Ted Cruz Calls Trump a ‘Sniveling Coward’ for Attacking His Wife

As Cruz calls for unconstitutional surveillance of Muslim neighborhoods
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Sometimes I can’t believe how utterly bizarre and disgusting the Republican presidential race has gotten. This is sure to go down in history as one of the most venal, degraded elections ever: Ted Cruz: Trump is a ‘Sniveling Coward’.

Ted Cruz called Donald Trump a “sniveling coward” and told him to leave his wife “the hell alone” on Thursday after Trump tweeted an unflattering photo of his spouse, Heidi Cruz.

“Our children and spouses are off limits,” Cruz warned.

The Texas senator said Trump is scared by “strong women” and that “real men don’t try to bully women.”

UPDATE at 3/24/16 12:59:30 pm by Charles Johnson

Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski responds in typical thuggish manner:

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169 comments
1
Sophist, Premature Anti-Trumpist  Mar 24, 2016 • 12:51:09pm

He ain’t wrong.

For once.

2
Franklin  Mar 24, 2016 • 12:51:46pm
3
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 24, 2016 • 12:52:13pm

Mika at Morning Joke says that tweets don’t matter.

/

4
lawhawk  Mar 24, 2016 • 12:54:07pm

Broken clocks and all that.

So, would it surprise you that the Daily Caller dug into the background of the woman with whom the President did the tango last night and found she did a Playboy spread (link to twitter, not to DC)? Shocking, I know.

As if this somehow means the President did something wrong? And we’re in the same universe where Trump uses his own wife’s photo spreads to somehow claim he’s better qualified to be President than Cruz.

The right wing has lost all moorings with reality and are afloat in a sea of bile. All that hate has to go somewhere.

5
FormerDirtDart  Mar 24, 2016 • 12:54:45pm

Moral of the story…
Don’t rely on social media to teach your AI to be “human”

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 24, 2016 • 12:55:38pm

So, Cruz, you gonna vote for Trump during the general election. You know, for party unity ‘n all that shit.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2016 • 12:56:06pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2016 • 12:56:16pm

This is the same guy who he was fine with for a long time. Fuck Trump but fuck Cruz too.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 24, 2016 • 12:56:24pm

re: #6 sizzzzlerz

So, Cruz, you gonna vote for Trump during the general election. You know, for party unity ‘n all that shit.

Of course, have to stop creeping Sharia.
//

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 24, 2016 • 12:56:44pm
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Kragar  Mar 24, 2016 • 12:57:03pm

“real men don’t try to bully women.”

This just in: There are no real men in the Republican Party.

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2016 • 12:57:35pm

re: #11 Kragar

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Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2016 • 12:57:46pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2016 • 12:58:31pm

I’m tired of both these assholes. They’re both just awful candidates and people with policies that would be terrible for our country.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2016 • 12:58:31pm

re: #9 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Of course, have to stop creeping Sharia.
//

Shit is like kudzu, man. Once it gets into the second-growth forest, it covers everythng.

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:02:37pm
“As Cruz calls for unconstitutional surveillance of Muslim neighborhoods”

Well, a broken clock is only right for a minute.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:05:35pm

re: #16 Shiplord Kirel

Well, a broken clock is only right for a minute.

not to mention the calls for carpet bombing. Trump’s a prick for going after Mrs. Cruz but Cruz isn’t exactly being much better.

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Testy Toad T  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:05:50pm

So, it’s late March. The GOP took 30-odd states to finally decide they had to winnow the field and unify against Trump. Problem is, A) they waited so long that there were absolutely no viable candidates left, so they are really being presented with a false choice B) Trump has a lead that is surmountable only in the context of maybe being able to be brought down in a contested convention, heretofore considered a worst-case scenario in modern party politics.

Does Scott Walker feel extremely smart or extremely stupid?

19
Lidane  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:06:00pm

We need some music for this thread:

Lets get ready to Rumble - Jock Jams

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:06:28pm

re: #18 Testy Toad T

So, it’s late March. The GOP took 30-odd states to finally decide they had to winnow the field and unify against Trump. Problem is, A) they waited so long that there were absolutely no viable candidates left, so they are really being presented with a false choice B) Trump has a lead that is surmountable only in the context of maybe being able to be brought down in a contested convention, heretofore considered a worst-case scenario in modern party politics.

Does Scott Walker feel extremely smart or extremely stupid?

Smartest guy in the room, when he’s the only one there.

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:09:09pm

re: #19 Lidane

It’s celebrity deathmatch - like Kid Rock versus Eminem (except neither Trump nor Cruz is worth rooting for).

Celebrity Deathmatch - Kid Rock vs. Eminem

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Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:11:35pm
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Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:12:56pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

Better check—I think Prince Rebus has hijacked your Twitter tag.

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nines09  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:14:40pm

The Republicans don’t like each other, let alone the rest of us and the world. Let’s not elect any.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:16:02pm

re: #20 lawhawk

Smartest guy in the room, when he’s the only one there.

Nope, the walls & floor are smarter than he is.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:18:05pm

re: #18 Testy Toad T

So, it’s late March. The GOP took 30-odd states to finally decide they had to winnow the field and unify against Trump. Problem is, A) they waited so long that there were absolutely no viable candidates left, so they are really being presented with a false choice B) Trump has a lead that is surmountable only in the context of maybe being able to be brought down in a contested convention, heretofore considered a worst-case scenario in modern party politics.

Does Scott Walker feel extremely smart or extremely stupid?

Please proceed…..

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:23:29pm

RIP

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:24:13pm

re: #27 lawhawk

aw damn

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:24:26pm

re: #27 lawhawk

RIP

good grief, Ken Howard yesterday.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:25:25pm

re: #27 lawhawk

Damn. RIP.

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TedStriker  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:25:44pm

re: #27 lawhawk

TMZ: Garry Shandling dead at 66: t.co pic.twitter.com

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 24, 2016

RIP

re: #28 Jebediah, RBG

aw damn

WTF is up with this year already?

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:27:05pm

Civil war in freeperland:

Ted Cruz calls Trump “a sniveling coward”

Cruzaders are delirious with joy:

“At long last!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Someone standing up to that bully!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long over due!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

This same trumpeter has posted this same message about 5 times in the same string:

“Probably should of thought of (sic) this before you went after Trump’s wife Ted.”

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:27:19pm

re: #31 TedStriker

I want a do-over for the past 12 months. All of it.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:27:39pm

SICK BURN

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HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:27:58pm

re: #32 Shiplord Kirel

Civil war in freeperland:

Ted Cruz calls Trump “a sniveling coward”

Cruzaders are delirious with joy:

This same trumpeter has posted this same message about 5 times in the same string:

You know who has to be confused right now, the Rage Furby. He’s never met an attack on a woman that he hasn’t liked.

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:28:41pm

re: #11 Kragar

“real men don’t try to bully women.”

This just in: There are no real men in the Republican Party.

I sometimes doubt if there are any humans in the GOP these days.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:30:49pm

More Purim Fun

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:31:25pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:32:58pm

re: #38 lawhawk

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I like jokes Newt, you’re not particularly funny. You’re just a reminder of why your party still sucks even without you having a major role in it.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:33:25pm

re: #37 The Vicious Babushka

More Purim Fun

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Scowl is great.

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Billy Batts  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:36:26pm

My God, Trump is forcing me to defend Ted Cruz here.

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Jenner7  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:36:26pm

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Sophist, Premature Anti-Trumpist  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:38:29pm

re: #37 The Vicious Babushka

More Purim Fun

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Hands are too big.

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Kragar  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:40:46pm
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:43:12pm

re: #44 Kragar

LOLOLOL what could possibly go wrong?

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Ian G.  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:44:24pm

Ever get the feeling that if Twitter existed during the Iran-Iraq War, Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah Khomeini would be having a Twitter war not all that different than the one we’re seeing here? Secular fascist vs religious loon and all that….

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Stanley Sea  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:45:07pm

re: #37 The Vicious Babushka

More Purim Fun

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He’s got the tie just right!!!

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Kragar  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:45:50pm
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Kragar  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:46:16pm

re: #45 Dr Lizardo

LOLOLOL what could possibly go wrong?

I certainly can’t see any problems.

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nines09  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:46:17pm

re: #44 Kragar

I. for one, am all for it. It’s a pimple, a boil, a cyst and it needs release. Lancing. Surgery. Pop it, bitch. Please shoot one another and get the fuck off Earth.

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:47:29pm

re: #42 Jenner7

Stacked up against the shit they regularly allow, that is absurd.

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Lidane  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:50:27pm

re: #14 HappyWarrior

I’m tired of both these assholes. They’re both just awful candidates and people with policies that would be terrible for our country.

53
Kragar  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:50:49pm
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Lidane  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:52:56pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:53:53pm

re: #18 Testy Toad T

So, it’s late March. The GOP took 30-odd states to finally decide they had to winnow the field and unify against Trump. Problem is, A) they waited so long that there were absolutely no viable candidates left, so they are really being presented with a false choice B) Trump has a lead that is surmountable only in the context of maybe being able to be brought down in a contested convention, heretofore considered a worst-case scenario in modern party politics.

Does Scott Walker feel extremely smart or extremely stupid?

Yes

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:57:25pm

re: #52 Lidane

[Embedded content]

So, the RWNJ have kept up a steady stream of derp about Obama and his family, putting his feet on the desk at the WH, having “thugs” like Common over to rap, etc, and here we are with the two remaining, viable GOP candidates for president attacking each other’s wives. Obama has been all class, but these two….

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Testy Toad T  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:59:19pm

re: #56 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

two remaining, viable GOP candidates for president

Two remaining viable GOP candidates for the GOP nomination.

I’m not sure either quite passes muster as a viable candidate in the general.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 24, 2016 • 1:59:38pm

re: #57 Testy Toad T

Two remaining viable GOP candidates for the GOP nomination.

I’m not sure either quite passes muster as a viable candidate in the general.

QFT

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Lidane  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:00:34pm

re: #56 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

So, the RWNJ have kept up a steady stream of derp about Obama and his family, putting his feet on the desk at the WH, having “thugs” like Common over to rap, etc, and here we are with the two remaining, viable GOP candidates for president attacking each other’s wives. Obama has been all class, but these two….

The RWNJs are too busy hitting their fainting couches over the Obamas catching a baseball game and doing the tango to notice the dumpster fire their party has become.

They’ll figure it out after Hillary gets sworn in. Maybe.

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b.d.  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:00:35pm

re: #53 Kragar

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Are Trump and Cruz going to save all of their “Your Mamma’s so fat” material until after Easter?

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Sophist, Premature Anti-Trumpist  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:01:00pm

re: #57 Testy Toad T

I’m not sure either quite passes muster as a viable candidate in the general.

I really hope you’re right.

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Kragar  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:01:51pm

re: #60 b.d.

Keeping it for the brokered convention.

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thedopefishlives  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:02:16pm

Evening Lizardim.

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Kragar  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:05:23pm
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Lidane  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:05:26pm

In case you thought that Cruz and Trump were hogging all the stupid:

GOHMERT!

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nines09  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:06:15pm

re: #54 Lidane

One more gutless wonder.

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William of Orange  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:08:29pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

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If Hogan can do it, bleed them dry! No mercy for grifters like Daleiden!

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thedopefishlives  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:09:58pm

re: #65 Lidane

In case you thought that Cruz and Trump were hogging all the stupid:

GOHMERT!

[Embedded content]

After seeing Michele Bachmann’s derpsplosion yesterday upon arriving at my domicile, I was sobered by the thought that no one, not one, has a monopoly on stupid. It is truly a universal property.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:10:43pm

Nasty front going through, tornado watches again. Lower Georgia is next.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:11:39pm

re: #36 Romantic Heretic

I sometimes doubt if there are any humans in the GOP these days.

They are displaying all the worst aspects of humanity.

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thedopefishlives  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:12:10pm

re: #69 Decatur Deb

Nasty front going through, tornado watches again. Lower Georgia is next.

Strap yourself to the nearest underground pipe.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:14:00pm

re: #71 thedopefishlives

Strap yourself to the nearest underground pipe.

Watching a neighbor’s pine tree make ugly moves towards the power lines.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:15:26pm

re: #57 Testy Toad T

Just imagine who they’ll foist upon us in 2020.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:17:32pm

Just had a 15 second blackout.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:17:37pm

re: #73 GlutenFreeJesus

Just imagine who they’ll foist upon us in 2020.

Slime mold we scraped out from under a rock 2020!

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Sophist, Premature Anti-Trumpist  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:20:03pm

re: #75 Big Beautiful Door

Slime mold we scraped out from under a rock 2020!

That would be a marked improvement. Slime mold, for all its faults, has never advocated torture.

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Testy Toad T  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:20:06pm

re: #73 GlutenFreeJesus

Just imagine who they’ll foist upon us in 2020.

Maybe they’ll finally locate Gene Eric.

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Lidane  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:20:20pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:21:15pm

David Duke/Alex Jones 2020.

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Kragar  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:23:45pm
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ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:24:57pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

Planned Parenthood ✔ ‎@PPact

Planned Parenthood is suing indicted extremist David Daleiden & people behind the discredited smear videos targeting PP. #StandWithPP

2:37 PM - 24 Mar 2016

I hope they put that idiot and his merry band of deceivers in such a financial hole we never see any of them again.

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Testy Toad T  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:25:07pm

I am not sure what makes me sadder: that Trump and Cruz are sparring over something so banal and boorish, or that the media in this country is covering it like it’s serious news.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:25:09pm

re: #80 Kragar

Can’t bear to listen to his voice. What did he say?

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Kragar  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:25:54pm

re: #83 GlutenFreeJesus

Its a gif, no audio, but they include the transcript

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ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:26:03pm

re: #11 Kragar

“real men don’t try to bully women.”

This just in: There are no real men in the Republican Party.

Are there any real humans?

I don’t see any.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:27:58pm

Run down on TPM on what our bugfuck insane legislature just did in 12 hours yesterday:

It implemented a detailed state-wide regulation of public restrooms, and limited a person’s use of those restrooms to only those restrooms that correspond with one’s “biological sex,” defined in the new state law as the sex identified on one’s birth certificate. (So yes, by law in NC now, transgender porn star Buck Angel (look him up) will have to use the women’s room…isn’t that precisely what these lawmakers are actually wanting to prevent?).

But the legislation didn’t stop there. It also expressly pre-empted all municipal and county ordinances or policies broader than the official state anti-discrimination statute, which does not include sexual orientation or gender identity among the list of prohibited bases of discrimination. So that effectively wipes out local LGBT anti-discrimination protections in numerous NC cities (and, ironically, wipes out the protection of discrimination based on “veterans status” in Greensboro and Orange County (Chapel Hill)).

But wait, there’s more. The legislation also expressly states that there can be no statutory or common law private right of action to enforce the state’s anti-discrimination statutes in the state courts. So if a NC resident is the victim of racial discrimination in housing or employment, for example, that person is now entirely barred from going to state court to get an injunction, or to get damages of any kind. The new law completely defangs the state’s anti-discrimination statute, rendering it entirely unenforceable by the citizens of the state.

But wait, there’s more! The legislation also prohibits municipalities and counties from passing a higher minimum wage than the State’s. Not that any municipality or county had done that…but in case any of them were thinking about it, that’s now prohibited, too.
This is much broader than the RFRA laws that we saw in Indiana and Arkansas last summer, and that Georgia is dealing with right now. The NC legislature learned the lessons from those states and the political and corporate/business blow-back, and did this all before anyone could pay attention.

Everybody get that?

Not only are post op trans people and any other trans people banned from bathrooms that do not match their birth certificate...no city or county in NC can make any sort of civil rights rules, laws or preferences of any sort for anybody, including military veterans.

Oh, and forget about that minimum wage in Charlotte, or Ware County asking that government contractors pay a decent salary.

Banned.

Oh, I’m sorry, did the wait staff at the restaurant just insult your skin color and say “We don’t serve your kind around here?”

Your lawsuit has just been preemptively banned as well.

Civil rights complaint about your employer of your landlord?

Banned. You CANNOT SUE IN NC COURTS ANYMORE!

All NC civil rights laws have been effectively rescinded as of today.

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KGxvi  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:29:39pm

re: #44 Kragar

I think my favorite part of that is the Traitor’s Battle Flag background.

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A Mom Anon  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:30:45pm

re: #86 Aunty Entity Dragon

Could people then go to the federal level? I have no idea, but this can’t be constitutional, can it?

The Spite Caucus strikes again. Fucking assholes.

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Sophist, Premature Anti-Trumpist  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:31:04pm

re: #85 ObserverArt

Are there any real humans?

I don’t see any.

Of course there are. Assholishness of this extreme level requires a human touch.

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ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:31:08pm

re: #38 lawhawk

Newt Gingrich ✔ ‎@newtgingrich

When will #Obama realize his strategy isn’t working? bit.ly

pic.twitter.com

When will Newt Gingrich realize no one pays attention to his fat ass.

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Testy Toad T  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:31:36pm

re: #86 Aunty Entity Dragon

Sounds like a great way to burn down the Research Triangle, and with it any economic daylight between NC and Mississippi.

But at least then the state would be blood-red. I dunno, maybe some North Carolinians would see that as a plus.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:33:02pm

Sometimes I can’t believe how utterly bizarre and disgusting the Republican presidential race has gotten. This is sure to go down in history as one of the most venal, degraded elections ever

And these are just the primaries. Once the general starts, we will see new depth of sniveling depravity

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:33:56pm

re: #88 A Mom Anon

Could people then go to the federal level? I have no idea, but this can’t be constitutional, can it?

The Spite Caucus strikes again. Fucking assholes.

You can still file federal civil rights suits in federal court…but nothing like this has ever happened on this scale that I know of where a state essentially voided ALL local and state civil rights laws in a secret, unannounced special session where the legislation was not revealed until 5 minutes before the vote was called.

This is the sort of thing you would associate with Reconstruction Era North Carolina.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:35:31pm

re: #93 Aunty Entity Dragon

You can still file federal civil rights suits in federal court…but nothing like this has ever happened on this scale that I know of where a state essentially voided ALL local and state civil rights laws in a secret, unannounced special session where the legislation was not revealed until 5 minutes before the vote was called.

This is the sort of thing you would associate with Reconstruction Era North Carolina.

Time for Jerry Garcia and the Reconstruction, I guess

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Testy Toad T  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:37:19pm

Presuming a not-close Trump/Cruz loss in the general, it will be interesting to see how the GOP leadership handles the I-told-you-so conversation with the base. It’s not obvious to me that they can be drawn back in, but neither is it obvious that the bridge has been fully burned. Voters love winning, and certainly the GOP will continue to cater (somewhat more subtly) to white working-class interests.

Maybe we’ll just see Candidate Ryan in 2020 and this will have all blown over. I don’t expect it, but it wouldn’t shock me.

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Lidane  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:38:37pm

*facepalm*

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Kragar  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:39:10pm

re: #95 Testy Toad T

it will be interesting to see how the GOP leadership handles the I-told-you-so conversation with the base.

“Obviously, the problem was we did not nominate a conservative enough candidate.”

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:39:41pm

Really hoping for Trump in the general, since it probably puts NC into blue territory and we can dump that vile son of a bitch Pat McCrory posing as our governor.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:39:47pm

re: #96 Lidane

Giuliani: I Would Pardon Anyone Who Engaged in Torture

President Guiliani? There’s a Dr Mengele on the line for you…

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:40:13pm

re: #74 Decatur Deb

You or the power?

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Testy Toad T  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:41:15pm

re: #96 Lidane

*facepalm*

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They can currently equate “strength” with “winning”. It’s baked into the conversation. Therefore, in order to project “winning”, they can affect a position that the lumpenproletariat interpret as “strength”.

I wonder what these assbag politicians will be saying about this topic in a year, when the equation has presumably been tested and found badly wanting.

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Kragar  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:42:14pm
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Testy Toad T  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:43:37pm

re: #97 Kragar

“Obviously, the problem was we did not nominate a conservative enough candidate.”

I think a big segment of the power base recognizes that they spawned Cruz, and they don’t want any more of them. It’ll need to be spun more like “assholes are bad, we need to have a return to Dubya’s compassionate conservatism”, or something. And then when the turboconservative candidates appear in 2020, kneecap them early on and keep things from spiraling out of control again.

I dunno, we’ll find out.

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EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:43:43pm

re: #86 Aunty Entity Dragon

One does wonder why the NC state legislature didn’t just go ahead and repeal all existing state-level non-discrimination law.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:44:29pm

...

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:44:42pm

re: #104 EPR-radar

One does wonder why the NC state legislature didn’t just go ahead and repeal all existing state-level non-discrimination law.

because that would not be nefarious and underhanded enough

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EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:47:11pm

re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

because that would not be nefarious and underhanded enough

The fact that the NC state legislature rammed this hot mess through in 12 hours really shows that they have confidence they are doing right by their constituents. ///

Here’s hoping NC gets the boycott from hell for this.

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Sophist, Premature Anti-Trumpist  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:50:48pm

re: #101 Testy Toad T

They can currently equate “strength” with “winning”. It’s baked into the conversation. Therefore, in order to project “winning”, they can affect a position that the lumpenproletariat Trumpenproletariat interpret as “strength”.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:52:15pm

re: #104 EPR-radar

One does wonder why the NC state legislature didn’t just go ahead and repeal all existing state-level non-discrimination law.

Easier to just ban any attempt to use them. Oh, and the bonus is that you can still say the laws are on the books if anybody asks.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:53:36pm

re: #96 Lidane

*facepalm*

[Embedded content]

That’s why you’ll never be President, asshole.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:53:42pm

Whoa. So glad I worked from home today.

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Mike Lamb  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:55:01pm

re: #96 Lidane

*facepalm*

[Embedded content]

Who is this person and why is he speaking to us as if we needed his advice?

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Dave In Austin  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:57:35pm

Facebook Post

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Kragar  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:59:12pm

re: #112 Mike Lamb

Who is this person and why is he speaking to us as if we needed his advice?

The Honourable Sir Hasbeen McAlsoran

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:59:38pm

Trump is a complete and utter asshole, but it’s Cruz who’s the coward.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2016 • 2:59:39pm

“Giuliani: I Would Pardon Anyone Who Engaged in Torture “

Explains some of the unfortunate happenings ascribed to the NYPD.

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:01:39pm

re: #65 Lidane

In case you thought that Cruz and Trump were hogging all the stupid:

GOHMERT!

[Embedded content]

I might halfway have some kind of grudging, not respect, but perhaps a kind of tolerant pity for a crazed street corner preacher who said stuff like this and really believed it.
Gohmert, however, is simply a tool of the oil industry who says crazy stuff so he can frighten semi-literate knuckle draggers, get their votes, and stay in power so he can help his real friends, the oil ticks.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:02:36pm

re: #116 Decatur Deb

“Giuliani: I Would Pardon Anyone Who Engaged in Torture “

Explains some of the unfortunate happenings ascribed to the NYPD.

Holy Shit… Has something been placed in our water (besides lead… oh wait…)?? Just WTF.

119
Shiplord Kirel  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:04:09pm

re: #44 Kragar

Sounds like the basis for an action-packed video game.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:05:06pm

re: #118 Dave In Austin

Holy Shit… Has something been placed in our water (besides lead… oh wait…)?? Just WTF.

“I’m the Marquis de Sade, and I approve this message”.

121
Aunty Entity Dragon  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:05:28pm

re: #116 Decatur Deb

“Giuliani: I Would Pardon Anyone Who Engaged in Torture “

Explains some of the unfortunate happenings ascribed to the NYPD.

NYPD still acting like an army of occupation if you look at headlines from Raw Story etc over the last 3 days.

yesterday…arrested a mailman who vocally complained when an unmarked cop car nearly sideswiped his mailtruck that was parked while he made deliveries.

2 days ago…NYPD blames college professor hit and killed while legally crossing on walk sign in a crosswalk by off duty officer in van who did not signal and was talking on phone. NYPD claims the dead victim did not take due diligence despite the fact he was crossing during lit cross sign in complete accordance with all laws.

And so it goes.

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Sophist, Premature Anti-Trumpist  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:08:01pm

re: #113 Dave In Austin

[Embedded content]

Funny, that’s pretty much how I reacted to vegetables when I was a kid.

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Bubblehead II  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:11:21pm

re: #117 Shiplord Kirel

I might halfway have some kind of grudging, not respect, but perhaps a kind of tolerant pity for a crazed street corner preacher who said stuff like this and really believed it.
Gohmert, however, is simply a tool of the oil industry who says crazy stuff so he can frighten semi-literate knuckle draggers, get their votes, and stay in power so he can help his real friends, the oil ticks.

Ummm, you might not want to use that term again. You have been here long enough to know (or should know) that it has a certain negative connotation that just might be frowned upon by our host..

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:13:44pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:15:02pm

re: #113 Dave In Austin

I don’t like these videos. People should not scare their pets like that.

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Kragar  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:16:52pm
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Pawn of the Oppressor  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:17:08pm

These two manly men need to settle this in the yuuuugest, manliest way possible: With a manly game of Russian Roulette.

I will supply the gun.

Settle it in the bunker, kids. And I don’t mean the one on the golf course.
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Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:21:22pm

re: #65 Lidane

To paraphrase Sir Hammerlock, “Every time I hear Gohmert speak I feel my brain cells committing suicide one by one.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:21:55pm

re: #104 EPR-radar

One does wonder why the NC state legislature didn’t just go ahead and repeal all existing state-level non-discrimination law.

They essentially did that yesterday with this legislation.

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ninja cat  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:21:58pm

NC ya’ll are going to have all kinds of problems.

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Maxwell Not So Smart  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:25:38pm

re: #37 The Vicious Babushka

The best part of that costume is the hand size is very authentic ;-)

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gocart mozart  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:25:53pm
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EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:27:48pm

re: #113 Dave In Austin

Poor kitties. They probably think they are seeing a snake that has sneaked up on them.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:28:33pm

re: #123 Bubblehead II

Really? I have never heard that term until tonight.

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:28:47pm

re: #125 The Vicious Babushka

agreed

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EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:32:05pm

re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth

Really? I have never heard that term until tonight.

I’m also puzzled by this. I’ve heard the term used specifically in connection with Saudi Royals, which would seem to be reasonable enough. If I’m missing something here, I’d like to know about it.

137
Stanley Sea  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:32:31pm

gainesville.com

Gun-rights advocate Jamie Gilt faces misdemeanor charge after being shot by 4-year-old son

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:32:32pm

re: #10 FormerDirtDart

Holy shit.

Besides the awful output… That doesn’t take away from my hypothesis that Twitter is full of political hate bots.

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Stanley Sea  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:34:04pm
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Bubblehead II  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:34:05pm

re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth

Really? I have never heard that term until tonight.

Derogatory term used to refer to the Saudis and other middle east oil producers. While not overtly racist, it was a dog whistle used here back in the bad old days.

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:34:51pm

re: #137 Stanley Sea

She’s lucky she and her kid both survived the incident. Either or both could have been killed because she had loaded guns in her car within reach of her kid.

Yeah, that’s a responsible gun owner alright.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:35:14pm

re: #138 Pawn of the Oppressor

Holy shit.

Besides the awful output… That doesn’t take away from my hypothesis that Twitter is full of political hate bots.

Someone deep in a “Tay” comment section solved a conumdrum:

“Trump/Tay 2016”.

143
Kragar  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:35:53pm
144
gocart mozart  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:37:56pm

The name of the episode is “It’s great that Gary Shandling is still alive”
comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com

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ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:42:22pm

re: #143 Kragar

Donald J. Trump ✔ ‎@realDonaldTrump

I didn’t start the fight with Lyin’Ted Cruz over the GQ cover pic of Melania, he did. He knew the PAC was putting it out - hence, Lyin’ Ted!

Jesus. How long before Trump puts out a tweet that says: “Nuh uh! I’m gonna tell.”

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Mattand  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:42:58pm

re: #130 ninja cat

NC ya’ll are going to have all kinds of problems.

[Embedded content]

I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that’s absolutely not what the law says and allows.

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Kragar  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:45:44pm

I’m picturing the bestest October surprise ever this year:

The announcement that Trump is being indicted for his various frauds and provocations the same week they announce Clinton won’t be indicted over the email nonsense.

148
MsJ  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:45:48pm

re: #146 Mattand

I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that’s absolutely not what the law says and allows.

If that guy is a trans woman (born female transitioned to male) that is exactly what the law says.

149
Sophist, Premature Anti-Trumpist  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:47:05pm

re: #139 Stanley Sea

[Embedded content]

Of course it does. That’s the natural result of Trump’s courageous response to the attack, i.e. setting his head on fire and running around screaming that Daesh is winning.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:47:49pm
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EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:47:51pm

re: #146 Mattand

I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that’s absolutely not what the law says and allows.

That might be an unwise bet to make. This garbage was pushed through in 12 hours, which is conducive to all kinds of unintended consequences. There is also this bit (from AED’s #86)

It implemented a detailed state-wide regulation of public restrooms, and limited a person’s use of those restrooms to only those restrooms that correspond with one’s “biological sex,” defined in the new state law as the sex identified on one’s birth certificate. (So yes, by law in NC now, transgender porn star Buck Angel (look him up) will have to use the women’s room…isn’t that precisely what these lawmakers are actually wanting to prevent?).

Having legislatures actually debate their laws is the main way to prevent idiocy like this, but the GOP just doesn’t care.

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ninja cat  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:50:59pm

re: #148 MsJ

If that guy is a trans woman (born female transitioned to male) that is exactly what the law says.

Correct, he is a trans man. Several others followed suit on his tweet.

153
Kragar  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:52:25pm
154
Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:54:25pm

I would not want to be the poor bastard who has to enforce that NC law…

155
ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:54:33pm

re: #151 EPR-radar

That might be an unwise bet to make. This garbage was pushed through in 12 hours, which is conducive to all kind of unintended consequences. There is also this bit (from AED’s #86)

Having legislatures actually debate their laws is the main way to prevent idiocy like this, but the GOP just doesn’t care.

Your comment triggered a thought.

Does anyone know if ALEC had anything to do with any of this new law’s creation? If by any chance they had their rotten paws in this it could mean this was a test and more states could try to jump in.

I admit, I haven’t followed the actual creation of the law. I would have never thought they would have been able to get this passed. How wrong I was…and shocked.

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EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:56:37pm

re: #155 ObserverArt

Your comment triggered a thought.

Does anyone know if ALEC had anything to do with any of this new law’s creation? If by any chance they had their rotten paws in this it could mean this was a test and more states could try to jump in.

I admit, I haven’t followed the actual creation of the law. I would have never thought they would have been able to get this passed. How wrong I was…and shocked.

I don’t have the details, but that seems likely. This NC law appears to be a RWNJ wish list that includes several anti-union provisions, in addition to its countless other awful provisions.

Edited to add: We shouldn’t be shocked or surprised by this kind of stuff, no matter how awful it gets. This is just what Republicans do when they have the votes. It really is that simple.

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Kragar  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:57:22pm
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Nyet  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:57:30pm

Binge-watching Daredevil.

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Great White Snark  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:57:43pm

Yup those nuclear agreements sometimes just do not go so well. We have demonstrated the inability to enforce them with effective consequences. Non proliferation theater?

Washington (CNN)Some U.S. intelligence analysts now believe that North Korea “probably” possesses a miniaturized nuclear warhead, several U.S. officials told CNN.

How the hell did we get from here…

1985

December 12, 1985: North Korea accedes to the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) but does not complete a safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Under Article III of the NPT, North Korea has 18 months to conclude such an arrangement. In coming years, North Korea links adherence to this provision of the treaty to the withdrawal of U.S. nuclear weapons from South Korea.
1991

September 27, 1991: President George Bush announces the unilateral withdrawal of all naval and land-based tactical nuclear weapons deployed abroad. Approximately 100 U.S. nuclear weapons had been based in South Korea. Eight days later, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev reciprocates.

To here?

2016

January 6, 2016: North Korea announces it conducted a fourth nuclear weapons test, claiming to have detonated a hydrogen bomb for the first time. Monitoring stations from the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization detect the seismic activity from the test. The type of device tested remains unclear, although experts doubt it was of a hydrogen bomb based on seismic evidence.

February 7, 2016: North Korea launches a long-range ballistic missile carrying what it has said is an earth observation satellite in defiance of United Nations sanctions barring it from using ballistic missile technology, drawing strong international condemnation from other governments which believe it will advance North Korea’s military ballistic missile capabilities.

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Kragar  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:58:38pm

re: #158 Nyet

Binge-watching Daredevil.

How far along are you?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2016 • 3:58:47pm

re: #158 Nyet

Binge-watching Daredevil.

Which is how I ended up getting to bed after 1 AM, two nights running.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2016 • 4:00:10pm

re: #140 Bubblehead II

Derogatory term used to refer to the Saudis and other middle east oil producers. While not overtly racist, it was a dog whistle used here back in the bad old days.

thanks.
I did not know that.

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plansbandc  Mar 24, 2016 • 4:00:34pm

So are they going to have a gender police guard at every public bathroom in NC to check everyone’s birth certificate?

NC Republicans are truly job creators!

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Nyet  Mar 24, 2016 • 4:00:50pm

re: #160 Kragar

Have finished ep. 8 of the first series.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2016 • 4:00:53pm

So much good TV to binge watch these days! Can you imagine binge watching some of the dreck that was on when we were young?

“I stayed up till 2 AM, binge watching Barnaby Jones.”

“I’m so tired! I was binge watching Love Boat, and I just couldn’t break away from it!”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2016 • 4:01:29pm

re: #163 plansbandc

So are they going to have a gender police guard at every public bathroom in NC to check everyone’s birth certificate?

NC Republicans are truly job creators!

So, does it have to be the long form?

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fern01  Mar 24, 2016 • 4:03:20pm

re: #56 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

So, the RWNJ have kept up a steady stream of derp about Obama and his family, putting his feet on the desk at the WH, having “thugs” like Common over to rap, etc, and here we are with the two remaining, viable GOP candidates for president attacking each other’s wives. Obama has been all class, but these two….

Just looked at many pictures from the trip to Argentina. Pure class from the President, FLOTUS and their children - and of course mother-in-law.

Next thing I read is Trump and Cruz fighting about their wives. The GOP bringing the world down to the level of realty TV and late night wrestling.

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BlueGrl21  Mar 24, 2016 • 4:09:04pm

Seems to me it would be a lot more powerful if Heidi Cruz made a complete ass out of him right now. Forget Ted’s righteous indignation.

“Donald Trump has confused running our country with running the Miss World pageant again.”

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Schroedinger's Dog  Mar 24, 2016 • 4:26:40pm

I want to see if we can make a phrase trend on the internet. So anytime you use Trump’s name make sure you add “who has no business being president”, immediately thereafter. With any luck it will show up on Google search results and become a news story. Feel free to suggest an alternate phrase. I would have said who has an incredibly tiny penis comma but that ship has sailed.


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