White Supremacist Trump Supporters Protest Outside Houston NAACP Office

Racism resurgent in Houston
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Today in Houston, a gang of white supremacists gathered outside the NAACP office with Confederate flags, signs that read “14 words” and “White Lives Matter,” and Donald Trump caps.

It’s a stark image that caught some in Houston’s Third Ward off guard: Confederate battle flags waving outside of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Office.

Roughly 20 people showed up on Sunday, some with the red flag and assault rifles, others holding up a “White Lives Matter” banner, in a protest against NAACP, according to local media reports.

“We came here because the NAACP headquarters is here and that’s one of the most racist groups in America,” Scott Lacy, a White Lives Matter member, told KPRC-TV.

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Some information about the “14 words:”

“14 Words” is a reference to the most popular white supremacist slogan in the world: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” The slogan was coined by David Lane, a member of the white supremacist terrorist group known as The Order (Lane died in prison in 2007). The term reflects the primary white supremacist worldview in the late 20th and early 21st centuries: that unless immediate action is taken, the white race is doomed to extinction by an alleged “rising tide of color” purportedly controlled and manipulated by Jews.

(h/t: Jade Helm Commander.)

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1
Joe Bacon  Aug 21, 2016 • 8:50:54pm

Oh holy Mother of Sweet Breakfast meats!

Both the Daily Mail and NY Post are running the story alleging Huma Abedin worked at a “radical Muslim jourmal”…

I refuse to link to them!

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lockjawcanbefun  Aug 21, 2016 • 8:51:54pm
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Stanley Sea  Aug 21, 2016 • 8:52:23pm

re: #1 Joe Bacon

They’re going all out. Prepare. I’m sure Hillary has.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 21, 2016 • 8:53:46pm

Fucking asshole racist pops up immediately on Twitter.

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teleskiguy  Aug 21, 2016 • 8:54:53pm

Yeah, sure you are.

Automatic blocking function is activated.

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jaunte  Aug 21, 2016 • 8:59:04pm
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teleskiguy  Aug 21, 2016 • 9:06:03pm

re: #5 teleskiguy

Taking the LGF route with this asshole.

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Anymouse  Aug 21, 2016 • 9:06:35pm

re: #5 teleskiguy

Wow, that guy’s timeline on Twitter is the history of a first-class nut-bar.

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Anymouse  Aug 21, 2016 • 9:19:27pm
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Ziggy_TARDIS  Aug 21, 2016 • 9:23:31pm

Looking at the people protesting, the obligatory picture.

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Anymouse  Aug 21, 2016 • 9:31:52pm

Posted to the previous thread by mistake (too many open tabs, thanks Obama):

As a reminder, Carly Fiorina is organising to become the GOP chair after Reince Preibus leaves:

msn.com

We can hope she is every bit as successful as she was at Lucent and Hewlett-Packard. Please proceed, Mrs. Fiorina.

With all the troubles the GOP seems to be having, it is almost as if all the grifters are coming in to strip whatever assets of the party remain (both voters and real assets).

Of note, the Website she registered, carlyforrnc.com is a blank white page.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 21, 2016 • 9:40:56pm

Waiting for The Kid to come home from an all day metal show, a friend got a broken nose in the pit so it’s going to be awhile in the ER I guess. Man I wish I could worry about my kids less, lol.

As for these freaking fools, what sad, disconnected little lives they have. Can you imagine how fun they are to live with? Ick. I wonder when the last time was they experienced actual joy. Not the thing they think is joy, that mean, nasty sense of spite and anger in their tiny black hearts, but real honest to god joy. The kind you get from love, or from seeing beauty in the world, of doing good to help someone else, of trying to fix something, instead of breaking things and leaving a trail of damage behind you. And they have kids, I just can’t even.

I don’t know about people anymore. In the last week my world has been rocked to its core and I take not a thing for granted now. These dumbasses are obsessing over shit that isn’t real. They are mad at caracatures, so mad they themselves have become caracatures too. But they are dangerous. I have no doubt that at least one person in that group has begun stockpiling dangerous things and is developing a plan to hurt others. And for what? Seriously, for fucking what? The problems they imagine are based on nothing tangible. There is no plot to destroy them, they don’t need any help, they’re already broken. All this anger. I don’t get it. My family is about as white as can be, and we’ve lost a lot since the economy tanked in 07 and 08, we’ve struggled and tried various things to get ahead, and we keep having setbacks. But damn, we aren’t consumed by anger, we’ve just adjusted FFS. If they’re such brave patriots then why are they so mad and scared of everything?

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DodgerFan1988  Aug 21, 2016 • 9:42:53pm

But they’re not racist…

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Kilroy01  Aug 21, 2016 • 9:44:23pm

re: #11 Anymouse

Of note, the Website she registered, carlyforrnc.com is a blank white page.

Carly Fornicates? .com… well well.

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teleskiguy  Aug 21, 2016 • 9:46:32pm
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teleskiguy  Aug 21, 2016 • 9:53:07pm

Is National Review pro-Assad?

I refuse to click the link because reasons. I’ll infer here based on a tweet, how about that?

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William Lewis  Aug 21, 2016 • 9:54:20pm

re: #16 teleskiguy

Is National Review pro-Assad?

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I refuse to click the link because reasons. I’ll infer here based on a tweet, how about that?

If it’s against Obama, they’re for it. < spit >

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 21, 2016 • 9:58:17pm

Sad news, but here’s somebody who made a real difference in the world. Hard to believe these assholes upstairs are members of the same species:

Donald Henderson, who led effort to eradicate smallpox, dies at 87

P.S.: Antivaxxers—eat shit!

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VegasGolfer  Aug 21, 2016 • 10:00:24pm

re: #13 DodgerFan1988

Nice handle. Its a shame they havent won a WS since then. (I’m a huge fan too)

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Anymouse  Aug 21, 2016 • 10:17:03pm

re: #12 A Mom Anon

This.

OT: Mail on the table included a fundraising letter from Hillary Clinton to my wife. It was sitting on the top of the mail, and my evil feline overlord jumped on the table and peed on the HRC letter.

Well, I don’t think Mrs. Clinton wants that letter returned with money. She did save the rest of my mail though.

Cat is in hiding. Probably a good thing for him.

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Anymouse  Aug 21, 2016 • 10:19:07pm

re: #18 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Sad news, but here’s somebody who made a real difference in the world. Hard to believe these assholes upstairs are members of the same species:

Donald Henderson, who led effort to eradicate smallpox, dies at 87

P.S.: Antivaxxers—eat shit!

I will carry three of Mr. Henderson’s tattoos for the rest of my life in his honour (three smallpox vaccination scars).

My son does not have one (because it was certified eradicated before he was born).

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 21, 2016 • 10:29:55pm

re: #21 Anymouse

I will carry three of Mr. Henderson’s tattoos for the rest of my life in his honour (three smallpox vaccination scars).

My son does not have one (because it was certified eradicated before he was born).

Mine used to be really obvious, but a few years ago I realized I couldn’t find it any more. They used the same spot for the booster, so only one scar—and on the inside of my arm, which I thought they only did for girls.

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Ia! Ia! Trump Ftaghn! (née Sophist)  Aug 21, 2016 • 10:32:38pm

re: #1 Joe Bacon

Oh holy Mother of Sweet Breakfast meats!

Both the Daily Mail and NY Post are running the story alleging Huma Abedin worked at a “radical Muslim jourmal”…

I refuse to link to them!

Radical Muslims being notorious for putting women in important positions.

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majii  Aug 21, 2016 • 10:33:42pm

re: #12 A Mom Anon

Well, they have to have someone to blame because they didn’t reach their full potential in life. They sit and watch Fox News day after day so they can identify the group they should target this year. Last year, we’d probably have seen these same creatures hanging out in AZ with Jon Ritzheimer , messing with Muslims for no other reason than that they breathe the same air that they do. This year, it’s BLM. Although not every person who is associated with BLM is black, these tools think all of its members are black because it’s the way they’ve been encouraged to think. That they decided to gather in front of a NAACP building with their guns on their hips tells me that non-violence in not in their toolkit. Their game involves posturing, using their guns to intimidate others and talking trash. I’ve looked at the pic several times, and the only emotion I can dredge up for them is pity. I refuse to hate them because it’s not in my nature to do that, so I just feel sorry for them. I feel even sorrier for their kids who have to deal with parents like them.

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Anymouse  Aug 21, 2016 • 10:38:08pm

re: #22 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Mine used to be really obvious, but a few years ago I realized I couldn’t find it any more. They used the same spot for the booster, so only one scar—and on the inside of my arm, which I thought they only did for girls.

Mine are quite visible; my scars do not recede well. (I will leave out my appendectomy scar - it is particularly grotesque as it broke open when I was in the Navy and required emergency repair surgery at sea.(

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Lidane  Aug 21, 2016 • 11:16:53pm

I grew up in Houston. Cthulhu knows there’s plenty of racist shitheels like this in the city, ESPECIALLY if you head towards Beaumont.

White supremacists are so stupid. Skin color is literally the lowest speed bump on the road of life. If you can’t get past it, you seriously need to rethink your life choices.

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CuriousLurker  Aug 21, 2016 • 11:20:31pm

re: #16 teleskiguy

Is National Review pro-Assad?

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I refuse to click the link because reasons. I’ll infer here based on a tweet, how about that?

Pretty accurate inference, IMO. He’s a wingnut who’s very active in the Islamophobia industry. The scare-mongering he contributes can be especially damaging because, like some retired of the retired politicians & military guys, his words can carry extra weight for some thanks to his former position (as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York he prosecuted the terrorists involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing). He resigned from the DoJ in 2003. Oh, and based on the titles of his books & his articles at NRO, he’s also an Obama & liberal hater.

I’m sure he’s making a good chunk of change nowadays.

Books he’s written, from his Amazon Author Page:
• The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America (2010)
• How Obama Embraces Islam’s Sharia Agenda (2010)
• Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad (2008, 2009)
• How the Obama Administration has Politicized Justice (2009)
• Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy (2012)

Other books on Amazon not listed on his Author Page:
• Islam and Free Speech (2015)
• Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment (2014)

Then there’s this, also courtesy of Amazon:

And this, from an article by the Southern Poverty Law Center earlier this year titled “Meet the Anti-Muslim Leaders Advising Donald Trump and Ted Cruz”:

Andy McCarthy - Columnist for National Review, Appointed to Ted Cruz’s National Security Coalition on March 17

McCarthy, like Boykin, is not employed by an anti-Muslim group, but he is very active in the movement, especially on the anti-Muslim speaking circuit.

McCarthy recently claimed that Islam is not a religion and therefore may not deserve legal protections.

In 2010, McCarthy co-authored a CSP-published report titled, “Shariah: The Threat to America.” The report concluded with a number of alarmist recommendations, including a call for U.S. government to halt outreach to Muslim communities “through Muslim Brotherhood fronts whose mission it is to destroy our country from within, as such practices are both reckless and counterproductive.” Other recommendations included warning Imams that they will be charged with sedition if they advocate for Shariah in America. The report also called for dismantling so-called “no-go zones”—non-existent neighborhoods where law enforcement are rumored to be unable to police because they’re heavily Muslim.

McCarthy praised Cruz in a December 2015 National Review column. “Cruz understands that the most immediate enemy the United States confronts on the world stage is Islamic supremacism, which ignites jihadist violence through its state sponsors, terror networks, and activist organizations.” Like Clare Lopez, McCarthy has spoken at anti-Muslim events with Cruz, including the “Defeat Jihad Summit” in 2015 and the second National Security Action Summit in September of 2014. […]

splcenter.org

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Lidane  Aug 21, 2016 • 11:23:48pm

Flori-DUH Man is tired of Texas dumbshits getting all the attention:

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teleskiguy  Aug 21, 2016 • 11:25:29pm
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austin_blue  Aug 21, 2016 • 11:27:06pm

re: #27 CuriousLurker

Pretty accurate inference, IMO. He’s a wingnut who’s very active in the Islamophobia industry. The scare-mongering he contributes can be especially damaging because, like some retired of the retired politicians & military guys, his words can carry extra weight for some thanks to his former position (as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York he prosecuted the terrorists involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing). He resigned from the DoJ in 2003. Oh, and based on the titles of his books & his articles at NRO, he’s also an Obama & liberal hater.

I’m sure he’s making a good chunk of change nowadays.

Books he’s written, from his Amazon Author Page:
• The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America (2010)
• How Obama Embraces Islam’s Sharia Agenda (2010)
• Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad (2008, 2009)
• How the Obama Administration has Politicized Justice (2009)
• Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy (2012)

Other books on Amazon not listed on his Author Page:
• Islam and Free Speech (2015)
• Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment (2014)

Then there’s this, also courtesy of Amazon:

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And this, from an article by the Southern Poverty Law Center earlier this year titled “Meet the Anti-Muslim Leaders Advising Donald Trump and Ted Cruz”:

If I decide to write a historical novel, can I hire you as a researcher?

Damn, woman, that is some fine investigative work!

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BigPapa  Aug 21, 2016 • 11:29:37pm

Yep, CL has some serious Blog Fu.

Get a load of this:
Alabama Tea Party talk show host and failed politico busted for meth trafficking

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CuriousLurker  Aug 21, 2016 • 11:40:58pm

re: #30 austin_blue

If I decide to write a historical novel, can I hire you as a researcher?

Damn, woman, that is some fine investigative work!

Sure, LOL! It’s actually quite easy these days. Social media and all the other crap that’s constantly tracking your habits means that no one can really be online without leaving behind lots of footprints and obvious links to who they associate with.

Depending on how active they are simply searching Google for their name will result in the right hand side of the page providing a link to their Wiki page and generously giving you a handy-dandy list of related searches. Here’s what you get if you search for that shrieking harpy, Pamela Geller:

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CuriousLurker  Aug 21, 2016 • 11:43:09pm

re: #31 BigPapa

Yep, CL has some serious Blog Fu.

Get a load of this:
Alabama Tea Party talk show host and failed politico busted for meth trafficking

Just wait till you see the dossiers I’ve collected on all of you guys. BWAHAHAHA…

// Just kidding, people!

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CuriousLurker  Aug 21, 2016 • 11:46:26pm

Okay, accidentally clicked on a link to Horowitz’s FrontPage Mag and found this, so I thought I’d drop it off on my way to bed for your late-night amusement:

G’nite, scaly ones. ;-)

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 21, 2016 • 11:49:51pm

re: #34 CuriousLurker

Okay, accidentally clicked on a link to Horowitz’s FrontPage Mag and found this, so I thought I’d drop it off on my way to bed for your late/night amusement:

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G’nite, scaly ones. ;-)

Stephen Douglas (writing from his grave): I knew Abraham Lincoln, sir! And Donald Trump is no Abraham Lincoln!

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austin_blue  Aug 21, 2016 • 11:55:23pm

re: #35 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Stephen Douglas (writing from his grave): I knew Abraham Lincoln, sir! And Donald Trump is no Abraham Lincoln!

The only way Trump could have a Lincolnesque moment is if he decided to buy one for his chauffeur to drive him around town.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 21, 2016 • 11:57:30pm

re: #36 austin_blue

The only way Trump could have a Lincolnesque moment is if he decided to buy one for his chauffeur to drive him around town.

Trump would have been toast, had he debated either Douglas or Lincoln. I’m looking forward to Clinton eviscerating him next month.

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austin_blue  Aug 21, 2016 • 11:59:02pm

re: #37 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Trump would have been toast, had he debated either Douglas or Lincoln. I’m looking forward to Clinton eviscerating him next month.

With blood coming out of her eyes, ears, whatever…

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austin_blue  Aug 22, 2016 • 12:00:42am

Jeez. Two o’clock. Night all. Sleep well.

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Lidane  Aug 22, 2016 • 12:16:10am

Night all!

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 22, 2016 • 12:21:14am

I was going to go to bed, but I was just too tired to make it….

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 22, 2016 • 1:42:13am

re: #18 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Sad news, but here’s somebody who made a real difference in the world. Hard to believe these assholes upstairs are members of the same species:

Donald Henderson, who led effort to eradicate smallpox, dies at 87

P.S.: Antivaxxers—eat shit!

“But smallpox is natural and if it’s natural, it must be good for you!!” - said no one ever.

Except perhaps anti-vaxxer nutjobs.

RIP, Dr. Henderson and thanks for making the world a better place.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 22, 2016 • 2:00:55am

re: #42 Dr Lizardo

“But smallpox is natural and if it’s natural, it must be good for you!!” - said no one ever.

Except perhaps anti-vaxxer nutjobs.

RIP, Dr. Henderson and thanks for making the world a better place.

Between anti-Big Pharma, anti-Western Medicine moonbats and anti-government, anti-science wingnuts, we have achieved a toxic level of derp when it comes to vaccinations.

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Anymouse  Aug 22, 2016 • 2:07:29am

re: #43 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Between anti-Big Pharma, anti-Western Medicine moonbats and anti-government, anti-science wingnuts, we have achieved a toxic level of derp when it comes to vaccinations.

Thanks, Obama.

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Ia! Ia! Trump Ftaghn! (née Sophist)  Aug 22, 2016 • 2:39:37am

re: #43 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Between anti-Big Pharma, anti-Western Medicine moonbats and anti-government, anti-science wingnuts, we have achieved a toxic level of derp when it comes to vaccinations.

I really wish people who think Pfizer is the devil hadn’t poisoned discussion so thoroughly. There are legitimate problems with the pharmaceutical industry’s business practices, but if you try to talk about them people assume you live in a yurt and think measles builds character.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 22, 2016 • 2:42:19am

re: #45 Ia! Ia! Trump Ftaghn! (née Sophist)

I really wish people who think Pfizer is the devil hadn’t poisoned discussion so thoroughly. There are legitimate problems with the pharmaceutical industry’s business practices, but if you try to talk about them people assume you live in a yurt and think measles builds charactecharacter.

My biggest problem with big pharma, big agriculture, big defense, etc., is how they socialize costs while privatizing profits.

That is a separate issue from the vaccination discussion.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Aug 22, 2016 • 3:12:21am

re: #45 Ia! Ia! Trump Ftaghn! (née Sophist)

…. and think measles builds character.

Well, they say, I survived with “no complications”; many people do not have “no complications.” Mumps can cause sterility, people die from chicken pox, and those are the “mild, childhood” diseases we have vaccinations for, pertussis and polio killed millions.

I survived breaking my 2nd cervical vertebrae and I can still walk (I did and can, and I am fine) but without modern EMTs and neurosurgery, I’d be a quadrapalegic. Modern medicine in all forms is something many do not understand how are lives are made better.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 22, 2016 • 3:17:26am

re: #47 Le Lapin Tueur

Well, they say, I survived with “no complications”; many people do not have “no complications.” Mumps can cause sterility, people die from chicken pox, and those are the “mild, childhood” diseases we have vaccinations for, pertussis and polio killed millions.

I survived breaking my 2nd cervical vertebrae and I can still walk (I did and can, and I am fine) but without modern EMTs and neurosurgery, I’d be a quadrapalegic. Modern medicine in all forms is something many do not understand how are lives are made better.

My wife would have died in childbirth and my daughter probably would have died of fever at age four without modern medicine. So yeah, fuck all you medical Luddites.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 22, 2016 • 3:22:10am

re: #47 Le Lapin Tueur

Well, they say, I survived with “no complications”; many people do not have “no complications.” Mumps can cause sterility, people die from chicken pox, and those are the “mild, childhood” diseases we have vaccinations for, pertussis and polio killed millions.

I survived breaking my 2nd cervical vertebrae and I can still walk (I did and can, and I am fine) but without modern EMTs and neurosurgery, I’d be a quadrapalegic. Modern medicine in all forms is something many do not understand how are lives are made better.

Indeed, most of the anti-vaxxers take modern medicine for granted, and have no historical perspective for the state of medical care before, say, 1945. Infant mortality rates have fallen dramatically in the USA since 1900, and the average lifespan and health of the population is much better, allowing many of us old farts to continue enjoying the activities we enjoyed when we were younger.

Eliminating epidemics of childhood diseases with vaccinations was a major step toward the current situation. The anti-vaxxers don’t care to look at that aspect of their crusade, because they think their children could never *die* from a childhood disease. Then, when the kid gets seriously ill, they run to the nearest hospital to rely on the same modern medicine they rejected in the first place.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 22, 2016 • 3:38:54am

re: #49 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The anti-vaxxers don’t care to look at that aspect of their crusade, because they think their children could never *die* from a childhood disease. Then, when the kid gets seriously ill, they run to the nearest hospital to rely on the same modern medicine they rejected in the first place.

And if another kid gets infected by their unvaccinated little snowflake, then that is someone else’s problem.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 22, 2016 • 3:51:16am

re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And if another kid gets infected by their unvaccinated little snowflake, then that is someone else’s problem.

Exactly. Unenlightened self-interest at work.

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Anymouse  Aug 22, 2016 • 3:54:28am

re: #47 Le Lapin Tueur

Well, they say, I survived with “no complications”; many people do not have “no complications.” Mumps can cause sterility, people die from chicken pox, and those are the “mild, childhood” diseases we have vaccinations for, pertussis and polio killed millions.

I survived breaking my 2nd cervical vertebrae and I can still walk (I did and can, and I am fine) but without modern EMTs and neurosurgery, I’d be a quadrapalegic. Modern medicine in all forms is something many do not understand how are lives are made better.

I had the mumps when I was two years old.

Turns out that mumps does not necessarily confer lifelong immunity. I didn’t know that.

In 2012 a bunch of 4-H Christmas carollers came by my house. Turns out one of the girls had an anti-vax mother and her daughter was coming down with mumps.

Gave em to me. My bits swelled up like oranges, my temperature shot up to 105, I felt like death beaten with a cricket bat.

The VA insisted when I called I not come into the hospital. They would send a nurse out to me.

It took me a couple weeks to recover from that.

Thank you Andrew Wakefield for your grifting nonsense.

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Anymouse  Aug 22, 2016 • 3:57:11am

Note anti-vaxxers are not a new phenomenon.

victoriancontexts.pbworks.com

This article details the anti-vax movement of the XIX Century against the smallpox vaccine (with political cartoons and text)

One paragraph:

Although the anti-vaccination advocates acknowledged that smallpox was a dangerous, legitimate threat to public health, they refused to accept vaccination as a safe, sanitary and humane alternative to the disease itself. Through their protests, anti-vaccinators “maintained that vaccination caused indescribable pain and suffering and terribly disfigured the bodies of its victims” (Durbach 114). Stories of infants dying from flesh-destroying infections as a result of the vaccine were rampant. Pro-vaccinators argued that the horrors of smallpox were worse and more pressing than the adverse effects of a few poorly taken vaccinations and urged parents to choose the vaccination over the possibility of contracting the deadly disease. The anti-vaccinators constantly referred to the new Romantic idea of the child as an innocent and pure being, created perfectly by God and with inherent rights and value. They argued that vaccination literally injected “demons and ghouls” into the body and damaged children not only physically, by leaving an obvious scar, but also spiritually tainted them (Durbach 119).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:18:36am

re: #53 Anymouse

Note anti-vaxxers are not a new phenomenon.

victoriancontexts.pbworks.com

This article details the anti-vax movement of the XIX Century against the smallpox vaccine (with political cartoons and text)

One paragraph:

I still think that people were less stupid and superstitious back then than many of them are today…

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Anymouse  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:21:16am

re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I still think that people were less stupid and superstitious back then than many of them are today…

Victorians for the most part were still enslaved by Enlightenment philosophy; wingnut Evangelicals had yet to set the populace straight.

Moonbats for the most part didn’t exist yet.

Science knowledge was still on the ascendant in the XIX Century.

Nowadays, it seems that ignorance is a virtue.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:24:47am

re: #53 Anymouse

Definitely don’t want demons and ghouls injected into the precious snowflakes. Another wonder of the modern era is the loss of belief in demons… ghouls… Wait, who am I kidding, those types of beliefs still exist, and not only in the unenlightened world.

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Anymouse  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:28:15am

re: #56 Le Lapin Tueur

Definitely don’t want demons and ghouls injected into the precious snowflakes. Another wonder of the modern era is the loss of belief in demons… ghouls… Wait, who am I kidding, those types of beliefs still exist, and not only in the unenlightened world.

Yup. My ex-wife divorced me over epilepsy (at least she claimed in public in court) in part because epilepsy was demon possession.

That was in 1996.

I am so glad I am married to an atheist now. Now if I can just cure my wife of her libertarian remnants (she is now a Democrat but still holds onto a few libertarian ideas — meaning our neighbours get to hear very loud “discussions” in the early hours of the day.)

She threatened to take me to her former party group in Colo. Springs. I pointed out siccing twenty people on a poor lone socialist is unfair unless I get to prepare first.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:39:22am

Once again I look at a picture of a gathering of racist scumbags and my first thought is, “Nice of them to gather in one place like that, and wearing uniforms too.”

I am a bad person.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:43:26am

Good Morning and OMG WHAT IS THAT NOISE COMING OUT OF MY SPEAKERS (quickly mutes speakers, then plugs in headset)

Well shitfire it’s an autoplay right here on LGF. It’s the Bloomberg video. And it keeps on playing more videos when the first one is over. GAH KILL IT WITH FIRE.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:47:50am

re: #12 A Mom Anon

As for these freaking fools, what sad, disconnected little lives they have. Can you imagine how fun they are to live with? Ick. I wonder when the last time was they experienced actual joy. Not the thing they think is joy, that mean, nasty sense of spite and anger in their tiny black hearts, but real honest to god joy. The kind you get from love, or from seeing beauty in the world, of doing good to help someone else, of trying to fix something, instead of breaking things and leaving a trail of damage behind you.

One of the more interesting things about my mind BC, Before Coffee, is how easily it ends up wandering. Reading that passage set my mind to start playing Leonard Cohen at me. In this case a good thing.

JUDY COLLINS - “Song for Bernadette” 1991

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Archangelus  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:50:52am

re: #59 The Vicious Babushka

Good Morning and OMG WHAT IS THAT NOISE COMING OUT OF MY SPEAKERS (quickly mutes speakers, then plugs in headset)

Well shitfire it’s an autoplay right here on LGF. It’s the Bloomberg video. And it keeps on playing more videos when the first one is over. GAH KILL IT WITH FIRE.

Good morning, and right there with ya!
I have a habit of tabbing away from LGF to read other stuff while the comments take their time loading in full. So when autoplay kicked in, i started going nuts trying to figure out what tab was playing that - LGF was the last possible suspect…

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:53:50am

Wow such Presidential very leadership so dignity WOW

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:54:24am

re: #57 Anymouse

Yup. My ex-wife divorced me over epilepsy (at least she claimed in public in court) in part because epilepsy was demon possession.

That was in 1996.

I am so glad I am married to an atheist now.

I was really bummed out when my girlfriend in Tucson dumped me (some decades ago) for a fellow twice her age.

Now she is an evangelical Christian and he is in his late seventies and in failing health.

They moved down near the Arizona-Mexico border back when it was a quiet backwater. Now he is a member of the Minutemen, has built a 30-foot observation tower, but cannot use it because of his Parkinson’s…

I should not revel in others’ misfortune, but this in a way is someone else’s good fortune.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:55:42am

re: #51 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Exactly. Unenlightened self-interest at work.

Is ‘enlightened self-interest’ even possible?

He is not a wise and good man who does not at all times prefer the public interest to his own. - That commie bastard, Adam Smith

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CleverToad  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:56:34am

re: #47 Le Lapin Tueur

Well, they say, I survived with “no complications”; many people do not have “no complications.” Mumps can cause sterility, people die from chicken pox, and those are the “mild, childhood” diseases we have vaccinations for, pertussis and polio killed millions.
.

No, no, chicken pox is just an annoying little rash that goes away! It couldn’t possibly be a ticking time bomb that lurks in the nerves for the rest of your life and comes back to haunt you with exquisite pain that can last up to a year, if you survive it that long.

(Why yes, I am still dealing with fentanyl patches and gabapentin for a 91-year-old who is suffering badly from the damned shingles. No, I haven’t slept a full eight uninterrupted hours in my own bed since June 22. Why do you ask?)

I won’t live to see the results, but it will be interesting in my kid’s generation to see how many people who had the chicken pox vaccine still get the shingles later. Ditto if they can track a lower incidence for the people in my generation who had the disease but get the shingles vaccine. I’m rooting for science.

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CuriousLurker  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:57:08am

I can’t stay this morning, but here are a couple of funnies to gt you through the day once the usual avalanche of bad crazy gets started:

Anker Soundcore mini review

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Joe Bacon  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:08:22am

re: #47 Le Lapin Tueur

Well, they say, I survived with “no complications”; many people do not have “no complications.” Mumps can cause sterility, people die from chicken pox, and those are the “mild, childhood” diseases we have vaccinations for, pertussis and polio killed millions.

I survived breaking my 2nd cervical vertebrae and I can still walk (I did and can, and I am fine) but without modern EMTs and neurosurgery, I’d be a quadrapalegic. Modern medicine in all forms is something many do not understand how are lives are made better.

I still remember the shock I had in 2nd grade when one of my classmates got so sick from measles that she had to be hospitalized for a month. She wound up going blind from the infection. When I came down with it, I was bedridden for 2 weeks. At one point I was so weak that Mom had to help me out of bed to walk to the bathroom. Mom and Dad were scared to death that the same thing would happen to me. The Doctor actually came to our house several times to check up on me!

Yet we have these anti-vaxxer clowns who say that “builds character” and they bullshit about “herd immunity”. When they utter those stupid talking points I remember Diane coming back to school wearing sunglasses and having a tutor work with her to learn Braille.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:12:15am

re: #67 Joe Bacon

Yet we have these anti-vaxxer clowns who say that “builds character” and they bullshit about “herd immunity”. When they utter those stupid talking points I remember Diane coming back to school wearing sunglasses and having a tutor work with her to learn Braille.

Herd immunity only works when enough of the herd is immunized. We have to make exceptions for the small percentage of children who truly cannot be vaccinated without dangerous side effects. But not for children parents who heard from someone who once read somewhere on the Internet that vaccination causes autism.

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Joe Bacon  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:17:11am
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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:18:57am
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Timothy Watson  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:24:10am

BLUE LIVES MATTER!!!1!!

A Dinwiddie County sheriff’s deputy has been charged with second-degree murder after his brother was shot to death Sunday.

Deputy Terrell Coles, 24, is being held without bond at the county jail in the shooting of his brother, Brandon D. Coles, 25, Virginia State Police said.

The shooting happened about 3 a.m. Sunday when the two men got into an altercation and one of them grabbed a weapon at Terrell Coles’ home in the 15700 block of Allen Drive, police said.

richmond.com

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Le Lapin Tueur  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:26:23am

re: #65 CleverToad

{{{CleverToad}}}

My mother had shingles, too. I think it’s three years since the clinical aspects disappeared; she still has recurring non-treatable issues from it.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:30:24am

Toots Thielemans has died, age 94.

bbc.com

And a video for perspective

Vimeo

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Timothy Watson  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:38:02am
Corey Stewart, chairman of the Prince William Board of Supervisors and head of the Trump campaign in Virginia, called Republican support for Johnson/Weld “traitorous and destructive.”

“There is no such thing as an anti-Trump group,” Stewart told AMI Newswire. “Anti-Trump is pro-Hillary, and that’s what groups like this really are.”

He wasn’t finished.

“If we lose, I’ll know where to go to place blame,” Stewart said. “If they want careers in politics afterwards, they won’t get them. They’ll be destroyed. This is treason against Trump. For whatever reason — their pride, their personal interests — they will damage America permanently by helping elect Hillary Clinton. They are immature babies who are tearing down the Republican Party.”

richmond.com

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:41:14am

re: #74 Timothy Watson

richmond.com

Whoa. Maybe they’ll come back on board when Trump has pivoted 720 degrees.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:41:20am

re: #74 Timothy Watson

Corey Stewart seems a bit emotional, shall we say. There’s no law that requires a Republican to always vote Republican, or to always support the party’s nominee. To require otherwise would be, shall we say, unconstitutional.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:43:02am

re: #76 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

On the other hand, there seems to be a large segment of the GOP that puts party above country. Corey’s a member, it seems.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:48:12am

re: #76 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Corey Stewart seems a bit emotional, shall we say. There’s no law that requires a Republican to always vote Republican, or to always support the party’s nominee. To require otherwise would be, shall we say, unconstitutional.

There is a rhetorical rule in the modern GOP that anyone to the left of one’s position on anything is a treasonous traitor, loser, scum of the Earth and deserves to die slowly and in great agony.

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jeffreyw  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:53:33am

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Good morning!

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:53:48am
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Anymouse  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:04:05am

re: #49 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Indeed, most of the anti-vaxxers take modern medicine for granted, and have no historical perspective for the state of medical care before, say, 1945. Infant mortality rates have fallen dramatically in the USA since 1900, and the average lifespan and health of the population is much better, allowing many of us old farts to continue enjoying the activities we enjoyed when we were younger.

I’d be happy to give them a tour of our village cemetery. As you travel from the older section at the very beginning of the XX Century to the current time, you can see the dramatic fall-off of infants buried there.

That didn’t happen through some big conspiracy in the XIX Century to deny homeopathy and other nonsense. It came from real medicine.

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Jenner7  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:05:03am

Sooo, Kellyanne, how’s that pivot going?

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Jenner7  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:06:05am

re: #80 The Vicious Babushka

Matt, you’re funny. Media doesn’t care. It’s only a conflict for Hillary.

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Timothy Watson  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:08:19am

re: #80 The Vicious Babushka

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Anymouse  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:09:48am

re: #63 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I was really bummed out when my girlfriend in Tucson dumped me (some decades ago) for a fellow twice her age.

Now she is an evangelical Christian and he is in his late seventies and in failing health.

They moved down near the Arizona-Mexico border back when it was a quiet backwater. Now he is a member of the Minutemen, has built a 30-foot observation tower, but cannot use it because of his Parkinson’s…

I should not revel in others’ misfortune, but this in a way is someone else’s good fortune.

My ex- during the economic meltdown of 2008 called us up in Oklahoma begging for money. She’d lost her $100k a year job working at an insurance company and was begging money.

My wife blew her off.

She then went to LinkedIn and started harassing my boss at my erotic Romance publisher, claiming I’d not paid child support for my then twenty-three year old son. She demanded he get me to pony up more money to save her riverfront home and two cars, all of which were mortgaged, because somehow the guy she made homeless was responsible for her troubles.

My boss told her to leave me and my wife alone. When she continued harassing him, he got a restraining order against my ex-.

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Anymouse  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:12:03am

re: #72 Le Lapin Tueur

{{{CleverToad}}}

My mother had shingles, too. I think it’s three years since the clinical aspects disappeared; she still has recurring non-treatable issues from it.

My mother suffers from post-polio syndrome. I can think of a very deep hole I would like to drop anti-vaxxers in, if I believed in an afterlife for wrongdoers and liars.

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:12:15am

Mornin’, Lizards.

Yesterday, while driving to a buddy’s house, I saw a Trump bumper sticker on a rusted-out early-90s Festiva that was barely keeping up with traffic on the interstate.

I could not have come up with a better metaphor myself.

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Anymouse  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:14:25am

re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is a rhetorical rule in the modern GOP that anyone to the left of one’s position on anything is a treasonous traitor, loser, scum of the Earth and deserves to die slowly and in great agony.

But they are pro-life. /s

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:21:25am

Sounds like Prince had some street drugs mislabeled as Norco instead of actual prescribed Norco

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Joe Bacon  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:21:36am

re: #85 Anymouse

My ex- during the economic meltdown of 2008 called us up in Oklahoma begging for money. She’d lost her $100k a year job working at an insurance company and was begging money.

My wife blew her off.

She then went to LinkedIn and started harassing my boss at my erotic Romance publisher, claiming I’d not paid child support for my then twenty-three year old son. She demanded he get me to pony up more money to save her riverfront home and two cars, all of which were mortgaged, because somehow the guy she made homeless was responsible for her troubles.

My boss told her to leave me and my wife alone. When she continued harassing him, he got a restraining order against my ex-.

I know the feeling.

18 years of child support payments to a woman and son who hated and despised me.

The son goes off to war.

Killed in Iraq.

And I’m not welcome at the funeral.

That’s life…

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:21:58am

re: #84 Timothy Watson

You can guarantee whatever trump is accusing anyone else of, he’s actually guilty of that himself.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:22:06am

re: #1 Joe Bacon

Oh holy Mother of Sweet Breakfast meats!

Gonna have to remember that.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:22:18am

re: #91 GlutenFreeJesus

You can guarantee whatever trump is accusing anyone else of, he’s actually guilty of that himself.

EPIC DARVO

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makeitstop  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:22:33am

So while these assholes showed up in Houston yesterday, the opposite scenario played out in Riverhead, Long Island.

LI KKK had threatened to disrupt a BLM rally. But when push came to shove, BLM showed up and the best KKK could do was leave a note that said ‘We’re here, catch us if you can.’

Cowards.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:24:36am

re: #87 A wild WITHAK appeared!

Mornin’, Lizards.

Yesterday, while driving to a buddy’s house, I saw a Trump bumper sticker on a rusted-out early-90s Festiva that was barely keeping up with traffic on the interstate.

I could not have come up with a better metaphor myself.

Make Festivas Great Again!

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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:25:59am

re: #83 Jenner7

Matt, you’re funny. Media doesn’t care. It’s only a conflict for Hillary.

Yeah, silly guy.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:27:36am

re: #74 Timothy Watson

richmond.com

Sounds like a swell guy….

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Timothy Watson  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:28:03am

re: #97 Sir John Barron

Sounds like a swell guy….

He’s also the probable future Republican nominee for governor next year.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:29:34am

re: #32 CuriousLurker

Sure, LOL! It’s actually quite easy these days. Social media and all the other crap that’s constantly tracking your habits means that no one can really be online without leaving behind lots of footprints and obvious links to who they associate with.

Depending on how active they are simply searching Google for their name will result in the right hand side of the page providing a link to their Wiki page and generously giving you a handy-dandy list of related searches. Here’s what you get if you search for that shrieking harpy, Pamela Geller:

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That pic of Milo….

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Jenner7  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:29:38am

Hoo boy…

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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:30:03am

re: #100 Jenner7

Hoo boy…

Probably more competent than the candidate…

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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:31:17am

This band of Houstonites sure look interesting, I wonder which presidential candidate they’re supporting?

Sees video clip of dude wearing Trump hat…

Totally shocked, here’s my surprised face.

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Great White Snark  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:32:16am

re: #100 Jenner7

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Hoo boy…

Thought that was The Onion for real.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:36:00am

re: #11 Anymouse

Posted to the previous thread by mistake (too many open tabs, thanks Obama):

As a reminder, Carly Fiorina is organising to become the GOP chair after Reince Preibus leaves:

msn.com

We can hope she is every bit as successful as she was at Lucent and Hewlett-Packard. Please proceed, Mrs. Fiorina.

With all the troubles the GOP seems to be having, it is almost as if all the grifters are coming in to strip whatever assets of the party remain (both voters and real assets).

Of note, the Website she registered, carlyforrnc.com is a blank white page.

Bwaaaaaahhahahhahaha

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:38:25am

re: #81 Anymouse

I’d be happy to give them a tour of our village cemetery. As you travel from the older section at the very beginning of the XX Century to the current time, you can see the dramatic fall-off of infants buried there.

That didn’t happen through some big conspiracy in the XIX Century to deny homeopathy and other nonsense. It came from real medicine.

My paternal great-grandfather married twice in the late 1800s. His first wife, my ggm, died at age 24, likely from complications from giving birth to my gf at home. Great-granddad and his second wife had eight children, but only four survived to adulthood. Both my gf and a half-brother lost their first borns, as did my mother’s parents, around 1900-1910. People back then were accustomed to having tons of kids, because chances were not good all the kids would survive even to adolescence. Even giving birth was a hazard, as many young women died in childbirth or soon after. Genealogists turn these cruel facts up over and over again.

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Timothy Watson  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:39:09am

re: #100 Jenner7

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Hoo boy…

The Hill enjoys their clickbait:

Imer’s mother, Laurel Imer, is the official field coordinator on paper, but she wants to give her son most of the responsibility and help show other parents - Democrat or Republican - how to get their kids involved.

kmov.com

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Jenner7  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:40:08am
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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:41:10am

re: #30 austin_blue

Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment (2014)

McCarthy will “find and replace” Clinton for Obama and republish next year. Will be equally successful as the 2014 version.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:42:54am

re: #107 Jenner7

There is simply no way any woman, or a man of color, could have 5 kids by 3 partners and be as free from media judgment as Trump has been.
— Melissa McEwan

Yeah, kinda funny how that works out.

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Jenner7  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:45:42am

If Trump is elected, the media is an accomplice. They have failed time and time again on their lack of reporting on Trump.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:45:46am

Dear Lizards:

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:46:38am

re: #111 The Vicious Babushka

Dear Lizards:

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Enjoy your time there!

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:48:51am

re: #107 Jenner7

They’re not being easy, they completely ignore it, just like they’re ignoring the disapeance of his third wife from the campaign.

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makeitstop  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:49:42am

re: #111 The Vicious Babushka

Dear Lizards:

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Congratulations! And here’s to many more!

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makeitstop  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:50:27am

re: #113 Skip Intro

They’re not being easy, they completely ignore it, just like they’re ignoring the disapeance of his third wife from the campaign.

The kids have made themselves pretty scarce, too.

Weren’t they supposed to have been running things?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:51:37am

re: #115 makeitstop

The kids have made themselves pretty scarce, too.

Weren’t they supposed to have been running things?

It’s pretty bad when the family abandons ship, too.

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:57:40am

re: #116 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I don’t count Trump out yet. He’s tapped into a huge vein of racism and hate in this country, and as long as he and the media keep throwing them red meat daily his base of support is only going to get stronger.

Meanwhile Hillary is one mistake away from a media shitstorm because the media wants a tight race regardless of how damaging to the country Daily Trump is.

I don’t think we’ve even begun to see how ugly and violent this race is going to be.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:01:04am

re: #117 Skip Intro

I don’t count Trump out yet. He’s tapped into a huge vein of racism and hate in this country, and as long as he and the media keep throwing them red meat daily his base of support is only going to get stronger.

Meanwhile Hillary is one mistake away from a media shitstorm because the media wants a tight race regardless of how damaging to the country Daily Trump is.

I don’t think we’ve even begun to see how ugly and violent this race is going to be.

There has been some fake scandal about Huma Abedin (did not get all the details because Twitchy) which media is ignoring because Trump got hold of the Twitterphone.

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makeitstop  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:02:29am

Here’s a local story about yesterday’s BLM rally in Westhampton Beach, and the KKK guy who bobs and weaves about exactly who he is.

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:03:40am

re: #118 The Vicious Babushka

I’m thinking more of an unforced error like the kind of thing Trump does a dozen times a day. Just one of those in the next three months and the media will be all over it for weeks.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:04:22am

re: #117 Skip Intro

I don’t count Trump out yet. He’s tapped into a huge vein of racism and hate in this country, and as long as he and the media keep throwing them red meat daily his base of support is only going to get stronger.

Meanwhile Hillary is one mistake away from a media shitstorm because the media wants a tight race regardless of how damaging to the country Daily Trump is.

I don’t think we’ve even begun to see how ugly and violent this race is going to be.

I don’t see Trump winning, but I fully agree that there are important nuances to the coverage. Trump’s apology*, for example, isn’t even paraphrased, but is given as ‘evidence that DT is softening and rethinking his positions.’ Only a few I’ve seen have said, “not only is it not clear what he’s apologizing for, but it was done with a wink and a nod.”

Mediaite has an article covering JoeBacon’s post upthread about Huma Abedin. The headline makes it about Huma, but all of the articles that the body of the article cites were written by Huma’s mother. And now of course it is received wisdom that HRC’s top aide supports terrorism. The media are certainly complicit.

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makeitstop  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:04:40am

re: #117 Skip Intro

I don’t count Trump out yet. He’s tapped into a huge vein of racism and hate in this country, and as long as he and the media keep throwing them red meat daily his base of support is only going to get stronger.

Sooner of later that base will reach its limit. There are only X number of angry racist white dudes in this country, and Trump’s rhetoric is in no way going to convince non-racists to become racist.

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Timothy Watson  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:05:06am

re: #118 The Vicious Babushka

There has been some fake scandal about Huma Abedin (did not get all the details because Twitchy) which media is ignoring because Trump got hold of the Twitterphone.

If you can stomach the New York Post:
nypost.com

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Timothy Watson  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:06:45am

Here’s every publication of the controversial publication:
tandfonline.com

I got bored just reading the article titles.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:08:20am

re: #123 Timothy Watson

If you can stomach the New York Post:
nypost.com

Never mind I saw the headline

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:11:47am

re: #122 makeitstop

Breitbart/Trump wants to solidify their base, and they have. The next step is to demoralize Hillary’s to keep them from voting. They’re just beginning with this stage of the campaign, knowing the media will help them every step of the way.

Look at how the bogus “she’s mentally ill” got play in the media even though it was 100% BS and the media knew it.

This is what Bannon brings to the Trump party.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:14:58am
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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:16:24am

re: #126 Skip Intro

Breitbart/Trump wants to solidify their base, and they have. The next step is to demoralize Hillary’s to keep them from voting. They’re just beginning with this stage of the campaign, knowing the media will help them every step of the way.

Look at how the bogus “she’s mentally ill” got play in the media even though it was 100% BS and the media knew it.

This is what Bannon brings to the Trump party.

We know the Trump campaign’s response to every Hillary attack is I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:18:33am

re: #100 Jenner7

WATCH: 12-year-old boy is running Trump’s campaign office in Colorado

Hoo boy…

Typical Trump operation. Outsourcing child labor

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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:24:57am

re: #125 The Vicious Babushka

Never mind I saw the headline

So Hillary’s a radical feminist destroying family values or she’s a closet Muslim Brotherhood radical jihadist who hates women?

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Timothy Watson  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:25:21am

re: #130 Sir John Barron

So Hillary’s a radical feminist destroying family values or she’s a closet Muslim Brotherhood radical jihadist who hates women?

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BOTH!1!!

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:31:07am
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Belafon  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:31:08am

re: #130 Sir John Barron

So Hillary’s a radical feminist destroying family values or she’s a closet Muslim Brotherhood radical jihadist who hates women?

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She obviously hates women by putting ideas in their head like they can leave the kitchen and own a pair of shoes.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:34:06am

So, today’s Wingnut Talking Points are:

HUMA ABEDIN IS A CERTIFIED RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORIST!!!!11!!

HILLARY FALSE ACCUSED COLIN POWELL OF USING A PRIVATE EMAIL SERVER LIKE A TYPICAL SOUTHERN RACIST WHITE KKK PERSON!!!!11!!

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:35:14am

re: #111 The Vicious Babushka

Dear Lizards:

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Congrats!

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Timothy Watson  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:36:52am

re: #132 The Vicious Babushka

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Did he ever get around to responding to the FBI’s request for his e-mails?

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Le Lapin Tueur  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:45:29am

re: #104 Sir John Barron

Of note, the Website she registered, carlyforrnc.com is a blank white page.

Bwaaaaaahhahahhahaha

My NetNanny has it blocked as a Parked Domain

Security risk blocked for your protection

Reason:

This Websense category is filtered: Parked Domain. Sites in this category may pose a security threat to network resources or private information, and are blocked by your organization.

Bwaaaaaahhahahhahaha - again

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:46:47am
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Jenner7  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:50:00am
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Timothy Watson  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:50:13am

re: #138 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Wisconsin GOP senator wants to replace history professors with Ken Burns videos

Should someone point out that Burns is a huge Democrat and see what the tea party reaction is?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:52:37am

re: #138 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Wisconsin GOP senator wants to replace history professors with Ken Burns videos

We should replace Wisconsin State Senators with mechanical monkeys.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:53:40am

re: #140 Timothy Watson

Should someone point out that Burns is a huge Democrat and see what the tea party reaction is?

He probably meant David Barton videos.

/

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Le Lapin Tueur  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:53:43am

re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We should replace Wisconsin State Senators with mechanical monkeys.

Stuffed monkeys. Mechanical monkeys may become infected with an RNC virus.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:54:37am

re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We should replace Wisconsin State Senators with mechanical monkeys.

Already done—but we’re hoping for Feingold to re-replace this idiot in November.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:59:23am

I watched the whole Ken Burns Civil War series. It was interesting, but what struck me after reading Shelby Foote’s Narrative History of the Civil War—which of course is just a broad-stroke overview—was how superficial even a really long TV miniseries is. No criticism of Burns, it’s just the nature of the medium.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:59:47am

OH HAI SMOTI, wouldn’t that be, oh I dunno, UNCONSTITUTIONAL

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:00:17am

“…Republicans could rehabilitate the public image problem they inflicted upon themselves in 2005 by committing to managing bureaucracies effectively and giving federal agencies the resources they need to succeed. But they don’t particularly want to do that; and in any case it’s much easier to pretend that every disaster Obama manages is effectively his latest Katrina…”

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:00:21am

I see SMOTI is linking to somebody who is just as stupid as he is.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:02:14am

re: #74 Timothy Watson

Only thing he didn’t do is call them ‘sons of whores’ a la Rodrigo Duterte.

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Timothy Watson  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:04:40am

re: #146 The Vicious Babushka

OH HAI SMOTI, wouldn’t that be, oh I dunno, UNCONSTITUTIONAL

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Someone want to tell him that party registration has no basis on whether someone is going to actually vote?

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sagehen  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:04:57am

re: #136 Timothy Watson

Did he ever get around to responding to the FBI’s request for his e-mails?

After he left office, he asked aol.com to delete everything from his account; there was no way to recover any of, they sure weren’t going to search and recover all AOL servers.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:05:38am
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Belafon  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:07:45am

re: #152 The Vicious Babushka

Trump’s pivoting to the white.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:10:27am

re: #81 Anymouse

There is a cemetery here in Toronto; Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Off in one isolated corner of it there are no headstones, just small granite blocks. Some are overgrown. Many are cracked and all are neglected. They are all dated between, as I recall, between 1905 and 1913.

Under each block a child is buried. Youngest was five. Oldest, thirteen. I’m guessing it was an orphanage that received a bequest to buy sites in Mount Pleasant.

Saddest place in the entire cemetery.

Good Old Days™ indeed.

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mmmirele  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:15:12am

re: #87 A wild WITHAK appeared!

Mornin’, Lizards.

Yesterday, while driving to a buddy’s house, I saw a Trump bumper sticker on a rusted-out early-90s Festiva that was barely keeping up with traffic on the interstate.

I could not have come up with a better metaphor myself.

That reminds me of the Paulistas around here (Arizona). It seemed like every car with a Ron Paul sticker was a beater.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:20:45am

re: #111 The Vicious Babushka

Congratulations.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:25:24am

re: #145 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I watched the whole Ken Burns Civil War series. It was interesting, but what struck me after reading Shelby Foote’s Narrative History of the Civil War—which of course is just a broad-stroke overview—was how superficial even a really long TV miniseries is. No criticism of Burns, it’s just the nature of the medium.

I have and have listened to Shelby Foote’s three volume tome on audio, fortunately, as I would have been unlikely to slog through all three books. Probably was all the Civil War I’ll need for a while.

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Mattand  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:25:37am

re: #154 Romantic Heretic

There is a cemetery here in Toronto; Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Off in one isolated corner of it there are no headstones, just small granite blocks. Some are overgrown. Many are cracked and all are neglected. They are all dated between, as I recall, between 1905 and 1913.

Under each block a child is buried. Youngest was five. Oldest, thirteen. I’m guessing it was an orphanage that received a bequest to buy sites in Mount Pleasant.

Saddest place in the entire cemetery.

Good Old Days™ indeed.

I took a bike ride through Harleigh Cemetery in Camden once. Best known for Walt Whitman’s crypt. As I was pedaling along, I must have hit a children’s section with graves as far back as the 1850’s. I’m willing to bet that many of those poor kids died from vaccine-preventable stuff. Really sobering.

Compare that with my weekly video chat workgroup. All nice people, but it turns out two are hard-core alt meds. I mentioned what a load of shit Phelps’s cupping was, and boy howdy, did I step on a land mine.

Un-fucking real. We live in an age where men have walked on the moon and we carry around Star Trek communicators in our pockets. Yet, people are convinced that controlled bruising with a drinking glass and acupuncture can make cure infertility.

It’s absolutely amazing how this country keeps taking one step forward, 39,238 steps back.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:26:37am

re: #111 The Vicious Babushka

CWOSn5pNS/vIlYFwl6hfhRxfPvbLp+3su9HT9KdyUMta3SA/d2pepwkrZZmU2fRas3bAgCZTrzZ1yvIAop5NIKn25m9O7loMyv0IjVRLva71tdk8PT7jiv0AYUgcHGvAZaIW2gX9GnwmyaxNqjjBjbNOgHxyzd0ISzStbnG0XK4KIyP2f0rbF+ktcgky6xeEuUAVjZ4pXJWkGCH+yzj+UULGSrNiuruZEn2RUJ8ULswjhgaACVEyQoxunC3yg63LbWI1E/BGKww=

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:28:06am

re: #138 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Wisconsin GOP senator wants to replace history professors with Ken Burns videos

re: #140 Timothy Watson

Should someone point out that Burns is a huge Democrat and see what the tea party reaction is?

I’m waiting to see what Burns himself has to say about the matter.

It will probably be along the lines of, “What are you tripping on, you ignorant shit?”

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Dr. Matt  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:42:08am
White Supremacist Trump Supporters Protest Outside Houston NAACP Office

But the Democrat Party [sic] are the real racists……

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Jenner7  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:45:55am
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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:04:22am
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Belafon  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:05:28am

re: #163 Jenner7

DEMOCRATS ARE COURTING HISPANICS!

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makeitstop  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:06:09am

re: #164 The Vicious Babushka

Eric Trump blames Syrian refugees for 15 years of wage stagnation

Shut up, Beavis.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:07:47am

re: #166 makeitstop

Shut up, Beavis.

THAT SO WRONG!!!! EVERYBODY KNOW IT TEH ILLEAGLE MECKSICKANS!!!!!!!

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Le Lapin Tueur  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:09:18am

re: #164 The Vicious Babushka

I don’t like to shame people with unfortunate genes and a horrible upbringing, but that face is scary. Ok, I did enjoy it. I lied.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:09:18am

re: #164 The Vicious Babushka

Eric Trump blames Syrian refugees for 15 years of wage stagnation

Bad enough that this nitwit says such things, but now we will start finding people all over the news and the Internet defending his claims…

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Nojay UK  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:13:46am

re: #164 The Vicious Babushka

I read a lot of Japanese manga, some of them with storylines that involve Mad Scientists creating lifeforms in large fluid-filled glass tubes, bubbles and breathing apparatus optional. Every picture I see of the Trump children makes me think they’ve just been decanted from such a vessel, skin glistening under the lights, hair slicked back.

The products of such experiments are rarely if ever Nice. Just saying.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:17:24am

re: #170 Nojay UK

I read a lot of Japanese manga, some of them with storylines that involve Mad Scientists creating lifeforms in large fluid-filled glass tubes, bubbles and breathing apparatus optional. Every picture I see of the Trump children makes me think they’ve just been decanted from such a vessel, skin glistening under the lights, hair slicked back.

The products of such experiments are rarely if ever Nice. Just saying.

Junior and Eric look like failed experiments. Ivanka is the more successful one. But she still has that “uncanny valley” vibe.

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Timothy Watson  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:17:31am

re: #170 Nojay UK

I read a lot of Japanese manga, some of them with storylines that involve Mad Scientists creating lifeforms in large fluid-filled glass tubes, bubbles and breathing apparatus optional. Every picture I see of the Trump children makes me think they’ve just been decanted from such a vessel, skin glistening under the lights, hair slicked back.

The products of such experiments are rarely if ever Nice. Just saying.

I am not even a Star Trek fan, but every time I see Eric Trump I think Odo from Deep Space Nine (which is pretty unfair to Rene Auberjonois).

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:18:08am

I don’t know which I hate more, the Trump family or Fox “News” becoming the all Trump, all the time channel.

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Stanley Sea  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:26:58am

Just one wrong move. Great ad

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makeitstop  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:30:13am

re: #174 Stanley Sea

Just one wrong move. Great ad

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That must be the one that got under his skin.

That campaign sure knows how to push his buttons.

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Stanley Sea  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:31:57am

re: #175 makeitstop

That must be the one that got under his skin.

That campaign sure knows how to push his buttons.

There’s enough video for a year of this.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:34:26am

re: #175 makeitstop

That must be the one that got under his skin.

That campaign sure knows how to push his buttons.

Just quote him in context…best way to sink his ass.

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wrenchwench  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:36:35am

[…]

Secretary of state, whose duties include being New Mexico’s top elections administrator, doesn’t normally appear on the ballot on the same year as a presidential election. The 2015 resignation of Republican Dianna Duran, who was convicted of using campaign funds for personal use, led to the appointment of Brad Winter to the job, but only until the next election, which is this Nov. 8. […]

Yet:

[…]

While Espinoza said she supports ethics reform, she does not support a proposal to create a state ethics commission that would set standards for ethical conduct in government and police violations. Such a commission’s membership “would be beholden to the politicians who name them and who would not be answerable to the voters,” Espinoza said.

“This is a feel-good natural approach for many politicians — slap a title on a bill so that there can be the perception that the bill is providing a solution,” she said.

[…]

Yes, this is the Republican candidate for Secretary of State of New Mexico. Yes, Roswell has a higher percentage of Republicans than does Santa Fe. Geography is partisan.

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Whack-A-Mole  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:38:10am

re: #111 The Vicious Babushka

Congratulations! That’s not an easy feat (mine didn’t make it a fraction of that) so kudos to both of you for making it work! Enjoy your day - you both certainly deserve it!

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Jenner7  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:38:29am

WHERE ARE DONALD TRUMP’S TAXES??

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jaunte  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:38:40am
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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:40:13am

re: #181 jaunte

That makes him three times older mentally than Trump.

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Belafon  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:42:40am

re: #180 Jenner7

WHERE ARE DONALD TRUMP’S TAXES??

Every person in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches that has a person server should have to release all emails on those servers to the public. I’m looking at you, Tom Cotton.

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Jenner7  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:43:40am
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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:45:12am

re: #184 Jenner7

Stop picking on Trump media bias.

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Jenner7  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:56:06am

You want a huge conflict of interest? How about owing 100 million to a foreign bank?

motherjones.com

Hellloooo? Media??

::crickets::

And this was discovered…..IN JUNE.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:58:45am

Hey, Boss! Can you please turn off the autoplay on the embedded video? THANKS!!!

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Belafon  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:01:40am

re: #186 Jenner7

You want a huge conflict of interest? How about owing 100 million to a foreign bank?

motherjones.com

Hellloooo? Media??

::crickets::

And this was discovered…..IN JUNE.

I see a debate attack by Clinton: “The Clinton Foundation will not accept money from foreign companies or individuals while I am president. Will you and your companies not accept foreign assistance while you are president? How will you enforce it if you have foreign loans?”

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:03:03am

re: #188 Belafon

I see a debate attack by Clinton: “The Clinton Foundation will not accept money from foreign companies or individuals while I am president. Will you and your companies not accept foreign assistance while you are president? How will you enforce it if you have foreign loans?”

The debate moderators are supposed to ask questions like that. Count on it; they won’t.

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Belafon  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:05:14am

re: #189 Skip Intro

The debate moderators are supposed to ask questions like that. Count on it; they won’t.

You’re right, but I’m sure the Clinton Foundation will come up, and she’s smart enough to squeeze that in the answer.

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sagehen  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:08:52am

re: #189 Skip Intro

The debate moderators are supposed to ask questions like that. Count on it; they won’t.

Sarah Palin (paraphrased, I don’t remember her exact wording): “I don’t like the question you asked, so I’m going to answer the question I wish you’d asked.”

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Jenner7  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:10:35am
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jaunte  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:13:03am
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Belafon  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:15:15am

re: #193 jaunte

“Men are much less likely to get fired for sexual harassment there.”

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Swift2991  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:15:25am

This is what they THINK Black Lives Matter is: like the Klan. They can’t recognize it, because it’s not in their mindset.

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:15:39am

We always go into the “debates” with high expectations and we always leave disappointed. Already one of the debates is worthless; a “townhall” type, where the Trumpsters will load up the dung catapult with everything Breitbart can find for them.

The other two won’t matter either if the moderators let the candidates get away with ignoring the questions, like they always do.

The best thing I can see coming out of them is for Hillary to hit Trump’s ego in a way that sends him into his raving, lunatic worst. It’s up to her; the moderators won’t do squat to probe him.

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Kragar  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:15:42am
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Belafon  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:16:28am

re: #196 Skip Intro

Like Obama with McCain and Romney.

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:16:36am

re: #193 jaunte

That’s why we never hear or read anything Roger Stone says.

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makeitstop  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:17:43am

re: #193 jaunte

Trump Ally Roger Stone: There’s “Greater Freedom Of The Press” And Expression In Russia Than The U.S

All these sons of bitches should just do themselves a favor and fucking move there if it’s so goddamn great.

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:18:19am

re: #197 Kragar

So much for assuming that SS agents are screened for mental health issues.

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:20:38am

re: #200 makeitstop

Putin must be sending a shitlolad of money to these assholes. Undeclared for tax purposes, of course.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:21:43am

re: #197 Kragar

This is Dan Bongino, former Secret Service officer, two-time loser in Maryland. I’m relieved this guy’s running in FL now and not MD. You can have him.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:23:00am

re: #196 Skip Intro

We always go into the “debates” with high expectations and we always leave disappointed. Already one of the debates is worthless; a “townhall” type, where the Trumpsters will load up the dung catapult with everything Breitbart can find for them.

The other two won’t matter either if the moderators let the candidates get away with ignoring the questions, like they always do.

The best thing I can see coming out of them is for Hillary to hit Trump’s ego in a way that sends him into his raving, lunatic worst. It’s up to her; the moderators won’t do squat to probe him.

Probably the best outcome from the debates would be for Hillary to make no major mistakes. She’s winning. I don’t have any expectations beyond that.

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makeitstop  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:23:10am

re: #202 Skip Intro

Putin must be sending a shitlolad of money to these assholes. Undeclared for tax purposes, of course.

I’m really hoping that Manafort is every bit as big a weasel as I think he is and rolls over on the lot of them to save his own ass.

C’mon, Paul! They’d do the same to you! When that bus comes along, save yourself and start throwin’.

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Kragar  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:24:24am
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jaunte  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:25:17am

re: #197 Kragar

He’s just an excitable Bongino. It’s a good thing he’s not in the Secret Service any more.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:25:53am

re: #199 Skip Intro

That’s why we never hear or read anything Roger Stone says.

Stone can’t even get any books published here, except for like all 27 he’s written.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:26:23am

re: #207 jaunte

He’s just an excitable Bongino. It’s a good thing he’s not in the Secret Service any more.

Doesn’t seem trustworthy. That’s for sure.

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Jenner7  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:26:36am
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lawhawk  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:29:12am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. So I see that the Clintons are outlining how they’ll handle donations to the Clinton Foundation, who they’ll accept funding from, etc.

That’s all well and good, but it seems rather odd that so many people are attacking a foundation that’s quite transparent on funding, financing, and gets an A rating from Charity watchdog groups. The Clintons have turned their political positions into one that helps others charitably and are attacked for it.

They are a family that can’t do anything without being attacked.

Mind you, with all the focus on the Clinton Foundation, there’s no similar criticism of the Trump Foundation, which was set up by Donald Trump, and yet the single biggest donor was the WWE. In fact, it’s still sitting on most of its money and there’s little record of actual charitable giving. No word on how that entity will function if Trump’s elected President.

Also, no word on how the Trump businesses will be operated if he’s elected President. That’d be a big deal, especially with all the various business entities, highly leveraged business operations, loans, creditors, guarantors, and other interests that might be able to pressure Trump as president (or get pressured).

Trump’s business dealings are notoriously opaque and there’s no transparency on most of his dealings. In fact, what little we know can be gleaned from lawsuits, bankruptcies, and the like - not exactly a good place to start. He refuses to release tax returns, but Clinton’s the one with trust and transparency issues.

Gotcha.

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:30:36am

re: #211 lawhawk

He refuses to release tax returns, but Clinton’s the one with trust and transparency issues.

Yup. That’s what the liberal media is running with.

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Archangelus  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:31:36am

re: #203 Sir John Barron

This is Dan Bongino, former Secret Service officer, two-time loser in Maryland. I’m relieved this guy’s running in FL now and not MD. You can have him.

We didn’t want him in MD, why would they want him in FL? Not that i’m complaining he’s gone, mind you, MD’s collective IQ and sanity levels went up a notch upon his departure IMHO… /

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:38:18am

re: #213 Archangelus

He’s like a little Trump.

After much hemming and hawing, Caputo got Bongino to admit that he wasn’t actually a registered voter in the district. Then Caputo really laid into him.

“So let’s see: You move down to Florida after losing two campaigns in Maryland; you say you’re going to stay in Maryland and fight; you tuck tail and run away to Florida; you go look to run in District 18, you see you’re not going to be able to win there; you try to run in District 19, you’re losing there,” he said. “You’re like a professional political candidate who loses.”

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:40:55am

TEH STUPIDS IT BURNS

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Archangelus  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:40:56am
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Dr. Matt  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:41:40am

REVEALED: Melania Trump outright lied under oath about having a college degree

Now it seems, new evidence shows that Trump may have lied about her degree under oath, making her guilty of perjury.

The case involved now defunct caviar skincare line, which racked.com recalls Trump promoted on “Good Morning America,” her husband’s show “The Apprentice” and on CNBC, but ultimately never made it to the market. The contract Trump had with a cosmetic company called New Sunshine LLC imploded when friend Steve Hilbert was fired from the company by another Trump friend John Menard.

The extensive investigation about the bizarre world of cosmetics outlines a business catastrophe that ended up in court where Trump was asked to testify. She revealed the frustration and anger with the company that never launched a product she worked so hard to promote around the world. But the kicker comes when the attorneys were asking Trump basic questions about who she was and where she was from.

“Where were you born, Mrs. Trump?” the attorney asked.

“I was born in Slovenia,” she answered.

“Would you please explain to the Judge your formal education including what schools you attended and from which you graduated?” the attorney requested.

“I attended and graduated from design school, from fashion and Industrial Design School and also attended, graduated from architecture degree, bachelor degree,” she testified under oath.

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Archangelus  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:43:15am

re: #217 Dr. Matt

REVEALED: Melania Trump outright lied under oath about having a college degree

Is it wrong that upon reading that, all i could hear in my mind was Trump’s crowds chanting, “Lock her up!! Lock her up!!”?

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:44:07am

re: #218 Archangelus

If she wasn’t married to Trump it would be “deport her, deport her”.

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lawhawk  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:45:05am

re: #217 Dr. Matt

Big lies and little lies.

It all starts with one big lie - that Trump’s worth as much as he claims. Everything else, flows from that lie. Trump then surrounds himself with people who lie as easily as he does. Certain moral flexibility as it were.

She lies about her background, and there’s even claims that she might have lied about being married before to being married to Trump (relevant as to how she entered the US).

She lies about her education.

But those are minor lies in comparison to Trump’s big lies.

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Belafon  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:45:37am

WFAA is featuring two stories right now: It was a Fort Worth judge that blocked Obama’s transgender school bathroom policy, which will affect a Fort Worth transgender boy, which, you’ll notice, is not the direction that the horny white men making the rules are concerned about.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:45:58am

re: #218 Archangelus

Is it wrong that upon reading that, all i could hear in my mind was Trump’s crowds chanting, “Lock her up!! Lock her up!!”?

I would like to feel sorry for her over her bad taste in “men”. Either she is easily manipulated or she is a flat out liar.

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b_sharp  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:45:59am

re: #220 lawhawk

Big lies and little lies.

It all starts with one big lie - that Trump’s worth as much as he claims. Everything else, flows from that lie. Trump then surrounds himself with people who lie as easily as he does. Certain moral flexibility as it were.

She lies about her background, and there’s even claims that she might have lied about being married before to being married to Trump (relevant as to how she entered the US).

She lies about her education.

But those are minor lies in comparison to Trump’s big lies.

To them lying is just a means to an end.

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sagehen  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:49:42am

re: #200 makeitstop

All these sons of bitches should just do themselves a favor and fucking move there if it’s so goddamn great.

But it’s so coooooolllldd!!

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Le Lapin Tueur  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:52:18am

re: #207 jaunte

He’s just an excitable Bongino. It’s a good thing he’s not in the Secret Service any more.

With an excitable Bongino, one wonders if he built a cage out of her bones?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:52:19am

re: #187 Blind Frog Belly White

Hey, Boss! Can you please turn off the autoplay on the embedded video? THANKS!!!

Thanks, Boss!

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:53:24am

re: #224 sagehen

But it’s so coooooolllldd!!

THEY WILL BRING RUSSIA HERE!!!!11!!

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Le Lapin Tueur  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:54:15am

re: #213 Archangelus

Now we just have to get rid of Hogan.

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jeffreyw  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:54:20am

Mmm… some of that smoked pork shoulder, put to good use:

Imgur

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 22, 2016 • 10:55:42am

re: #193 jaunte

No wonder Stone and his boss Trump get along so well. They just say any damned thing, no matter how removed from the truth.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:00:22am

So, the real reason Trump is running for President==>

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John Hughes  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:00:57am

re: #5 teleskiguy

No, come on, he’s not white, he’s pink, just look at his avatar.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:02:43am
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jaunte  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:03:08am

I’ll just leave this exchange about David Duke here.

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wrenchwench  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:04:01am

re: #232 John Hughes

Welcome, hatchling.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:04:30am

re: #234 jaunte

I’ll just leave this exchange about David Duke here.

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He can’t even spell anathema

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Franklin  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:04:43am
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Timothy Watson  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:05:00am

re: #234 jaunte

I’ll just leave this exchange about David Duke here.

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Duke’s a Democrat and “reactionary leftists”. Things must be fun in Bizarro World.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:05:14am

re: #236 The Vicious Babushka

He can’t even spell anathema

I hate anything that’s ananthama.

/

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jaunte  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:06:02am

Amaranthanathama, the Forbidden Grain

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Belafon  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:06:14am

re: #234 jaunte

I can’t see everything, but has anyone actually looked up what David Duke’s been running under? I’m pretty sure he’s been running as a Republican.

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Archangelus  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:06:15am

re: #228 Le Lapin Tueur

Now we just have to get rid of Hogan.

Amen to that!

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Franklin  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:06:17am

OT: Finally ditched Apple Music to go back to Spotify. I feel like I have come home to a warm house after a long walk in the winter woods.

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John Hughes  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:06:23am

re: #202 Skip Intro

Downding for unsupported and improbable conspiracy theory — Putin doesn’t need to pay for shitheads, shitheads exist.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:06:57am

re: #239 Sir John Barron

I hate anything that’s ananthama.

/

Maybe it’s referring to pineapples (ananas) and ham on pizza?

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jaunte  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:07:04am

re: #241 Belafon

I can’t see everything, but has anyone actually looked up what David Duke’s been running under? I’m pretty sure he’s been running as a Republican.

Yes, it’s just a variant of that stupid “KKK used to be Democrats” argument.

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Belafon  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:07:29am

re: #244 John Hughes

Downding for unsupported and improbable conspiracy theory — Putin doesn’t need to pay for shitheads, shitheads exist.

Not a great start, John. That wasn’t a conspiracy theory statement.

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:07:36am
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Belafon  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:08:16am

re: #246 jaunte

Yes, it’s just a variant of that stupid “KKK used to be Democrats” argument.

Figured. I’m pretty sure Duke stating out loud “I am a Republican” would have no affect on that guy.

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Belafon  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:10:36am

re: #248 Skip Intro

The only way this is true is if white people are the only ones that exist. And it disregards the last two elections. I hate these kinds of pieces. If Clinton is elected, this guy needs to retire.

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Alephnaught  Aug 22, 2016 • 11:26:34am

re: #193 jaunte

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All together now:

“If Roger Stone likes Russia so much, why doesn’t he go and live there?”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 22, 2016 • 12:14:04pm

re: #245 The Vicious Babushka

Maybe it’s referring to pineapples (ananas) and ham on pizza?

YES! We have no Ananas! We have no Ananas today!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 22, 2016 • 12:17:13pm

re: #252 Blind Frog Belly White

YES! We have no Ananas! We have no Ananas today!

hahahahahahaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!

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GrFace  Aug 22, 2016 • 12:33:01pm

Has ANY traditional news agency mentioned the “14 words” stuff. I’ve seen no coverage of hand gestures that I was told to always avoid and other things that are clear telegraphs of white power movements. But I have seen absolutely no references to this stuff on the media except for that one meme that Trump Jr. forwarded and that was nothing beyond an “oh shucks.” Even here I am not seeing references to that sign. It’s just cryptic words with the journalists lacking the curiosity (or courage) to investigate and report who Trump’s most loyal base really is.

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Jebediah, RBG  Aug 22, 2016 • 3:27:12pm

re: #254 GrFace

Maybe if signs like that show up often enough, someone will explain it to their audience, but I am not holding my breath.

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teleskiguy  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:44:01pm

re: #111 The Vicious Babushka

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