John McCain’s Toothless, Dishonest Denunciation of Trump’s Attacks on Khizr Khan

Like most Republican politicians, he wants power more than he wants integrity
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This morning, John McCain harshly criticized Donald Trump for his ugly attacks on the parents of a fallen US soldier.

Which is good, as far as it goes.

Unfortunately, it didn’t go very far at all, since this grotesque narcissistic display by Trump apparently wasn’t sufficient for McCain to withdraw his endorsement of the Republican presidential candidate.

And let’s examine what McCain actually said:

“In recent days, Donald Trump disparaged a fallen soldier’s parents. He has suggested that the likes of their son should not be allowed in the United States — to say nothing of entering its service,” McCain said in a statement released by his office Monday. “I cannot emphasize enough how deeply I disagree with Mr. Trump’s statement. I hope Americans understand that the remarks do not represent the views of our Republican Party, its officers, or candidates.”

Except those remarks clearly do represent the views of the most important Republican candidate currently running for office, don’t they?

And it’s quite clear from the attacks against Khizr Khan now emanating from many conservative sources that Trump’s remarks also represent the views of a sizeable portion of the Republican Party — namely, the people who will be voting for Donald Trump.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:21:55am

McCain is an enabler.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:23:21am

How the hell can you say they don’t represent your party or its candidates when the guy who said is your presidential nominee. McCain needs to stop pretending he gives a shit because he clearly doesn’t.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:23:23am
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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:26:38am

The new GOP ethos: “No one of us is responsible for anything, so there’s nothing you need care about.”

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piratedan  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:27:06am

Johnny Maverick has a serious wingnut primary challenge (vote on 8/30) with no guarantees that he wins it (his opponent is a “serious” teabagger) with this challenge from the right. Plus, if he skates through that, he has an actual opponent (Az Congressional Rep - Ann Kirkpatrick) who is actually funded and running politely pointed ads that are anti-McCain (who started the mud flinging first) and is polling pretty well (if not even) with him statewide. She’s a small town Dem, which cuts into some of McCain’s natural base in rural AZ and with the Mormons looking decidedly anti-Trump, that base in the east valley isn’t what it used to be. He has the edge still, but it is not a given that he survives this year.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:28:49am

re: #5 piratedan

Johnny Maverick has a serious wingnut primary challenge (vote on 8/30) with no guarantees that he wins it (his opponent is a “serious” teabagger) with this challenge from the right. Plus, if he skates through that, he has an actual opponent (Az Congressional Rep - Ann Kirkpatrick) who is actually funded and running politely pointed ads that are anti-McCain (who started the mud flinging first) and is polling pretty well (if not even) with him statewide. She’s a small town Dem, which cuts into some of McCain’s natural base in rural AZ and with the Mormons looking decidedly anti-Trump, that base in the east valley isn’t what it used to be. He has the edge still, but it is not a given that he survives this year.

I hope he goes down. I used to respect him even as a lifelong liberal but McCain’s clear choice of party above all else sickens me.

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dangerman  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:30:07am

time they all started to say goodbye to the Republican party

(got a lot of steely dan while looking for this one)

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piratedan  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:30:43am

re: #6 HappyWarrior

agree, he was one of the few GOP pols that I thought had integrity but his being talked into Sarah Palin showed that perhaps its a thin veneer of principals covering up some craven desire for power at almost any cost.

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Testy Toad T  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:32:51am

Feeble John couldn’t stand up for himself when I mocked him. Why would he stand up for someone else? No courage!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:33:21am
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MsJ  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:34:00am

re: #1 HappyWarrior

McCain is an enabler.

Almost every single GOPer is. The list of those who are not is shockingly small, so small to be virtually non existent.

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dangerman  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:35:14am

re: #11 MsJ

Almost every single GOPer is. The list of those who are not is shockingly small, so small to be virtually non existent.

their franchise livelihood is being threatened
they may have to go out and look for (honest) work

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zephirus  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:36:26am

He can partially redeem himself for inflicting Palin on us by putting America First and endorsing Hillary.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:36:38am

I can just picture Trump the day after the election a la William Shatner:

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNN!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:37:54am

The GOP continuing support Trump is like a smoker finding out he has lung disease and saying “fuck it, I’m going to smoke more!”

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Timothy Watson  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:38:17am

re: #13 zephirus

He can partially redeem himself for inflicting Palin on us by putting America First and endorsing Hillary.

You kidder, you!

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zephirus  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:40:42am

Which of these things is not like the other? Which of these things doesn’t belong?

“I disagree with Mr. Trump’s statement.”
“I hope Americans understand that the remarks do not represent the views of our Republican Party.”
“I support Donald Trump for POTUS”

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Kryptik: Just Done With It.  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:42:10am

re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg

The GOP continuing support Trump is like a smoker finding out he has lung disease and saying “fuck it, I’m going to smoke more!”

The problem is that denouncing Trump would be denouncing everything they actually believe in. The problem with Trump isn’t that he’s saying things they disagree with, it’s that he’s doing so in a way they struggled to code for so long to lure in the foolish that think ‘oh, they can’t actually believe ALL they say’ and let their dislike and/or hatred of the left guide them to the reservation.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:42:29am

re: #4 jaunte

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The new GOP ethos: “No one of us is responsible for anything, so there’s nothing you need care about.”

re: #18 Kryptik: Just Done With It.

The problem is that denouncing Trump would be denouncing everything they actually believe in. The problem with Trump isn’t that he’s saying things they disagree with, it’s that he’s doing so in a way they struggled to code for so long to lure in the foolish that think ‘oh, they can’t actually believe ALL they say’ and let their dislike and/or hatred of the left guide them to the reservation.

Bingo.

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dangerman  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:42:32am

re: #17 zephirus

Which of these things is not like the other? Which of these things doesn’t belong?

“I disagree with Mr. Trump’s statement.”
“I hope Americans understand that the remarks do not represent the views of our Republican Party.”
“I support Donald Trump for POTUS”

d.

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dangerman  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:44:36am

ot for no particular reason

a moment of tv news whimsy

link

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Sir John Barron  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:45:18am

re: #4 jaunte

The new GOP ethos: “No one of us is responsible for anything, so there’s nothing you need care about.”

Nothing’s real except Hillary’s emails and Benghazi for which Hillary for Prison!!!!

/

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lawhawk  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:47:11am

OT, but another officer-involved shooting. This time in NYC:

The circumstances are still unclear.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:47:47am

What’s happening on the Canadian border now???!!???

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TedStriker  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:48:28am

re: #7 dangerman

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time they all started to say goodbye to the Republican party

(got a lot of steely dan while looking for this one)

Pretzel Logic is a good album.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:48:57am

LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!

He’s on a tweet rampage right now. Hillz must have said something…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:49:20am

I am really hoping that sometime soon at least one influential GOPer has the balls to publicly denounce.

But I keep thinking we’ve gotten to the point of “too much” but nope.

It’s gonna be one hell of a post mortem for Republicans after November.

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:49:54am

CNN: Now Fair And Balanced, Since Roger Ailes Probably Won’t Sue Us For Stealing His Idea.

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Belafon  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:50:24am

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!

He’s on a tweet rampage right now. Hillz must have said something…

Someone should ask Trump about the CNN guy he’s paying.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:50:36am

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

Says the guy who has how many paid schills on CNN?

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Big Beautiful Door  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:50:36am

re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth

What’s happening on the Canadian border now???!!???

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Does anyone know if something is actually going on at the border, or is this just another GOP fantasy?

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Testy Toad T  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:50:41am

re: #18 Kryptik: Just Done With It.

The problem is that denouncing Trump would be denouncing everything they actually believe in. The problem with Trump isn’t that he’s saying things they disagree with, it’s that he’s doing so in a way they struggled to code for so long to lure in the foolish that think ‘oh, they can’t actually believe ALL they say’ and let their dislike and/or hatred of the left guide them to the reservation.

It’s not quite that, I don’t think. It’s a little more subtle.

Being a mainstream Republican requires holding many contradictory beliefs, which for a rational mind to handle, requires wishy-washy phrasing and terminology. “Binning” of concepts. Muslims are Schrodinger’s Patriots. The good ones are great except there aren’t good ones but mayyyyybe, so it’s much easier to denounce a meaninglessly formalized concept like “Radical Islamic Whatever” and then not have to worry about the real-world implications other than that Obama is likely at fault.

The problem is that Trump is not a rational mind, and he’s quite willing to spell out the final conclusions of these contradictory beliefs. He collapses the Republican wavefunction.

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:50:45am

“It’s true, I saw it on the news!”

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:51:02am

Just came in back to back on the Tweetdeck

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:51:07am

re: #28 jaunte

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CNN: Now Fair And Balanced, Since Roger Ailes Probably Won’t Sue Us For Stealing His Idea.

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Interesting Times  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:51:11am

re: #28 jaunte

Oh wait, this is the Benghazi mom?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:51:16am

re: #31 Big Beautiful Door

Fantasy I’d say.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:51:47am

re: #36 Interesting Times

Who the hell is Patricia Smith?

Benghazi mom who spoke at the RNC

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Belafon  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:52:11am

re: #36 Interesting Times

Who the hell is Patricia Smith?

She’s the mom that spoke at the Republican convention.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:52:15am

re: #32 Testy Toad T

Upding for “Schrodingers Patriots”.

I love that.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:53:03am

What did CNN just say that sparked this Twitter tantrum?

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bratwurst  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:53:34am

McCain is about to turn 80 years old. The fact he is STILL putting party ahead of principle at his age and station in life is sad.

I know I am a fool to be disappointed by anything McCain does at this point, but I am disappointed.

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lawhawk  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:53:38am
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Skip Intro  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:54:18am

re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

Zero tweets complaining about the NY Post printing nude photos of his wife.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:54:41am

This sort of unnatural behavior is what happens in an Obama-Clinton country!!!

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Tag your friends 😍😍😍😍

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:54:52am

re: #28 jaunte

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CNN: Now Fair And Balanced, Since Roger Ailes Probably Won’t Sue Us For Stealing His Idea.

I feel bad that she lost her son but Clinton never questioned his loyalty or love of country in the way Trump and his surrogates have to the Khans.

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Testy Toad T  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:54:57am

re: #43 lawhawk

I truly cannot look at Trumpish decor without throwing up in my mouth a little bit. It does not exactly scream “I am a man of wealth and taste”. It’s whatever concept is past parody.

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dangerman  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:55:21am

re: #43 lawhawk

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making that association didnt take long

winner winner

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Timothy Watson  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:55:25am

re: #44 Skip Intro

Zero tweets complaining about the NY Post printing nude photos of his wife.

But Ted Cruz (and/or his PAC) were the evilest things ever!1!!

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nines09  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:55:27am

The GOP is full of empty suits. Senator McCain now has empty words. It’s a ghost ship, Johnny. With a malignancy at the helm. Silence……..

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lawhawk  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:55:34am

re: #47 Testy Toad T

Yeah, but you mean you aren’t finding sympathy with the devil? /

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Sir John Barron  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:55:42am

re: #33 jaunte

Patricia Smith just said on CNN that Hillary Clinton kills people.
— Matt Murphy

She doesn’t know what happened in Benghazi or why her son died but yeah Hillary “kills people”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:55:42am

re: #47 Testy Toad T

I truly cannot look at Trumpish decor without throwing up in my mouth a little bit. It does not exactly scream “I am a man of wealth and taste”. It’s whatever concept is past parody.

It screams “I am trying to impress a lot of other tasteless people”.

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Testy Toad T  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:55:46am

re: #46 HappyWarrior

I feel bad that she lost her son but Clinton never questioned his loyalty or love of country in the way Trump and his surrogates have to the Khans.

CNN should, if anything, be even more ashamed than the RNC was for parroting this pathetic, lost soul for political and financial gain.

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Belafon  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:56:03am

re: #44 Skip Intro

Zero tweets complaining about the NY Post printing nude photos of his wife.

Trump looked at those pictures and probably thought “I wonder if I can get hooked up with her.”

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lawhawk  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:56:03am

re: #44 Skip Intro

Zero tweets complaining about the NY Post printing nude photos of his wife.

And that brings me back to think that this was his campaign planting in an attempt to divert attention from the Khan debacle.

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CuriousLurker  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:56:35am

re: #4 jaunte

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The new GOP ethos: “No one of us is responsible for anything, so there’s nothing you need care about.”

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:56:57am

re: #44 Skip Intro

Zero tweets complaining about the NY Post printing nude photos of his wife.

Those pics probably were provided by the Trump campaign.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:57:04am

re: #42 bratwurst

McCain is about to turn 80 years old. The fact he is STILL putting party ahead of principle at his age and station in life is sad.

I know I am a fool to be disappointed by anything McCain does at this point, but I am disappointed.

I know. I never had any real desire to vote for him but I thought he at least had some integrity. How the hell can you say doesn’t speak or represent your party when it’s your party’s nominee who said it. If he was still a primary candidate okay but this is after his formal nomination which McCain didn’t object to.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:57:10am
CNN anchors are completely out of touch with everyday people worried about rising crime, failing schools and vanishing jobs.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2016

A billionaire who literally has gold furniture and a trophy wife talks about others being completely out of touch with everyday people. WTF.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:57:26am

re: #42 bratwurst

McCain is about to turn 80 years old. The fact he is STILL putting party ahead of principle at his age and station in life is sad.

I know I am a fool to be disappointed by anything McCain does at this point, but I am disappointed.

This is the thing. Getting nearer to the end and he seems intent on leaving a Trump vote for his descendants to consider.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:57:31am

re: #47 Testy Toad T

It screams “Let Them Eat Cake”. Rush Limbaugh’s house in FL is decorated in much the same way. Not very manly if you ask me.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:57:43am

re: #46 HappyWarrior

I feel bad that she lost her son but Clinton never questioned his loyalty or love of country in the way Trump and his surrogates have to the Khans.

Hillary’s response when asked about that:

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:57:48am

Here is what caused the freak out

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dangerman  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:59:00am

most of this tirade is aimed at the parents of a fallen soldier

afaik no one has “attacked” Ms. Smith herself at all
let alone her son. - who they have, let alone

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lawhawk  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:59:01am
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lawhawk  Aug 1, 2016 • 11:59:26am
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Skip Intro  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:00:05pm

re: #58 The Vicious Babushka

Those pics probably were provided by the Trump campaign.

I’m sure they were to slut shame her in front of her child for embarrassing Trump.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:00:08pm

re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hillary’s response when asked about that:

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That’s the best way to answer it. Not all the Benghazi families hold her responsible. I feel awful for Ms. Smith’s loss but she has not been attacked and nor should she for her grief.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:00:52pm

re: #64 The Vicious Babushka

Here is what caused the freak out

OK, well, I don’t know about the “artist” part of that equation.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:00:54pm

re: #62 A Mom Anon

It screams “Let Them Eat Cake”. Rush Limbaugh’s house in FL is decorated in much the same way. Not very manly if you ask me.

Limbaugh is another fake tough guy.

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Timothy Watson  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:01:32pm

re: #47 Testy Toad T

I truly cannot look at Trumpish decor without throwing up in my mouth a little bit. It does not exactly scream “I am a man of wealth and taste”. It’s whatever concept is past parody.

You know, if I had the money Trump has I would go post-modern with lots of black glass, but that’s just me.

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calochortus  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:02:02pm

re: #47 Testy Toad T

I truly cannot look at Trumpish decor without throwing up in my mouth a little bit. It does not exactly scream “I am a man of wealth and taste”. It’s whatever concept is past parody.

I can’t look at it without being reminded of Saddam Hussein’s decor. A lot of gold spray paint on things.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:02:03pm

Trump who thinks he can get out of paying for a hotel room doesn’t live in reality.

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Kragar  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:02:19pm
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Testy Toad T  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:02:59pm

re: #62 A Mom Anon

It screams “Let Them Eat Cake”. Rush Limbaugh’s house in FL is decorated in much the same way. Not very manly if you ask me.

Nah. It screams “Look, I have so much money, a very big sum of money, the best money. Way more money than you! You could never afford this, believe me!

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CuriousLurker  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:03:37pm

re: #43 lawhawk

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My thoughts exactly.

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sagehen  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:03:42pm

re: #72 Timothy Watson

You know, if I had the money Trump has I would go post-modern with lots of black glass, but that’s just me.

I’d go southwestern, tan and brown tilework and natural wood furniture.

But for sure, the views out the windows should be the visual centerpiece, not a bunch of furniture that wouldn’t be out of place at Marie Antoinette’s summer palace.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:03:50pm

re: #64 The Vicious Babushka

Wow…someone in the media actually grew a pair?

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Timothy Watson  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:05:11pm

re: #78 sagehen

I’d go southwestern, tan and brown tilework and natural wood furniture.

But for sure, the views out the windows should be the visual centerpiece, not a bunch of furniture that wouldn’t be out of place at Marie Antoinette’s summer palace.

And if you have a condo in New York City, I would emphasize open space and the fact that I have the money to have that empty space and the view.

More subtle that Trump’s mess.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:05:12pm

Trump is like a lame Bond villain.

Eon productions presents 007 in “Goldloser”

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calochortus  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:05:23pm

re: #76 Testy Toad T

Nah. It screams “Look, I have so much money, a very big sum of money, the best money. Way more money than you! You could never afford this, believe me!

If you have to decorate like that when you are obscenely wealthy, it makes me think there are compensations for not having that kind of money. Like a house that is much easier on the eyes.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:06:14pm

re: #69 HappyWarrior

What the media should be doing however is not going back to her if she’s going to lie, whether she’s grieving or not. I am sure she’s incredibly sad and in her sadness she probably spent a lot of time looking for information about what happened that day. In that search, she found someone to blame via right wing media and they of course used that and used her for the RNC. I would love to know how that was all arranged.

When anything bad happens to a child, even if that child is grown, of course it makes some sense to want to pin it on someone or something. Cancer patients and their families sometimes fall prey to charlatans selling false cures and blaming “Big Pharma” for their loved ones’ death or illness. Families of children with autism look for reasons and sometimes do the same. When it comes to war and conflict there is death and those deaths are pretty easy to pin on one side or another with little nuance or understanding how we got there in the first place. I don’t blame her for being pissed off and incredibly sad, but to keep putting her on TV and allowing her to lie unchallenged (because she IS grieving, and who picks on that besides the assholes doing it to the Kahns), is not a good idea. For her, or for the country.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:06:32pm

re: #82 calochortus

I think it’s just an ego thing, wanting to constantly show off ones wealth.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:07:06pm
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sagehen  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:07:26pm

re: #73 calochortus

I can’t look at it without being reminded of Saddam Hussein’s decor. A lot of gold spray paint on things.

Gosh. You don’t want to live in a Faberge egg?

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zephirus  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:07:37pm

re: #47 Testy Toad T

This is from the tawdry neo-Baroque, Green Acres period. Wonder if he farts in that chair?

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CuriousLurker  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:07:59pm

re: #46 HappyWarrior

I feel bad that she lost her son but Clinton never questioned his loyalty or love of country in the way Trump and his surrogates have to the Khans.

Nor did anyone bring up her religion, if she has one, and then proceed to attribute any of her words or actions (or lack thereof) to said beliefs (or lack thereof).

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:08:32pm

re: #72 Timothy Watson

You know, if I had the money Trump has I would go post-modern with lots of black glass, but that’s just me.

Or hey, let’s just take a look at Bill Gates’ home.

therichest.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:09:02pm

sigh…

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calochortus  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:09:54pm

re: #86 sagehen

Gosh. You don’t want to live in a Faberge egg?

No. I can go traditional or somewhat more modern, but it has to be comfortable, fairly simple and not cluttered.

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lawhawk  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:10:28pm

re: #80 Timothy Watson

And if you have a condo in New York City, I would emphasize open space and the fact that I have the money to have that empty space and the view.

More subtle that Trump’s mess.

It’s called overcompensation. His dad had a very comfortable and plain home in Queens. He built apartment buildings for the middle class.

Donny decided to go upscale, and decided gold leaf crap and reproductions of Louis XVIII style is what suits him. That’s what he thinks projects wealth. He doesn’t even care that he’s using reproductions of art work (like the Renoir reproduction behind him when he and Pence were interviewed after Pence agreed on the VP slot). It’s all about appearances.

Gold plated crap is still crap.

Even if there’s a lot of it.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:10:38pm

re: #88 CuriousLurker

Nor did anyone bring up her religion, if she has one, and then proceed to attribute any of her words or actions (or lack thereof) to said beliefs (or lack thereof).

Exactly. The two situations aren’t the same. And no one has blamed Trump for the Captain’s death, they just want Trump to stop scapegoating Muslims.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:11:05pm

re: #88 CuriousLurker

Nor did anyone bring up her religion, if she has one, and then proceed to attribute any of her words or actions (or lack thereof) to said beliefs (or lack thereof).

yeah totally different. Clinton hasn’t attacked her or threatened to ban her family, friends or fellow believers from immigrating.

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TedStriker  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:11:17pm

re: #78 sagehen

I’d go southwestern, tan and brown tilework and natural wood furniture.

But for sure, the views out the windows should be the visual centerpiece, not a bunch of furniture that wouldn’t be out of place at Marie Antoinette’s summer palace.

Something like this:

Villa Philmonte - Philmont Scout Ranch

Wiki: Villa Philmonte

I have trekked Philmont four times since 1993 and have toured the Villa every time.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:11:50pm
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nines09  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:12:28pm

re: #43 lawhawk

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Trump. King Baroque

Emperor Magnificent Malignancy The Last

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jeffreyw  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:14:06pm

For all you folks without pie filters installed:

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Timothy Watson  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:14:38pm

re: #96 Charles Johnson

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But Trump loves the law-enforcement officers!

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Targetpractice  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:14:57pm

re: #96 Charles Johnson

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I really do worry that one day, he’s gonna get his way and the authorities will allow his convention to cram one of their rallies as tight as a sardine can, then there will be a panic and a lot of people hurt/killed.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:15:06pm

re: #94 Sir John Barron

yeah totally different. Clinton hasn’t attacked her or threatened to ban her family, friends or fellow believers from immigrating.

She hasn’t attacked her at all and even said she understands her grief. Those using Ms. Smith to attack Clinton on Benghazi ignore that the Stevens family doesn’t blame her.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:15:24pm

re: #46 HappyWarrior

I feel bad that she lost her son but Clinton never questioned his loyalty or love of country in the way Trump and his surrogates have to the Khans.

And Clinton never killed her son. She is disgusting for making such an ugly claim.

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CuriousLurker  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:15:55pm

re: #89 Dr Lizardo

Or hey, let’s just take a look at Bill Gates’ home.

therichest.com

What, no gilded furniture?? SAD!

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:16:56pm

re: #97 nines09

Trump. King Baroque

Emperor Magnificent Malignancy The Last

Trump’s taste is on par with this ridiculous “loft” building in Houston, which is a basic concrete box with attempted “French” detailing tacked on in places.
houstonarchitecture.com

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:17:22pm

re: #102 Patricia Kayden

And Clinton never killed her son. She is disgusting for making such an ugly claim.

She should be mad at the GOP congress who cut security funding. I won’t tell her how to grieve but she’s being misled big time.

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lawhawk  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:17:32pm

This came up at the RNC, and was contrasted with the DNC.

At the RNC, there was no one out there who could testify as to Trump’s personal character and judgment. Sure, some were there to claim that his business judgment was yuge, but none talked about his character.

Then came his Art of the Deal ghost writer who said Trump would be a shit show of epic proportions.

Now comes his former personal attorney, who says the same thing:

Key grafs:

While I was working for Donald, various press reports had Trump and his then-wife Ivanna living in a personal apartment in the Trump Tower of 8, 16 and even 20 or 30 rooms. Genuinely curious, I once asked him how many rooms the apartment actually had. I will never forget his response to me: “However many they will print.”

He has always had a loose relationship with reality.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:17:49pm

re: #100 Targetpractice

Don’t most public spaces have the capacity number on a sign someplace? I know that at least where I live, in restaurants and bars for example, there is a sign with the maximum capacity next to the permits and the fire/emergency exit maps that by law have to be displayed in a visible area. I would think this would be a really easy thing to find out and then smack Trump upside the head with. Preferably on camera, live.

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CuriousLurker  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:17:57pm

re: #104 jaunte

Trump’s taste is on par with this ridiculous “loft” building in Houston, which is a basic concrete box with attempted “French” detailing tacked on in places.
houstonarchitecture.com

*grimace*

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calochortus  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:18:04pm

re: #104 jaunte

Trump’s taste is on par with this ridiculous “loft” building in Houston, which is a basic concrete box with attempted “French” detailing tacked on in places.
houstonarchitecture.com

That’s impressively ugly.

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Interesting Times  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:18:25pm

re: #103 CuriousLurker

Did you see this?

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wrenchwench  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:18:25pm

re: #87 zephirus

This is from the tawdry neo-Baroque, Green Acres period. Wonder if he farts in that chair?

I love that. I hear Arnold Ziffel when I read it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:19:19pm
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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:19:33pm

re: #109 calochortus

Amazing, isn’t it? In the same neighborhood, by the same developer, there’s a similar place that has a row of 8 or 10 foot concrete gargoyles lined up along the roofline.

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CuriousLurker  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:20:12pm

re: #110 Interesting Times

Did you see this?

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No, I hadn’t seen it. Thanks!

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CuriousLurker  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:20:51pm

re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth

Uh-oh…

Gawd, I love this Pope.

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:20:52pm

Ah here it is: The Metropolis, gargoyles and all:

swamplot.com

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:20:55pm

re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It screams “I am trying to impress a lot of other tasteless people”.

“silk stocking, filled with shit”

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nines09  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:23:27pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:23:35pm

If you seriously are upset at the State Dept for Benghazi fine but don’t go embracing the GOP either.

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:23:56pm

Sorry, pasted wrong link:
swamplot.com

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:24:28pm

re: #118 nines09

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They’re good.

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:25:03pm
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Barefoot Grin  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:25:20pm

re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth

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sigh…

When I lived there the big issue was people living with erosion and water poisoned from mountain-top removal. Seems like a bit more regulation might have helped them.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:25:21pm

re: #96 Charles Johnson

So, besides the neutral debate organizers who scheduled the 2016 debates last year, fire marshals all over the country are conspiring against Trump.

///

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CuriousLurker  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:26:06pm

Y’all know who I was thinking about this morning WRT the Khan kerfuffle? Former SoS Colin Powell, especially since he’s a retired four-star general. He’s been curiously silent throughout this election. If anyone has the balls to buck the GOP party line, it’s him.

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nines09  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:26:14pm

re: #121 HappyWarrior

They’re good.

Just replay his own words. Over and over and over and over

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Targetpractice  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:26:39pm

re: #107 A Mom Anon

Don’t most public spaces have the capacity number on a sign someplace? I know that at least where I live, in restaurants and bars for example, there is a sign with the maximum capacity next to the permits and the fire/emergency exit maps that by law have to be displayed in a visible area. I would think this would be a really easy thing to find out and then smack Trump upside the head with. Preferably on camera, live.

Yep, most public spaces have a max capacity as allowed by the fire marshal, being caught in violation of which meaning a fine. But Trump’s so insistent on stroking his ego by creating this impression that people are so eager to hear him that they’re cramming in like sardines, so I dread the thought of one of said events turning into a stampede because of a panic.

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calochortus  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:26:40pm

re: #116 jaunte

That took me back to the first “French” building. But I found it.
The description is pretty funny too. Faux loft indeed. Looks like a bunch of downspouts running down the front.

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lawhawk  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:27:00pm

Trump repeatedly picks venues that are too small, and gives out too many tickets to make it appear that he’s in demand, and then gets to complain that people are standing outside b/c the fire marshals aren’t letting them in.

It’s a BS nontroversy for anyone who understands public safety comes first, but Trump doesn’t care.

It’s about the optics to him. He makes the guys protecting him out to be the bad guys.

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nines09  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:27:40pm

re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth

Maybe they want to be Beautiful Parkersburg West Virginia?

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:27:58pm

I was Googling around about the homes of other megalomaniacs, and you know, compared to Trump, Hitler actually had some taste. A bit kitschy to be sure, but certainly in keeping with the era the man lived in. And really no radically different than what you’d see in a well-to-do German’s living quarters from the same period.

Stalin was quite Spartan in his own way. Something of a minimalist, I suppose. Or perhaps he simply found uncluttered more efficient.

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:28:08pm

re: #128 calochortus

The developer, Randall Davis, is famous for his bad taste. Local architects wince when they hear his name.

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bratwurst  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:28:09pm

Mr. Journalistic High Horse:

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ObserverArt  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:28:27pm

So, I just flipped over to MSNBC and as I figured it appears they are getting ready to cover Trump’s town hall meeting here in Columbus,

Let me guess, since I was at Clinton’s rally here yesterday I don’t know, did anyone show her rally?

And the fucker is now speaking…grrrrrrr.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:28:57pm

love the photo BGPolitics chose to go with this tweet:

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:30:21pm
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Lidane  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:30:45pm

RWNJs doubling down on attacking Khizr Khan:

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:31:32pm
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Belafon  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:31:41pm

re: #125 CuriousLurker

Y’all know who I was thinking about this morning WRT the Khan kerfuffle? Former SoS Colin Powell, especially since he’s a retired four-star general. He’s been curiously quite throughout this election. If anyone has the balls to buck the GOP party line, it’s him.

I wonder if Powell and Rice are avoiding getting involved because of their private email servers. Powell, in particular, is still having issues over it.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:32:11pm

re: #137 Lidane

RWNJs doubling down on attacking Khizr Khan:

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They really are a pathetic party aren’t they? Then again lest we forget what they did the year Khan’s son died with the Purple Heart bandaids.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:32:48pm

re: #125 CuriousLurker

Y’all know who I was thinking about this morning WRT the Khan kerfuffle? Former SoS Colin Powell, especially since he’s a retired four-star general. He’s been curiously quite throughout this election. If anyone has the balls to buck the GOP party line, it’s him.

Powell endorsed Obama both times. Surprised to see him so quiet so far.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:32:49pm

re: #137 Lidane

RWNJs doubling down on attacking Khizr Khan:

Oh no, looks like Rage Furby and his vast team of GotNews “researchers” weren’t first to break out the oppo research.

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ObserverArt  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:33:03pm

And I see the crowd looks like all the Columbus idiot types.

He keeps saying Ohio is losing jobs. Walk around town fucker, this city is doing pretty damn good.

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:33:04pm
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Lidane  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:33:36pm

re: #138 jaunte

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:34:20pm

re: #145 Lidane

“They”

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:34:27pm

Shoebat’s “argument” if you could call it that is that Mr. Khan once wrote a law journal article on Islamic law which makes me a German solder in a WWI Trench, Andrew Carnegie, and so many other things I’ve written about.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:34:40pm

re: #145 Lidane

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Eye roll.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:35:01pm

re: #144 jaunte

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He won’t be chuckling so hard when she kicks his sorry ass.

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:35:21pm
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Timothy Watson  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:35:42pm

re: #145 Lidane

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AND OUR MINT’S PRINTING PRESSES!11!! SUPPERDOLLARS!1!!

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ObserverArt  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:35:54pm

It doesn’t appear Trump is taking any questions at his town hall. Big surprise.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:35:56pm

re: #150 jaunte

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James Joyce read a Trump speech and said “Fuck this, this is too weird even for me.”

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:36:17pm

re: #150 jaunte

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Trump’s “stream of consciousness” is what the rest of us would call a “stream of verbal diarrhea”.

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Targetpractice  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:36:22pm

re: #137 Lidane

RWNJs doubling down on attacking Khizr Khan:

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So they think that the answer is to give the Khans the Cindy Sheehan treatment, as if they’re defending a sitting president rather than a blowhard asshole who merely aspires to be president.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:36:37pm

re: #150 jaunte

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He has all the best words. He just hasn’t figured out how to put them in any meaningful order.

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TedStriker  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:36:41pm

re: #131 Dr Lizardo

I was Googling around about the homes of other megalomaniacs, and you know, compared to Trump, Hitler actually had some taste. A bit kitschy to be sure, but certainly in keeping with the era the man lived in. And really no radically different than what you’d see in a well-to-do German’s living quarters from the same period.

Stalin was quite Spartan in his own way. Something of a minimalist, I suppose. Or perhaps he simply found uncluttered more efficient.

The huge retractable picture window at the Berghof was a nice touch.

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:37:10pm

re: #156 Barefoot Grin

He only uses about 150.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:37:14pm

re: #157 TedStriker

The huge retractable picture window at the Berghof was a nice touch.

I may be seeing the Berghof next summer. I think it’s open to the public anyhow.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:37:39pm

re: #118 nines09

ROFLMAO. I love her now more than I did this morning. I don’t think these morons realize that a couple of decades and then some of being lied about and bullied can make a person incredibly resourceful and strong. You Go Girl.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:37:52pm

re: #157 TedStriker

The huge retractable picture window at the Berghof was a nice touch.

Indeed it was; I’ve seen photos of it, and I have little doubt that the views it must have afforded would have been breathtaking.

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CuriousLurker  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:38:33pm

re: #142 Dr. Matt

Oh no, looks like Rage Furby and his vast team of GotNews “researchers” weren’t first to break out the oppo research.

I was wondering a while ago if they’ll be so foolish as to go after the gold star families that signed the letter demanding that Von ClownStick apologize:

I can’t help but wonder if the trolls like Ginger Snapped & the ones at Breitbart will now start harassing the families who signed the letter and trying to dig up dirt on them. It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if they did, but IMO it would be extremely ill advised.

littlegreenfootballs.com

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zephirus  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:38:48pm

re: #129 lawhawk

I keep waiting for him to cross the line that must never be crossed, but the boundary keeps receding. He’s sinking further into delusional paranoia…I thought POTUS candidates had to submit to medical evaluation?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:39:00pm

re: #161 Dr Lizardo

Indeed it was; I’ve seen photos of it, and I have little doubt that the views it must have afforded would have been breathtaking.

It’s eerie that such a beautiful place could have had so much evil planned at it.

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Lidane  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:39:00pm

There are rules, you transparently desperate motherfucker:

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TedStriker  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:39:32pm

re: #159 HappyWarrior

I may be seeing the Berghof next summer. I think it’s open to the public anyhow.

Well, there’s not really anything left of it, because it all was demolished before the US would turn the area back over to the Bavarian government back in the early 50s, in order to keep it from being turned into a Nazi shrine.

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TedStriker  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:40:01pm

re: #164 HappyWarrior

It’s eerie that such a beautiful place could have had so much evil planned at it.

So true.

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Timothy Watson  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:40:04pm

re: #163 zephirus

I keep waiting for him to cross the line that must never be crossed, but the boundary keeps receding. He’s sinking further into delusional paranoia…I thought POTUS candidates had to submit to medical evaluation?

His gastroenterologist said he was the healthiest person to ever run for President.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:40:33pm

re: #166 TedStriker

Well, there’s not really anything left of it, because it all was demolished before the US would turn the area back over to the Bavarian government back in the early 50s, in order to keep it from being turned into a Nazi shrine.

Wait I may be confusing it with the Eagle’s Nest in Berchestgaden. When I started doing my preliminary trip planning, I think I saw that there are tours available for it.

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:40:40pm
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Lidane  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:41:39pm
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Joe Bacon  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:41:59pm

This should be Trump’s campaign song!

The Money Song

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:42:15pm

re: #167 TedStriker

So true.

Yeah you see those WWII home movies of Eva Braun with the the Alps in the background and you just think of what a beautiful place that is and then about how the murders of milliions were being discussed and planned there as simple as that. The films being completely silent adds to it too. Where there are people to be seen, there are no voices ot be heard. I actually have some home videos of family from the same era.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:42:30pm

re: #166 TedStriker

Well, there’s not really anything left of it, because it all was demolished before the US would turn the area back over to the Bavarian government back in the early 50s, in order to keep it from being turned into a Nazi shrine.

A person can still check out the Kehlsteinhaus.

en.wikipedia.org

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blueraven  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:42:37pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:42:48pm

re: #171 Lidane

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Compare that with what Sherrod Brown who has actually lived in a state like Ohio said at the DNC.

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Targetpractice  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:42:51pm

re: #165 Lidane

There are rules, you transparently desperate motherfucker:

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Wasn’t Josh Marshall just saying yesterday that Trump would do something like demand Johnson and Stein be allowed to participate so he could have someone to help him gang-up on Hillary?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:43:11pm

re: #175 blueraven

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Goddamn he just writes his own script.

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lawhawk  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:43:14pm

re: #163 zephirus

Not as far as I know.

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:43:47pm

re: #176 HappyWarrior

Compare that with what Sherrod Brown who has actually lived in a state like Ohio said at the DNC.

Listing the Ohio businesses from which Trump could have sourced his merchandise.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:43:59pm

re: #170 jaunte

Trump in ohio: They call it the rust belt for a reason: because everything is rusting and rotting!
— Pat Dennis

He means compared to his polished gold furniture in his regular guy home.

//

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:45:11pm

I EATED THIS BEFORE I COULD TAKE A PICTURE OF THE WHOLE LUNCH BECAUSE I WAS SO HUNGRY

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Charles Johnson  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:45:52pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:46:33pm

re: #183 Charles Johnson

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There has to be a way they can sue about that can’t there?

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zephirus  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:46:49pm

re: #168 Timothy Watson

Lab results were “astonishingly excellent”. But no mention of the bone spurs that kept him out of Vietnam.

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KerFuFFler  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:47:08pm

re: #86 sagehen

Gosh. You don’t want to live in a Faberge egg?

When I was a little girl I was very much taken with I-Dream-of Jeannie’s bottle. I was seven.

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CuriousLurker  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:47:16pm

re: #168 Timothy Watson

His gastroenterologist said he was the healthiest person to ever run for President.

Because he had access to reports about the medical condition of all other president, right? FFS, I’m SO tired of the hyperbolic bullshit.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:47:25pm
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Belafon  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:48:12pm

re: #183 Charles Johnson

Which is why he saved his fellow soldiers.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:48:20pm

re: #188 Charles Johnson

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Christ.

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dangerman  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:48:21pm

re: #152 ObserverArt

It doesn’t appear Trump is taking any questions at his town hall. Big surprise.

town hall = “listen to me”

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:48:38pm

re: #189 Belafon

Which is why he saved his fellow soldiers.

He had to save them so he could kill them later. Wait what?//

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Targetpractice  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:48:38pm

re: #188 Charles Johnson

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Translation: Herr Trump knows he’s going to lose, already laying groundwork to claim election “rigged” to assuage his ego.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:48:41pm

re: #188 Charles Johnson

Trump says he’s “afraid the election is about to be rigged.”
— Charles Johnson

Of course this is where we knew we’d end up.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:49:05pm

re: #188 Charles Johnson

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IOW, he knows he’s going to lose. However, his ego simply won’t allow him to admit failure. Failure is invariably due to someone else, or outside forces, or some sinister conspiracies; he’s never responsible for that.

He’s basically just admitted that he’s gonna lose.

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Belafon  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:49:31pm

re: #188 Charles Johnson

“People are going to vote for the candidate they like rather than me.”

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CuriousLurker  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:49:45pm

re: #175 blueraven

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Well, that’s okay because it was used to criticize President Obama.

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nines09  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:49:49pm

re: #130 nines09

Maybe they want to be Beautiful Parkersburg West Virginia?

Posted a PAGE. Probably posted it sometime in the past or mentioned it. Bears repeating with seeing this. And you wondered where their money was going? Wonder no more.

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CuriousLurker  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:50:28pm

re: #186 KerFuFFler

When I was a little girl I was very much taken with I-Dream-of Jeannie’s bottle. I was seven.

Heh, yeah the inside of her bottle was really cool.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:51:22pm

re: #195 Dr Lizardo

IOW, he knows he’s going to lose. However, his ego simply won’t allow him to admit failure. Failure is invariably due to someone else, or outside forces, or some sinister conspiracies; he’s never responsible for that.

He’s basically just admitted that he’s gonna lose.

I think he’s finally found his campaign message. No policy. Just “Crooked Hillary is rigging the campaign against me.”

/

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:51:24pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:51:34pm
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dangerman  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:52:09pm

re: #194 Sir John Barron

Trump says he’s “afraid the election is about to be rigged.”
— Charles Johnson

Of course this is where we knew we’d end up.

he as much as told the russians to do it

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:52:14pm

re: #202 Charles Johnson

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He has a camera that spies on her when she undresses doesn’t he?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:52:16pm

re: #130 nines09

Maybe they want to be Beautiful Parkersburg West Virginia?

Still reading through the article, shaking my head because it all sounds sadly too familiar.
This part just jumped out at me:

Callie Lyons, who catalogued the history of C8 in her book Stain-Resistant, Nonstick, Waterproof, and Lethal, traces the reaction in part to the region’s coal mining roots. For many West Virginians, disease and pollution are simply the price to be paid for economic security. “In the case of DuPont there’s also the perception that they could pack up and go to China at any second, so we’ve got to make them feel welcome,” Lyons said. “If you don’t, you’re not conforming to social norms.”

This is exactly why folks vote against their own interest time and again.
It’s an almost impossible mindset to dismantle.

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Kryptik: Just Done With It.  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:52:36pm

re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Had some dumb motherfuckers claim how this proved how little of a Catholic Francis really was, and how talking about Christian terrorism and violence was so much of a dodge from the REAL threat of solely Islamic Violence.

Had to point out that the Troubles were barely that long ago on the long scale and where only officially considered over just before the 2000s. Francis himself was probably on the inside looking out of a Church having to deal with a long-term reality of violence within and stemming from the Church in such a hotbed, and how to reconcile with such things. And that’s only in one section of the world. Islamic terrorism as a worldwide force and actor on the political stage, but apparently history started for us only on 9/11.

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ObserverArt  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:52:53pm

Just checked local NBC channel 4 and they have a crappy live stream going and Trump was complaining he thinks he should win the election like 70% to 30% and if not it is proof the system is rigged by Clinton and people like CNN which he called the Clinton News Network. He said he won big states like New York by 70% so why not the general elections.

There are some cheers in the audience of course, but I get the feeling it is not as high energy as Clinton’s rally yesterday. Sad.

Maybe a bunch of the people attending are not really Trump supporters and are there to see the circus.

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wrenchwench  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:53:25pm

re: #168 Timothy Watson

His gastroenterologist said he was the healthiest person to ever run for President. was sent in to locate his brain.

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Skip Intro  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:53:26pm

re: #165 Lidane

There are rules, you transparently desperate motherfucker:

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I called that one yesterday.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:54:00pm

re: #206 Kryptik: Just Done With It.

Had some dumb motherfuckers claim how this proved how little of a Catholic Francis really was, and how talking about Christian terrorism and violence was so much of a dodge from the REAL threat of solely Islamic Violence.

Had to point out that the Troubles were barely that long ago on the long scale and where only officially considered over just before the 2000s. Francis himself was probably on the inside looking out of a Church having to deal with a long-term reality of violence within and stemming from the Church in such a hotbed, and how to reconcile with such things. And that’s only in one section of the world. Islamic terrorism as a worldwide force and actor on the political stage, but apparently history started for us only on 9/11.

Francis in Argentina would have seen attacks by Christians. These people are fucking idiots. They think just because Francis points out that Muslims aren’t the only ones who have committed terrorist acts that it’s somehow him appeasing terrorism.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:54:22pm

re: #201 jaunte

The debate scheduling is rigged. The fire marshalls are keeping his sad rally sizes too small. The whole election and economy are rigged.

Just…I don’t know.

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blueraven  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:54:42pm

re: #178 HappyWarrior

Goddamn he just writes his own script.

I just cant imagine what kind of media storm there would have been if Obama, in 2008, had a campaign manager with very close ties to Russia, ditto a former Lt General/FP adviser; If he had included pro Russia agenda to the Dem platform and constantly took pro Russian positions against the US. president and trashed American Exceptionalism. It is unfathomable to me.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:56:02pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:56:14pm

re: #212 blueraven

I just cant imagine what kind of media storm there would have been if Obama, in 2008, had a campaign manager with very close ties to Russia, ditto a former Lt General/FP adviser; If he had included pro Russia agenda to the Dem platform and constantly took pro Russian positions against the US. president and trashed American Exceptionalism. It is unfathomable to me.

No kidding. Goddamn it’s criminal what he gets away wit.

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ObserverArt  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:56:25pm

Fuck it…I can’t watch anymore Trump. Too nauseating.

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Timothy Watson  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:56:59pm

re: #213 Charles Johnson

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Didn’t think you could manage a run-on sentence in a headline, but Breitbart somehow accomplishes it.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:57:11pm

re: #213 Charles Johnson

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Breitbart is a cesspool for bigots.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:57:28pm

re: #216 Timothy Watson

Didn’t think you could manage a run-on sentence in a headline, but Breitbart somehow accomplishes it.

Such excellent journalism.

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Kryptik: Just Done With It.  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:58:35pm

re: #210 HappyWarrior

Francis in Argentina would have seen attacks by Christians. These people are fucking idiots. They think just because Francis points out that Muslims aren’t the only ones who have committed terrorist acts that it’s somehow him appeasing terrorism.

Yeah, didn’t even think about that one, the IRA and such were the first things to come to mind where I had to stop and think that ‘Wait, fuck, that was still within my lifetime, how is that down the memory hole for everyone else where Reagan is still deified around here?’

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CuriousLurker  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:58:52pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 12:59:31pm

re: #219 Kryptik: Just Done With It.

Yeah, didn’t even think about that one, the IRA and such were the first things to come to mind where I had to stop and think that ‘Wait, fuck, that was still within my lifetime, how is that down the memory hole for everyone else where Reagan is still deified around here?’

Or shit the violence done by “Pro lifers” like Eric Rudolph.

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Big Beautiful Door  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:00:52pm

re: #58 The Vicious Babushka

Those pics probably were provided by the Trump campaign.

Weirdest campaign ever. Who would’ve thought that nude photos of a Presidential candidate’s wife with another woman could be splashed all over the cover of a major newspaper, and it would barely make a ripple because it wasn’t even the strangest news about the campaign that weekend?

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Mike Lamb  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:02:15pm

re: #201 jaunte

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That ship sailed a long time ago. Anything to de-legitimize a Democratic president.

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lawhawk  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:03:16pm

Figures:

These fuckers have no conscience, and they certainly wont vote for Hillary, which is the sane way to handle a debased liar and proto-fascist thug. So of course Cruz will throw support to Trump. Cruz’s religious fascism will get its day yet.

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Lidane  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:03:57pm

re: #213 Charles Johnson

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Kryptik: Just Done With It.  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:04:33pm

re: #221 HappyWarrior

Or shit the violence done by “Pro lifers” like Eric Rudolph.

I passed over those mostly because all it would get me is ‘lone wolf’ dodge bullshit. The Troubles and the IRA seemed like the most familiar organized thing to hammer home the point.

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CuriousLurker  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:04:51pm

re: #213 Charles Johnson

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How could any sane person believe that headline?

That’s enough toxic crap for me for now.

BBL

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jeffreyw  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:05:18pm

re: #182 The Vicious Babushka

I EATED THIS BEFORE I COULD TAKE A PICTURE OF THE WHOLE LUNCH BECAUSE I WAS SO HUNGRY

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I hear ya!

Imgur

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KerFuFFler  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:05:36pm

re: #220 CuriousLurker

Neat—I’d never seen this before: Crew filming Barbara Eden in the “bottle”

More photos at: I Dream of Jeannie: Inside the bottle (1966)

In reality, instead of this bottle being an exotic antique, its origins were much more humble — and much more local. It was, in fact, a cleverly-painted Jim Bean decanter, circa 1964.

LOL

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:05:43pm

re: #224 lawhawk

Figures:

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These fuckers have no conscience, and they certainly wont vote for Hillary, which is the sane way to handle a debased liar and proto-fascist thug. So of course Cruz will throw support to Trump. Cruz’s religious fascism will get its day yet.

Weasels for 1000, Alex.

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dangerman  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:05:44pm

thought question:

regardless of whether anyone cares or if he’s getting what he wants

is trump a “skilled” liar
or a bad liar?

since everybody knows he’s doing it

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Lidane  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:05:49pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:06:01pm

re: #226 Kryptik: Just Done With It.

I passed over those mostly because all it would get me is ‘lone wolf’ dodge bullshit. The Troubles and the IRA seemed like the most familiar organized thing to hammer home the point.

True.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:06:40pm

re: #225 Lidane

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Now, now we wouldn’t expect Breitbart to actually expect their pathetic slurs ot make sense.

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freetoken  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:06:47pm

The wingnuts just need Clinton scandals.

The latest is that Tim Kaine was selected via some nefarious agreement with the DNC establishment, because he was former DNC chair.

I have no idea why this is a bad thing, but I think the wingnuts are putting out nets to catch schools of spaining Berniebros.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:07:10pm

re: #231 dangerman

thought question:

regardless of whether anyone cares or if he’s getting what he wants

is trump a “skilled” liar
or a bad liar?

since everybody knows he’s doing it

Ask again after November. He’s gotten away with to this point considering his spot as the GOP nominee.

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Skip Intro  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:07:17pm

re: #231 dangerman

He’s a successful liar since no one seems to care that he does it.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:07:28pm

re: #232 Lidane

Typical liberal smear job…oh wait.

/

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dangerman  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:07:50pm

re: #222 Big Beautiful Door

Weirdest campaign ever. Who would’ve thought that nude photos of a Presidential candidate’s wife with another woman could be splashed all over the cover of a major newspaper, and it would barely make a ripple because it wasn’t even the strangest news about the campaign that weekend?

now that’s a sentence i never thought id read

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Scottishdragon  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:08:19pm

re: #213 Charles Johnson

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How does a retired lawyer of modest means have deep financial toes to anything?

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Lidane  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:08:41pm
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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:09:03pm

re: #237 Skip Intro

He’s a successful liar since no one seems to care that he does it.

Successful in that he can get a lot of people thinking “what can I gain by following this bold liar?”

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Sir John Barron  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:09:17pm

re: #232 Lidane

No, seriously… What is wrong with this man?

There are major issues to be addressed, and he’s being pressed on every side, with questions about his possible ties to Russia and how that may have played into the WikiLeaks dump of DNC documents. His insane attack on the grieving Gold Star parents, who just happened to be Muslims has been a hot item for days.

His lack of transparency, in regards to his tax returns is still an issue.

Reminder: these are RedState words.

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Scottishdragon  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:10:10pm

re: #232 Lidane

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What the hell do you say when RedState is the sane and mature actor in the room???

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sagehen  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:10:12pm

re: #125 CuriousLurker

Y’all know who I was thinking about this morning WRT the Khan kerfuffle? Former SoS Colin Powell, especially since he’s a retired four-star general. He’s been curiously silent throughout this election. If anyone has the balls to buck the GOP party line, it’s him.

Powell endorsed Obama twice, Rice was a little cutesy about it but sounded more-likely-than-not going for Obama. Ergo, Republicans don’t listen to them anymore. About anything.

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BeachDem  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:10:39pm

re: #207 ObserverArt

Just checked local NBC channel 4 and they have a crappy live stream going and Trump was complaining he thinks he should win the election like 70% to 30% and if not it is proof the system is rigged by Clinton and people like CNN which he called the Clinton News Network. He said he won big states like New York by 70% so why not the general elections.

There are some cheers in the audience of course, but I get the feeling it is not as high energy as Clinton’s rally yesterday. Sad.

Maybe a bunch of the people attending are not really Trump supporters and are there to see the circus.

Damn he’s an idiot (and a liar, but that goes without saying). He got 60.4% of the Republican primary votes in NY—about 525,000. Hillary got 58% of the Dem primary votes—more than a million. How the fuck does he see that as an indication he should win NY in the general? Hey, OK Donald, spend big bucks in NY (and California, as you’ve said previously that it was on the table for you in the general). That’s a great idea—the greatest, hugest idea—go for it, Donald!

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Skip Intro  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:11:26pm
There’s a real test coming up for our elite political media over the next three months. A plainly unbalanced man is running for president as the candidate of one of our two major parties. The old rules cannot apply. He, Trump isn’t hiding it. He can’t help himself. The Republicans are scared to death and puffing themselves up without taking the only moral choice, which is to renounce their candidate and vote for anyone else, up to and including Papoon, who remains Not Insane.

The question is whether or not our elite political media will take him—and events—at face value. And that’s why This Week With The Clinton Guy Shocked By Blowjobs wins this week’s House Cup. The entire transcript is completely batshit, from his continued bleating about how the Khans are being mean to him, to his sleazy innuendo about Ghazala Khan, to this remarkable exchange about the Russian intervention and annexation of Crimea and his prolonged slow-dance with Vladimir Putin.

esquire.com

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:12:25pm
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sagehen  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:13:03pm

re: #139 Belafon

I wonder if Powell and Rice are avoiding getting involved because of their private email servers. Powell, in particular, is still having issues over it.

Powell was much, much worse than a private server. He had an account with AOL.

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dangerman  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:13:22pm

re: #244 Scottishdragon

What the hell do you say when RedState is the sane and mature actor in the room???

im not worried
there’s still an awful lot of unhingement going on over there

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freetoken  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:13:42pm

It seems like a simple question:

What Would It Take for the GOP to Rebuke Trump?

That so many Republicans appear to have a hard time answering this ought to be troubling.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:13:54pm

re: #248 jaunte

some awesome policy details going on over at that rally.

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Scottishdragon  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:14:05pm

Right now, Nate Silver at 538 has Clinton back above 60% in the election models and he has her winning Pennsylvania by a very comfortable margin. Ohio, Florida and North Carolina are neck and neck. If Trump doesn’t get Pennsylvania, it’s game over. He has to have all four of those battleground states.

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dangerman  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:14:54pm

re: #246 BeachDem

Damn he’s an idiot (and a liar, but that goes without saying). He got 60.4% of the Republican primary votes in NY—about 525,000. Hillary got 58% of the Dem primary votes—more than a million. How the fuck does he see that as an indication he should win NY in the general? Hey, OK Donald, spend big bucks in NY (and California, as you’ve said previously that it was on the table for you in the general). That’s a great idea—the greatest, hugest idea—go for it, Donald!

math is hard

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:14:55pm

re: #252 Sir John Barron

He has plans so great he can’t even talk about them now.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:15:10pm

What in the utter fuck

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:15:14pm

re: #206 Kryptik: Just Done With It.

…apparently history started for us only on 9/11.

That was the date most Americans discovered that there was more to the world than America. They knew there was another world out there but for many it was something akin to Narnia.

Suddenly it was real, and scary.

As humans tend to do when faced with great change many Americans lost their minds, and a lot still haven’t gotten them back.

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Scottishdragon  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:15:20pm

re: #251 freetoken

It seems like a simple question:

What Would It Take for the GOP to Rebuke Trump?

That so many Republicans appear to have a hard time answering this ought to be troubling.

Finding him with a dead girl or a live boy, basically.

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:15:29pm
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Sir John Barron  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:15:30pm

re: #255 jaunte

He has plans so great he can’t even talk about them now.

He doesn’t want to talk about them because people might find out about them and something spies.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:15:47pm

re: #253 Scottishdragon

Right now, Nate Silver at 538 has Clinton back above 60% in the election models and he has her winning Pennsylvania by a very comfortable margin. Ohio, Florida and North Carolina are neck and neck. If Trump doesn’t get Pennsylvania, it’s game over. He has to have all four of those battleground states.

Yep. He can’t afford to lose any of those four states - and losing just one means it becomes mathematically impossible for him to win the EC.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:16:26pm

re: #249 sagehen

Powell was much, much worse than a private server. He had an account with AOL.

Oh, lord, the CD-ROMs….

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Lidane  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:16:27pm

Just hopped over to my FB feed in time to see a Republican acquaintance warn against voting Libertarian as an alternative to Trump because Bill Weld had the gall to praise Merrick Garland a few times. This somehow “closed the door” for conservatives to support anyone but Trump.

Honest question: What the fuck is up with today’s GOP?

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A Mom Anon  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:16:35pm

re: #249 sagehen

It’s funny how no one remembers that the Bush White House used the RNC servers for most of their communications AND deleted nearly 8 MILLION emails. And once again, Our Stupid Media can’t be bothered to do the slightest bit of, oh what’s that word again?….oh, JOURNALISM to remind the public about perspective.

God, I need to get out of Red State America, I wish there was some sort of refugee program. I’m not kidding.

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lawhawk  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:16:40pm

re: #241 Lidane

Mad Donny Trumpgaryen. Who, right now, no one will stop even though he threatens to burn down the political system with Wildfire.

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blueraven  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:16:53pm
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Great White Snark  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:17:23pm

re: #187 CuriousLurker

Because he had access to reports about the medical condition of all other president, right? FFS, I’m SO tired of the hyperbolic bullshit.

Not the first time a gastroenterologist was full of crap.

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lawhawk  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:17:27pm

re: #246 BeachDem

Damn he’s an idiot (and a liar, but that goes without saying). He got 60.4% of the Republican primary votes in NY—about 525,000. Hillary got 58% of the Dem primary votes—more than a million. How the fuck does he see that as an indication he should win NY in the general? Hey, OK Donald, spend big bucks in NY (and California, as you’ve said previously that it was on the table for you in the general). That’s a great idea—the greatest, hugest idea—go for it, Donald!

Because like so many GOPers, he doesn’t get basic math. Or doesn’t care. He figures he can convince people of whatever he says.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:18:26pm

re: #253 Scottishdragon

Right now, Nate Silver at 538 has Clinton back above 60% in the election models and he has her winning Pennsylvania by a very comfortable margin. Ohio, Florida and North Carolina are neck and neck. If Trump doesn’t get Pennsylvania, it’s game over. He has to have all four of those battleground states.

I don’t see him winning Pennsylvania. I just don’t.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:18:53pm

re: #261 Dr Lizardo

Yep. He can’t afford to lose any of those four states - and losing just one means it becomes mathematically impossible for him to win the EC.

That this election would even be remotely close gives me great concern. I don’t think it will be. But.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:19:05pm

re: #263 Lidane

Spite and hate are just like heroin.

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dangerman  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:19:15pm

re: #267 Great White Snark

Not the first time a gastroenterologist was full of crap.

or one of his patients

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:19:32pm

re: #263 Lidane

Just hopped over to my FB feed in time to see a Republican acquaintance warn against voting Libertarian as an alternative to Trump because Bill Weld had the gall to praise Merrick Garland a few times. This somehow “closed the door” for conservatives to support anyone but Trump.

Honest question: What the fuck is up with today’s GOP?

Nearly every GOPer in the Senate has fucking praised Garland. Hell I think Ted Cruz may even had said some nice things. Hey if GOP if you want to know why your party is fucked, look at your base.

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Targetpractice  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:20:55pm

re: #253 Scottishdragon

Right now, Nate Silver at 538 has Clinton back above 60% in the election models and he has her winning Pennsylvania by a very comfortable margin. Ohio, Florida and North Carolina are neck and neck. If Trump doesn’t get Pennsylvania, it’s game over. He has to have all four of those battleground states.

I expect that margin to grow now that the conventions are behind us, as aside from a black swan event, the only major road posts left are the debates in October.

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dangerman  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:21:52pm

re: #247 Skip Intro

+1 for the firesign theatre

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:22:02pm

re: #274 Targetpractice

I expect that margin to grow now that the conventions are behind us, as aside from a black swan event, the only major road posts left are the debates in October.

Agreed.

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Testy Toad T  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:22:52pm

re: #274 Targetpractice

I expect that margin to grow now that the conventions are behind us, as aside from a black swan event, the only major road posts left are the debates in October.

It is going to drive Trump batshit that he has nothing to win until the debates, presuming he chooses to participate. That’s what kept him steady (to an extent) during the primary season. He was getting regular hits of his drug of choice.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:24:07pm

LOLWUT

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:24:32pm

re: #277 Testy Toad T

It is going to drive Trump batshit that he has nothing to win until the debates, presuming he chooses to participate. That’s what kept him steady (to an extent) during the primary season. He was getting regular hits of his drug of choice.

And the more desperate he’ll get, the more reckless he’ll be. We haven’t seen Peak Trump yet.

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Targetpractice  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:25:22pm

re: #278 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:25:30pm

re: #278 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT

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Sorry Rush, LGBTQ voters aren’t simpletons like yourself who like looking at nude photos of other people’s spouses and that determines their vote. Have you been doing the same drugs that Trump has? It explains a lot.

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Franklin  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:25:36pm

re: #278 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT

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Because sexual orientation is all about sex.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:25:43pm

re: #280 Targetpractice

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Forget it, Rush is high on Oxy again.

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Shiplord Kirel  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:25:58pm

“stuck in the middle with……..”

(I’ll go to my room now.)

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KGxvi  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:26:44pm

re: #279 HappyWarrior

And the more desperate he’ll get, the more reckless he’ll be. We haven’t seen Peak Trump yet.

Peak Trump was a lie!

(too soon?)

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Big Beautiful Door  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:26:52pm

re: #188 Charles Johnson

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Which will be his excuse for losing. There will be no concession speech from Trump on election night.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:26:54pm

re: #284 Shiplord Kirel

LOL. LOL. Snort.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:27:41pm

Made me think of Pixar’s short, Lava

Lava (From “Lava” (Official Lyric Video))

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Varek Raith  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:27:43pm

re: #284 Shiplord Kirel

“stuck in the middle with……..”

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(I’ll go to my room now.)

You’re shorter than I thought.

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Great White Snark  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:27:50pm

re: #220 CuriousLurker

Neat—I’d never seen this before: Crew filming Barbara Eden in the “bottle”

More photos at: I Dream of Jeannie: Inside the bottle (1966)

Note that was shot on film, if they blu ray that it will look far better than we ever saw before.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:28:49pm

re: #286 Big Beautiful Door

Which will be his excuse for losing. There will be no concession speech from Trump on election night.

His “concession speech” will in all likelihood be him announcing he’s filing a lawsuit against the Federal Elections Commission or some such bullshit.

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sagehen  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:29:20pm

re: #228 jeffreyw

I hear ya!

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You post things like that, now I have run to Zabar’s for an entirely different dinner than I was planning.

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Lidane  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:29:21pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:29:28pm

I mean I get that Limbaugh is trying to be funny and use his “satirical wit” but it’s not funny and it doesn’t even make sense. Jonathan Swift looks at Limbaugh being called a satirist and just says “Dude, that’s not a satirist, that’s just a guy who spews bullshit.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:30:29pm

dammit
this morning:

now:

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:31:11pm

re: #293 Lidane

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Although, it’s very sad, I do think there is something deeply moving to be said about how people of many unique backgrounds are buried at Arlington.

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KGxvi  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:31:13pm

re: #288 FormerDirtDart

the world needs more Hawaiian singers.

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Lidane  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:31:45pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:31:53pm

re: #295 Backwoods_Sleuth

dammit
this morning:

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Man.

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ObserverArt  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:31:55pm

re: #231 dangerman

thought question:

regardless of whether anyone cares or if he’s getting what he wants

is trump a “skilled” liar
or a bad liar?

since everybody knows he’s doing it

I think he is a bad liar. But really it doesn’t seem to really matter. There is a lot of stuff that no longer makes any sense to me when it comes to U.S. politics.

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Targetpractice  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:33:10pm

re: #298 Lidane

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Ah, so the Khans are looking to profit, but Patricia Smith is just giving speeches and public appearances due to nothing but her grief.

Riiiiiight.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:35:06pm

re: #298 Lidane

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Well Mitt, this is why you should have fired him, not him being gay. He’s gay and a huge asshole.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:35:26pm

Anyone posted on this today?

A Georgia town is sending police to black residents’ homes to challenge their voting rights
rawstory.com

—Listed by Memeorandum

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calochortus  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:36:23pm

re: #303 Decatur Deb

Anyone posted on this today?

A Georgia town is sending police to black residents’ homes to challenge their voting rights
rawstory.com

—Listed by Memeorandum

Someone did earlier, but it merits more attention.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:36:50pm

re: #301 Targetpractice

Ah, so the Khans are looking to profit, but Patricia Smith is just giving speeches and public appearances due to nothing but her grief.

Riiiiiight.

That was different somehow. Man these fucking people are disgusting. Hell, I didn’t even know until later he was an immigration lawyer. And who cares if he is. Really fuck these people. I cannot believe we have a party going out of its way to justify and further attacks on parents who lost a child in combat being upset at a nominee who questions their patrotism. The GOP needs to lose and lose big. McCain and the spineless weasels can lie and say Trump doesn’t speak for their party and tis values but he certainly does.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:37:01pm

re: #301 Targetpractice

Ah, so the Khans are looking to profit, but Patricia Smith is just giving speeches and public appearances due to nothing but her grief.

Riiiiiight.

Willing to accept that both families, like Cindy Sheehan, are driven by personal banshees.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:38:15pm

re: #278 The Vicious Babushka

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EPR-radar  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:38:39pm

re: #258 Scottishdragon

Finding him with a dead girl or a live boy, basically.

How on earth would something as mundane as that affect Trump at all?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:39:54pm

re: #308 EPR-radar

How on earth would something as mundane as that affect Trump at all?

John McCain- Donald Trump sleeping with dead girls and live boys fundamentally violates everything the Republican Party stands for but I still support our nominee. //

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dangerman  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:41:40pm

re: #303 Decatur Deb

Anyone posted on this today?

A Georgia town is sending police to black residents’ homes to challenge their voting rights
rawstory.com

—Listed by Memeorandum

black people. only

the ‘perpetrators’ are despicable
that they can (at least for now) do this with blatant transparency is vile

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Targetpractice  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:42:05pm

re: #308 EPR-radar

How on earth would something as mundane as that affect Trump at all?

“That live boy/dead girl was put there by Demoncrat operatives!”

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:42:42pm

re: #311 Targetpractice

“That live boy/dead girl was put there by Demoncrat operatives!”

That dead girl seduced Trump!

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EPR-radar  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:43:16pm

re: #309 HappyWarrior

John McCain- Donald Trump sleeping with dead girls and live boys fundamentally violates everything the Republican Party stands for but I still support our nominee. //

Ditto Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and dozens of other GOP elected officials that are all aboard the Trump Exploding Cesspit of Satan Train.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:43:53pm

Seriously though, that’s a damn good question about what it would take. Maybe if they found video of Trump in the past year saying mean things about Ronald Reagan. Maybe that would do it. Not a knock on Reagan himself mind you but a knock on their Reagan Cult of Personality.

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garzooma  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:44:01pm

re: #308 EPR-radar

How on earth would something as mundane as that affect Trump at all?

Remember, there’s something in his tax returns that he does think he shouldn’t show people. Scary.

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EPR-radar  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:44:23pm

re: #311 Targetpractice

“That live boy/dead girl was put there by Demoncrat operatives!”

A Soros honeytrap!!!!

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EPR-radar  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:46:21pm

re: #315 garzooma

Remember, there’s something in his tax returns that he does think he shouldn’t show people. Scary.

His minuscule net worth, matched only by his minuscule dick.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:46:29pm

IT really needs rpeating that they need to be tarnished by Trump. Not just election but for a very long time.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:46:29pm

re: #295 Backwoods_Sleuth

dammit
this morning:

Missing Kaylynn Crawford, allegedly abducted from Dollar General in Loveland

I hate to say it, but to me this has all the markings of a false abduction.
I fear the child was left in the vehicle. and succumbed to the heat.

Kaylynn Crawford was allegedly taken from a car parked in front of a Dollar General

and

…Officials said the information they had received was “sketchy” and they were able to ping a cellphone in the area of 247 Center Street at the Kelly Nature Preserve in Miami Township…

…Officials did not elaborate on the importance of the pinged cellphone or who it belonged to…

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:47:07pm

re: #315 garzooma

Remember, there’s something in his tax returns that he does think he shouldn’t show people. Scary.

Maybe ‘cause it’s tied to this place:

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:47:36pm
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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:48:27pm

Trump voters continue to believe refugees aren’t vetted.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:48:51pm

re: #321 jaunte

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Murdered the right person, WTF.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:48:52pm

re: #235 freetoken

Welcome to last week. I saw that trope on my wall then. My response: how dare anyone aspire for a higher job position!

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:50:23pm

Modern day Nuremberg Rally participants as far as I’m concerned. Trump Uber Alles.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:50:52pm

re: #322 jaunte

Trump voters continue to believe refugees aren’t vetted.

Trump voters are morons hence why they’re Trump voters.

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dangerman  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:50:59pm

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:51:18pm

re: #173 HappyWarrior

Wannsee was an infamous resort and conference center where the Final Solution was planned. I wonder If any of it survived.

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ObserverArt  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:52:02pm

re: #263 Lidane

Just hopped over to my FB feed in time to see a Republican acquaintance warn against voting Libertarian as an alternative to Trump because Bill Weld had the gall to praise Merrick Garland a few times. This somehow “closed the door” for conservatives to support anyone but Trump.

Honest question: What the fuck is up with today’s GOP?

I was sort of hoping you might have some input into that question? : )

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:52:05pm

re: #328 Sherlock Hound

Wannsee was an infamous resort and conference center where the Final Solution was planned. I wonder If any of it survived.

That’s a good question.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:53:05pm

re: #314 HappyWarrior

Seriously though, that’s a damn good question about what it would take. Maybe if they found video of Trump in the past year saying mean things about Ronald Reagan. Maybe that would do it. Not a knock on Reagan himself mind you but a knock on their Reagan Cult of Personality.

This is an interesting article. It appears that Donald has never thought America was great and has only gotten more extreme:

In that fall of 1987, Trump was flirting with a potential run for president — even flying to New Hampshire to fan speculation. He spent about $100,000 to run full-page ads in several national newspapers, including The Post, with a critique of the Reagan foreign policy. “There’s nothing wrong with America’s Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can’t cure,” Trump said in the ad, which was written as an open letter. Using language that sounds a lot like his stump speech today, he complained that “America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves.” He then described the Persian Gulf as “an area of only marginal significance to the United States for its oil supplies.”

“The world is laughing at America’s politicians as we protect ships we don’t own, carrying oil we don’t need, destined for allies who won’t help,” Trump, then 41, wrote in the ad. “Let’s not let our great country be laughed at anymore.”

— A review of every Trump mention in the Reagan files shows that White House aides spent much of the 1980s trying to gently reject the mogul’s self-aggrandizing overtures without bruising that “large ego” of his. Here are seven examples:

More at The Daily 202: Reagan White House viewed Trump and his ‘large ego’ warily

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:53:08pm

re: #328 Sherlock Hound

Wannsee was an infamous resort and conference center where the Final Solution was planned. I wonder If any of it survived.

Yes, it’s a Holocaust memorial and museum now. It’s at 56-58 Am Großen Wannsee.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:53:22pm

And like typical good right wing stooges, these idiots blame the media rather than actually looking at what their candidate has said and done. And also don’t seem to care that Trump’s ally and former employee Stone said Khan was a MB agent.

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b.d.  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:53:32pm

re: #321 jaunte

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DEM PLANT!!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:53:56pm

re: #319 FormerDirtDart

I hate to say it, but to me this has all the markings of a false abduction.

I agree.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:54:30pm

re: #331 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is an interesting article. It appears that Donald has never thought America was great and has only gotten more extreme:

More at The Daily 202: Reagan White House viewed Trump and his ‘large ego’ warily

I imagine he was seen as a harmless clown by many which is why he was able to make cameos in movies throughout the 90’s.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:54:41pm

re: #321 jaunte

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Look at the diversity in that audience!

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:55:24pm

re: #332 Dr Lizardo

Yes, it’s a Holocaust memorial and museum now. It’s at 56-58 Am Großen Wannsee.

How far from Berlin is it? Worth a tour? My brother and I traveling to Central/Western Europe next summer and I plan to make it a strong 20th century bent in our sites.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:55:43pm

re: #337 Backwoods_Sleuth

Look at the diversity in that audience!

Why, one guy’s neck was red and the other was pink.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:56:14pm

re: #337 Backwoods_Sleuth

Look at the diversity in that audience!

Some of them fellers ain’t even wearing caps!

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ObserverArt  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:58:24pm

re: #264 A Mom Anon

It’s funny how no one remembers that the Bush White House used the RNC servers for most of their communications AND deleted nearly 8 MILLION emails. And once again, Our Stupid Media can’t be bothered to do the slightest bit of, oh what’s that word again?….oh, JOURNALISM to remind the public about perspective.

God, I need to get out of Red State America, I wish there was some sort of refugee program. I’m not kidding.

I had a bit of Benghazi and email back and forth with a Trump lover saying 2000 to 2008 was so long ago…it’s 2016.

So, I told him that 2012 is over too. So, what’s your point again?

And of course that didn’t change his arguments…still all Trump all the time.

I closed off the back and forth saying there is no point even discussing this with you because none of it matters fact wise so don’t take my time.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:58:36pm

Man, the footage out of Ellicott City this weekend was insane.

K0wwNzJCfkA+pZ/CCw5lDWzqkGppsPMOLUXy8F8lrSZPdxfGY7j4J9/9qBz13hoJQBRnudHNhnbOlx0b6wHg65kslZqoJolzlhw8SfTJVwj4mnHfnSDA4dwKHZI9UVog2EDKZ0jBNxem6R2IJOsuWw4EeEaBMWz4N3nfo4vA4KqxN29annJngTPAwFA3k32KGvX2YPKEeJfwQsvNGJeMTkYRGyl+P4TpkvWqhpZJ8Mj/z0zK4jje/UDzmnWXPSs/y4M06F76cdpqnltoX+EGXCbubSWYL+u6gwLRuV/n/geWH4E4/xhtE/wX81ZRhtkfogn5RCcgkb2qNXUe8ZY734MrIPlpdDafuVJVfvCDHLN96zHoY7Vsup8R2AtU2BEqahd+Y0wP2crwm8hbwaQU6e3OvhfChvr6Suqt3Vj7IJsSFT0PcFvERrUA85NEb0CBj1T6n3GaQD0N5De1U1YGkVdOa9DnFgSp6jwAOC6InA08z2BgoNLPX6Pz472s68Wuuv+Hwf6PfKX35u08kV/zwL11sAo3GriMjZbj1M3saMp82ITj7uUdMzVWJjDG0UegPNf1lQciaH7ejA/u2vFXSP/U2vel4tT/vk4bMmv9MrLHu3KGwAj9PEp8PG4zeng6RPvZ+Tk1pauPn2jTDC791BCoLMoPpiEuGwC2pDN5EDIOMsKgBbAliGRdHoz1H1a0PM3EEqMvELsGUGl7M18BHnBNrLJMsbrA+LlBzmDDg/gY8E9REk+1VXIImaXPjdQc7d9WVJrxMqVnmgMaumXitfIJO3gjnkGCo+H72V4dzplOBsqLjl1poZfU1uPrVFA8f85AIKzqt6XpPPvSZw01SR+V15Mtx4qf

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:58:47pm

re: #338 HappyWarrior

How far from Berlin is it? Worth a tour? My brother and I traveling to Central/Western Europe next summer and I plan to make it a strong 20th century bent in our sites.

You can take the S-Bahn, either S1 or S7, to the site. It’s not all that far from the center. I wandered around a lot of downtown Berlin. Hell, one day I came across this place:

which is the site of the Führerbunker where Hitler killed himself.

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2016 • 1:59:17pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:00:42pm

re: #343 Dr Lizardo

You can take the S-Bahn, either S1 or S7, to the site. It’s not all that far from the center. I wandered around a lot of downtown Berlin. Hell, one day I came across this place:

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which is the site of the Führerbunker where Hitler killed himself.

Okay, good, I think we can squeeze that in. I’ve actually been to Berlin myself. We even passed along the Fuhrerbunker but our tour really had no modern things outside Checkpoint Chalrie. It should be a neat trip since even though my brother hasn’t been ever, he actually can speak some German without making a dumbkoff of himself. Plus, we’re doing a side day trip to our great grandfather’s hometown outside of Frankfurt.

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KerFuFFler  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:00:52pm

re: #296 HappyWarrior

Although, it’s very sad, I do think there is something deeply moving to be said about how people of many unique backgrounds are buried at Arlington.

We buried my dad there just last September. We were too preoccupied to “look around” much but I look forward to exploring more on subsequent visits.

My dad was retired when he died at 92. I can’t really imagine the grief of families who lose young husbands, wives or kids in their twenties.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:01:29pm

re: #344 jaunte

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I will make empty promises that simpletons like you will believe because you will believe any garbage that comes out of my mouth. Crap, i didn’t mean that!

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:02:30pm

LOL

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ObserverArt  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:03:17pm

re: #269 HappyWarrior

I don’t see him winning Pennsylvania. I just don’t.

And I don’t really see him winning Ohio. If Mitt Romney couldn’t I can’t see enough people going with Trump. Add in the voting numbers of people of color is going to be up here in Columbus and most likely in the other big cities while some of the regular GOP folks stay home or vote elsewhere and it just makes no sense he could win this state.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:03:44pm

re: #346 KerFuFFler

We buried my dad there just last September. We were too preoccupied to “look around” much but I look forward to exploring more on subsequent visits.

My dad was retired when he died at 92. I can’t really imagine the grief of families who lose young husbands, wives or kids in their twenties.

I can’t imagine either. My grandfather like your dad was a veteran. He’s not buried in a Veterans cemetery or even marked as a veteran on his headstone. I always think about the beginning of Saving Private Ryan and the endless row of graves and thinking about how every person buried there had an unique story to tell. I do have a cousin buried at Arlington, like Cpt Khan KIA and foreign born.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:04:31pm

re: #349 ObserverArt

And I don’t really see him winning Ohio. If Mitt Romney couldn’t I can’t see enough people going with Trump. Add in the voting numbers of people of color is going to be up here in Columbus and most likely in the other big cities while some of the regular GOP folks stay home or vote elsewhere and it just makes no sense he could win this state.

I especially don’t see Ohio after he lost it in the primaries and Kasich isn’t supporting him I believe.

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ObserverArt  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:04:51pm

re: #278 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT

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I think Rush is suffering the same brain disease as Trump.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:05:03pm

re: #264 A Mom Anon

Maryland is pretty blue. I couldn’t live in a deeply red state either. Would be hard to be completely surrounded by people who believe that Trump is remotely Presidential.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:05:27pm

re: #352 ObserverArt

I think Rush is suffering the same brain disease as Trump.

Maybe they are taking the same drugs.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:05:33pm
356
Shiplord Kirel  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:06:26pm

RWNJ: Trump is not a Hitler!

Sane person: No, Hitler was smarter and had better taste. Mussolini maybe.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:06:48pm

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:07:15pm

re: #355 FormerDirtDart

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And here I was worried about a bounce when the emails leak. Feeling pretty good about this. I do wish she could get over 50% even with Johnson and Stein so she can have a clear margin of victory and no room for excuses by the Republicans.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:08:42pm

Warren Buffett is introducing her at the rally there.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:09:04pm

re: #355 FormerDirtDart

election is rigged. believe me.

/

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:10:12pm

re: #358 HappyWarrior

They will always have excuses.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:10:42pm

Is anyone else watching Ozzy and Jack’s World Detour on the History Channel? I am loving it. Husband is DVRing it and we’re about to watch the one in Texas which includes a visit to Johnson Space Center and The Alamo.

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makeitstop  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:10:48pm

re: #331 Backwoods_Sleuth

A review of every Trump mention in the Reagan files shows that White House aides spent much of the 1980s trying to gently reject the mogul’s self-aggrandizing overtures without bruising that “large ego” of his.

Why the fuck is everybody so afraid of hurting this punk’s feeling?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:10:51pm

re: #361 GlutenFreeJesus

They will always have excuses.

True.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:11:00pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:11:26pm

re: #363 makeitstop

Why the fuck is everybody so afraid of hurting this punk’s feeling?

I have no idea.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:11:54pm

re: #365 FormerDirtDart

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That’s a great sign.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:12:32pm

re: #358 HappyWarrior

And here I was worried about a bounce when the emails leak. Feeling pretty good about this. I do wish she could get over 50% even with Johnson and Stein so she can have a clear margin of victory and no room for excuses by the Republicans.

Obama won with over 50% two times. That didn’t stop Republicans from obstructing everything he proposed.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:12:35pm

re: #356 Shiplord Kirel

RWNJ: Trump is not a Hitler!

Sane person: No, Hitler was smarter and had better taste. Mussolini maybe.

Mussolini was actually a very intelligent man. Granted, he sure as hell backed the wrong horse in WW2, but Trump is nowhere near Mussolini in terms of smarts.

During the Munich Conference, Mussolini was able to speak with Hitler, Chamberlain and Daladier in their own native languages - Mussolini was multi-lingual. From all accounts, it drove Hitler nuts because he couldn’t follow the conversation.

This is film of Mussolini speaking English, taken in 1929.

(Very Rare!) Mussolini’s Speech - in English! (1929 Fox Movietone Newsreel)

He speaks quite well; easily understandable.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:12:53pm

Update from child abduction investigation:
MIAMI TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WKRC) - The father of an allegedly abducted 4-month-old baby girl has been arrested and charged with murder after the baby was found dead Monday, August 1.
Link

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HappyWarrior  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:15:53pm

re: #368 Patricia Kayden

Obama won with over 50% two times. That didn’t stop Republicans from obstructing everything he proposed.

That’s very true.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:19:59pm

re: #357 The Vicious Babushka

FINALLY I have received a start date for my new job (next Monday)
There was a background check and drug screen involved but I passed with flying colors.

So they never traced you to ‘VB’, eh? Sloppy.

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JasonA  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:22:57pm

re: #328 Sherlock Hound

Wannsee was an infamous resort and conference center where the Final Solution was planned. I wonder If any of it survived.

I don’t know if anyone brought this up, but HBO did a movie about Wannsee called Conspiracy that I highly recommend. Kenneth Branagh and Stanley Tucci put in excellent performances.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:23:31pm

re: #111 wrenchwench

I love that. I hear Arnold Ziffel when I read it.

With the theme song played on a harpsichord.

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calochortus  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:24:03pm

re: #341 ObserverArt

I had a bit of Benghazi and email back and forth with a Trump lover saying 2000 to 2008 was so long ago…it’s 2016.

So, I told him that 2012 is over too. So, what’s your point again?

And of course that didn’t change his arguments…still all Trump all the time.

I closed off the back and forth saying there is no point even discussing this with you because none of it matters fact wise so don’t take my time.

Did you ask him what would convince him? I’m always interested to know if people think they are open to facts, or if taking these things as a matter of faith is OK with them.

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ObserverArt  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:27:36pm

re: #375 calochortus

Did you ask him what would convince him? I’m always interested to know if people think they are open to facts, or if taking these things as a matter of faith is OK with them.

No, that is why I gave up because nothing would.

He has been gloating since 2010 when the Democrats lost the house. He thinks this is all an indication that liberalism and progressive thinking is dead in this country and is just fine with that thinking.

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calochortus  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:31:24pm

re: #376 ObserverArt

I’d still love to know if these folks believe there is any evidence that would change their minds.
Like the guy I mentioned earlier who was going to vote Jill Stein because his state is solidly blue and he wants to strengthen other parties. When I mentioned Stein’s anti-vaxxer position, he was all Nope. Clinton it is. A simple fact changed his mind.
A lot of people would simply rationalize it and move on.

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John Q  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:41:41pm

So much for his campaign slogan “Country First”!!

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 1, 2016 • 2:59:49pm

re: #278 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT

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m0nkeyb0y  Aug 1, 2016 • 4:10:32pm

re: #369 Dr Lizardo

wow, Mussolini actually says “…by fellow citizens who are working to make America great.” at ~1:08


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