Trump Adviser and Delegate Calls for Hillary Clinton to Be “Shot for Treason”

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And now, a “veteran’s outreach” adviser to Donald Trump and delegate to the GOP convention, Al Baldasaro, has publicly called for Hillary Clinton to be “shot for treason.” Here’s the audio, via Andrew Kaczynski at Buzzfeed:

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The Daily Beast’s Tim Mak contacted Baldasaro, and he proceeded to double down:

“Anyone that commits treason should be shot,” Al Baldasaro, an adviser to the Trump campaign for veterans issues, he told The Daily Beast. “I believe Hillary Clinton committed treason. She put people in danger. When people take confidential material off a server, you’re sharing information with the enemy. That’s treason.”

UPDATE at 7/20/16 12:35:23 pm by Charles Johnson

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Kragar  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:40:09am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:40:22am

WaPo tries to find out about the mysterious Meredith McIver. There’s not much there.

washingtonpost.com

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:41:07am

The pride of New Hampshire. Well, he and that guy who drove out to the Bundy place and Malheur (and his crazy wife in the state government).

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:42:04am

re: #1 Kragar

And they want more G-d in public life, our schools, etc.

Maybe they could try acting like decent f0cking human beings before pushing their G-d on us.

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EPR-radar  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:43:17am

Do any of these asswipes even realize the importance of having “treason” explicitly defined in the US constitution?

That was done precisely to oppose the demagogues’ first line of attack, which is to call their opponents traitors for mere political differences. Accepting that nonsense is how democracy dies, as the founders well knew.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:44:37am

Oh, I see here we have another IT expert.

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Tigger2  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:45:39am
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jaunte  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:46:18am
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wrenchwench  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:46:26am
“Anyone that commits treason should be shot,” Al Baldasaro, an adviser to the Trump campaign for veterans issues, he told The Daily Beast. “I believe Hillary Clinton committed treason. She put people in danger. When people take confidential material off a server, you’re sharing information with the enemy. That’s treason.”

Doodoo process, mistaken for due process.

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CuriousLurker  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:47:34am

OT, but it might lift your spirits if you haven’t already seen it:

Gotta run—BBL.

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Scottishdragon  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:47:47am

re: #5 EPR-radar

Do any of these asswipes even realize the importance of having “treason” explicitly defined in the US constitution?

That was done precisely to oppose the demagogues’ first line of attack, which is to call their opponents traitors for mere political differences. Accepting that nonsense is how democracy dies, as the founders well knew.

I have seen that line of thought occurring more and more over the last 8 years: Democrats and liberals are not merely political foes but traitors to America. This stems from the Reagan years where the GOP internal myth formed to the effect that real Americans are Republicans and the government belongs by right to Republicans.

The next logical step is to start calling for a one party state and ban Democrats as treasonous or some such.

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calochortus  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:49:26am

To go back to the Melania Trump speech for a moment, if you think it through, the speech writer taking responsibility just makes it worse.
a.) Melania must have lied about writing much of it herself.
b.) Melania either failed to read the speech through before delivering it or she failed to recognize the lines that she had been so moved by that she gave them to said speech writer as examples.

She would have been better off to say something like: “I’m so sorry to have done that. I am not a professional speaker or speech writer and in reading a number speeches in preparation for writing this, I was profoundly moved by Mrs. Obama’s upbringing which must have been much like my own. I unwitting repeated phrases that felt very natural to me.”

People might or might not have believed it, but it would be done.

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lawhawk  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:49:33am

Meanwhile, good news out of the courts:

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electrotek  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:50:32am

Stuff like this, only a matter of time before the American Breivik comes in.

Good God.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:51:17am

“Treason”, “Free Speech”: Wingnuts use these words but are completely clueless about their actual meaning.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:51:46am

re: #13 lawhawk

Meanwhile, good news out of the courts:

Yuuuuge loss for TCOT Governor Abbott, Lt. Gov Daniel Doofus Patrick.

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jaunte  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:51:58am

re: #10 CuriousLurker

I’ll grab a paragraph for those who don’t click the link:
Stephan Jenkins in 2012:

“The Republican National Convention is not a private event … It’s a public sales pitch, and everyone is supposed to deliver the script,” Jenkins wrote at the time. “This whole hustle is peppered with music bits meant to wed policies like forced births of rapists’ babies and minority voter suppression to song. Even the private party my band was asked to play at the RNC is not some innocuous event. Though I am happy to play for Republican fans, like my lifelong Republican mom, playing the RNC convention is a tacit endorsement of the Republican presidential candidate and his party platform, and this is not my mom’s Republican Party anymore.”

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:52:06am

I MUST MAKE A PIE OUT OF THESE BLUEBERRIES

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Scottishdragon  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:52:06am

re: #14 electrotek

Stuff like this, only a matter of time before the American Breivik comes in.

Good God.

Yeah, I can see a right wing manifesto massacre in the course of the campaign. Something really ugly has been let loose in the nation Id.

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ObserverArt  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:52:24am

re: #5 EPR-radar

Do any of these asswipes even realize the importance of having “treason” explicitly defined in the US constitution?

That was done precisely to oppose the demagogues’ first line of attack, which is to call their opponents traitors for mere political differences. Accepting that nonsense is how democracy dies, as the founders well knew.

You mean the Constitution they are sworn to uphold and preserve. I bet this guy hasn’t read anything but the 2nd Amendment. That is all the Constitution a duffer like this guy needs.

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bratwurst  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:52:39am

As you could have guessed…this is a total con job:

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Scottishdragon  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:53:16am

re: #15 Dr. Matt

“Treason”, “Free Speech”: Wingnuts use these words but are completely clueless about their actual meaning.

Freeze Peach!!!!

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:53:21am
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calochortus  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:53:26am

re: #18 The Vicious Babushka

I MUST MAKE A PIE OUT OF THESE BLUEBERRIES

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Where can we buy them? That important information was left out of the tweet.

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wrenchwench  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:54:22am

re: #15 Dr. Matt

“Treason”, “Free Speech”: Wingnuts use these words but are completely clueless about their actual meaning.

But they know the word ‘shot’, and they know they have unstable fans with guns. They’ll learn the word ‘incitement’ when they have their lawyer explain it to them.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:54:29am
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KGxvi  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:55:14am

Since these strict constitutionalists probably already know this, it probably doesn’t bear repeating, but just for shits and giggles, here is what the US Constitution says about treason, Article III, Section 8 (for those keeping score at home):

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.

So, to be guilty of treason, you have to levy War against the United States, like say Robert E Lee and company. Or you have to adhere to US enemies - which legally means you joined the enemies. So, given that Clinton hasn’t taken up arms against the United States, that means to be convicted, she would have had to have joined ISIS or al Qeada or some other perceived “enemy” of the US (and I’m guessing if we were to suddenly declare Russia an enemy, that would result in an international shitshow of RNC proportions).

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calochortus  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:55:37am

re: #26 Charles Johnson

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Well no, I gather it was his son that did the asking.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:55:45am
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EPR-radar  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:56:10am

re: #25 wrenchwench

But they know the word ‘shot’, and they know they have unstable fans with guns. They’ll learn the word ‘incitement’ when they have their lawyer explain it to them.

As far as I know, there is no way to bring criminal charges for inciting stochastic terrorism. The incitement needs to be immediate and direct (e.g., personally egging on rioters in action) for charges to be brought.

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calochortus  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:56:50am

re: #27 KGxvi

It’s the “aid and comfort” clause that everyone goes for-totally ignoring the “overt act” part.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:57:05am

nevermind

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:57:33am

re: #28 calochortus

Well no, I gather it was his son that did the asking.

Sorry, that’s right. Deleting mine.

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lawhawk  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:57:50am

Trump simply pooh-poohs this instead of firing this guy from the campaign.

That’s tacit approval. There’s no consequences for saying anything batcrap insane, or even threatening violence towards others, including a former First Lady, Presidential candidate, or anyone else these people don’t agree with.

There are a lot of heavily armed and seriously deluded people who have bought into this worldview, and Trump’s brought them all to the party’s central meeting place - and given them all seats at the table. This is their party - and all the so called establishment nuts are going along with this, because they rely on these nuts for their continued political viability as well.

That’s the problem right there. All the GOPers rely on these core voters who are unhinged from facts, logic, or reality. None can stand up against the bigotry, hate, and sheer madness, or else they’ll find themselves tossed out for not being extreme enough.

And with each passing day, the party becomes even more extreme.

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EPR-radar  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:57:55am

re: #29 The Vicious Babushka

Freeze Peach pinheads may be the stupidest sub-tribe within the realm of idiocy.

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wrenchwench  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:58:34am

re: #30 EPR-radar

As far as I know, there is no way to bring criminal charges for inciting stochastic terrorism. The incitement needs to be immediate and direct (e.g., personally egging on rioters in action) for charges to be brought.

Darn ‘rule of law’.

///

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jaunte  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:58:36am

re: #26 Charles Johnson

Two topics in one tweet. He must think he’s paying by the word.

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lawhawk  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:58:45am

re: #26 Charles Johnson

No, that’s what he’s got staffers for to do those plausible deniability bits. Or else he asked Miller or Barron to ask the questions.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:59:02am
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Dr. Matt  Jul 20, 2016 • 11:59:47am

re: #26 Charles Johnson

John Kasich was never asked by me to be V.P. Just arrived in Cleveland - will be a great two days!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 20, 2016

Spinal Tap - “Hello Cleveland!!”

“Hello Cleveland!”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:00:10pm

re: #21 bratwurst

As you could have guessed…this is a total con job:

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Is she married to John Barron?

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Kragar  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:00:10pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

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Charles Johnson  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:00:41pm
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Jenner7  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:01:53pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:02:09pm

re: #21 bratwurst

The grammar on that bio (of a writer no less) is HORRID.

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wrenchwench  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:02:38pm

re: #18 The Vicious Babushka

I MUST MAKE A PIE OUT OF THESE BLUEBERRIES

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They’re trying to make up for these:

Go into any grocery store in the US this time of year and you’re sure to find an abundance of neatly packed cartons of blackberries, blueberries and strawberries. For many it’s a hallmark of summer.

Beneath the sweetness of these berries, though, lies a bitter labor dispute that has been roiling for years at Driscoll’s, the world’s largest distributor of berries — the ones you find at Costco, Target, Whole Foods and host of other grocery stories.

[…]

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ObserverArt  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:02:53pm

re: #21 bratwurst

As you could have guessed…this is a total con job:

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Okay…how much of this total bag of bullshit is the media gonna allow before they take this fucking pig of a presidential candidate down?

There is no excuse for this. None.

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A Cranky One  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:02:58pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

Notice he doesn’t dispute the report that the VP will perform the presidential duties.

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iossarian  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:03:19pm

re: #13 lawhawk

Meanwhile, good news out of the courts:

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Thanks for the good news.

Oh, and RIP, Scalia. Let’s let bygones be bygones.

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Jenner7  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:03:27pm

They want Hillary to go to prison for mishandling classified information, when Patraeus did JUST THAT and did NOT serve any jail time. Idiots.

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jaunte  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:03:37pm

re: #21 bratwurst

I wonder where the dividing line is between “real estate titans” and mere real estate giants.

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Archangelus  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:03:47pm

re: #45 Eclectic Cyborg

The grammar on that bio (of a writer no less) is HORRID.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:03:51pm

re: #44 Jenner7

Classy. Very Christian. Patriot.

/

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:03:57pm

re: #18 The Vicious Babushka

I MUST MAKE A PIE OUT OF THESE BLUEBERRIES

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I’ll have what she’s having.

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mr.fusion  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:04:05pm
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mr.fusion  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:04:26pm

That Obama sure is divisive, huh?

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KGxvi  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:04:28pm

re: #31 calochortus

It’s the “aid and comfort” clause that everyone goes for-totally ignoring the “overt act” part.

You’d think the fact that the last treason conviction in the United States being in 1952 (tied to a dual US/Japanese citizen who fought for worked at a Japanese POW camp during WWII, and whose death sentence was commuted to life in prison and then deportation), would give some of these people just the slightest pause.

Edited for accuracy.

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lawhawk  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:04:33pm

re: #46 wrenchwench

I only get blueberries 1-2 times a year. Pick them myself at Phillips Farm in NJ.

Biggest, sweetest, and juiciest blueberries you’ll ever have. Get something like 15 pounds, and freeze a bunch away for eating the rest of the year.

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jaunte  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:04:46pm

Real estate colossi.

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dangerman  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:04:49pm
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CuriousLurker  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:05:28pm

Racist scum if anyone wants to block him/her/it: @natfuturist

Also, I don’t know how many of you Twitter users have your trends set to “Worldwide,” but I’m seeing #PrayForSyria at the top of the list and the strike isn’t even being mentioned on this side of the planet, as far as I can tell. Lots of anger.

Going back to working/lurking mode.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:05:39pm
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dangerman  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:06:08pm

re: #47 ObserverArt

Okay…how much of this total bag of bullshit is the media gonna allow before they take this fucking pig of a presidential candidate down?

There is no excuse for this. None.

re: #60 dangerman

the speech was sabotaged?

well the republican party seems to be sinking
fox is in a sort of crisis
maybe the media at large is reaching critical mass and will also undergo a reset

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:06:19pm

re: #48 A Cranky One

Notice he doesn’t dispute the report that the VP will perform the presidential duties.

He’s got golf courses to run.
/

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CuriousLurker  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:07:18pm

re: #61 CuriousLurker

P.S. Warning: lots of graphic photos in that hashtag.

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TFinSF  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:08:14pm

At this point, anyone who votes for Republicans is either hateful or stupid. There is no room for reasonable disagreement with trash that either cheers or looks the other way when their party advocates killing their political rivals.

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wrenchwench  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:08:19pm

re: #58 lawhawk

I only get blueberries 1-2 times a year. Pick them myself at Phillips Farm in NJ.

Biggest, sweetest, and juiciest blueberries you’ll ever have. Get something like 15 pounds, and freeze a bunch away for eating the rest of the year.

One of the few good memories of my crazy grandmother is that she used to take us to a you-pick-‘em place like that in Wisconsin.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:08:45pm

re: #62 Dr. Matt

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“According to the BLS, the unemployment rate is down to FIVE PERCENT in my state, because of the great things I’ve done! But that ‘5% national unemployment rate’ the BLS reports from the same statistics is BULLSHIT!!!!”

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dangerman  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:09:13pm

re: #58 lawhawk

I only get blueberries 1-2 times a year. Pick them myself at Phillips Farm in NJ.

Biggest, sweetest, and juiciest blueberries you’ll ever have. Get something like 15 pounds, and freeze a bunch away for eating the rest of the year.

i like ths alton brown recipe essentially freezing a completed blueberry pie filling

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Kragar  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:09:37pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:10:45pm

re: #65 CuriousLurker

P.S. Warning: lots of graphic photos in that hashtag.

heartbreaking—the little girl with hands up was as far as I got.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:11:03pm

re: #70 Kragar

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Pitchforks and torches?

She turned me into a newt!
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lawhawk  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:11:07pm

re: #29 The Vicious Babushka

That’ll work…

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jaunte  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:11:11pm
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KGxvi  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:11:25pm

re: #47 ObserverArt

Okay…how much of this total bag of bullshit is the media gonna allow before they take this fucking pig of a presidential candidate down?

There is no excuse for this. None.

I’m guessing Trump’s acceptance speech will either be:

a) over the top crazy that anyone who isn’t so died in the wool Republican will say “nope”

or

b) so staged/telepromptered that it’ll completely lack energy

In either case, that’s probably when the media says “enough of this assclown”. Basically, they are looking for a moment that will give them cover.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:11:39pm

manafort is amateur hour

brought in to tame trump, he turns out to be trump mini me, with the same character flaws

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:11:55pm

re: #70 Kragar

How come we can’t have more god in public life and schools?

Why is Obama and Hillary and Bill Clinton and Democrat Party so divisive?

Black Lives Matters are thugs and violent.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:12:25pm

re: #75 KGxvi

I’m guessing Trump’s acceptance speech will either be:

a) over the top crazy that anyone who isn’t so died in the wool Republican will say “nope”

or

b) so staged/telepromptered that it’ll completely lack energy

In either case, that’s probably when the media says “enough of this assclown”. Basically, they are looking for a moment that will give them cover.

Oh the media will love it, I’m sure.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:14:24pm

re: #75 KGxvi

I’m guessing Trump’s acceptance speech will either be:

a) over the top crazy that anyone who isn’t so died in the wool Republican will say “nope”

or

b) so staged/telepromptered that it’ll completely lack energy

In either case, that’s probably when the media says “enough of this assclown”. Basically, they are looking for a moment that will give them cover.

Depends on which Donald Trump Donald Trump listens to.

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lawhawk  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:14:43pm

re: #69 dangerman

I’m not a big pie person (sorry VB) unless it’s chocolate or apple. Only started eating blueberries after going to this place. Now? I will either make pancakes or eat ‘em straight. Sometimes, I might do a drizzle in salads.

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KGxvi  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:14:43pm

re: #78 Sir John Barron

Oh the media will love it, I’m sure.

Given the way they responded to Mrs. Trump’s plagiarism, if the The Donald ends up giving us a dumpster fire of a speech, they won’t hesitate to pour gasoline on that fire.

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dangerman  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:16:55pm

re: #80 lawhawk

I’m not a big pie person (sorry VB) unless it’s chocolate or apple. Only started eating blueberries after going to this place. Now? I will either make pancakes or eat ‘em straight. Sometimes, I might do a drizzle in salads.

oh good. more for us. ;-)

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KGxvi  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:18:18pm

re: #72 Blind Frog Belly White

Pitchforks and torches?

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I’ve located a clip of the RNC Day 4 walk through, this should give us a pretty good idea of what to expect:

Witch Trials - Simpsons

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whitebeach  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:18:19pm

re: #18 The Vicious Babushka

I MUST MAKE A PIE OUT OF THESE BLUEBERRIES

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I hear the kumquats are super too.

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Scottishdragon  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:18:24pm

re: #81 KGxvi

Given the way they responded to Mrs. Trump’s plagiarism, if the The Donald ends up giving us a dumpster fire of a speech, they won’t hesitate to pour gasoline on that fire.

I still think he will pledge to have Hillary arrested and charged the day after he takes office.

He already said he would do that last February. The crowd is being pumped for this.

If he does win, the Clintons really do need to leave the country. They are not fucking around. Chris Christie has already announced they will purge Democrats from federal service jobs when they take office. This is Stalinist shit they are planning.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:18:44pm
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Kragar  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:19:51pm

re: #73 lawhawk

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Jenner7  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:20:06pm

Who is Hillary going to pick as VP? I’m hearing Kaine or Vilsack and I don’t like either of them as VP.

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jaunte  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:21:39pm
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Dr. Matt  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:21:41pm

re: #73 lawhawk

That’ll work…

Vive la Milo!

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calochortus  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:22:01pm

re: #85 Scottishdragon

I still think he will pledge to have Hillary arrested and charged the day after he takes office.

He already said he would do that last February. The crowd is being pumped for this.

If he does win, the Clintons really do need to leave the country. They are not fucking around. Chris Christie has already announced they will purge Democrats from federal service jobs when they take office. This is Stalinist shit they are planning.

No, they’d need to stay. The GOP can’t start driving people out of the country. I really don’t think the majority (even the majority of registered Republicans) would like the idea of jailing political foes. If no one stays around to stand up to them it will just be an encouragement.

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Jenner7  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:22:57pm
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dangerman  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:24:32pm

re: #80 lawhawk

I’m not a big pie person (sorry VB) unless it’s chocolate or apple. Only started eating blueberries after going to this place. Now? I will either make pancakes or eat ‘em straight. Sometimes, I might do a drizzle in salads.

What is it about pie?
There’s nothing prettier than pie with scalloped edges and slits in the top for the heat to escape.
Pie gives you the sense that you’rea 4-square person living in a 4-square country.
-A pie says home.
-As American as apple pie.
I wish I invented pie.
I did.
I’m just kidding.
That was a good one.
God is in His Heaven and all’s right with the world.
My mother made a great Blueberry pie.
So do l.
I have to say I like cream pie more than fruit pie.
Me too.
That is so wrong.
I like them all.

(Michael - 1996)

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iossarian  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:24:49pm

re: #91 calochortus

I really don’t think the majority (even the majority of registered Republicans) would like the idea of jailing political foes.

I sadly think you are mistaken here.

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calochortus  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:25:11pm

Time to get back to work.

BBL

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ObserverArt  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:25:11pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

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Plausible deniability. His son was told to ask him.

Pack of lying weasels. No offense to Weasels.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:26:23pm

re: #87 Kragar

Oddly enough, Breitbart contains not a drop of truth and Red Lobster lobster literally contains no lobster.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:27:13pm

re: #92 Jenner7

Why are you grateful for his support?

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iossarian  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:27:22pm

Republicans already want to INPEACH!@! Loretta Lynch, the guy from the IRS, anyone involved with BENGHAZI apart from those loony-tunes “contractors”, people involved with the VA, Planned Parenthood, etc. etc.

They would like nothing better than to have all these people locked up. The executions for treason are just a bit further down the road.

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calochortus  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:27:32pm

re: #94 iossarian

I sadly think you are mistaken here.

I hope you’re wrong. They might like to see Hillary jailed, but any further than that and I think that as long as there was an immediate and large backlash against political jailings, a lot of GOPers would think it through a bit more.

Anyhoo, like I said, there is work to be done.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:27:56pm

re: #29 The Vicious Babushka

Oh Baby Ben supports Milo.

Here’s my shocked face.

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jaunte  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:28:31pm

Some definite behavioral parallels.

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Scottishdragon  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:28:32pm

re: #91 calochortus

No, they’d need to stay. The GOP can’t start driving people out of the country. I really don’t think the majority (even the majority of registered Republicans) would like the idea of jailing political foes. If no one stays around to stand up to them it will just be an encouragement.

I understand where you are coming from. That being said, my spouse and I are already discussing possibly fleeing to Ireland. Not kidding on that.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:29:04pm

Guy wearing a hot dog hat and shirt…..on a bike……with a flag that reads “Trump Eats Farts”. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, sometimes a lot fewer.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:29:05pm

re: #73 lawhawk

Hi @redlobster! Until Twitter listens to #FreeMilo, we’re boycotting and Blocking all advertisers on the site! Including you.
— Charlie Knows (@Charlie_Knows) July 20, 2016

Huh?

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:29:28pm

Sorry, Ross-You dealt it, you smell it and own it.

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wrenchwench  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:32:18pm

re: #104 Dr. Matt

Guy wearing a hot dog hat and shirt…..on a bike……with a flag that reads “Trump Eats Farts”. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, sometimes a lot fewer.

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Some people ride a bike because they can’t get a driver’s license. The local ones used to be my customers until a non-profit bike shop opened.

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Shiplord Kirel  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:33:24pm

Speaking of pie, my attempt to make apple turnovers has yielded apple biscuit-like things instead. Not too bad, but the grandchildren are coming next month and I have to get my skills up to snuff. Have to double-check mom’s recipe. Sure wish she was here.

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iossarian  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:33:29pm

re: #106 Eric The Fruit Bat

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Sorry, Ross-You dealt it, you smell it and own it.

Yeah. Fuck you, Ross Douthat, and your looong history of pseudo-intellectual excuses for soft bigotry and selfishness.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:33:36pm

re: #101 Sir John Barron

Oh Baby Ben supports Milo.

Here’s my shocked face.

Baby Whiplash & Milo Yeahimadumbass were crazy BFF’s on Twitter, then Whip got a little bit butthurt when Milo’s friends started Tweeting him pictures of gas chambers, death trains and telling him DIE SHIT KIKE and Milo just laughed and gave Whip a Twitter wedgie.

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Tigger2  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:34:01pm
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Romantic Heretic  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:34:45pm

re: #91 calochortus

No, they’d need to stay. The GOP can’t start driving people out of the country. I really don’t think the majority (even the majority of registered Republicans) would like the idea of jailing political foes. If no one stays around to stand up to them it will just be an encouragement.

I don’t think the majority of Germans or Soviets were fond of what Shicklegruber or Dugashvili did, but they quickly learned the value of keeping their mouths shut.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:34:55pm

[This tweet has apparently been deleted.]

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:35:07pm

re: #88 Jenner7

Who is Hillary going to pick as VP? I’m hearing Kaine or Vilsack and I don’t like either of them as VP.

i want liz, sherrod, or the admiral

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lawhawk  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:36:37pm

HEH!

Trollin trollin trollin, keep those GOPers trollin…

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EPR-radar  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:37:00pm

re: #85 Scottishdragon

I still think he will pledge to have Hillary arrested and charged the day after he takes office.

He already said he would do that last February. The crowd is being pumped for this.

If he does win, the Clintons really do need to leave the country. They are not fucking around. Chris Christie has already announced they will purge Democrats from federal service jobs when they take office. This is Stalinist shit they are planning.

Purge the civil service? Is that really what Christie said?

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:37:12pm

re: #99 iossarian

Republicans already want to INPEACH!@! Loretta Lynch, the guy from the IRS, anyone involved with BENGHAZI apart from those loony-tunes “contractors”, people involved with the VA, Planned Parenthood, etc. etc.

They would like nothing better than to have all these people locked up. The executions for treason are because reasons just a bit further down the road.

FTFY.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:37:40pm
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wrenchwench  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:37:51pm
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Dr. Matt  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:38:59pm

*snort*

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Kragar  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:39:21pm
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Targetpractice  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:39:53pm

re: #122 Kragar

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John Miller is hard at work.

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Shiplord Kirel  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:41:56pm

re: #119 wrenchwench

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Like the barbed wire on top. hobbylinc.com has a big selection of scale model barbed wire for diorama builders.

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wrenchwench  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:42:06pm
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Scottishdragon  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:43:58pm

re: #112 Romantic Heretic

I don’t think the majority of Germans or Soviets were fond of what Shicklegruber or Dugashvili did, but they quickly learned the value of keeping their mouths shut.

Funny you mentioned that:

The Texas Lt Governor suggested the 1st Amendment does not cover criticism of cops:

He went on to criticize people who bash the police on social media. “I understand the First Amendment, I understand freedom of speech, and I defend it,” the Republican politician said. “It is in our Constitution, it is in our soul, but you can’t go out on social media and mainstream media and everywhere else and say that the police are racist, that the police are hateful, the police are killers.”

And he is now demanding that a new AG under Trump take down Black Lives Matter…

During a Tuesday interview on CNN, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) said that he would “absolutely” want the attorney general to investigate the Black Lives Matter movement.

He said he agreed with Donald Trump’s Monday night comments on Fox News, when the Republican candidate said that he would discuss the group with his attorney general if elected president.

Patrick has been critical of the Black Lives Matter movement, earlier this month blaming the deadly shooting of police officers in Dallas on anti-police rhetoric and Black Lives Matter protests.

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iossarian  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:45:10pm

re: #125 wrenchwench

I’m surprised they took the time to come up with something less obvious than Blondie McNorthernEuropeanHeritage.

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Frankie Five Angels  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:46:16pm

“Meredith” is a registered Democrat. LOLOLOLOL

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:46:55pm

re: #126 Scottishdragon

During a Tuesday interview on CNN, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) said that he would “absolutely” want the attorney general to investigate the Black Lives Matter movement.

Patrick is an incompetent dick and doesn’t understand the Constitution.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:47:43pm

re: #128 Frankie Five Angels

“Merdith” is a registered Democrat. LOLOLOLOL

Well, Trump himself has admitted to being or voting Democrat at various times.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:48:17pm

re: #129 Sir John Barron

Patrick is an incompetent dick and doesn’t understand the Constitution.

I apologize. Patrick is a racist, ignorant dickhole who doesn’t understand the Constitution.

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Targetpractice  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:48:37pm

Would it really surprise anybody at this point if it turned out that “Meredith” didn’t exist and she was created from whole cloth to be a convenient scapegoat?

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:49:13pm
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De Kolta Chair  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:49:28pm
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ObserverArt  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:49:50pm

re: #131 Sir John Barron

I apologize. Patrick is a racist, ignorant dickhole who doesn’t understand the Constitution.

Still needs a little more spice.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:50:25pm

re: #116 EPR-radar

Purge the civil service? Is that really what Christie said?

He or Trump must have meant political appointees. Who would be replaced by a new administration anyway. Can’t purge the civil service.

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:50:34pm

re: #131 Sir John Barron

I apologize. Patrick is a racist, ignorant dickhole who doesn’t understand the Constitution.

Oh, he understands it just fine.

He just doesn’t believe any of it. Except the 2nd Amendment. Which he’ll annotate with ‘only white, Christian males’ as soon as he gets the power to do so.

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ObserverArt  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:50:39pm

re: #132 Targetpractice

Would it really surprise anybody at this point if it turned out that “Meredith” didn’t exist and she was created from whole cloth to be a convenient scapegoat?

No. No surprise at all. I just hope the dogs are out and on the trail.

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Scottishdragon  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:51:03pm

re: #116 EPR-radar

Purge the civil service? Is that really what Christie said?

It seems so.

If he wins the presidency, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would seek to purge the federal government of officials appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama and could ask Congress to pass legislation making it easier to fire public workers, Trump ally, Chris Christie, said on Tuesday.

Christie, who is governor of New Jersey and leads Trump’s White House transition team, said the campaign was drawing up a list of federal government employees to fire if Trump defeats Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 presidential election.

“As you know from his other career, Donald likes to fire people,” Christie told a closed-door meeting with dozens of donors at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, according to an audio recording obtained by Reuters and two participants in the meeting.

Remember the scandal during the Bush years when that Liberty U grad in the Justice Department was hiring and firing based on religion?

They are announcing this beforehand and in the open.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:51:17pm

Found this about Meredith.

innerarchitect.org

Scroll down a bit and the elder redhead version is posing with the other lady.

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Teukka  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:51:35pm

re: #136 Sir John Barron

He or Trump must have meant political appointees. Who would be replaced by a new administration anyway. Can’t purge the civil service.

Didn’t those guys do it with the Nuremberg Laws?

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:51:45pm

re: #51 jaunte

I wonder where the dividing line is between “real estate titans” and mere real estate giants.

Are they like olives? Nowadays, they’re small, medium, large… but when I was a kid (not saying they actually were any bigger), they started at “Jumbo” and worked their way up from there. “Mammoth”, I think, then “Colossal”, “Super Colossal”… I think I saw “Titanic” once.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:52:01pm
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EPR-radar  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:52:28pm

re: #132 Targetpractice

Would it really surprise anybody at this point if it turned out that “Meredith” didn’t exist and she was created from whole cloth to be a convenient scapegoat?

Not at all. The language doesn’t really exist to describe how militantly indifferent Republicans are to truth and reality.

A quantum supercomputer, calculating for a thousand years, could not begin to enumerate the number of fucks the Republicans do not give about reality.

They don’t even ask the question of whether some purported statement of fact is true or false. The only question considered is whether or not the statement is useful.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:52:39pm

re: #54 sizzzzlerz

I’ll have what she’s having.

Man, am I glad I checked ahead before saying that!

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:52:45pm

re: #141 Teukka

Didn’t those guys do it with the Nuremberg Laws?

Meant to say that politicians who follow the rule of law and believe in the U.S. Constitution and its laws.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:53:07pm

I can totally see Trump as one of those sick fuck CEO/executive types who gets off on firing people.

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EPR-radar  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:54:11pm

re: #136 Sir John Barron

He or Trump must have meant political appointees. Who would be replaced by a new administration anyway. Can’t purge the civil service.

That how it should be, but purging the civil service has to be seen as a logical next step for Republicans.

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Scottishdragon  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:54:13pm

re: #136 Sir John Barron

He or Trump must have meant political appointees. Who would be replaced by a new administration anyway. Can’t purge the civil service.

They are announcing a plan to change the laws and allow them to do exactly that.

Donald Trump and Chris Christie are reportedly planning to purge the civil service

The general election is still more than three months away, but the Donald Trump campaign, at least, is getting a jump start on transition planning, and transition chief Chris Christie has some big ideas for how to make the federal bureaucracy great again.

Reuters’s Emily Flitter reports that Christie told a donor meeting on Tuesday that Trump will try to purge the government of Obama appointees, out of “fear that Obama may convert these appointees to civil servants, who have more job security than officials who have been politically appointed.”

To make that process easier, Christie reportedly said, “One of the things I have suggested to Donald is that we have to immediately ask the Republican Congress to change the civil service laws. Because if they do, it will make it a lot easier to fire those people.”

In other words, Christie and Trump would seek to replace the current civil service system, which involves extensive protections meant to keep workers from being fired for political reasons, with a system specifically designed to make it very easy to fire workers for political reasons.

vox.com

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:54:49pm

re: #140 GlutenFreeJesus

Found this about Meredith.

innerarchitect.org

Scroll down a bit and the elder redhead version is posing with the other lady.

So who posted the photo of the younger blonde woman originally?

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Scottishdragon  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:55:29pm

re: #148 EPR-radar

That how it should be, but purging the civil service has to be seen as a logical next step for Republicans.

They are planning to purge the civil service as explained above.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:55:37pm

re: #122 Kragar

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:56:23pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:56:36pm
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EPR-radar  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:56:36pm

re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg

I can totally see Trump as one of those sick fuck CEO/executive types who gets off on firing people.

That’s been obvious from the start. “You’re fired” is the catch phrase for his TV show.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:57:09pm

re: #152 De Kolta Chair

“That one!…No, that one!…Wait! The redhead! How about her?”

“Make up your mind Mr. Trump.”

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:57:28pm

re: #152 De Kolta Chair

I’m thinking someone started the Twitter page just as a joke.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:58:30pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:58:41pm

re: #154 Charles Johnson

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Is Meredith McIver a woman of color? I am surprised he did not parade her out before as one of “his” African-Americans.

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:58:54pm

re: #157 GlutenFreeJesus

I’m thinking someone started the Twitter page just as a joke.

Occam’s Razor suggests so, but Trump’s Razor suggests dimwitted subterfuge.

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Tigger2  Jul 20, 2016 • 12:59:24pm

re: #158 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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It’s going to be 110 here in a couple of days

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Lidane  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:02:33pm

At what point does this sort of violent rhetoric cross the line from red meat for the morons in the GOP base to incitement?

All week long the GOP have been attacking Hillary and have done everything from call her a devil worshiper to chanting that she should be in prison. Now this lunatic is talking about shooting her for treason. This is dangerous.

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Targetpractice  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:02:34pm

So after a day and a half of making various excuses, from denying it was plagiarism to accusing the Clinton campaign, “Meredith McIvers” suddenly springs up from the aether to throw herself upon the pyre, taking full responsibility for the entire episode because she was too dumb to use a basic search engine. And, in an act that shows just how gracious and forgiving Trump is, he rejects her letter of recommendation and allows her to keep her job.

Amazing how that works.////////

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Stanley Sea  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:03:20pm

re: #88 Jenner7

Who is Hillary going to pick as VP? I’m hearing Kaine or Vilsack and I don’t like either of them as VP.

I’m hearing Crist! NOOOOOOOO

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Teukka  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:03:33pm

re: #162 Lidane

At what point does this sort of violent rhetoric cross the line from red meat for the morons in the GOP base to incitement?

All week long the GOP have been attacking Hillary and have done everything from call her a devil worshiper to chanting that she should be in prison. Now this lunatic is talking about shooting her for treason. This is dangerous.

Yep. Very dangerous.

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EPR-radar  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:05:35pm

re: #162 Lidane

At what point does this sort of violent rhetoric cross the line from red meat for the morons in the GOP base to incitement?

All week long the GOP have been attacking Hillary and have done everything from call her a devil worshiper to chanting that she should be in prison. Now this lunatic is talking about shooting her for treason. This is dangerous.

We’ve been in this situation before, and it led to a wave of political assassinations in the 60s.

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Belafon  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:06:40pm

We will need to make sure the women we’re seeing aren’t just two different women with the same name. And it’s not like we don’t know people who have chosen not to be on Twitter. And even if one account is fake, the other could be a real person.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:06:58pm

re: #73 lawhawk

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That’ll work…

Red Lobster=Darden, arguably the most abusive labor pimps in the business.

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Teukka  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:07:01pm

re: #166 EPR-radar

We’ve been in this situation before, and it led to a wave of political assassinations in the 60s.

Sweden had something similar in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Guess how it ended?

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Bubblehead II  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:07:33pm

re: #124 Shiplord Kirel

Like the barbed wire on top. hobbylinc.com has a big selection of scale model barbed wire for diorama builders.

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KerFuFFler  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:07:52pm

re: #163 Targetpractice

So after a day and a half of making various excuses, from denying it was plagiarism to accusing the Clinton campaign, “Meredith McIvers” suddenly springs up from the aether to throw herself upon the pyre, taking full responsibility for the entire episode because she was too dumb to use a basic search engine. And, in an act that shows just how gracious and forgiving Trump is, he rejects her letter of recommendation and allows her to keep her job.

Amazing how that works.////////

Resignation, not recommendation. :)

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Decatur Deb  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:08:35pm

re: #170 Bubblehead II

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The tiny claymores are a good touch.

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wrenchwench  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:09:29pm

re: #170 Bubblehead II

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The little tiny guards would need little tiny ankle-shooting weapons.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:10:07pm

re: #149 Scottishdragon

Reuters’s Emily Flitter reports that Christie told a donor meeting on Tuesday that Trump will try to purge the government of Obama appointees, out of “fear that Obama may convert these appointees to civil servants, who have more job security than officials who have been politically appointed.”

To make that process easier, Christie reportedly said, “One of the things I have suggested to Donald is that we have to immediately ask the Republican Congress to change the civil service laws. Because if they do, it will make it a lot easier to fire those people.”

Looks more like they want to target those who transition from political appointee to civil service.

That won’t be easy to do. In any event, obviously alarming.

Freedumb.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:10:56pm

re: #173 wrenchwench

Tiny guards with tiny hands?

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:11:02pm

WTF??? Part 72:

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lawhawk  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:11:05pm
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Tigger2  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:11:13pm

re: #170 Bubblehead II

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lawhawk  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:12:10pm

re: #168 Decatur Deb

Red Lobster=Darden, arguably the most abusive labor pimps in the business.

Darden sold off Red Lobster back in 2014 for a couple billion dollars.

Darden still owns Olive Garden, Bahama Breeze and a few other chains where they screw the workers out of decent wages.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:12:44pm

re: #149 Scottishdragon

Standing against the Stalwarts were the “Half-Breeds,” Republicans who agreed with Democratic demands for civil service reforms and a professionalized federal bureaucracy. These Democratic efforts, befitting the party’s purpose at the time as the leading political arm of white supremacy, were tinged with a desire to curb black employment and social advance.

It’s no coincidence that the civil service act eventually passed in 1883 bore the name of Sen. George Pendleton, who as a Congress member was a leading opponent of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery. (The Radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens quipped during the 13th Amendment debate that Pendleton’s epitaph should read, “Here rests the ablest and most pertinacious defender of slavery and opponent of liberty.”)

Wow, didn’t realize that.

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Stanley Sea  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:15:06pm

re: #132 Targetpractice

Would it really surprise anybody at this point if it turned out that “Meredith” didn’t exist and she was created from whole cloth to be a convenient scapegoat?

Someone received payments for ghostwriting the books.

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danarchy  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:15:56pm

re: #167 Belafon

We will need to make sure the women we’re seeing aren’t just two different women with the same name. And it’s not like we don’t know people who have chosen not to be on Twitter. And even if one account is fake, the other could be a real person.

She has a profile at Simon & Schuster that shows her as a ghost writer for several of Trumps books. Why would they have created a fake ghostwriter over a decade ago.

authors.simonandschuster.com

I don’t doubt she is a real person, I also don’t doubt Donald would have no problem giving her a fat payday to fall on her sword either.

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Scottishdragon  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:16:10pm

re: #174 Sir John Barron

Looks more like they want to target those who transition from political appointee to civil service.

That won’t be easy to do. In any event, obviously alarming.

Freedumb.

More to it than that…

They would be able to fire any civil service employees under the proposed change and then there is this…

In other words, Christie and Trump would seek to replace the current civil service system, which involves extensive protections meant to keep workers from being fired for political reasons, with a system specifically designed to make it very easy to fire workers for political reasons.
Revolving door government, but without actual revolving

Flitter also reports that Christie and Trump want to “let businesspeople serve in government part time without having to give up their jobs in the private sector.” Ostensibly, the purpose of this would be to allow the government to recruit better private sector talent.

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Weakening that system has costs. It could imperil the reputation and standing of the federal government, and produce rules and regulations that let industry act with impunity and cater to the whims of Congress members with affected businesses in their districts. And letting business people come in and be regulators while still running their businesses, as Christie and Trump are proposing, runs against the very purpose of having an independent federal bureaucracy at all.

vox.com

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:16:48pm

re: #168 Decatur Deb

Red Lobster=Darden, arguably the most abusive labor pimps in the business.

Hmmm. Good to know.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:17:09pm

re: #118 Charles Johnson

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Decatur Deb  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:18:08pm

re: #184 Sir John Barron

Hmmm. Good to know.

Lawhawk above says they were sold in 2014.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:18:13pm

re: #163 Targetpractice

Amazing how that works.////////

Wouldn’t surprise me at all if sometime today it comes out that Tiffany Trump, who nobody had heard of until the other night, is actually Shelley Moskowitz, an aspiring model and actress from Paterson, North Jersey.

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Bubblehead II  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:18:16pm

Milo is a drama queen or a bit paranoid (Maybe both). Showed up at the RNC wearing one of these.

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CuriousLurker  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:18:37pm

For the gun humper in your life: 128GB USB drive shaped like a bullet. It also comes in silver & gold, and there’s another one shaped like a bronze revolver. Oh look, here’s a (semi?) automatic and an even more lethal looking one. ಠ_ಠ

I even need my USB drive to look like a weapon. Because America, FUCK YEAH—molon labe!!11! WOLVERIIIIIIIINES…

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EPR-radar  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:18:51pm

re: #183 Scottishdragon

That’s a typically Republican proposal. Try to change the laws to make “corruption” literally undefined.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:19:42pm
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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:22:04pm

re: #190 EPR-radar

That’s a typically Republican proposal. Try to change the laws to make “corruption” literally undefined.

Yes, the crowd fainting couches over emails and ACORN wants to reintroduce the spoils system.

I wonder if they have thought of the implications for when their party doesn’t hold power.

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BlackPearl  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:22:17pm

re: #191 Charles Johnson

Who looks just like Valerie Plame. Weird.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:24:32pm

re: #145 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Man, am I glad I checked ahead before saying that!

As I did before posting. I was surprised nobody had. This crowd is usually pretty quick on things like that.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:24:44pm

re: #188 Bubblehead II

Milo is a drama queen or a bit paranoid (Maybe both). Showed up at the RNC wearing one of these.

And to top it off, that old fart now has teh fascist cooties.
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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:25:02pm

re: #187 De Kolta Chair

Wouldn’t surprise me at all if sometime today it comes out that Tiffany Trump, who nobody had heard of until the other night, is actually Shelley Moskowitz, an aspiring model and actress from Paterson, North Jersey.

Well, that’s not true. Trump was talking about Tiffany in 1994, specifically about what a great rack she would have when she grew up.

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Scottishdragon  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:25:38pm

re: #180 Sir John Barron

Yeah, I saw that too.

However, an independent civil service is vital to regulatory functions and Trump and Christie are proposing to throw all of that away.

We will get active drug and food corporate honchos still on their respective boards getting put in charge of the FDA, Duke Power running the EPA and so on. That is the radical step they have proposed…the abolishment of non partisan and impartial bureaucracy and allowing business leaders to take those offices while remaining in business.

I cannot tell you how much this is utterly against what the Founders believed in. They didn’t give a shit about a man in office having an affair while married. They cared a great deal about even a hint of government favoritism in business and finance.

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dangerman  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:25:39pm

re: #189 CuriousLurker

For the gun humper in your life: 128GB USB drive shaped like a bullet. It also comes in silver & gold, and there’s another one shaped like a bronze revolver. Oh look, here’s a (semi?) automatic and an even more lethal looking one. ಠ_ಠ

I even need my USB drive to look like a weapon. Because America, FUCK YEAH—molon labe!!11! WOLVERIIIIIIIINES…
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i actually bought one a while back because i needed a big cheap usb drive. it was on sale for $5.00. worked for like 10 minutes.
ended up taking a hammer to it rather than toss a drive with partial data on it.
then bought a run of the mill sandisk

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:26:39pm

Meredith McIver, “Trump Employee” literally did not have a social media profile until 1 day ago, and now she is the one who ghost-wrote all of Trump’s books, not Tony Schwartz.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:27:00pm

re: #195 De Kolta Chair

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I’m disappointed to see what that kid from Home Alone has grown up to become.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:27:37pm

FYI, there is a new hatchling downstairs linking to Breitbart - and I think it’s meant as a serious source.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:28:04pm

The part where she’s mentioned in the article:

Meredith McIver, who co-wrote Trump tomes including “Trump 101: The Way to Success,” also works as a ghostwriter for Trump and worked with him on blog posts and Q & A’s for Trump University, according to Sexton.

“Certainly Miss McGiver [sic] created content for our newsletter and our blog, but, you know, it was fairly collaborative. Mr. Trump was always — he would come up with often the topic and then ultimately would approve the — the copy as well,” Sexton said in a deposition.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:29:29pm

Wait, WHAT

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Lidane  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:29:30pm

LOL:

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makeitstop  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:29:37pm

I’m taking a break from all of this and heading to MSG to see Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy.

Hopefully no one meets an untimely end before I get back. This eliminationist shit is really kinda freaking me out.

Later.

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Lidane  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:30:48pm

re: #203 The Vicious Babushka

Yep. It’s a lot more pro-Putin:

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KGxvi  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:31:51pm

re: #203 The Vicious Babushka

Wait, WHAT

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How many relationships exist in the world that are more dysfunctional than our relationship with Russia?

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Lidane  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:32:30pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:41:35pm

Meredith McIver is obviously a close relative of Angus “Mac” MacGyver…all sekrit stuffs…

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:55:19pm

re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth

Meredith McIver is obviously a close relative of Angus “Mac” MacGyver…all sekrit stuffs…

If Meredith McRae married John McGiver….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:57:52pm

re: #210 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

If Meredith McRae married John McGiver….

Duck tape wedding dress and tuxedo…

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 20, 2016 • 1:58:04pm

re: #199 The Vicious Babushka

Meredith McIver, “Trump Employee” literally did not have a social media profile until 1 day ago, and now she is the one who ghost-wrote all of Trump’s books, not Tony Schwartz.

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

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electrotek  Jul 20, 2016 • 2:25:33pm

re: #126 Scottishdragon

Funny you mentioned that:

The Texas Lt Governor suggested the 1st Amendment does not cover criticism of cops:

And he is now demanding that a new AG under Trump take down Black Lives Matter…

“Patrick has been critical of the Black Lives Matter movement, earlier this month blaming the deadly shooting of police officers in Dallas on anti-police rhetoric and Black Lives Matter protests.”

Yep, just like how anti-Muslim rhetoric and accusing your political opponents of treason doesn’t lead to mass slaughter like the one in Norway, right Lt. Patrick?

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 20, 2016 • 6:45:27pm

re: #132 Targetpractice

Would it really surprise anybody at this point if it turned out that “Meredith” didn’t exist and she was created from whole cloth to be a convenient scapegoat?

Well, if Meredith doesn’t exist then her being a Trump employee working on a political speech is not a FEC violation. The cover up has a built-in cover up!
//

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unproven innocence  Jul 21, 2016 • 8:31:17am

re: #192 Sir John Barron

Yes, the crowd fainting couches over emails and ACORN wants to reintroduce the spoils system.

I wonder if they have thought of the implications for when their party doesn’t hold power.

I’m getting a feeling they are convinced that would never happen.


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