Watch Live: Donald Trump’s “Foreign Policy” Speech at Youngstown State University

Yes, those are scare quotes around “foreign policy”
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Predictions: the magic words “radical Islamic terrorism” will be repeated over and over, and he’ll continue stating his crazy theme that President Obama and Hillary Clinton are the “founders of ISIS,” claiming that he’s being “sarcastic, but not that sarcastic.”

This is going to be the standard right wing line of fear-mongering against Muslims, with Trump’s added stench of fascist nationalism and xenophobia.

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Jenner7  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:29:55am

Nausism. lol

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:30:25am

teleprompters.
how long before he ignores them?

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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:31:12am
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Jenner7  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:31:12am

ROFLMAO!! LB….GT….

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451_Montag  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:32:40am

re: #4 Jenner7

ROFLMAO!! LB….GT….

Q

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:32:47am
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Jenner7  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:32:51am

This is the worst yet using the teleprompter.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:33:38am
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Kragar  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:33:46am

re: #3 Charles Johnson

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Kragar  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:34:11am

re: #4 Jenner7

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Stanley Sea  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:34:18am

re: #4 Jenner7

ROFLMAO!! LB….GT….

QQQQQQQQQQQQQq

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:34:24am
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Jenner7  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:35:06am

He looks tired, his voice is strained.

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451_Montag  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:35:29am

Jeez, I had a more fluent “Speak’n’Spell” as a kid

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lockjawcanbefun  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:35:38am

“Radical Islam”

CHUG!

Well, It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere.

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nines09  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:35:58am

re: #13 Jenner7

He looks tired, his voice is strained.

Crash time.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:36:12am
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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:36:56am
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nines09  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:37:54am

re: #18 Charles Johnson

He has nothing but fear to peddle.

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451_Montag  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:39:05am

re: #18 Charles Johnson

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3 now in The time it took you to tweet!!

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nines09  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:39:15am

re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth

Words. Hard.

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Jenner7  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:40:30am
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451_Montag  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:40:36am

Fucking hell. I wouldn’t even follow my GPS if it sounded like this, let alone vote for it.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:41:06am
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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:41:26am
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Jenner7  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:41:34am

Refresh #22 for video of Rudy forgetting 9/11.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:41:35am

re: #22 Jenner7

9/11 occurred during President Gore’s Administration.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:41:39am
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nines09  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:44:38am

Trump read words. Like words. Think know what words mean. Like sound. Important. Trump wager him words are good. Ups ante. Like. They like. Say more. Gesture. Crowd eat up. Tell same words get cheers last time. Crowds like. Say more. More. MORE. MORE.

Off to water. Half past August. Crap. It’s Beer Thirty. Slainte.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:45:33am

He’s not going to get around to actually talking about his “plan”, is he?

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Timothy Watson  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:45:37am

re: #28 Charles Johnson

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You’re going to be as drunk as Peggy Noonan if you keep it up!

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Jenner7  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:45:42am

Do you support the war?

“Yea, I guess so.”

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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:46:16am
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Skip Intro  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:46:20am

re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s not going to get around to actually talking about his “plan”, is he?

What plan?

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Kragar  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:46:20am

re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth

“OBAMA CLINTON BAD!” is his plan.

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Jenner7  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:46:42am
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Eventual Carrion  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:48:18am

re: #9 Kragar

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Reads like officer Barbrady

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:48:36am

Maybe it’s time for Donald to pull out the charts and liven things up.
Or do another dramatic reading of the snake poem.

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Lidane  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:48:36am

re: #13 Jenner7

He looks tired, his voice is strained.

Low energy. Sad!

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:48:38am

I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I

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Jenner7  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:49:05am

“First, I’d get out of Iraq right now.” —Trump in 2008

buzzfeed.com

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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:49:23am

“Myoobarrack.”

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Skip Intro  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:49:54am

Can we hear the story about the snake again?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:50:12am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:50:58am
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Sir John Barron  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:50:59am

re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s not going to get around to actually talking about his “plan”, is he?

Oh he flew by the plan in a couple of seconds, so fast you missed it.

//

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calochortus  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:52:22am

So basically, we should have made Iraq a colony, because colonialism there worked so very well before.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:52:23am

re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth

So we shouldn’t have invaded Iraq in the first place, but we should have kept all the oil once we were there. And how is a reconstituted nation of Iraq supposed to support its people?

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S'latch  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:52:31am

As soon as I clicked on it and started listening … RADICAL ISLAM! … .

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:52:38am

“to the victor go the spoils”

good fucking grief

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:52:38am

re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s not going to get around to actually talking about his “plan”, is he?

TAKE THE OIL

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Sir John Barron  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:53:14am

re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth

“to the victor go the spoils”

good fucking grief

Seriously?

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Kragar  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:54:42am
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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:55:15am
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Eventual Carrion  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:55:17am

re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth

“to the victor go the spoils”

good fucking grief

But according to the GOP we lost because of Obummer, right?

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Lidane  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:55:22am

re: #48 Sir John Barron

And how is a reconstituted nation of Iraq supposed to support its people?

By becoming a Trump sweatshop.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:55:47am

“wouldn’t it be great to find common ground with Russia to fight ISIS…”

oh.

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TK-421  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:56:30am

So my dad just called. First thing he says is “so the ni*clang are burning the city down?”. “Fuck you and your racist filth. Why the fuck you spew that garbage at me?” Click.

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Belafon  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:57:04am

re: #54 Charles Johnson

I wonder if Manafort whispers in Trump’s ear while he’s asleep.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:57:33am

re: #54 Charles Johnson

So, nothing suspicious about Trump’s affinity for Russia and Putin and Russia’s hack of the DNC or anything like that.

///

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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:58:15am
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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:58:25am

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

“wouldn’t it be great to find common ground with Russia to fight ISIS…”

oh.

TEH RUSSIANS WILL DO ALL TEH WAR CRIMES TAHT IS TOO POLITICALLY INCORRECT FOR AMERICANS TO DO!!!1!!

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Belafon  Aug 15, 2016 • 11:58:46am

re: #61 Charles Johnson

Which is how China likes it.

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wrenchwench  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:00:01pm

re: #58 TK-421

So my dad just called. First thing he says is “so the ni*clang are burning the city down?”. “Fuck you and your racist filth. Why the fuck you spew that garbage at me?” Click.

I think he needed to hear that from you. You did not need to hear from him.

{{{TK-421}}}

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lawhawk  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:00:06pm

This is just bug nuts and is a collection of random talking points that don’t constitute a coherent foreign policy in the slightest.

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Big Beautiful Door  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:01:16pm

re: #54 Charles Johnson

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The common ground is really great Trump properties that Russians have been heavily investing in.

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Lidane  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:02:28pm
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Jenner7  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:02:43pm

Wonder if the official policy will be named”Extreme…EXTREME vetting” ?

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retired cynic  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:02:53pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

Little white hands and big orange face. It’s the Great Pumpkin! He’s not as benign as I thought.

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TK-421  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:02:54pm

re: #64 wrenchwench

Mr Hippy Dippy drum circle guy. As racist as any good ol’ boy.

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Jenner7  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:03:04pm

So, when are we kicking Trump out?

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Lidane  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:03:28pm

Heh.

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451_Montag  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:03:41pm

re: #68 Jenner7

Wonder if the official policy will be named”Extreme…EXTREME vetting” ?

Extreme vetting… skateboard, tats and scrubby facial hair dude

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calochortus  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:03:57pm

re: #65 lawhawk

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This is just bug nuts and is a collection of random talking points that don’t constitute a coherent foreign policy in the slightest.

That’s not cognitive dissonance. We’re obviously going to go into nations like a bull in a china shop, take what we want, kill whom we choose, and not do a thing to build back the countries we destroy.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:04:03pm
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makeitstop  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:04:11pm

re: #72 Lidane

Heh.

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Cuban going after Trump is the best.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:04:16pm
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wrenchwench  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:04:35pm

re: #70 TK-421

Mr Hippy Dippy drum circle guy. As racist as any good ol’ boy.

Maybe he needs to hear it again!

(No. Take care of yourself and family.)

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:04:36pm
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lawhawk  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:05:21pm

Malcolm Nance is fisking Trump’s speech in near real time:


- and follow that tweet storm.

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Big Steve  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:05:45pm

I see they have toned down the Cheeto dust make-up on Trump.

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451_Montag  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:06:51pm

Well this is fucking horrible

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:07:23pm

My liver will not let me play the “radical Islam” drinking game.

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Nyet  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:07:25pm

re: #68 Jenner7

Wonder if the official policy will be named”Extreme…EXTREME vetting” ?

ov ze bed.

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Lidane  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:07:43pm

re: #76 makeitstop

Cuban going after Trump is the best.

He’s also busy taking Carl Icahn to the shed on his Twitter feed. It’s fun.

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Skip Intro  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:07:56pm

re: #82 451_Montag

Well this is fucking horrible

Wait until CNN has Katrina Pierson on to explain what he meant to say.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:08:00pm
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Kragar  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:08:07pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:08:25pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:08:44pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:09:16pm
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Franklin  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:10:04pm

re: #80 lawhawk

Malcolm Nance is fisking Trump’s speech in near real time:

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- and follow that tweet storm.

LOL

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BlackPearl  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:10:31pm

re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth

Uh, what’s wrong with Angela Merkel? Most Germans think she’s wonderful.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:10:39pm

I forget, was Hillary or Obama president during 9/11.

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Skip Intro  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:11:18pm

re: #94 I Would Prefer Not To

I forget, was Hillary or Obama president during 9/11.

Bill Clinton was in his third term, I believe.

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makeitstop  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:11:34pm

re: #93 BlackPearl

Uh, what’s wrong with Angela Merkel? Most Germans think she’s wonderful.

Putin Manafort instructed him to diss Merkel.

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Lidane  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:12:01pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:12:43pm
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lawhawk  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:13:06pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:13:12pm

re: #89 The Vicious Babushka

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“When I am President, we will do away with namby, pamby political correctness. All Muslims will be required to wear Green Crescents on their clothes so that real Americans will know who they are, and we will have a network of paid informers to report their suspicious activities, like going outside after curfew, or gathering in radical Islamic terrorist cells, known as Mosques.”///

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calochortus  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:13:26pm

I tried. I just can’t listen to this drivel. So I wandered over to FR to see how they were taking it. As far as I can see, they aren’t.

Unless I missed it, there is no thread to discuss Trump’s allegedly major policy speech.

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Kragar  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:13:45pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:13:46pm
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Lidane  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:14:13pm
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Skip Intro  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:14:16pm

re: #97 Lidane

Most of Trump’s kids are the children of immigrants.

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wrenchwench  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:14:50pm

Here’s an immense void that’s pleasant to look at:

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Big Beautiful Door  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:14:55pm

re: #95 Skip Intro

Bill Clinton was in his third term, I believe.

No, 9/11 was in 2000, because, as Rudy said, there were no terrorist attacks in the eight years before Obama became President.

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Jenner7  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:15:02pm

“We’re an exceptional country…..”

that doesn’t win anymore.

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Big Beautiful Door  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:15:46pm

re: #97 Lidane

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Including Trump, his mother and his wife.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:16:09pm
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FormerDirtDart  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:16:18pm
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Belafon  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:16:36pm

re: #108 Jenner7

“We’re an exceptional country…..”

that doesn’t win anymore.

Exceptional, but not great.

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Lidane  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:16:57pm

re: #105 Skip Intro

Most of Trump’s kids are the children of immigrants.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:17:01pm

re: #100 Big Beautiful Door

“When I am President, we will do away with namby, pamby political correctness. All Muslims will be required to wear Green Crescents on their clothes so that real Americans will know who they are, and we will have a network of paid informers to report their suspicious activities, like going outside after curfew, or gathering in radical Islamic terrorist cells, known as Mosques.”///

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Mike Lamb  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:17:20pm

re: #94 I Would Prefer Not To

I forget, was Hillary or Obama president during 9/11.

I lean towards “yes”, but it really depends on what day it is and why the talking point is needed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:17:24pm

re: #97 Lidane

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and 80% of Trump’s own kids.

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Skip Intro  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:17:44pm

Trump really does have an extremely limited repertoire. Sad.

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Nyet  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:18:41pm

re: #94 I Would Prefer Not To

I forget, was Hillary or Obama president during 9/11.

Gore.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:18:44pm
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Barefoot Grin  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:18:50pm

re: #84 Nyet

ov ze bed.

varm den cool

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Lidane  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:19:12pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:19:51pm
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FormerDirtDart  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:19:55pm

Obama flips Trump the bird…

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Nyet  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:20:59pm

re: #119 FormerDirtDart

It’s not Taliban.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:23:16pm
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Belafon  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:24:49pm

re: #121 Lidane

Remember when abandoning NATO and allying with Russia would have gotten screams from the right? You know, right before Trump announced his candidacy?

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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:25:00pm
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Sir John Barron  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:25:01pm

re: #107 Big Beautiful Door

No, 9/11 was in 2000, because, as Rudy said, there were no terrorist attacks in the eight years before Obama became President.

Clinton orchestrated 9/11 to avoid Impeachment. Wag The Dog.

Wake Up America!!!!!!

/

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:25:55pm
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Lidane  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:26:20pm

re: #126 Belafon

Remember when abandoning NATO and allying with Russia would have gotten screams from the right? You know, right before Trump announced his candidacy?

Pfft. That was before Obama got elected over RWNJ objections. Twice.

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Great White Snark  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:27:28pm

re: #122 Charles Johnson

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:27:41pm

I could watch, but I won’t. From what LGF is reporting, his foreign policy sounds like it was cribbed from drunken rants overheard at redneck bars. “Keep all their oil!”

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Nyet  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:28:04pm

I love how the guy that accuses Trump of being a history moron on the basis of not knowing that Reagan supported Taliban does not know that Taliban only appeared after Reagan’s last term in office.

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Kragar  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:28:35pm
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Nyet  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:29:28pm

Mujahideen, Taliban - they are all scary brown guys in similar clothes, so they are all the same. If you don’t accept this, you’re a history moron! /

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Great White Snark  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:29:42pm

re: #132 Barefoot Grin

I could watch, but I won’t. From what LGF is reporting, his foreign policy sounds like it was cribbed from drunken rants overheard at redneck bars. “Keep all their oil!”

Makes perfect sense as that’s all the votes he will get.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:31:58pm

and Trump builds hotels in the same kind of countries

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Lidane  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:34:00pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:36:15pm
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Sir John Barron  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:36:15pm

re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump: The Clinton foundation accepted money from countries “where being gay is an offense cnn.com snappytv.com

— CNN Politics

Trump not staying on message that the gays are the devil.

/

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:37:12pm

re: #135 Nyet

Mujahideen, Taliban - they are all scary brown guys in similar clothes, so they are all the same. If you don’t accept this, you’re a history moron! /

It would be hard to explain the assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud if Reagan were supporting the Taliban.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:38:49pm
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Lidane  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:39:44pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:39:49pm

Still obsessed!

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Kryptik: Just Done With It.  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:40:49pm

re: #93 BlackPearl

Uh, what’s wrong with Angela Merkel? Most Germans think she’s wonderful.

Usual right-wing fever swamps hold it as a self-evident truth that Merkel has invited the refugee horde, among other immigrant infestations, to destroy the culture and stability of all of Germany, all for a PC agenda.

God knows how many times I’ve seen idiots point to something to prove that all refugees are ‘wolves in sheeps clothing’ and instituting sharia on the streets as we speak.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:41:00pm

re: #143 Lidane

Hillary on her A game today.

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Skip Intro  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:41:23pm

re: #142 Backwoods_Sleuth

If she hits him with statements like that during the debate he’s going to either hit her or storm off of the stage.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:41:35pm

re: #144 Charles Johnson

Still obsessed!

Wait, Drudge is turning into Charles? What does this mean?

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:41:38pm

Tom Levenson over at Balloon Juice—just for the title:

My Gob is Smacked Past All Smackeration. Thanks, Rudy

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Kragar  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:43:40pm
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lawhawk  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:44:01pm

Yeah, Rudy went there. I have to wonder if Rudy’s suffering from Trumpitis - the inability to articulate and remember facts.

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Belafon  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:44:27pm

re: #146 Sir John Barron

Hillary on her A game today.

That would be her Twitter team, but they’ve been pretty stellar throughout the campaign.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:44:57pm

Man, there’s gonna be one hell of a “Stars & Bars” parade this weekend, at the latest

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:46:52pm
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lawhawk  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:47:34pm
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Skip Intro  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:50:02pm

re: #154 FormerDirtDart

If the GOP does that who’s going to pay for the kid’s vacations?

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unproven innocence  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:51:38pm

re: #154 FormerDirtDart

Finally someone is using words that Trump understands.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:52:44pm

Text of his speech with footnotes.
Some of those footnotes are WaPo and NYT…how odd that Donald would use dishonest news sources////////////////////////

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Lidane  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:53:14pm
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lawhawk  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:54:22pm
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Kragar  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:56:51pm
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ObserverArt  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:56:59pm

Just getting back in from a meeting…and is that Donny Trump I see in the page image with his hand on his heart?

I thought that was supposed to be some kind of a funky fake emotion thing.

Or is that only when Hillary and Michelle Obama do it?

I think I know the answer.

I was surprised…I went to MSNBC to see if they were salivating on some Trump but they had the Olympics on. A good thing. The less outlets the better. Of course, I may have missed his speech and they switched to the Olympics…but that too is a good thing.

On to reading all your comments…

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:57:49pm
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lawhawk  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:58:21pm
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Shiplord Kirel  Aug 15, 2016 • 12:59:15pm

Wingnut sheriff David Clarke doubles down again:

Sheriff David Clarke: Liberal politics and media fueled Milwaukee riots

The Milwaukee riots should be the last time the policies of liberal Democrats are held up as anything other than misery-inducing, divisive, exploitative and racist manipulation of the urban populations. Unfortunately they won’t.

As Sheriff of Milwaukee County, I am furious that the progressive left has put my citizens in harm’s way and that I had to send my officers into cauldrons of anarchy and hatred that were created by the left.

As an elected public servant I am livid that Milwaukee’s pathetic, kowtowing city officials and aldermen take this opportunity to abandon their citizens and preen before the Black Lives Matter-enabling media.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:03:12pm

re: #165 Shiplord Kirel

Wingnut sheriff David Clarke doubles down again:

Sheriff David Clarke: Liberal politics and media fueled Milwaukee riots

This wacko is something else.

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Lidane  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:04:01pm
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Franklin  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:04:21pm
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unproven innocence  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:06:14pm

re: #165 Shiplord Kirel

Wingnut sheriff David Clarke doubles down again:

Sheriff David Clarke: Liberal politics and media fueled Milwaukee riots

re: #166 Sir John Barron

Media == outside agitators and troublemakers. /

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:06:37pm

re: #168 Franklin

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Sir John Barron  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:07:00pm

re: #169 unproven innocence

Media == outside agitators and troublemakers. /

Clarke should stick to his job, or try doing it anyway.

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Lidane  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:07:04pm

The drugs are strong with this one:

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lizardofid  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:07:20pm

re: #165 Shiplord Kirel

Wingnut sheriff David Clarke doubles down again:

Sheriff David Clarke: Liberal politics and media fueled Milwaukee riots

The demographics of Milwaukee County baffle me. I could see this guy as a Sheriff in parts of Texas, but I didn’t think there could be that level of wingnuttery anywhere else.

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Belafon  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:08:59pm

re: #169 unproven innocence

Media == outside agitators and troublemakers. /

Love the (double) sign of a programmer.

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sagehen  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:09:29pm

re: #162 ObserverArt

I was surprised…I went to MSNBC to see if they were salivating on some Trump but they had the Olympics on. A good thing. The less outlets the better. Of course, I may have missed his speech and they switched to the Olympics…but that too is a good thing.
…

MSNBC has been doing regular programming in the morning and evening, Olympics from noon to 5pm.

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wrenchwench  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:11:09pm

re: #173 lizardofid

The demographics of Milwaukee County baffle me. I could see this guy as a Sheriff in parts of Texas, but I didn’t think there could be that level of wingnuttery anywhere else.

Think of WI as the Texas of the Great Lakes.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:12:26pm

re: #172 Lidane

The drugs are strong with this one:

Based on the number of Trump Twitter followers in those states divided by the square root of 47?

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Nyet  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:13:40pm

People who want “good relations” with Putin don’t get one thing.
The people who run Russia are mostly not good in the head.
I mean, when the official Russian govt. newspaper published a “serious” article about how the Russian military “ekstrasensy”/psychics connected to Madeleine Albright’s mind and found out her hostile Russophobic plans to divide Russia and steal its natural resources, it was just the beginning.
Meet new head of Putin’s administration, Anton Vaino, a previously unknown entity who has suddenly become one of the most important figures:

en.wikipedia.org

Here’s an article he published in 2012:

Just one excerpt from this pile of nonsense:

“Prognosis and prevention of crisis co-Events on the road map of development is performed with the help of the nooscope (described in more than 50 patents) - a device, consisting of a network of space scanners used for receiving and registering of changes in the biosphere and activity of humans with the help of transactions - film frames of co-Event - image of the crossroads of the space-time-life. The sensor network of the nooscope, starting with the new generation bank cards and up to the “smart dust”, unambiguously identifies co-Events in space and time”.

You cannot see these people as fully rational actors. They are either “grown-up” children or nutters.

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Shiplord Kirel  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:13:44pm

Another outrageous outrage from the usual suspects:
Crazy Uncle Joe Biden Exposes Military Aide with Nuclear Codes During Campaign Rally for Hillary (breitbart via freeper re-post)

Vice President Joe Biden revealed during a campaign rally with Hillary Clinton that he had a military aide with the nuclear football codes present at the event.

“There’s a guy that follows me right back here, has the nuclear codes,” Biden said, turning and pointing. “So God forbid anything happened to the president and I had to make a decision, the codes are with me.”

After Biden bragged about how the nuclear codes were with him, he said that Trump was “not qualified” to know the nuclear launch codes.

Er, no, you lying assholes. The existence and presence of a military aide with the “nuclear football” is not a secret. It would be a scandalous oversight if there were not one within earshot of the VP all the time.

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makeitstop  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:17:09pm

re: #151 lawhawk

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Yeah, Rudy went there. I have to wonder if Rudy’s suffering from Trumpitis - the inability to articulate and remember facts.

I gotta think he’s going senile. That’s the only explanation for Rudy forgetting all about his post-mayoral meal ticket.

(Well, that and whatever the Trump campaign is paying/promising him.)

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lizardofid  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:21:24pm

re: #176 wrenchwench

Think of WI as the Texas of the Great Lakes.

Gotcha, I think that should help me get my head around it.

; )

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Teukka  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:22:53pm

re: #178 Nyet

People who want “good relations” with Putin don’t get one thing.
The people who run Russia are mostly not good in the head.
I mean, when the official Russian govt. newspaper published a “serious” article about how the Russian military “ekstrasensy”/psychics connected to Madeleine Albright’s mind and found out her hostile Russophobic plans to divide Russia and steal its natural resources, it was just the beginning.
Meet new head of Putin’s administration, Anton Vaino, a previously unknown entity who has suddenly become one of the most important figures:

en.wikipedia.org

Here’s an article he published in 2012:

[Embedded content]

Just one excerpt from this pile of nonsense:

“Prognosis and prevention of crisis co-Events on the road map of development is performed with the help of the nooscope (described in more than 50 patents) - a device, consisting of a network of space scanners used for receiving and registering of changes in the biosphere and activity of humans with the help of transactions - film frames of co-Event - image of the crossroads of the space-time-life. The sensor network of the nooscope, starting with the new generation bank cards and up to the “smart dust”, unambiguously identifies co-Events in space and time”.

You cannot see these people as fully rational actors. They are either “grown-up” children or nutters.

DAFUQ? It almost makes Alex Jones & Co look normal? o.O

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Alephnaught  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:23:08pm

I’m just back from my holiday weekend in Llandudno, and, despite the lack of internet connection, I really enjoyed it, especially the Great Orme end of Llandudno. Here’s one of my favourite shots of the weekend, taken from when I was taking a cable car down Great Orme.

Flickr

On the top side of the north facing cliff of Great Orme, Facing Llandundno.

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freetoken  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:24:02pm

Here I will take the opportunity to remember that Joe McCarthy came from Wisconsin.

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wrenchwench  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:27:39pm

re: #184 freetoken

Here I will take the opportunity to remember that Joe McCarthy came from Wisconsin.

My mom shook his hand. She was proud of it at the time, but embarrassed by that pride by the time she told me about it. Then she proudly told me she had also shaken LBJ’s hand.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:28:00pm
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Jenner7  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:28:01pm

ZOMG NO WAY!!!

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freetoken  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:29:13pm

Perhaps it is presumed that racism in America is rooted in the slave-holding South.

However, the late 19th century/early 20th century European immigrants brought their own bigotry with them.

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William Lewis  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:29:46pm

re: #176 wrenchwench

Think of WI as the Texas of the Great Lakes.

It’s part of the Fox River Valley. After the Civil War we had an infestation of reverse carpetbaggers there and they’re still devastating the state, giving us plagues like Tail Gunner Joe & Scott Walker.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:30:18pm

re: #187 Jenner7

ZOMG NO WAY!!!

Can’t argue with the ALL CAPS!

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Jenner7  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:31:14pm
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Sir John Barron  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:31:17pm

re: #187 Jenner7

ZOMG NO WAY!!!

Lifetime costs of $400 billion? Does Trump think that’s a lot, an unfathomable burden?

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(alpuz)  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:31:53pm

re: #176 wrenchwench

Think of WI as the Texas of the Great Lakes.

*sigh*

I’ve split my time living in both states w/ a chunk o’ time in Arizona and Minnesota.
i think you’re pretty spot on w/ that assessment.

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wrenchwench  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:32:51pm

re: #192 Sir John Barron

Lifetime costs of $400 billion? Does Trump think that’s a lot, an unfathomable burden?

He’d have to hire one of ‘em to get that out of his couch.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:33:21pm

re: #190 Sir John Barron

Can’t argue with the ALL CAPS!


CONFIRMED!! FACT!!11!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:35:02pm
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wrenchwench  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:35:20pm

re: #193 (alpuz)

*sigh*

I’ve split my time living in both states w/ a chunk o’ time in Arizona and Minnesota.
i think you’re pretty spot on w/ that assessment.

My mom told me I should always be proud of having been born in Wisconsin, but now I’m not proud she’s my mom, so I’m re-evaluating things.

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Rocky-in-Connecticut  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:35:22pm

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Kragar  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:35:43pm
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Sir John Barron  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:35:46pm

re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth

Right down there with Stein.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:35:55pm

re: #188 freetoken

Perhaps it is presumed that racism in America is rooted in the slave-holding South.

However, the late 19th century/early 20th century European immigrants brought their own bigotry with them.

I grew up in Gary, Indiana, which saw an influx of black and white workers from the South during and after WW2, and they certainly brought their concept of race relations with them.

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Nyet  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:37:39pm

re: #182 Teukka

DAFUQ? It almost makes Alex Jones & Co look normal? o.O

Alex Jones *would* count as one of the rational ones in the freakshow that is the Russian power under Putin.

Normal approaches do *not* work here. Soviet leaders were autocratic but mostly rational (if impulsive, like Khrushchev) in the sense of the worldview. The current crop explores the murky depths of religious fundamentalism mixed with occultism mixed with general superstitious supernaturalism, all of this with a pinch of nihilistic postmodernism.

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makeitstop  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:38:17pm

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wrenchwench  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:40:16pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:40:33pm

re: #202 Nyet

Alex Jones *would* count as one of the rational ones in the freakshow that is the Russian power under Putin.

Normal approaches do *not* work here. Soviet leaders were autocratic but mostly rational (if impulsive, like Khrushchev) in the sense of the worldview. The current crop explores the murky depths of religious fundamentalism mixed with occultism mixed with general superstitious supernaturalism, all of this with a pinch of nihilistic postmodernism.

and unabashed self-interest and self-aggrandizement

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Sir John Barron  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:41:45pm

espn.com

Hmmm. What country is this that doesn’t win anymore but has more medals and more gold medals than any other country?

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wrenchwench  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:41:56pm

re: #204 wrenchwench

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TK-421  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:42:49pm

re: #176 wrenchwench

I call it Wississippi. Cowboy Dave and his deputies patrol the freeway and guard the court house. That’s about it. Oh, and they have an intimidation gig at Bradford beach.

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KGxvi  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:45:17pm

I’m suddenly wondering what Trump will do with himself come January 2017. Is he going to sit on twitter all day, every day, nitpicking everything Clinton does as president, claiming he could have got a better deal? And will anyone still listen to him or believe him?

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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:48:50pm

re: #179 Shiplord Kirel

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lizardofid  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:49:30pm

re: #209 KGxvi

I’m suddenly wondering what Trump will do with himself come January 2017. Is he going to sit on twitter all day, every day, nitpicking everything Clinton does as president, claiming he could have got a better deal? And will anyone still listen to him or believe him?

Watch out for the TRUMP NEWS NETWORK!

A minimum of 4 years of cryin’ “We was Robbed”!

1/2 ///

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:50:42pm

re: #209 KGxvi

I’m suddenly wondering what Trump will do with himself come January 2017. Is he going to sit on twitter all day, every day, nitpicking everything Clinton does as president, claiming he could have got a better deal? And will anyone still listen to him or believe him?

He’ll be President-in-Exile all over the Sunday shows, but you’re right, that won’t be enough for him. He’ll be tweeting 24 hours a day, and calling in to every show on the cable news channels. Of course they’ll let him spout endlessly—free content!

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:54:17pm

chutzpah

republican candidates boasting that they were always against the iraq war

republican candidates boasting that they will stop jobs from going overseas

republican candidates boasting about how they can do the most to protect gay people

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:54:23pm

re: #212 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

He’ll run for President of Crimea.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:54:35pm
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makeitstop  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:54:46pm

Regarding the Giuliani lie - I can’t wait to see tomorrow’s Daily News front page.

They’re gonna roast him.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:55:12pm

re: #210 Charles Johnson

WOW! Wow!!!

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freetoken  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:55:13pm

Back down to Australia, which is in its own surge-to-the-know-nothing-right movement:

Q&A: ‘You’re flat out wrong’, renowned scientist tells One Nation climate sceptic

One Nation Senator-elect Malcolm Roberts refused to be swayed by science or even a scientist as he argued against the notion of man-made climate change on ABC’s Q&A on Monday night.

Mr Roberts argued passionately that global warming is not caused by humans and that NASA tampers with world temperature figures as a bemused Brian Cox - the internationally celebrated particle physicist and TV presenter - tried in vain to change his mind.

[…]

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makeitstop  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:56:00pm

re: #214 GlutenFreeJesus

He’ll run for President of Crimea.

Once he loses here, Putin will have no use for him and he won’t even get on the ballot.

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freetoken  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:56:37pm

re: #215 Charles Johnson

But… but… but… Gavin works for NASA, and don’t they tamper with world temp figures?

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nines09  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:57:32pm

Did you ever have a friend, or know someone, who told a lie? And when confronted with that lie, just wove an excuse? And as time and questions passed, the lie became so big, so complicated, and so many had heard it and thought it to be true, that an answer like “you know” was sufficient to pass it on? And the person telling the lie carries this weight, and wants to get rid of it, but knows that he cannot. So he makes it a game. Tells more and more, layers it on, until the original lie is obscured by time and tide. Now it’s just an ego trip, because you’ve sold shit in a sack as groceries, and you just want to see how far it goes. You’re “winning”.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:59:17pm

re: #197 wrenchwench

My mom told me I should always be proud of having been born in Wisconsin, but now I’m not proud she’s my mom, so I’m re-evaluating things.

The cheddar is still pretty damn worthy of pride.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:59:18pm

re: #221 nines09

It is fun when you have people rationalizing and making up excuses for your “sarcasm” or “straight talk”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 15, 2016 • 1:59:45pm

re: #222 klys (maker of Silmarils)

The cheddar is still pretty damn worthy of pride.

Cheese-induced arteriosclerosis?

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:00:18pm

re: #224 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Cheese-induced arteriosclerosis?

I prefer to think of it as “incentive to exercise.”

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nines09  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:01:10pm

re: #197 wrenchwench

Matters not where you come from, state, family, clan. Only who you are.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:01:58pm
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nines09  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:02:27pm

re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Straight talkers” always need an interpreter.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:03:53pm

re: #218 freetoken

Back down to Australia, which is in its own surge-to-the-know-nothing-right movement:

Q&A: ‘You’re flat out wrong’, renowned scientist tells One Nation climate sceptic

Seems like climate denial is particularly frenzied in Australia. I guess that’s understandable. Of First World nations, it will become uninhabitable first.

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freetoken  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:04:39pm

re: #229 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Mining interests are very strong there.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:05:40pm

re: #176 wrenchwench

Think of WI as the Texas of the Great Lakes.

They’d have to arm-wrestle Michigan for the title.

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freetoken  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:07:10pm

NRO is now, again, pushing the “voter fraud” meme.

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retired cynic  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:08:28pm

re: #185 wrenchwench

My mom shook his hand. She was proud of it at the time, but embarrassed by that pride by the time she told me about it. Then she proudly told me she had also shook LBJ’s hand.

My husband ate dinner with him once. He said McCarthy was quite charming, as most politicians are, but he (my husband) was quite aware of how McCarthy was tearing the country apart at the time.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:11:39pm

dear mr trump

president obama was already “bombing the shit out of isis” when you were “firing” people on your “reality” tv show

president obama was alreadyvdisrupting isis’ recruiting attempts and financing while you were being sued for deceptive business practices

american security agencies were already intensely vetting refugees and professionally investigating internal threats to american security while you were enjoying the money you walked away with from bankrupting atlantic city and stiffing your contracters

now what were you saying, again?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:12:01pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:12:52pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:15:37pm

re: #210 Charles Johnson

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Who DIDN’T know that the nuclear codes have to travel with the VP?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:16:20pm

re: #237 Blind Frog Belly White

Who DIDN’T know that the nuclear codes have to travel with the VP?

Breitbrats, apparently.

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austin_blue  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:16:51pm

re: #234 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

dear mr trump

president obama was already “bombing the shit out of isis” when you were “firing” people on your “reality” tv show

president obama was alreadyvdisrupting isis’ recruiting attempts and financing while you were being sued for deceptive business practices

american security agencies were already intensely vetting refugees and professionally investigating internal threats to american security while you were enjoying the money you walked away with from bankrupting atlantic city and stiffing your contractors now what were you saying, again?

If Trump plans to be the Vetter in Chief, he’ll have to explain how he screwed the pooch so completely with his campaign manager.

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William Lewis  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:19:34pm

Ah the joy of cooking when alone.

A handful of spaghetti, broken in half so they’ll fit my sauce pan, a bit of red sauce from a jar (dia Fratelli, decent medium cost stuff. No HFCS at least) and a can of tuna fried in olive oil, garlic & herbs. Could be worse I suppose.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:20:10pm

BABY WHIPLASH, SELF-AWARENESS, CAN HAZ NONE
Insists that when police shoot Black people they deserve it because they are “thugs” (“Leftists” boogeypeople created all the “Thugs”)
Promotes his own “Thug Life” YouTube channel

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Ia! Ia! Trump Ftaghn! (née Sophist)  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:20:45pm

So, a question: does Trump ever laugh? Or even smile, really? He definitely smirks a lot, but I can’t ever remember seeing any expression from him that reflected joy, or humor or anything of that nature. Just smugness.

Am I just suffering from confirmation bias, or does he really never do that?

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makeitstop  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:23:13pm

re: #242 Ia! Ia! Trump Ftaghn! (née Sophist)

So, a question: does Trump ever laugh? Or even smile, really? He definitely smirks a lot, but can’t ever remember seeing any expression from him that reflected joy, or humor or anything of that nature. Just smugness.

Am I just suffering from confirmation bias, or does he really never do that?

Many people say (heh) that he is totally humorless.

And look at his ‘people’ - Lewandowski, Pierson, Omarosa, Manafort. Every one of them, just mean and dour.

Every smile I’ve ever seen on Tump’s face is fake AF.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:23:17pm

re: #221 nines09

Did you ever have a friend, or know someone, who told a lie? And when confronted with that lie, just wove an excuse? And as time and questions passed, the lie became so big, so complicated, and so many had heard it and thought it to be true, that an answer like “you know” was sufficient to pass it on? And the person telling the lie carries this weight, and wants to get rid of it, but knows that he cannot. So he makes it a game. Tells more and more, layers it on, until the original lie is obscured by time and tide. Now it’s just an ego trip, because you’ve sold shit in a sack as groceries, and you just want to see how far it goes. You’re “winning”.

Mrs. FBW worked for someone like that. He claimed to be conducting secret missions for the Government on the Space Shuttle, and did things like disappearing for the duration of Shuttle flights. He even showed up to the company Halloween Party with what appeared to be a NASA-issue pressure suit.

So I said, “How does the helmet go on?”

He said, “It’s easy! Twist, turn lock… twist, turn, lock…er, um…twist, turn, lock”

That pretty much confirmed to me that he was bullshitting. NASA wasn’t likely to send into space somebody who couldn’t put his helmet on.

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dangerman  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:28:29pm

re: #240 William Lewis

Ah the joy of cooking when alone.

A handful of spaghetti, broken in half so they’ll fit my sauce pan, a bit of red sauce from a jar (dia Fratelli, decent medium cost stuff. No HFCS at least) and a can of tuna fried in olive oil, garlic & herbs. Could be worse I suppose.

does jeffreyw deliver?

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dangerman  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:29:48pm

re: #242 Ia! Ia! Trump Ftaghn! (née Sophist)

So, a question: does Trump ever laugh? Or even smile, really? He definitely smirks a lot, but I can’t ever remember seeing any expression from him that reflected joy, or humor or anything of that nature. Just smugness.

Am I just suffering from confirmation bias, or does he really never do that?

he looked positively terrified when he was holding the two babies…

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:30:20pm

re: #244 Blind Frog Belly White

Mrs. FBW worked for someone like that. He claimed to be conducting secret missions for the Government on the Space Shuttle, and did things like disappearing for the duration of Shuttle flights. He even showed up to the company Halloween Party with what appeared to be a NASA-issue pressure suit.

So I said, “How does the helmet go on?”

He said, “It’s easy! Twist, turn lock… twist, turn, lock…er, um…twist, turn, lock”

That pretty much confirmed to me that he was bullshitting. NASA wasn’t likely to send into space somebody who couldn’t put his helmet on.

That’s a new one. Usually, I remark upon the fact that there are more Navy SEALS in bars than there ever were trained.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:31:47pm

re: #247 Sherlock Hound

That’s a new one. Usually, I remark upon the fact that there are more Navy SEALS in bars than there ever were trained.

Jesse Ventura, who actually was one, once said something like “There were fewer than 100 SEALS operating in Vietnam, and I’ve met all 10,000 of them!”

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ObserverArt  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:44:53pm

re: #175 sagehen

MSNBC has been doing regular programming in the morning and evening, Olympics from noon to 5pm.

Thanks. Did not know that.

And since I didn’t know, I may have to face the wrath of certain LGF members.

Pray for my soul. May the good lord forgive me, etc., etc. infinity…

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CuriousLurker  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:49:41pm

I’ve update my page on the Queens murders as they now have a suspect in custody. In addition to other details, I also pointed out this:

Kudos to Jewish activists who visited the mosque Sunday night in a show of solidarity, despite one Muslim activist having griped that Mayor De Blasio hadn’t yet visited the mosque, asserting that if the same had happened in the Jewish community he would’ve been there right away.

The Muslim activist may or may not be correct, but that sort of comment walks right up to the edge of being antisemitic (because he singled out Jews instead of saying, “If this was a Jewish or Christian community. It was big of the Jewish activists to show up in support nonetheless. I hope Mr. Kukon took note of that:

But Khairul Islam Kukon, a community activist and a member of the mosque called out de Blasio for not visiting the site.

“It’s been more than 48 hours,” Kukon said. “The mayor has not been here. If this was a Jewish community, the mayor would be there the next hour.”

De Blasio spokesman Eric Phillips said, “The mayor and our senior staff have been in constant contact with community leaders since the tragedy.”

Jewish activists visited the mosque Sunday night in a show of solidarity. Robert Silverman, 57, director of Muslim/Jewish relations for the America Jewish Congress, went straight to the mosque after getting off a flight from Indonesia.

“We’re here to show support to the Muslim community,” he said. “It was a heinous crime. We have to rely on the police to decide if this was a hate crime. We really don’t know what this was motivated by.” […]

nydailynews.com

Anyway, even if you’re not interested in the ongoing drama of that story you might be interested in this, which I wasn’t aware of until about an hour ago:

It was reported on Friday, the day before the Queens murders, that two other attacks (both non-lethal) that occurred on Wednesday were being investigated by the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force:

Hasidic man attacked in Brooklyn; Muslim man threatened in Queens

Two men attacked a 54-year-old Hasidic man on a Brooklyn street, one hitting the victim in the face with a basketball, the other ripping the yarmulke off his head, police sources said Friday. […]

The victim was heading to his apartment when the two men approached him.

No words were exchanged, but one of the suspects flung a basketball, hitting the victim in his face, while the other took his yarmulke, then threw it to the ground as he and his accomplice fled. […]

Also Wednesday, at 10 p.m., a suspect mocked and threatened a Muslim man walking past a library on 99th St. in Lefrak City in Queens.

“You Talibans like to blow yourselves up,” said the suspect, who was on a bicycle. “I have a blade and I can use it and take care of you.” […]

nydailynews.com

Making America great again, y’all—one hate crime at a time. //

I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

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CuriousLurker  Aug 15, 2016 • 2:53:56pm

Oh yay, I haven’t lost my touch—I still manage to post a comment not noticing that a new thread is up and everyone has already moved on. *SIGH*

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Aug 15, 2016 • 3:00:23pm

re: #251 CuriousLurker

Oh yay, I haven’t lost my touch—I still manage to post a comment not noticing that a new thread is up and everyone has already moved on. *SIGH*

I’m still here.

Being all slow lately.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 15, 2016 • 3:18:57pm

re: #169 unproven innocence

Media == outside agitators and troublemakers. /

A blogger I read had an interesting take on the Milwaukee events.

aelarsen.wordpress.com

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sagehen  Aug 15, 2016 • 3:20:44pm

re: #231 The Vicious Babushka

They’d have to arm-wrestle Michigan for the title.

Michigan would win that contest, because it has opposable thumbs.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 15, 2016 • 4:00:44pm

re: #159 Lidane

So sayeth its disbarred leader.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 15, 2016 • 4:02:11pm

re: #172 Lidane

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MsJ  Aug 15, 2016 • 4:28:26pm

re: #72 Lidane

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NoSoapForYou  Aug 15, 2016 • 6:07:57pm

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NoSoapForYou  Aug 15, 2016 • 6:10:11pm

re: #22 Jenner7

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Uh, other than that time on 9 fucking 11!

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NoSoapForYou  Aug 15, 2016 • 6:13:29pm

re: #36 Jenner7

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“I have stamina. It’s contained here in my penis, which is large and manly like my hands.”


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