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Dr. Matt  Sep 16, 2016 • 12:46:18pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 16, 2016 • 12:46:44pm

I really hope he loses so the GOP will implode soon after. They deserve it.

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gocart mozart  Sep 16, 2016 • 12:47:37pm

For reference, this is the first birther comment.

I was told today that Obama swore in on a Koran for his Senate seat. I do not believe he did. Can someone clarify this for me? I am under the impression only a Congressman has so far sworn in on a Koran.

Also that Obama’s mother gave birth to him overseas and then immediately flew into Hawaii and registered his birth as having taken place in Hawaii.

Again, any clarifications on this? Defintely disqualifies him for Prez. There must be some trace of an airticket. While small babies are not charged air fare they do have a ticket issued for them.

Long time ago but there may be some residual information somewhere. Good ammo (if available and true) BEST USED AFTER he becomes PREZ (if that occurs) and it’s too late for Dems - except accept the VP.
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Teukka  Sep 16, 2016 • 12:48:31pm

re: #1 Dr. Matt

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Have you ever tried googling “Obama” and “Gorilla”? Do not do it with safesearch off if you’re faint-hearted.

Just a hunch I have why Brightfart went with the gorilla pic.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2016 • 12:49:41pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2016 • 12:51:03pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2016 • 12:52:32pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2016 • 12:56:01pm
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Jack Burton  Sep 16, 2016 • 12:57:42pm

@ShitImpliedByBirthers “Obama campaign traveled back in time to put a fake birth announcement in the Honolulu newspaper.”

Birthers completely overlook the fact that Obama’s mother was an American citizen, so he could have been born on Mars and been a “Natural Born Citizen” anyway.

I thought I was done arguing this shit 4 years ago.

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Belafon  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:00:43pm

re: #9 Jack Burton

“She might have been an American citizen, but it was questionable at the time whether she could convey citizenship to her children.”

Yep, I’ve heard that one.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:01:49pm

Very serious people at the AP are mad:

Networks air 20-minute Trump ‘commercial’ before statement

Donald Trump’s renouncement of birtherism on Friday came with some media gamesmanship that compelled television news networks to air 20 minutes of endorsements by retired military men before the candidate briefly got to the point.

“We all got Rick-rolled,” said CNN’s Jake Tapper, a reference to the Internet prank of replacing an expected link with a video of singer Rick Astley’s 1987 hit, “Never Gonna Give You Up.”

The bad blood continued after the event when the Trump campaign barred text reporters and a television producer from joining him on a tour of the new Trump International Hotel in Washington. In response, cable and broadcast networks refused to use any video of the tour.

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gocart mozart  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:04:55pm

Why won’t Trump release his college transcripts?
What is he hiding?
Did he even graduate?

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lawhawk  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:12:37pm

Oh goodie, someone claiming I’m a paid troll for Hillary b/c I use a pseudonym to post, rather than my real name. They couldn’t respond to the fact that Trump didn’t pay his DC policy office, so they up and quit.

That’s despite Trump’s basket of bigots who make threats and use anti-Semitic slurs against folks like myself. Yeah, there’s good reasons I maintain my anonymity online (and why people like Charles are to be applauded for being public and taking on all the crap that entails). It’s why I do shy away from giving too much personal info here or demurring on meeting up when I am on my travels…

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:13:34pm

re: #1 Dr. Matt

So is the “liberal” media going to ask Bannon why he used a gorilla photo in a story about birtherism? Bannon is running Trump’s campaign, right? I’m curious as to why a racist is running a campaign for a man who could be our President (God forbid!!).

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Belafon  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:14:48pm

re: #14 Patricia Kayden

So is the “liberal” media going to ask Bannon why he used a gorilla photo in a story about birtherism? Bannon is running Trump’s campaign, right? I’m curious as to why a racist is running a campaign for a man who could be our President (God forbid!!).

See if you can talk to Woodrow Wilson’s campaign.

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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:15:30pm

re: #14 Patricia Kayden

So is the “liberal” media going to ask Bannon why he used a gorilla photo in a story about birtherism? Bannon is running Trump’s campaign, right? I’m curious as to why a racist is running a campaign for a man who could be our President (God forbid!!).

A racist is running Trump’s campaign because a) Trump is a racist and b) the foundation of Trump’s campaign is bigoted appeals to racists.

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plansbandc  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:16:34pm

I would like to get back to an America where openly racist shit heels are called out and shamed for their bullshit.

Dare I dream?

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Belafon  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:18:20pm

re: #17 plansbandc

I would like to get back to an America where openly racist shit heels are called out and shamed for their bullshit.

Dare I dream?

When was that?

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Belafon  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:19:46pm

re: #18 Belafon

When was that?

I’m actually being serious. What happened up until a few years ago was that the white supremacists would assume they were in charge, which was mostly true, and everyone else would ignore things like waving the Confederate flag.

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Sir John Barron  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:20:24pm

Did anyone ask Trump at this non-news conference thing if the reason he wore suit jackets all the time was to hide his fat, flabby grandmotherly arms?

Because many people have been asking questions….

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plansbandc  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:22:09pm

Seems to me when I was younger, It wasn’t acceptable to be openly racist. But then, my memory may be fuzzy. The internets has ruined my brain.

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lawhawk  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:23:40pm
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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:24:44pm

re: #17 plansbandc

I would like to get back to an America where openly racist shit heels are called out and shamed for their bullshit.

Dare I dream?

Ice-nine en.wikipedia.org is an interesting plot device in Cat’s Cradle by Vonnegut. When ice-nine comes into contact with liquid water below 45.8 °C (thus effectively becoming supercooled), it acts as a seed crystal and causes the solidification of the entire body of water, which quickly crystallizes as more ice-nine. A global catastrophe involving freezing the world’s oceans with ice-nine is used as a plot device in Vonnegut’s novel.

I think we’ve see a political version of this scenario, where decades of resentment based Republican propaganda have set the stage such that a seed crystal of overt bigotry (i.e., Trump) instantaneously transforms the Republican party from a party of bigoted resentments to a white nationalist party.

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lawhawk  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:25:50pm
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Because Trump never did give up on being a birther. He was still fanning those flames this year. Might not have tweeted about it, but it was still covered.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:26:06pm
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Sir John Barron  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:27:03pm

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Because Trump never did give up on being a birther. He was still fanning those flames this year. Might not have tweeted about it, but it was still covered.

Yeah but that was EARLIER THIS YEAR! What are you gonna hold Trump to everything he said just this year or this month or today?

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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:31:23pm

re: #19 Belafon

I’m actually being serious. What happened up until a few years ago was that the white supremacists would assume they were in charge, which was mostly true, and everyone else would ignore things like waving the Confederate flag.

White supremacists have had substantive defeats like passage of civil rights legislation, and even now racist ideas are far less generally acceptable in public than they have been at most times in the past.

Trump’s campaign and the Republican party are trying to undo these bits of progress.

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allegro  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:31:34pm

re: #21 plansbandc

Seems to me when I was younger, It wasn’t acceptable to be openly racist. But then, my memory may be fuzzy. The internets has ruined my brain.

In my experience racists have always been openly racist when they think they’re with other like-minded people. As a white person who is assumed to share their bullshit attitudes just due to my lack of melanin I’ve heard some of the most disgusting things come out of mouths from whom I would not have expected it, some in my own family. Others I entirely expected it and was not surprised though equally disgusted.

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Belafon  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:37:02pm

re: #27 EPR-radar

White supremacists have had substantive defeats like passage of civil rights legislation, and even now racist ideas are far less generally acceptable in public than they have been at most times in the past.

Trump’s campaign and the Republican party are trying to undo these bits of progress.

I agree. I guess my point is that the only reason it was ever socially unacceptable before to be outright racist was it was like gloating over winning. Now, though, it’s starting to dawn on them that what they say is no longer the final word, and so they’re getting more open about their racism, hoping that the threat it represents will put everything back in its place.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:40:56pm

re: #22 lawhawk

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lawhawk  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:41:36pm

Jim Hoft’s entire chain of logic:

1) Clinton started birther.
2) Therefore just ignore everything Trump ever did.

Everything after Clinton doesn’t matter, including Trump not only taking up mantle of being birther in chief, but keeping that flame alive for years after the BC was released. Trump then invented new conspiracies or spread other conspiracies to supplement the original conspiracy theory.

This is just all so much butthurt and pretzel logic.

Right wingers started birtherism. A few angry Clinton supporters took it up. Clinton never did. Trump then asserted he was a birther for 5 years. Clinton remained firmly in the never-birther camp, and was part of Obama’s admin as Secretary of State. She never questioned his citizenship. Trump has done nothing but question Obama’s citizenship - which is a racist/bigoted argument at its core.

This is where the right wing is.

Guess we’re going to need a bigger basket of deplorables. I think we should just shorthand that to basket of bigots, because that’s far more accurate.

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Sir John Barron  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:43:28pm

re: #31 lawhawk

Jim Hoft’s entire chain of logic:

That’s it. No logic.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:43:45pm
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Way to go assholes.

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blueraven  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:48:42pm

Yep

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Stanley Sea  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:48:45pm
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Sir John Barron  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:49:23pm

re: #35 Stanley Sea

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Ah, another Trump golden oldie.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:51:31pm
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Sir John Barron  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:51:48pm

re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Stanley Sea  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:51:55pm

Inside Edition! This story got legs & ran.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:51:56pm

What in the utter fukk is Baby Whiplash hallucinating about?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:52:33pm
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Great White Snark  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:52:53pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:53:08pm

re: #40 The Vicious Babushka

What in the utter fukk is Baby Whiplash hallucinating about?

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:53:13pm

re: #40 The Vicious Babushka

What in the utter fukk is Baby Whiplash hallucinating about?

Oh it’s this bugfuck demented bullshit

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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:53:43pm

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If you look through his Twitter timeline it’s pretty clear that Asher hates Hillary.

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Sir John Barron  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:54:02pm

re: #44 The Vicious Babushka

Oh it’s this bugfuck demented bullshit

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Confirmed. FACT, libtard! Owned!

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scottslemmons  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:56:37pm

re: #44 The Vicious Babushka

Oh it’s this bugfuck demented bullshit

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So this is where David Shuster learned his journamalism!

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Sir John Barron  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:57:21pm

re: #44 The Vicious Babushka

Oh it’s this bugfuck demented bullshit

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TOLD ME IN PERSON!!!!!

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scottslemmons  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:58:25pm

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TOLD ME IN PERSON!!!!!

“Also told me that Hillary is a commie! And she killed Vince Foster! And she kidnapped the Lindbergh Baby!”

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Romantic Heretic  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:58:27pm

re: #33 goddamnedfrank

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Way to go assholes.

This part stood out for me.

“[Trump] has seriously looked at the issues facing law enforcement today. He understands and supports our priorities and our members believe he will make America safe again,” said Chuck Canterbury, the FOP’s national president.

Translation: Trump will let us take the gloves off. If you’re a criminal, and we will decide if you are a criminal or not, you will not make it to trial.

I’ll be encouraging my wife to claim refugee status if Trump wins.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:59:35pm
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Dave In Austin  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:59:38pm
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Sir John Barron  Sep 16, 2016 • 1:59:58pm

re: #50 Romantic Heretic

“[Trump] has seriously looked at the issues…”

Oh sure……

Trumpzoid hasn’t seriously looked at anything besides the next scam.

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wrenchwench  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:01:55pm

re: #34 blueraven

Yep

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The way Obama’s election made America’s racism more visible, more noticeable, and more acceptable to some, while less acceptable to others, so will Hillary’s election make America’s sexism more visible, more noticeable, and more acceptable to some, while less acceptable to others. The ‘more noticeable’ part after Obama’s election was mostly to white people, for Hillary, it will be mostly men. The people of color and the women, we’ve been there, we know. So do enough empathetic white people and men to make these things happen.

Edited to pluralize the last sentence.

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petesh  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:04:06pm

re: #53 Sir John Barron

“[Trump] has seriously looked at the issues…”

Oh sure……

Trumpzoid hasn’t seriously looked at anything besides the next scam.

Nonsense. Several young women, some of them allegedly very young, can attest that he examined them with great care and purpose.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:04:12pm

O/T: I finished Joe Hill’s The Fireman and was not disappointed. Can’t recommended highly enough.
Nice little surprise was a very pleasant short denouement (subtitled What if There was Just a Bit More Story?), tucked away after the acknowledgements, hidden in the credits at the end of the book.

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Sir John Barron  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:04:35pm

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This:

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Sir John Barron  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:04:59pm

re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth

O/T: I finished Joe Hill’s The Fireman and was not disappointed. Can’t recommended highly enough.
Nice little surprise was a very pleasant short denouement (subtitled What if There was Just a Bit More Story?), tucked away after the acknowledgements, hidden in the credits at the end of the book.

Been thinking of trying him, son of Stephen King.

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gocart mozart  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:05:20pm

This is what a Trump supporter thinks would be a good cabinet.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:07:06pm

re: #58 Sir John Barron

Been thinking of trying him, son of Stephen King.

I was not disappointed at all and, oddly, never had an inclination while reading the novel to compare him to his dad. He is an excellent writer.

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Sir John Barron  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:07:57pm

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This is what a Trump supporter thinks would be a good cabinet.

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gocart mozart  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:09:36pm
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wrenchwench  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:10:27pm

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This is fine…everything is fine….

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I wanted to peel the image off my screen, tear it up, and throw it away.

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Tigger2  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:11:11pm

re: #59 gocart mozart

This is what a Trump supporter thinks would be a good cabinet.

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Tigger2  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:12:20pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:14:01pm

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This is what a Trump supporter thinks would be a good cabinet.

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petesh  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:15:19pm

re: #63 wrenchwench

I wanted to peel the image off my screen, tear it up, and throw it away.

May I interest you in the new product from the Trump Organization? It’s called The Golden Memoryhole, and it guarantees to erase all memories of any specific event, person, image or recording. Credit cards welcome, but 20% discount for cash. In the unlikely event that the product does not fulfill your expectations, we will replace it without question, so long as it is returned in the original packaging. Yes, it is shrink-wrapped, why do you ask?

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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:16:58pm

re: #54 wrenchwench

The way Obama’s election made America’s racism more visible, more noticeable, and more acceptable to some, while less acceptable to others, so will Hillary’s election make America’s sexism more visible, more noticeable, and more acceptable to some, while less acceptable to others. The ‘more noticeable’ part after Obama’s election was mostly to white people, for Hillary, it will be mostly men. The people of color and the women, we’ve been there, we know. So do enough empathetic white people and men to make these things happen.

Edited to pluralize the last sentence.

To put it crudely, it seems that these foul political carbuncles need to come to a head before they (hopefully) get lanced.

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wrenchwench  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:17:34pm

re: #67 petesh

May I interest you in the new product from the Trump Organization? It’s called The Golden Memoryhole, and it guarantees to erase all memories of any specific event, person, image or recording. Credit cards welcome, but 20% discount for cash. In the unlikely event that the product does not fulfill your expectations, we will replace it without question, so long as it is returned in the original packaging. Yes, it is shrink-wrapped, why do you ask?

I’ll take one, as long as it comes pre-filled with Trumps. The whole family.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:18:06pm

What racism?

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wrenchwench  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:19:22pm

re: #68 EPR-radar

To put it crudely, it seems that these foul political carbuncles need to come to a head before they (hopefully) get lanced.

Part of getting better is the need to realize [acknowledge, apologize for, etc.] how bad off we have been.

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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:19:39pm

re: #66 The Vicious Babushka

If Trump were to select his cabinet from beauty pageant contestants rather than from the usual set of GOP apparatchiks, that would be a major improvement.

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petesh  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:22:50pm

re: #69 wrenchwench

I’ll take one, as long as it comes pre-filled with Trumps. The whole family.

The best Trumps. Really, accept no imitation. Call now! 1-800-BUL-SHIT.

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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:23:03pm

re: #71 wrenchwench

Part of getting better is the need to realize [acknowledge, apologize for, etc.] how bad off we have been.

The Republican/Trump approach to these issues is as wrong as it can possibly be:

1) Deny there was ever a problem
2) Opine that things were better in the “good old days”
3) Substantively undermine civil rights, especially voting rights.

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:23:15pm

Just occurred to me: We’ll probably see some effective moves toward gun control if Trump wins and liberals suddenly start hoarding guns and ammo in response to some of his more “radical” proposals.

Of course, most RWNJs take it as gospel that liberals do not have guns, and would rather die than get them. There are exceptions: Regional RW radio yakker Charlie Jones (“Texas Overnight”) does acknowledge that they exist but claims they prefer former Soviet guns and calibers (7.62x54R, 7.62x39, etc.) “for political reasons.”

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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:24:37pm

re: #59 gocart mozart

This is what a Trump supporter thinks would be a good cabinet.

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Like any other group of senior Republicans, this can be aptly summarized as a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

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jaunte  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:25:12pm
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scottslemmons  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:25:45pm

re: #75 Shiplord Kirel

Regional RW radio yakker Charlie Jones (“Texas Overnight”) does acknowledge that they exist but claims they prefer former Soviet guns and calibers (7.62x54R, 7.62x39, etc.) “for political reasons.”

Why does Charlie Jones hate Vladimir Putin, THE GREATEST LEADER AMERICA HAS EVER KNOWN?!?!?!?

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Teukka  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:27:06pm

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wrenchwench  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:27:08pm

re: #74 EPR-radar

The Republican/Trump approach to these issues is as wrong as it can possibly be:

1) Deny there was ever a problem
2) Opine that things were better in the “good old days”
3) Substantively undermine civil rights, especially voting rights.

Our salvation lies in the fact that we outnumber them. More every day. Just get ‘em registered and turn them out on election day.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:31:13pm
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calochortus  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:32:21pm

OT, but I’ve gotten through about half my “Fall Cleaning” including going through all the drawers and closets and clearing out things we don’t really need. I’m now totally sick of the process. Did I mention I was only half way through? And not the hardest half? Sigh.

Also, it’s half way through Sept. so the yard looks wretched and I’m apparently starting in on some Fall allergies. Whee.

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blueraven  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:34:03pm

heh

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MsJ  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:35:27pm

re: #64 Tigger2

I wouldn’t trust any of them to wash my car, I would be scared they would steal it.

Or burn it to the ground.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:36:23pm

re: #83 calochortus

OT, but I’ve gotten through about half my “Fall Cleaning” including going through all the drawers and closets and clearing out things we don’t really need. I’m now totally sick of the process. Did I mention I was only half way through? And not the hardest half? Sigh.

Also, it’s half way through Sept. so the yard looks wretched and I’m apparently starting in on some Fall allergies. Whee.

Stay strong!

and/or

Have wine!

and/or

Take a nap!

Apply as needed.

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jaunte  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:39:40pm
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jaunte  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:40:07pm

He’s going to have to apologize for every statement.

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Stanley Sea  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:40:08pm

Pretty cool

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Romantic Heretic  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:41:01pm

re: #75 Shiplord Kirel

I prefer AKs for their reliability and ease of maintenance. I also, and this is a personal preference, prefer the 7.62 mm for penetrating power.

Considering I regard the Soviets and wingnuts as differing only in aesthetics I’d hardly call that ‘political reasons’.

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Stanley Sea  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:43:05pm

re: #87 jaunte

Disgusting

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:43:08pm

need mohr tiny trump violins…

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:43:14pm
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Teukka  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:43:35pm

OT, but one of the first of the teardowns of the new iPhone 7

Inside an iPhone 7: Equipment Autopsy#94

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calochortus  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:44:26pm

re: #86 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Stay strong!

and/or

Have wine!

and/or

Take a nap!

Apply as needed.

All good advice. I’m giving myself today off, beyond a little tidying up from yesterday’s adventures in the hall closet. It was all nice and neat-but what a bunch of stuff no one has wanted in at least a decade, and will likely never, ever want again…
I’ll have the wine this evening, and with any luck get a nice fresh start tomorrow.

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wrenchwench  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:48:53pm

The 70 year old doctor whose mountain bike I fixed a couple of weeks ago just came in to thank me for the good work. He did it right; he was wearing the jersey he bought from me, and relayed the compliment it got him from two women on horses. It’s the top left one on this page.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:50:59pm
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makeitstop  Sep 16, 2016 • 2:55:41pm

Oy. Almost 8 miles of walking through Boston today. Muh dogs are barking…

Nice town, though. This is the first time I’ve actually spent some time here, instead of just blowing into town for a gig and leaving a day later.

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gocart mozart  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:00:27pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:05:10pm

re: #98 makeitstop

Oy. Almost 8 miles of walking through Boston today. Muh dogs are barking…

Nice town, though. This is the first time I’ve actually spent some time here, instead of just blowing into town for a gig and leaving a day later.

If you are still there, keep your eyes peeled for a lost kitteh in Boston:

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Botsplainer  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:14:02pm

re: #30 The Vicious Babushka

Sorry that’s already taken

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I bought issue 1 at a store in Canada. Think my mother tossed it out 30 years ago or more.

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calochortus  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:15:42pm

re: #101 Botsplainer

I bought issue 1 at a store in Canada. Think my mother tossed it out 30 years ago or more.

That’s what happens when you use Mom and Dad’s house as a storage unit… ;)
(Speaking as “Mom in charge of storing stuff.”)

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gocart mozart  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:17:35pm
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According to a report by journalist Chris Hayes for The Nation, Martin issued a press release shortly after Obama’s keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention that he had evidence Obama “lied to the American people” and “misrepresent[ed] his own heritage.” Martin claimed that Obama was really a Muslim, was possibly hiding this fact “to endanger Israel,”[2] and that “[Obama’s] Muslim religion would obviously raise serious questions in many Jewish circles.”[4]

Within a few days, the conservative site Free Republic picked up Martin’s press release, triggering a long discussion. However, according to Hayes, the issue went dormant after Obama’s election to the Senate, only to pick up again in 2006 as rumors spread that Obama was considering a presidential run.[2] In October, a conservative blog, Infidel Bloggers Alliance, reposted Martin’s press release in response to a question about Obama’s heritage.[35] Then, on December 26, conservative activist Ted Sampley, co-founder of Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, posted a column suggesting Obama was a closeted Muslim, heavily quoting Martin’s original press release.[36] According to Hayes, the first of many emails suggesting Obama was a Muslim was forwarded to Snopes within hours of Sampley’s story. Hayes believes that the email was likely a slightly altered version of the Sampley article, which was in turn heavily based on Martin’s 2004 press release. Martin told Hayes that he got numerous calls once the emails began circulating. When the callers asked him if he wrote the release, Martin replied, “They are all my children.”[2]

On June 28, 2008 Martin told the Washington Post that he wasn’t “trying to smear anybody,” but that it was “just an underreported story.”[3]

Jerome Corsi’s book The Obama Nation, published on August 1, 2008, opens with a quote from Andy Martin on Obama’s alleged Muslim heritage and supposed attempts to conceal it.[4] Jim Rutenberg of The New York Times says that the book has been “widely discredited”.[4]

On October 5, 2008, Martin was featured as a “journalist” on Hannity’s America of the Fox News Channel. According to The New York Times, “The program allowed Mr. Martin to assert falsely and without challenge that Mr. Obama had once trained to overthrow the government.”[4] In a subsequent appearance on Hannity & Colmes, Robert Gibbs, Obama’s communications director, criticized Hannity for allowing Martin to appear on the show.[37]

Fox Senior Vice President Bill Shine later retracted support for Martin as a guest: “Having that guy on was a mistake. We obviously didn’t do enough research on who the guest was.”[38]

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gocart mozart  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:21:28pm

Above is more about “Muslim”, here is Birther specific.

Lawsuit against the state of Hawaii[edit]

On October 17, 2008, Martin filed a lawsuit in a state circuit court of Hawaii against Governor Linda Lingle and health department director Dr. Chiyome Fukino seeking to verify the state’s official birth certificate of Barack Obama.[39] Months before this suit, the Obama campaign posted an image of his short-form birth certificate online.[6][7] Martin’s lawsuit sought to order the state to release a copy of Sen. Obama’s long-form birth certificate.[40]

The short-form birth certificate that the Obama campaign posted online states that his date of birth as August 4, 1961, his place of birth as Honolulu, Hawaii, and other details.[39] Martin was quoted as saying, “I want to see a certified copy issued by the state of Hawai’i, not one issued by the state of Obama.”[39]

Hawaii State Department and Health spokeswoman Janice Okubo stated that only people with a “tangible relationship” to Barack Obama can access a copy of his birth certificate, adding that a 1949 law “was enacted primarily to protect your private information, especially in these days where there’s ID theft.”[39] Attorney General Mark Bennett stated that he has not seen the lawsuit and cannot comment on it, but says that according to Hawaii Revised Statutes it is unlawful to release vital records to anyone except individuals listed in state records as having close relations with Obama (i.e., a spouse, parents, descendants, or someone with a common ancestor).[39] In regard to a designee representing Obama, Okubo says “If someone from Obama’s campaign gave us permission in person and presented some kind of verification that he or she was Obama’s designee, we could release the vital record.”[39]

On October 22, 2008, in a Honolulu court proceeding overseen by the Honorable Bert I. Ayabe of the First Circuit of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, the court denied Martin’s petition No. 29414 for a writ of mandamus to order the release of Obama’s vital records. A further hearing was held on November 18. On November 19, the court denied Martin’s “emergency motion” and dismissed Martin’s lawsuit, based on Martin’s lack of legal standing to obtain another person’s birth document.[41]

On April 27, 2011, White House staffers gave reporters a copy of the certificate, and posted a PDF image of the certificate on the White House website.[42][43] The certificate reconfirmed the information on the official short-form certificate released in 2008, and provided additional details such as the name of the hospital at which Obama was born.[44][45]

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Tigger2  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:24:21pm
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Tigger2  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:26:39pm
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dangerman  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:32:51pm

david fahrenthold

ok i’m late to todays party
apologies if this has already been posted
and sorry also i dont know how to embed a tweet - not being a twitterer

does trump remember he promised to donate $5M re this whole birther nonsense?

david’s reminding him

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ramex  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:33:03pm

CNN chyron: “Can Clinton put a bad week behind her?”

“Bad” because she had pneumonia and Republicans scaremongered and devised conspiracy theories about it? Seriously fuck CNN and the media in general banging the drum for fascism.

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Jebediah, RBG  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:34:56pm

re: #108 ramex

A week that ends with Big Dumb Donald’s Big Dumb Shitshow seems like it is actually a pretty good week for Hillary.

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calochortus  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:36:23pm

BBL. I’m off to help a neighbor with a project that is extremely unlikely to work for her, but apparently she won’t believe that it won’t until I come over and tell her that in person. But she’s a good friend, so I’m happy to do that.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:37:10pm
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stpaulbear  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:38:07pm

Gah. I just realized that my cat thinks that the word ‘time’ means ‘dinner’. She gets her dinner at 6:00 but starts meowing for it sooner, and I usually tell her ‘It’s not time yet!’ right up until it is time, at which point I ask her ‘Is it time?’ and she starts a meowfest and scurries off to the kitchen.

I need to find a new word. Maybe ‘dinner’. She doesn’t know what that means.

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dangerman  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:39:00pm

cnn.com

and a bunch of cnn anchors called trump a liar after his statement this morning

“Those are two factually false statements. … “

cracks in the dike? or does everyone but me already know this?

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gocart mozart  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:39:38pm

re: #111 goddamnedfrank

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ramex  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:41:53pm

At least their current chyron reads, “Trump falsely claims Clinton started birther theory,” as opposed to “Trump lies through his teeth about every last damn thing in the world so it is neither surprising nor “breaking news” that Trump falsely claims Clinton started birther theory,” as it should read.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:41:58pm
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dangerman  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:43:16pm

re: #111 goddamnedfrank

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[Embedded content]My memory is in ‘10, ‘11, Obama tolerated, saw some political benefit in birtherism…

your memory is faulty

he refused to accept the premise of the silliness and let you all flail on your own

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:44:28pm

re: #115 ramex

As long as they still have Lewandowski on the air, CNN can go pound sand.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:44:49pm
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stpaulbear  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:44:55pm

Has anyone created a GIF of Trump’s set collapsing? I want to watch it but I don’t want to watch anything else that he said.

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austin_blue  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:45:59pm

re: #116 Charles Johnson

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The man’s maniacal.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:47:11pm

That’s it. I’ll be working the phones/knocking on doors for Hillary and Brad Schneider this weekend. No more sitting on my hands leaving it to others.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:49:13pm

The Tweet of a racist==>

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stpaulbear  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:49:40pm

re: #120 stpaulbear

Has anyone created a GIF of Trump’s set collapsing? I want to watch it but I don’t want to watch anything else that he said.

Never mind. Found a link to Raw Story (which I usually avoid). Looks like Trump wasn’t there when it happened.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:50:54pm

re: #120 stpaulbear

Has anyone created a GIF of Trump’s set collapsing? I want to watch it but I don’t want to watch anything else that he said.

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wrenchwench  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:52:24pm

re: #112 stpaulbear

Gah. I just realized that my cat thinks that the word ‘time’ means ‘dinner’. She gets her dinner at 6:00 but starts meowing for it sooner, and I usually tell her ‘It’s not time yet!’ right up until it is time, at which point I ask her ‘Is it time?’ and she starts a meowfest and scurries off to the kitchen.

I need to find a new word. Maybe ‘dinner’. She doesn’t know what that means.

I think I have taught one of my cats what ‘too early’ means. Probably not, though.

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dangerman  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:56:24pm

re: #126 wrenchwench

I think I have taught one of my cats what ‘too early’ means. Probably not, though.

they let you think you taught them something…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:56:49pm

re: #126 wrenchwench

I think I have taught one of my cats what ‘too early’ means. Probably not, though.

My cats know “too early”.
They just don’t give a fuck.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:57:10pm

re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth

My cats know “too early”.
They just don’t give a fuck.

So in other words, they’re cats.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:58:50pm

re: #129 klys (maker of Silmarils)

So in other words, they’re cats.

that’s what they claim…

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ObserverArt  Sep 16, 2016 • 3:59:39pm

re: #120 stpaulbear

Has anyone created a GIF of Trump’s set collapsing? I want to watch it but I don’t want to watch anything else that he said.

It collapsed after he was off stage. Katy Tur was on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell and she heard a commotion and turned and watched it all fall down. There is video of that probably, so you are safe from anything Trump.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 16, 2016 • 5:10:30pm

re: #3 gocart mozart

For reference, this is the first birther comment.

His mother quickly flew into Hawaii trailing clouds of afterbirth.


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