Video: Trump Audience Member on TSA: “Get Rid of All These Heeby Jobbies They Wear”

“We are looking at that”
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Well, today’s invitation-only Trump rally was quite a display of overt bigotry indeed. Here’s a woman asking Trump about the TSA and whether he’s in favor of getting rid of Muslim agents who wear “all these heeby jobbies” (hijabs). Trump answers, “You know, and we are looking at that, we are looking at that, we’re looking at a lot of things.”

What can anyone say at this point? The bigotry of Trump and his supporters is completely out of control. I’ve never seen a presidential candidate this openly hateful.

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:23:16pm

That Stupid Hat. It looks like he has no neck.

Oh, and that hat really make him look stupid.

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gocart mozart  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:23:45pm

Trump supporters give me the heebie jeebies.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:24:00pm

Well, there you go. Trump had the opportunity for his own, ‘He’s a Arab!’ moment, and instead he agreed with the crazy woman.

Not that I’m surprised, since his whole campaign is built around appealing to her.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:25:03pm

re: #1 Skip Intro

That Stupid Hat. It looks like he has no neck.

Oh, and that hat really make him look stupid.

That’s why he’s looking at Gingrich and Christie - they’ll make him look svelet by comparison. But it’s gonna be a “Two Assholes For The Price Of One” ticket either way.

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:25:25pm

As long as we’re looking at that, when are we going to fire all of those over paid school janitors and replace them with school kids?

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wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:25:46pm
This is the first entry tagged: Ignorant Hicks

Not the last, I’m afraid.

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MsJ  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:25:56pm

re: #3 Blind Frog Belly White

Well, there you go. Trump had the opportunity for his own, ‘He’s a Arab!’ moment, and instead he agreed with the crazy woman.

Not that I’m surprised, since his whole campaign is built around appealing to her.

He always does. Every time. He’s had a couple of those opportunities.

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stpaulbear  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:26:20pm
Trump answers, “You know, and we are looking at that, we are looking at that, we’re looking at a lot of things.”

The only thing that he could say that would mean less is “You know, and we’re praying for you, we’re praying for you, we’re praying about a lot of things.”, but it would probably mean more to bigot woman.

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:27:43pm

So this woman was on the vetted list, because if she wasn’t she wouldn’t be there.

Nice work, Trumpsters.

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Double Dumbass  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:28:29pm

re: #7 MsJ

He always does. Every time. He’s had a couple of those opportunities.

Fuck he’s dishonest.

He’ll agree to anything.

Apparently he’s looking into everything.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:30:18pm

re: #10 Double Dumbass

Fuck he’s dishonest.

He’ll agree to anything.

Apparently he’s looking into everything.

Well, after all, he’s got a really good brain, you know.
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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:31:53pm

re: #10 Double Dumbass

As far as we know he still has investigators in Hawaii finding “amazing things” about Obama’s birth certificate.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:33:10pm
This is the first entry tagged: Ignorant Hicks

I’m Hudson, Sir. He’s Hicks.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:34:03pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:34:07pm

Oh, for the love of shit!

Wildlife officials: Don’t touch the pups

A harbor seal pup rests on seaweed-covered rocks after coming in on the high tide in the West Seattle neighborhood of Seattle. As harbor seals are being born in the Pacific Northwest this time of year, marine mammal advocates are urging people not to touch or pick up pups that come up on beaches and shorelines to rest. At least five times this season, well-meaning people have illegally picked up seal pups in Oregon and Washington thinking they were abandoned or needed help, but that interference ultimately resulted in two deaths, said Michael Milstein, a spokesman with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:34:34pm

re: #10 Double Dumbass

Fuck he’s dishonest.

He’ll agree to anything.

Apparently he’s looking into everything.

Here he says he has to “look into” the KKK because he doesn’t know who they are and he never heard of this David Duke guy.

Donald Trump Tells Jake Tapper He Won’t Denounce David Duke or The KKK

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:34:47pm

Are these people actually intending to sound like the Stupid American stereotype?

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Nyet  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:35:15pm

re: #3 Blind Frog Belly White

Well, there you go. Trump had the opportunity for his own, ‘He’s a Arab!’ moment, and instead he agreed with the crazy woman.

Not that I’m surprised, since his whole campaign is built around appealing to her.

If McCain simply didn’t have the guts to say “There’s nothing bad about being an Arab, you bigoted shit”, Trump positively revels in bigoted shit.

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Kragar  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:35:26pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:36:05pm

re: #17 freetoken

Are these people actually intending to sound like the Stupid American stereotype?

We’re the REAL Americans! Wake up, sheeple! They’re wearing their hoobie-jobbies right in our faces!

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Nyet  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:37:40pm

re: #19 Kragar

Thankfully the only Ken Levine I know about is the one of Bioshock fame.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:37:47pm

STUPID-AMERICANS FOR TRUMP MEME OF THE DAY==>

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:38:15pm

re: #17 freetoken

WHAT ARE THEY HIDING UNDER THEIR TURBANS THAT’S WHAT I WANT TO KNOW!!!!!

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Nyet  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:38:50pm

re: #22 The Vicious Babushka

*its

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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:39:08pm

re: #4 Blind Frog Belly White

That’s why he’s looking at Gingrich and Christie - they’ll make him look svelet by comparison. But it’s gonna be a “Two Assholes For The Price Of One” ticket either way.

Its because no GOP politician who has any kind of future is willing to kill their career on the Trump ticket.

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:41:15pm

re: #25 Big Beautiful Door

Gingrich would be so excited to be picked as VP he’d think he just won the Miss America contest.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:41:44pm

YOU WILL LOL SO HARD

TuckFrump: Teaming Up to Tell Off Trump

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Frankie Five Angels  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:41:54pm

Might be a good time to call up my wingnut cousin and up my Clinton bet a few grand.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:43:28pm

re: #25 Big Beautiful Door

Its because no GOP politician who has any kind of future is willing to kill their career on the Trump ticket.

TRUMP/GINGRICH 2016! We’ll put the ADULT back in ADULTERY!

or

TRUMP/CHRISTIE 2016! Two assholes for the price of one!

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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:44:27pm

re: #29 Blind Frog Belly White

TRUMP/GINGRICH 2016! We’ll put the ADULT back in ADULTERY!

or

TRUMP/CHRISTIE 2016! Two assholes for the price of one!

TRUMP/CHRISTIE 2016! I kept the fat guy around because they are funny!

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:45:43pm

Trump should decide soon. Gingrich will need time to trade his old wife in on a new model. I think Donald can get him a good deal on an imported Eastern European one.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:45:58pm

re: #30 Big Beautiful Door

TRUMP/CHRISTIE 2016! I kept the fat guy around because they are funny!

Trump-Gingrich: Six wives between them!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:47:01pm

TRUMP/CHRISTIE 2016! Go get me a Big Mac, Fat Boy

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:47:02pm
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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:47:19pm

re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth

TRUMP/CHRISTIE: Six hundred pounds between them.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:48:25pm

re: #31 Skip Intro

Trump should decide soon. Gingrich will need time to trade his old wife in on a new model. I think Donald can get him a good deal on an imported Eastern European model.

Trump will NOT reveal the winner of Celebrity Apprentice: Vice-President Edition until the season finale at the Convention. It would kill the ratings!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:48:43pm

re: #31 Skip Intro

Trump should decide soon. Gingrich will need time to trade his old wife in on a new model. I think Donald can get him a good deal on an imported Eastern European model.

Time to trade in the Bird of Prey, eh?

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No Country For Old Haters  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:48:49pm

re: #7 MsJ

He always does. Every time. He’s had a couple of those opportunities.

And he says exactly the same thing each time. He can’t tell the rubes that they’re bigoted yahoos, or he’ll lose his support, so he takes the bullshitter’s approach of saying they’re looking into that.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:49:19pm

re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth

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BRILLIANT!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:49:30pm

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Franklin  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:50:04pm

re: #27 The Vicious Babushka

YOU WILL LOL SO HARD

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Video

ZOMG This is the best!

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:50:30pm
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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:51:02pm

re: #37 Blind Frog Belly White

Time to trade in the Bird of Prey, eh?

Wouldn’t you?

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Nyet  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:51:45pm

This BernieBuster from caucus99idiots seems to hold a lot of crap behind that grin.

Image: picture-1608-1457188304.jpg

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Franklin  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:51:50pm
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Kragar  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:51:54pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:52:22pm

re: #43 Skip Intro

Wouldn’t you?

You kidding? She looks like she’d boil bunnies at the drop of a hat!

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ObserverArt  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:53:30pm

Just for comparison and judging similarities.

What similarities? A concerned elder person worried about them “others.”

McCain Tells Crowd Obama is Not Arab

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:53:46pm

Trump is denying he linked Ted Cruz’s father to the JFK assassination

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:54:14pm

re: #33 Blind Frog Belly White

TRUMP/CHRISTIE 2016! Go get me a Big Mac, Fat Boy

And this time, I want the change!

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:55:33pm

re: #50 Blind Frog Belly White

And this time, I want the change!

AND HAVE THE MANAGER COUNT THE FRIES AND SIGN THE RECEIPT!

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:57:09pm

MM seems surprised that the WaPo is just another media company willing to publish anything to get clicks:

Did The Washington Post Just Violate Its Own Policy On Climate Science-Denying Letters?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:57:33pm
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compound_Idaho  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:57:38pm

re: #50 Blind Frog Belly White

Really, Fat? Not cool.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:58:27pm

re: #49 The Vicious Babushka

Trump is denying he linked Ted Cruz’s father to the JFK assassination

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Does he think he can bullshit Cruz into joining his ticket? Ted is too smart a politician to get on board the runaway Trump Train.

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Kragar  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:58:56pm
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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:59:23pm

VFLOTUS?

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:59:40pm

I’m trying to figure out a way to work the following story into a Drumpfskind angle:

Japan Scandalized by the Nipple Geezer

[…]

But playing with your own nipples in a public place, if you’re a man, is not technically illegal. And this guy, in many cases, did not even take off his undershirt.

[…]

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Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:59:49pm

re: #31 Skip Intro

Trump should decide soon. Gingrich will need time to trade his old wife in on a new model. I think Donald can get him a good deal on an imported Eastern European one.

Talk about immigrants doing the jobs Americans won’t…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:00:12pm

Bryan is outraged about trans people serving openly in the military.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:00:47pm

re: #54 compound_Idaho

Really, Fat? Not cool.

Your concern is noted.

Trump’s already made joking references to it on the campaign trail - IN FRONT OF CHRISTIE, who just had to smile weakly and take it. Think he’s any more respectful in private?

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:01:11pm

re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth

Bryan is outraged about trans people serving openly in the military.

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Who is Bryan going to impeach?

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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:02:12pm

re: #56 Kragar

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The Brexit debacle would’ve made a fantastic season of the British edition of House of Cards. Both parties in complete turmoil.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:02:45pm

re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth

Bryan is outraged about trans people serving openly in the military.
Flatly unconstitutional. Only Congress has authority to make this decision. Impeachable offense

Harry Truman would like a word….

But seriously - unless the Congress put the ban in place, the Pentagon is certainly empowered to change their own rules.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:03:55pm

re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth

Bryan is outraged about trans people serving openly in the military.

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Idiot, the policy is just a regulation, not a law, so Obama is perfectly free to change it.

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wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:04:55pm

re: #54 compound_Idaho

Really, Fat? Not cool.

Tell it to Trump.

Donald Trump Called Chris Christie Fat At His Own Rally

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Timothy Watson  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:05:10pm

re: #65 Big Beautiful Door

Idiot, the policy is just a regulation, not a law, so Obama is perfectly free to change it.

Baby Jesus never spoke of regulations so they’re not allowed.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:06:20pm

re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth

Bryan is outraged about trans people serving openly in the military.

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Bryan can go fuck himself.

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:06:42pm

This is sure the guy I’d want on my team. I don’t know how he keeps those pants from falling down.

I wonder if he plays golf?

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compound_Idaho  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:06:44pm

re: #61 Blind Frog Belly White

Your noted is noted.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:09:22pm

re: #70 compound_Idaho

Your noted is noted.

“Nothing would go over my head. My reflexes are too good. I would catch it!”

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:10:43pm

re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth

Bryan is outraged about trans people serving openly in the military.

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Why do I think Bryan cries himself to sleep about Truman desegregating the military?

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:11:25pm

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

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lawhawk  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:11:55pm

I’m getting the distinct sense that Trump and his GOP supporters are something straight of central casting from 1930s America Firster meetings, crossed with Father Coughlin. This is the whole mindset of Trump - blame the Other, and engage in demagoguery.

Trump thinks that he can win on the angst/anger of white guys (who form the core of the GOP) because they fear their losses - “losses” that include everyone else engaging in the rights and privileges that this class has always had (and has taken for granted).

It’s scary that we’re seeing history stutter like this. We know where this leads, and it’s nowhere good.

But it’s time for good people and stand up for what’s right. Can’t take any of this for granted.

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:12:31pm

re: #72 HappyWarrior

Why do I think Bryan cries himself to sleep about Truman desegregating the military?

Um, yes.

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wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:13:22pm

never mind. Couldn’t get the musical notes to post.

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:14:14pm

re: #76 wrenchwench

Hopefully not with Evernote, which just raised its prices.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:14:39pm

re: #75 Belafon

Um, yes.

Rhetorical on my part honestly. Really is amazing how big government Fischer gets when it comes to government reinforcing his prejudices.

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:17:59pm

re: #78 HappyWarrior

Rhetorical on my part honestly. Really is amazing how big government Fischer gets when it comes to government reinforcing his prejudices.

I’mean on my phone, or I would see if I could find a clip of Harry Potter replying to Hermione when she asked if everything was going to change at the end of goblet of fire.

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Nyet  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:19:32pm

re: #56 Kragar

Judge Death will be a great Prime Sinister.

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ObserverArt  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:19:51pm

Later Lizards. I’m going to get out early tonight before I say something that doesn’t go over well. Best to just let things be what they are. The old “it is what it is” and leave it at that.

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:20:51pm

At the vet right now. Caramel, my almost 15 year old dog, suddenly, as of yesterday, started moving slow, having trouble getting up and bending over to drink from her water bowl.

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gocart mozart  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:21:20pm

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compound_Idaho  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:22:56pm

re: #71 Blind Frog Belly White

“Nothing would go over my head. My reflexes are too good. I would catch it!”

I knew that you knew that I knew that you knew …….

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:23:59pm

I got to give Trump credit, he really has unified a lot of the country

Of course they are unified AGAINST him but still.

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Shiplord Kirel  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:25:03pm

re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth

Bryan is outraged about trans people serving openly in the military.

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What part of “Commander-in-Chief” does Bear-Bait not understand?

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:25:23pm

I see that NdGT’s tweet really has stirred up the hate in the hate-right.

It’s kind of amazing to see how easily they can be set off by the simple proposal of #Rationalia .

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:26:21pm

re: #86 Shiplord Kirel

What part of “Commander-in-Chief” does Bear-Bait not understand?

How That Guy managed to become it.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:28:03pm

🎵

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A Cranky One  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:29:25pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

🎵

Duly noted.

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:29:35pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

A:

🎵

Q: What is the smallest polygon in which Drumpfskind’s Yuuge brain can be contained?

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:30:25pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

🎵

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:30:37pm

re: #9 Skip Intro

So this woman was on the vetted list, because if she wasn’t she wouldn’t be there.

Nice work, Trumpsters.

Good point. That’s what you get when a bigot does the vetting. Can you imagine who Trump would select for key positions in his administration? I predict Palin for Secretary of Education.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:31:17pm

So I tweeted this and now I’m getting Berniebot shitlords all up in my mentions

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:31:33pm

re: #93 Patricia Kayden

Good point. That’s what you get when a bigot does the vetting. Can you imagine who Trump would select for key positions in his administration? I predict Palin for Secretary of Education.

Yeah I don’t want to think about what a Trump cabinet would look like. I have no doubt he’d try to give Palin a gig.

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:32:04pm

One little tweet, and the hate-right goes into apoplexy:

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:32:08pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

🎵

Oh, give it a

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thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:32:32pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

🎵

Sorry, you’re a little flat.

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A Cranky One  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:33:14pm

re: #97 Blind Frog Belly White

Oh, give it a Embedded Image

Score!

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:34:27pm

re: #94 The Vicious Babushka

So I tweeted this and now I’m getting Berniebot shitlords all up in my mentions

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Memes are dumbing down how people argue and approach issues. I’m tired of seeing them in my feed.

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:34:47pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

🎵

◈

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:34:54pm

re: #96 freetoken

One little tweet, and the hate-right goes into apoplexy:

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Not hard to do that.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:35:39pm

re: #35 Skip Intro

TRUMP/CHRISTIE: Six hundred pounds between them.

‘The 600 pound ticket!’

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A Cranky One  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:36:03pm

In the WTF! category:

US DoD white paper: wearing hijab is “passive terrorism”

Citing no evidence, Hamid blames jihadism on sexual frustration arising from conservative religious beliefs among Muslim women, and calls the wearing of hijab a form of “passive terrorism,” and says that hijabi women implicitly refuse to “speak against or actively resist terrorism.”

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jaunte  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:36:28pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:37:01pm

re: #104 A Cranky One

I literally have no fucking clue what that means.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:37:29pm

re: #105 jaunte

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Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton. God am I glad that Virginia voters are smarter than Texas voters or else we would have gotten Cuccinneli, Jackson, and Obenshain.

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Nyet  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:37:38pm

re: #96 freetoken

It’s not a smart tweet though.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:37:49pm
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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:39:34pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

Oh look… it’s an IQ test…

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thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:39:47pm

re: #106 Eclectic Cyborg

I literally have no fucking clue what that means.

To translate from Dumbass, it reads thusly: Muslim men blow shit up because they have a major collective case of blue balls. Muslim women are responsible because they dress in hijabs and aren’t sluts. Does that help?

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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:40:18pm

Major GOP donor Paul Singer says Trump’s anti-trade policies would cause a global depression.

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:40:50pm

re: #108 Nyet

It’s not a smart tweet though.

I don’t know what exactly is a “smart tweet”.

If the ultimate purpose of Twitter is to generate more tweets, then that NdGT tweet succeeded.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:41:34pm

re: #112 Big Beautiful Door

Major GOP donor Paul Singer says Trump’s anti-trade policies would cause a global depression.

Protectionism is one of those issues where far left and far right have a bizarre marriage.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:41:38pm

re: #109 Eclectic Cyborg

Embedded Image

“Once I built casinos, built them fine, and skipped out on the bill,
“Once I built casinos, now they’re broke.
“Brother, can you spare two mil?”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:42:44pm

re: #113 freetoken

I don’t know what exactly is a “smart tweet”.

If the ultimate purpose of Twitter is to generate more tweets, then that NdGT tweet succeeded.

So, this is like how an organism is DNA’s way of making more DNA?

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No Country For Old Haters  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:43:08pm

re: #96 freetoken

One little tweet, and the hate-right goes into apoplexy:

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I think people are getting dumber.

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Nyet  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:43:38pm

re: #113 freetoken

I don’t know what exactly is a “smart tweet”.

If the ultimate purpose of Twitter is to generate more tweets, then that NdGT tweet succeeded.

Trump is more successful in that sphere.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:45:18pm

re: #114 HappyWarrior

Protectionism is one of those issues where far left and far right have a bizarre marriage.

The disappearance of the high-paying factory jobs of yore is only partly do to offshoring of manufacturing. Automation is a bigger factor, and the busting of the unions is another. Protectionism is basically trying to stuff 2016 into a 1960-sized bag.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:45:35pm

More information is available than ever but what we’re doing with that information just makes me wonder. The irony? I think people who like to call other people sheepish are far more sheepish than those who they call sheep.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:45:47pm

re: #17 freetoken

Are these people actually intending to sound like the Stupid American stereotype?

The scary thing is that most of them live in $600K homes in places like Bedford, Wyndham, and Londonderry in southern New Hampshire.

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gocart mozart  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:45:55pm

re: #93 Patricia Kayden

So this woman was on the vetted list, because if she wasn’t she wouldn’t be there.

Nice work, Trumpsters.

They were vetted for intelligence, if they have any they are excluded.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:46:14pm

re: #119 Blind Frog Belly White

The disappearance of the high-paying factory jobs of yore is only partly do to offshoring of manufacturing. Automation is a bigger factor, and the busting of the unions is another. Protectionism is basically trying to stuff 2016 into a 1960-sized bag.

Exactly.

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:47:27pm

re: #116 Blind Frog Belly White

So, this is like how an organism is DNA’s way of making more DNA?

Exactly. Like the old computer game of “Life”, or like a DNA molecule, a tweet exists to generate more tweets.

It’s all explained succinctly in my upcoming masterpiece: The Teleology of Tweets.

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:49:28pm

re: #118 Nyet

Trump is more successful in that sphere.

Certainly. Drumpfskind is the epitome of tweetdom.

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compound_Idaho  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:49:51pm

re: #119 Blind Frog Belly White

Robotics has eliminated millions of mfg. jobs. AI is next. That is you lawyers, programmers, engineers, and consultants.

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:50:21pm

re: #22 The Vicious Babushka

STUPID-AMERICANS FOR TRUMP MEME OF THE DAY==>

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Um, the possessive of ‘it’ is ‘its’. ‘It’s’ is the abbreviation of ’ it is’.

Thanks God! I can finally say that. I have no problem being Grammar Nazi to actual Nazis.

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thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:50:52pm

re: #127 Romantic Heretic

Um, the possessive of ‘it’ is ‘its’. ‘It’s’ is the abbreviation of ’ it is’.

Thanks God! I can finally say that. I have no problem being Grammar Nazi to actual Nazis.

That’s the best thing I’ve read all day. You win an Internet.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:51:27pm

re: #126 compound_Idaho

Robotics has eliminated millions of mfg. jobs. AI is next. That is you lawyers, programmers, engineers, and consultants.

I’m more concerned that AI will eliminate US.

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:52:41pm

re: #23 Skip Intro

This!

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Jack B. Nimble  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:54:09pm

re: #72 HappyWarrior

Why do I think Bryan cries himself to sleep about Truman desegregating the military?

Basic pattern recognition?

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majii  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:55:34pm

re: #105 jaunte

Glad to hear this. I was happy when I read that one of his securities fraud cases would be heard in federal court. In every case involving a high-ranking GOP pol in Texas, the State Supreme Ct. has dismissed charges against them. DeLay and Perry both skated when they shouldn’t have, and the sole reason they did is because the state supreme court has a GOP majority. I want to see Paxton get his due. The main reason he rose to power is because he has waged a seven plus year war against the federal government all because he doesn’t like the current president. I’m hoping he’ll be found guilty and will be sentenced to serve some time behind bars. Even his wife bragged about how she and Paxton have deliberately targeted this president. They seem to think this sh*t is funny. She was grinning when she made the remark. If he’s convicted and sentenced, and if he had not taken the route he has taken, then maybe the president would step in and pardon him. I don’t think this will happen now. Paxton crossed his bridges and burned every one to the ground in an attempt to show Texans how “strong” he is and how anti-government he is while occupying a position in government. Let him face the music without being able to petition the guy he’s demonized for more than seven years for relief. It’s his turn at bat, and I hope he strikes out in federal court. He won’t be able to get the state supreme court to help him with this one. If he appeals to the 5th Circuit, its judges will most likely absolve him of all blame. If that happens, I expect federal prosecutors to appeal to the SCOTUS, and hopefully, by that time, HRC will have replaced Scalia, and he’ll be out of luck there, too. Dude is a 1st Class Douchebag and will deserve every bit of humiliation he gets if he’s convicted and sentenced to spend time in a federal prison.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:56:11pm

ONION SPILL

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:56:56pm

Here is CNN, playing into the Drumpfskind fear mongering about China:

China is crushing the U.S. in ‘economic warfare’

Note the wording in the URL “china-us-war-by-other-means”.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:57:48pm

re: #111 thedopefishlives

To translate from Dumbass, it reads thusly: Muslim men blow shit up because they have a major collective case of blue balls. Muslim women are responsible because they dress in hijabs and aren’t sluts. Does that help?

I am not that unhappy attributing a lot of the violence to a culture within which a young man can’t get laid, and to an economy where he can’t get a job.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:58:07pm

re: #111 thedopefishlives

Yes but it still makes no fucking sense.

/

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:58:13pm

re: #134 freetoken

Here is CNN, playing into the Drumpfskind fear mongering about China:

China is crushing the U.S. in ‘economic warfare’

Note the wording in the URL “china-us-war-by-other-means”.

I’m telling you this, one of the best things I ever did as an undergrad was to take a course on China. I’m sure Wheat would agree but so many Americans do not understand China.

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majii  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:58:34pm

re: #112 Big Beautiful Door

Singer can say whatever he wants to say about Trump, but the true sign of whether he actually believe it would be if he stated that he refuses to vote for him. So far, he hasn’t said he won’t. He’s in mealy-mouth mode just like Mike Lee making a big fuss about how “offended” he is by Trump and turning around and saying if Trump changes, he would likely vote for him. This is 100% pure BS on a stick.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:59:44pm

High-profile Trump fan is daughter of man convicted in Southlake cartel slaying

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thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:01:43pm

re: #136 Eclectic Cyborg

Yes but it still makes no fucking sense.

/

Same page. Same bloody word.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:01:51pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:02:51pm

re: #141 Charles Johnson

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The GOP needs to be tarnished by Trump for at least a generation.

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EPR-radar  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:03:35pm

re: #138 majii

Singer can say whatever he wants to say about Trump, but the true sign of whether he actually believe it would be if he stated that he refuses to vote for him. So far, he hasn’t said he won’t. He’s in mealy-mouth mode just like Mike Lee making a big fuss about how “offended” he is by Trump and turning around and saying if Trump changes, he would likely vote for him. This is 100% pure BS on a stick.

Eventually voting for toxic idiots after a brief period of time pretending to others that toxic idiocy is undesirable is what Republicans do for a living.

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EPR-radar  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:05:37pm

re: #142 HappyWarrior

The GOP needs to be tarnished by Trump for at least a generation.

I want to see the complete obliteration of the GOP’s current state of sociopaths in the GOP establishment getting votes by firing up bigoted resentments in the GOP base.

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:06:10pm

re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth

That puts them one up on the crazy person who knows his ass is too valuable to risk.

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majii  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:06:55pm

re: #120 HappyWarrior

Over the last 40+ years, I’ve watched the move on the right away from a belief in facts and reality to a belief in ideology/ies. Along the way, I noticed the role right-wing media has played in this transformation. As RW media spread and grew stronger, the size of the RW bubble became larger and more reinforced with RW beliefs. We now have millions of Americans who believe things that have no bases in facts or reality. Many on the right still believe there as been no economic recovery; the stock markets haven’t improved since 2009; Obamacare has death panels; and the U.S. is less well-regarded today than it was in 2009; and this president has totally “destroyed” America, among other false things. I’ve reached the conclusion that those who believe these things want to believe them and have no desire to know the facts.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:07:01pm

re: #142 HappyWarrior

The GOP needs to be tarnished by Trump for at least a generation.

And by Cruz, and Bachman, and Gohmert, and Gingrich, and Santorum… In a sane world the toxic assholes that make up the Republican party couldn’t be elected dog catcher.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:08:14pm

re: #146 majii

Over the last 40+ years, I’ve watched the move on the right away from a belief in facts and reality to a belief in ideology/ies. Along the way, I noticed the role right-wing media has played in this transformation. As RW media spread and grew stronger, the size of the RW bubble became larger and more reinforced with RW beliefs. We now have millions of Americans who believe things that have no bases in facts or reality. Many on the right still believe there as been no economic recovery; the stock markets haven’t improved since 2009; Obamacare has death panels; and the U.S. is less well-regarded today than it was in 2009; and this president has totally “destroyed” America, among other false things. I’ve reached the conclusion that those who believe these things want to believe them and have no desire to know the facts.

If I had to wake up every day in the world they imagine they’re in, I don’t know how I’d get out of bed.

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thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:08:19pm

re: #147 No Country For Old Haters

And by Cruz, and Bachman, and Gohmert, and Gingrich, and Santorum… In a sane world the toxic assholes that make up the Republican party couldn’t be elected dog catcher.

Speaking of all of the above, I heard that Indiana Governor Mike Pence (R-Douchecanoe) might be on the short list of candidates for Trump’s VP pick. That’d check all the boxes: Religious fundamentalist nutjob, hardcore right-wing hero, complete and utter asshat, and a valid specimen of an old rich white man.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:08:23pm

re: #144 EPR-radar

I want to see the complete obliteration of the GOP’s current state of sociopaths in the GOP establishment getting votes by firing up bigoted resentments in the GOP base.

I do too. They deserve it.

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compound_Idaho  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:08:29pm

re: #141 Charles Johnson

Doesn’t he know that foreign contributions are made via speaking fees and contributions to your charitable foundation. Rookie.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:09:45pm

re: #146 majii

Over the last 40+ years, I’ve watched the move on the right away from a belief in facts and reality to a belief in ideology/ies. Along the way, I noticed the role right-wing media has played in this transformation. As RW media spread and grew stronger, the size of the RW bubble became larger and more reinforced with RW beliefs. We now have millions of Americans who believe things that have no bases in facts or reality. Many on the right still believe there as been no economic recovery; the stock markets haven’t improved since 2009; Obamacare has death panels; and the U.S. is less well-regarded today than it was in 2009; and this president has totally “destroyed” America, among other false things. I’ve reached the conclusion that those who believe these things want to believe them and have no desire to know the facts.

Indeed, the media makes it that much worse. When you have a Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, etc telling you that Obama hates America and Americans and he wants its destruction, no amount of data is going you otherwise. It really is disgusting what is pulled on people and passed as news.

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:10:37pm

I believe that this is the first time I’ve ever seen the media describe a Republican accurately.

Far-right-leaning Kansas congressman lags in raising fresh money

May your teabagging ass be kicked out of office.

sanluisobispo.com

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:10:44pm

re: #147 No Country For Old Haters

And by Cruz, and Bachman, and Gohmert, and Gingrich, and Santorum… In a sane world the toxic assholes that make up the Republican party couldn’t be elected dog catcher.

No kidding. The party was shit long before Trump. If Trump hopefully has done one positive thing, he’s exposed the deep seated hypocrisy that exists.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:12:18pm

If I never hear about speaking fees again, it’s going to be too soon.

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majii  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:12:38pm

re: #119 Blind Frog Belly White

I think one of the most successful con jobs corporations and right-wing lawmakers have performed on millions of Americans is the belief that being a union member makes one anti-American. In almost every case in which a state is controlled by republicans and is having budget problems, these lawmakers blame union members for the problem. These con-artists have convinced millions of Americans that if one advocates for oneself on a job, it’s a very bad thing. These same persons complain about income inequality and having problems paying their bills, but they never blame those who caused the problems they’re having with being properly and adequately compensated for their labor. It’s never GOP politicians, it’s always the democratic politicians who are keeping them “down.” SMDH.

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:12:47pm

re: #104 A Cranky One

In the WTF! category:

US DoD white paper: wearing hijab is “passive terrorism”

Citing no evidence, Hamid blames jihadism on sexual frustration arising from conservative religious beliefs among Muslim women, and calls the wearing of hijab a form of “passive terrorism,” and says that hijabi women implicitly refuse to “speak against or actively resist terrorism.”

Oh God! My poor brain is trying to make sense of that.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:13:14pm
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thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:13:28pm

re: #155 klys (maker of Silmarils)

If I never hear about speaking fees again, it’s going to be too soon.

You should pay me a speaking fee for not speaking about speaking fees.

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:13:56pm

re: #110 freetoken

The correct answer is ‘purple except on Tuesdays.’

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Shimshon  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:14:00pm

re: #148 Blind Frog Belly White

If I had to wake up every day in the world they imagine they’re in, I don’t know how I’d get out of bed.

They imagine that world because it helps them be selfish assholes. It’s easy to be greedy and only care about yourself and your bank account if you hate everyone around you and buy into any confirmation bias story that feels true. “Screw you I got mine” is no longer the main ideology of Libertarianism, it’s been part of the GOP since Reagan.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:15:25pm

re: #156 majii

I think one of the most successful con jobs corporations and right-wing lawmakers have performed on millions of Americans is the belief that being a union member makes one anti-American. In almost every case in which a state is controlled by republicans and is having budget problems, these lawmakers blame union members for the problem. These con-artists have convinced millions of Americans that if one advocates for oneself on a job, it’s a very bad thing. These same persons complain about income inequality and having problems paying their bills, but they never blame those who caused the problems they’re having with being properly and adequately compensated for their labor. It’s never GOP politicians, it’s always the democratic politicians who are keeping them “down.” SMDH.

So much truth to that. Union workers have become a favorite scapegoat. It doesn’t matter that unions are historically weak and have been for some time, they’re the go to when GOP politicians need a scapegoat. And you’re right, there is the idea created that union workers are somehow less than American for having the nerve to demand fair wages, benefits, working conditions, and pensions but yet not an eye is batted when an executive gives himself a healthy bonus that most of us would be happy to have annually. The problem is while executive pay has gone up, working pay has not. This causes more wealth disparity that does not need to exist.

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majii  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:16:14pm

re: #149 thedopefishlives

It was just a few short months ago that Pence signed his state’s religious freedom bill into law in a private setting. If Trump chooses him, I’d be very interested to hear him explain why he would discriminate against some Americans and not others.

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thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:16:57pm

re: #163 majii

It was just a few short months ago that Pence signed his state’s religious freedom bill into law in a private setting. If Trump chooses him, I’d be very interested to hear him explain why he would discriminate against some Americans and not others.

Because TERRORISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:17:50pm

re: #155 klys (maker of Silmarils)

If I never hear about speaking fees again, it’s going to be too soon.

And the fucking transcripts. What do you think she was talking about to the Wall Street bankers? ISTR someone (Huffington Post?) tried to track down people who actually attended one of those speeches by calling banking firms and asking “Did Hillary Clinton ever speak at one of your events? Can we speak to someone who was there?” and people who did attend said “who pays attention to the speeches at these events? We were chit chatting with our neighbors at the table” and finally they found someone who said “Yeah she talked about making more opportunities for women and minorities in the financial industry”

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:18:57pm

re: #163 majii

Just look at God’s chosen state of Alabama, where the heads of all three branches of government: the governor, the speaker of the house, and the chief justice are in some form of serious trouble.

Gotta love it.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:19:59pm

re: #137 HappyWarrior

I’m telling you this, one of the best things I ever did as an undergrad was to take a course on China. I’m sure Wheat would agree but so many Americans do not understand China.

Yup. And topping that list is Donald Trump.

China cares only for China. The rest of the world can just go fuck itself, as far as Chinese leaders are concerned.

China is expanding its economic influence and “soft diplomacy” into Africa, which the USA pretty much ignores. It’s sending signals it wants Taiwan back. Hong Kong’s autonomy is slowly being eroded. It’s using a 600-year-old map to say it has a legal claim over islands that are closer to Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines than to China. And it’s cozying up to Russia again.

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Shimshon  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:20:10pm

re: #162 HappyWarrior

So much truth to that. Union workers have become a favorite scapegoat. It doesn’t matter that unions are historically weak and have been for some time, they’re the go to when GOP politicians need a scapegoat. And you’re right, there is the idea created that union workers are somehow less than American for having the nerve to demand fair wages, benefits, working conditions, and pensions but yet not an eye is batted when an executive gives himself a healthy bonus that most of us would be happy to have annually. The problem is while executive pay has gone up, working pay has not. This causes more wealth disparity that does not need to exist.

But only certain types of union workers. Attack unions for police, fire, prison guards, and watch the GOP lose their minds. They love authority because they don’t even hide their fascism any longer.

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:20:59pm

re: #126 compound_Idaho

Robotics has eliminated millions of mfg. jobs. AI is next. That is you lawyers, programmers, engineers, and consultants.

I’m not worried about AI. How can you fake something when you don’t know what it is?

Now what Neal Stephenson classified as ‘pseudo-intelligence’ will cause problems for people in those jobs.

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Shimshon  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:21:11pm

re: #167 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Yup. And topping that list is Donald Trump.

China cares only for China. The rest of the world can just go fuck itself, as far as Chinese leaders are concerned.

China is expanding its economic influence and “soft diplomacy” into Africa, which the USA pretty much ignores. It’s sending signals it wants Taiwan back. Hong Kong’s autonomy is slowly being eroded. It’s using a 600-year-old map to say it has a legal claim over islands that are closer to Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines than to China. And it’s cozying up to Russia again.

The US doesn’t ignore Africa, there are troops in off the top of my head, 4 countries right now, and close relations with many others. The problem is corrupt Africa governments love China more because they get free money no strings attached and all the bribes they can stuff in their Swiss and Dubai bank accounts. America likes to promote human rights and fighting corruption and corrupt people do not like that.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:23:10pm

re: #167 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Yup. And topping that list is Donald Trump.

China cares only for China. The rest of the world can just go fuck itself, as far as Chinese leaders are concerned.

China is expanding its economic influence and “soft diplomacy” into Africa, which the USA pretty much ignores. It’s sending signals it wants Taiwan back. Hong Kong’s autonomy is slowly being eroded. It’s using a 600-year-old map to say it has a legal claim over islands that are closer to Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines than to China. And it’s cozying up to Russia again.

One of my former coworkers, from Taiwan explained to me that for much of world history that China had been a top economic power. Trump wants to push China as this evil sinister nation and I’ll admit, I have no love for a lot of their policies but the PRC isn’t a cartoon character either crackling evilly eitehr.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:23:40pm

re: #168 Shimshon

But only certain types of union workers. Attack unions for police, fire, prison guards, and watch the GOP lose their minds. They love authority because they don’t even hide their fascism any longer.

Oh of course. Teachers unions are always targeted.

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EPR-radar  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:24:49pm

re: #146 majii

Over the last 40+ years, I’ve watched the move on the right away from a belief in facts and reality to a belief in ideology/ies. Along the way, I noticed the role right-wing media has played in this transformation. As RW media spread and grew stronger, the size of the RW bubble became larger and more reinforced with RW beliefs. We now have millions of Americans who believe things that have no bases in facts or reality. Many on the right still believe there as been no economic recovery; the stock markets haven’t improved since 2009; Obamacare has death panels; and the U.S. is less well-regarded today than it was in 2009; and this president has totally “destroyed” America, among other false things. I’ve reached the conclusion that those who believe these things want to believe them and have no desire to know the facts.

Precisely. What we have in the US now is about half the country self-propagandizing itself in a way that traditional propagandists (e.g., Goebbels) never would have expected.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:24:57pm

I think people are most threatened by things they don’t know and that’s why Islamaphobia is so easy to push in parts of the country where Muslims are literally only a fraction of a percent of the population.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:25:16pm

re: #173 EPR-radar

Precisely. What we have in the US now is about half the country self-propagandizing itself in a way that traditional propagandists (e.g., Goebbels) never would have expected.

Alex Jones is in the Goebells tree for sure.

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compound_Idaho  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:26:59pm

re: #165 The Vicious Babushka

And the fucking transcripts. What do you think she was talking about to the Wall Street bankers? ISTR someone (Huffington Post?) tried to track down people who actually attended one of those speeches by calling banking firms and asking “Did Hillary Clinton ever speak at one of your events? Can we speak to someone who was there?” and people who did attend said “who pays attention to the speeches at these events? We were chit chatting with our neighbors at the table” and finally they found someone who said “Yeah she talked about making more opportunities for women and minorities in the financial industry”

duh. They are “speaking fees”. It is influence peddling. No one gives a shit what she says. wink wink. They are just paying for access and influence.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:27:52pm

re: #170 Shimshon

The US doesn’t ignore Africa, there are troops in off the top of my head, 4 countries right now, and close relations with many others. The problem is corrupt Africa governments love China more because they get free money no strings attached and all the bribes they can stuff in their Swiss and Dubai bank accounts. America likes to promote human rights and fighting corruption and corrupt people do not like that.

Point taken, but China encourages its businessmen to set up firms in African nations. Not that it’s going so well. It seems Chinese businessmen don’t treat the locals any better than any previous colonial or semi-colonial power, and there have been worker strikes and even government pushback on broken Chinese promises.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:28:01pm

Sigh.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:28:30pm

re: #176 compound_Idaho

duh. They are “speaking fees”. It is influence peddling. No one gives a shit what she says. wink wink. They are just paying for access and influence.

LOLWHUT

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thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:30:02pm

re: #178 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Sigh.

How long until the start of sportspuck season? ;)

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:30:40pm

re: #177 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The BBC has made a couple of documentaries in the past few years, about changes in the southern half of Africa, Chinese involvement, etc. I don’t know how widely they’ve been viewed in the US.

I don’t know if there is an American TV company which has done something equivalent. Frankly I wouldn’t trust any commercial American network if they did such a thing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:31:12pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:31:37pm

re: #180 thedopefishlives

How long until the start of sportspuck season? ;)

Too long. But I found out today that the cat that managed to get onto the ice at the start of round 2 was adopted by the family of one of the San Jose players, so that was adorable and heartwarming.

Prepping here at Casa Klys for a holiday weekend out at a guest ranch up in the Sierras. I’m trying to balance adequate preparation with not letting my paranoid side need to plan for every possible contingency.

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EPR-radar  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:32:10pm

re: #171 HappyWarrior

One of my former coworkers, from Taiwan explained to me that for much of world history that China had been a top economic power. Trump wants to push China as this evil sinister nation and I’ll admit, I have no love for a lot of their policies but the PRC isn’t a cartoon character either crackling evilly eitehr.

Some PRC regime policies really are cartoonishly evil. This business of harvesting organs for transplant from political prisoners is about as bad as it can get.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:32:49pm

re: #184 EPR-radar

Some PRC regime policies really are cartoonishly evil. This business of harvesting organs for transplant from political prisoners is about as bad as it can get.

No doubt about that but my point is Trump’s China isn’t close to the real thing.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:33:10pm

re: #171 HappyWarrior

One of my former coworkers, from Taiwan explained to me that for much of world history that China had been a top economic power. Trump wants to push China as this evil sinister nation and I’ll admit, I have no love for a lot of their policies but the PRC isn’t a cartoon character either crackling evilly eitehr.

Very true. I’m far from a China expert, but the Party will always have a delicate balance to keep between avoiding domestic upheaval and pushing limits in East Asia and Southeast Asia. They are not immune to the forces of global economics and a severe downturn could see China under domestic stress that may be hard to contain.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:34:14pm

re: #186 Barefoot Grin

Very true. I’m far from a China expert, but the Party will always have a delicate balance to keep between avoiding domestic upheaval and pushing limits in East Asia and Southeast Asia. They are not immune to the forces of global economics and a severe downturn could see China under domestic stress that may be hard to contain.

From what I understand, India and Brazil are two global economies to really watch for in the coming years. China may soon be in a transition phase.

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A Cranky One  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:34:26pm

re: #185 HappyWarrior

No doubt about that but my point is Trump’s China reality isn’t close to the real thing.

FIFY

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EPR-radar  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:34:44pm

re: #185 HappyWarrior

No doubt about that but my point is Trump’s China isn’t close to the real thing.

Trump can’t get anything correct, so of course Trump’s China boogieman is imaginary.

The man is an ambulatory cesspool.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:34:54pm

For some reason “Lipsync Battle” is on my teevee, and the contestants are Iron Mike Tyson and President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho!!!!!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:35:51pm

re: #171 HappyWarrior

One of my former coworkers, from Taiwan explained to me that for much of world history that China had been a top economic power. Trump wants to push China as this evil sinister nation and I’ll admit, I have no love for a lot of their policies but the PRC isn’t a cartoon character either crackling evilly eitehr.

China positioned itself deliberately as the factory to the world back in the 1980s. Its most easily exploitable natural resource then was people who could work in factories for much lower wages than were paid anywhere else. The government fixed the yuan to encourage foreign investment and enable cheap exports. It was a masterful plan, and now China’s domestic economy is still growing, and the people for the most part are optimistic their children will have a better life than they do now. The big question is how long can this economic model last. If the Chinese economy starts to sour, the government might try to distract a discontented population with some kind of ultra-nationalist provocation.

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thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:37:12pm

re: #183 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Too long. But I found out today that the cat that managed to get onto the ice at the start of round 2 was adopted by the family of one of the San Jose players, so that was adorable and heartwarming.

Prepping here at Casa Klys for a holiday weekend out at a guest ranch up in the Sierras. I’m trying to balance adequate preparation with not letting my paranoid side need to plan for every possible contingency.

I’ve resumed work on Mrs. Fish’s big classic Lincoln. I stripped out the burned and melted engine wiring harness; unfortunately, the replacement I eBayed won’t fit directly, but hopefully I can rig a repair to the affected parts using the spare. I’ve got most of the other new parts here, and the holiday weekend will probably result in lots of work getting done removing and replacing the rest of the broken parts, so that when the wiring is ready, I can thread it in and start her up (hopefully).

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:37:38pm

re: #191 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

China positioned itself deliberately as the factory to the world back in the 1980s. Its most easily exploitable natural resource then was people who could work in factories for much lower wages than were paid anywhere else. The government fixed the yuan to encourage foreign investment and enable cheap exports. It was a masterful plan, and now China’s domestic economy is still growing, and the people for the most part are optimistic their children will have a better life than they do now. The big question is how long can this economic model last. If the Chinese economy starts to sour, the government might try to distract a discontented population with some kind of ultra-nationalist provocation.

It is interesting to think about that. You raise a good point about nationalism too. I think a lot of Westerners don’t realize that China is far from a monolithic ethnic coutnry.

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Shimshon  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:38:41pm

re: #168 Shimshon

But only certain types of union workers. Attack unions for police, fire, prison guards, and watch the GOP lose their minds. They love authority because they don’t even hide their fascism any longer.

Also a fun fact I just remembered about unions. Reading a biography about RFK by Arthur Schlesinger , I found it interesting that conservative politicians in the 50s and 60s supported many corrupt unions run by infamous gangsters such as Jimmy Hoffa.

amazon.com

Conservatives viewed the gangsters as businessmen their business allies could do business with, to keep their union members in line and not cause trouble. RFK in the rackets commission was blocked constantly by Goldwater and other conservatives when he was trying to remove mob corruption from unions. A big departure from today when all private unions are hated by conservatives.

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EPR-radar  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:39:38pm

Interesting article over at DailyKos on the economy. dailykos.com

The thesis here, from a worker in that field, is that IT/process automation is systematically eliminating jobs.

I see it as an interesting part of the story of the real issue in economics (IMO), which is what to do with a persistent shortage of jobs/over supply of labor.

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A Cranky One  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:40:10pm

re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth

For some reason “Lipsync Battle” is on my teevee, and the contestants are Iron Mike Tyson and President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho!!!!!

<Peers outside for signs of the giant meteor>

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:40:56pm

re: #194 Shimshon

Also a fun fact I just remembered about unions. Reading a biography about RFK by Arthur Schlesinger , I found it interesting that conservative politicians in the 50s and 60s supported many corrupt unions run by infamous gangsters such as Jimmy Hoffa.

amazon.com

Conservatives viewed the gangsters as businessmen their business allies could do business with, to keep their union members in line and not cause trouble. RFK in the rackets commission was blocked constantly by Goldwater and other conservatives when he was trying to remove mob corruption from unions. A big departure from today when all private unions are hated by conservatives.

Nixon is the one who commuted Hoffa’s sentence IIRC. I always found it ironic that conservatives while staunchly anti-union that one of the few unions they did show support to were the Teamsters who were notoriously corrupit and mob tied. That gets me to another point regarding RFK’s brother, FJK is always called mob helped but that ignores that Nixon actually had some ties too.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:41:38pm
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Shimshon  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:43:06pm

re: #176 compound_Idaho

duh. They are “speaking fees”. It is influence peddling. No one gives a shit what she says. wink wink. They are just paying for access and influence.

You don’t know what the public speaking circuit is, I see. Companies and universities pay a lot of money for important people to speak about their life experiences or viewpoints, it isn’t a hidden corruption system like Bernie fans want to believe. These people just assume because they have never heard of all the money public speakers make.

politico.com

George W. Bush regularly made over $100k per speech, and do you think this guy after his disaster of a Presidency is helping groups get more influence? The GOP didn’t even want him speaking at the conventions…

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:43:35pm

re: #193 HappyWarrior

It is interesting to think about that. You raise a good point about nationalism too. I think a lot of Westerners don’t realize that China is far from a monolithic ethnic coutnry.

The Xi regime has been pushing patriotism and nationalism heavily since he took office. Lots of emphasis on the Revolution, Mao and Marx. The government is also trying very hard to neutralize and/or assimilate the Tibetan and Uighur populations in the west. And dissent — even the most lukewarm criticism — of the government is quickly taken care of.

China’s space program is a source of national pride, as it’s been very successful so far, with the possible exception of Jade Rabbit, which had a solar panel malfunction and froze to death on the Moon.

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:43:55pm

re: #195 EPR-radar

I think I’ve told this story before… but a long time ago in a college far, far away, I had a philosophy professor who suggested that the big problem we moderns face is that we don’t know what do with all our free time.

That is, post industrial revolution, production capabilities are such that many people won’t need to work that much for their necessities.

So if we are satisfied with a full stomach and clothes on our back, we don’t need to spend all our day working.

This idea of surplus time is one of those things I think economists and philosophers could go ‘round and ‘round and not really get anywhere.

I suspect that our basic human drive is to be higher on the totem pole then are neighboring human.

So we are never satisfied with what we have, if someone else has more.

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Shimshon  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:44:17pm

re: #197 HappyWarrior

Nixon is the one who commuted Hoffa’s sentence IIRC. I always found it ironic that conservatives while staunchly anti-union that one of the few unions they did show support to were the Teamsters who were notoriously corrupit and mob tied. That gets me to another point regarding RFK’s brother, FJK is always called mob helped but that ignores that Nixon actually had some ties too.

I did not know about Hoffa having his sentence commuted. Figures that tricky Dick.

I am almost done with that RFK book and it is really interesting. One of the best non fiction I’ve ever read. I learned so much and RFK is my new hero.

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Jenner7  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:46:07pm

Bill Clinton wanted Lynch to stop investigating his wife, so he decided to meet her at a public airport.

Makes sense….if you’re an idiot.

But I’m sure the news is going to endlessly talk about.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:46:22pm

re: #202 Shimshon

I did not know about Hoffa having his sentence commuted. Figures that tricky Dick.

I am almost done with that RFK book and it is really interesting. One of the best non fiction I’ve ever read. I learned so much and RFK is my new hero.

Yep happened in December of ‘71. I really admire RFK too. Probably my favorite of the Kennedy brothers.

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Shimshon  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:46:52pm

re: #195 EPR-radar

Interesting article over at DailyKos on the economy. dailykos.com

The thesis here, from a worker in that field, is that IT/process automation is systematically eliminating jobs.

I see it as an interesting part of the story of the real issue in economics (IMO), which is what to do with a persistent shortage of jobs/over supply of labor.

I find it so ironic all the internet commentators, mostly people who have benefited the most from globalization and cheap manufacturing so they can buy dozens of tech gadgets and work in the well paid IT field, complain so much about offshoring and automation. Every person on the internet who owns a phone, tablet, laptop, smart tv, wireless, high speed internet, and now smart watches and readers and how many other devices that complains about globalization should have their internet shut off.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:47:05pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:47:12pm

re: #196 A Cranky One

<Peers outside for signs of the giant meteor>

I am actually very surprised at how funny this is.
Mike Tyson did a spot-on impersonation of Mick Jagger’s Satisfaction.
Terry Crews did an amazing rendition of Run DMC.

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Shimshon  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:48:01pm

re: #206 FormerDirtDart

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Trump 2016

Please clap donate

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Kragar  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:48:07pm
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Stanley Sea  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:48:50pm

Oops

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Shimshon  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:49:53pm

re: #209 Kragar

Just think 5+ years ago when the Democratic party was worried about loss of high paid jobs they were called Commies and Socialists for daring to suggest the government could help bring back some jobs or at least get rid of tax breaks that benefit companies offshoring. Now all the GOP voters are suddenly for it but only when they are affected, such bravery.

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lawhawk  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:51:45pm

re: #209 Kragar

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EPR-radar  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:56:01pm

re: #201 freetoken

I think I’ve told this story before… but a long time ago in a college far, far away, I had a philosophy professor who suggested that the big problem we moderns face is that we don’t know what do with all our free time.

That is, post industrial revolution, production capabilities are such that many people won’t need to work that much for their necessities.

So if we are satisfied with a full stomach and clothes on our back, we don’t need to spend all our day working.

This idea of surplus time is one of those things I think economists and philosophers could go ‘round and ‘round and not really get anywhere.

I suspect that our basic human drive is to be higher on the totem pole then are neighboring human.

So we are never satisfied with what we have, if someone else has more.

For this philosophy to play out in practice, we’d need a much kinder society and economy than we have. Suppose we really are at a point where workers could work half time and still keep everything going. Instead of that happening, we would have half the workers working full time and the other half unemployed. A huge class of unemployed people will act to depress wages for the employed.

The US seems to be trending towards this model (jobless recoveries etc.).

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Stanley Sea  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:58:14pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:59:12pm

re: #214 Stanley Sea

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I didn’t think it was possible for the GOP to do worse among black voters. Wow, Donald, way to go.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:59:57pm

re: #215 HappyWarrior

I didn’t think it was possible for the GOP to do worse among black voters. Wow, Donald, way to go.

There’s also the margin of error. He could actually be at a negative.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:00:06pm

Speaking of China, here’s a new “rap” video from the Party intended to teach English speakers about China.

bbc.com

I put rap in quotes because, IMO, this is not rap.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:00:30pm

re: #216 Stanley Sea

There’s also the margin of error. He could actually be at a negative.

Yeah good point.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:00:47pm
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majii  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:01:24pm

re: #199 Shimshon

“W” even charges veterans’ groups for speeches and demands a private jet, five star hotels, and the best of everything. Former Presidents Carter and Clinton don’t charge anything to speak to veterans’ groups. I was surprised when I read that GWB is so much of a money-grubber that he charges veterans’ groups to speak to them. SMDH. I also remember a few years back that some GOP-related group organized an event meant to “teach” attendees how to set up and run successful businesses. “W” participated in the event and was handsomely rewarded for it. The Bush Family is also expanding into the field of education. About two years ago, Jeb held a seminar in AZ which was supposed to teach school administrators how to run schools like businesses. The family is also involved in the business of creating and selling tests to schools, too. Some education experts believe the Bush family is behind the push to divert traditional public funds to private and charter schools. I read two articles yesterday about how Michigan’s plan to create more charter schools and operate them like businesses has been proven to be a major failure. The achievement scores of kids in charter schools in MI are not superior to those of kids in traditional schools, and some parents who sent their kids to religious/charter schools there have children who are not prepared for college. Some of these parents and kids only find out how far they are behind their peers academically when they become freshmen in college. Sad, very sad because one selling point of gaining support for diverting traditional public school funds to charter schools and parochial schools was that these institutions are better at preparing students for college. They aren’t. I also read a report on charter schools here in GA, and they, too have kids who don’t score better than kids in traditional public schools. Before any parent enrolls a kid in a parochial school [besides Catholic] or a charter school, I think s/he should check out the curriculum that is being used at that school, test scores, and the percentage of students who graduate from it who are admitted to good colleges.

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Teukka  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:04:36pm

Oof. Just heard this Trump joke…
When Donald Trump gets stressed he does his own laundry.
He says separating whites from colors relaxes him.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:05:38pm

re: #219 Charles Johnson

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I hope so Joe.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:08:50pm

re: #214 Stanley Sea

Expect a yuuuuuuge voter suppression racket in large urban areas in red states in November. I wish I was joking.

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:09:16pm

re: #216 Stanley Sea

There’s also the margin of error. He could actually be at a negative.

LOL. It’s like Hawking radiation and Black Holes. Donald Trump is like a singularity of racism, warping spacetime around him and pulling extra virtual black people into reality who immediately run away from him, carrying away some of his energy.

It’s science.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:09:45pm

re: #184 EPR-radar

Some PRC regime policies really are cartoonishly evil. This business of harvesting organs for transplant from political prisoners is about as bad as it can get.

And I bet Larry Niven doesn’t collect a cent! Damn PRC and their disdain for Intellectual Property!
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goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:11:15pm

re: #219 Charles Johnson

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Biden is clearly sick of Bernie’s shit, just straight up challenged the dude to call him a liar, which he refused to do today on Chris Hayes’ show. I love it.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:11:19pm

re: #223 GlutenFreeJesus

Expect a yuuuuuuge voter suppression racket in large urban areas in red states in November. I wish I was joking.

Sigh no doubt.

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lawhawk  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:12:16pm

So much dumbassery in 140 characters:

That’s a huge misreading of history.

Whether there’s Nixon who decided to delay rearming Israel during the Yom Kippur War and put geopolitics and Israel’s survival on the line or Reagan arming the Saudis with AWACS and F-15s, which could be used against Israel over Israel’s intentions. Or GHWB trying to impose a peace talks on Israel at Madrid.

Or any number of other instances where the US played the Grand Game and Israel’s interests were secondary.

That compares with Obama, who hasn’t forced a peace process (surprisingly actually, given most presidents go legacy building in the ME during back half of 2d terms). He hasn’t armed Israel’s enemies no matter what they think of the Iran deal, which delays Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

As much as all these nitwits complain about the Iran deal, they can’t escape fact that we now have more information about the program and what they could or couldn’t do than before. There’s a measure of control there that was never present until now.

But what do you expect when Trump can’t tell the difference between IS and Hizbullah (and don’t expect Hannity or his fanbase to know or care either).

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gocart mozart  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:13:38pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:14:08pm

re: #228 lawhawk

So much dumbassery in 140 characters:

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That’s a huge misreading of history.

Whether there’s Nixon who decided to delay rearming Israel during the Yom Kippur War and put geopolitics and Israel’s survival on the line or Reagan arming the Saudis with AWACS and F-15s, which could be used against Israel over Israel’s intentions. Or GHWB trying to impose a peace talks on Israel at Madrid.

Or any number of other instances where the US played the Grand Game and Israel’s interests were secondary.

That compares with Obama, who hasn’t forced a peace process (surprisingly actually, given most presidents go legacy building in the ME during back half of 2d terms). He hasn’t armed Israel’s enemies no matter what they think of the Iran deal, which delays Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

As much as all these nitwits complain about the Iran deal, they can’t escape fact that we now have more information about the program and what they could or couldn’t do than before. There’s a measure of control there that was never present until now.

But what do you expect when Trump can’t tell the difference between IS and Hizbullah (and don’t expect Hannity or his fanbase to know or care either).

Obama’s been very pro-Israel despite the fact that Bibi does everything he can to undermine and disrespect Obama. AS for most anti Israel president, what a fucking joke.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:14:49pm

re: #199 Shimshon

You don’t know what the public speaking circuit is, I see. Companies and universities pay a lot of money for important people to speak about their life experiences or viewpoints, it isn’t a hidden corruption system like Bernie fans want to believe. These people just assume because they have never heard of all the money public speakers make.

politico.com

George W. Bush regularly made over $100k per speech, and do you think this guy after his disaster of a Presidency is helping groups get more influence? The GOP didn’t even want him speaking at the conventions…

Whose gonna pay Bernie big bucks to describe his three unproductive decades in Congress?

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gocart mozart  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:15:18pm
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Joe Bacon  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:15:42pm

re: #68 No Country For Old Haters

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Bryan can go fuck himself.

If this was 1948, Bryan the Bigot would utter the same bullshit when Truman desegregated the Armed Forces.

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:15:59pm

re: #210 Stanley Sea

Oops

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Rage Furby sees his opening.

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:16:38pm

re: #214 Stanley Sea

The black love him.

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:17:03pm

re: #165 The Vicious Babushka

And the fucking transcripts. What do you think she was talking about to the Wall Street bankers? ISTR someone (Huffington Post?) tried to track down people who actually attended one of those speeches by calling banking firms and asking “Did Hillary Clinton ever speak at one of your events? Can we speak to someone who was there?” and people who did attend said “who pays attention to the speeches at these events? We were chit chatting with our neighbors at the table” and finally they found someone who said “Yeah she talked about making more opportunities for women and minorities in the financial industry”

Let’s implement some new hurdle for a Democrat to clear that the Republican doesn’t seem to need to.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:17:18pm

re: #228 lawhawk

Hmmm…I’m not blocked by Hannity. I must be doing something wrong.

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Joe Bacon  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:17:27pm

re: #69 Skip Intro

This is sure the guy I’d want on my team. I don’t know how he keeps those pants from falling down.

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I wonder if he plays golf?

That poor jockstrap! 😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:17:59pm

re: #228 lawhawk

As much as all these nitwits complain about the Iran deal, they can’t escape fact that we now have more information about the program and what they could or couldn’t do than before. There’s a measure of control there that was never present until now.

Wingnuts don’t know anything about the Iran Deal. They only know about the Alternative Universe Iran Deal in which OBAMA GAVE IRAN TEH NUKES!!!1!!!

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:18:45pm

re: #214 Stanley Sea

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With your standard MoE, that means he’s probably making up some of the black support himself. OK, actually we don’t need the MoE to know that’s true.

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gocart mozart  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:19:09pm

Dafuck?

Donald Trump Has Sex With His Own Daughter?

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Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:19:17pm
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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:19:44pm

re: #219 Charles Johnson

Biden has obviously watched Veep this season.

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:20:14pm

re: #242 Charles Johnson

He ought to be embarrassed that Trump has started using his name in speeches.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:21:03pm

re: #217 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Speaking of China, here’s a new “rap” video from the Party intended to teach English speakers about China.

bbc.com

I put rap in quotes because, IMO, this is not rap.

Thanks for sharing. I don’t have a problem with that kind of propaganda because I expect it (and except for the “rap” it was pretty well done). And I also feel well enough informed without ever having visited China to know that it is the official version. I will go at some point. Who wouldn’t want to visit such a complex place with its rich and deep history?

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Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:21:33pm
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vgranucci  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:22:30pm

re: #83 gocart mozart

Not bad, but the grammar and spelling need work :)

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thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:23:24pm

Charles, I note that you decided against making a post about Rage Furby’s unhinged video rant. Whatever happened there?

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gocart mozart  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:24:02pm
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Stanley Sea  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:24:17pm

re: #235 Skip Intro

The black love him.

Totally guffawed at that one.

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:24:38pm

re: #214 Stanley Sea

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Good. His support from Latino votes is around 19% which is kind of high.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:25:41pm

re: #214 Stanley Sea

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So that’s Herman Cain, Allan West, and Ben Carson. Everyone else hates him.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:25:51pm

re: #236 Belafon

Let’s implement some new hurdle for a Democrat to clear that the Republican doesn’t seem to need to.

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Tarmac meetings in broad daylight…

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:27:29pm
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jaunte  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:28:00pm

I hear AI is coming for us all.

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Great White Snark  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:31:09pm

re: #221 Teukka

Oof. Just heard this Trump joke…
When Donald Trump gets stressed he does his own laundry.
He says separating whites from colors relaxes him.

Do you have a twitter account?

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:32:00pm

Here is a fun recipe for your 4th of July picnic

Facebook Post

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Teukka  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:32:07pm

re: #256 Great White Snark

Do you have a twitter account?

Yes, how so?

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majii  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:33:33pm

re: #252 Blind Frog Belly White

Let’s add Stacy Dash, Mike Tyson, Don King, Larry Elder, Alan Keyes, the big guy Charles “something” and that black sheriff, both of whom pop up on Fox to let right-wingers know that they agree with every ugly thing they believe about this president, to the list.

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Great White Snark  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:34:18pm

re: #258 Teukka

That joke… Spilled my wine funny.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:34:41pm

re: #259 majii

Let’s add Stacy Dash, Mike Tyson, Don King, Larry Elder, Alan Keyes, the big guy Charles “something” and that black sheriff, both of whom pop up on Fox to let right-wingers know that they agree with every ugly thing they believe about this president, to the list.

David Clarke.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:34:54pm

re: #259 majii

Let’s add Stacy Dash, Mike Tyson, Don King, Larry Elder, Alan Keyes, the big guy Charles “something” and that black sheriff, both of whom pop up on Fox to let right-wingers know that they agree with every ugly thing they believe about this president, to the list.

And those two sisters Diamond and Pearl

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majii  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:35:34pm

re: #261 HappyWarrior

Right! I think the other guy’s last name is Payne, now that I think of it.

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majii  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:36:58pm

re: #262 The Vicious Babushka

You don’t want to know what I call them in my mind, but maybe you can guess: A_____ion W_____s.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:37:26pm

re: #146 majii

Over the last 40+ years, I’ve watched the move on the right away from a belief in facts and reality to a belief in ideology/ies. Along the way, I noticed the role right-wing media has played in this transformation. As RW media spread and grew stronger, the size of the RW bubble became larger and more reinforced with RW beliefs. We now have millions of Americans who believe things that have no bases in facts or reality. Many on the right still believe there as been no economic recovery; the stock markets haven’t improved since 2009; Obamacare has death panels; and the U.S. is less well-regarded today than it was in 2009; and this president has totally “destroyed” America, among other false things. I’ve reached the conclusion that those who believe these things want to believe them and have no desire to know the facts.

Of course things have not improved yet. Obama is still in office, I have not been given a pony, nor a flying car!
////

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Stanley Sea  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:37:29pm

re: #255 jaunte

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I hear AI is coming for us all.

I read one article that said the white semi was so “bright” it was mistaken as sky…..

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jaunte  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:39:15pm

re: #266 Stanley Sea

I think we have some time before the machines drive us all out of business.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:44:27pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:47:58pm

dayum, Brexit effects getting real/////////

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:49:47pm

re: #269 Backwoods_Sleuth

dayum, Brexit effects getting real/////////

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A little too on the nose, I’d have thought.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:51:20pm

re: #266 Stanley Sea

I read one article that said the white semi was so “bright” it was mistaken as sky…..

As I see it, the basic problem is that you are supposed to stay just as alert as if you were driving, ready to override if needed. But try staying that alert without doing the actual driving. That’d be hard.

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jaunte  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:51:43pm

What Would Trump Have Done?

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Kragar  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:53:26pm
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jaunte  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:55:03pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:55:05pm

re: #272 jaunte

That Trump person would have found the original owner of said piece of furniture and harassed them for more money.

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majii  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:55:54pm

re: #269 Backwoods_Sleuth

I was truly surprised when I read today that Boris Johnson admitted that he doesn’t want to be the next PM. The article also stated that he has expressed misgivings about pushing for the UK to leave the EU. I think he doesn’t want the job because of all of the work it involves in preparing for the UK to leave the EU. He really is a kind of sh*t weasel. He didn’t consider the consequences of the leave vote winning the day and now that the economic fallout has started, it appears to me that he wants to walk away from the mess he helped to create.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:56:36pm

re: #273 Kragar

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I want to make water flow uphill.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:57:15pm

lol

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:57:44pm

re: #276 majii

I was truly surprised when I read today that Boris Johnson admitting that he doesn’t want to be the next PM. The article also stated that he has expressed misgivings about pushing for the UK to leave the EU. I think he doesn’t want the job because of all of the work it involves in preparing for the UK to leave the EU. He really is a kind of sh*t weasel. He didn’t consider the consequences of the leave vote winning the day and now that the economic fallout has started, it appears to me that he wants to walk away from the mess he helped to create.

He had fun playing the role of the shit weasel, but when actually became a shit weasel….

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majii  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:57:59pm

re: #278 Charles Johnson

This individual must have some very vivid dreams.

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gocart mozart  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:00:19pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:00:29pm

re: #248 thedopefishlives

Charles, I note that you decided against making a post about Rage Furby’s unhinged video rant. Whatever happened there?

It still might happen this weekend. I always wrestle with myself about whether it’s a good idea to write about this horrible freak.

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TedStriker  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:01:07pm

re: #278 Charles Johnson

lol

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Someone should tell them to never get high on your own supply.

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jaunte  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:01:15pm
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Great White Snark  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:02:32pm

CNN really pimping this alleged screw up by Bill Clinton seeing Loretta Lynch at the airport. Lemon seems to think it a fruitful topic. Looks like sour grapes.

With his BFF/Wingman Carl Bernstein. You guys know I… lack faith in HRC. So to speak. But I’m laughing at this segment. So breathless. So pretentious. So… very empty.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:02:52pm

re: #282 Charles Johnson

It still might happen this weekend. I always wrestle with myself about whether it’s a good idea to write about this horrible freak.

Do you mean the one where he drops the supposed Obama manuscript on the floor, after he says he wants to “scan” it for DNA?

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majii  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:03:05pm

re: #284 jaunte

Stephen Colbert is a nut! I love his sense of humor.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:04:13pm

re: #274 jaunte

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My dog.

No one will be staying at a trump property after this. He’s killing his bullshit brand.

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Anymouse  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:04:31pm

From Wonkette: Senator John McCain Explains to Trump in Small Words Why Torture Is Bad
wonkette.com

Of course, McCain still supports Mr. Trump, so he supports torture regardless of what he is saying. He gave up that moral high ground with his endorsement he refuses to withdraw.

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:04:33pm

re: #176 compound_Idaho

duh. They are “speaking fees”. It is influence peddling. No one gives a shit what she says. wink wink. They are just paying for access and influence.

That horse has joined the bleedin’ choir invisible.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:04:39pm

re: #278 Charles Johnson

lol

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God they’re delusional.

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jaunte  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:05:08pm

re: #288 Stanley Sea

As he says, just a rumor. But hard to bet against it.

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:05:17pm

re: #195 EPR-radar

Interesting article over at DailyKos on the economy. dailykos.com

The thesis here, from a worker in that field, is that IT/process automation is systematically eliminating jobs.

I see it as an interesting part of the story of the real issue in economics (IMO), which is what to do with a persistent shortage of jobs/over supply of labor.

There was an interesting article today, in Forbes of all places, about Automated Luxury Communism.

It tries to deal with the question, “What happens when there isn’t any work for a lot of people?” Or maybe the question is “How does capitalism handle it when there are too many products but no buyers?”

My thought is our society won’t make the change cleanly. That’s because ‘work’ is a much, perhaps more, of a holy ritual than it is a practical activity. Good people work and become rich. Bad people do not work and become poor.

When religious thought is involved it’s very hard to make people perceive the universe in other ways.

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gocart mozart  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:05:27pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:05:55pm

re: #289 Anymouse

From Wonkette: Senator John McCain Explains to Trump in Small Words Why Torture Is Bad
wonkette.com

Of course, McCain still supports Mr. Trump, so he supports torture regardless of what he is saying. He gave up that moral high ground with his endorsement he refuses to withdraw.

McCain is a party man through and through.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:07:19pm

re: #294 gocart mozart

[Embedded content]

en.wikipedia.org
McCain should talk to her. Was not aware she ran against Hoyer in the primary this year, interesting.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:08:48pm

Haaretz is the worst site for ads. You give up before you reach the story. Gah.

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electrotek  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:09:07pm
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FormerDirtDart  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:09:52pm

re: #288 Stanley Sea

My dog.

No one will be staying at a trump property after this. He’s killing his bullshit brand.

You know that if he is indeed using guest emails from his hotels that his campaign paid himself a tidy sum for those listings

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:10:04pm

re: #219 Charles Johnson

I’ll believe it when I see it.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:10:10pm

re: #298 electrotek

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That shit is disgusting.

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Anymouse  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:10:50pm

E-mail just received from the Sanders campaign. No, I don’t think I will be sending money; that train left the station long ago.

Mrs. Clinton some time ago said Mr. Sanders is free to run his campaign any way he likes, including bringing his delegates to the floor of the convention. It has become apparent to me who is running the more honest campaign here, and thus I am no longer in the Sanders camp.

—- —-

The world is going to have answers to two very important questions about our campaign in about three weeks.
1. Are we able to bring all of our nearly 1,900 delegates to the Democratic convention in Philadelphia, where with Bernie they will cast important votes for a progressive platform that includes issues like opposition to a vote against the disastrous TPP, or a $15 federal minimum wage?

2. Will the FEC fundraising report we must file days before the convention show that we have the momentum and the power to continue the incredible work of our political revolution?
I want the answers to both of those questions to be yes, James. The future of our movement depends on it. Can you help before the FEC deadline at midnight?
Make a $50 contribution to Bernie Sanders before tonight’s FEC deadline and you will make sure all our delegates go to the convention and we’ll show the continued strength of our political revolution.
When our delegates gather in Philadelphia, they’ll have the chance to put the Democratic Party on the record about stopping votes against the TPP, fighting for a $15 federal minimum wage, opposing fracking, and so many more progressive priorities.
It’s up to us to make it happen.
In solidarity,
Jeff Weaver
Campaign Manager
Bernie 2016

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Kragar  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:11:26pm
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Stanley Sea  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:14:48pm

re: #302 Anymouse

E-mail just received from the Sanders campaign. No, I don’t think I will be sending money; that train left the station long ago.

Mrs. Clinton some time ago said Mr. Sanders is free to run his campaign any way he likes, including bringing his delegates to the floor of the convention. It has become apparent to me who is running the more honest campaign here, and thus I am no longer in the Sanders camp.

—- —-

The world is going to have answers to two very important questions about our campaign in about three weeks.
1. Are we able to bring all of our nearly 1,900 delegates to the Democratic convention in Philadelphia, where with Bernie they will cast important votes for a progressive platform that includes issues like opposition to a vote against the disastrous TPP, or a $15 federal minimum wage?

2. Will the FEC fundraising report we must file days before the convention show that we have the momentum and the power to continue the incredible work of our political revolution?
I want the answers to both of those questions to be yes, James. The future of our movement depends on it. Can you help before the FEC deadline at midnight?
Make a $50 contribution to Bernie Sanders before tonight’s FEC deadline and you will make sure all our delegates go to the convention and we’ll show the continued strength of our political revolution.
When our delegates gather in Philadelphia, they’ll have the chance to put the Democratic Party on the record about stopping votes against the TPP, fighting for a $15 federal minimum wage, opposing fracking, and so many more progressive priorities.
It’s up to us to make it happen.
In solidarity,
Jeff Weaver
Campaign Manager
Bernie 2016

Slippery

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majii  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:15:26pm

re: #302 Anymouse

I would think that one of the first requirements for being selected as a delegate would be the ability to afford to pay for your trip to the convention, including meals, lodging, and transportation. I read at TPM that the RNC has this requirement. Do you know if the DNC has a similar policy?

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electrotek  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:16:01pm

re: #301 HappyWarrior

That shit is disgusting.

Here’s another:

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:16:56pm

re: #269 Backwoods_Sleuth

Why would the train want to go somewhere it’s not welcome?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:17:56pm

Heebie jobbies!

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:18:02pm

Who remembers that time Hillary pulled out chunks of Bill’s hair and then violently assaulted him? Me neither.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:18:05pm

re: #306 electrotek

Here’s another:

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Muslims are silent when non-Muslim countries are attacked? Okaaaaaaaaaaaay.

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Frankie Five Angels  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:18:22pm

I borrowed a 600mm f4 from Nikon for two weeks for a bunch of Astros games coming up. Here’s a couple of strays that hang out at my house. These were shot very tight wide open at f4.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:18:32pm

re: #309 The Vicious Babushka

Who remembers that time Hillary pulled out chunks of Bill’s hair and then violently assaulted him? Me neither.

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Dude you support a man accused of raping a child, shut the fuck up.

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electrotek  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:18:35pm

re: #310 HappyWarrior

Muslims are silent when non-Muslim countries are attacked? Okaaaaaaaaaaaay.

He blocked me when I called him out. Typical.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:18:55pm

re: #313 electrotek

He blocked me when I called him out. Typical.

Not surprised.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:19:49pm

web.archive.org
In Iran, a week after 9/11 no less. Man those heartless Muslims.

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majii  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:20:14pm

Begging Bernie is now saying that his campaign hasn’t decided to endorse HRC yet. “‘We are not there at this moment,” he said on MSNBC tonight.
rawstory.com

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electrotek  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:20:48pm

re: #315 HappyWarrior

web.archive.org
In Iran, a week after 9/11 no less. Man those heartless Muslims.

The same Iranians that saved his ungrateful ass from being killed off by the Azeris in the early 90s. Ironic eh?

And this guy:

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Stanley Sea  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:21:15pm

re: #311 Frankie Five Angels

I borrowed a 600mm f4 from Nikon for two weeks for a bunch of Astros games coming up. Here’s a couple of strays that hang out at my house. These were shot very tight wide open at f4.

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Shaaaaaaarp. I hope I’m not missing your sports shots. Can’t recall seeing anything lately.

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majii  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:22:03pm

re: #310 HappyWarrior

“Muslims are silent when non-Muslim countries are attacked? Okaaaaaaaaaaaay.”

Of course they are, but only if you consume only right-wing media.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:22:04pm

re: #317 electrotek

The same Iranians that saved his ungrateful ass from being killed off by the Azeris in the early 90s. Ironic eh?

And this guy:

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Some people are just so fucking stupid.

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Shiplord Kirel  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:22:37pm

SMOTI is getting nasty:
Turkish Imam Suspended After Doctors Find Cucumber Pieces in His Rectum

To complete this revolting picture, his source is rt.com:

A 39-year-old imam in Turkey has been suspended from his role after doctors reportedly found “pieces of cucumber” in his rectum during a checkup.

The imam, who is from a Central Anatolian province, was admitted to hospital last week after suffering from severe abdominal pain and bleeding, Hurriyet Daily News reports.

I guess we are supposed to generalize this unfortunate accident to all Muslims. Or something.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:22:45pm

re: #316 majii

Begging Bernie is now saying that his campaign hasn’t decided to endorse HRC yet. “‘We are not there at this moment,” he said on MSNBC tonight.
rawstory.com

He’s being a petty dickhead.

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Great White Snark  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:25:03pm

re: #311 Frankie Five Angels

I borrowed a 600mm f4 from Nikon for two weeks for a bunch of Astros games coming up. Here’s a couple of strays that hang out at my house. These were shot very tight wide open at f4.

Embedded Image

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How far back did that lens put you? I love the long look with that bokeh.

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Frankie Five Angels  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:25:10pm

\re: #318 Stanley Sea

Shaaaaaaarp. I hope I’m not missing your sports shots. Can’t recall seeing anything lately.

Yes, super sharp. I haven’t posted anything lately, we’ll see how things go this weekend. I’m using two remote cameras now, one at home looking at home plate, and I’m mixing up the second one using a 300mm f4 either super tight at third base hoping to get a head-first slide, or lucky at second base (think the Utley play last year in the playoffs). I’m having a lot of fun with this new gig.

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Frankie Five Angels  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:27:16pm

re: #323 Great White Snark

How far back did that lens put you? I love the long look with that bokeh.

20 feet tops. (!!!!!!) Yes, it can focus super, super close, almost too close. It’s too tight to shoot the infield, so I’m going to move up to the concourse for a few innings to mix it up shooting down (now the backgrounds will be the grass and dirt around the infield), using two remote cameras to cover my ass at second and home.

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Anymouse  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:30:58pm

re: #305 majii

I would think that one of the first requirements for being selected as a delegate would be the ability to afford to pay for your trip to the convention, including meals, lodging, and transportation. I read at TPM that the RNC has this requirement. Do you know if the DNC has a similar policy?

Well, I’m not sure about that. That would mean only the rich could be delegates.

My own almost-moribund county Democratic party wanted me to be a delegate to the state party convention. I could not afford it.

I have been getting E-mails from the Democratic Party about paying for delegates hotels and airfare to the convention in Philadelphia. (I believe the party is paying for it, but I am unsure)

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:35:24pm

re: #321 Shiplord Kirel

SMOTI is getting nasty:
Turkish Imam Suspended After Doctors Find Cucumber Pieces in His Rectum

To complete this revolting picture, his source is rt.com:

I guess we are supposed to generalize this unfortunate accident to all Muslims. Or something.

I would guess to say that Jimmy the Geek is doing nothing more than relating to the incident more than reporting it.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:45:22pm

re: #311 Frankie Five Angels

That first picture with the teeth is ironic-I had my Ozzie in for a wound-poor baby had an abcessed molar that they yanked out (I was wondering why he was bleeding all of a sudden.) So he’s on antibiotics and pain medication (believe it or not, they use buprenorphere - same thing they use for opiate addicts) and he’s got a stich that they’ll take out in a few weeks.

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Great White Snark  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:47:33pm

re: #325 Frankie Five Angels

Heh, nice shot, the shallow focus look is a fave of mine. Not sure how far you can stop down to get more depth at the game. ?? We joke here it’s the anti macro setup. Long lens at it’s shortest distance, wide open. Lens tech tell me that’s as sharp as can be had. In theory.

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BeachDem  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:54:21pm

re: #326 Anymouse

Well, I’m not sure about that. That would mean only the rich could be delegates.

My own almost-moribund county Democratic party wanted me to be a delegate to the state party convention. I could not afford it.

I have been getting E-mails from the Democratic Party about paying for delegates hotels and airfare to the convention in Philadelphia. (I believe the party is paying for it, but I am unsure)

My friends who are national delegates are fund-raising for their expenses. The state party and others have helped by holding events and donating items to be auctioned to help with funding.

The Bernie bullshit is that all of Hillary’s delegates are richy riches who can well afford it, while Berners are poor, suffering students and other brands of poor who are being “disenfranchised” by the DNC. They even said as much in one of their emails.

The info on what it would cost has been available on the state party websites for months and months. This “Ooooh, nobody told us until yesterday” is just a bunch of crap.

I’ll add that my friends who are going as delegates are far from rich. But they’re DEMOCRATS who have paid enough attention to know what the deal is instead of whining incessantly like the poor, put upon Berners.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:06:31pm

re: #104 A Cranky One

This makes me very angry.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:11:30pm

re: #219 Charles Johnson

Thanks Uncle Joe!

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gwangung  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:18:24pm

re: #330 BeachDem

My friends who are national delegates are fund-raising for their expenses. The state party and others have helped by holding events and donating items to be auctioned to help with funding.

The Bernie bullshit is that all of Hillary’s delegates are richy riches who can well afford it, while Berners are poor, suffering students and other brands of poor who are being “disenfranchised” by the DNC. They even said as much in one of their emails.

The info on what it would cost has been available on the state party websites for months and months. This “Ooooh, nobody told us until yesterday” is just a bunch of crap.

I’ll add that my friends who are going as delegates are far from rich. But they’re DEMOCRATS who have paid enough attention to know what the deal is instead of whining incessantly like the poor, put upon Berners.

You know…if they couldn’t afford it, they could, like all the other delegates, accept help from the local party machinery to fundraise.

Of course, calling them corrupt tools makes it a little harder to do that….

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Jebediah, RBG  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:29:53pm

re: #82 Belafon

Fingers crossed for a good outcome.

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majii  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:31:12pm

re: #333 gwangung

“Of course, calling them corrupt tools makes it a little harder to do that….”

I’m ROTFLMBO because this is sooo true! One shouldn’t sh*t on others and then, expect them to give you their hard-earned money.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 1, 2016 • 2:40:54am

re: #268 Stanley Sea

A look at how far the GOP has fallen over eight yers

that sums it up: instead of calling these people out or trying to distance ourselves from them, the GOP have let the bigots take over the party

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jul 1, 2016 • 6:33:08am

re: #199 Shimshon

You don’t know what the public speaking circuit is, I see. Companies and universities pay a lot of money for important people to speak about their life experiences or viewpoints, it isn’t a hidden corruption system like Bernie fans want to believe. These people just assume because they have never heard of all the money public speakers make.

I worked for 20 years for a nonprofit professional organization of college and university planners. We never expected any quid pro quo from our big name speakers, no matter how much they were paid. They were for our members and conference audiences and what we cared about was their drawing power, the excitement they could generate, and good post-event evaluations.


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