Live Video of a Dying Party: Chris Christie’s Turn to Attack Hillary Clinton

The takeaway from tonight: they really fear Hillary Clinton
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Chris Christie is now announcing the start of a weird far right kangaroo court that’s going to “judge” Hillary Clinton and let the audience of right wing loons render a “verdict.”

This whole night has been nothing but a serious of dishonest attacks on Hillary Clinton. Policy? What’s that? LOCK HER UP!

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lockjawcanbefun  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:45:04pm

Worst open mike night ever.

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JasonA  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:45:51pm

Are we watching a live performance of Idiocracy?

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Testy Toad T  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:48:13pm

I sure do get the feeling the GOP cares about how Obama’s broken economy is leaving behind poor schmucks like me ////////

I wonder what sort of campaign Trump would have run against a Booker or Kaine-like figure who is comparatively unknown, who has not been the subject of a generation of GOP attempted character assassination.

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Joe Bacon  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:48:33pm

Did he bring a sack of White Castle Sliders?

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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:48:39pm

Something rather ironic about having Chris Christie requesting a verdict regarding Hillary Clinton, given the number of actual criminal investigations that he’s currently under.

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Jenner7  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:48:41pm

Again, I fear for Hillary’s safety….

This is incitement.

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thedopefishlives  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:49:20pm

re: #5 Bill and Opus for 2016!

Something rather ironic about having Chris Christie requesting a verdict regarding Hillary Clinton, given the number of actual criminal investigations that he’s currently under.

Yes, but we can’t talk about that because Hillary is a bigger criminal than all the Republicans combined. Benghazi! E-mails! CLINTON BODY COUNT!!!!!

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bratwurst  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:49:36pm
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Joe Bacon  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:50:06pm

re: #6 Jenner7

Again, I fear for Hillary’s safety….

This is incitement.

Hey I’m not just afraid for Hillary. I’m also afraid for Chelsea and her babies.

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No Depression  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:50:35pm

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JasonA  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:50:43pm

It might be helpful for them to use this time to sell the American people on what they’re actually going to do to make America greater and stuff.

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Belafon  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:51:02pm

re: #6 Jenner7

Again, I fear for Hillary’s safety….

This is incitement.

This is an attempt to forcefully deligitimize her election in November. When she wins, all of these people will know what they have to do.

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Jenner7  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:52:44pm

Oh good lord…

She’s awful.

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Tigger2  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:52:58pm

re: #10 No Depression

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The only policy they have is to throw us into another bad recession.

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KGxvi  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:53:32pm

was listening in the car as I drove home… Christie’s case was rather short on facts. Also, was it just me, or did he actually lead with an argument that was essentially “Libya would have been better off if Qaddafi was still in power”?

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Scottishdragon  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:54:30pm

re: #2 JasonA

Are we watching a live performance of Idiocracy?

Guys, if Trump wins, the Clintons will have to flee the US and seek political asylum somewhere.

This is the end of the US as a functioning democracy in my opinion. Even if Hillary wins, she will face impeachment attempts and criminal investigations from the House to destroy her presidency. They cannot ratchet this back.

We had a good run. It’s done.

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“LALALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!”  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:54:35pm

This thing is freaking me out.

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jaunte  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:54:42pm
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calochortus  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:54:46pm

re: #15 KGxvi

was listening in the car as I drove home… Christie’s case was rather short on facts. Also, was it just me, or did he actually lead with an argument that was essentially “Libya would have been better off if Qaddafi was still in power”?

Pretty much. Plus, someone who has been active in international affairs for decades will probably say some things that later on aren’t exactly prescient.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:55:13pm

My god, could she sound any more fake?

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bratwurst  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:55:51pm

re: #10 No Depression

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Scottishdragon  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:56:11pm

re: #12 Belafon

This is an attempt to forcefully deligitimize her election in November. When she wins, all of these people will know what they have to do.

Yep. This destroys the legitimate foundation of our democracy.

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lockjawcanbefun  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:56:12pm
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Stanley Sea  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:56:14pm

Horrible hate. Horrible hate.

GOP your group is disgusting.

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calochortus  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:56:17pm

This is about on level with a college essay on When My Puppy Died.

edit: College application essay.

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jaunte  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:56:51pm

re: #12 Belafon

This is an attempt to forcefully deligitimize her election in November. When she wins, all of these people will know what they have to do.

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majii  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:57:12pm

Night II of the GOP Convention: Discussing economic matters morphs into sending HRC to jail. That this is what they’re all talking about shows they don’t want to discuss their plans for the economy. Steve Benen had a post today that shows how delusional some of the GOPers at this convention are. When a reporter asked them about the economy, they gave it great reviews, said things have improved a lot and they’re making money but they’re crediting the improvement in the economy to Bush/Cheney.

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Skip Intro  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:57:19pm

re: #20 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Who are we talking about?

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Nyet  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:57:34pm

I didn’t know Shatner is an asshole…

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JasonA  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:57:50pm

re: #25 calochortus

This is about on level with a college essay on When My Puppy Died.

You’re not wrong, but I’m biting my tongue.

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teleskiguy  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:58:13pm

re: #28 Skip Intro

Who are we talking about?

Tiffany Trump. Her plasticity was something to behold.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:58:20pm

re: #11 JasonA

It might be helpful for them to use this time to sell the American people on what they’re actually going to do to make America greater and stuff.

They are going to do what they always do. Borrow trillions of dollars in order to redistribute it to the 0.01% richest Americans, and let corporations and Wall Street do whatever the fuck they want to to us.

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Belafon  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:58:24pm

We will have to make sure that we don’t let him win, nor that we allow them to think they can continue. Clinton has the right idea: her campaign is doing a voting drive in response to the GOP convention. We all have to make sure to get people out to vote.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:58:30pm

From downstairs

re: #437 A Cranky One

The scary part is that is exactly the scenario I see playing out for all kinds of issues should Trump win. Trump doesn’t have the energy, attention span or work ethic to handle the daily grind of the presidency. I believe he expects he can just sit in the office and make the occasional decision, while somebody else does the daily grind. I expect he would delegate most of the job to his equally non-skilled lackeys.

Given his track record when picking “top people”, it’s a frightening scenario.

There’s so much room for a true shitstorm to fall on the head of We The People with him in charge. Incompetency creates a power vacuum. Potential scenarios include:

- Drumpf surrounding himself with “Top Guys” who rob the rest of us blind, cut THE GREATEST DEALS with people like the Russians, and crash the government into an unrecoverable hole of corruption and scorched-earth kleptocracy.

- The Cabinet and the Military being forced to come together and pick up the slack, basically covering for His Absence, the Abscess of Trump Abbey, who’s too busy to do all that boring governing shit.

- Having what’s left of our Republic distorted out of shape by his crackpot ideas to order the military to torture, deport, and murder en masse. How soon before he forms his own Trumpenpolizei to DO THE THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DONE??

- Referendums being called by the other branches of government, when it becomes clear that this guy can’t govern himself out of a wet paper bag, which of course means party infighting and the current GOP screaming like banshees because he’s their best chance to stack the entire government with Reich-wing assholes top-to-bottom by executive fiat. Think government shutdown, except with half of the Legislative branch just quitting in disgust.

Then there’s his fan club, especially the armed members… A lot of them will go off their nut if Hillary wins, but they’re just as likely to form posses that make Malheur look like a dress rehearsal if anybody tries to drive out Dear Leader and crush their dream of Honkis Ueber Alles.

Frankly, every hypothetical is ten times worse than Hillary banning all the gunz and putting us all in happiness camps.

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VegasGolfer  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:58:52pm
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Jenner7  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:58:59pm
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DodgerFan1988  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:59:04pm

Imprisoning the opposition party, journalists, and LGBT rights activists in Putin’s Russia, Erdogan’s Turkey, Assad’s Syria, Maduro’s Venezuela, Jong-un’s North Korea, Mugabe’s Zimbabwe and soon to be Trump’s America.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:59:08pm

This is good news for Meghan McCain.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:59:55pm

re: #16 Scottishdragon

Guys, if Trump wins, the Clintons will have to flee the US and seek political asylum somewhere.

This is the end of the US as a functioning democracy in my opinion. Even if Hillary wins, she will face impeachment attempts and criminal investigations from the House to destroy her presidency. They cannot ratchet this back.

We had a good run. It’s done.

You are overreacting. They tried to impeach Bill before, and without 67 GOP Senators, they can’t get a conviction.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 19, 2016 • 6:59:57pm

re: #22 Scottishdragon

Yep. This destroys the legitimate foundation of our democracy.

Nope. If we take the presidency and the senate the professionals in the GOP will be forced to go far beyond their ‘post-mortem’ into a real purge. Their personal access to power and the wallets of their sugardaddies demands it. This is all or nothing for the RWNJs.

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teleskiguy  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:00:17pm
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worldknot  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:00:49pm

re: #12 Belafon

This is an attempt to forcefully deligitimize her election in November. When she wins, all of these people will know what they have to do.

Not to minimize, but we’ve seen this before.

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No Depression  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:01:01pm

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Brian J.  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:01:32pm

re: #39 Big Beautiful Door

You are overreacting. They tried to impeach Bill before, and without 67 GOP Senators, they can’t get a conviction.

I think you’re overlooking the vigilante aspect, which Republicans are doing everything possible to encourage. Stochastic terrorism isn’t just an Islamic thing.

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TK-421  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:01:41pm

The Trump Winery?

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Belafon  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:02:08pm

re: #42 worldknot

Not to minimize, but we’ve seen this before.

You are correct. And I don’t mean to imply that they’ll succeed. They are just getting riled up the way a mod does.

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KGxvi  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:02:21pm

re: #16 Scottishdragon

Guys, if Trump wins, the Clintons will have to flee the US and seek political asylum somewhere.

This is the end of the US as a functioning democracy in my opinion. Even if Hillary wins, she will face impeachment attempts and criminal investigations from the House to destroy her presidency. They cannot ratchet this back.

We had a good run. It’s done.

We survived a civil war that ended with the president being assassinated. We survived the First World War, the Depression, and the Second World War (along with the death of the sitting president), we survived the assassination of JFK, MLK, and RFK, we survived the South’s second rebellion against civil rights, we survived Nixon, we survived the impeachment of Bill Clinton, the security failures of 9/11, and GWB’s Mideast Misadventures. We will survive this.

The impeachment attempts will be no more successful against Hillary Clinton than they were against Obama. Even if they do manage to pass articles of impeachment, they will never get 67 votes in the Senate to remove her from office. And pretty much every administration since Nixon has dealt with congressional investigations of real/alleged/purported malfeasance.

Perhaps, someday, the story of these United States will come to an end. But it is not here, and it is not now.

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Brian J.  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:02:52pm

re: #40 Decatur Deb

Nope. If we take the presidency and the senate the professionals in the GOP will be forced to go far beyond their ‘post-mortem’ into a real purge. Their personal access to power and the wallets of their sugardaddies demands it. This is all or nothing for the RWNJs.

Hogwash. They fell in line over the last six months. They’ll do it again for the sake of the 2017 NJ/VA off-year elections. Then the 2018 midterms. Then…

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Decatur Deb  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:02:56pm

re: #45 TK-421

The Trump Winery?

“Brash and exciting, but with a bitter finish.”

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TK-421  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:03:17pm

Working the hell out of GE Smith.

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Kragar  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:03:23pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:03:28pm
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Jenner7  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:03:39pm

Still waiting for how they’ll make America work again.

Anyone?

Anyone?

Bueller?

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teleskiguy  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:03:49pm

It’s Elephant Tail Dude!

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:03:49pm

re: #28 Skip Intro

Who are we talking about?

Trump’s daughter from his second marriage.

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calochortus  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:04:16pm

One of the commenters on PBS remarked that Christie’s speech was an obvious audition for Attorney General. As a consolation prize.

I didn’t actually think Ryan’s speech was bad. It had nothing to do with Trump, but it was enough to get the crowd out of the doldrums.

So far, I’m having a lot of trouble seeing where anyone has mentioned anything substantive about tonight’s alleged theme.

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jaunte  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:04:25pm

re: #53 Jenner7

We’ll have great plans; the best!

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Tigger2  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:04:46pm

re: #44 Brian J.

I think you’re overlooking the vigilante aspect, which Republicans are doing everything possible to encourage. Stochastic terrorism isn’t just an Islamic thing.

calm down.

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majii  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:05:26pm

re: #40 Decatur Deb

I recall that before the 2012 election, Jonathan Chait wrote something similar in one of his articles—-that the election was the GOP’s last chance to win the WH for many generations, and the party is filled with fear at the thought of having this happen. Our demographics are changing fast. They know this, so I think it’s one thing that’s motivating them to use politics to push Us vs. Them as a way to win elections.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:06:00pm

re: #31 teleskiguy

Tiffany Trump. Her plasticity was something to behold.

I’m amazed her face didn’t melt under those lights.

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teleskiguy  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:06:09pm

“We’re still Americans, and we’re still one, and we’re gonna get it all back!”

Talk about cognitive dissonance.

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calochortus  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:06:12pm

Donald Jr. seems to have learned his hand gestures from dear old dad.

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Brian J.  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:06:14pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

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Trump’s co-opted his Secret Service detail months ago, and they’ve been throwing out and penning journalists ever since. They don’t care.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:06:44pm

re: #48 Brian J.

Hogwash. They fell in line over the last six months. They’ll do it again for the sake of the 2017 NJ/VA off-year elections. Then the 2018 midterms. Then…

The starched shirts aren’t in Cleveland. They’re out digging a fallout shelter.

politico.com

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calochortus  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:07:08pm

His dad never lets anything stand in his way. Apparently laws are for the little people?

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JasonA  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:07:18pm
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Scottishdragon  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:08:30pm

re: #39 Big Beautiful Door

You are overreacting. They tried to impeach Bill before, and without 67 GOP Senators, they can’t get a conviction.

There is no precedent in US history for threatening to imprison the opposition leader in a presidential election.

None.

You have to back to Cromwell and the Roundheads to find anything similar. That was 350 years ago in the English Civil War.

These people are not fucking around. They are telling their base…on fucking prime time TV… that Hillary is a traitor and a murderer. This utterly destroys her legitimacy as an elected President if she does win and makes it impossible for any governance to happen. If the House moves to impeach, which they are making mandatory right now, then the Senate composition is the only thing that will stand between her and actually having to flee the US.

Those are the stakes that have been put down, and those stakes have never been at play in the US election before. You can’t have a working democracy where the loser of an election faces prison.

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teleskiguy  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:08:40pm

DJJr. almost said “pouring sheetrock and hanging concrete.”

Heh.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:08:41pm

Can we have another round of Norovirus, please?

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Brian J.  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:08:53pm

re: #64 Decatur Deb

The starched shirts aren’t in Cleveland. They’re out digging a fallout shelter.

politico.com

They’re supporting this. None will speak up against it.

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Jenner7  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:08:54pm

Nothing personal about his Father in this speech.

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Scottishdragon  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:09:26pm

re: #42 worldknot

Not to minimize, but we’ve seen this before.

No. Not like this. Not the threat to prosecute if your party wins.

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Tigger2  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:09:43pm

re: #70 Brian J.

They’re supporting this
None will speak up against it.

LOL

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Decatur Deb  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:09:55pm

re: #70 Brian J.

They’re supporting this. None will speak up against it.

They will if we hand them their asses in November.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:10:13pm

re: #69 Eric The Fruit Bat

Can we have another round of Norovirus, please?

I’m rooting for a meteor striking cleveland on thursday. Nuke the convention from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.

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Brian J.  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:10:30pm

re: #74 Decatur Deb

They will if we hand them their asses in November.

No, they won’t. They didn’t in 2009. They didn’t in 2013. And the physical fear factor has been amped up considerably since then.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:10:37pm

I hate it when I hear the GOP say, “…the dignity of hard work…”

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:11:01pm

re: #69 Eric The Fruit Bat

Can we have another round of Norovirus, please?

Not that sickness is funny, but if they all got an attack of the jungle shits mid-speech like some kind of horror movie, I would laugh.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:11:38pm

re: #78 Pawn of the Oppressor

Not that sickness is funny, but if they all got an attack of the jungle shits mid-speech like some kind of horror movie, I would laugh.

I might too, but I’d feel terrible.

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teleskiguy  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:11:40pm
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No Depression  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:11:45pm

How I feel about tonight’s shitshow:

Minor Threat- I Don’t Wanna Hear It

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JasonA  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:12:05pm

re: #77 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

I hate it when I hear the GOP say, “…the dignity of hard work…”

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William Lewis  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:12:31pm

re: #72 Scottishdragon

Exactly. This is politics as it existed in Spain prior to the Civil War.

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jhncsy  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:12:34pm

Remember when Christie was the “tough one?” What a worthless little asskisser. And it’s not just him, everyone from Trump on down is spineless. Sure they’ll bomb the Middle East or shoot one of “those people,” but that’s because they’re not expecting a real fight. Can you imagine Trump actually trying to negotiate with Russia or China? He’ll either roll over and show his belly, or freak out, over-compensate and start a war.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:12:48pm

And to think this looks like a better alternative….

Colossus The Forbin Project Ending

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Tigger2  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:12:48pm

re: #76 Brian J.

No, they won’t. They didn’t in 2009. They didn’t in 2013. And the physical fear factor has been amped up considerably since then.

You act like the left isn’t armed and wouldn’t fight back, and other Nations wouldn’t let anything happen to America because they know it would be their ass if America fell.

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teleskiguy  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:13:06pm

C’mon Don Jr., just say it! Democrats are COMMUNIST! C’mon, say it, you pussy!

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Lidane  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:13:11pm
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FormerDirtDart  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:13:13pm
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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:13:14pm

You know what you get when you let parents pick where they send kids to school?

It contributes to a more segregated school system than we had 30 years ago in America.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:13:29pm

re: #76 Brian J.

No, they won’t. They didn’t in 2009. They didn’t in 2013. And the physical fear factor has been amped up considerably since then.

They’re slow to take a point. If needed, we’ll do it again. Franken/Warren 2020.

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“LALALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!”  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:13:33pm

Looks like Junior just brought me back to ‘09 on the TeaParty express.

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thedopefishlives  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:14:02pm

re: #89 FormerDirtDart

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The Twitter Gulag has claimed another victim.

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JasonA  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:14:06pm

Donnie, I think our servicemen and women are less safe when we start wars in faraway lands. That’s probably a big one.

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Jenner7  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:14:32pm

re: #88 Lidane

::tears:: That’s heartbreaking.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:14:35pm
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calochortus  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:14:45pm

Junior wants everyone’s kids to have the advantages he had growing up? How is that going to work. Details. I want details.

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teleskiguy  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:14:50pm

re: #87 teleskiguy

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worldknot  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:14:51pm

re: #76 Brian J.

No, they won’t. They didn’t in 2009. They didn’t in 2013. And the physical fear factor has been amped up considerably since then.

They did. Barack Obama is President of the United States of America.

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Joe Bacon  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:14:55pm

re: #70 Brian J.

They’re supporting this. None will speak up against it.

You are absolutely right. They are supporting this. Thats why we have to get the Senate back and kill the filibuster.

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BeachDem  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:14:58pm

re: #24 Stanley Sea

Horrible hate. Horrible hate.

GOP your group is disgusting.

Posted this just about 24 hours ago—Night Two of the 4 Day Hate, going as scheduled:

“A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.”

1984

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Dr. Matt  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:15:00pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:15:02pm
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TK-421  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:15:20pm

Tenured teachers are the devil. Blah blah blah. Nothing like being lectured by a rich scumbag born on home plate about the dignity of hard work.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:15:31pm

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Jenner7  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:15:31pm

Sorry reload my 95.

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William Lewis  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:15:35pm

re: #86 Tigger2

You act like the left isn’t armed and would fight back, and other Nations wouldn’t let anything happen to America because they know it would be their ass.

Yeah, we can fight back but do you really understand what a modern Civil War would be like? We’d make Spain look calm and no, there is not any other nation that could realistically intervene without it turning into Twilight:2016

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lockjawcanbefun  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:16:01pm
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blueraven  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:16:20pm

re: #6 Jenner7

Again, I fear for Hillary’s safety….

This is incitement.

And once again, I am totally dismayed that we are getting this weird commentary from the pundits as if this shit is normal. Calmly analyzing and reviewing Christie’s “style”.

This is insanity.

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Joe Bacon  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:16:32pm

re: #89 FormerDirtDart

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Did I just hear the Red Sea parting???????????

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mr.fusion  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:16:40pm

OMG you guys!

Twitter Just Permanently Suspended Conservative Writer Milo Yiannopoulos

After years of provocation, Twitter has permanently banned Milo Yiannopoulos from its service.

Yiannopoulos, who currently serves as breitbart.com’s tech editor, has been hailed as a standout voice of the new “alt-right” movement. As such, he has made a living as a provocateur, continually inflaming tensions between progressive branches of the internet focused on identity politics and the fervently anti-PC segment that constantly trolls it. For years, Yiannopoulous has used Twitter not only to voice his controversial opinions but to direct his legion of followers (388,042 at the time of this writing) toward his opponents. As a result, he’s been temporarily banned from Twitter a number of times for violating terms of service and stripped of his verification.

But this time — according to Twitter — he’s gone too far. This week, Yiannopoulos led a harassment campaign against Ghostbusters actor Leslie Jones, which led to the SNL cast member’s decision to leave Twitter. The tweets, many of which targeted Jones for being black and a woman, were the final straw for Twitter, which is taking steps to try to solve its harassment problem.

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majii  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:16:54pm

re: #61 teleskiguy

I can only surmise that they think the reel Americans are those at the convention and other GOPers in the country. Saying they’re going to “take their country back” doesn’t comfort me because I know that many within their ranks would like nothing better than for myself, other POC, atheists, LGBTQ Americans, and some others to disappear in a puff of smoke. I’m not stupid. I know the freedoms they’re talking about are meant only for themselves, and I know that they think those freedoms should be used against their “enemies,” even if we’re all U.S. citizens. I’m always wary when I hear a GOPer mention the word freedom because their definition of freedom does not match my definition of freedom. My definition of freedom is that every citizen should be treated exactly the same, without any reservations related to race, religion, lack of religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, etc.

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Jenner7  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:16:57pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:16:58pm

Y’all have enough popcorn?

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TK-421  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:17:00pm

re: #96 goddamnedfrank

Checkmark mate.

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calochortus  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:17:06pm

re: #109 blueraven

And once again, I am totally dismayed that we are getting this weird commentary from the pundits as if this shit is normal. Calmly analyzing and reviewing Christie’s “style”.

This is insanity.

That’s why I watch PBS. They’re a bit more grounded in reality.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:17:10pm

re: #96 goddamnedfrank

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AWESOME NEWS

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Scottishdragon  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:17:16pm

From Sully’s liveblog

10.07 p.m. A reader writes:

Every time I hear “lock her up” at the convention, I just cringe.

When I think about Paul Manafort’s effort to help elect the pro-Putin Viktor Yanukovych in 2010, and they yelled “lock her up” in Ukraine, that’s exactly what they did. On trumped up political charges (ironically because she accepted, under duress, an unfair natural gas deal), Yanukovych threw former prime minister and his 2010 opponent, Yulia Tymoshenko, in prison.

Politicians and presidents make serious ethical mistakes. Reagan/Bush 41 on Iran-Contra, Bush 43 on WMD intelligence/torture, Bill Clinton on perjury.

But this? “Lock her up” might be the slogan of the 2016 GOP convention. It’s anything but conservative, anything but respect for the Constitution, anything but liberty. Wild. I almost wish Clinton would invite Tymoshenko to the DNC next week to show just what a threat Trumpismo presents. Maybe I’d expect this in Kiev, but America? It’s so tragic.

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teleskiguy  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:17:48pm

re: #112 majii

Love you, majii!!!

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Shiplord Kirel  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:18:19pm

Tomorrow’s front page:

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Kragar  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:18:42pm
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Dr. Matt  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:19:49pm

What were the tweets that finally caused twitter to do the right thing?

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No Depression  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:20:18pm

re: #111 mr.fusion

OMG you guys!

Twitter Just Permanently Suspended Conservative Writer Milo Yiannopoulos

Suck it, twatwaffle.

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Tigger2  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:20:21pm

re: #107 William Lewis

Yeah, we can fight back but do you really understand what a modern Civil War would be like? We’d make Spain look calm and no, there is not any other nation that could realistically intervene without it turning into Twilight:2016

What you will have is a bunch like was at the Bundy standoff talk big but don’t do anything. Some wont but there wont be enough of them.

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Brian J.  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:20:23pm

re: #96 goddamnedfrank

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Twitter’s executives have some career decisions to make once the whining begins in earnest: recognize that they’ve allowed their creation to become a cesspool and start draining it, or admit that Nero’s no more deserving of expulsion than thousands of assholes of all descriptions that they have as honored, verified members.

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bratwurst  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:20:45pm

Should have known Milo was behind something as disgusting as the pile-on of Leslie Jones. Good riddance to human rubbish.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:20:53pm

re: #90 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

You know what you get when you let parents pick where they send kids to school?

It contributes to a more segregated school system than we had 30 years ago in America.

And “let” includes setting up the economics so that private school becomes a workable alternative. There is a segregation academy a few hundred yards from me that was once investigated by a young civil rights worker named Hillary Rodham.

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majii  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:21:13pm

re: #86 Tigger2

“You act like the left isn’t armed and wouldn’t fight back…”

I’m well-armed and so are most of the liberals I know. One of my brothers has a almost every weapon that’s sold, including an AK-47. I won’t start anything, but I don’t plan on not defending myself if I’m ever attacked.

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Stanley Sea  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:21:16pm

re: #101 BeachDem

Posted this just about 24 hours ago—Night Two of the 4 Day Hate, going as scheduled:

“A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.”

1984

wow. wow.

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Lidane  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:21:38pm

re: #122 Dr. Matt

What were the tweets that finally caused twitter to do the right thing?

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William Lewis  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:21:52pm

re: #122 Dr. Matt

What were the tweets that finally caused twitter to do the right thing?

None of them really. She quit Twitter publically and that costs them advertising money by decreasing views. That’s the only thing they care about. Otherwise they’d have cleaned up the Alt-Right scum long ago.

BBL.

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Tigger2  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:22:05pm

re: #128 majii

“You act like the left isn’t armed and wouldn’t fight back…”

I’m well-armed and so are most of the liberals I know. One of my brothers has a almost every weapon that’s sold, including an AK-47. I won’t start anything, but I don’t plan on not defending myself if I’m ever attacked.

I’m never without one being on my coffee table in from of me,

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:22:47pm
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Stanley Sea  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:23:14pm

re: #118 Scottishdragon

From Sully’s liveblog

can you pls link the blog?

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Lidane  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:23:43pm
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Brian J.  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:24:00pm

re: #134 Stanley Sea

can you pls link the blog?

nymag.com

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:24:55pm
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De Kolta Chair  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:25:07pm
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“LALALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!”  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:25:14pm

“…the white women”

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Kragar  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:26:05pm
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Stanley Sea  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:26:21pm

re: #136 Brian J.

nymag.com

TY

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:27:01pm

“You know that if Hillary is president, we will continue to slide, distracted by the scandals that follow the Clintons like flies,” McConnell said.

so republicans are a buncha flies, is that what you’re saying, buster? huh? huh?

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EPR-radar  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:27:45pm

re: #109 blueraven

And once again, I am totally dismayed that we are getting this weird commentary from the pundits as if this shit is normal. Calmly analyzing and reviewing Christie’s “style”.

This is insanity.

IMO, this is the real problem here. The GOP has gone collectively evil and insane, and the useless fucking media sticks with this horse race shit.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:27:47pm

re: #89 FormerDirtDart

Oh, yeah. Permanently, just like they did Chuck C. Johnson until a couple of months ago.

I give it a year, based on precedence.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:28:07pm
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EPR-radar  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:29:20pm

re: #114 teleskiguy

Since when does Ann Coulter care about sexual harassment? As long as she isn’t the one being harassed, I’m sure she approves.

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:30:53pm

re: #138 De Kolta Chair

Do you really believe it’s permanent?

I don’t. Look at how many years the other Charles got to be an asshat on Twitter. Yay, he’s gone one day. The next, oops, our bad, we have to let Chuckle back on cause Freezspeach!

He’ll be on by tomorrow night.

We can’t advocate for doxxing people. I cannot even think of doing that. But I will always wish it were done.

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Lidane  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:31:23pm

Me on Twitter: “Any policy from the RNC? Anyone? Bueller?”

Idiot in my mentions: “LOL why would guest speakers do that?”

Me: “Because it’s a national PARTY convention. Purpose is to articulate the party vision for the country.”

Idiot: “False. Purpose is to fire up voters. Hillary is going to get crushed.”

I muted them. It’s not worth it to argue with that level of stupid.

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jonhendry  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:31:37pm

Trump Jr. apparently fell into a vat of chicken tikka masala before he went on stage.

Donald Trump Jr’s bronzer consultant
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majii  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:34:09pm

re: #127 Decatur Deb

Milo seems to have the same mindset as some other GOPers. They think that they’re better and smarter than others because they happen to have ____. No matter what word they use to fill in the blank, for them, it’s justification that proves they’re better than others and reserve the right to trash others just for kicks. I see this aspect of their behavior as indicative of a weak self-concept. Those who know who they are have no need to trash others to make themselves feel better about themselves. One good thing about him getting permanently banned from Twitter is there will be no more vanity pics of him looking like a walking ghost showing up there.

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Belafon  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:34:46pm

re: #122 Dr. Matt

What were the tweets that finally caused twitter to do the right thing?

I suspect the one where Jones said she was leaving Twitter because of him.

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Scottishdragon  Jul 19, 2016 • 7:51:27pm

re: #134 Stanley Sea

can you pls link the blog?

nymag.com

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TedStriker  Jul 19, 2016 • 8:14:48pm

re: #89 FormerDirtDart

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Chuck supposedly was, too…I’ll believe it when I see it.

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KerFuFFler  Jul 19, 2016 • 9:37:29pm

re: #29 Nyet

Hi, I am reposting a response because I am not tech-savvy enough to know how noticeable messages are in dead threads even when they are directed, private messages.

Hi Nyet,
my husband’s colleague has given me a “gist” translation which is that she is basically asking him about her relatives’ well being and asking him to tell any of her relatives that he is in contact with that she was OK.

A poignant missive highlighting the ongoing struggles of displaced people to find one another in the aftermath of genocide and the subsequent political reorganization in eastern Europe after the war…

Possibly a more detailed translation tomorrow———NY time zone. :)


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