And There It Is: President Barack Obama Endorses Hillary Clinton for President

A strong endorsement from the President
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Here’s the video! I’m a little surprised he did it the same day he met with Bernie Sanders; I thought he’d wait a day or two. But I imagine he’s feeling eager to get into this and work to defeat Donald Trump and his evil, bigoted agenda: President Obama endorses Hillary Clinton.

President Barack Obama endorsed Hillary Clinton on Thursday, saying, “I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office.”

The forceful show of support, which came after Obama met with Sen. Bernie Sanders for more than an hour at the White House, is designed to unite the party ahead of what is expected to be an especially brutal general election against Donald Trump.

The first joint appearance with Clinton and Obama will take place next Wednesday in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

UPDATE at 6/9/16 12:37:10 pm by Charles Johnson

Hillary responds to a typical Donald Trump insult tweet with an awesome burn:

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660 comments
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 11:47:07am

O/T right away, but several lizards (including Charles) had this happen to them this past week:

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lawhawk  Jun 9, 2016 • 11:47:50am

Trump is nothing if not predictable:

But if he take’s Hillary’s advice, how’s he going to keep in contact with his fellow bigot brigade and white supremacists?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 11:50:21am

[HAGoodman]The Superdelegates should give Bernie the nomination because he’s the people’s choice! he’s won 7 of the last 8 contests! he’s got momentum! he’ll win California! I want them to!!![/HAGoodman]

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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 9, 2016 • 11:51:11am

Based on his comment today, I don’t think Bernie will feel slighted by Obama’s endorsement. Bernie said he will soon meet with Hillary so that they can make plans on working together to defeat Trump. As I expected, it looks like Bernie will play ball and help unify the Democrats.

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CuriousLurker  Jun 9, 2016 • 11:52:37am

Dang, POUTS is good—he’s still got it.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 9, 2016 • 11:53:04am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 11:54:48am

Gee, remember when the GOP was gonna be so hard to beat, because of their unity and their enthusiasm? Not to mention the depth of their bench.

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Skip Intro  Jun 9, 2016 • 11:55:40am

Travis County Texas Republican Chair Robert Morrow answers the biggest question in the universe, and no, the answer is not “42”.

“Big titties”.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 11:56:21am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 11:56:39am

re: #8 Skip Intro

Travis County Texas Republican Chair Robert Morrow answers the biggest question in the universe, and no, the answer is not “42”.

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“Big titties”.

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SOMEbody’s angling for a spot in Trump’s Cabinet!

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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 9, 2016 • 11:56:42am

re: #8 Skip Intro

Travis County Texas Republican Chair Robert Morrow answers the biggest question in the universe, and no, the answer is not “42”.

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“Big titties”.

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Trump’s are bigger than Hillary’s!

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Belafon  Jun 9, 2016 • 11:58:15am

Balloon Juice has a picture of Susan B. Anthony’s marker that has a few more “I Voted” stickers on it.

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Franklin  Jun 9, 2016 • 11:58:18am

If Muhammed Ali were to comment on the BernieBros….(spoilered for language)

Click to Reveal
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Bubblehead II  Jun 9, 2016 • 11:59:18am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:00:05pm

hahahahahaha*cough*hahahahahaaa!!!

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nines09  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:00:23pm

re: #8 Skip Intro

Maybe he can break away and start the Fun Bags Party. Chaired by him, Mr. Motor Boat.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:00:31pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:01:34pm

re: #14 Bubblehead II

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At least when the DEms said that McCain was Bush’s 4rd term, people actually disliked the Bush presidency. People support this president. Makes chafe the GOP’s ass to know that.

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Skip Intro  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:01:37pm

re: #10 Blind Frog Belly White

SOMEbody’s angling for a spot in Trump’s Cabinet!

He has a Trump pacifier too.

And then there’s this.

DF must be so proud of his party.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:01:56pm

re: #8 Skip Intro

Travis County Texas Republican Chair Robert Morrow answers the biggest question in the universe, and no, the answer is not “42”.

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“Big titties”.

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42 would be big, even on Betelgeuse 5.

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Franklin  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:02:10pm

One of the greatest Obama gifs, which is a riff on one of the greatest gifs of all time (and an even better youtube video)

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Dr. Matt  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:02:44pm

Bald eagle vs. Canada goose: Scuffle between symbolic birds caught on camera

Iframe

P.S. It’s a happy ending.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:03:03pm

re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth

I don’t think there’s been a candidate for this office more unethical and untrustworthy than Hillary Clinton. t.co
— Reince Priebus

Seriously, Dude? You’re embarrassing yourself.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:03:35pm

re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth

hahahahahaha*cough*hahahahahaaa!!!

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Reince should do stand up, he’s good at it. Oh? He was serious there. Well then, Reince, allow me to introduce you to Donald Trump, he’s your party’s nominee and the reason why you’re going to be unemployed next year. Maybe Hillary can give you a job cleaning elephant shit at the White House.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:04:15pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:04:24pm

re: #19 Skip Intro

He has a Trump pacifier too.

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And then there’s this.

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DF must be so proud of his party.

And this guy isn’t some small county GOP chair. I believe Travis County is Austin. Great job GOP. You know how to find some real winners.

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:04:38pm

re: #10 Blind Frog Belly White

Trump will Make America Great Again by bringing back court jesters!

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Skip Intro  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:04:46pm

re: #26 HappyWarrior

You’re correct.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:05:03pm

trump supporter is angry:

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Archangelus  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:05:13pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:05:43pm

re: #22 Dr. Matt

Bald eagle vs. Canada goose: Scuffle between symbolic birds caught on camera

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P.S. It’s a happy ending.

USA! USA!

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Sir John Barron  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:06:06pm

re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth

trump supporter is angry:

Sean’s butthurt already? Campaign hasn’t even started.

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KerFuFFler  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:06:12pm

Just read a fascinating article about the origins of Trump University. There was another scam outfit, NGC, that was already out there peddling the notion that there was a lot of free money through government grants out there for the taking. Expensive seminars could unleash the secrets to getting cold hard cash. And why am I not surprised that a former republican Congressman (J.C. Watts R-Okla) was their pitchman on an infomercial? And later on, former Congressman J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.) joined the sleazy operation.

Trump joined forces with the people financing NGC, the Millins, and they created a new scam focused on real estate seminars, Trump’s purported area of expertise.

No wonder the GOP was reluctant to point fingers at Trump over this. Conning people has become the GOP brand both in politics and in their side ventures.

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Jay in Oregon  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:06:31pm
FIRST
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Dr. Matt  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:06:39pm

Charles, any thoughts about including links to the “The Random Donald Trump Tweet Machine” and “Trump bumper sticker creator” along with the other links below the masthead? Or somewhere else on the root page?

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Franklin  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:07:26pm

re: #34 Jay in Oregon

Mind if I tweet it out?

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lawhawk  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:07:35pm
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Jay in Oregon  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:07:50pm

re: #36 Franklin

Feel free!

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lawhawk  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:07:54pm
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Dr. Matt  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:07:58pm

I wonder if Trump will block Hillary Clinton on Twitter?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:08:13pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:08:15pm

re: #37 lawhawk

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I was surprised he hadn’t already. He was an early endorser in 2008. Welcome aboard Cousin Marty though.

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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:09:20pm

re: #5 CuriousLurker

Dang, POUTS is good—he’s still got it.

Made you tear up a little didn’t it? I was sniffling like my allergies had a cold.

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nines09  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:10:07pm

re: #19 Skip Intro

The Face Of The Republican Party.

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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:10:10pm

re: #7 Blind Frog Belly White

Gee, remember when the GOP was gonna be so hard to beat, because of their unity and their enthusiasm? Not to mention the depth of their bench.

They definitely had a deep bench. Alas for them, it was sitting in 10’ of water.

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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:10:58pm

re: #8 Skip Intro

Travis County Texas Republican Chair Robert Morrow answers the biggest question in the universe, and no, the answer is not “42”.

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“Big titties”.

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The GOP, man. You could not make this up. The Onion is no longer needed. They simply cannot compete with the reality that is the GOP.

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Franklin  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:11:15pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:12:42pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:12:57pm

re: #46 MsJ

The GOP, man. You could not make this up. The Onion is no longer needed. They simply cannot compete with the reality that is the GOP.

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” - Mark Twain

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:14:03pm

re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“Trumps! Meet the Trumps! They’re the modern Stone Age family!”

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Belafon  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:14:20pm

re: #40 Dr. Matt

I wonder if Trump will block Hillary Clinton on Twitter?

The mocking of him would be so great he’d turn into a second orange sun.

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lawhawk  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:14:22pm

Seriously. WTF is wrong with these people.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:15:09pm

re: #52 lawhawk

Laura Ingraham: Trump, unlike Clinton, can shoot wads of “magic sauce” onto issues t.co pic.twitter.com
— Jezebel

Huh?

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Kragar  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:15:41pm

re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:15:50pm

re: #52 lawhawk

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Seriously. WTF is wrong with these people.

Ann Coulter Lite says what? No, Laura, Clinton can actually talk about political issues and sound like an adult. A high bar I know since your political party is going to nominate Biff from Back to the Future.

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withak  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:16:15pm

re: #52 lawhawk

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Seriously. WTF is wrong with these people.

“wads” “magic sauce” “[t]issues”

The jokes, they write themselves.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:16:39pm

re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth

For a while we didn’t really know for sure whether Kurtz was a douchecanoe. Then he joined Fox and removed all doubt.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:16:39pm

re: #53 Sir John Barron

Huh?

It’s the weird Republican obsession with phallic stuff. They’re shoving Obamacare down our throats. Now it’s Trump can shoot a wad his wad of magic sauce. I don’t know how he does it.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:17:01pm

re: #52 lawhawk

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Seriously. WTF is wrong with these people.

(insert J. Jonah Jameson “HAHAHAHAHAHA!…You’re serious?” GIF here)

or

(insert ‘HAHAHAHAHA!…No.’ GIF here)

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:17:03pm

re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth

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nines09  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:17:26pm

re: #52 lawhawk

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Seriously. WTF is wrong with these people.

I make a lot of jokes about the insane stuff they say and do, but sometimes it’s a bit scary that they act like this. They truly are screwed in the head. Clinically screwed in the head.

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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:18:19pm

re: #19 Skip Intro

DF must be so proud of his party.

He is. We see it daily.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:18:36pm

A quick way to make people forget your party once had Abraham Lincoln as its standard bearer is to nominate a guy who has a wad of magic sauce.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:18:50pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:19:05pm

re: #62 MsJ

He is. We see it daily.

I hope he says hello to Senator Duckworth for us.

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Franklin  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:19:07pm

Phew, someone wrote up a Vox-splainer of the Clinton tweet //

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:19:21pm

re: #58 HappyWarrior

It’s the weird Republican obsession with phallic stuff. They’re shoving Obamacare down our throats. Now it’s Trump can shoot a wad his wad of magic sauce. I don’t know how he does it.

To be fair, Ingraham didn’t come up with the wad shooting thing. But she DID say “… Trump has the magic sauce. He just has to sprinkle it on the issues, and then he has to serve it up in a very pleasing, interesting, and sometimes provocative and entertaining way.”

Eeeewww.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:19:29pm

re: #52 lawhawk

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Seriously. WTF is wrong with these people.

I threw up in my mouth.

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Ming5000  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:19:48pm

Superdelagates as of now. Wiki
Shows PBO’s endorsement:

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Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:19:51pm

re: #8 Skip Intro
re: #52 lawhawk

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Seriously. WTF is wrong with these people.

Allusion-deficiency anaemia, for one thing.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:20:07pm

re: #67 Blind Frog Belly White

To be fair, Ingraham didn’t come up with the wad shooting thing. But she DID say “… Trump has the magic sauce. He just has to sprinkle it on the issues, and then he has to serve it up in a very pleasing, interesting, and sometimes provocative and entertaining way.”

Eeeewww.

That sounds gooey. Did Laura check Trump’s magic sauce for STDs?

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:20:37pm

re: #69 Ming5000

Superdelagates as of now. Wiki
Shows PBO’s endorsement:

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Bernie had two senators? Or was the other one including himself?

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Sir John Barron  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:20:48pm

re: #66 Franklin

Phew, someone wrote up a Vox-splainer of the Clinton tweet //

Vox is on it.

Damn fine journalism.

/

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nines09  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:21:00pm

re: #52 lawhawk

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Seriously. WTF is wrong with these people.

I’m going to get it all over you!
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lawhawk  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:21:39pm

re: #66 Franklin

As of this moment, the HRC delete your twitter has garnered over 100k likes and 100k retweets.

And no sign of slowing down.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:21:40pm

re: #71 HappyWarrior

That sounds gooey. Did Laura check Trump’s magic sauce for STDs?

Definitely sounds like what you get on your meal if you go back to a restaurant where you didn’t tip the wait staff.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:23:53pm

re: #75 lawhawk

As of this moment, the HRC delete your twitter has garnered over 100k likes and 100k retweets.

And no sign of slowing down.

She’s going after Trump with a joy and fun that Bernie never could have.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:24:35pm

re: #76 Blind Frog Belly White

Definitely sounds like what you get on your meal if you go back to a restaurant where you didn’t tip the wait staff.

We will be serving our KFC double down’s with Donald’s famous magic sauce.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:24:57pm
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Tigger2  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:24:59pm

re: #2 lawhawk

Trump is nothing if not predictable:

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But if he take’s Hillary’s advice, how’s he going to keep in contact with his fellow bigot brigade and white supremacists?

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:25:40pm

re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I think it’s coming.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:26:54pm

re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“Hey, guys! Uh, what’s new? It, uh, looks like I’m gonna be back here with you guys again! So, what are we working on these days?”

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:27:03pm

re: #16 nines09

Maybe he can break away and start the Fun Bags Party. Chaired by him, Mr. Motor Boat.

The Funbags Party’s first candidate:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:27:26pm

indeed…

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nines09  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:27:58pm

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

off to choreville…..

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Franklin  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:28:12pm
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TedStriker  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:28:36pm

re: #11 Big Beautiful Door

Trump’s are bigger than Hillary’s!

These days, the way The Donald’s porked up, that may not be the case…

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:28:36pm

re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth

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indeed…

Shouldn’t they had seen the hint when Twain is saying the best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible. That’s pretty damn funny though.

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Kragar  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:28:38pm
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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:29:44pm

re: #54 Kragar

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:30:03pm

re: #86 Franklin

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One of the PACs should do an ad on the Friels. People need to know how Trump is a greedy asshole who only cares about himself.

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:30:09pm

I don’t think Sanders meeting with Obama went very well. I get the distinct feeling that he pissed the President off.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:30:17pm

re: #86 Franklin

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“And I promise as President I’ll save money by not paying America’s bills!”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:32:06pm

re: #92 goddamnedfrank

I don’t think Sanders meeting with Obama went very well. I get the distinct feeling that he pissed the President off.

Did they describe the meeting as ‘Productive’, or as ‘A frank exchange of viewpoints’?

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Tigger2  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:33:30pm

re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth

hahahahahaha*cough*hahahahahaaa!!!

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Franklin  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:34:08pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:34:14pm

re: #35 Dr. Matt

Charles, any thoughts about including links to the “The Random Donald Trump Tweet Machine” and “Trump bumper sticker creator” along with the other links below the masthead? Or somewhere else on the root page?

If you reload the page, you’ll see a new drop-down menu in the top navigation bar: “Fun.”

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:34:50pm

re: #95 Tigger2

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I’d say Reagan too. Reagan outright lied to the country about Iran Contra.

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TedStriker  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:36:08pm

re: #56 withak

“wads” “magic sauce” “[t]issues”

The jokes, they write themselves.

The only things missing are Trump’s bottle of lotion and a porno mag with his wife as the centerfold.

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Belafon  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:36:21pm

re: #90 MsJ

Maybe Vox wrote it for Sean.

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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:36:26pm

re: #92 goddamnedfrank

I don’t think Sanders meeting with Obama went very well. I get the distinct feeling that he pissed the President off.

And I get the feeling he’s trying to get stuff from Reid and Shumer. I am sorry but Bernie is all about Bernie.

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lawhawk  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:37:14pm

re: #75 lawhawk

As of this moment, the HRC delete your twitter has garnered over 100k likes and 100k retweets.

And no sign of slowing down.

Take it back… now over 120k each.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:37:18pm

re: #97 Charles Johnson

If you reload the page, you’ll see a new drop-down menu in the top navigation bar: “Fun.”

Nice! Thanks!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:37:22pm
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Belafon  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:37:51pm

re: #92 goddamnedfrank

I don’t think Sanders meeting with Obama went very well. I get the distinct feeling that he pissed the President off.

I suspect Obama was very nice, but basically implied that the train is leaving the station and to get on board or get left behind.

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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:38:42pm

re: #97 Charles Johnson

If you reload the page, you’ll see a new drop-down menu in the top navigation bar: “Fun.”

Thanks for these fun toys. I would love a random tweet generator that throws unrelated Donald phrases along with the final “burn” into a “tweet”…

“Watch tonight for OMAROSA. You’re such a loser. Sad!”

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:39:35pm

re: #98 HappyWarrior

Don’t forget about that amnesty too!

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Dr. Matt  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:40:11pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:40:36pm

re: #107 GlutenFreeJesus

Don’t forget about that amnesty too!

That wasn’t a terrible thing though.

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:41:15pm

If Donald Trump won’t release his taxes, can we at least run a credit check on him? You know, like us little people are expected to do when we apply for menial customer service jobs?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:41:27pm

re: #109 HappyWarrior

Not for anyone but today’s “republicans”.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:41:56pm

re: #111 GlutenFreeJesus

Not for anyone but today’s “republicans”.

Yeah true.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:44:08pm

re: #83 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

The Funbags Party’s first candidate:

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Secretary Funbags even looks like Sarah Palin!

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:45:55pm
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Jenner7  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:46:34pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:46:56pm
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Joe Bacon  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:46:57pm

re: #52 lawhawk

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Seriously. WTF is wrong with these people.

Is Trump going to shoot wads of magic sauce on a blue dress?

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Kragar  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:47:19pm
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Jenner7  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:47:37pm

re: #116 The Vicious Babushka

Oh my. I’m drooling.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:47:42pm

oh dear

(Donald obviously did not write the actual FB post, but his penchant for equating hearsay “reports” as “facts” are included.)

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:47:44pm

I’ll be happy if I never hear the words “magic sauce” ever again. Blech.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:48:05pm

re: #37 lawhawk

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If Hillary wants a safe, boring VP, O’Malley could be her man.

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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:48:53pm

re: #116 The Vicious Babushka

Hey, do you have a recipe for sponge cake?

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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:49:11pm

re: #116 The Vicious Babushka

Oh, and BTW, YUMMO!! That looks delish!!

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Tigger2  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:49:37pm

re: #116 The Vicious Babushka

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I could eat one of those by myself right now. : ))

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Kragar  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:49:45pm
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TedStriker  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:50:08pm

re: #101 MsJ

And I get the feeling he’s trying to get stuff from Reid and Shumer. I am sorry but Bernie is all about Bernie.

Bernie’s probably trying to work a deal where he won’t get stripped of his committee assignments as payback for ratfucking the party when he does finally concede to Hillary.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:50:20pm

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh dear

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(Donald obviously did not write the actual FB post, but his penchant for equating hearsay “reports” as “facts” are included.)

Hillary and Obama condemned the attack yesterday. What took Trump so long?

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:51:00pm

Best. Tweet. Ever.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:51:06pm

re: #126 Kragar

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Oh my.

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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:51:52pm

re: #126 Kragar

I guess that meeting didn’t go so well. Excuse me a moment…

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh, sorry…did I do that outloud? My bad.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:51:54pm

re: #128 The Vicious Babushka

Hillary and Obama condemned the attack yesterday. What took Trump so long?

Donald had to wait until he had enough anonymous “reports”…

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Kragar  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:52:14pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:52:32pm

re: #123 MsJ

Hey, do you have a recipe for sponge cake?

I haven’t made sponge cake in years, I probably have some recipies in one of my gazillion cookbooks, or just Google.

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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:52:34pm

re: #127 TedStriker

Bernie’s probably trying to work a deal where he won’t get stripped of his plum committee assignments as payback for ratfucking the party when he does finally concede to Hillary

I hope he gets on board but I am so put off by how he framed MY party, it is not too likely I am going to let that go anytime soon.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:52:38pm

re: #113 The Vicious Babushka

Secretary Funbags even looks like Sarah Palin!

Attorney-General Funbags. And comparing Sara Rue to Sarah Palin? I’m verklempt!

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Stanley Sea  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:52:42pm
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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:52:58pm

re: #126 Kragar

The Kochs may be soulless, but unlike Donald, they know a bad deal when they see one.

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Jenner7  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:53:34pm
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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:54:19pm

re: #134 The Vicious Babushka

I haven’t made sponge cake in years, I probably have some recipies in one of my gazillion cookbooks, or just Google.

There’s sponge cake and then there is the fabulous Jewish sponge cake from my youth. I have had generic sponge cake but I want to try to make what Bubbe made.

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Ming5000  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:54:34pm

I hope Trump survives through the convention

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withak  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:54:45pm

re: #137 Stanley Sea

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Hmm. What would/should Bill use? @FGOTUS? @FHOTUS?

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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:55:23pm

Ugh, late night meeting time. BBL

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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:55:48pm

re: #142 withak

Hmm. What would/should Bill use? @FGOTUS? @FHOTUS?

FLOTUS - First Lad of the US

and now I am out.

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TedStriker  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:55:53pm

re: #126 Kragar

Uh-huh…

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withak  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:56:23pm

Or maybe @WJCLINTONAUTHOR

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Dave In Austin  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:56:35pm

Ted Cruz is in the corner drooling…..

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Thanos  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:56:39pm
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Stanley Sea  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:56:54pm

re: #126 Kragar

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Great meeting they must’ve had.

ha

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Thanos  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:57:01pm
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lawhawk  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:57:32pm

I’ve got a live one! Woo…

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:57:35pm

I don’t think Donald comprehends what’s about to happen to him.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:57:49pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:57:53pm

re: #133 Kragar

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Poor Reincey, he thinks he’s witty. By the way, Reince, want to talk about Secretary Rice and Powell’s emails and how your party didn’t give a shit then. Enjoy your nominee that is a racist shit weasel like yourself.

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Franklin  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:58:10pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:58:33pm

re: #151 lawhawk

I’ve got a live one! Woo…

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It’s a little early for happy hour isn’t it? Oh wait Morrow’s not drunk. He’s just a modern conservative.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:58:34pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:59:26pm

re: #153 Stanley Sea

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It’s getting worse and worse for him. Nice job GOP voters. Nice job. Still think Drumpf is a man of the people?

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Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:59:54pm

That really does show that Republicans think nastiness is equal to comedy.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 12:59:56pm

re: #157 Charles Johnson

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Indeed, it’s like watching the Fox attempt to do a right wing Daily Show. About as funny as being kicked in the nads.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:00:03pm

re: #151 lawhawk

Make sure to attach Rience to any of his tweets.

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lawhawk  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:00:15pm

re: #152 Not a Sparkly Vampire

I don’t think Donald comprehends what’s about to happen to him.

Hillary’s been keeping the powder dry on her salvos, waiting for the right opportunity. And now she’s able to go scorched earth on Trump without any hesitation. She’s been working oppo-research for a long time, so she’s got plenty of material to work with - not counting the daily nonsense he spews.

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Franklin  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:00:26pm

LOL @armandokos

This is the second time I’ve heard this Seinfeld reference in as many days.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:00:26pm

re: #159 Charles Johnson

That really does show that Republicans think nastiness is equal to comedy.

Well yeah Rush Limbaugh is a “satirist” to them while they probably think Jonathan Swift actually wanted people to eat their children.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:01:38pm

The GOP is stuck. Either nominate Trump the trainwreck or not nominate him and risk infuriating that base that loves to boast about how armed they are. I don’t have any pity at all for either side. They created this mess when they chose to cater to the whims of the base’s bigotry and the base is bigoted assholes so no sympathy for them either.

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Tigger2  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:03:27pm
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Kragar  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:05:41pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:06:35pm

The GOP base already hates their leadership with a passion. If they pull out the rug from under Trump, they’re going to go ballistic. And you know Trump will raise holy hell. The best they can hope for is somehow saving their majorities in Congress now an hoping that four years from now their base still isn’t insane but Clinton derangement will take root like Obama derangement has. We’re finally seeing the SOuthern strategy catch up to the GOP IMO.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:07:38pm

re: #140 MsJ

There’s sponge cake and then there is the fabulous Jewish sponge cake from my youth. I have had generic sponge cake but I want to try to make what Bubbe made.

The secret is potato starch instead of flour.

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EPR-radar  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:08:10pm

re: #126 Kragar

In other words, Trump will not take orders from the Koch brothers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:08:57pm
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Tigger2  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:08:58pm

Disgusting.

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Jay C  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:12:57pm

re: #126 Kragar

CHARLES KOCH SAYS HE’S TURNING AWAY FROM PRESIDENTIAL RACE: AP

To barf??

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gocart mozart  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:13:43pm

re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:15:41pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:15:59pm

Brock Turner case fallout: Prospective jurors refuse to serve under judge

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lawhawk  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:20:33pm
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Jenner7  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:21:41pm

Really?

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Belafon  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:22:55pm

re: #178 Jenner7

Really?

Yeah, that’s never happened before.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:23:13pm

re: #178 Jenner7

It’s a major error for President Obama to endorse Hillary Clinton now, more than a month before the Democratic… t.co
— Robert Reich

No, it really is not.

Not in any universe.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:23:24pm

re: #178 Jenner7

Bob……. It’s over. It’s over Bob…. Wrap it up.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:23:30pm

Cincinnati’s bad day for infrastructure continues:

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Belafon  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:23:52pm

re: #178 Jenner7

Really?

I’m going to trust Obama’s political instincts before just about anyone else’s in the country.

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TedStriker  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:24:00pm

re: #178 Jenner7

Really?

Nah, they just want Bernie ratfucking for them for another month.

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Franklin  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:24:42pm
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Dave In Austin  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:24:46pm

re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth

And the shitters quit working in a 5 block area…….

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gocart mozart  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:25:17pm
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Jenner7  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:25:30pm

re: #185 Franklin

“What’s in the boooox?”

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dangerman  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:25:44pm

re: #180 Sir John Barron

Not just an error.
A major error? Exactly why is it a major error?

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gocart mozart  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:26:13pm
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Franklin  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:26:44pm

re: #189 dangerman

Not just an error.
A major error? Exactly why is it a major error?

It’s an Error in D Major.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:27:12pm
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gocart mozart  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:27:13pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:27:27pm

re: #187 gocart mozart

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I like the Obama baggage!
It’s tasteful, convenient, useful and extremely cool.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:27:34pm

re: #177 lawhawk

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:28:07pm

re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Good.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:28:40pm

re: #178 Jenner7

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Really?

re: #180 Sir John Barron

No, it really is not.

Not in any universe.

Reich has always been one of my favorite political beasts. He’s going to need some rehabilitation after this season.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:28:46pm

re: #178 Jenner7

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Really?

And here I thought Reich was one of the smarter ones backing Bernie. Come on Bob. The people have decided. No doubt at all you wanted Clinton to withdraw gracefully in 2008 when she was even closer to Obama than Sanders is to Clinton. Why is this different? I mean I get it you like Bernie and that’s fine but POTUS had every right to do this.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:28:54pm
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Dave In Austin  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:28:59pm

….

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:29:28pm

re: #197 Decatur Deb

Reich has always been one of my favorite political beasts. He’s going to need some rehabilitation after this season.

I like his videos showing how absurd right wing economics are but he’s letting his heart get in the way of his brain here.

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lawhawk  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:30:11pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:30:58pm

re: #202 lawhawk

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Why would any young person want to torture themselves by working for CPAC?

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dangerman  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:30:59pm

re: #200 Dave In Austin

For my Austin friends - a reminder….its ROT (Republic Of Texas)Rally weekend again! Please take extra care when out on the roads, starting tomorrow. There will be motorcycles from all over the country in Austin and the surrounding areas, enjoying the blue skies, winding 2-lane blacktop and all that central TX has to offer.
I try to post this little reminder every year..
“Instead of telling someone who rides a motorcycle how dangerous it is; Look twice before switching lanes, making turns, or pulling out of a driveway. Stay on your side of the road, especially in corners. Don’t follow too closely, bikes can stop faster than your cars can. Keep your eyes on the road and off your mobile phones.If you care about someone who rides a motorcycle, please SHARE THE ROAD”

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Even if you don’t care about someone who rides…share the road

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:31:17pm

Had an interesting lunch with a couple co-workers who are republicans (caveat that they are california republicans) both are scared shitless of the possibility of a Trump presidency. One changed their registration to Dem to vote for Bernie because they don’t like Hillary at all but they both plan to vote for her in the general now that it’s over. Now I say these are California Republicans with the caveat that the rest of the “republicans” I know are batshit insane trump supporters.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:31:51pm

For my Austin friends - a reminder….its ROT (Republic Of Texas)Rally weekend again! Please take extra care when out on the roads, starting tomorrow. There will be motorcycles from all over the country in Austin and the surrounding areas, enjoying the blue skies, winding 2-lane blacktop and all that central TX has to offer.
I try to post this little reminder every year..
“Instead of telling someone who rides a motorcycle how dangerous it is; Look twice before switching lanes, making turns, or pulling out of a driveway. Stay on your side of the road, especially in corners. Don’t follow too closely, bikes can stop faster than your cars can. Keep your eyes on the road and off your mobile phones.If you care about someone who rides a motorcycle, please SHARE THE ROAD”

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:32:02pm

I think Reich had a bad falling out with the Clintons and I think that unfortunately really colors how he views this. I don’t know. I don’t hate or dislike him but I think he’s got personal issues with the Clintons that make it hard to see him as a fair minded observer.

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KGxvi  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:32:29pm

re: #175 GlutenFreeJesus

I’m not sure how/when/why it happened, but I started getting some flat earth types in my “you might light” section on instagram. And by “flat earth types” I mean people who actually, truly, really believe that the Earth is flat, that other planets do not exist, and that the moon and sun are small discs that travel some weird path across the sky. I can’t help put check them out, especially because of the comments. The “logic” is just crazy, like more than 27%er crazy.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:33:08pm

re: #205 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Had an interesting lunch with a couple co-workers who are republicans (caveat that they are california republicans) both are scared shitless of the possibility of a Trump presidency. One changed their registration to Dem to vote for Bernie because they don’t like Hillary at all but they both plan to vote for her in the general now that it’s over. Now I say these are California Republicans with the caveat that the rest of the “republicans” I know are batshit insane trump supporters.

It amazes me that there are Republicans out there horrified by Trump while there are some Democrats/liberals like Sarandon who insist he won’t be so bad. The latter more so than the former by the way, I can see why sane Conservatives/Republicans are scared by Trump.

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Tigger2  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:33:24pm

re: #205 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Had an interesting lunch with a couple co-workers who are republicans (caveat that they are california republicans) both are scared shitless of the possibility of a Trump presidency. One changed their registration to Dem to vote for Bernie because they don’t like Hillary at all but they both plan to vote for her in the general now that it’s over. Now I say these are California Republicans with the caveat that the rest of the “republicans” I know are batshit insane trump supporters.

I bet there will be a lot of Republicans like that around the country.

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dangerman  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:33:28pm

re: #205 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Had an interesting lunch with a couple co-workers who are republicans (caveat that they are california republicans) both are scared shitless of the possibility of a Trump presidency. One changed their registration to Dem to vote for Bernie because they don’t like Hillary at all but they both plan to vote for her in the general now that it’s over. Now I say these are California Republicans with the caveat that the rest of the “republicans” I know are batshit insane trump supporters.

A great time to start reaching out to R’s. Get em now they might stick around

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Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:33:48pm
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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:34:47pm

re: #212 Charles Johnson

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Jenner7  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:35:56pm

I’m reading this USA Today article on Trump. Wow. This guy is a sleaze ball. These people he refuses to pay aren’t CEO’s, they are middle class businesses. This should hurt him.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:37:34pm

Obama and Clinton gets me thinking though. I hear so many right wing talking heads insist that Obama is an angry person, a spiteful person, one that holds on to grudges. He sure as hell doesn’t seem to hold one with Clinton. I don’t know how they initially got along after the primary eight years ago but both act like adults. And honestly, that means a lot to me especially seeing what the GOP has become. It’s a nice bonus that they’re correct on most issues too.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:38:12pm

re: #211 dangerman

A great time to start reaching out to R’s. Get em now they might stick around

Not going to dump on your hobby, but for every hour spent wooing an R, you could be nudging a bunch of receptive Uncommitted or getting lukewarm Dems to the polls.

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:39:02pm

re: #210 Tigger2

Like maybe this one:

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lawhawk  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:39:36pm

re: #214 Jenner7

Reading this USA Today article on Trump. Wow. This guy is a sleaze ball. These people he refuses to pay aren’t CEO’s, they are middle class businesses. This should hurt him.

It wont. His supporters don’t care that Trump screwed over people just like them. They don’t care that he scammed people like them with the Trump U nonsense either.

Everyone else should.

Everything the guy does is a scam to further his own business profits.

And I can’t wait for Newt to go ahead and defend Trump against this latest nonsense because Newt’s also another deadbeat GOPer - he still owes millions ($4 million to people other than himself - he owes himself $600k he’s yet to pay off) to vendors for his failed 2012 campaign.

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KGxvi  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:39:54pm

re: #210 Tigger2

I bet there will be a lot of Republicans like that around the country.

There’s talk that a lot of polling is showing that Trump is bleeding off Republican women (I haven’t delved too deep into them to confirm that, but I’ve seen it in multiple places). There’s also the fact that Johnson is polling in double digits in several polls that include him (either national or statewide).* And Trump managed to only get 74% of the vote in California despite his competitors on the ballot dropping out (he also failed to break 80% in another one on Tuesday, I believe). So, there’s plenty of evidence that there are a lot of Republicans who are not keen on Trump.

*Johnson, being a former Republican and current Libertarian, is more likely to pull from Republicans than from Democrats (who are mostly happy with Clinton as the nominee). This isn’t like Perot who was drawing from both sides equally, it’s more like Nader drawing from one side.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:40:44pm

re: #212 Charles Johnson

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I’m guessing that they don’t know that “Delete Your Account” is the twitterly correct way of saying “FU”…

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:41:51pm

re: #217 InfidelOfFreedom

Like maybe this one:

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I expect Powell to endorse her. Rice wouldn’t shock me either. Had disagreements with Rice and Powell both obviously but they’re not hateful or insane people.

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dangerman  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:42:24pm

re: #216 Decatur Deb

Not going to dump on your hobby, but for every hour spent wooing an R, you could be nudging a bunch of receptive Uncommitted or getting lukewarm Dems to the polls.

Agreed.
Only meant if the oppty arose.
Also far easier to get 5 new dems registered than change one BoB mind.

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dangerman  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:44:10pm

re: #216 Decatur Deb

Not going to dump on your hobby, but for every hour spent wooing an R, you could be nudging a bunch of receptive Uncommitted or getting lukewarm Dems to the polls.

P.s. political evangelising is not one of my dangerous hobbies

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:45:01pm
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Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:45:12pm

re: #223 dangerman

P.s. political evangelising is not one of my dangerous hobbies

It’s an extreme sport in Baja Alabama.

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Kragar  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:45:49pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:45:53pm

re: #224 Backwoods_Sleuth

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If an email is deleted it no longer exists…

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Dave In Austin  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:46:18pm

I don’t know what to make of this. Parody or for reals?
dcpols.com

Lindsey threatens to switch parties….

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:47:32pm

re: #228 Dave In Austin

I don’t know what to make of this. Parody or for reals?
dcpols.com

Lindsey threatens to switch parties….

without looking I’m guessing that Lindsey is going to stay a closeted Republican

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Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:47:39pm

re: #210 Tigger2

I bet there will be a lot of Republicans like that around the country.

Many Republicans in my town have said they will sit out the election.

As a village trustee I feel it is my duty (even though I am a Democrat) to point out that if a voter truly feels that they cannot vote for either Mr. Trump or Mrs. Clinton, there are still plenty of downballot races. (I don’t think I should encourage people to not vote.)

To a person everyone I have spoken to says they are so disillusioned they will not vote at all.

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dangerman  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:48:13pm

re: #225 Decatur Deb

It’s an extreme sport in Baja Alabama.

I limit myself to risks I can personally mitigate or take responsibility for

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Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:49:13pm

re: #228 Dave In Austin

Fake news site. Just added it to our list. Lots of spammy/malware stuff going on there too.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:49:44pm

re: #228 Dave In Austin

I don’t know what to make of this. Parody or for reals?
dcpols.com

Lindsey threatens to switch parties….

parody site, connected with newslo and WNETS dot NET

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Tigger2  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:49:46pm
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Teukka  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:50:09pm

re: #185 Franklin

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Reminds me of this one, a little girl who wanted “frozen” gifts for Christmas…

Imgur
The comments are priceless…

Click to Reveal

“Oh look a Ginger learning to absorb her first soul!”
“Be glad, she is just Anna and not Elsa. oO this glare could kill”
“You have upset a delicate balance by incurring the wrath of a small ginger, now Beelzebub will consume us all”
“Do you want a serial killer? Because that’s how you get a serial killer.”
“And this is why gingers grow up to harvest souls. Maltreatment during childhood.”
“A look that could rip your soul from your body through a computer…the power of the ginger ninja”

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Sir John Barron  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:51:24pm

re: #217 InfidelOfFreedom

Like maybe this one:

The commenters at not-racist Breitbart will be measured and thoughtful.

///

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Testy Toad T  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:54:07pm

I cannot believe our national political discourse has become so banal that we argue about how long it took a candidate’s intern to share a snippet of text on social media, especially in a cycle where the difference in the candidates’ policy positions, temperaments, and levels of experience are so stark and profound.

It’s like… really guys? It’s really come to this?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:54:47pm

re: #237 Testy Toad T

I cannot believe our national political discourse has become so banal that we argue about how long it took a candidate’s intern to share a snippet of text on social media, especially in a cycle where the difference in the candidates’ policy positions, temperaments, and levels of experience are so stark and profound.

It’s like… really guys? It’s really come to this?

yes

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:56:36pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:58:11pm
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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 1:59:53pm

re: #226 Kragar

Sounds like someone has “staff envy.”

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:00:20pm

re: #239 goddamnedfrank

. FBI votes soon

FBI votes?

Is he an idiot or does he think that we are?

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Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:00:54pm

nytimes.com

The New York Times says the Senate holding up Merrick Garland’s confirmation hearing will cost them, as well as the huge backlog of Federal Judges.

Senator Chuck Grassley says he will shut down the entire nominating process before the conventions in July.

There are more things to hang around the Republicans’ collective necks than simply Mr. Trump. With Mr. Trump’s overt attacks on a Federal judge rooted in racism and the GOP stopping up the Judiciary, they are attempting to overthrow the Constitution at this point.

nytimes.com

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Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:01:30pm

re: #239 goddamnedfrank

…the struggle continues.

The Gang - La lotta continua

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Tigger2  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:01:57pm

re: #242 I Would Prefer Not To

FBI votes?

Is he an idiot or does he think that we are?

He thinks anyone that’s not a Sanders supporter is an idiot.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:02:43pm

re: #242 I Would Prefer Not To

FBI votes?

Is he an idiot or does he think that we are?

Since the death of J.Edgar Hoover, the FBI makes every decision based on a vote.

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gocart mozart  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:04:37pm
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No Depression  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:05:04pm

Wow Ha Ha Goodman is melting down like Chernobyl on his Timeline. He keeps tweeting the same exact thing, only changing out the hashtag. Dude needs help.

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makeitstop  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:06:31pm

Exclusive LGF photo of HA Goodman…

The struggle continues…
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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:06:36pm

re: #246 Sir John Barron

Since the death of J.Edgar Hoover, the FBI makes every decision based on a vote.

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Naked Gun 33 1/3 J Edgar Hoover

From Naked Gun 33 1/3

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:07:12pm

hahhahahahahahaaha

not. going. to. happen.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:08:12pm

re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth

hahhahahahahahaaha

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not. going. to. happen.

They must all be on the same bath salts at Trump HQ.

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Testy Toad T  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:08:12pm

re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth

hahhahahahahahaaha

not. going. to. happen.

I hope and wish with every fiber of my being that they actually believe this.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:08:35pm

re: #243 Anymouse

nytimes.com

The New York Times says the Senate holding up Merrick Garland’s confirmation hearing will cost them, as well as the huge backlog of Federal Judges.

Senator Chuck Grassley says he will shut down the entire nominating process before the conventions in July.

There are more things to hang around the Republicans’ collective necks than simply Mr. Trump. With Mr. Trump’s overt attacks on a Federal judge rooted in racism and the GOP stopping up the Judiciary, they are attempting to overthrow the Constitution at this point.

nytimes.com

And they were doing this before Trump became the presumptive nominee.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:09:01pm

re: #253 Testy Toad T

I hope and wish with every fiber of my being that they actually believe this.

Well they do think they can win Maryland, New York, and California.

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:09:47pm

Despite what the political Eeyores say, we’ve made a remarkable amount of progress in this country over the last 100 years.

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gocart mozart  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:10:16pm
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Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:10:51pm

re: #253 Testy Toad T

I hope and wish with every fiber of my being that they actually believe this.

At times it seemed half of them came from there.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:12:00pm

re: #258 Decatur Deb

At times it seemed half of them came from there.

I dunno. I think a lot of our Bernie supporters were pretty tame to what I see on Facebook. D’oh, I’m an idiot.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:13:01pm

re: #259 HappyWarrior

I dunno. I think a lot of our Bernie supporters were pretty tame to what I see on Facebook.

Not thinking of any of ours.

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Kragar  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:13:42pm

re: #248 No Depression

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:13:45pm

I’m witnessing the bargaining part of grief. Next is depression.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:14:04pm

re: #260 Decatur Deb

Not thinking of any of ours.

D’oh, I read your there as here.

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CuriousLurker  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:14:10pm

re: #228 Dave In Austin

I don’t know what to make of this. Parody or for reals?
dcpols.com

Lindsey threatens to switch parties….

He didn’t threaten to switch parties and nothing in the article says he did, it was just a clickbait headline. Most of the article’s content appears to have been taken from this HuffPo piece, which is in turn a collection of things he’s said to other news outlets including the NY Times & NBC. The only reason I remember it is because I just read the HuffPo piece yesterday while looking for the quotation below (DCpols left out the second sentence). Emphasis is mine:

“If anybody was looking for an off-ramp, this is probably it,” Graham told The New York Times. “There’ll come a time when the love of country will trump hatred of Hillary.”

So basically, I think all he was saying is that maybe he and other Republicans might vote for Hillary because Von ClownStick is too much of a menace.

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KGxvi  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:14:18pm

re: #255 HappyWarrior

Well they do think they can win Maryland, New York, and California.

Trump’s campaign only has something like $2.5m cash on hand. It would be an impressive feat for anyone to win a statewide election in New York or California with just two and a half million bucks.

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wrenchwench  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:14:32pm

President Obama will visit Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico and Yosemite National Park in California next week as part of a trip celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the National Part Service, according to the White House.

Obama is not our first president without a part (in his hair) but Hillary will be our first President Clinton with a part.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:14:46pm

re: #258 Decatur Deb

At times it seemed half of them came from there.

Worth keeping in mind that a lot of those extremely vocal berners are neither Sanders supporters nor Trump supporters. They are 4chan and anarchists.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:15:57pm

re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth

hahhahahahahahaaha

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not. going. to. happen.

Stacey Dash: I Can Win The Black Vote For Donald ‘Because Black People Like To Make Money’

So I guess it’s all over…. :-(

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:17:16pm

re: #267 Backwoods_Sleuth

Worth keeping in mind that a lot of those extremely vocal berners are neither Sanders supporters nor Trump supporters. They are 4chan and anarchists.

Some I know are legitimate but I also shrug it off because they’re moonbatty by nature and honestly have alienated a lot of people who share alot of ideology with them. It’s actually sad. A lot of the Berners I know just can’t stand hearing any opinion that isn’t Clinton is going to be indicted, Bernie is goign to win. The biggest one I know is hoping that Bernie gets VP and somehow Clinton wins and then gets impeached and presto President Bernie. I don’t look for fights on people’s Facebooks but man if I were more combative, I’d tell them what they’re advocating would be terrible for the country.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:17:20pm

re: #268 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Stacey Dash: I Can Win The Black Vote For Donald ‘Because Black People Like To Make Money’

So I guess it’s all over…. :-(

Hillary’s doomed.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:17:33pm

re: #224 Backwoods_Sleuth

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:17:43pm

re: #268 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Stacey Dash: I Can Win The Black Vote For Donald ‘Because Black People Like To Make Money’

So I guess it’s all over…. :-(

Then Donald is a terrible choice sicne he’s you know been bankrupt more times than once.

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Kragar  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:17:50pm
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Sir John Barron  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:18:03pm

re: #266 wrenchwench

Obama is not our first president without a part (in his hair) but Hillary will be our first President Clinton with a part.

HOW MUCH IS THIS COSTING TAXPAYERS FOR OBUMMER TO GO SPLUNKING?!?!?!?!??!?!?

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:19:01pm

re: #271 GlutenFreeJesus

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He should take a look. They responded quickly. He just responded a half hour ago. You’re low energy Donald. Maybe take a nap with Jeb and you can dream together about being president because both of you will never be president in reality.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:19:40pm

re: #273 Kragar

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Hahahahhaha Roseanne. Oh man that’s great. She’s a 911 fucking truther.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:20:45pm

re: #267 Backwoods_Sleuth

Worth keeping in mind that a lot of those extremely vocal berners are neither Sanders supporters nor Trump supporters. They are 4chan and anarchists.

Both conventions will be prepared for crap from the Antifa/Black Bloc enthusiasts.

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wrenchwench  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:20:46pm

re: #274 Sir John Barron

HOW MUCH IS THIS COSTING TAXPAYERS FOR OBUMMER TO GO SPLUNKING?!?!?!?!??!?!?

Less than it would have a few months ago. There’s a way to walk in, but they don’t use it for walking out. They have an elevator for that, but it wasn’t working for a while. Would have been tough keeping the President underground for any length of time.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:22:37pm

re: #127 TedStriker

Bernie’s probably trying to work a deal where he won’t get stripped of his committee assignments as payback for ratfucking the party when he does finally concede to Hillary.

In addition to keeping committee assignments, suspect some of the conversation included, “if you want help paying some of your campaign debt, get on board.”

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451_Montag  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:23:25pm

Apologies for bad words… but…

Obama, Warren, Bill and Biden It’s going to be a tag team slapdown

ETA for spallin’

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:23:28pm

So that Twitter password hack thing. Ends up the most popular password is 1 2 3 4 5 6. And no. I don’t have the same combination on my luggage.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:25:15pm

I’m finding that moonbats are just as delusional as right wingers. The take I’m seeing on Facebook is that Clinton worries Obama and Warren which is why you know they’re giving enthusiastic endorsements. Really is that why she won in a landslide in California? Berners I think suffer from the same syndrome that I’ve seen many people who choose to isolate themselves ideologically- I didn’t vote for Clinton ergo it shocks me that other people are! They just don’t get that Clinton is not only going to be her party’s nominee but that the rank and file of her party is happy about this. They like Clinton. They like him more than Bernie Sanders.

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Jay C  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:25:22pm

re: #271 GlutenFreeJesus

And in relation to this: (via Washington Monthly):

At least 60 lawsuits, along with hundreds of liens, judgments, and other government filings reviewed by the USA TODAY NETWORK, document people who have accused Trump and his businesses of failing to pay them for their work. Among them: a dishwasher in Florida. A glass company in New Jersey. A carpet company. A plumber. Painters. Forty-eight waiters. Dozens of bartenders and other hourly workers at his resorts and clubs, coast to coast. Real estate brokers who sold his properties. And, ironically, several law firms that once represented him in these suits and others.

LOL

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:26:50pm

*eyebrow raises…*

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:28:10pm

Not going to happen, but a nice happy thought…

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:28:42pm

re: #284 Backwoods_Sleuth

*eyebrow raises…*

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Now, that would be something. I don’t think any sitting GOP Senators endorsed Obama over McCain and Romney.

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KGxvi  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:29:22pm

re: #283 Jay C

That last bit isn’t ironic. It would surprise me in a grand total of zero ways if Trump was the type of client that didn’t pay his bills. Lawyers often end up with deadbeat clients (for a variety of reasons), sometimes you write off the loss if you’re close to getting the case resolved or if the client legitimately can’t afford it, sometimes you fire a client, and sometimes you file suit against a former client for failure to pay your bills (which a lot of lawyers don’t like to do because it can be a waste of resources, but if the bill is big enough…)

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Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:29:36pm

re: #284 Backwoods_Sleuth

*eyebrow raises…*

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Waiting to hear from Sen. Murkowski. Since the GOP tried to screw her election with that Tea Party nutcase, she hasn’t missed many opportunities for a quick knee to the crotch.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:29:50pm

re: #285 Backwoods_Sleuth

Not going to happen, but a nice happy thought…

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That’s the sound of every wingnut stroking out. Honestly, I like the idea of Michelle considering Durbin’s seat when he retires. Then Illinois gets two lady Democrats who kick ass.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:30:23pm

re: #288 Decatur Deb

Waiting to hear from Sen. Murkowski. Since the GOP tried to screw her election with that Tea Party nutcase, she hasn’t missed many opportunities for a quick knee to the crotch.

I think Murkowski would probably just as soon endorse Johnson-Weld but hey whatever it takes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:31:59pm

In other news:

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:33:00pm

re: #291 Backwoods_Sleuth

In other news:

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But the Democratic Party is just as bad as the Republican Party, a principled lefty told me so!

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:33:52pm

I jest obviously but I want to smack anyone who says that because they do not care at all how this administration has been by far the most progressive administration in history when it comes to standing up for the rights of all Americans regardless of race, sexual orientation, gender, religion, etc.

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BeachDem  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:36:34pm

re: #181 Dave In Austin

Bob……. It’s over. It’s over Bob…. Wrap it up.

Roy Orbison - “It’s Over” from Black and White Night

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:37:09pm

I just love though that the fraud if it existed only targeted Sanders voters. Kind of like how they cried about Brooklyn ignoring that Brooklyn in fact favored Clinton. And I’ve read that the Clinton campaign has actually filed more complaints about problems at the polls than the Sanders has. Seems to me, one side actually has a problem with what goes on and the other just uses it to tell their delusional supporters that the ‘real’ reason why they didn’t win.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:37:43pm

re: #294 BeachDem

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The Byrds - It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (1969)

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piratedan  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:38:01pm

re: #294 BeachDem

should follow that up with…. Only the lonely :-)

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KGxvi  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:38:04pm

re: #286 HappyWarrior

Now, that would be something. I don’t think any sitting GOP Senators endorsed Obama over McCain and Romney.

According to these wikipedia entries, Lincoln Chaffey endorsed Obama in 2008 but he was done in the Senate and not yet governor of Rhode Island. That’s the closest we have (there were some former Republican Senators who did as well).

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:39:21pm

re: #298 KGxvi

According to these wikipedia entries, Lincoln Chaffey endorsed Obama in 2008 but he was done in the Senate and not yet governor of Rhode Island. That’s the closest we have (there were some former Republican Senators who did as well).

Chafee had switched ot Indy in 2007 apparently. Thanks though.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:39:45pm

re: #297 piratedan

should follow that up with…. Only the lonely :-)

Roy is criminally underrated. Let me just say that.

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ipsos  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:40:13pm

re: #12 Belafon

Balloon Juice has a picture of Susan B. Anthony’s marker that has a few more “I Voted” stickers on it.

Yydb5EFY5XUNnbPIOVJCUIG9j8zDH5MmZfn+M7Zp0UjhNKaeUU2pErEsEnNgDb9y/Xc+AOo7Eph84fvXRRXWGxYVqBrEaPuN1GvmXHfl1ykqnIZmbVGyfnaB1J9QSG+lrIEqXk7j9WpQC6eEMhVDxK5JpTMsdZovsrq2AjQIzEU3P4ONPszX9SiensGAoy9pXSmM+JUtht3D9ygfxddQ1pxPGav9AzNbTOnZSW5/8lZ5DOgltMita5axOQp624tX4s2ExkzElW46db9Xf6n7qZUOU/5WeOqt

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Scout  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:40:31pm

re: #237 Testy Toad T

I cannot believe our national political discourse has become so banal that we argue about how long it took a candidate’s intern to share a snippet of text on social media, especially in a cycle where the difference in the candidates’ policy positions, temperaments, and levels of experience are so stark and profound.

It’s like… really guys? It’s really come to this?

You took the words right off my keyboard.

I would only add that the stakes of this race are far too great to have it turn on such pettiness.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:41:15pm

re: #301 ipsos

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Shit third great grandparents. Most of my third great grands aren’t even buried in this country. Sorry rambling in amazement but I agree, that’s going to be an epic site this November.

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wrenchwench  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:42:26pm

Sounds like Susan is already making plans for Hillary’s RE-election.

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Skip Intro  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:43:32pm

re: #52 lawhawk

That’s disgusting. even for a hack like Ingraham.

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wrenchwench  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:45:18pm
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Nyet  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:47:18pm

Despite the danger of a Trump presidency I’m beginning to feel good about this election. Awesome people - Barack, Michelle, Joe, Elizabeth - campaigning for an awesome nominee. We will win.

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Tigger2  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:47:29pm

re: #300 HappyWarrior

Roy is criminally underrated. Let me just say that.

He was still great all the way to the end.

Roy Orbison- You Got It (HQ)

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:49:58pm
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allegro  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:51:57pm

re: #309 goddamnedfrank

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You call it cognitive dissonance. I call it depraved self-interest.

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Nyet  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:54:59pm

I’m a little man because one of the things that first come to my mind is the BernieBros’ heads ‘sploding.

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:56:01pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:56:22pm

ULA Launching a Delta IV Heavy with the NROL -37 satellite here.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:56:43pm

re: #311 Nyet

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I’m a little man because one of the things that first come to my mind is the BernieBros’ heads ‘sploding.

You do not want to visit Warren’s FB page. The abuse against her there is horrible, and it started up again yesterday (the Sanders supporters went after her earlier in the campaign because she refused to endorse him way back then).

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Nyet  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:56:45pm

Pretty awesome numbers on that Hillary tweet.

227,675 Retweets 253,813 likes

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dangerman  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:57:18pm

re: #310 allegro

You call it cognitive dissonance. I call it depraved self-interest.

it’s our jobs, marty. something’s gotta be done about our jobs.

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wrenchwench  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:57:32pm

re: #306 wrenchwench

Pardon me while I post his next two tweets.

Can’t promise I won’t do it again, I haven’t seen his next ones yet.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:58:30pm

re: #313 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

ULA Launching a Delta IV Heavy with the NROL -37 satellite here.

Weather violation—again.

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dangerman  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:58:35pm

re: #317 wrenchwench

Pardon me while I post his next two tweets.

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Can’t promise I won’t do it again, I haven’t seen his next ones yet.

dog bites man
man bites dog

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 2:59:15pm

re: #309 goddamnedfrank

Never understood why so many Dems were afraid of this guy. He is a walking haircut in an over-sized suit.

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Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:00:53pm

re: #307 Nyet

Despite the danger of a Trump presidency I’m beginning to feel good about this election. Awesome people - Barack, Michelle, Joe, Elizabeth - campaigning for an awesome nominee. We will win.

This is looking like its going to be a lopsided landslide like the election campaign of Alf Landon (R) against FDR in 1936. He only carried Maine and Vermont (8 electoral votes to FDR’s 536). He did not carry his home state (Kansas).

As Wikipedia has it, two months after he was nominated by the GOP, he stopped campaigning and disappeared from the spotlight, allowing surrogates to campaign for him (Mr. Trump has hinted he might campaign this way).

A reporter at the time wrote:

“Considerable mystery surrounds the disappearance of Alfred M. Landon of Topeka, Kansas…. The Missing Persons Bureau has sent out an alarm bulletin bearing Mr. Landon’s photograph and other particulars, and anyone having information of his whereabouts is asked to communicate direct with the Republican National Committee.”

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Tigger2  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:01:11pm

re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth

You do not want to visit Warren’s FB page. The abuse against her there is horrible, and it started up again yesterday (the Sanders supporters went after her earlier in the campaign because she refused to endorse him way back then).

How fast they turn, They would have done the same thing to Sanders if he won and had to compromise with the Republicans once to get something done.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:01:15pm

Wow.

Houston man gets life for 9th DWI conviction

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wrenchwench  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:01:34pm

re: #319 dangerman

dog bites man
man bites dog

Woman bites dog!

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:01:35pm

re: #320 InfidelOfFreedom

Never understood why so many Dems were afraid of this guy. He is a walking haircut in an over-sized suit.

I’ll pat myself here. I never was impressed by Rubio.

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CuriousLurker  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:01:57pm

re: #282 HappyWarrior

I’m finding that moonbats are just as delusional as right wingers. The take I’m seeing on Facebook is that Clinton worries Obama and Warren which is why you know they’re giving enthusiastic endorsements. Really is that why she won in a landslide in California? Berners I think suffer from the same syndrome that I’ve seen many people who choose to isolate themselves ideologically- I didn’t vote for Clinton ergo it shocks me that other people are! They just don’t get that Clinton is not only going to be her party’s nominee but that the rank and file of her party is happy about this. They like Clinton. They like him more than Bernie Sanders.

The whole “moronic convergence” thing isn’t limited to politics, it’s ideological extremism in all its forms—political, religious, secular, etc. The most extreme people on either end of a given spectrum always seem be more similar than they are different, which is precisely why you’ll find extremists like Pamela Geller & Anjem Choudary agreeing on what constitutes Real Islam™ much more readily than the average Muslim (or Jew, Christian, atheist, etc.).

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:02:47pm

re: #320 InfidelOfFreedom

Never understood why so many Dems were afraid of this guy. He is a walking haircut in an over-sized suit.

Because for an appalling number of white Americans racism isn’t a deal breaker.

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BeachDem  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:02:56pm

re: #219 KGxvi

And Trump managed to only get 74% of the vote in California despite his competitors on the ballot dropping out (he also failed to break 80% in another one on Tuesday, I believe). So, there’s plenty of evidence that there are a lot of Republicans who are not keen on Trump.

Hell, Jim Gilmore got 11,000 votes in California!

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William Lewis  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:03:17pm

re: #323 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Wow.

Houston man gets life for 9th DWI conviction

Only 9th? Had a guy on 14 or 15 the other day. He’d just gotten out of prison for the felony conviction on his previous one.

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dangerman  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:03:20pm

re: #324 wrenchwench

Woman bites dog!

of course. my error (i’ve been sick)

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:03:34pm

re: #328 BeachDem

Hell, Jim Gilmore got 11,000 votes in California!

Hahahahha. Good old Gilmore.

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Nyet  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:03:36pm

re: #323 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Wow.

Houston man gets life for 9th DWI conviction

He had known this would happen. Meh.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:04:15pm

re: #326 CuriousLurker

The whole “moronic convergence” thing isn’t limited to politics, it’s ideological extremism in all its forms—political, religious, secular, etc. The most extreme people on either end of a given spectrum always seem be more similar than they are different, which is precisely why you’ll find extremists like Pamela Geller & Anjem Choudary agreeing on what constitutes Real Islam™ much more readily than the average Muslim (or Jew, Christian, atheist, etc.).

Good points.

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dangerman  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:04:51pm

re: #331 HappyWarrior

Hahahahha. Good old Gilmore.

he’s probably happy

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Testy Toad T  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:04:52pm

re: #320 InfidelOfFreedom

Never understood why so many Dems were afraid of this guy. He is a walking haircut in an over-sized suit.

Consider the competition…

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:05:39pm

I think a lot just saw Rubio and saw that he polled well and ignored that Dem Opps Research hasn’t really gone after Rubio. The poor voting record, the about face on immigration, and his tendency to oppose anything Obama supports. Honestly, I think Kasich would have been the toughest candidate.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:05:55pm

re: #334 dangerman

he’s probably happy

It’s going to amuse me if he runs again in 2020.

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Jay C  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:05:57pm

re: #318 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Postponed for 48 hrs. Bummer.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:06:28pm

re: #335 Testy Toad T

Consider the competition…

Kind of how Jon “I want to abolish the EPA” Huntsman can now play the role of GOP moderate.

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wrenchwench  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:07:04pm

re: #330 dangerman

of course. my error (i’ve been sick)

Your comment was good, I just made it even more of a news story.

I hope you feel totally well soon.

My favorite not really related quip: How many women would be too many on the Supreme Court?

10.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:07:39pm

re: #318 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Weather violation—again.

Scrub for the day—next attempt Saturday 1:51 PM Eastern. I was interested because this may be the last chance to see a Delta IV Heavy launch.

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Kragar  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:08:52pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:10:28pm

re: #342 Kragar

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Doesn’t matter if it’s fake—once it’s out there in the Derposphere it’s a permanent feature….

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dangerman  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:10:38pm

re: #340 wrenchwench

Your comment was good, I just made it even more of a news story.

I hope you feel totally well soon.

My favorite not really related quip: How many women would be too many on the Supreme Court?

10.

hey, the number of justices can be changed!

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:11:49pm

re: #342 Kragar

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SMOTI will fall for anything that validates his confirmation biases.

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BeachDem  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:12:18pm

re: #276 HappyWarrior

Hahahahhaha Roseanne. Oh man that’s great. She’s a 911 fucking truther.

When Victoria Jackson adds her name to the list, THEN we’ll really be scared!!!

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Nyet  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:12:47pm

re: #345 HappyWarrior

SMOTI will fall for anything

Stop right there.

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Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:12:57pm

huffingtonpost.com

Huffington Post reports that after his meeting with President Obama, Senator Sanders stated he would work with Secretary Clinton to oppose Mr. Trump.

They also noted he has dropped his call for superdelegates to reconsider their positions.

They say he met with the President for over an hour; amongst other things Senator Sanders thanked the President for staying neutral during the primary process, and President Obama wants to work on harnessing the enthusiasm of Sanders’s supporters for the general election.

Senator Sanders will stay in the race through the DC Primary (as he promised long ago in his campaign). He will argue for some of his positions to be included in the Democratic Platform (such as statehood for DC and protecting Social Security).

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Dr. Matt  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:13:04pm

Revealed: Hundreds of claimants say deadbeat Donald Trump doesn’t pay his bills

Hundreds of former employees and business associates say that former reality TV star and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is a grifter and a deadbeat who never paid them for their work.

According to USA Today, Trump has left a trail of broken promises and debts in his wake over the years as a result of his long string of failed businesses, multiple bankruptcies and a cavalier attitude regarding his obligations to others.

At least 60 lawsuits, along with hundreds of liens, judgments, and other government filings reviewed by the USA TODAY NETWORK, document people who have accused Trump and his businesses of failing to pay them for their work. Among them: a dishwasher in Florida. A glass company in New Jersey. A carpet company. A plumber. Painters. Forty-eight waiters. Dozens of bartenders and other hourly workers at his resorts and clubs, coast to coast. Real estate brokers who sold his properties. And, ironically, several law firms that once represented him in these suits and others.

Trump’s companies have also been cited for 24 violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act since 2005 for failing to pay overtime or minimum wage, according to U.S. Department of Labor data. That includes 21 citations against the defunct Trump Plaza in Atlantic City and three against the also out-of-business Trump Mortgage LLC in New York. Both cases were resolved by the companies agreeing to pay back wages.

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wrenchwench  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:13:43pm

re: #344 dangerman

hey, the number of justices can be changed!

Gotta make room for all them womens!

Takes several to make up for 240 years of all men.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:14:47pm

re: #348 Anymouse

huffingtonpost.com

Huffington Post reports that after his meeting with President Obama, Senator Sanders stated he would work with Secretary Clinton to oppose Mr. Trump.

They also noted he has dropped his call for superdelegates to reconsider their positions.

They say he met with the President for over an hour; amongst other things Senator Sanders thanked the President for staying neutral during the primary process, and President Obama wants to work on harnessing the enthusiasm of Sanders’s supporters for the general election.

Senator Sanders will stay in the race through the DC Primary (as he promised long ago in his campaign). He will argue for some of his positions to be included in the Democratic Platform (such as statehood for DC and protecting Social Security).

That sounds fair to me. And I’m on board with statehood for D.C and obvs protecting SS.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:19:18pm

re: #349 Dr. Matt

Revealed: Hundreds of claimants say deadbeat Donald Trump doesn’t pay his bills

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Yeah but he’s not beholden to anyone!

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Dr. Matt  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:20:07pm

re: #352 HappyWarrior

Yeah but he’s not beholden to anyone!

Explains why he believes that defaulting on our debt is a viable economic plan.

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ipsos  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:20:11pm

re: #303 HappyWarrior

Shit third great grandparents. Most of my third great grands aren’t even buried in this country. Sorry rambling in amazement but I agree, that’s going to be an epic site this November.

These are my only third great grands who ever made it to the US. Born in London 1799. Relatively unusual for a Jew. My wife’s US family tree goes back to the 1840s, which is more common, and on her mom’s side only to 1940, escaping Hitler.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:20:29pm

re: #348 Anymouse

Senator Sanders will stay in the race through the DC Primary (as he promised long ago in his campaign). He will argue for some of his positions to be included in the Democratic Platform (such as statehood for DC and protecting Social Security).

Shouldn’t be a problem since Hillary already supports that (and neither are they anything new for her).

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:20:51pm
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Testy Toad T  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:22:00pm

re: #348 Anymouse

huffingtonpost.com

Huffington Post reports that after his meeting with President Obama, Senator Sanders stated he would work with Secretary Clinton to oppose Mr. Trump.

They also noted he has dropped his call for superdelegates to reconsider their positions.

They say he met with the President for over an hour; amongst other things Senator Sanders thanked the President for staying neutral during the primary process, and President Obama wants to work on harnessing the enthusiasm of Sanders’s supporters for the general election.

Senator Sanders will stay in the race through the DC Primary (as he promised long ago in his campaign). He will argue for some of his positions to be included in the Democratic Platform (such as statehood for DC and protecting Social Security).

Dangerously reasonable! I want my drama back.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:22:27pm

re: #355 Backwoods_Sleuth

Shouldn’t be a problem since Hillary already supports that (and neither are they anything new for her).

And you have Cummings heading the platform committee too. I just scoff at this idea that the Clintons and their allies are no different than Republicans. It’s like A) have you ever listened to Clinton speak and B) have you ever listened to the Republicans speak. Clinton and Sanders voted the same over 90% of the time it would be even closer if Bernie voted more in line with the Democratic Party on guns.

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dangerman  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:22:32pm

re: #353 Dr. Matt

Explains why he believes that defaulting on our debt is a viable economic plan.

yeah national debt tots the same as business accts payable

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:23:19pm

re: #356 goddamnedfrank

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In 2008, neither candidate finished with over 50% of the popular vote. In this one, one did and considerably so. It wasn’t Gore over Bradley but Clinton beat Sanders convincingly.

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:24:06pm

re: #356 goddamnedfrank

Hey, YeaYouWrong:

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:24:42pm

re: #361 InfidelOfFreedom

Hey, YeaYouWrong:

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Reality Berns wink.

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Kragar  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:25:23pm
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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:25:51pm

re: #169 The Vicious Babushka

The secret is potato starch instead of flour.

You ROCK! Thank you!

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BeachDem  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:26:21pm

re: #348 Anymouse

huffingtonpost.com

Senator Sanders will stay in the race through the DC Primary (as he promised long ago in his campaign). He will argue for some of his positions to be included in the Democratic Platform (such as statehood for DC and protecting Social Security).

Considering that Hillary has already come out in favor of both of those issues, he’ll pretty much be arguing with himself.

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Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:26:24pm

My letter ran in the newspaper today complaining about my senators and representatives dropping my calls on teleconferences with constituents when I identify myself as a Democrat.

No one came round to my house today with pitchforks and torches so I guess I am safe.

No one came round either when I wrote an op-ed piece for the paper arguing for the Obergefell v. Hodges decision on marriage equality … I’d read several days of angry letters from all over the Panhandle and decided to respond. After the paper printed my op-ed, the angry letters stopped. I argued the whole history of the Bill of Rights was the expansion of liberty, except XVIII which was religiously-motivated and caused a huge upsurge in organised crime.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:26:33pm

You know what we’re going ot probably have the overall most progressive Democratic platform in history and it will be brushed aside as “Neo-liberal” by a bunch of assholes who don’t understand that in the New Deal days that those benefits weren’t going to everyone. The New Deal would have never happened if it was insisted that people of all racial backgrounds benefited from the programs proposed.

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Nyet  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:26:50pm

re: #363 Kragar

Family values.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:27:00pm

re: #363 Kragar

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Family values huh.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:27:15pm

re: #368 Nyet

Family values.

Goddamnit Sergey.

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:27:23pm

re: #363 Kragar

Sick doesn’t even begin to describe this festering orange human tumor.

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Nyet  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:27:25pm

re: #369 HappyWarrior

;)

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Nyet  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:27:53pm

re: #370 HappyWarrior

Goddamnit Sergey.

We’re on the same wave, pal :P

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:28:16pm

re: #366 Anymouse

My letter ran in the newspaper today complaining about my senators and representatives dropping my calls on teleconferences with constituents when I identify myself as a Democrat.

No one came round to my house today with pitchforks and torches so I guess I am safe.

No one came round either when I wrote an op-ed piece for the paper arguing for the Obergefell v. Hodges decision on marriage equality … I’d read several days of angry letters from all over the Panhandle and decided to respond. After the paper printed my op-ed, the angry letters stopped. I argued the whole history of the Bill of Rights was the expansion of liberty, except XVIII which was religiously-motivated and caused a huge upsurge in organised crime.

That was quick. I am glad they published it. I think your’e doing your thing. You’re showing your neighbors that being a liberal Democrat isn’t the boogeyman they may think.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:28:18pm

re: #371 InfidelOfFreedom

Sick doesn’t even begin to describe this festering orange human tumor.

Nor does it begin to describe the party that is about to nominate him as their candidate for the Presidency…

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:29:06pm

re: #373 Nyet

We’re on the same wave, pal :P

I know. I smiled as I typed that. But yeah. So classy huh. And I never thought Paris Hilton was hot even when I was a teenage boy.

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Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:30:37pm

re: #363 Kragar

Party of Family Values Sleaze.

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Testy Toad T  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:30:58pm

re: #363 Kragar

There’s uh, so much to unpack there.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:32:10pm

So yeah the 1930’s through 1960’s was a more progressive economically time……………..if you were white. I’m very pro union but in those days African-Americans had a hard time joining them and being able to enjoy the benefits. In those days, housing discrimination based off race was okay. I could go on and on but as much as I appreciate the New Deal, I do know that its promise was limited. It’s true the Democratic Party has moved to the center on economics. I won’t dispute that but the reality is we’re a much better country now than we were then. It’s funny to see lefties embrace the same bs nostalgia for the past that conservatives do.

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Nyet  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:32:28pm
At 12, I wasn’t interested… but she was beautiful.

Uggh.

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Jay C  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:32:52pm

re: #378 Testy Toad T

There’s uh, so much to unpack there.

And you’ll need to unpack it wearing a hazmat suit, and extra gloves….

Eww. Just eww….

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Nyet  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:33:30pm
My daughter, Ivanka. She’s 6 feet tall, she’s got the best body.

Ugggggh.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:33:36pm

re: #380 Nyet

Uggh.

Godfather Hagen and Woltz

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:33:43pm

I don’t mean this flippantly, Donald Trump has all the signs of being a sexual predator. I would never want to be in the same room alone with this man and I wouldn’t trust him alone with any of my female friends or family.

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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:33:50pm

re: #212 Charles Johnson

Who is that?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:34:01pm

hey, y’all! we are “noble ‘Normals’”!

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dangerman  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:34:17pm

re: #364 MsJ

The secret is potato starch instead of flour.
You ROCK! Thank you!

I just tried it - looks like a bowl full of potato starch
any other ingredients?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:34:36pm

re: #384 InfidelOfFreedom

I don’t mean this flippantly, Donald Trump has all the signs of being a sexual predator. I would never want to be in the same room alone with this man and I wouldn’t trust him alone with any of my female friends or family.

He is a man used to having his own way, and is not about to let common concepts like law, human dignity or morality stop him…

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Nyet  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:35:29pm

re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth

Not DickPic Schindler tho.

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Testy Toad T  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:36:09pm

re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth

hey, y’all! we are “noble ‘Normals’”!

By European standards, we probably qualify as center-right.

I’m okay with that. Argue my policies, not labels. Scandinavian monocultures are going to do better with different systems than a huge, highly diverse place like the United States.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:36:11pm

re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth

hey, y’all! we are “noble ‘Normals’”!

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Eventually they will see Bernie himself as a center-right, neo-liberal sellout.

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thedopefishlives  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:37:00pm

Evening Lizardim.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:37:00pm

re: #389 Nyet

Not DickPic Schindler tho.

Seriously, I think there are some substantial policy differences between us and him.

Also common sense and an ability to keep things in our pants in public.

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Jay C  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:37:04pm

re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth

hey, y’all! we are “noble ‘Normals’”!

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“Center-right posse”?? Cool: do we get badges??

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:37:28pm

re: #390 Testy Toad T

By European standards, we probably qualify as center-right.

I’m okay with that. Argue my policies, not labels. Scandinavian monocultures are going to do better with different systems than a huge, highly diverse place like the United States.

I’m fine with this too. My philosophy has always been pretty simple. Some things I believe are better ran by the government and some things free enterprise. We can do exist with a mixed economy. Socialism isn’t an evil word to me but neither is capitalism. I believe in working in the world we have.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:37:51pm

re: #393 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Seriously, I think there are some substantial policy differences between us and him.

Also common sense and an ability to keep things in our pants in public.

Speak for yourself! //

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dangerman  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:37:51pm

re: #394 Jay C

“Center-right posse”?? Cool: do we get badges??

way too easy……

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Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:39:08pm

re: #374 HappyWarrior

That was quick. I am glad they published it. I think your’e doing your thing. You’re showing your neighbors that being a liberal Democrat isn’t the boogeyman they may think.

My favourite line with folk around here is “Liberals don’t want to take your guns, we have our own.” (Everyone in town knows I own a shotgun.)

My wife likes to troll the occasional gun wingnut with “We need a Marxist redistribution of guns from those who have many to those who have few or none.” (She used to own a .38 before she married me.)

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KGxvi  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:40:25pm

re: #321 Anymouse

This is looking like its going to be a lopsided landslide like the election campaign of Alf Landon (R) against FDR in 1936. He only carried Maine and Vermont (8 electoral votes to FDR’s 536). He did not carry his home state (Kansas).

As Wikipedia has it, two months after he was nominated by the GOP, he stopped campaigning and disappeared from the spotlight, allowing surrogates to campaign for him (Mr. Trump has hinted he might campaign this way).

A reporter at the time wrote:

“Considerable mystery surrounds the disappearance of Alfred M. Landon of Topeka, Kansas…. The Missing Persons Bureau has sent out an alarm bulletin bearing Mr. Landon’s photograph and other particulars, and anyone having information of his whereabouts is asked to communicate direct with the Republican National Committee.”

No way Trump sits back and lets surrogates campaign for him. If we have learned nothing in his 30 years in the public eye it is that he is a classless attention whore who will say or do anything for applause.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:40:25pm

re: #394 Jay C

“Center-right posse”?? Cool: do we get badges??

Fuck badges. Do we get per diem?

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Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:41:06pm

re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth

hey, y’all! we are “noble ‘Normals’”!

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Centre-right? Did I drop into BarbWire by mistake? (Well, BarbWire is centre-right in the sense it is in the centre of right-wing derp.)

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thedopefishlives  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:42:11pm

re: #401 Anymouse

Centre-right? Did I drop into BarbWire by mistake? (Well, BarbWire is centre-right in the sense it is in the centre of right-wing derp.)

Some people have a real hard time letting go of the fact that Charles used to be a right-wing icon.

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:42:41pm

re: #388 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He is a man used to having his own way, and is not about to let common concepts like law, human dignity or morality stop him…

Exactly… I’ve met men like this and I’ve had more than one occasion where I feared for my safety in their presence. I realize I’m not saying anything people here don’t already know, but I just feel it’s so important to keep saying out loud (or online) how toxic this guy is.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:43:43pm

re: #370 HappyWarrior

Goddamnit Sergey.

The extra 3 letters and the space did you in.

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Scout  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:43:56pm

Two things on the USA Today expose about Trump:

1) A good piece of journalism. Keep it up!

2) Trump made money by screwing over small-business owners. The Dems need to not only hang this around his neck, but the neck of every single GOP candidate in every race at every level across America.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:44:00pm

re: #403 InfidelOfFreedom

Exactly… I’ve met men like this and I’ve had more than one occasion where I feared for my safety in their presence. I realize I’m not saying anything people here don’t already know, but I just feel it’s so important to keep saying out loud (or online) how toxic this guy is.

But remember—Trump is not your ordinary Republican. He is anointed, the best of them.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:44:04pm

re: #394 Jay C

“Center-right posse”?? Cool: do we get badges??

We don’t need no stinking badges!

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Kragar  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:44:19pm
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Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:44:50pm

re: #402 thedopefishlives

Some people have a real hard time letting go of the fact that Charles used to be a right-wing icon.

I am aware of Mr. Johnson’s former positions, and why he held them. Mr. Johnson, however, is not a fool. I never was interested in posting here.

Then came the Huffington Post article on why Mr. Johnson left Movement Conservative (going off the road, through the bushes, and over a cliff and he wouldn’t be going with them), which encouraged me to check in and see what all the hullaboo was about.

Now y’all are stuck with me.

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dangerman  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:45:16pm

re: #400 Decatur Deb

Fuck badges. Do we get per diem?

you men got a $10 posse fee coming.
I can’t say the government wiII pay more…
but every man who stays wiII get an extra 10

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plansbandc  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:45:47pm

Say It Ain’t So Joe - Murray Head (1975) - original song

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lockjawcanbefun  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:46:19pm

re: #407 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

We Don’t Need No Stinking Badgers!

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Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:46:20pm

re: #410 dangerman

you men got a $10 posse fee coming.
I can’t say the government wiII pay more…
but every man who stays wiII get an extra 10

What movie?

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dangerman  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:48:24pm

re: #413 Decatur Deb

What movie?

Hang ‘Em High

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wrenchwench  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:49:02pm

Puffy Kitteh.

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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:49:41pm

re: #376 HappyWarrior

I know. I smiled as I typed that. But yeah. So classy huh. And I never thought Paris Hilton was hot even when I was a teenage boy.

She’s not hot now. She needs a sandwich or two, and a new face (YMMV). And the fact that Trump thought she was hot at 12? Oy. I am going to be physically ill.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:51:02pm

re: #404 Blind Frog Belly White

The extra 3 letters and the space did you in.

Yeah it did heh.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:51:30pm

re: #416 MsJ

She’s not hot now. She needs a sandwich or two, and a new face (YMMV). And the fact that Trump thought she was hot at 12? Oy. I am going to be physically ill.

Yeah it’s pretty creepy.

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Skip Intro  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:51:59pm

re: #416 MsJ

All Trump lacks to be the perfect Republican is being charged with molesting a minor.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:52:20pm

re: #408 Kragar

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As I’ve said. Trump has to be almost perfect to etch out a victory.

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dangerman  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:52:34pm

re: #419 Skip Intro

All Trump lacks to be the perfect Republican is being charged with molesting a minor.

it’s early yet

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thedopefishlives  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:53:03pm

re: #409 Anymouse

I am aware of Mr. Johnson’s former positions, and why he held them. Mr. Johnson, however, is not a fool. I was never was interested in posting here.

Then came the Huffington Post article on why Mr. Johnson left Movement Conservative (going off the road, through the bushes, and over a cliff and he wouldn’t be going with them), which encouraged me to check in and see what all the hullaboo was about.

Now y’all are stuck with me.

Dammit, Charles. Look what you did. You wave your middle finger at the right and walk off into the sunset, and suddenly all the weirdos show up./////

But seriously, I know you know Charles’s history; pretty much everyone who lands here does, usually because they’re trying to figure out what all the fuss is about (like you). I was merely noting that people still call him “right-wing” because of that history, also because they like to tar him with the Anders Breivik brush.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:53:24pm

re: #419 Skip Intro

All Trump lacks to be the perfect Republican is being charged with molesting a minor.

Molest them? He wants to put a couple million of them on a Trail of Tears.

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Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:54:27pm

re: #399 KGxvi

No way Trump sits back and lets surrogates campaign for him. If we have learned nothing in his 30 years in the public eye it is that he is a classless attention whore who will say or do anything for applause.

But if he campaigns at real live events, how will he handle his Twitter account? Especially with Secretary Clinton, Senator Warren, and likely President Obama all going after him at the same time?

I don’t care how little he sleeps, he doesn’t have enough time in the day for all that. He will either need to divide his time (and then come under whithering fire on Twitter without responses) or spend his time on Twitter and have Mrs. Clinton and those campaigning on her behalf making statements in public he can’t respond to in person.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:56:12pm

re: #422 thedopefishlives

Dammit, Charles. Look what you did. You wave your middle finger at the right and walk off into the sunset, and suddenly all the weirdos show up./////

But seriously, I know you know Charles’s history; pretty much everyone who lands here does, usually because they’re trying to figure out what all the fuss is about (like you). I was merely noting that people still call him “right-wing” because of that history, also because they like to tar him with the Anders Breivik brush.

Well. I think I was happily oblivious for a few months after I started reading/commenting. mr. klys had merely mentioned it as a blog he occasionally looked at and neglected to mention some of the history.

But I was a bit of an odd case, I think.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:56:25pm

re: #424 Anymouse

But if he campaigns at real live events, how will he handle his Twitter account? Especially with Secretary Clinton, Senator Warren, and likely President Obama all going after him at the same time?

I don’t care how little he sleeps, he doesn’t have enough time in the day for all that. He will either need to divide his time (and then come under whithering fire on Twitter without responses) or spend his time on Twitter and have Mrs. Clinton and those campaigning on her behalf making statements in public he can’t respond to in person.

Especially when it takes him two hours to think up a reply to “Delete your account”.

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Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:56:50pm

re: #422 thedopefishlives

Dammit, Charles. Look what you did. You wave your middle finger at the right and walk off into the sunset, and suddenly all the weirdos show up./////

Thanks for the compliment!!

But seriously, I know you know Charles’s history; pretty much everyone who lands here does, usually because they’re trying to figure out what all the fuss is about (like you). I was merely noting that people still call him “right-wing” because of that history, also because they like to tar him with the Anders Breivik brush.

I was aware of the Breivik derp about Mr. Johnson when it started popping up on the Internet and it took about twenty seconds of searching to find it was not true.

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thedopefishlives  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:57:00pm

re: #425 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Well. I think I was happily oblivious for a few months after I started reading/commenting. mr. klys had merely mentioned it as a blog he occasionally looked at and neglected to mention some of the history.

But I was a bit of an odd case, I think.

Heh. Now if only that worked on Mrs. Fish. But she doesn’t want to hang out with you guys for some reason. Probably because she’s decidedly non-political and she thinks this is a political place.

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gocart mozart  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:57:21pm
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Jack Burton  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:58:19pm

Bernie Bros on my Facebook are now claiming that Google is manipulating searches to be favorable to Hillary Clinton.

“Delete your account”

That’s what I want to say to them too. Even the RWNJs I know are far less annoying than the Bernie people.

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thedopefishlives  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:58:48pm

re: #427 Anymouse

Thanks for the compliment!!

I do have to say, being “normal” is overrated. We’re all weird in our own unique way. That’s what makes this place so much fun!

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:58:57pm

re: #428 thedopefishlives

Heh. Now if only that worked on Mrs. Fish. But she doesn’t want to hang out with you guys for some reason. Probably because she’s decidedly non-political and she thinks this is a political place.

Well, mr. klys doesn’t comment. I think he mostly looks at the top articles and skips the comments. Which is silly, but what do I know.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:59:30pm

re: #429 gocart mozart

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The funny thing is she responded to that very quickly. Trumpy meanwhile responded to her RT well after she had already gotten a ton of RTs. Sorry Donne, Hillary’s not some amateur liek your old sparing partners: Kasich, Cruz, and Rubio. This is like going up against amateurs and then being told you’re righting a crown contender.

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No Depression  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:59:30pm

re: #422 thedopefishlives

Dammit, Charles. Look what you did. You wave your middle finger at the right and walk off into the sunset, and suddenly all the weirdos show up./////

But seriously, I know you know Charles’s history; pretty much everyone who lands here does, usually because they’re trying to figure out what all the fuss is about (like you). I was merely noting that people still call him “right-wing” because of that history, also because they like to tar him with the Anders Breivik brush.

I think the thing that brought me here was seeing a link somewhere to Charles’ article debunking the claim that Darren Wilson suffered an orbital blowout in his encounter with Michael Brown. I then came back everyday to lurk and eventually registered. I didn’t even know Charles used to be a right-wing icon when I first came here.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:59:32pm

I will continue to follow this campaign until the two candidates are officially nominated. Then I will have to take up another hobby, because things are going to get venal, rude, superficial and toxic…and I do not care about Twitter, especially between DT and the Democrats.

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thedopefishlives  Jun 9, 2016 • 3:59:36pm

re: #432 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Well, mr. klys doesn’t comment. I think he mostly looks at the top articles and skips the comments. Which is silly, but what do I know.

To be fair to mr. klys, it’s generally a good idea to skip the comments on the Internet these days. LGF is, of course, the one serious exception to that rule.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:00:06pm

I wish I had time to page this and it may have already been posted but this really is a must read article: Trump: The Billionaire who doesn’t pay up

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:00:30pm

re: #430 Jack Burton

Bernie Bros on my Facebook are now claiming that Google is manipulating searches to be favorable to Hillary Clinton.

“Delete your account”

That’s what I want to say to them too. Even the RWNJs I know are far less annoying than the Bernie people.

I’ve seen thankfully a lot of backlash to the BB types on mine even from people who have said they voted for Bernie as recently as California.

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Skip Intro  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:00:42pm

I’m still trying to process this, knowing that “religious” conservatives are flocking to Trump.

Trump: Paris Hilton Was Hot At 12, I Watched Her Sex Tape With Melania

So the GOP’s future POTUS and FLOTUS watch sex tapes of girls Trump fantasizes over, and the Party of Family Values is proud that they’re running.

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Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:00:47pm

re: #428 thedopefishlives

Heh. Now if only that worked on Mrs. Fish. But she doesn’t want to hang out with you guys for some reason. Probably because she’s decidedly non-political and she thinks this is a political place.

Nothing political to see here. Move along.

My wife doesn’t care to come here either; it is not that she is not political (she was a former Libertarian Party campaign treasurer), but she is more interested in other things now.

(Not that she is uninterested in elections; she’ll vote in every election.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:00:50pm

re: #437 Eclectic Cyborg

I wish I had time to page this and it may have already been posted but this really is a must read article: Trump: The Billionaire who doesn’t pay up

He already expressed his plan to reduce national debt by simply not paying up…

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Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:02:02pm

re: #435 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I…venal, rude, superficial and toxic…

It’s conventional to capitalize the partners in a law firm.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:03:42pm

re: #439 Skip Intro

I’m still trying to process this, knowing that “religious” conservatives are flocking to Trump.

Trump: Paris Hilton Was Hot At 12, I Watched Her Sex Tape With Melania

So the GOP’s future POTUS and FLOTUS watch sex tapes of girls Trump fantasizes over, and the Party of Family Values is proud that they’re running.

But the Obamas are classless trash somehow.

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Jack Burton  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:03:46pm

re: #441 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He already expressed his plan to diminish national debt by not paying up…

It will be great, will build a big beautiful bankruptcy. We’ll charge China for the costs of it. It will be YOOOGE!

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:04:09pm

re: #435 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I will continue to follow this campaign until the two candidates are officially nominated. Then I will have to take up another hobby, because things are going to get venal, rude, superficial and toxic…and I do not care about Twitter, especially between DT and the Democrats.

The funniest thing about this is that you’re intimating that things haven’t been venal, rude, superficial and toxic already. Very different from the politics I’ve been following, I guess. But if it’s time to move on and find something different, then that’s what it is and I wish you the best of luck in finding a hobby that is enjoyable.

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:05:06pm

re: #416 MsJ

Not trying to pick on you, but I have to say I get tired of the “have a sandwich” quip. I know it’s all a matter of personal taste in appearance, but sometimes women are just skinny because that’s how they’re built. As a fellow scrawny girl and late bloomer myself, I have had full grown adults accusing me of being anorexic since I was 12. Despite being a healthy weight as a grown woman, I still get those comments and they are hurtful. It’s upsetting when I see similar comments made about other people. I also admit I am perhaps over-sensitive about it…

Paris Hilton may come across as a vapid socialite in the media, but she is a beautiful woman and she seems healthy and happy. If that’s the case, I am happy for her. Just my thoughts.

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BeachDem  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:05:40pm

re: #430 Jack Burton

Bernie Bros on my Facebook are now claiming that Google is manipulating searches to be favorable to Hillary Clinton.

“Delete your account”

That’s what I want to say to them too. Even the RWNJs I know are far less annoying than the Bernie people.

According to the after-Berners at kos, it’s a “no true Berner” phenomenon, totally populated by Trumpsters and MRAs.

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majii  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:06:12pm

re: #430 Jack Burton

They sound like right-wingers who recently accused Facebook of manipulating its trending topics because they didn’t mention right-wing news. I wonder if the berners realize how much they sound like right-wingers?

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Jack Burton  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:06:28pm

re: #438 HappyWarrior

I’ve seen thankfully a lot of backlash to the BB types on mine even from people who have said they voted for Bernie as recently as California.

I’m trying to not pay too much attention to their crap, but I think they are bitching that if you type “Hillary Clinton cr” in to the search box, it doesn’t autofill it with “criminal chargers” but it apparently does on Bing.

It’s a conspiracy CON-spriacy by $hillary!!!! ZOMGWTFBBQ!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:07:16pm

re: #441 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He already expressed his plan to diminish national debt by not paying up…

He cheats on his wives, he doesn’t pay his workers, he scams low income folks with ‘Trump U’, he doesn’t pay his creditors, he screws contractors to pay them pennies on the dollar.

His followers know all this.

And yet, they believe he won’t screw them, because….?

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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:07:57pm

re: #434 No Depression

I think the thing that brought me here was seeing a link somewhere to Charles’ article debunking the claim that Darren Wilson suffered an orbital blowout in his encounter with Michael Brown. I then came back everyday to lurk and eventually registered. I didn’t even know Charles used to be a right-wing icon when I first came here.

I used to come here before the change and marvel at a whole lot of heartless people, especially around the idea of healthcare. There was a whole lot of IGMFY. It made me very sad. I still read Redstate and others. It’s good to know what people are thinking on all sides.

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Jack Burton  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:08:22pm

re: #448 majii

They sound like right-wingers who recently accused Facebook of manipulating its trending topics because they didn’t mention right-wing news. I wonder if the berners realize how much they sound like right-wingers?

Oh they sound EXACTLY like them. It doesn’t help that they are parroting 10-20 year old RWNJ talking points to smear Clinton.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:08:26pm

re: #445 klys (maker of Silmarils)

The funniest thing about this is that you’re intimating that things haven’t been venal, rude, superficial and toxic already. Very different from the politics I’ve been following, I guess. But if it’s time to move on and find something different, then that’s what it is and I wish you the best of luck in finding a hobby that is enjoyable.

Yes, they certainly are already so but will grow even worse after the conventions. Trump has no substance and no record of public service to campaign on.

On the other hand, I have been neglecting my 1/72-scale painted Napoleonic, Civil War and Samurai figures, so I guess it is time to finally finish my backlog of kits. And my son just got a cool 18th-century tin soldier casting set from his uncle, so I guess we will be able to keep creatively busy until November.

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Mattand  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:08:27pm

re: #409 Anymouse

I am aware of Mr. Johnson’s former positions, and why he held them. Mr. Johnson, however, is not a fool. I never was interested in posting here.

Then came the Huffington Post article on why Mr. Johnson left Movement Conservative (going off the road, through the bushes, and over a cliff and he wouldn’t be going with them), which encouraged me to check in and see what all the hullaboo was about.

Now y’all are stuck with me.

Did you bring snacks?

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Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:08:45pm

re: #450 Blind Frog Belly White

He cheats on his wives, he doesn’t pay his workers, he scams low income folks with ‘Trump U’, he doesn’t pay his creditors, he screws contractors to pay them pennies on the dollar.

His followers know all this.

And yet, they believe he won’t screw them, because….?

They’re not very bright.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:09:12pm

re: #455 Decatur Deb

They’re not very bright.

Well, of course, there is that.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:09:32pm

re: #453 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yes, they certainly already so but will grow even worse after the conventions. Trump has no substance and no record of public service to campaign on.

On the other hand, I have been neglecting my 1/72-scale painted Napoleonic, Civil War and Samurai figures, so I guess it is time to finally finish my backlog of kits. And my son just got a cool 18th-century tin soldier casting set from his uncle, so I guess we will be able to keep creatively busy until November.

Feel free to pop in and post pictures. I can think of a few Lizards who would enjoy seeing that.

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:09:37pm

re: #450 Blind Frog Belly White

He cheats on his wives, he doesn’t pay his workers, he scams low income folks with ‘Trump U’, he doesn’t pay his creditors, he screws contractors to pay them pennies on the dollar.

His followers know all this.

And yet, they believe he won’t screw them, because….?

He says “believe me folks!” in all his speeches. I guess that’s enough for them.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:10:15pm

re: #439 Skip Intro

I’m still trying to process this, knowing that “religious” conservatives are flocking to Trump.

Trump: Paris Hilton Was Hot At 12, I Watched Her Sex Tape With Melania

So the GOP’s future POTUS and FLOTUS watch sex tapes of girls Trump fantasizes over, and the Party of Family Values is proud that they’re running.

Melania Trump made a sex tape with Paris Hilton? Was this how she got Donald’s attention?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:10:35pm

re: #448 majii

They sound like right-wingers who recently accused Facebook of manipulating its trending topics because they didn’t mention right-wing news. I wonder if the berners realize how much they sound like right-wingers?

That’s why when I happen across a “Voter Fraud stole California from Bernie!” post or comment, I tell them that’s what Republicans do, and they don’t want to sound like Republicans, do they?

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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:12:07pm

re: #446 InfidelOfFreedom

Not trying to pick on you, but I have to say I get tired of the “have a sandwich” quip. I know it’s all a matter of personal taste in appearance, but sometimes women are just skinny because that’s how they’re built. As a fellow scrawny girl and late bloomer myself, I have had full grown adults accusing me of being anorexic since I was 12. Despite being a healthy weight as a grown woman, I still get those comments and they are hurtful. It’s upsetting when I see similar comments made about other people. I also admit I am perhaps over-sensitive about it…

Paris Hilton may come across as a vapid socialite in the media, but she is a beautiful woman and she seems healthy and happy. If that’s the case, I am happy for her. Just my thoughts.

You’re completely right and I am terribly sorry. Please forgive me.

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:12:13pm
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majii  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:12:22pm

re: #450 Blind Frog Belly White

Trump’s supporters are more than willing to ignore all of his flaws as long as they think they can win the WH. Most of them thought “W” was someone they could sit down and have a drink with. Little did they know that “W” most likely considered them part of the “unwashed masses” who weren’t in his social class, and therefore, not worthy of spending any time with him in a personal setting. His image as “a man of the people” was an RNC/GOP/TP/MSM creation, and a very smart and well-promoted piece of propaganda that had no real basis in reality.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:12:55pm

re: #363 Kragar

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You would think this would be the end of his campaign. Imagine Obama coming on stage after clinching the nomination and saying: “Where all the white women at?” That should be about the level of this, but what do you want to bet it won’t be?

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Jay C  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:12:59pm

re: #450 Blind Frog Belly White

He cheats on his wives, he doesn’t pay his workers, he scams low income folks with ‘Trump U’, he doesn’t pay his creditors, he screws contractors to pay them pennies on the dollar.

His followers know all this.

And yet, they believe he won’t screw them, because….?

Most likely because they believe he is going to prioritize screwing Those People first….

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Jack Burton  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:13:18pm

re: #448 majii

They sound like right-wingers who recently accused Facebook of manipulating its trending topics because they didn’t mention right-wing news. I wonder if the berners realize how much they sound like right-wingers?

There are also at least 3 BernieBros on my feed who were completely unhinged Right-wing-glibertarian nutbars up until a couple of months ago who are now all Bernie, all the time.

That makes me suspicious of some Operation Chaos style bullshit, or that their desire for either “something different” or just anarchy trumps their actual policy positions.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:13:21pm

From up above:

“Senator Kardashian”

Sure. Why the fuck not?

/fuck it. burn it all down.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:13:45pm

re: #462 goddamnedfrank

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Because that’s been so successful.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:13:56pm

re: #405 Scout

During his first business bankruptcy, he stuck the bank with paying the insurance on his yacht, the Trump Princess-I remember reading about that in Forbes. Real nice guy….

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TedStriker  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:14:06pm

re: #276 HappyWarrior

Hahahahhaha Roseanne. Oh man that’s great. She’s a 911 fucking truther.

I thought Roseanne has been big into the Green Party the past few years…

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:14:07pm

Bernie is talking right now and he hasn’t thrown in the towel yet.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:15:19pm

FOR FUCK SAKE BERNIE IT’S OVER

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:15:25pm

re: #470 TedStriker

I thought Roseanne has been big into the Green Party the past few years…

I’m not convinced she’s particularly stable.

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Jenner7  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:15:31pm

My sister is full blown nut job. She’s been ranting since Tuesday. This time, Hillary is a racist and homophobe. Hillary is a female Trump. That she cheated and paid 6 million to a lady in NY who changed party affiliations. Yeah, not kidding.

I thank dog I don’t have to live with this psycho any more.

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:15:40pm

re: #461 MsJ

Of course, no worries :)

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:16:17pm

re: #472 The Vicious Babushka

FOR FUCK SAKE BERNIE IT’S OVER

I guess he wants his campaign to end, not on a high note, but being played off by Sad Trombone.

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:16:18pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:16:19pm

Bernie is ranting about Koch Brothers & Citizens United.

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Jack Burton  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:17:02pm

re: #471 The Vicious Babushka

Bernie is talking right now and he hasn’t thrown in the towel yet.

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Unless his entire staff mutinies in a loud manner, he’s not. He’s going to go into the convention hoping to use a tactic he was denouncing until he found out he was losing to get the nomination.

I can’t remember the last time I went from supporting a candidate in January, to “wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire” by June.

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:17:19pm

re: #471 The Vicious Babushka

Bernie is talking right now and he hasn’t thrown in the towel yet.

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This is sad, DC is going to crush him.

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Skip Intro  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:17:29pm

How many decades has Trump had this tie?

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Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:17:29pm

re: #462 goddamnedfrank

Stacey Dash says Trump can win over “inner city” blacks by emulating US military PR strategy in Afghanistan.

Trump is going to kick down doors in Compton after midnight?

Cool.

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thedopefishlives  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:17:34pm

re: #474 Jenner7

My sister is full blown nut job. She’s been ranting since Tuesday. This time, Hillary is a racist and homophobe. Hillary is a female Trump. That she cheated and paid 6 million to a lady in NY who changed party affiliations. Yeah, not kidding.

I thank dog I don’t have to live with this psycho any more.

I’m going up north tomorrow to visit my folks and get some fishing in. Unfortunately, I am certain they’ll mention how disappointed they are that Marco Rubio didn’t win (seriously?!), but that they’ll vote for Trump over Hillary any day because reasons, and I’ll just tune out and shake my head and sigh. It happens every time.

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gocart mozart  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:18:11pm
Melania Trump made a sex tape with Paris Hilton? Was this how she got Donald’s attention?

Heh, that’s how I first read it too. What happened, according to Donnie talking to Stern, was that He and his girlfriend Melania watched the Paris Hilton sex tape together. What makes this extra creepy is that he says he new Paris from when she was 12 because he is good friends with her parents.

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Jack Burton  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:18:16pm

re: #480 goddamnedfrank

This is sad, DC is going to crush him.

I see the future…. the day after the DC primary:

Facebook and Twitter full of stories about how Bernie actually won in landslide but the DNC stole it from him.

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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:18:35pm

re: #476 Blind Frog Belly White

I guess he wants his campaign to end, not on a high note, but being played off by Sad Trombone.

He said he was in til DC. As long as he’s no trashing Hillary and the dems, I’m good. Until DC is over.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:19:02pm

re: #419 Skip Intro

All Trump lacks to be the perfect Republican is being charged with molesting a minor.

Or getting caught with a ‘wide stance’ in a bathroom at the Minneapsolis-St. Paul Airport….

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:19:09pm

Bernie ranting about Wall Street and “rigged economy”

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Jenner7  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:19:31pm

re: #483 thedopefishlives

I’d usually ignore this crap, but she verbally accosted my Mom one time over this. Next time she does it, she’s going to have to deal with me.

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retired cynic  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:19:39pm

re: #463 majii

Trump’s supporters are more than willing to ignore all of his flaws as long as they think they can win the WH. Most of them thought “W” was someone they could sit down and have a drink with. Little did they know that “W” most likely considered them part of the “unwashed masses” who weren’t in his social class, and therefore, not worthy of spending any time with him in a personal setting. His image as “a man of the people” was an RNC/GOP/TP/MSM creation, and a very smart and well-promoted piece of propaganda that had no real basis in reality.

I can still remember that video clip of W and Bill Clinton in Haiti after the earthquake, with W wiping his hands on Clinton’s shirt after some of the Haitians had grabbed his hands. Bill looked totally comfortable.

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Jenner7  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:20:14pm

Warren is speaking now in MSNBC, giving GOP hell.

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majii  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:21:28pm

re: #462 goddamnedfrank

Yes, because the U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan has been an overwhelming success, hasn’t it? Dash also claims that she can win the votes of black citizens because we like money. What a naive and out of touch tool she is. She seems to forget that we blacks, in general, care about other things besides money, and that we’ve dealt with persons like Trump for hundreds of years. We know what he’s about, and nothing Dash can say will convince a majority of us to vote for him. It appears to me that Dash and some others who are supporting Trump have been blinded by his celebrity status and haven’t bothered to look past it. If Trump is ever POTUS, after he leaves office he will become persona non grata just like GWB. Paul Krugman told Grover Norquist on a Sunday news program that republicans are now pretending that GWB was never POTUS, and they have “disappeared” him, which seems to be the case. Although many GOP/TPers will never admit it, they know deep inside themselves that GWB was a major failure as president, and I think this is why he has “retired” to private life in Dallas. Their politicians don’t want him campaigning with them because they know his doing so would be a reminder of how f*cked up he left the nation and the world when he exited the WH on January 20, 2009.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:22:28pm

re: #490 retired cynic

I can still remember that video clip of W and Bill Clinton in Haiti after the earthquake, with W wiping his hands on Clinton’s shirt after some of the Haitians had grabbed his hands. Bill looked totally comfortable.

I love the Big Dog—in a totes heterosexual way, of course. He’s going to make a fine FGOTUS. I can’t picture anybody else carrying off that role, the first time anyway.

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:22:30pm

re: #471 The Vicious Babushka

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:23:02pm

re: #488 The Vicious Babushka

Guess he just didn’t get it when Hillary told him we are not a one-issue party. I’m guessing there are parrots in living rooms across the country who are giving his speech by now.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:24:09pm

re: #495 InfidelOfFreedom

Guess he just didn’t get it when Hillary told him we are not a one-issue party. I’m guessing there are parrots in living rooms across the country who are giving his speech by now.

When you only have a hammer and sickle, every problem looks like a nail class struggle.

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majii  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:24:16pm

re: #471 The Vicious Babushka

Look at the expression on Cornel West’s face! The anger! The outrage! West looks as if he’s determined to impose his will on every member of the Democratic Party and force us to vote to elect Bernie POTUS in November. Poor man. He’s as out of touch as some of the other berners.

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Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:24:42pm

President Carter may get his ninetieth birthday wish (sent out to my E-mail stable):

npr.org
(Goes to National Public Radio with an interview with President Jimmy Carter on eradicating guinea worm disease)

Guinea worm is a terrible parasite. In 1980, just before President Carter’s charity work started, there were 3.5 million cases of guinea worm every year, primarily in poor nations of Africa. Shortly after leaving the Presidency and setting up his charitable foundation, the Carter Center started in on its over thirty-year campaign to eradicate the parasite in 1986. While the United Nations supports the Carter Center’s work, the work is carried out entirely by President Carter’s private foundation.

On his ninetieth birthday, President Carter said he would like to live long enough to see guinea worm eradicated from the world forever. That goal is now only weeks away. If successful, it would be only the second human disease eradicated in history (after smallpox).

en.wikipedia.org (with pictures)

Adult male guinea worms are about an inch and a half long, adult female guinea worms are about three feet long.

Guinea worm is a simple disease: It starts with a person drinking water infected with its larvae. They grow into adults in the body. The worms then migrate to the extremities, and poke out of the skin with a terrible burning sensation. The only relief for the burning is to dip the affected limb in water. When a person does that, the adult female worm releases tens of thousands of larvae into the water, completing its life cycle. The wounds from the worm can become terribly infected. Guinea worm has a terrible economic drain and human toll on every country it infects.

The adult worm can only be removed two ways: surgery (challenging in poor countries with insufficient medical systems), or by slowly (for weeks) twisting the end of the adult worm around a stick, slowly pulling it out of the body. (The symbol of medicine is thought to represent this method of removing guinea worms, as the parasite was known to the ancient Greeks.) The disease spread because people did not know the parasite was propagated through drinking water.

“It wasn’t just a minor parasite. It was serious,” says Ringo Naah Sulley, the district director of Asante Akim [Ghana] South District Health Services. “In one person about three or four worms could appear on any part of the body. You have to extract one after the other until you get all the parasites out.”

The Carter Center attacked the issue in several ways. It first chose not to impose outside “top down” solutions on local populations, who would be distrusting of outsiders. It instead chose to teach local people who would then teach others. (This is similar to the way the United Nation’s smallpox eradication worked and the polio eradication is working now.)

To remove larvae from water, all it takes is a gauze filter. Gauze is cheap and doesn’t require special storage. Working with local governments, the Carter Center distributes tons and tons of gauze to be distributed to local residents. Residents have been instructed in affected areas to filter all drinking water.

To prevent people from spreading the larvae, police or armed forces were placed around water sources and reservoirs.

To treat the burning associated with guinea worm, patients were instructed instead to dip the afflicted limb in a bucket of water, then dump the water out on dry ground. This prevents the larvae from getting into water supplies, breaking the chain of transmission.

Last year the disease was still endemic to eight countries, all suffering from civil war.

A couple of years ago, President Carter travelled to Sudan (then engaged in the civil war which resulted in the creation of the state South Sudan), to broker a six-month armistice (called the Guinea Worm Ceasefire), so health workers could get into the disputed area to implement the Carter Center’s protocol for eliminating Guinea Worm from that area. Both Khartoum and Juba agreed to the ceasefire under the personal urging from President Carter.

Within a couple months, Guinea Worm was eradicated from both nations.

In Mali, it was discovered that Guinea Worm can also be propagated by dogs. (Thus, dogs could enter a water source and pass on the parasite to humans, and vice versa.) To address that issue, the Carter Center put up a whole lot of money for the Mali government (which was suffering from the Tuareg Rebellion in the north of the country) to offer rewards to anyone who saw a dog afflicted by the parasite. Within a matter of a couple years, the parasite was eradicated from both dogs and humans in Mali.

He met with President Zia of Pakistan to urge the Carter Center’s protocols. The Pakistani government was enthusiastic about the plan. President Carter also met with the leaders in Pakistan’s restless tribal regions to adopt the protocol; the worm was wiped out in Pakistan in a year.

He also met with the leaders of Yemen (before the country devolved into civil war), and convinced them of the necessity of adopting the protocol. Like Pakistan, the worm was wiped out quickly in Yemen.

President Carter as a peace ambassador for the United Nations is widely respected around the world, far more than he is at home.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:25:38pm

Checking out for a while, because I may need my space depending on how tonight’s sportspuck game goes. I like too many Lizards to want to lash out at anyone over it (and honestly, a lot of it is other shit just getting wrapped up in the feelings-train) so I’m aiming to keep productive and try to get things done away from screens.

If PIT wins tonight, congrats to the Pens fans. Forgive me if I don’t share in your joy wholeheartedly because as much as NBC might shit on my team, they’re actually a really great bunch of human beings and I kind of like them.

500
BeachDem  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:26:42pm

re: #458 InfidelOfFreedom

He says “believe me folks!” in all his speeches. I guess that’s enough for them.

It’s on his hat.

501
thedopefishlives  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:26:46pm

re: #499 klys (maker of Silmarils)

{{{klys}}}

See you when I see you. I wish your sportspuck team much luck tonight.

502
Jenner7  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:27:19pm

re: #499 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Here’s to a great game, no matter the outcome. :)

503
No Depression  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:27:35pm

re: #499 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Checking out for a while, because I may need my space depending on how tonight’s sportspuck game goes. I like too many Lizards to want to lash out at anyone over it (and honestly, a lot of it is other shit just getting wrapped up in the feelings-train) so I’m aiming to keep productive and try to get things done away from screens.

If PIT wins tonight, congrats to the Pens fans. Forgive me if I don’t share in your joy wholeheartedly because as much as NBC might shit on my team, they’re actually a really great bunch of human beings and I kind of like them.

Good luck to the Sharks! I’ll be rooting for them too.

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Jenner7  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:28:16pm

Now Warren is going after Trump. Trump “inherited a fortune” and kept it “by cheating people.”

505
Pawn of the Oppressor  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:28:24pm

re: #498 Anymouse

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

*pause*
*breath*

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhh

…Good for President Carter, but OMG. Horrifying D:

506
Frankie Five Angels  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:28:56pm

Warren just said Trump inherited his wealth then used it to cheat people. Trump is going to go fucking nuts tonight.

507
Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:29:12pm

re: #458 InfidelOfFreedom

He says “believe me folks!” in all his speeches. I guess that’s enough for them.

“Believe me, folks!”

(crowd, in unison) Yes…I believe you….

“Okay? Okay?”

(crowd, in unison) Yes…Okay…

508
gocart mozart  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:29:28pm
In 2003, when Melania was younger and presumably even hotter, Trump admitted to radio host Howard Stern that although he had known Paris Hilton since she was 12, it didn’t stop him and then-girlfriend Melania from ogling her sex tape. Trump told Stern, “Now, somebody who a lot of people don’t give credit to but is in actuality very beautiful is Paris Hilton. I’ve known Paris Hilton from the time she’s 12, her parents are friends of mine, and the first time I saw her she walked into the room and I said, ‘Who the hell is that?’ At 12, I wasn’t interested… but she was beautiful.” The Daily Beast reported that Trump “also admitted to watching Paris Hilton’s sex tape with Knauss, despite knowing her since the age of 12 and being very close friends with the Hilton Family.”

dailywire.com

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:30:01pm

re: #499 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Checking out for a while, because I may need my space depending on how tonight’s sportspuck game goes. I like too many Lizards to want to lash out at anyone over it (and honestly, a lot of it is other shit just getting wrapped up in the feelings-train) so I’m aiming to keep productive and try to get things done away from screens.

If PIT wins tonight, congrats to the Pens fans. Forgive me if I don’t share in your joy wholeheartedly because as much as NBC might shit on my team, they’re actually a really great bunch of human beings and I kind of like them.

Good luck tonight! I’ve been rooting for you since ya’ll knocked out my Blues ;) I know how the feels go. Just remember miracles on ice do happen!

510
Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:30:05pm

re: #505 Pawn of the Oppressor

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

*pause*
*breath*

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhh

…Good for President Carter, but OMG. Horrifying D:

Oh, yeah. Nature is just chock full of weird, horrible shit like that.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:30:24pm

re: #462 goddamnedfrank

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“We can get the Ni*clang* vote, all we have to do is airdrop in free stuff into their ghettoes!”

/totally not racist.

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Frankie Five Angels  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:30:36pm

The Democrats really have the long knives out early for Trump. I like it.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:30:57pm

Elizabeth Warren’s speech is on CNN now.

She’s hammering trump

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Jenner7  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:31:22pm

When I got married in June of 1997, the Utah Jazz were in the finals. I actually got married on game 6, where they lost to the Bulls. Anyhoo, I was so upset that I threw my cordless (hahaha, I’m old) phone across the room. Thankfully, I didn’t break it.

I feel ya klys. :)

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MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:31:57pm

re: #504 Jenner7

Now Warren is going after Trump. Trump “inherited a fortune” and kept it “by cheating people.”

Trump is going to have an aneurysm.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:32:00pm

They have Bernie’s speech in a little box on the screen. oop

517
Frankie Five Angels  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:32:13pm

“Thin-skinned, racist bully.”

Nominate Warren as your VP immediately, Mrs. Clinton.

518
No Country For Old Haters  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:32:48pm

re: #342 Kragar

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piratedan  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:33:23pm

re: #405 Scout

well, to be fair, fraud has been a long standing tactic of the GOP for some time now, when you consider how they’ve characterized the following:

Planned Parenthood
The ACA
Benghazi
Gun legislation
9/11 First responders
Climate change

It’s fraud every step of the way, so if anything, this should allow them to clasp The Donald to their collective bosom, he is truly one of them

520
Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:33:29pm

re: #443 HappyWarrior

But the Obamas are classless trash somehow.

Melanin.

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Frankie Five Angels  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:33:36pm

Warren is kicking some serious ass right now.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:34:05pm

re: #518 No Country For Old Haters

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Corey tweeted it?

dumpster fire.

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:34:17pm

re: #513 Stanley Sea

Elizabeth Warren’s speech is on CNN now.

She’s hammering trump

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Jenner7  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:34:22pm

She is killing it. Go Elizabeth!

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:34:37pm

re: #492 majii

Although many GOP/TPers will never admit it, they know deep inside themselves that GWB was a major failure as president, and I think this is why he has “retired” to private life in Dallas.

Plus GWB runs the risk of getting arrested by some nations should he decide to leave the US for crimes against humanity.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:35:24pm

re: #519 piratedan

well, to be fair, fraud has been a long standing tactic of the GOP for some time now, when you consider how they’ve characterized the following:

Planned Parenthood
The ACA
Benghazi
Gun legislation
9/11 First responders
Climate change

It’s fraud every step of the way, so if anything, this should allow them to clasp The Donald to their collective bosom, he is truly one of

527
MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:36:05pm

re: #519 piratedan

well, to be fair, fraud has been a long standing tactic of the GOP for some time now, when you consider how they’ve characterized the following:

Planned Parenthood
The ACA
Benghazi
Gun legislation
9/11 First responders
Climate change

It’s fraud every step of the way, so if anything, this should allow them to clasp The Donald to their collective bosom, he is truly one of

ACORN

528
Stanley Sea  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:36:33pm

Hahaha trump doesn’t want to talk about Curiel anymore.

Liz Warren “hell naw”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:36:52pm
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teleskiguy  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:36:58pm

Hey all. Comedy Central put up every single Key & Peele sketch they ever made.

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Frankie Five Angels  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:37:22pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:38:12pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:39:24pm
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thedopefishlives  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:39:43pm

re: #532 Blind Frog Belly White

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Sounds like a bumper sticker for him to give to his wife.

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Frankie Five Angels  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:40:12pm

Trump wouldn’t have the balls to debate Elizabeth Warren.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:40:44pm

re: #534 thedopefishlives

Sounds like a bumper sticker for him to give to his current, and next wife.

FTFY

537
majii  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:41:02pm

re: #525 Eric The Fruit Bat

“Plus GWB runs the risk of getting arrested by some nations should he decide to leave the US for crimes against humanity.”

So true. It’s why he cancelled a scheduled speech in Switzerland in 2011. I read at the time that some prosecutors from the ICC were waiting at the airport and had planned to arrest him the moment he set foot on Swiss soil. He, Cheney and some others have been convicted of crimes against humanity by an Indonesian court.

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Frankie Five Angels  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:41:35pm

re: #537 majii

Is that true? I never knew that.

539
Frankie Five Angels  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:42:37pm

If she doesn’t get the VP nod, holy shit, Warren would make an unbelievable Senate MAJORITY leader!

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majii  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:42:58pm

re: #527 MsJ

An example of how nutsy some GOP/TP members of Congress are in regard to ACORN, after the organization was disbanded, they still wrote amendments intended to punish it and tried to add them to bills, such was the level of their obsession.

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thedopefishlives  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:44:37pm

re: #539 Frankie Five Angels

If she doesn’t get the VP nod, holy shit, Warren would make an unbelievable Senate MAJORITY leader!

I think it would be tough to have a double woman ticket. Bad enough that there are a large number of people who will vote against Clinton merely because she is a woman. If she picked a female VP, the rather large misogynist contingent in this country would revolt.

542
Jenner7  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:45:00pm

That was excellent.

BBL, dinner time.

543
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:45:32pm

re: #540 majii

An example of how nutsy some GOP/TP members of Congress are in regard to ACORN, after the organization was disbanded, they still wrote amendments intended to punish it and tried to add them to bills, such was the level of their obsession.

I went to one ACORN event in our neighborhood. I had no idea they were involved in anything political. The meeting’s main focus was getting speed bumps installed on the side streets like ours.

544
HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:46:05pm

re: #539 Frankie Five Angels

If she doesn’t get the VP nod, holy shit, Warren would make an unbelievable Senate MAJORITY leader!

She definitely has a future in the leadership. Not that I’m happy that Brown won against Coakley in the special election but it shows you that things work their way out.

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:46:31pm

re: #543 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I went to one ACORN event in our neighborhood. I had no idea they were involved in anything political. The meeting’s main focus was getting speed bumps installed on the side streets like ours.

Obviously Seekrit Communists.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:47:00pm

re: #540 majii

An example of how nutsy some GOP/TP members of Congress are in regard to ACORN, after the organization was disbanded, they still wrote amendments intended to punish it and tried to add them to bills, such was the level of their obsession.

Many of them are convinced that their tax dollars are funding abortion. Had to explain the Hyde Amendment to someone recently.

547
Frankie Five Angels  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:47:02pm

There is no way in hell Trump will make it to Cleveland. The long knives are out, the Dems are in full attack mode, Obama has thrown in his support and the GOP is going to throw in the towel and say “Fuck it. Focus on the Senate and 2020.”

548
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:47:53pm

heh

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majii  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:48:01pm

re: #538 Frankie Five Angels

Yes. “W” did cancel his speech in Switzerland in 2011, and a court in Indonesia [Correction: it was a Malaysian court] convicted him, Cheney and other officials in his administration of crimes against humanity.

reuters.com
dgrnewsservice.org

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teleskiguy  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:49:19pm

Iframe

551
Frankie Five Angels  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:49:19pm

I informed my mother that I will be gloating on the evening of November 8.

552
Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:49:19pm

re: #498 Anymouse

If successful, it would be only the second human disease eradicated in history (after smallpox).

Yet both the US and Russia still have stocks of the smallpox virus locked up inside their respective labs (CDC and VECTOR)

553
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:49:23pm
554
Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:49:39pm

re: #510 Blind Frog Belly White

Oh, yeah. Nature is just chock full of weird, horrible shit like that.

Intelligent design. /s

555
HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:50:02pm

politico.com
David Duke has opined on Trump’s bashing of Judge Curiel. Guess who’s fault it is that Trump is being criticized for attacking Judge Curiel.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:50:05pm

“Anybody but Bush” got 62% of the vote in ‘92. I can see “Anybody but Trump” decisively beating that. If some of the GOPers want to vote for Johnson and some of the BernieBros want to vote for Stein, let them.

557
Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:50:53pm

re: #554 Anymouse

Intelligent design. /s

“Guys! Guys! You gotta see this crazy shit I just designed!”

558
HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:51:04pm

re: #553 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Well done.

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Jay C  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:51:10pm

re: #540 majii

An example of how nutsy some GOP/TP members of Congress are in regard to ACORN, after the organization was disbanded, they still wrote amendments intended to punish it and tried to add them to bills, such was the level of their obsession.

Pure guilty projection: for a Party one of whose major political principles is restricting/suppressing voting rights, even the ghost of an organization devoted to boosting those rights must cause guilty prickles in their consciences (on the questionable assumption that Republicans have any).

re: #539 Frankie Five Angels

If she doesn’t get the VP nod, holy shit, Warren would make an unbelievable Senate MAJORITY leader!

Though with Chuck (rhymes with you-know-what) Schumer tapped for that job in the next session, it’s sadly unlikely that a notorious foe of Wall Street is going to rise very far in the Senate leadership. Yet.

560
Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:51:37pm

re: #555 HappyWarrior

politico.com
David Duke has opined on Trump’s bashing of Judge Curiel. Guess who’s fault it is that Trump is being criticized for attacking Judge Curiel.

Ultimately, he’ll blame the ((( ))).

561
HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:53:05pm

re: #560 Decatur Deb

Ultimately, he’ll blame the ((( ))).

He’s already ahead of you heh.

562
Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:53:30pm

re: #552 Eric The Fruit Bat

Yet both the US and Russia still have stocks of the smallpox virus locked up inside their respective labs (CDC and VECTOR)

At this point, that’s almost moot. The whole genome was sequenced long since, so if it were gone it could be recreated.

Luckily, vaccination against smallpox is real old technology. In fact, it’s where ‘vaccination’ gets its name.

563
Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:53:42pm

re: #561 HappyWarrior

He’s already ahead of you heh.

We ‘bama boys know our kluxers.

564
Skip Intro  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:53:45pm

re: #532 Blind Frog Belly White

565
HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:54:10pm

re: #563 Decatur Deb

We ‘bama boys know our kluxers.

A wizard never changes his stripes.

566
Frankie Five Angels  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:54:30pm

re: #564 Skip Intro

ONE FOR YOU! TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE FOR ME!!!!

567
Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:54:39pm

re: #561 HappyWarrior

He’s already ahead of you heh.

The Jooze? I was gonna guess Obama.

568
gocart mozart  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:54:55pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:55:14pm

re: #538 Frankie Five Angels

Is that true? I never knew that.

He was tried and conviced by a Kulala Lampur trubunal and the results sent on the UN, but it was considered by many to be not worth the paper it was printed on. Germany, OTOH, had the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights prepping an indictment-but how much teeth they have is open for debate.

570
EPR-radar  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:55:49pm

re: #487 Eric The Fruit Bat

Or getting caught with a ‘wide stance’ in a bathroom at the Minneapsolis-St. Paul Airport….

“and” may work better than “or” here. Trump busted for public lewdness by a vice cop posing as an underage boy would really be a fine addition to this presidential campaign season.

571
HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:55:50pm

re: #567 Blind Frog Belly White

The Jooze? I was gonna guess Obama.

Come on it’s David Duke, we’re talking here. He blames the Juice for everything.

572
Stanley Sea  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:56:03pm

Joe Biden speaks next.

Oh holy hell.

Tonight is a good night.

573
Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:56:08pm

re: #566 Frankie Five Angels

ONE FOR YOU! TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE FOR ME!!!!

One for you, and one for me.

Two for you, and one, two for me.

Three for you, and one, two, three for me….

574
Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:56:47pm

re: #552 Eric The Fruit Bat

Yet both the US and Russia still have stocks of the smallpox virus locked up inside their respective labs (CDC and VECTOR)

With the genome of smallpox sequenced, there is no more need to hold the live virus to create vaccines (the alleged purpose of Russia and the USA holding them).

There is some concern that bad actors could get hold of the virus, though the probability seems low.

On the other hand, there are moonbat environmentalists who actually argue that eradicating the disease completely by destroying the smallpox stocks is somehow a crime against nature.

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Jay C  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:57:17pm

re: #561 HappyWarrior

He’s already ahead of you heh.

Yep: with a couple of barbs for “fellow travelers”:

“And more recently, Fox News, the shabbat goy shiksa Megyn Kelly, ‘cause they love to have some gentiles doing it,” Duke continued, according to audio of the segment Tuesday. “They don’t want Jews always out front.”

Duke uses more Yiddish there than most Jews I know. Here’s some more for you, Dave: Geh in drerd! Putz!

576
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:57:24pm
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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:58:09pm

re: #567 Blind Frog Belly White

The Jooze? I was gonna guess Obama.

Well you never know, Obama is already a secret Muslim-Atheist-Satan Incarnate. Why not make him Jewish too?

578
BeachDem  Jun 9, 2016 • 4:58:29pm

re: #492 majii

Yes, because the U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan has been an overwhelming success, hasn’t it? Dash also claims that she can win the votes of black citizens because we like money. What a naive and out of touch tool she is. She seems to forget that we blacks, in general, care about other things besides money, and that we’ve dealt with persons like Trump for hundreds of years. We know what he’s about, and nothing Dash can say will convince a majority of us to vote for him. It appears to me that Dash and some others who are supporting Trump have been blinded by his celebrity status and haven’t bothered to look past it. If Trump is ever POTUS, after he leaves office he will become persona non grata just like GWB. Paul Krugman told Grover Norquist on a Sunday news program that republicans are now pretending that GWB was never POTUS, and they have “disappeared” him, which seems to be the case. Although many GOP/TPers will never admit it, they know deep inside themselves that GWB was a major failure as president, and I think this is why he has “retired” to private life in Dallas. Their politicians don’t want him campaigning with them because they know his doing so would be a reminder of how f*cked up he left the nation and the world when he exited the WH on January 20, 2009.

Dash can’t convince anyone other than Fox to even hire her, so I don’t see her as being particularly persuasive with any group.

Oops, I see she will be in “Sharknado 4” and has appeared in such blockbusters as “Lapdance” and “Patient Killer” in recent years./

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EPR-radar  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:00:04pm

re: #505 Pawn of the Oppressor

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

*pause*
*breath*

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhh

…Good for President Carter, but OMG. Horrifying D:

Creationists probably have a difficult time explaining how the Guinea Worm was specifically created by a loving omnipotent God.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:00:19pm

re: #577 InfidelOfFreedom

Well you never know, Obama is already a secret Muslim-Atheist-Satan Incarnate. Why not make him Jewish too?

Well, he already drinks beer to hide his MOOZLIMness, and goes to church to hide his ATHEISTness, and married a woman to hide he GHEYness, so I suppose he can eat cheeseburgers to hide his JOOSHness.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:00:31pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:00:44pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:00:53pm

re: #579 EPR-radar

Creationists probably have a difficult time explaining how the Guinea Worm was specifically created by a loving omnipotent God.

Curse of Ham.

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:00:57pm

re: #578 BeachDem

Dash can’t convince anyone other than Fox to even hire her, so I don’t see her as being particularly persuasive with any group.

Oops, I see she will be in “Sharknado 4” and has appeared in such blockbusters as “Lapdance” and “Patient Killer” in recent years./

Sharknado 4? At some point, these people just need to move inland.

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Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:01:24pm

re: #576 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Ewww.

Wouldn’t that be something if someone slapped that on one of Mr. Trump’s limos going to or from an event?

586
Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:01:30pm

re: #579 EPR-radar

Creationists probably have a difficult time explaining how the Guinea Worm was specifically created by a loving omnipotent God.

“It’s a mystery!”

“Who are you to question God?”

“Maybe God made all of those millions of people through the centuries suffer just to test YOUR faith?”

587
MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:01:56pm

re: #577 InfidelOfFreedom

Well you never know, Obama is already a secret Muslim-Atheist-Satan Incarnate. Why not make him Jewish too?

Obama is a secret Muslim Jew.

588
Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:02:12pm

re: #581 Backwoods_Sleuth

[STARTING NOW: @VP Joe Biden talks #SCOTUS and the cost of @SenateGOP’s failure to do its job. Listen in: wh.gov #DoYourJob

Damn. Somebody let slip the dogs of war.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:02:21pm

re: #583 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Curse of Ham.

What, not being allowed to eat it?

Oh, “Ham”, not “ham”.

Sorry.

590
thedopefishlives  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:02:58pm

re: #588 Decatur Deb

Damn. Somebody let slip the dogs of war.

Who let the dogs out?

591
William Lewis  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:03:13pm

re: #552 Eric The Fruit Bat

I’m not sure that’s a bad thing given that we now have a mostly unimmunized population worldwide. All it would take is a couple of careless archeologists at the wrong dig and a pandemic like swept through North America ahead of the whites could happen again. The stocks make creating vaccines - the only way to really break the chain - possible.

592
Jay C  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:03:20pm

re: #587 MsJ

Obama is a secret Muslim Jew.

Yeah - his father was actually from one of those African Jewish tribes: his original name was Baruch Obamawitz…

593
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:03:49pm

re: #589 Blind Frog Belly White

What, not being allowed to eat it?

Oh, HAM, not ham.

Sorry.

Yeah, I know the guinea worm isn’t confined to black Africa, but they don’t.

594
BeachDem  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:04:05pm

re: #518 No Country For Old Haters

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Not just supporters—his freaking campaign team.

595
Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:04:05pm

re: #592 Jay C

Yeah - his father was actually from one of those African Jewish tribes: his original name was Baruch Obamawitz…

Ehud Barak Obama?

596
InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:04:16pm

re: #588 Decatur Deb

Damn. Somebody let slip the dogs of war.

And Donald Trump is their squeaky new chew toy.

597
MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:05:24pm

re: #592 Jay C

Yeah - his father was actually from one of those African Jewish tribes: his original name was Baruch Obamawitz…

That’s Barack Hussain Obamawitz!

598
InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:06:06pm

re: #592 Jay C

Yeah - his father was actually from one of those African Jewish tribes: his original name was Baruch Obamawitz…

Hahaha I guess that was before his mother schlepped him all the way to Hawaii to plant his birth notice?

599
Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:06:06pm

re: #579 EPR-radar

Creationists probably have a difficult time explaining how the Guinea Worm was specifically created by a loving omnipotent God.

Free will provided by God. You don’t have to drink water from the only water hole in fifty miles that may or may not be contaminated.

Similar argument works with rape: The rapist has free will, but the victim certainly does not.

600
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:06:08pm

re: #597 MsJ

That’s Barack Hussain Obamawitz!

Lion of Judah….

601
MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:06:44pm

re: #596 InfidelOfFreedom

And Donald Trump is their squeaky new chew toy.

Donny fell down a well? Go get em Lassie!

602
Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:07:07pm

re: #574 Anymouse

And we don’t vaccinate the general population against it anymore, except for the military.

603
Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:07:21pm

re: #601 MsJ

Donny fell down a well? Go get em Lassie!

Slowly.

604
The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:07:31pm
605
MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:08:35pm

It’s so freaking hard to type left handed. My right - dominant - hand is giving up the ghost.

I see repeat surgery in my future. :(

606
Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:09:07pm

re: #591 William Lewis

I’m not sure that’s a bad thing given that we now have a mostly unimmunized population worldwide. All it would take is a couple of careless archeologists at the wrong dig and a pandemic like swept through North America ahead of the whites could happen again. The stocks make creating vaccines - the only way to really break the chain - possible.

But the smallpox genome has already been sequenced. We can create the vaccine without holding the live virus.

As long as the live virus is around, it is possible it could be stolen (or if you are in to not-so-implausible weaponisation of the disease by state actors).

607
EPR-radar  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:10:17pm

re: #599 Anymouse

Free will provided by God. You don’t have to drink water from the only water hole in fifty miles that may or may not be contaminated.

Similar argument works with rape: The rapist has free will, but the victim certainly does not.

I think that pie chart from the other day I saw here on how to prevent rape is the best use of a pie chart I’ve ever seen.

The Brock Turner case suggests that the definition of statutory rape be expanded to include sex with anyone that is too incapacitated to give consent. That wouldn’t fix everything, but would stop some of the more egregious aspects of the legal proceedings, where the defense tried to make moonbeams and bullshit into consent.

608
Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:10:33pm

re: #591 William Lewis

I’m not sure that’s a bad thing given that we now have a mostly unimmunized population worldwide. All it would take is a couple of careless archeologists at the wrong dig and a pandemic like swept through North America ahead of the whites could happen again. The stocks make creating vaccines - the only way to really break the chain - possible.

No, you don’t need the smallpox virus (Variola) to create vaccines against smallpox. The vaccine is actually a RELATED, but far less virulent virus, Vaccinia. We still have LOTS of that.

You COULD argue that we’d need to test a NEW Smallpox vaccine - i.e. one made to have fewer side effects - against actual Variola to be certain it was efficacious, but only in the lab. You’d test the antisera produced by vaccinating animals, determine whether the response was neutralizing on Variola. Then in clinical trials, you’d test antisera from trial subjects the same way.

Disclosure: I worked for 8 years for a vaccine company which did a lot of work in Biodefense, including smallpox vaccines, back when the US Government gave a shit about it, because the US population were still shitting themselves after the Anthrax attack.

609
Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:10:57pm

re: #602 Eric The Fruit Bat

And we don’t vaccinate the general population against it anymore, except for the military.

I have several smallpox vaccination scars (the one from when I was a child and several from the Navy because the military does like overkill).

My son does not have one.

610
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:13:06pm

Elizabeth Warren’s speech for those who missed it:
(OOPS! Wrong speech, but still a good one)

Sen. Elizabeth Warren to Republicans: Do Your Job on a Supreme Court Nominee

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William Lewis  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:14:27pm

re: #606 Anymouse

But the smallpox genome has already been sequenced. We can create the vaccine without holding the live virus.

As long as the live virus is around, it is possible it could be stolen (or if you are in to not-so-implausible weaponisation of the disease by state actors).

I’d rather not bet the world on that belief that the sequence is actually enough. Has anyone actually done that and then been exposed to life virus after such a vaccination?

612
teleskiguy  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:14:35pm

One of my favorites.

Iframe

613
Stanley Sea  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:15:04pm

re: #594 BeachDem

Not just supporters—his freaking campaign team.

Dumpster fire.

614
Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:17:11pm

re: #608 Blind Frog Belly White

Further disclosure: the President of the company worked for WHO during the eradication. Rather than vaccinate the entire world, they went in everywhere there was an outbreak and vaccinated EVERYBODY in the village and surrounding area.

The vaccine is administerd by scarification, with a tiny forked needle, dipped in the vaccine preparation. To demonstrate that it was safe, he had to revaccinate himself over and over again in front of each new village.

I figure if Smallpox ever came back, even in a worse form, this guy would survive.

615
Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:18:36pm

re: #611 William Lewis

I’d rather not bet the world on that belief that the sequence is actually enough. Has anyone actually done that and then been exposed to life virus after such a vaccination?

Once again, the Smallpox virus is NOT in any way, shape, or form, part of the vaccine.

616
Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:18:58pm

Watching Biden right now and he has all the energy of an outdoors graduation exercise speaker on a hot and humid May morning with the parents and students looking bored and fanning themselves with the programs.

617
EPR-radar  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:19:47pm

re: #614 Blind Frog Belly White

Further disclosure: the President of the company worked for WHO during the eradication. Rather than vaccinate the entire world, they went in everywhere there was an outbreak and vaccinated EVERYBODY in the village and surrounding area.

The vaccine is administerd by scarification, with a tiny forked needle, dipped in the vaccine preparation. To demonstrate that it was safe, he had to revaccinate himself over and over again in front of each new village.

I figure if Smallpox ever came back, even in a worse form, this guy would survive.

Eradication of smallpox is one of the great achievements of the 20th century. From the WHO certification of this:

Having considered the development and results of the global program on smallpox eradication initiated by WHO in 1958 and intensified since 1967 … Declares solemnly that the world and its peoples have won freedom from smallpox, which was a most devastating disease sweeping in epidemic form through many countries since earliest time, leaving death, blindness and disfigurement in its wake and which only a decade ago was rampant in Africa, Asia and South America.

Anti-vax woo and nonsense hasn’t produced any results that are remotely comparable.

618
Stanley Sea  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:20:20pm

CNN waits for Biden to start talking about trump, then cuts to him.

Bad day for trump.

619
gocart mozart  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:20:38pm

Does anyone have a link to Warren’s speech?

620
Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:22:03pm

re: #618 Stanley Sea

CNN waits for Biden to start talking about trump, then cuts to him.

Bad day for trump.

Nothing wrong with what Biden is saying. It’s just that the contrast between him and Warren is stark. He would have been better served speaking first as introduction.

621
Testy Toad T  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:22:04pm

I’m trying to decide if I find this inspirational or depressing. Maybe both.

622
Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:22:09pm

re: #617 EPR-radar

Eradication of smallpox is one of the great achievements of the 20th century. From the WHO certification of this:

Anti-vax woo and nonsense hasn’t produced any results that are remotely comparable.

Nonsense! They’ve managed to bring back several diseases that were on the brink of disappearing completely from America!
/////

623
PhillyPretzel  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:22:32pm

re: #619 gocart mozart

Check #610.

624
teleskiguy  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:22:52pm

Iframe

625
teleskiguy  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:23:10pm

Well, I know what I’m doing for the rest of the evening.

626
PhillyPretzel  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:23:34pm

re: #610 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wrong or not it is a good one.

627
Stanley Sea  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:23:59pm

re: #620 Aunty Entity Dragon

Nothing wrong with what Biden is saying. It’s just that the contrast between him and Warren is stark. He would have been better served speaking first as introduction.

At least we are finally getting into the separation of powers.

628
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:24:53pm

re: #612 teleskiguy

One of my favorites.

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So where are these “Your content will resume shortly” Flash videos from? I can’t get them to play.

629
Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:25:05pm

re: #621 Testy Toad T

I’m trying to decide if I find this inspirational or depressing. Maybe both.

[Embedded content]

The apple fell far from the tree. Bush the Lesser wasn’t half the man his father is.

630
FormerDirtDart  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:25:26pm
631
Skip Intro  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:25:41pm

Calif. judge who had sex with intern, attorney in his chambers wins reelection

Conservative Republican family man, of course.

washingtonpost.com

632
Testy Toad T  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:26:24pm

re: #629 Aunty Entity Dragon

The apple fell far from the tree. Bush the Lesser wasn’t half the man his father is.

W was less than half of HW, to be sure. And yet if I want to compare W and The Donald, I need to use a log scale.

Probably on 11x17.

633
Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:26:29pm

Biden showing some real heat now. Good. The situation deserves it.

634
Stanley Sea  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:26:30pm

re: #621 Testy Toad T

I’m trying to decide if I find this inspirational or depressing. Maybe both.

[Embedded content]

It says a lot how the Presidency rises above the awful politics to get there.

635
Bubblehead II  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:27:41pm

Night Lizards.

636
Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:27:55pm

re: #632 Testy Toad T

W was less than half of HW, to be sure. And yet if I want to compare W and The Donald, I need to use a log scale.

Probably on 11x17.

Measurable in angstroms.

637
InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:28:09pm

More good news:

638
Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:28:27pm

re: #611 William Lewis

Has anyone actually done that and then been exposed to life virus after such a vaccination?

Nope-not ethical to do it on humans. Closest you could do it would be on chimps, and that would require doing it in a Level 4 facility, and would require such secrecy among the staff the chances of pulling that off would be somewhere between slim and none.

639
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:28:30pm

OK, I think this is the correct Warren video:

Elizabeth Warren DESTROYS Donald Trump During ACS Convention

(Nope…I’m wrong again…)

640
Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:30:07pm

re: #635 Bubblehead II

Night Lizards.

Clear your baffles and keep your torps loaded.

641
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:30:44pm

re: #639 Backwoods_Sleuth

OK, I think this is the correct Warren video:

[Embedded content]

Nope, I’m wrong again.
Giving it up for now, lol!

642
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:30:55pm

re: #615 Blind Frog Belly White

Once again, the Smallpox virus is NOT in any way, shape, or form, part of the vaccine.

And if smallpox or something like it came back, I’m not sure it would be sufficiently identical to the stockpiled virus for it to be useful, anyway. The new virus would need to be sequenced from scratch.

643
Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:31:26pm

re: #638 Eric The Fruit Bat

Nope-not ethical to do it on humans. Closest you could do it would be on chimps, and that would require doing it in a Level 4 facility, and would require such secrecy among the staff the chances of pulling that off would be somewhere between slim and none.

And you can’t do chimps anymore. And you don’t need to.

644
InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:31:48pm

Well, well, well:

645
Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:32:36pm

re: #642 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

And if smallpox or something like it came back, I’m not sure it would be sufficiently identical to the stockpiled virus for it to be useful, anyway. The new virus would need to be sequenced from scratch.

Which would take an astonishingly short time these days.

646
InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:32:54pm

re: #641 Backwoods_Sleuth

Nope, I’m wrong again.
Giving it up for now, lol!

Well hey it’s a good sign that there are so many “Warren Destroys Trump” videos to choose from.

647
Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:33:07pm

re: #643 Blind Frog Belly White

OK-how would you prove efficacy?

648
Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:35:04pm

re: #605 MsJ

It’s so freaking hard to type left handed. My right - dominant - hand is giving up the ghost.

I see repeat surgery in my future. :(

I am sorry to hear of that. I have had the dubious pleasure of Dupuytrens Contractures surgery twice on each hand (and it looks like I will need it on my left hand again, as I have contractures pulling in my index finger and thumb - the index finger is now pulled down forty-five degrees - the VA will be assessing it in a few days).

649
Testy Toad T  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:37:36pm

re: #644 InfidelOfFreedom

Between the campaign and the brand toxicity, he’s going to be rich-people broke after this. Won’t even want for food or shelter, but that 757 may be finding new ownership.

Couldn’t happen to a lesser man.

650
Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:38:04pm

re: #611 William Lewis

I’d rather not bet the world on that belief that the sequence is actually enough. Has anyone actually done that and then been exposed to life virus after such a vaccination?

But the vaccine is created from cowpox virus, not smallpox virus. Cowpox vaccination provides immunity to smallpox, and cowpox is not a fatal disease.

The argument used by Russia and the USA that smallpox virus is needed for vaccines is mostly specious.

Wikipedia article on the smallpox vaccine

651
Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:39:16pm

This is how The Donald rolls:

Trump’s Doral golf resort also has been embroiled in recent non-payment claims by two different paint firms, with one case settled and the other pending. Last month, his company’s refusal to pay one Florida painter more than $30,000 for work at Doral led the judge in the case to order foreclosure of the resort if the contractor isn’t paid.

Juan Carlos Enriquez, owner of The Paint Spot, in South Florida, has been waiting more than two years to get paid for his work at the Doral. The Paint Spot first filed a lien against Trump’s course, then filed a lawsuit asking a Florida judge to intervene.

In courtroom testimony, the manager of the general contractor for the Doral renovation admitted that a decision was made not to pay The Paint Spot because Trump “already paid enough.” As the construction manager spoke, “Trump’s trial attorneys visibly winced, began breathing heavily, and attempted to make eye contact” with the witness, the judge noted in his ruling.

That, and other evidence, convinced the judge The Paint Spot’s claim was credible. He ordered last month that the Doral resort be foreclosed on, sold, and the proceeds used to pay Enriquez the money he was owed. Trump’s attorneys have since filed a motion to delay the sale, and the contest continues.

Enriquez still hasn’t been paid.

652
InfidelOfFreedom  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:40:41pm

re: #649 Testy Toad T

Between the campaign and the brand toxicity, he’s going to be rich-people broke after this. Won’t even want for food or shelter, but that 757 may be finding new ownership.

Couldn’t happen to a lesser man.

Let’s put Donald Trump in the Poor House!

653
Joe Bacon  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:40:45pm
654
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:42:42pm
655
Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:43:29pm

re: #647 Eric The Fruit Bat

OK-how would you prove efficacy?

A couple things. First, we know from long, long history that a ‘take’ - i.e. developing a pock or blister at the vaccination site - has always been enough to know that the vaccinee is protected.

Second, because of that long history, and the ability to study very closely related viruses which also infect humans and other mammals, we know how to determine that a vaccine elicits a protective response.

Third, as I said, the vaccine is old, old technology. It’s no longer produced by scarifying an entire cow and then scraping off the pus-filled blisters that form, like it was 220 years ago (Eeew!), but is produced in large-scale cell culture.

And we already have enough to immunize every American if needed. The interest in new smallpox vaccines largely centered on the effects of the vaccine on the immunocompromised.

656
MsJ  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:43:47pm

re: #644 InfidelOfFreedom

Well, well, well:

[Embedded content]

The curtain to the great Oz has been lifted. It shows the little, lying prick behind it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:43:48pm
658
Anymouse  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:50:14pm

re: #655 Blind Frog Belly White

And we already have enough to immunize every American if needed. The interest in new smallpox vaccines largely centered on the effects of the vaccine on the immunocompromised.

The Wikipedia article I noted above also notes an interest in 2003 by the US government, which quietly vaccinated over a hundred thousand health care workers as it feared a bioterrorism attack.

Wild virus has been found a couple times recently as well.

Once was smallpox scabs from the Civil War stuffed in an envelope and found in a library book in New Mexico.

Another was a vial of the virus (so marked) found in an old CDC lab in Maryland. The CDC put the building on quarantine and tested the material in the vial (the virus was dead).

659
Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 9, 2016 • 5:55:04pm

re: #647 Eric The Fruit Bat

OK-how would you prove efficacy?

For diseases that are still prevalent, you test efficacy by blinded vaccine vs placebo studies on sufficiently large cohorts from a susceptible population where the disease is prevalent.

Then you wait.

But before all that, you’ll have had to prove that the vaccine elicits a protective response, first in animals, and then in humans. The great thing is that for non-live vaccines, an animal does not have to be susceptible to the disease to develop a protective response, and if you know the target cells of the virus, you can test the antisera In Vitro.

Biggest problem with vaccine development is that while sick people will pay thousands of dollars and accept nasty side effects to get well, nobody wants to pay much money or feel any side effects to not get sick.

ETA: virus or other pathogen.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 9, 2016 • 9:16:43pm

re: #651 Eric The Fruit Bat

This is how The Donald rolls:

That’s interesting. May be the primary reason why the PGA canceled a 2017 tourney at the Doral and moved it to Mexico.


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