To Follow” tab.

This shit? What. The. Fuck.

I don’t know, man. I can tell that Twitter’s brain trust feels like they’re walking on eggshells, and I’m just some dude with 419 followers that uses the service more than anybody I know personally. It is a great service, unfortunately the designers and proprietors are currently out to lunch.

The feeling I get from both Twitter and Facebook is the development process has been hit-and-miss and far from well thought out.

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teleskiguy  Feb 25, 2016 • 10:21:45pm

I’d hazard to say that I’m one of the most prolific Twitter users in the county I live in. That’d be cool to see some Twitter metrics county by county, right? Right?!?

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Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 25, 2016 • 10:32:56pm

re: #18 teleskiguy

Why ski?

Embedded Image

Yup.

This drawing card is framed and on my wall. My mother got it from a friend she had sent a birthday card to. Pretty much sums up the cross-country skiing thing. :)

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teleskiguy  Feb 25, 2016 • 10:49:26pm

Okay, this was pretty cool. NPR Tiny Desk with a 360° camera while Wilco is playing “Misunderstood.” You, the viewer, can control the camera in the upper left corner.

Behind The Scenes At The Tiny Desk in 360˚: Wilco

I have to admit, when Tweedy sang about the “fortune inside your head” I wept. Again.

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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 10:55:18pm

MP3 Audio

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teleskiguy  Feb 25, 2016 • 11:01:29pm

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Amory Blaine  Feb 25, 2016 • 11:31:36pm
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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:33:10am

Working on my latest, a Librarius Conclave

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Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:59:20am

re: #19 De Kolta Chair

A movie was made about these hands.

Manos, The Hands Of Fate?

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:15:19am

re: #59 Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate

The master would not approve.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:47:43am

ICYMI, Matt Taibbi analyzes the success of Donald Trump in manipulating the American political system to his advantage.

How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable

He’s no ordinary con man. He’s way above average — and the American political system is his easiest mark ever

Read more: rollingstone.com

I’m not buying into everything Taibbi says, but he’s right about Trump’s willingness to expose his GOP opponents for the spineless wonders they are. He says what no one else is willing to say, and by that he appeals directly to an audience tired of hearing the same old shit from politicians. The fact that Trump has no real policy ideas or long term strategies makes no difference. He just acts like he has all the answers, and the crowds eat it up.

Taibbi is also right about the complicity of the media in letting Trump — and his opponents — get away with lying constantly, and the media’s kneejerk reactions to polls and primaries.

But I’m not sure Trump can pull off winning the general election. His losing will be almost as dangerous as his winning, though.

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:40:58am

Just watched the 2nd episode of 11.22.63 .

The production works well, in a horror-genre kind of way. Suspense is built.

Don’t like the main character or the actor portraying him, though.

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:43:49am

Only spoiler is this… the end title music:

MP3 Audio

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:50:24am

re: #61 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

If we track what Trump is saying, has said, closely I think we can perceive his slow pivot. He really is a nationalist, and a populist, but he is not an atavist, in the religious sort of way.

He’s steering the Republican party away from the old religious right towards a new sort of nationalism. It’s a vanity based nationalism rather than a religious-fervor based nationalism.

What Trump is telling the GOP elite is this: Look, I can take your rubes who you deceive every 4 years and turn them against you.

It is pretty much the ultimate ego trip. Trump is staring down an entire party apparatus. It’s quite audacious of him and in that sense I guess he impresses me.

I agree with you, though, that when the eventual collapse comes the splatter is going to spread ugliness all over the place.

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Ming5000  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:51:03am

re: #9 Joe Bacon

I doubt they are laughing. It is not funny, actually. The GOP and their followers are scary. The only good news for now is that they do not completely control things.

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Ming5000  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:58:22am

Wow.. Trump is going to make them pay today:
GOP
Salem Radio Network
Rubio & Cruz

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:59:07am

Needless to say, the religious right is quite giddy that Rubio and Cruz finally fired on Trump.

But I sense they are still quite afraid that their time is up.

Rich “please stop calling us racists” Lowry pens:

Rubio and Cruz interrupted, insulted, and mocked the Republican front-runner. Rubio obviously had the moment of the night, in the space of a couple of minutes exposing Trump’s utter vacuity on health-care policy, catching him repeating himself when Trump said he doesn’t repeat himself, and mocking Trump’s signature lines. Cruz was more prosecutorial and not as memorable but effective nonetheless. If I had any criticism, it was that they weren’t relentless enough and occasionally let up on the attack (this Peter Spiliakos post from a while ago nailed it). At one point, all three of the candidates were talking at once — this is what Trump has done, force everyone down to his level of reptilian politics where all that matters is trying to talk over people to establish your dominance.

Lowry’s pretense of wanting to take the high road but-Trump-forces-us-to-play-his-game is a backhanded acknowledgement that so far the old “conservative” coalition’s own import has faded quite a bit.

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:15:51am

I didn’t know this was a thing, or was so important:

PSYCHIC ARCHEOLOGY, OR HOW TO DIG UP THE DEAD WITH THEIR OWN ADVICE

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:16:47am

We can add this to the long list of things missing from the very many Republican debates: Psychic Archeology.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:00:51am

re: #64 freetoken

He has proved that it is possible for a Republican candidate to be successful without constantly trying to prove how religious he is. Despite his tenuous connection to Christianity, and his obvious disdain for the Religious Right, Trump has succeeded better than any of the pulpit thumpers, even the ones who are still in the race.

He’s appealing to the disaffected, who are disaffected without knowing precisely why they are. They don’t really know who to blame, and curiously, Trump has not made Obama specifically the scapegoat, but all politicians as a group.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:23:44am

Just in case anyone didn’t notice, one of Trump’s apostasies last night is that he said that he wouldn’t let people die in the streets. This is one reason why Trump is winning; the other candidates think that pointing out he wouldn’t let people die in the streets will actually hurt him.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:28:53am
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The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:29:23am

re: #70 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

He has proved that it is possible for a Republican candidate to be successful without constantly trying to prove how religious he is. Despite his tenuous connection to Christianity, and his obvious disdain for the Religious Right, Trump has succeeded better than any of the pulpit thumpers, even the ones who are still in the race.

I think you’re underestimating how flexible the “theology” of the Religious Right is.

It’s not that Trump hasn’t “proved” himself, it’s that he doesn’t have to prove himself because all it takes is for a pastor to give him the thumbs up and he’s okay. And in the Religious Right, the politics is front-and-center (and then justified by creative interpretation and proof-texting). That’s what’s happening when someone like Pat Robertson, Jr. endorses him…Trump is advancing the political agenda they desire, so he must be okay with God.

The Religous Right may be convinced of their own rectitude, but they are masters at presenting pragmatism (and deception, and hypocrisy) as divine mandate. Which is why Trump is able to split off part of the priestly caste that make the decisions about what is “of God.” He can be the new Cyrus…a man who does God’s will but is not Godly. The ends justify the means.

He’s appealing to the disaffected, who are disaffected without knowing precisely why they are. They don’t really know who to blame, and curiously, Trump has not made Obama specifically the scapegoat, but all politicians as a group.

Emphasis on blame. Republican wonks have convinced themselves that they’ve put their foot in the door with fear and tossing about blame, but that they created an electorate who cares about their “principles”…yet they keep having to go back to fear and blame to sell their platform. With the Tea Party, they rode a wave of even more ramped-up fear and wild conspiracy claims, then announced that its was their principles that won. It was impossible not to notice—even for the base, who are pretty damn gullible—that the actions of the Congress did not match the tenor of world end, dictatorship, and freedom-stealing that got the TP into place. They cried existential threat instead of wolf, but the fable remains the same.

Trump has picked up the language of existential threat—there’s someone to blame that your life sucks—and just slightly shifted the targets. And that’s what the audience wants…someone who will tell them who hate, and who is to blame.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:35:05am

Flori-duh never disappoints:

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:53:33am

He tried to do his best,
But he could not.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:58:35am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:59:33am

re: #73 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis

I think you’re underestimating how flexible the “theology” of the Religious Right is.

It’s not that Trump hasn’t “proved” himself, it’s that he doesn’t have to prove himself because all it takes is for a pastor to give him the thumbs up and he’s okay. And in the Religious Right, the politics is front-and-center (and then justified by creative interpretation and proof-texting). That’s what’s happening when someone like Pat Robertson, Jr. endorses him…Trump is advancing the political agenda they desire, so he must be okay with God.

The Religous Right may be convinced of their own rectitude, but they are masters at presenting pragmatism (and deception, and hypocrisy) as divine mandate. Which is why Trump is able to split off part of the priestly caste that make the decisions about what is “of God.” He can be the new Cyrus…a man who does God’s will but is not Godly. The ends justify the means.

Emphasis on blame. Republican wonks have convinced themselves that they’ve put their foot in the door with fear and tossing about blame, but that they created an electorate who cares about their “principles”…yet they keep having to go back to fear and blame to sell their platform. With the Tea Party, they rode a wave of even more ramped-up fear and wild conspiracy claims, then announced that its was their principles that won. It was impossible not to notice—even for the base, who are pretty damn gullible—that the actions of the Congress did not match the tenor of world end, dictatorship, and freedom-stealing that got the TP into place. They cried existential threat instead of wolf, but the fable remains the same.

Trump has picked up the language of existential threat—there’s someone to blame that your life sucks—and just slightly shifted the targets. And that’s what the audience wants…someone who will tell them who hate, and who is to blame.

It all sounds too familiar, ja?

I did forget about the Pat Robertson endorsement. You’re right, they are quite willing to ignore the faults of a candidate if they think the candidate will get them what they want. (One very good reason why religion and politics should never mix.) But I suspect Trump is playing them for fools, too. Taibbi is absolutely right. Trump is a con man who knows how to exploit his marks’ weaknesses. He’ll turn his back on the religious nuts as soon as he’s able.

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The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:22:16am

re: #77 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It all sounds too familiar, ja?

I did forget about the Pat Robertson endorsement. You’re right, they are quite willing to ignore the faults of a candidate if they think the candidate will get them what they want. (One very good reason why religion and politics should never mix.) But I suspect Trump is playing them for fools, too. Taibbi is absolutely right. Trump is a con man who knows how to exploit his marks’ weaknesses. He’ll turn his back on the religious nuts as soon as he’s able.

I forgot to add links to add links to stuff I was citing. The other one is Fred Clark.

Thing is, just because Trump is a con man doesn’t mean he won’t give them what they want. Doubly so, since we don’t actually know what his angle is. If it’s a con, there’s a specific path to be taken to achieve an end that is profitable…but in the interim before reaping that prize, you have to keep the marks engaged.

And on the other hand, what evangelicals want is not necessarily a transaction of votes-for-policy. Wingnut religion is authoritarian, but it’s also intensely pessimistic and obsessed with apocalypse. A sputtering pugnacious ass is pretty much the perfect tinder for everything getting worse in a manner that matches Revelation. Some of these folks are longing for the world to simply go wrong—because the failure of the state is their gain—and some are ticking off boxes on the checklist of signs the world is ending.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:25:35am

Don’t understand why Trump dislikes Mitt Romney. Remember Mitt’s advice for young people to “borrow some money from your parents and start a business”? That’s just what DT did!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:28:17am

re: #67 freetoken

At one point, all three of the candidates were talking at once — this is what Trump has done, force everyone down to his level of reptilian politics where all that matters is trying to talk over people to establish your dominance.

Huh? Lowry has a problem with “reptilian politics” and “dominance”? Has Lowry missed the last eight years of DEATH PANELS!! and YOU LIE!!!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:28:22am

re: #78 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis

I forgot to add links to add links to stuff I was citing. The other one is Fred Clark.

Thing is, just because Trump is a con man doesn’t mean he won’t give them what they want. Doubly so, since we don’t actually know what his angle is. If it’s a con, there’s a specific path to be taken to achieve an end that is profitable…but in the interim before reaping that prize, you have to keep the marks engaged.

And on the other hand, what evangelicals want is not necessarily a transaction of votes-for-policy. Wingnut religion is authoritarian, but it’s also intensely pessimistic and obsessed with apocalypse. A sputtering pugnacious ass is pretty much the perfect tinder for everything getting worse in a manner that matches Revelation. Some of these folks are longing for the world to simply go wrong—because the failure of the state is their gain—and some are ticking off boxes on the checklist of signs the world is ending.

Trump is the Antichrist!!
/

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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:37:54am
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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:42:56am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area this day after the latest dogpile that’s known as a GOP “debate”. I’m glad that clarified much. Trump continues to suck all the life from the room, and Rubio and Cruz decided something. Carson and Kasich were wondering what they were even doing in the room (and I’m beginning to think that Carson was self-medicating given the kinds of responses he gave, and that’s saying something).

Trump is going to steamroll on Super Tuesday (which for the uninitiated is this coming Tuesday). Nothing about last night changed the dynamics. If you thought Cruz or Rubio landed shots on Trump, Trump bashed back as only he could.

If you thought there were issues to be discussed, you’re looking at the wrong party.

Nevertheless, you’ve got some liberal/left wing rags (Salon, I’m looking at you) that continues to run pieces that if Hillary or Bernie wins, that they’re not going to vote.

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makeitstop  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:46:13am

ICYMI, Driftglass offered up another stellar recap:

The first question is for you Zombie Lee Atwater: Are you pleased with your bastard children?
Zombie Atwater: Well pleased!

Ben Carson: I yield the balance of my time to…
Blitzer: We haven’t started yet.
Carson: Yeah. OK.

Carson: I cannot believe we’re on the abyss of destructioooon! /Air guitar solo!/

Kasich: My father carried my mother on his back for 78 years. Like a marsupial I guess. Whatta country!

Rubio: The future. Man. I don’t know.

Cruz: Imaginary Texas Democrats love me.

Trump: We don’t win. Win. Winning. Winnebago. Winnow. Window. Wintonkington. Winabingabingo.

Trump: We have a country, right. People come. They go. They comes back. Who knows?

Cruz: You might have forgotten how awkward I am at weaseling out of question. Well I’m here to remind you…

Trump: Sheriff Wingnut totally endorsed me. Totally.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:46:56am

In-feaking-credible. So in 1957 this guy runs over & kills a pedestrian, pleads guilty and gets a suspended sentence. He then violates his probation by driving and getting a driver’s license and gets locked up in 02/59. He soon gets moved to an “honor camp” and goes missing on Sept. 30, 1959. He gets caught sixteen years later (1975) in West Virginia, but the governor there refuses to extradite him.

Never served any time for the manslaughter charge, escaped what time time he was supposed to serve in 1959, and never paid any restitution to his victim’s family. So a total of seven months and now he’s getting parole. WTF?

Ohio Board Grants Parole To Man Who Was a Fugitive for 55 Years

(COLUMBUS) — A man who disappeared from a prison camp in 1959 while serving time for manslaughter and was found in Florida last year should be released from custody, Ohio’s parole board decided Thursday. […]

The Summit County prosecutor’s office spoke out against parole Thursday, saying Freshwaters had changed his name, avoided accountability and never paid the restitution ordered for Flynt’s family. […]

After Freshwaters pleaded guilty to manslaughter, his initial sentence of one to 20 years in prison was suspended. He violated his probation by driving and getting a driver’s license, and, at 22, he was imprisoned in February 1959 at the Ohio State Reformatory, according to U.S. marshals and old court documents they provided. […]

He was first caught in West Virginia in 1975, but the governor refused to extradite him, concluding Freshwaters had a “flawless 16-year residency” there.

time.com

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:48:05am

re: #85 CuriousLurker

In-feaking-credible. So in 1957 this guy runs over & kills a pedestrian, pleads guilty and gets a suspended sentence. He then violates his probation by driving and getting a driver’s license and gets locked up in 02/59. He soon gets moved to an “honor camp” and goes missing on Sept. 30, 1959. He gets caught sixteen years later (1975) in West Virginia, but the governor there refuses to extradite him.

Never served any time for the manslaughter charge, escaped what time time he was supposed to serve in 1959, and never paid any restitution to his victim’s family. So a total of seven months and now he’s getting parole. WTF?

I guessed he is white. Yes he is!

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:49:57am

re: #86 The Vicious Babushka

I guessed he is white. Yes he is!

If this guy was like a veteran with a distinguished service record, I might begin to see some of this, but I cannot imagine anyone of any moral character behaving like that…

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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:52:39am

re: #85 CuriousLurker

Not sure what the prison population situation is in Ohio, but the man is 80 years old now. Can’t imagine he has much longer to live or that locking him up at this point serves any sort of purpose, and it may help reduce overcrowding and save resources (an 80 year old prisoner is going to require more medical care than a 28 year old prisoner).

(edited for clarity, after reading the story)

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:56:04am

Okay, this is funny, particularly Rubin’s use of “sad”:

Considering that Rubin has been pretty much wrong about everything relating to the race, this is a broken clock observation on her part.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:56:48am

re: #82 Dr. Matt

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Strong argument marred by overstatement. Most whites do not hate the Prez. We elected him twice. It’s not useful to build imaginary monsters based on the real evil of a part of the population.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:56:57am

re: #89 lawhawk

Okay, this is funny, particularly Rubin’s use of “sad”:

Considering that Rubin has been pretty much wrong about everything relating to the race, this is a broken clock observation on her part.

DUMMY!!!!

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makeitstop  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:59:40am

re: #85 CuriousLurker

In-feaking-credible. So in 1957 this guy runs over & kills a pedestrian, pleads guilty and gets a suspended sentence. He then violates his probation by driving and getting a driver’s license and gets locked up in 02/59. He soon gets moved to an “honor camp” and goes missing on Sept. 30, 1959. He gets caught sixteen years later (1975) in West Virginia, but the governor there refuses to extradite him.

Never served any time for the manslaughter charge, escaped what time time he was supposed to serve in 1959, and never paid any restitution to his victim’s family. So a total of seven months and now he’s getting parole. WTF?

I can’t explain the earlier non-extradition, but I’m guessing it’s a case of ‘old-guy leniency’ on the parole.

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:00:23am

re: #90 Decatur Deb

Strong argument marred by overstatement. Most whites do not hate the Prez. We elected him twice. It’s not useful to build imaginary monsters based on the real evil of a part of the population.

I don’t think that is an imaginary monster at all. Whites split 59-39 for Romney in 2012.

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makeitstop  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:01:01am

re: #89 lawhawk

Great honer!

Former spelling bee champ, Donald Trump.
/

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:01:46am

re: #93 Franklin

I don’t think that is an imaginary monster at all. Whites split 59-39 for Romney in 2012.

But then again, whites tend to vote R in general:

WHITE VOTE IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
2012: 72% of electorate, Romney 59, Obama 39
2008: 74% of electorate, McCain 55, Obama 43
2004: 77% of electorate, Bush 58, Kerry 41
2000: 81% of electorate, Bush 55, Gore 42
1996: 83% of electorate, Dole 46, Clinton 44 (Perot 9)
1992: 87% of electorate, Bush 41, Clinton 39 (Perot 21)
1988: 85% of electorate, Bush 60, Dukakis 40
1984: 86% of electorate, Reagan 66, Mondale 34
1980: 88% of electorate, Reagan 56, Carter 36 (Anderson 8)
1976: 89% of electorate, Ford 52, Carter 48

From: firstread.nbcnews.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:04:59am

re: #94 makeitstop

Great honer!

Former spelling bee champ, Donald Trump.
/

Did he mean to write “Great boner”?

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makeitstop  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:05:40am

re: #94 makeitstop

Former spelling bee champ, Donald Trump.
/

Like I was saying…

Trump campaign makes typo on event page for Friday’s speech … twice

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makeitstop  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:06:18am

You’d think he could afford a copy editor.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:07:30am

re: #94 makeitstop

Former spelling bee champ, Donald Trump.
/

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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:09:46am

re: #97 makeitstop

Given Trump’s habit of using “okay” in his speeches, it’s hard not to find that funny even without the typo…

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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:09:49am

re: #93 Franklin

I don’t think that is an imaginary monster at all. Whites split 59-39 for Romney in 2012.

For a wide spectrum of motives. That 11% is the liberal/conservative self-identification. It’s like saying 94% of black voters went against McCain because they hate whites. Not accurate or useful.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:10:19am

re: #95 Franklin

But then again, whites tend to vote R in general:

WHITE VOTE IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
2012: 72% of electorate, Romney 59, Obama 39
2008: 74% of electorate, McCain 55, Obama 43
2004: 77% of electorate, Bush 58, Kerry 41
2000: 81% of electorate, Bush 55, Gore 42
1996: 83% of electorate, Dole 46, Clinton 44 (Perot 9)
1992: 87% of electorate, Bush 41, Clinton 39 (Perot 21)
1988: 85% of electorate, Bush 60, Dukakis 40
1984: 86% of electorate, Reagan 66, Mondale 34
1980: 88% of electorate, Reagan 56, Carter 36 (Anderson 8)
1976: 89% of electorate, Ford 52, Carter 48

From: firstread.nbcnews.com

I can see now why white supremacists and conservatives resent minorities helping Democrats win Presidential elections. If only white folks could vote, we’d have been saddled with a string of Republicans beginning with Richard Nixon in 1968. There are some who think that would be a good thing.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:10:51am

OaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaklahoma! where the wind comes sweeping my toupe…

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:11:23am

re: #99 Dr. Matt

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HUUUUUGE BONER!!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:13:02am

re: #97 makeitstop

Like I was saying…

Trump campaign makes typo on event page for Friday’s speech … twice

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Oaklahoma is where the oak trees come from.

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:13:07am

re: #101 Decatur Deb

For a wide spectrum of motives. That 11% is the liberal/conservative self-identification. It’s like saying 94% of black voters went against McCain because they hate whites. Not accurate or useful.

I may have had too narrow a reading of your comment: “Most whites do not hate the Prez.”. I meant, they just don’t like him, not that they hate blacks. I live in MA, the “liberal cradle” and almost everyone I know hates I know many people that hate Obama, but I wouldn’t say they are racist.

EDIT: Just to add, I hate using anecdotals as evidence.

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:14:57am

re: #97 makeitstop

Like I was saying…

Trump campaign makes typo on event page for Friday’s speech … twice

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Hey, it could be worse:

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CuriousLurker  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:17:27am

re: #88 KGxvi

Not sure what the prison population situation is in Ohio, but the man is 80 years old now. Can’t imagine he has much longer to live or that locking him up at this point serves any sort of purpose, and it may help reduce overcrowding and save resources (an 80 year old prisoner is going to require more medical care than a 28 year old prisoner).

(edited for clarity, after reading the story)

Good points. Still, the WV governor refusing to extradite him in ‘75 still pisses me off.

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:18:33am

re: #61 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

ICYMI, Matt Taibbi analyzes the success of Donald Trump in manipulating the American political system to his advantage.

I’m not buying into everything Taibbi says, but he’s right about Trump’s willingness to expose his GOP opponents for the spineless wonders they are. He says what no one else is willing to say, and by that he appeals directly to an audience tired of hearing the same old shit from politicians. The fact that Trump has no real policy ideas or long term strategies makes no difference. He just acts like he has all the answers, and the crowds eat it up.

Taibbi is also right about the complicity of the media in letting Trump — and his opponents — get away with lying constantly, and the media’s kneejerk reactions to polls and primaries.

But I’m not sure Trump can pull off winning the general election. His losing will be almost as dangerous as his winning, though.

The big difference between the Republican primary and the general election is that all of the Republican candidates need the same lies, that the lazy Mexicans and blacks are taking your jobs for lower salaries, that abortion is murder, that women belong at home, and that cutting taxes on the rich will help everyone. Neither Democratic candidate needs those things. And, while everyone knows Clinton, Donald’s insults will backfire severely if he tries to insult her the way he has the Republicans.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:20:06am

re: #106 Franklin

I may have had too narrow a reading of your comment: “Most whites do not hate the Prez.”. I meant, they just don’t like him, not that they hate blacks. I live in MA, the “liberal cradle” and almost everyone I know hates Obama, but I wouldn’t say they are racist.

Where are you, Southie? I can find a dozen whites who worked for Obama here in Lower Alabama.

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danarchy  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:20:07am

re: #93 Franklin

I don’t think that is an imaginary monster at all. Whites split 59-39 for Romney in 2012.

Ok, so not voting for someone equals hate? Whites as a group voted 58-41 for Bush over Kerry too.

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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:20:14am

re: #106 Franklin

I may have had too narrow a reading of your comment: “Most whites do not hate the Prez.”. I meant, they just don’t like him, not that they hate blacks. I live in MA, the “liberal cradle” and almost everyone I know hates Obama, but I wouldn’t say they are racist.

I think recent history shows that by the end of a president’s second term, their popularity tends to wane. Even if you’re not politically inclined, you see/hear the president pretty much every day in the current media environment (local news, newspapers, top of the hour news radio reports, or just someone posting something on social media). That gets old. And that’s just the broad middle. You also have partisans on each side who either think the sitting president is going to cancel the next election and declare himself president for life (moonbats did this with GWB, just as wingnuts are doing it with Obama, and as probably happened with Clinton and Reagan in the pre-internet days), or who are disappointed that the president didn’t do everything he promised in both campaigns (basically those who are pissed that they didn’t get their pony).

Regardless of who is elected in November, Obama’s numbers will be up this time next year. There’ll probably even be some Obama nostalgia before the 2020 election.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:20:27am

re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

If this guy was like a veteran with a distinguished service record, I might begin to see some of this, but I cannot imagine anyone of any moral character behaving like that…

More on the family here. Looks like the 24-year-old guy he killed was a veteran (or perhaps even active duty—it’s unclear what they mean by “Army man”): Capture of Akron fugitive Frank Freshwater opens old wounds

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:25:26am

I don’t know what a “chocker” is

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:26:40am

re: #43 goddamnedfrank

Just checked and my current karma score is 88,888.

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That beats my 20k I was celebrating last night!

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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:26:55am

re: #114 The Vicious Babushka

I don’t know what a “chocker” is

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“leightweight [sic] chocker [sic]”

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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:27:06am

re: #108 CuriousLurker

Good points. Still, the WV governor refusing to extradite him in ‘75 still pisses me off.

According to his wikipedia page, the then governor of West (by gawd) Virginia was Arch Moore, Jr, who seemed to have a few issues with acting within the law. Tried for corruption by federal prosecutors while governor in 1975 (acquitted), and then pled guilty to five federal felony counts of corruption in 1990 (which he later tried to withdraw). Yet he was elected to three nonconsecutive terms as governor, so there’s that…

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:28:17am

re: #110 Decatur Deb

re: #112 KGxvi

re: #111 danarchy

My only point is that there is hatred for Obama that is far above non-zero percentage of white voters. I am not saying it has anything to do with race.

The graphic that started the topic stated that the Obamas were “hated by most white christians”. And the rebuttal by Decatur Deb was that it was an overstatement and an imaginary monster that whites hate the president. I was simply splitting hairs. I should have been more aware of the racial undertones in that meme graphic, but that’s not what I was responding to.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:28:18am

re: #117 KGxvi

Good grief.

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:28:58am

Must be lockdown Friday. This is the second time in recent months that multiple threats have been called in relating to schools in Northern NJ. This results in major expenses/costs to the schools and law enforcement. Often the persons responsible for calling in the bogus threats aren’t caught.

Legislators should seriously increase the penalties for making these kinds of calls - the costs can run into the tens of thousands of dollars for a single call to a single school (calling out the bomb squad, K-9, and emergency responders, plus lost time/costs to the schools themselves.

Years back (and before I went to the school), someone at my alma mater pulled a fire alarm as a prank, and one of the responding fire engines flipped over, killing a firefighter. After that - the school cracked down with a major campaign and escalated the penalties. The number of prank alarms dropped as a result.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:29:18am

re: #99 Dr. Matt

I want all the honers around here, you chockers.

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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:32:45am

re: #118 Franklin

Ok, this is where I’ll be a nitpicking lawyer type (it’s a bad habit)… the problem is with the word “most”. Most implies a majority. If it had said “many”, it’d be a lot more accurate because there is a certain breed of self-identified white Christian in this country which most likely hates this president and every thing he stands for, in a very non-Christian way.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:34:28am

re: #121 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I want all the honers around here, you chockers.

Trump’s dictionary is yuuuger than most people’s.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:34:29am

re: #95 Franklin

But then again, whites tend to vote R in general:

WHITE VOTE IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
2012: 72% of electorate, Romney 59, Obama 39
2008: 74% of electorate, McCain 55, Obama 43
2004: 77% of electorate, Bush 58, Kerry 41
2000: 81% of electorate, Bush 55, Gore 42
1996: 83% of electorate, Dole 46, Clinton 44 (Perot 9)
1992: 87% of electorate, Bush 41, Clinton 39 (Perot 21)
1988: 85% of electorate, Bush 60, Dukakis 40
1984: 86% of electorate, Reagan 66, Mondale 34
1980: 88% of electorate, Reagan 56, Carter 36 (Anderson 8)
1976: 89% of electorate, Ford 52, Carter 48

From: firstread.nbcnews.com

Having looked at the 2012 exit polls, that is because evangelical and born again whites vote overwhelmingly Republican. But all other whites split down the middle between Democrats and Republicans. So its primarily a Southern thing, and we know what that’s about.

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:35:03am

re: #122 KGxvi

Ok, this is where I’ll be a nitpicking lawyer type (it’s a bad habit)… the problem is with the word “most”. Most implies a majority. If it had said “many”, it’d be a lot more accurate because there is a certain breed of self-identified white Christian in this country which most likely hates this president and every thing he stands for, in a very non-Christian way.

Fair enough. But there are two ends of the “most” spectrum :) Zero and 51%. To say the claim is an overstatement (that white christians hate the president) would say it is closer to zero than 51%. I disagree. Now we are splitting split hairs :)

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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:35:52am

re: #122 KGxvi

Ok, this is where I’ll be a nitpicking lawyer type (it’s a bad habit)… the problem is with the word “most”. Most implies a majority. If it had said “many”, it’d be a lot more accurate because there is a certain breed of self-identified white Christian in this country which most likely hates this president and every thing he stands for, in a very non-Christian way.

Oh yeah—we’ve got those in abundance.

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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:36:20am

re: #125 Franklin

Fair enough. But there are two ends of the most spectrum :) Zero and 51%. To say the claim is an overstatement (that white christians hate the president) would say it is closer to zero than 51%. I disagree. Now we are splitting split hairs :)

how about we compromise and go with the crazification factor of 27%?

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:37:41am

re: #127 KGxvi

how about we compromise and go with the crazification factor of 27%?

yes!!!!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:38:09am

re: #114 The Vicious Babushka

I don’t know what a “chocker” is

A leighweight chocker is a skinny kid named Leigh who puts those triangular blocks around the jets’ wheels at the airport.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:38:09am
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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:40:57am

Current approval rating for the Prez (Gallup) is 48%. That’s pretty good news for HRC at this point, though 50-55 would be nicer.

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:41:34am

re: #129 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

A leighweight chocker is a skinny kid named Leigh who puts those triangular blocks around the jets’ wheels at the airport.

Holy shit I didn’t even notice leightweight. So much fail in so few characters.

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:43:45am
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FormerDirtDart  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:48:59am

Isn’t a “chocker” a traffic jam in England?

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:49:50am

re: #127 KGxvi

how about we compromise and go with the crazification factor of 27%?

That is about the percentage of white voters who are evangelical or born again.

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:50:04am

re: #134 FormerDirtDart

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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:51:32am

re: #135 Big Beautiful Door

That is about the percentage of white voters who are evangelical or born again.

When applying the 27% factor, you always have to remember that 3-5% are lunatics on your own side.

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MsJ  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:54:42am

re: #89 lawhawk

Okay, this is funny, particularly Rubin’s use of “sad”:

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Considering that Rubin has been pretty much wrong about everything relating to the race, this is a broken clock observation on her part.

Rubin is part of the brigade of GOP hate. She is one of the people who built the foundation that Trump firmly planted his flag. He stole what she helped build.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:57:59am

He just used the same misspelling AGAIN!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:59:08am

In Canada:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:01:35am

Kansas shooter:

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:01:55am
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Romantic Heretic  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:03:14am

re: #35 teleskiguy

18 people shot, four killed in Kansas today.

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Just an ordinary day in the United States. Fuck.

More human sacrifices to water the Tree of Liberty™.

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Skip Intro  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:05:45am

re: #143 Romantic Heretic

On the positive side, Governor Brownback has made it law that nothing bad will happen to the gun. It will be given/ sold to a happy new owner to continue doing what it does best; killing people.

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:07:30am

re: #144 Skip Intro

On the positive side, Governor Brownback has made it law that nothing bad will happen to the gun. It will be given/ sold to a happy new owner to continue doing what it does best; killing people.

No guns were harmed in the violent murder of human beings.

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:08:49am

The World In A Can? Or a chocker’s beverage of choice?

Click to Reveal

Trump GOOD. Cruz BAD. Trump MAN. Rubio LITTLE BOY. Trump LEADER. Cruz CRY BABY. Trump WINNER. Rubio and Cruz LOSERS.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:09:22am

re: #145 lawhawk

They rarely are hurt by anything. /half

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:09:46am
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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:10:26am

re: #145 lawhawk

No guns were harmed in the violent murder of human beings.

Don’t be a denialist. When are we going to face up to the national tragedy of barrel erosion?

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:11:12am

re: #149 Decatur Deb

lol.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:13:52am
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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:15:41am

re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth

I am watching CNN and they are “analyzing” last night’s “debates.” It is nothing but a poo-fling event.

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:16:04am

I’m 50/50 on brain aneurysm or drunk…what happened between this tweet:

and these two:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:17:12am

re: #153 Franklin

I’m 50/50 on brain aneurysm or drunk…what happened between this tweet:

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Trump even had a typo in the first (Mr. Meltdown) tweet.

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:18:18am

re: #154 Backwoods_Sleuth

Lol, spelled the same word two different ways in one sentence.

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Shiplord Kirel  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:20:42am

Grifter news to start your morning:

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:22:44am

OK, here’s a Daily Kos diary worth a small look it, if nothing else to look at the picture: #RevealtheDeal ; At Long Last, Senator Sanders, Will You Reveal the Deal?
It brings up an interesting point: the NRA has never donated any money to an opponent of Sanders. When have you heard of that happening with any Democrat, no matter what their gun record is?

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Lidane  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:22:52am

Haha:

Facebook Post

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:28:53am

So the most dangerous rail crossing in New Jersey managed to be the scene of yet another car-train crash. No injuries thankfully, but the morning commute was screwed up. This is the train line I take daily, and I’ve been on trains that have had collisions at this intersection.

NJ Transit spent a couple million dollars to institute new signals, warnings, and lights at the crossing, but cars still ignore the lights, signals, and crossing gates. A major issue is the geometry of the crossing - the tracks and road aren’t perpendicular, and the only proper fix would be to eliminate the crossing altogether and reroute traffic to a safer location. It’s the route I’ve been suggesting for years, and it would be cheaper than the alternative.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:29:17am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:31:06am

re: #157 Belafon

OK, here’s a Daily Kos diary worth a small look it, if nothing else to look at the picture: #RevealtheDeal ; At Long Last, Senator Sanders, Will You Reveal the Deal?
It brings up an interesting point: the NRA has never donated any money to an opponent of Sanders. When have you heard of that happening with any Democrat, no matter what their gun record is?

It is interesting. This much I do know. We had a pro-gun Democratic legislator, Creigh Deeds run for governor of Virginia in 2009. The NRA attacked him and his record even though it was identical to Bob McDonnell’s on guns. That is a good diary. And it does bring up why I don’t like Bernie hiding behind his state on the issue. Shocked to see a lot of the commenters admit that there is a double standard when it comes to Bernie and Clinton finally.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:32:55am

re: #72 Dr. Matt

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Fascists don’t pull fire alarms, they cause them.

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MsJ  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:36:58am

re: #161 HappyWarrior

It is interesting. This much I do know. We had a pro-gun Democratic legislator, Creigh Deeds run for governor of Virginia in 2009. The NRA attacked him and his record even though it was identical to Bob McDonnell’s on guns. That is a good diary. And it does bring up why I don’t like Bernie hiding behind his state on the issue. Shocked to see a lot of the commenters admit that there is a double standard when it comes to Bernie and Clinton finally.

I found the comments maddening. “Ok, Bernie has one thing…Clinton has multiple things” I just can’t handle lefties these days. And I am one! (Sorry, a realistic and real lefty, tyvm.)

Whatfuckingever.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:37:36am

Check here to see a bunch of great photos of our president hanging out with kids.

medium.com

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:39:08am

re: #163 MsJ

I found the comments maddening. “Ok, Bernie has one thing…Clinton has multiple things” I just can’t handle lefties these days. And I am one! (Sorry, a realistic and real lefty, tyvm.)

Whatfuckingever.

Some of them admitted it but I admit I didn’t read much. I think the best thing the author did was to show that Wall Street donated to her opponents throughout. I know what you mean though. I find alot of my friends on Facebook unbearable because they’re obnoxious as hell about it and it’s going to get even worse I think once Hillary wins those primaries on Tuesday.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:40:11am

re: #162 Pawn of the Oppressor

Fascists don’t pull fire alarms, they cause them.

I stole that & Tweeted it.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:41:11am

As the article points out, a lot of the legislation he’s voted against was federal related so again when he votes against legislation that forbids weapons on Amtrak, he’s voting to allow weapons on Amtrak not just in Vermont but also in Virginia, Maryland, and New York. The gun issue isn’t a total deal breaker for me with Bernie but I don’t like it being dumbed down to that he voted his state on it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:42:50am

re: #167 HappyWarrior

As the article points out, a lot of the legislation he’s voted against was federal related so again when he votes against legislation that forbids weapons on Amtrak, he’s voting to allow weapons on Amtrak not just in Vermont but also in Virginia, Maryland, and New York. The gun issue isn’t a total deal breaker for me with Bernie but I don’t like it being dumbed down to that he voted his state on it.

I don’t want any weapons trained on me!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:43:14am

heh

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:43:26am

re: #163 MsJ

I found the comments maddening. “Ok, Bernie has one thing…Clinton has multiple things” I just can’t handle lefties these days. And I am one! (Sorry, a realistic and real lefty, tyvm.)

Whatfuckingever.

At this point in time, I stay away from the comments there, and I’m generally a comment junky. I was actually surprised to find this one on the rec list.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:45:24am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:45:38am

And here’s another thing, he has voted differently on issues regarding to guns than Leahy has too. And furthermore Leahy also signed that letter on DREAMers that Dolores Huerta pointed out that he notably did not sign. Honestly, I think Bernie is the real Johnny come lately on a lot of issues. He needed to be prodded on immigration.

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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:46:16am

Good morning, Lizards.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:46:43am

re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth

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And then there’s you Marco who’s insult the President, give vague bullshit that you’re somehow different than Trump, and never attend any of your commtite hearings. Trump is an asshole but you’re worse in some ways.

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:47:03am
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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:47:48am

re: #174 HappyWarrior

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Testy Toad T  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:48:03am

re: #167 HappyWarrior

As the article points out, a lot of the legislation he’s voted against was federal related so again when he votes against legislation that forbids weapons on Amtrak, he’s voting to allow weapons on Amtrak not just in Vermont but also in Virginia, Maryland, and New York. The gun issue isn’t a total deal breaker for me with Bernie but I don’t like it being dumbed down to that he voted his state on it.

It’s true that his job as a senator is, to some extent, to represent the people of his state at the federal level. That doesn’t excuse his conduct in the context of being qualified to be an executive at the federal level, rather than flinging poo from the safe-seat peanut gallery.

I am growing a little bit amazed at how fundamentally unqualified this guy seems to be to actually lead.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:48:28am

re: #176 lawhawk

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Hahaha.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:49:30am

re: #176 lawhawk

When the closed captioning on CNN has given up

no, then it would be “pointless, infantile jabbering”

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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:49:34am

Considering one speech was already found and it was nothing burger, this matter should be dropped.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:50:34am
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MsJ  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:50:46am

re: #165 HappyWarrior

Some of them admitted it but I admit I didn’t read much. I think the best thing the author did was to show that Wall Street donated to her opponents throughout. I know what you mean though. I find alot of my friends on Facebook unbearable because they’re obnoxious as hell about it and it’s going to get even worse I think once Hillary wins those primaries on Tuesday.

I read a lot these days but I am so checked out. The Republicans are nuts…like literally, terrifyingly crazy. The purity tests on the left is too close to tea partish behavior I. Just. Can’t.

And, pretty soon, we won’t be able to turn on any television show without being completely inundated with hate and negativity at every turn.

And we have how much longer to have to deal with this crap?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:50:47am

re: #177 Testy Toad T

It’s true that his job as a senator is, to some extent, to represent the people of his state at the federal level. That doesn’t excuse his conduct in the context of being qualified to be an executive at the federal level, rather than flinging poo from the safe-seat peanut gallery.

I am growing a little bit amazed at how fundamentally unqualified this guy seems to be to actually lead.

Yeah the more I see the more I am convinced that he’s not cut out to be President. And yep you’re right, a lot of his ability to poo poo comes from being insulated in Vermont. Of course I think the flip side is Vermont has isolated him in other ways that it did not Clinton or Obama being from New York and Illinois, two states with a constituency much more resembling the country as a whole. Not trying to bash Vermont but Vermont is over 95% whtie.

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:51:07am

re: #175 lawhawk

As I said above, the rest of the GOP needs the same lies that Trump is getting away with. They don’t have a lot left against someone who flings poo with the best of them.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:51:19am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:51:35am

re: #180 Jenner7

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Considering one speech was already found and it was nothing burger, this matter should be dropped.

I believe one of them was a speech about empowering women. I don’t like Wall Street at all honestly but they are more complicated than what Bernie makes them out to be.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:52:29am

re: #182 MsJ

I do not deal with it at all. I watch PBS. I also watch Amazon Prime Videos. :)

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:52:57am

re: #182 MsJ

I read a lot these days but I am so checked out. The Republicans are nuts…like literally, terrifyingly crazy. The purity tests on the left is too close to tea partish behavior I. Just. Can’t.

And, pretty soon, we won’t be able to turn on any television show without being completely inundated with hate and negativity at every turn.

And we have how much longer to have to deal with this crap?

Still got all the spring, summer, and most of the fall left. I too am exhausted from it. I just want our country to elect someone sane and someone who can lead and the best bet for that is Clinton without question at this point.

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Testy Toad T  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:53:22am

When did we come across this idea of private speeches needing transcripts released as a matter of public record? What other candidate has ever been subjected to that level of scrutiny?

I mean, I’m not saying it would necessarily be a bad thing for candidates for office to be so transparent as that, but let’s call a fig a fig. This is just more of the same fling-shit-at-a-Clinton-and-see-what-sticks freakout, identically out of the Republican playbook.

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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:53:30am

re: #176 lawhawk

The only way it’d be better is if it just said “LOUD NOISES”

Or maybe if the person typing the closed captioning slipped and wrote “I need a drink”

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:54:16am

re: #190 KGxvi

The only way it’d be better is if it just said “LOUD NOISES”

Or maybe if the person typing the closed captioning slipped and wrote “I need a drink”

I’d need a drink if I had to cover the debates.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:55:00am

heh

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:55:17am

Speaking of Wall St, I watched The Big Short again last night. I just love that movie. I’ve always loved Steve Carell in The Office but his performance was excellent in this. Also about 1/2 way through the book.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:55:22am

So. The new Crouching Tiger is on Netflix now. Originally in English. Not sure how I feel about that. But the movie itself is quite entertaining.

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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:55:41am

re: #189 Testy Toad T

When did we come across this idea of private speeches needing transcripts released as a matter of public record? What other candidate has ever been subjected to that level of scrutiny?

I mean, I’m not saying it would necessarily be a bad thing for candidates for office to be so transparent as that, but let’s call a fig a fig. This is just more of the same fling-shit-at-a-Clinton-and-see-what-sticks freakout, identically out of the Republican playbook.

Mitt Romney got it in the last cycle because a server had a camera phone and caught the 47% line.

Given the antiestablishmentarianism in our politics the last decade or so, it should be a surprise that people want to know what kinds of things are being said behind closed doors

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Testy Toad T  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:56:42am

re: #195 KGxvi

That’s a fair cop. Complaint somewhat redacted.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 7:56:44am

re: #193 Franklin

Speaking of Wall St, I watched The Big Short again last night. I just love that movie. I’ve always loved Steve Carell in The Office but his performance was excellent in this. Also about 1/2 way through the book.

I was surprised to see Adam McKay, director of Anchorman was the director of that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:04:38am
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CuriousLurker  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:04:49am

GAH! I want to speak to a tech or sales rep who speaks English clearly and to whom I don’t have to explain things five fricking times to get them to understand what I want to do. Oh, your name is Sean? Yeah, and I’m the Queen of England. ^%E$#%$#@%#@!!

And, no, doing some kind of crazy Apache rewrite is NOT AN OPTION.

Domain abc.com is parked at GoDaddy and redirects to domain xyz.com, which is hosted somewhere (a major hosting company in business for a long time). The client wants to reverse it—i.e. have xyz.com redirect to abc.com. In order to do that abc.com needs to be hosted somewhere. It’s not rocket science.

I’ve been on hold now twice for like 10 minutes at a time. I’m gonna start flipping my desk in a minute and it’s not even lunchtime yet….

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makeitstop  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:09:04am

re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Feel the Bern burn!

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:10:19am

Today’s also a good day to remind folks that the terrorists convicted of the bombing were indicted and convicted in SDNY federal court, and are currently serving out their sentences in federal prison inside the US proper.

If you want to know why some of those remaining detainees at Gitmo could be detained within the US proper and not at Gitmo, that’s a good reason.

The problem is that some of those at Gitmo can’t be tried in the federal courts due to where/how they were captured, and that the evidence wouldn’t stand scrutiny in federal court. Military tribunals is a potential alternative to this, and it doesn’t matter where the detainee is held - which is another reason to consider closing Gitmo.

For GOPers worried about costs, they seem to have no problem expending funds when even the DoD says that there’s cheaper alternatives like the federal detention facilities in Kansas (Fort Levenworth).

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:11:13am

re: #199 CuriousLurker

I feel your pain. I was trying a few weeks ago to change my Wall Street Journal subscription from print and digital to just digital. I called up their toll free number hoping that someone on the other end could do that. When the rep answered the phone I did not understand a word they said. I am going to wait until my subscription runs out then go digital.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:13:53am

re: #201 lawhawk

Today’s also a good day to remind folks that the terrorists convicted of the bombing were indicted and convicted in SDNY federal court, and are currently serving out their sentences in federal prison inside the US proper.

UNPOSSIBLE!!

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CuriousLurker  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:14:13am

re: #199 CuriousLurker

Oh gawd, now they’re telling me to change domain abc.com’s A record to point to domain xyz.com’s IP address. I hate screwing around with DNS stuff because it’s like some kind of freaking voodoo that I don’t completely understand, but which I know can wreak havoc and piss off clients if done wrong. *sobs*

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:14:50am

Baby Whiplash is going to get years’ worth of victimhood grift from his CSULA shitstorm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:17:49am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:19:41am
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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:20:17am

Trump the Insult Comic GOP Candidate.

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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:20:35am

Vice President Biden is in Salt Lake City today. He was presented with his genealogy by the LDS church, then is heading to the University of Utah Hunstman Cancer Center.

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:21:28am
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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:25:44am

Why are all these Sanders stories coming from Politico?? Ever notice that?

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b.d.  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:26:19am

re: #210 lawhawk

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A silver medal for Rubio in his home state will be viewed as a win, of course.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:26:27am

LOL nope.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:26:56am
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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:28:58am

So Hillary has a step lead in the South Carolina polls over Sanders. Some polls are stating up to a 24% lead. Prediction: If Clinton wins by anything less than 20%, the “pundits” are going to claim it’s actually a loss.

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b.d.  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:29:22am

re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Rubio hiring Ricky Gervais to run his Twitter account is too little, too late.

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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:31:18am
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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:31:35am

re: #212 b.d.

A silver medal for Rubio in his home state will be viewed as a win, of course.

That would be like Cruz coming in second in Alberta.

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:32:12am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:33:51am

re: #210 lawhawk

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Very interesting. Virginia was said to be close.

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:34:16am

re: #219 FormerDirtDart

+1 for Dolores Umbridge, the fictional character most resembling much of the GOP establishment these days (I WILL HAVE ORDER! all while doing everything imaginable to undermine order and push a sinister agenda of the party elites)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:37:27am
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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:37:46am

re: #220 HappyWarrior

Today’s polling roundup

Mommouth had the latest polling for VA, and that had Trump up 41 to 27 over Rubio.
Roanoke had a poll from the same period, and that had Trump up 38 to 13 over Rubio.

It’s anything but close.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:37:56am

WaPo writer self-described as ‘former Republican’ ends with Hillary endorsement:

Trump is the GOP’s Frankenstein monster. Now he’s strong enough to destroy the party.

washingtonpost.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:39:09am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:39:33am
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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:40:28am
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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:41:14am

re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth

re: #227 The Vicious Babushka

What a time to be alive!

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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:41:14am

re: #223 lawhawk

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Mommouth had the latest polling for VA, and that had Trump up 41 to 27 over Rubio.
Roanoke had a poll from the same period, and that had Trump up 38 to 13 over Rubio.

It’s anything but close.

No one even asked Alabama (sniff).

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:43:14am
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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:44:54am

re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump’s work is done. The party now sounds just like him.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:45:08am

re: #230 The Vicious Babushka

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Yon Teddy has a lean and hungry look.

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:45:40am

re: #230 The Vicious Babushka

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:45:53am

re: #231 Belafon

Trump’s work is done. The party now sounds just like him.

Trump did say he was creating a new Republican party…

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:46:42am

re: #234 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump did say he was creating a new Republican party…

…out of dead body parts.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:46:56am
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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:47:42am
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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:47:46am

re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

…out of dead body parts.

Abby’s brain.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:49:11am

BWAHAHAHAAAA
Trump has deleted the leightweight/chocker tweets and replaced them with correctly spelled ones.

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:49:25am

re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Retweeted by a man who made fun of a disabled person for being disabled.

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:49:30am

re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth

Other tweets by that nearly egg status individual:

So, Trump’s Twitter strategy is to find characters who are extreme, reflect his base, and are just as crass as he is.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:49:33am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:51:21am

hahahaaa

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b.d.  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:52:05am

re: #234 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump did say he was creating a new Republican party…

As terrifying as the prospect of a Trump presidency is I do have to admit that I have enjoyed watching him destroy the GOP from within.

Trump taking the wood to all things Romney last night to cheers was a thing to behold.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:52:13am

re: #223 lawhawk

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Mommouth had the latest polling for VA, and that had Trump up 41 to 27 over Rubio.
Roanoke had a poll from the same period, and that had Trump up 38 to 13 over Rubio.

It’s anything but close.

I had thought it was. Damn not even close.

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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:52:20am

re: #189 Testy Toad T

When did we come across this idea of private speeches needing transcripts released as a matter of public record? What other candidate has ever been subjected to that level of scrutiny?

I mean, I’m not saying it would necessarily be a bad thing for candidates for office to be so transparent as that, but let’s call a fig a fig. This is just more of the same fling-shit-at-a-Clinton-and-see-what-sticks freakout, identically out of the Republican playbook.

It just shows that Bernie is also willing to go all through Hillary’s baggage.

Bernie is getting desperate I think. He will be more and more a politician as he goes.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:52:23am

re: #239 Backwoods_Sleuth

BWAHAHAHAAAA
Trump has deleted the leightweight/chocker tweets and replaced them with correctly spelled ones.

Too bad.

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makeitstop  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:53:03am

re: #204 CuriousLurker

Oh gawd, now they’re telling me to change domain abc.com’s A record to point to domain xyz.com’s IP address. I hate screwing around with DNS stuff because it’s like some kind of freaking voodoo that I don’t completely understand, but which I know can wreak havoc and piss off clients if done wrong. *sobs*

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I feel ya. I always move very slowly on DNS stuff. I’ve only screwed up a couple of times in a lot of years, but still. Makes me nervous doing anything past a simple re-point.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:53:07am

re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Uh Donald peed? Yeah because you’re Ned Flanders when it comes to your own language.

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b.d.  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:53:53am

re: #239 Backwoods_Sleuth

BWAHAHAHAAAA
Trump has deleted the leightweight/chocker tweets and replaced them with correctly spelled ones.

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wrenchwench  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:54:30am
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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:56:58am

I had an idea for Twitter edits: Allow a tweet to be edited, but provide a link to the original text.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 8:59:29am
#DonaldTrump #ILoveThePoorlyEducated
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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:00:21am

Hmmm I need to buy a belt, the waistband of my skirt is too large.

This is a good thing, right?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:03:36am
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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:03:37am

Hmmm

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wrenchwench  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:04:03am

re: #254 The Vicious Babushka

Hmmm I need to buy a belt, the waistband of my skirt is too large.

This is a good thing, right?

Right up until it falls off, it is. Hence: belt shopping, coming soon!

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Dave In Austin  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:05:22am

re: #256 Jenner7

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Hmmm

He got stung last nite. Has to come back with something Yuuuuuge.

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b.d.  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:05:23am

re: #256 Jenner7

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Hmmm

Oh my, Donald is going to be within a mile of me.

I’m scared.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:05:24am

re: #256 Jenner7

Big announcement? Cruz and Rubio are BIG liars.

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MsJ  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:05:53am

re: #211 Jenner7

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Why are all these Sanders stories coming from Politico?? Ever notice that?

Politico has been very confusing lately. Ever since they announced they are closing up shop I don’t get their point of view (POV). It’s almost as if they are doing real reporting. They’re not the GOP all the time POV anymore. I have seen more honest reporting from them lately than…well, ever. It’s really confusing.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:06:18am

re: #256 Jenner7

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Hmmm

This is how he gets CNN to cover it. BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:06:19am

bitter tears:

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Jay C  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:06:21am

re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Good luck to them: what are the chances this will have any effect in the slightest on Gov. Bevin or any of his legislative allies?

I’m guessing that the MOST positive response would be to refrain from publicly burning a copy of this ad on the Statehouse steps…

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b_sharp  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:07:16am

re: #254 The Vicious Babushka

Hmmm I need to buy a belt, the waistband of my skirt is too large.

This is a good thing, right?

Suspenders.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:07:34am

re: #261 MsJ

Politico has been very confusing lately. Ever since they announced they are closing up shop I don’t get their point of view (POV). It’s almost as if they are doing real reporting. They’re not the GOP all the time POV anymore. I have seen more honest reporting from them lately than…well, ever. It’s really confusing.

Politico is closing up shop? Ceasing publication?

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:07:34am

re: #259 b.d.

Oh my, Donald is going to be within a mile of me.

I’m scared.

I am currently about 70 miles away, and I’m not sure that’s far enough.

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:07:40am

re: #260 PhillyPretzel

Big announcement? Cruz and Rubio are BIG liars.

Cruz and Rubio are going to pay for the f*cking wall!

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:07:54am
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Ming5000  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:08:01am

re: #189 Testy Toad T

When did we come across this idea of private speeches needing transcripts released as a matter of public record? What other candidate has ever been subjected to that level of scrutiny?

The same type of thing was done with the email server hoopla. SoS’s prior to HRC had done the same thing (private server). Only when HRC came along was is Armageddon.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:08:24am

Fingers crossed for a Pro-Reformist result.

Iran election extended amid high turnout

Reformists and moderates say they are targeting greater foreign investment, which, our correspondent says, will drive jobs for young people.

More than half of Iranians are under 35, but the youth unemployment rate is 25%, more than two and a half times the national average.

However, conservatives say strong economic growth is more likely to come from domestic production in what they describe as a “resistance economy” that draws on the ideals of the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Results for the Assembly of Experts are expected over the weekend. The results of the parliamentary election could take longer and it is likely to go to a second round in April as candidates need 25% of the vote to win outright.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:08:44am

re: #256 Jenner7

Hmmm

Endorsement? Rick Perry? I wouldn’t think so.

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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:08:57am

re: #199 CuriousLurker

GAH! I want to speak to a tech or sales rep who speaks English clearly and to whom I don’t have to explain things five fricking times to get them to understand what I want to do. Oh, your name is Sean? Yeah, and I’m the Queen of England. ^%E$#%$#@%#@!!

And, no, doing some kind of crazy Apache rewrite is NOT AN OPTION.

Domain abc.com is parked at GoDaddy and redirects to domain xyz.com, which is hosted somewhere (a major hosting company in business for a long time). The client wants to reverse it—i.e. have xyz.com redirect to abc.com. In order to do that abc.com needs to be hosted somewhere. It’s not rocket science.

I’ve been on hold now twice for like 10 minutes at a time. I’m gonna start flipping my desk in a minute and it’s not even lunchtime yet….

I hear you! I’ve been warring with FirstData and Huntington Banks Merchant Services (they work together on small business credit card processing) and I’ve had the same communication problems.

But what really gripes me is something simple. I have a 12 digit customer ID number, and when you call you have to punch in the numbers to “facilitate” the process. Okay…I was thinking that means the number is carried with the call on a screen they can see. No. Every time you get a new rep they ask for the same ID number. Then my company name, then my name. And that is for the first contact at the help desk. Ask for a transfer to speak to someone you’ve already spoken too…they put you on hold and you go through another phone call that needs the customer number to ID you and then that person again asks for the same ID number, company name and my name.

I now keep that number right in front of me when I talk to these crooks and when a call goes through to a rep, I don’t even given them a second…right away I give the ID number, my company name and my name as fast as I can.

And then I get the rep that is hard to understand, and after at least 30 calls to these people I got a guy yesterday who had trouble with my company name. He was looking at my web address which is my name with the vowels removed because my actual name is already in use by another designer. So, my name was different to him and he had an issue. 1 guy out of 30+

Grrrrrr…luckily I have managed to fight my way to recover most of the money involved in the scam I got into. But I cannot get the credit card processor to wave the transaction fees even though two transaction never even got credited to my account. The fees hit before the credit card scam was caught and prevented by the bank. So they seem to be able to get a little over $300 bucks out of me for nothing. I have not given up yet. And one other thing that really pisses me off…I am looked at like I was part of the scheme. I was ripped off too!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:09:11am

re: #264 Jay C

Good luck to them: what are the chances this will have any effect in the slightest on Gov. Bevin or any of his legislative allies?

I’m guessing that the MOST positive response would be to refrain from publicly burning a cop of this ad on the Statehouse steps…

It probably won’t make one bit of difference to Bevin and his gang, but at least it shows there are sane people in Kentucky willing to speak out.

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darthstar  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:10:20am
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wrenchwench  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:11:38am

re: #273 ObserverArt

But I cannot get the credit card processor to wave the transaction fees even though two transaction never even got credited to my account.

Credit card processors are of the devil.

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darthstar  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:11:55am
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b.d.  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:12:46am

re: #277 darthstar

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Who is that guy?

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:13:26am

re: #278 b.d.

Who is that guy?

Kevin from The Office

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b.d.  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:14:48am

re: #279 Franklin

Kevin from The Office

aha, thanks

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:15:05am

At Planned Parenthood in Louisville, Kentucky today:

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:16:23am

re: #281 Backwoods_Sleuth

At Planned Parenthood in Louisville, Kentucky today:

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This is why even when I considered myself “pro-life”, I hated the movement. These people should not be harassing people.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:17:46am
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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:18:09am

re: #267 Belafon

I am currently about 70 miles away, and I’m not sure that’s far enough.

Full on hazard suits for you and b.d.

It is the only way.

And don’t forget to go through the spray down disinfectant booth before taking it off. Trump crap sticks!

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:19:56am
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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:21:18am
#DonaldTrump #ILoveThePoorlyEducated
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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:22:38am

re: #276 wrenchwench

Credit card processors are of the devil.

This has become painfully obvious to me.

And the other side which I have learned from this whole sad affair; it is easy to scam them online due to how fast the transactions go down before the call back for the bad charge comes into play. The whole thing was pretty damn slick. And the scammers were very sophisticated.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:22:46am

re: #286 Dr. Matt

That Trump person should go back to school and learn to spell. And it had better be a recognized school and not one he created.

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darthstar  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:22:55am

re: #278 b.d.

Who is that guy?

I had no clue…but apparently Cruz did.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:23:11am

re: #288 PhillyPretzel

That Trump person should go back to school and learn to spell. And it had better be a recognized school and not one he created.

Skkkool.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:23:39am

re: #290 HappyWarrior

lol

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:24:20am

re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Maybe we can get a Justice who thinks people’s rights are as important as corporations’ rights. That would be a refreshing change.

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Brian J.  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:24:28am

re: #215 Dr. Matt

So Hillary has a step lead in the South Carolina polls over Sanders. Some polls are stating up to a 24% lead. Prediction: If Clinton wins by anything less than 20%, the “pundits” are going to claim it’s actually a loss.

Every poll out there that I’ve seen has Hillary winning 75-80 percent of the black vote.

About 45,000 absentee votes have been cast in the primary as of this morning. Seventy-four percent of those ballots have been cast by African-Americans.

I think that +24 is very pessimistic for Hillary.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:25:49am

re: #293 Brian J.

Every poll out there that I’ve seen has Hillary winning 75-80 percent of the black vote.

About 45,000 absentee votes have been cast in the primary as of this morning. Seventy-four percent of those ballots have been cast by African-Americans.

I think that +24 is very pessimistic for Hillary.

Setting expectations too high!

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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:27:05am

re: #294 Big Beautiful Door

Setting expectations too high!

If she doesn’t win by 110% = Total loss for Hillary!

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b.d.  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:27:31am

re: #288 PhillyPretzel

That Trump person should go back to school and learn to spell. And it had better be a recognized school and not one he created.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:28:47am
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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:29:36am

re: #292 Big Beautiful Door

Maybe we can get a Justice who thinks people’s rights are as important as corporations’ rights. That would be a refreshing change.

First we need the Senate.

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Brian J.  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:30:27am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

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These candidates are full of piss and vinegar. I preferred them when it was just vinegar.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:33:07am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Last line of Weigel’s WaPo piece:

“We need a president who loves all the American people — even the ones who don’t love you back!” said Rubio.

Marco, that would be President Obama.
Twice.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:33:34am

re: #275 darthstar

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Would have been even better if they were playing soccer against Jesus riding a brontosaurs.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:33:46am
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darthstar  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:35:49am
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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:37:08am

re: #289 darthstar

I’m guessing Pat Buttram who was Mr. Haney on Green Acres?

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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:39:08am

It’s hard to argue against this logic….

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:39:14am

re: #304 darthstar

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If CPAC thinks oyu’re trouble………..

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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:41:23am

re: #307 HappyWarrior

If CPAC thinks oyu’re trouble………..

With the rise of Trump, one would think Geller’s view are quite mainstream. Perhaps that’s the issue, i.e., she’s too much of a “moderate” by today’s CPAC standards.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:41:53am

re: #308 Dr. Matt

With the rise of Trump, one would think Geller’s view are quite mainstream. Perhaps that’s the issue, i.e., she’s too much of a “moderate” by today’s CPAC standards.

There is that too.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:42:40am

re: #308 Dr. Matt

With the rise of Trump, one would think Geller’s view are quite mainstream. Perhaps that’s the issue, i.e., she’s too much of a “moderate” by today’s CPAC standards.

She is a Cruz supporter. The problem that conservatives have with Trump is that he is “not conservative enough”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:47:22am
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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:47:36am

re: #310 The Vicious Babushka

She is a Cruz supporter. The problem that conservatives have with Trump is that he is “not conservative enough”

The problem is Trump is a Sherman tank and they are all in pedal cars.

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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:47:56am
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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:49:06am

re: #303 Backwoods_Sleuth

We had a CEO/MBA president already, he was sworn into office in January 2001, left office in January 2009… Given the results, why exactly would we want to try that again?

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:49:21am

re: #313 Jenner7

We will see how “major” it will be.

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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:49:31am

Oh my…

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:49:46am

re: #313 Jenner7

NSFW (language)

Click to Reveal

He’s going to call Ted Cruz a major pussy?

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:50:19am
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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:50:49am

re: #316 Jenner7

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Oh my…

Could it be the Bully Ticket?

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:51:14am
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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:51:20am

re: #319 ObserverArt

It looks that way.

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:51:41am

re: #316 Jenner7

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Oh my…

Trumps hiring Christie to make Rubio cry.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:51:50am
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Testy Toad T  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:52:04am

re: #313 Jenner7

Excuse me, I believe the announcement actually will be yuuuuuuuuuuuuuge.

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:52:11am

Nice to see the NY/NJ mob make peace, isn’t it?

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darthstar  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:52:54am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:53:12am

re: #325 nines09

Nice to see the NY/NJ mob make peace, isn’t it?

yeah, if you cross state lines, you bring the feds down on you…

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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:53:45am

re: #317 Franklin

Trump getting hooked on the word “major” like he does with so many other words (particularly “great” and “okay”) would only lead me to think about Major Major Major Major.

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:54:23am
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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:54:36am

re: #325 nines09

Nice to see the NY/NJ mob make peace, isn’t it?

They’re going to build a yuuge new bridge, and make Connecticut pay for it.

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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:54:39am

This is almost as good as watching Scandal. Almost.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:54:42am

Trump-Christie: Because fuck you.

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:54:44am

re: #327 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

yeah, if you cross state lines, you bring the feds down on you…

The partitioning of The Grift. “C’mon Large C. You know there’s enough for all of us. Why we gotta disagree?”

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:55:01am

re: #329 FormerDirtDart

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From what I understand the two are friends.

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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:55:21am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:56:02am

re: #336 Jenner7

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Hahaha you said the same thing about yourself buddy.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:56:17am

Christie is hoping to get AG or a Supreme Court nomination in a Trump administration.

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:56:30am

re: #332 HappyWarrior

Trump-Christie: Because fuck you.

Because one pile of shit just wasn’t enough.

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Brian J.  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:56:46am

re: #337 HappyWarrior

Hahaha you said the same thing about yourself buddy.

Yes, please, please throw Hillary into that briar patch. If Trump is a Sherman tank as cited above in this thread, then Hillary’s a squadron of A-10s.

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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:57:08am

re: #326 darthstar

this is completely superficial on my part, and otherwise meaningless commentary, but Christie isn’t doing himself any favors by leaving his coat unbuttoned like that. Seriously, gentlemen, if you’re wearing a suit and standing, keep at least one button buttoned (depending on the coat cut), it’s not a hard rule.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:57:33am

Christie and Trump…just call it the “New York Values” ticket and hope they don’t get schlonged…

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:57:36am

For the image…

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:58:07am

re: #344 FormerDirtDart

For the image…

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“PULL MY FINGER!!!!”

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:58:14am

re: #342 The Vicious Babushka

Works for me.

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wrenchwench  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:58:30am

From yesterday, to his credit.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:59:10am

re: #336 Jenner7

“The one person Bill and Hillary do not want to see on that stage is Donald Trump.”

The two people civil engineers don’t want to see on that stage are Trump and Christie.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 9:59:10am

re: #312 ObserverArt

The problem is Trump is a Sherman tank and they are all in pedal cars.

That’s an insult to the Sherman Tank. You should apologize immediately.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:00:07am

re: #342 The Vicious Babushka

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you could add “Are you a man or woman who enjoys sex for anything other than purposes of procreation with your legally married opposite-gender spouse?”

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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:00:10am

Bully endorses Bully….

This is great.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:00:24am

re: #344 FormerDirtDart

For the image…

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“Feed Mah Belly!!!!”

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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:01:08am

Honest question: what would it take at this point to torpedo Trump’s campaign? I’m honestly not sure there’s anything he could say that would stop him from getting the GOP nomination. But what about in the general election? If he dropped an N-bomb or a C-bomb on national television, would that do it?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:01:47am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:01:51am

re: #353 KGxvi

Nope.

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:02:16am

Seeing Christie on that stage probably made both Ted and Marco realize there is no pony in the future.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:02:16am
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b.d.  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:02:23am

re: #318 FormerDirtDart

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So both of those guys are within a mile of me!?

**shudder**

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:02:26am
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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:02:46am

Rubio, Tea Party darling, is establishment.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:02:58am

re: #353 KGxvi

Honest question: what would it take at this point to torpedo Trump’s campaign? I’m honestly not sure there’s anything he could say that would stop him from getting the GOP nomination. But what about in the general election? If he dropped an N-bomb or a C-bomb on national television, would that do it?

He would have to kill a white person on live TV.

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Testy Toad T  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:02:58am

re: #353 KGxvi

Honest question: what would it take at this point to torpedo Trump’s campaign? I’m honestly not sure there’s anything he could say that would stop him from getting the GOP nomination. But what about in the general election? If he dropped an N-bomb or a C-bomb on national television, would that do it?

I think N-bomb could do it, but I seem to be in the minority here.

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Brian J.  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:03:11am

re: #359 Backwoods_Sleuth

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You can’t lose something you never had.

But I think several NJ Republican Congressmen are tugging at their collars right now.

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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:03:25am

Did he just disavow an endorsement from David Duke?

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:03:27am

Trump gets the critical bully BS artist endorsement.

The so-called establishment opposition to Trump as their candidate is shown to be nothing more than a smokescreen.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:03:54am

blast from the past:

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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:04:04am

re: #353 KGxvi

Honest question: what would it take at this point to torpedo Trump’s campaign? I’m honestly not sure there’s anything he could say that would stop him from getting the GOP nomination. But what about in the general election? If he dropped an N-bomb or a C-bomb on national television, would that do it?

Bold, outspoken, says what we all think!!!

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:04:09am

re: #364 Jenner7

Did he just disavow an endorsement from David Duke?

He has ignored it so far.

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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:04:39am

re: #355 GlutenFreeJesus

You don’t think dropping either one of those words on national television after securing the nomination wouldn’t lead to a 60-40 outcome in November?

I think the one that might do it is if he says something offensive about women in positions of power as an attack on Clinton.

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:04:39am

re: #353 KGxvi

Honest question: what would it take at this point to torpedo Trump’s campaign? I’m honestly not sure there’s anything he could say that would stop him from getting the GOP nomination. But what about in the general election? If he dropped an N-bomb or a C-bomb on national television, would that do it?

Not that. But remember, a big part of Trump’s appeal to those voting for him is that he can say things that other Republicans can’t, things that will keep blacks from voting for him, and things that look like they are getting Latinos to register to vote. Wait until he puts Clinton down.

Yes, he’s getting a lot of bad elements fired up. But he’s also going to piss off a whole lot of people.

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Brian J.  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:04:45am

re: #364 Jenner7

Did he just disavow an endorsement from David Duke?

The endorsement won’t hurt him in the Louisiana primary, sadly.

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:04:50am

re: #353 KGxvi

Honest question: what would it take at this point to torpedo Trump’s campaign? I’m honestly not sure there’s anything he could say that would stop him from getting the GOP nomination. But what about in the general election? If he dropped an N-bomb or a C-bomb on national television, would that do it?

If he used the N bomb or the C bomb his ratings would probably increase in his demographic. And they would stand and cheer.

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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:04:55am

re: #368 The Vicious Babushka

He disavowed something. I couldn’t hear the reporter’s question.

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wrenchwench  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:05:19am

re: #353 KGxvi

Honest question: what would it take at this point to torpedo Trump’s campaign? I’m honestly not sure there’s anything he could say that would stop him from getting the GOP nomination. But what about in the general election? If he dropped an N-bomb or a C-bomb on national television, would that do it?

My belief (perhaps naive) is that when it comes to the general election, Trump presents himself as pre-torpedoed.

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:05:25am

And yet none of the GOPers seem to be the least amount concerned over Trump’s support from racists, misogynists, and xenophobes - mostly because that’s all the GOP has left as the core of the party? Those few nitwits still running are hoping to peel off at least some of those folks for their own.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:05:26am

re: #364 Jenner7

Did he just disavow an endorsement from David Duke?

The TPGOP is a big sheet party.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:05:29am

re: #365 lawhawk

JUST IN: @ChrisChristie has endorsed @RealDonaldTrump for president t.co pic.twitter.com
— amNewYork

Uh, whut?

Is this a joke?

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darthstar  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:06:01am
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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:06:14am

re: #357 The Vicious Babushka

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Big Benito and Bigger Benito.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:06:30am

re: #377 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Unfortunately not. It is the bully ticket. Oy Vey.

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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:06:56am
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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:07:52am

Somebody is getting knee capped…….

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:08:14am

CNN’s doing a picture in picture thing with the Christie endorsement and its super blurry.

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:08:40am

re: #383 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

CNN’s doing a picture in picture thing with the Christie endorsement and its super blurry.

CNN is super blurry…..

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darthstar  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:08:46am

re: #366 Backwoods_Sleuth

blast from the past:

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That’s so two and a half months ago.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:09:00am

Trump saying Rubio “sweats a lot”.

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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:09:20am

re: #381 Jenner7

“I disavow. Ok?”

He might just be the most inarticulate legitimate contender for a major party nomination in my life time. My only reaction to that is a string of disbelieving vulgarities.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:09:21am

re: #369 KGxvi

Nope. I don’t think he can do anything at this point, or during the general election campaigning cycle that will diminish his standing.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:09:42am

OK now CNN is there live.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:09:43am

re: #381 Jenner7

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I think the establishment was never fully united for Rubio. Rubio has problems just like Trump does.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:10:24am

re: #387 KGxvi

“I disavow. Ok?”

He might just be the most inarticulate legitimate contender for a major party nomination in my life time. My only reaction to that is a string of disbelieving vulgarities.

It’s pretty hard to believe he’s got an Ivy League education. I thought these WASP elite mfers were supposed to have a veneer of class.

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darthstar  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:10:40am

re: #383 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

CNN’s doing a picture in picture thing with the Christie endorsement and its super blurry.

It’s only being broadcast on periscope. MSNBC went to archival video of Trump with just the audio.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:10:41am

Trump now repeating Rubio is a Chocker.

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:10:53am

The establishment crumbling continues:

The GOP is now the Trump party. They own this.

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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:11:26am

re: #390 HappyWarrior

I think the establishment was never fully united for Rubio. Rubio has problems just like Trump does.

I’m not sure there was anyone the establishment was ever fully behind in this cycle. Most had to have known that Jeb was DOA, but he was the closest thing they had to a traditional establishment candidate.

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:11:48am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:11:53am

re: #392 darthstar

It’s only being broadcast on periscope. MSNBC went to archival video of Trump with just the audio.

Ah, OK, thanks.

What is periscope? (get off my lawn)

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:11:59am

re: #391 HappyWarrior

That Trump person’s veneer is contact paper.

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b.d.  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:12:13am

re: #394 lawhawk

The establishment crumbling continues:

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The GOP is now the Trump party. They own this.

Wow! You mean that bringing in Romney to put Trump in his place didn’t work!?!?!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:12:14am

re: #394 lawhawk

The establishment crumbling continues:

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The GOP is now the Trump party. They own this.

It’s looking more and more likely that he’s going to be the nominee. Jesus GOP. In 160 years, you go from Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump. Who are you to give us in 2176?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:12:29am

re: #391 HappyWarrior

He didn’t exactly earn his “status”. He was born into it and was given a million dollars from his daddy.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:12:30am

re: #387 KGxvi

“I disavow. Ok?”

He might just be the most inarticulate legitimate contender for a major party nomination in my life time. My only reaction to that is a string of disbelieving vulgarities.

I can’t stand to hear Donald Trump speak. He sounds like Eric Cartman, but with less intelligence and class.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:12:35am

re: #395 KGxvi

I’m not sure there was anyone the establishment was ever fully behind in this cycle. Most had to have known that Jeb was DOA, but he was the closest thing they had to a traditional establishment candidate.

Yeah exactly.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:12:38am

re: #313 Jenner7

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He is going 3rd party!

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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:12:42am

re: #396 lawhawk

Gonna break Rubio’s glasses.

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b.d.  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:12:44am

Hey GOP, you built this!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:12:47am

re: #401 GlutenFreeJesus

He didn’t exactly earn his “status”. He was born into it and was given a million dollars from his daddy.

True that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:13:12am

re: #381 Jenner7

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I call bullshit.
Donald knows every single endorsement made for him. He has people looking for that stuff 24/7.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:13:21am

re: #402 The Vicious Babushka

I can’t stand to hear Donald Trump speak. He sounds like Eric Cartman, but with less intelligence and class.

One is a nine year old child who cries when he doesn’t get his way, the other is Eric Cartman.

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:13:38am

re: #394 lawhawk

I Have Seen The Future And It Is Crawling Up Your Ass
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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:14:10am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:14:35am

re: #408 Backwoods_Sleuth

Exactly. Trump cites all these random obscure polls that have him in the lead. There is no way he is unaware of what David Duke said the other day.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:14:46am

The Donfather

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:15:21am

re: #410 nines09

Is there a Trump hat generator you use to make these?

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:15:27am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:15:44am

re: #411 The Vicious Babushka

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And this was in the 70’s or maybe even the late 60’s right? Oh to get a “small” million dollar loan from my Dad.

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b.d.  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:16:00am

One of my delivery drivers just told me that downtown Ft. Worth is a mess with every cop in the city down there either on horseback or in their cars providing security for Donald and Chris.

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:16:17am

re: #414 Eclectic Cyborg

Is there a Trump hat generator you use to make these?

No. I am extremely talented….

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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:16:25am

re: #401 GlutenFreeJesus

He didn’t exactly earn his “status”. He was born into it and was given a million dollars from his daddy.

Yeah but there’s a lot of born into it WASP-y mofos that act classy (at least in public). It’s the old distinction between Old Money and New Money. Trump is supposed to be Old Money but he acts like New Money.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:16:50am

re: #419 KGxvi

Yeah but there’s a lot of born into it WASP-y mofos that act classy (at least in public). It’s the old distinction between Old Money and New Money. Trump is supposed to be Old Money but he acts like New Money.

That’s what I was getting at.

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b.d.  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:16:55am

re: #414 Eclectic Cyborg

Is there a Trump hat generator you use to make these?

This is the one I use

washingtonpost.com

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:16:56am

re: #344 FormerDirtDart

For the image…

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Is Christie trying to eat The Donald’s face?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:17:22am

Christie now repeating that he has a term of office in NJ to fulfill……

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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:17:41am

Christie wants to beat his wife…..

at making money.

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:17:51am

re: #414 Eclectic Cyborg

Trump Hat

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:17:55am

re: #422 Eventual Carrion

We should be so lucky. Actually it might be an improvement. /half

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:18:55am

re: #421 b.d.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:19:08am

Gah! Ken Cuccinelli on my TeeVee.

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:20:05am

re: #423 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:20:14am

re: #428 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Gah! Ken Cuccinelli on my TeeVee.

Yuck. Still backing Cruz?

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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:20:17am
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darthstar  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:20:19am
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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:20:25am
For The Walking Dead fans
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The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:20:30am

re: #428 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Gah! Ken Cuccinelli on my TeeVee.

I’m sorry, but only fire can cleanse the TV now.

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MsJ  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:20:48am

re: #365 lawhawk

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Trump gets the critical bully BS artist endorsement.

The so-called establishment opposition to Trump as their candidate is shown to be nothing more than a smokescreen.

You know, Christie used to be a Federal Prosecutor (I know, he really hates to mention it, he almost never does mention that he used to be a Federal Prosecutor. Almost never. He barely indicates that he used to be a Federal Prosecutor. Well, actually, he says it as often as he can, but anyway…) I think Christie is hoping for Atty General/SCOTUS nom in a Trump admin.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:21:06am

Oh, Cooch is a Cruz-backer.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:22:11am

CNN doesn’t have a Dr. Real Ben Carson surrogate on to talk about the Christie endorsement.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:22:31am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:23:40am

Marco Rubio, who looks like he’s barely out of H.S., has Rep. Adam Kinzinger on TV as a surrogate, and Kinzinger looks like he’s running for college student body president.

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:23:43am

...

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Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:23:59am

IIRC there’s one more TPGOP debate, Mar 10. If the also-rans don’t bring chainsaws, they might as well save the airfare.

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:24:05am
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CuriousLurker  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:24:56am

So… Trump + Christie? Two fast-talking obnoxious, marginally Christian guys from the East Coast? And two guys of Cuban descent, one Catholic and the other a Southern Baptist who most everyone hates? And Kasich. This is today’s GOP.

I should go over to Freepistan and see if they’re wigging out.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:25:37am

re: #436 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Oh, Cooch is a Cruz-backer.

Yep. I think him and my state senator are the co-chairs here in Va. Not sure who’s popular here in Western Loudoun. I don’t talk politics with people who I know support these crazy motherfuckers.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:26:21am

re: #443 CuriousLurker

That did it. ::: flips desk ::: I will be voting Democratic and Hillary.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:27:03am

re: #443 CuriousLurker

So… Trump + Christie? Two fast-talking obnoxious, marginally Christian guys from the East Coast? And two guys of Cuban descent, one Catholic and the other a Southern Baptist who most everyone hates? And Kasich. This is today’s GOP.

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I should go over to Freepistan and see if they’re wigging out.

Where art thou Richard Nixon?.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:27:28am

re: #445 Dr. Matt

Wacky ‘Trump Girls’ try to smear Rubio with absurd ‘gay lifestyle’ rumor

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Way to go CNN.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:27:37am

re: #445 Dr. Matt

Wacky ‘Trump Girls’ try to smear Rubio with absurd ‘gay lifestyle’ rumor

I hope Ted Turner isn’t still alive to see this.

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:28:02am

re: #443 CuriousLurker

You forgot the sleepy doctor whose single issue expertise is on a subject completely unrelated to politics or forming a coherent sentence.

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Shiplord Kirel  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:29:04am

Lard-ass and Hard-ass, the ticket made in hell.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:29:08am

re: #451 lawhawk

You forgot the sleepy doctor whose single issue expertise is on a subject completely unrelated to politics or forming a coherent sentence.

Remember when Dr. Ben was the flavor of the month? Criticized the POTUS at the prayer breakfast, invited to speak at the Family Values Conference…

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:29:39am

Ok, I’m done with this for today.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:29:54am

So it’s looking like the GOP will nominate someone who’s never held any elected office or any kind of position where they seriously had to deal with the government (i.e. Ike as Supreme Allied Commander). Yeah and he’s a failed businessman too. This isn’t Bill Gates here.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:30:01am

re: #452 Shiplord Kirel

rofl. I wish I could up ding that one more than once.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:30:08am

re: #453 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Remember when Dr. Ben was the flavor of the month? Criticized the POTUS at the prayer breakfast, invited to speak at the Family Values Conference…

Those were the days!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:30:14am

CNN continually congratulates itself over its Presidential debate sponsorship.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:30:17am
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CuriousLurker  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:30:54am

re: #451 lawhawk

You forgot the sleepy doctor whose single issue expertise is on a subject completely unrelated to politics or forming a coherent sentence.

Oh right, Dr. Fruit Salad.

This whole thing is totally surreal. I feel like I wandered into a Dalí painting.

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:31:14am
One Last Time

That was fun…..

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:31:52am

re: #459 Charles Johnson

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I wonder if Harry knows who Mr. Burns is supporting for President. He’s establishment all the way but Rubio and Cruz might be too ethnic for him.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:32:11am

re: #460 CuriousLurker

Oh right, Dr. Fruit Salad.

This whole thing is totally surreal. I feel like I wandered into a Dalí painting.

or a Kafka novel.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:32:23am

Candidates for POTUS now talking about what other candidates do behind the scenes at debates.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:34:04am

re: #464 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Candidates for POTUS now talking about what other candidates do behind the scenes at debates.

Cruz makes a new enemy.

Rubio gets plugged in to charge up.

Trump drinks more hate juice.

Carson’s wife tries to wake him up.

Kasich wonders how the hell a former Republican Revolution frontman like him has become a moderate.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:34:54am

re: #276 wrenchwench

Credit card processors are of the devil.

When I was briefly at First Data, their card master file was still on tape.

(Granted, this was over a decade ago, but still….)

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:35:32am

re: #466 Eric The Fruit Bat

That is bad. :(

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CuriousLurker  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:35:40am

re: #464 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Candidates for POTUS now talking about what other candidates do behind the scenes at debates.

So we’re back in junior high now? The bullies, the dorks, the gossip & backbiting…

I would like to have an adult POTUS, please.

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:35:46am
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Shiplord Kirel  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:35:56am

re: #443 CuriousLurker

So… Trump + Christie? Two fast-talking obnoxious, marginally Christian guys from the East Coast? And two guys of Cuban descent, one Catholic and the other a Southern Baptist who most everyone hates? And Kasich. This is today’s GOP.

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I should go over to Freepistan and see if they’re wigging out.

Yeah, and it’s even too late for Dan Quayle to re-appear and add some dignity and intellect to the GOP race.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:36:27am

re: #453 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Remember when Dr. Ben was the flavor of the month? Criticized the POTUS at the prayer breakfast, invited to speak at the Family Values Conference…

Carson said last night he had never been audited until that happened.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:36:59am

re: #468 CuriousLurker

Me too.

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:38:49am

re: #469 lawhawk

Too inside even for me. Who?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:38:59am

re: #470 Shiplord Kirel

Yeah, and it’s even too late for Dan Quayle to re-appear and add some dignity and intellect to the GOP race.

A funny story about that but I don’t know how many of you know but Dan Quayle briefly considered running in 2000. My Dad’s manager at the time loved the idea and my Dad just remembers laughing at it and then sure enough we got W Bush.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:39:32am

re: #473 Belafon

Too inside even for me. Who?

I think Donald’s daughter’s in laws.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:40:38am

Heh, can’t wait to see what Charles writes about this.

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wrenchwench  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:41:07am

re: #471 Backwoods_Sleuth

Carson said last night he had never been audited until that happened.

Audited by Jesus?

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:42:10am
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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:42:17am

re: #468 CuriousLurker

So we’re back in junior high now? The bullies, the dorks, the gossip & backbiting…

I would like to have an adult POTUS, please.

It’s all entertainment. Did you have the mistaken notion something of value was at stake? That’s all I see. It’s one more episode of “Survivor” for the addled and confused.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:42:34am

So Christie is the first governor. I think Trump is going to start to get more endorsements. Meanwhile Rubio will be telling us all on Tuesday night about how he’s the best second place finisher ever.

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Shiplord Kirel  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:43:02am

re: #474 HappyWarrior

A funny story about that but I don’t know how many of you know but Dan Quayle briefly considered running in 2000. My Dad’s manager at the time loved the idea and my Dad just remembers laughing at it and then sure enough we got W Bush.

Quayle actually had one of the best and most relevant comments of that race. He appeared on the Jay Leno show just after he had dropped his nascent presidential bid. Jay asked him why he had ended his campaign. Quayle said, “We just couldn’t match the Bush money machine.”

The rest is history.

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:43:10am

re: #473 Belafon

Kushner was a developer who was convicted by Christie back when Christie was a federal prosecutor. Kushner’s son married one of Trump’s daughters.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:43:31am

re: #473 Belafon

Too inside even for me. Who?

I just looked it up. Ivanka’s father in law. (right?)

nytimes.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:43:53am

re: #478 lawhawk

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That’s the normal condition for Trump crowds.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:44:13am

re: #481 Shiplord Kirel

Potatoe.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:44:25am

re: #481 Shiplord Kirel

Quayle actually had one of the best and most relevant comments of that race. He appeared on the Jay Leno show just after he had dropped his nascent presidential bid. Jay asked him why he had ended his campaign. Quayle said, “We just couldn’t match the Bush money machine.”

The rest is history.

It’s amazing to think if he ran today, he’d be one of the more sane ones running. George W too.

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:44:26am

re: #482 lawhawk

Kushner was a developer who was convicted by Christie back when Christie was a federal prosecutor. Kushner’s son married one of Trump’s daughters.

Thanks.

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:46:00am

re: #486 HappyWarrior

It’s amazing to think if he ran today, he’d be one of the more sane ones running. George W too.

The 2000 Bush and Rove would know how to handle Trump. I don’t think the 2016 versions do, but the older versions would have left him a crying, sputtering child after the first debate.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:46:34am

re: #488 Belafon

The 2000 Bush and Rove would know how to handle Trump. I don’t think the 2016 versions do, but the older versions would have left him a crying, sputtering child after the first debate.

Yeah I think that’s right.

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:47:02am
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Testy Toad T  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:47:04am

re: #488 Belafon

The 2000 Bush and Rove would know how to handle Trump. I don’t think the 2016 versions do, but the older versions would have left him a crying, sputtering child after the first debate.

One really has to step back and admire what has become of the GOP bench. I thought 2012 was something, but this set of candidates was almost astonishingly bad.

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MsJ  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:47:27am

re: #482 lawhawk

Kushner was a developer who was convicted by Christie back when Christie was a federal prosecutor. Kushner’s son married one of Trump’s daughters.

Christie was a Federal Prosecutor? I did not know that.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:47:52am

re: #491 Testy Toad T

One really has to step back and admire what has become of the GOP bench. I thought 2012 was something, but this set of candidates was almost astonishingly bad.

Can’t wait to see what they give us in 2020. I hear Warren Harding’s not doing much these days.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:49:40am

MrBWS just arrived home from South Carolina. He, his brother and sister went through a lot of stuff at dad’s house. Mom died several years ago and left her coin collection for the three of them.

IO5LY8ZB5fdqlYtSC35H3ubqXO3Z+nRlvSlmbUEP9mY6q6B4mzNpX6uJNAokWmyGftx1VoW1HepIanxJmuxZAIPYfMi7WLwu0MX4fYEsphvlv1t6v4jVnrxqteeLIPAKf5aohQx53XGMv7EIs1xfkA==

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b_sharp  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:49:50am

re: #490 FormerDirtDart

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Christie has camel toe?

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:50:14am

This may well be a good thing

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Shiplord Kirel  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:50:25am

re: #485 GlutenFreeJesus

Potatoe.

Why do you hate America?
(probably Common Core and evil-u-tion)

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MsJ  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:50:53am

re: #495 b_sharp

Christie has camel toe?

I have never seen a man with a camel toe. Seriously. That is about as far from a moose knuckle as I have ever seen.

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Shiplord Kirel  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:51:09am

re: #495 b_sharp

Christie has camel toe?

I will never be able to un-read that.

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VegasGolfer  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:51:18am

re: #490 FormerDirtDart

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Thanks. Just lost my appetite 😆

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:51:44am
I Have To Get Outside…..
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jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:53:39am

Texas Monthly editor senses that something in conservative America might be out of whack.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:54:35am

re: #502 jaunte

Might be??? No, it is very much out of whack.

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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:55:05am

re: #493 HappyWarrior

Can’t wait to see what they give us in 2020. I hear Warren Harding’s not doing much these days.

I don’t know if the national party (and by “national” “party” I mean the racist/misogynists in the south) will be ready for her, but I’m guessing Susana Martinez could run. Maybe Huntsman will give it another go, hoping the crazy has passed. Otherwise, I’m not sure there’s anyone else “qualified” at this point to be taken seriously.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:55:51am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:56:15am

re: #504 KGxvi

I don’t know if the national party (and by “national” “party” I mean the racist/misogynists in the south) will be ready for her, but I’m guessing Susana Martinez could run. Maybe Huntsman will give it another go, hoping the crazy has passed. Otherwise, I’m not sure there’s anyone else “qualified” at this point to be taken seriously.

Well remember in 2012, Trump was just another obnoxious asshole with a reality TV Show, Rubio an undistinguished two year Senator, and Cruz a Senate candidate.

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jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:56:16am

re: #503 PhillyPretzel

I had a twitter exchange the other day with her, when I suggested that people don’t like Ted Cruz. She said I was just “parroting the conventional wisdom.”

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:56:47am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:56:51am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:56:51am

re: #505 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Why, yes, Newt, Trump does remind me of the Bug from Men in Black.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:56:54am

Trump yabbing about SELLING INSURANCE ACROSS STATE LINES and how they’re going to wipe out all the arbitrary lines dividing states and….

Not sure the STATE’S RIGHTS people should be happy with this…

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jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:57:45am

re: #511 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

All the state legislators are saying “you can’t make me.”

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:58:08am

re: #511 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Trump yabbing about SELLING INSURANCE ACROSS STATE LINES and how they’re going to wipe out all the arbitrary lines dividing states and….

Not sure the STATE’S RIGHTS people should be happy with this…

As long as he hates on the Mexicans, they don’t care.

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:58:18am

re: #505 Backwoods_Sleuth

super tuesday bug time #greatbandname

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:58:21am

re: #508 goddamnedfrank

That’s why they closed that bridge, I bet……

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:59:00am

So when does Joe The Plumber endorse The Donald?

/

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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:59:39am

re: #506 HappyWarrior

Well remember in 2012, Trump was just another obnoxious asshole with a reality TV Show, Rubio an undistinguished two year Senator, and Cruz a Senate candidate.

True, normally I’d say that losing two or three elections in a row tends to moderate a party, but I’m not sure that’s going to happen. Clinton in ‘92 ran a much more moderate campaign than either Mondale or Dukasis. George W Bush, for all his faults in office, ran in 2000 as much more moderate. Even Carter in 1976 was much more conservative than most of the recent Democratic nominees.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:59:44am
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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 10:59:56am

re: #510 HappyWarrior

Why, yes, Newt, Trump does remind me of the Bug from Men in Black.

Newts wife should scare the crap out of you then…..

bbbbbbbbbbbbzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……..zzzz
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jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:00:00am

WWE continues.

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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:00:44am

Trump just pulled out a water battle and said “It’s Rubio!”, then sploshes water on stage, then threw it to someone in crowd.

Wow.

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jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:00:49am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:01:00am

re: #517 KGxvi

True, normally I’d say that losing two or three elections in a row tends to moderate a party, but I’m not sure that’s going to happen. Clinton in ‘92 ran a much more moderate campaign than either Mondale or Dukasis. George W Bush, for all his faults in office, ran in 2000 as much more moderate. Even Carter in 1976 was much more conservative than most of the recent Democratic nominees.

Yeah. In the 80’s even as the Dems were getting beat with Mondale and Dukakis, there was an emerging moderate wing led by Clinton. I don’t see that with the GOP.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:01:05am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:01:43am

re: #521 Jenner7

Trump just pulled out a water battle and said “It’s Rubio!”, then sploshes water on stage, then threw it to someone in crowd.

Wow.

Donald is going to beat RUbio in Wrestlemania.

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KGxvi  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:02:02am

re: #511 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Trump yabbing about SELLING INSURANCE ACROSS STATE LINES and how they’re going to wipe out all the arbitrary lines dividing states and….

Not sure the STATE’S RIGHTS people should be happy with this…

This is something I’ve never understood about the “sell insurance across state lines” that keeps popping up among conservatives (it was a Huckabee line in 2008, I think)… How exactly is it going to work, and what changes? If it’s based on the state where the insurance company is, then it’s just a race to the bottom. If it’s based on where the insured is, then it doesn’t really change anything because the insurer is going to have to meet the local requirements. In neither circumstance does it actually improve insurance.

527
Romantic Heretic  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:02:08am

re: #435 MsJ

I’m thinking Christie’s hoping for a Trump!™ pardon when he’s indicted for some of the shitty things he’s done

528
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:02:09am

You know all you people here don’t give Trump the credit Trump thinks he deserves for SELF FUNDING his campaign.

//

529
jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:02:11am
530
makeitstop  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:03:21am
531
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:03:28am

re: #528 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

You know all you people here don’t give Trump the credit Trump thinks he deserves for SELF FUNDING his campaign.

//

I think I could self finance the next 10 generations of my family if I had Trump’s money.

532
lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:04:18am

Wouldn’t it be something if Hillary retorts with announcing Cory Booker as her running mate (not likely given the geographical considerations that go into these things, but plausible since he’s been a very visible Hillary supporter.

Governor Christie and Mayor Booker: Don’t Worry, We’ve Got This

533
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:04:24am
534
jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:04:44am
535
BeachDem  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:04:45am

re: #379 nines09

Big Benito and Bigger Benito.

I first read that at Big Burrito and Bigger Burrito—that works too.

536
Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:04:49am
537
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:05:34am
538
lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:07:13am
539
MsJ  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:07:37am

re: #526 KGxvi

This is something I’ve never understood about the “sell insurance across state lines” that keeps popping up among conservatives (it was a Huckabee line in 2008, I think)… How exactly is it going to work, and what changes? If it’s based on the state where the insurance company is, then it’s just a race to the bottom. If it’s based on where the insured is, then it doesn’t really change anything because the insurer is going to have to meet the local requirements. In neither circumstance does it actually improve insurance.

The PPACA allows for that. Rules and regs follow the state where the insured resides. Which, thank goodness or it would be completely a race to the bottom.

But, come on now, everything GOP is a race to the bottom. Lowest wages. Lowest taxes. No unions. These are things touted by states to get companies to move there. All of that is a race to the bottom. There should be federal standards that disallows that because people in individual states have no power (even at the ballot box). Make moving about better weather or talent pool, but not about how bad you want to fuck over your own citizens.

540
jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:08:12am
541
Big Beautiful Door  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:08:16am

re: #308 Dr. Matt

With the rise of Trump, one would think Geller’s view are quite mainstream. Perhaps that’s the issue, i.e., she’s too much of a “moderate” by today’s CPAC standards.

Doesn’t it have to do with her thinking Norquist and his wife are part of the islamification of America conspiracy?

542
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:08:48am

re: #538 lawhawk

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No Tom Brady?

543
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:09:08am

Trump criticizing Amazon….

That does it.

/

544
ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:09:28am

re: #394 lawhawk

The establishment crumbling continues:

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The GOP is now the Trump party. They own this.

Fucking weaklings…all of them. They can’t stand up to a week old kitten. One tiny little meow and they run.

If this all wasn’t so damn pathetic I would be laughing.

And as far as the answer to “can Trump do or say anything that would end his run or kill him in the general election?” I don’t think we need any more proof the answer is no. I get the impression the wheels of common decency have fallen off our whole society.

Trump could drop trou and moon America and there are people that would cheer and think it was the boldest statement by a modern pol ever.

545
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:10:10am

re: #538 lawhawk

Where has Palin been, by the way? Maybe Trump has banished her to some place.

546
jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:10:17am

*Gary Wills on George Wallace’s 68 run: Nixon Agonistes
amazon.com

547
Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:10:31am

President Trump is going to make it so he can sue publications for attacking him.

548
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:10:46am

Trump calling Rubio a “lowlife”.

America

549
b_sharp  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:11:05am

Trumps superpower is being a bully.

550
jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:11:32am
551
Big Beautiful Door  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:11:57am

re: #338 HappyWarrior

Christie is hoping to get AG or a Supreme Court nomination in a Trump administration.

Not Veep?

552
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:12:20am

Trump now saying Iran only released the 10 “hostages” after our $150 billion check to them cleared.

This guy, man….

553
jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:12:25am

Cult leader behavior. “Don’t listen, don’t believe what anyone else says about me.”

554
Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:13:08am

There’s no laughing any more. This man is the presumptive GOP nominee and he’s publicly telling the press that I will go after you if you criticize me.

Just unbelievable.

America.

555
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:13:22am

We’re gonna knock out the terrorists bigly.

Bigly.

556
Romantic Heretic  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:14:10am

re: #519 nines09

So, Stepford Wives was a documentary then?

557
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:14:17am
558
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:14:26am

re: #551 Big Beautiful Door

Not Veep?

Possibility of that sure.

559
ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:14:33am

re: #413 Eclectic Cyborg

The Donfather

And he just told his consigliere Christy to put a hit out on America.

560
Lidane  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:14:57am
561
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:15:47am

re: #546 jaunte

*Gary Wills on George Wallace’s 68 run: Nixon Agonistes
amazon.com

I’ll have to read that. That’s one of my favorite eras to read about. I don’t know if I’d conclude Nixon was a liberal but he was far more pragmatic and moderate than liberals of his day gave him credit for. He would have been more well liked if he wasn’t such a prick.

562
Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:16:12am
563
Shiplord Kirel  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:16:27am

re: #555 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

We’re gonna knock out the terrorists bigly.

Bigly.

I think he means “bugly.”

564
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:16:27am
565
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:16:40am

re: #562 Kragar

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This is fascism.

566
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:16:59am

re: #564 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Well he knows what his audience wants.

567
jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:17:15am

Idiots in Ft. Worth cheered.

568
Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:17:17am
569
Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:17:24am

re: #554 Jenner7

At one point in time, the press would have gone “try it.”

570
MsJ  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:17:46am

re: #554 Jenner7

There’s no laughing any more. This man is the presumptive GOP nominee and he’s publicly telling the press that I will go after you if you criticize me.

Just unbelievable.

America.

And they lie back and take it like a prostitute…bored…just waiting for it to be over…like they are some kind of watcher from afar.

Do your freaking jobs before those jobs no longer matter. ARGH!

571
Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:17:55am

“With me, they’re (a free press) not protected.”

My dog, think about that.

572
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:18:03am

Everyone’s “incredible” and “unbelievable” if they support Trump.

573
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:18:10am
574
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:18:24am

Now there’s a fundy preacher on stage….

575
jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:19:10am
576
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:19:27am

This guy is going to be the Republican nominee for President. Jesus Christ America.

577
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:19:27am

Ronald Reagan!

Drink!

578
makeitstop  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:19:30am

re: #569 Belafon

At one point in time, the press would have gone “try it.”

Not any more. They need their access.

That whirring sound you hear? Edward R. Murrow spinning in his grave.

579
jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:19:37am

Serial philanderer cites Evangelical support.

580
The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:20:06am

re: #521 Jenner7

Trump just pulled out a water battle and said “It’s Rubio!”, then sploshes water on stage, then threw it to someone in crowd.

Wow.

Then he’s going to pull a cookie out of his crotch, yell “It’s Cruz!” and eat it.

581
Big Beautiful Door  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:20:07am

re: #400 HappyWarrior

It’s looking more and more likely that he’s going to be the nominee. Jesus GOP. In 160 years, you go from Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump. Who are you to give us in 2176?

At this point, Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho would be a step up in class.

582
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:20:27am

re: #579 jaunte

Serial philanderer cites Evangelical support.

That’s never stopped them before. Now if they had been with members of the same sex or non-Christians, it’d be a deal breaker.

583
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:21:10am

Christianity under siege.

Probably because Christians don’t take the Jesus guy seriously.

584
goddamnedfrank  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:21:46am
585
jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:21:51am

Trump’s Hispanic outreach.

586
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:22:03am

Trump now saying he wants to let churches endorse political candidates, wants Christians to do more political lobbying.

587
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:22:06am

Christianity under siege from the multiple divorcee who has a thing for his own daughter and tells people who make far less than him that they make too much money.

588
Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:22:12am
589
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:22:48am

re: #585 jaunte

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Trump’s Hispanic outreach.

Trump’s Catholic outreach. Wonder what Melania’s family thinks of that one. Slovenes are predominately RCC.

590
goddamnedfrank  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:23:14am
591
jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:23:19am

re: #589 HappyWarrior

“This Pope is a real loser. He never liked me.”

592
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:23:20am

re: #586 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Trump now saying he wants to let churches endorse political candidates, wants Christians to do more political lobbying.

Sheesh.

593
Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:23:40am
594
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:23:59am

“We’re gonna have a smart country, again.”

Actual words Trump said.

595
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:24:22am

re: #594 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

“We’re gonna have a smart country, again.”

Actual words Trump said.

Hopefully after you lose 40 states in November.

596
The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:24:22am
597
ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:24:36am

re: #445 Dr. Matt

Wacky ‘Trump Girls’ try to smear Rubio with absurd ‘gay lifestyle’ rumor

[Embedded content]

Video

So…CNN is interviewing these two and actually giving them a national voice as some type of ‘net pundits with legit viewpoints?

I need a shovel. The whole I dug to bury this GOP election garbage in is not going to be deep enough. I may need an earth boring machine.

I may go all the way to CHYNA!

598
Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:24:55am
599
MsJ  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:25:04am

re: #584 goddamnedfrank

Hey, how ya feeling?

600
PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:25:04am

Someone just blocked the camera for a few seconds. A small blessing.

601
lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:26:09am

re: #557 Backwoods_Sleuth

602
ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:26:10am

re: #452 Shiplord Kirel

Lard-ass and Hard-ass, the ticket made in hell.

Which one is which again?

603
The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:26:12am
604
goddamnedfrank  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:26:31am

re: #599 MsJ

Hey, how ya feeling?

Better today. Still sore and coughing but on the mend.

605
Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:27:02am
606
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:27:02am

Okay, so imagine if you will Obama talking about radically changing the 1st amendment and the reaction he’d get.

607
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:27:19am

re: #605 Bill and Opus for 2016!

Embedded Image

Is there a generator for this?

608
Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:27:42am

re: #561 HappyWarrior

I’ll have to read that. That’s one of my favorite eras to read about. I don’t know if I’d conclude Nixon was a liberal but he was far more pragmatic and moderate than liberals of his day gave him credit for. He would have been more well liked if he wasn’t such a prick.

He also picked the wrong enemies.

609
jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:27:57am
610
MsJ  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:28:21am

re: #604 goddamnedfrank

Better today. Still sore and coughing but on the mend.

Hot lemon water with brandy (or whiskey). Drink and repeat. My mom used to swear by it.

No idea if it works but after enough of ‘em, who cares? :-)

Glad you’re on the mend.

611
thecommodore  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:28:36am

Reason for hope…maybe:

Trump vs Hillary:

Trump vs Bernie:

612
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:28:59am

re: #609 jaunte

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Uh no Chuck. Ted Kennedy had over 40 years of good will built up with the Democratic base. Christie had a few years before he didn’t treat Obama like shit during Hurricane Sandy. Man these guys suck.

613
GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:29:04am

Trump is CCJ in 40 years. With money.

614
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:29:38am

re: #611 thecommodore

Reason for hope…maybe:

Trump vs Hillary:

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Trump vs Bernie:

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I wish it wasn’t that close but that’s better than nothing.

615
lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:29:57am
616
Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:31:10am

re: #607 HappyWarrior

Is there a generator for this?

Yeah, Washington Post has one.

washingtonpost.com

617
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:31:11am
618
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:31:30am

re: #616 Bill and Opus for 2016!

Yeah, Washington Post has one.

washingtonpost.com

Yeah I found it, thanks!

619
MsJ  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:31:42am
620
goddamnedfrank  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:32:11am

re: #611 thecommodore

Reason for hope…maybe:

Trump vs Hillary:

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Trump vs Bernie:

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Again I’m noticing a huge difference in granularity between those two graphs. Hillary’s numbers are based on a lot more data points.

621
Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:32:11am

re: #617 HappyWarrior

Embedded Image

They still hate, they have been just restricted in how to express that hatred. But DT will fix the 1st Amendment to correct that.

622
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:32:47am
623
goddamnedfrank  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:33:19am

re: #615 lawhawk

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Christie is such an obviously corrupt piece of shit. Trump bought him off.

624
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:33:22am

re: #621 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

They still hate, they have been just restricted in how to express that hatred. But DT will fix the 1st Amendment to correct that.

I know.

625
PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:33:31am

re: #622 HappyWarrior

Is that one for CCJ? /

626
Barefoot Grin  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:34:42am

re: #609 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Sorry, Joe McQuaid.

627
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:34:46am
628
lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:35:46am

+1 for burning a bridge…

629
BeachDem  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:36:37am

re: #609 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Well, I didn’t think Chuck Todd could say anything stupider than he already has, but apparently I was wrong. Yeah, Chris Christie—just like Ted Kennedy. GAH!

630
MsJ  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:37:48am

And my response via their website.

Thank you for showing us that you have no desire to support women or women’s equality.

Please permanently remove my name from your mailing list. I will purchase all my business related clothing elsewhere in the future.

Thank you.

631
thecommodore  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:39:43am
632
ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:39:56am

re: #460 CuriousLurker

Oh right, Dr. Fruit Salad.

This whole thing is totally surreal. I feel like I wandered into a Dalí painting.

I find myself in an earlier period…but one that inspired the Surrealists.

Giorgio de Chirico…Mystery and Melancholy of a Street…one of my all time favorites.

There is something foreboding about to happen. To a nice city…to a nice people. What was in the cart…who is casting the shadow?

Giorgio de Chirico - Melancholy and Mystery of a Street, 1914
633
ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:41:03am

re: #465 HappyWarrior

Cruz makes a new enemy.

Rubio gets plugged in to charge up.

Trump drinks more hate juice.

Carson’s wife tries to wake him up.

Kasich wonders how the hell a former Republican Revolution frontman like him has become a moderate.

It’s a Mad Mad Mad World!

634
PhillyPretzel  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:41:10am

re: #630 MsJ

L L Bean has some very nice sports clothes for women.

llbean.com

635
ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:41:51am

re: #466 Eric The Fruit Bat

When I was briefly at First Data, their card master file was still on tape.

(Granted, this was over a decade ago, but still….)

So it was you!

: )

636
dharmamark  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:43:04am

re: #526 KGxvi

This is something I’ve never understood about the “sell insurance across state lines” that keeps popping up among conservatives (it was a Huckabee line in 2008, I think)… How exactly is it going to work, and what changes? If it’s based on the state where the insurance company is, then it’s just a race to the bottom. If it’s based on where the insured is, then it doesn’t really change anything because the insurer is going to have to meet the local requirements. In neither circumstance does it actually improve insurance.

It just proves that they really know nothing about how insurance actually works.

637
MsJ  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:49:10am

re: #634 PhillyPretzel

Thank you!

We buy all our branded stuff from Lands End. No longer.

638
ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:49:53am

re: #516 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

So when does Joe The Plumber endorse The Donald?

/

He’s most likely a Kasich guy.

Hey, did you know Kasich’s old man was a mail carrier and the old man’s father worked in the coal mines?

639
sagehen  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:03:47pm

re: #271 Ziggy_TARDIS

Fingers crossed for a Pro-Reformist result.

Iran election extended amid high turnout

If they’ve been watching the GOP debates, they’re going to break heavy for the anti-America hardliners.

640
Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:45:26pm

re: #105 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Oaklahoma is where the oak trees come from.

Except me. I’m from New Jersey.

641
Jebediah, RBG  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:07:47pm

re: #632 ObserverArt

always loved that painting. That exaggerated perspective!


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