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thedopefishlives  Sep 23, 2016 • 3:52:05pm

Isn’t it obvious? Without black people, there would be no racism./////

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2016 • 3:55:00pm

re: #1 thedopefishlives

Isn’t it obvious? Without black people, there would be no racism./////

Black people just keep mentioning black people. If they’d stop, things would be better. What’s next, women talking about women things?

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thedopefishlives  Sep 23, 2016 • 3:56:27pm

re: #2 Belafon

Black people just keep mentioning black people. If they’d stop, things would be better. What’s next, women talking about women things?

As we already know, only men are allowed to talk about women things. Just ask Congress.

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wrenchwench  Sep 23, 2016 • 3:59:03pm

re: #3 thedopefishlives

As we already know, only men are allowed to talk about women things. Just ask Congress.

Comment that pointed to one religion deleted, because that applies to nearly all of them.

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BlueGrl21  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:09:21pm

Y’all, I am showing so, so, so much restraint right now. And it’s killing me to be this classy, truly.

I have been putting up with the Ted Cruz freaks in my life for MONTHS. “He’ll never support Trump, he won’t ever sacrifice his principles! Balls of steel, true Conservatives never back down!”

I am not going to troll them on Facebook or Twitter. I am not going to troll them on Facebook or Twitter. I am not going to troll them on Facebook or Twitter.

I will show the restraint they are not capable of.

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Frankie Five Angels  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:10:07pm

If there were no dogs, cats wouldn’t hate them so much.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:12:42pm

re: #5 BlueGrl21

Y’all, I am showing so, so, so much restraint right now. And it’s killing me to be this classy, truly.

I have been putting up with the Ted Cruz freaks in my life for MONTHS. “He’ll never support Trump, he won’t ever sacrifice his principles! Balls of steel, true Conservatives never back down!”

I am not going to troll them on Facebook or Twitter. I am not going to troll them on Facebook or Twitter. I am not going to troll them on Facebook or Twitter.

I will be show the restraint they are not capable of.

Feel free to let it all out here.

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Frankie Five Angels  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:14:25pm

re: #5 BlueGrl21

You’re classier than I. I had to make plans to visit my brother and sister (the sane side of the family) in Ohio for Thanksgiving if Hillary wins. The other side of the family is full metal batshit.

P.S. I envy my brother and sister for living in a state where their vote actually counts. Here in Texas? Child, please.

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BlueGrl21  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:17:15pm

re: #7 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Feel free to let it all out here.

One of them is so over the top she traveled from Texas to New Hampshire to volunteer for his campaign. And brought all of our kids back Ted Cruz coloring books. It burned beautifully in my fire pit.

My husband trolled them during the campaign and they all unfriended him. He has a gift.

Principles my ass. He’s exactly what we knew he was.

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:17:44pm

re: #5 BlueGrl21

Y’all, I am showing so, so, so much restraint right now. And it’s killing me to be this classy, truly.

I have been putting up with the Ted Cruz freaks in my life for MONTHS. “He’ll never support Trump, he won’t ever sacrifice his principles! Balls of steel, true Conservatives never back down!”

I am not going to troll them on Facebook or Twitter. I am not going to troll them on Facebook or Twitter. I am not going to troll them on Facebook or Twitter.

I will show the restraint they are not capable of.

You don’t have to be vicious about it, but pointing out that Cruz is being an opportunistic hack here can be viewed as a public service.

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wrenchwench  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:21:56pm
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Frankie Five Angels  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:23:35pm

re: #9 BlueGrl21

Ted Cruz coloring books? LOL

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Frankie Five Angels  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:25:33pm

re: #11 wrenchwench

Trump is currently polling at 17% among Hispanics, Romney got 26% of their vote and lost big. But Limbaugh says that the key to a Trump victory is all the Latinos that won’t admit to voting for him. Yes, really.

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Frankie Five Angels  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:27:05pm

Hugh Hewitt, the most overrated “intellectual” on the right alive, is on MSNBC. Gag.

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gocart mozart  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:29:24pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:29:25pm
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freetoken  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:30:12pm

re: #14 Frankie Five Angels

Hugh Hewitt, the most overrated “intellectual” on the right alive, is on MSNBC. Gag.

It’s kind of a hard title to hold, given that so many of what they consider “intellectuals” are really just people who can use words with more than 2 syllables. (See my last Page for a similar topic.)

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:32:44pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:34:26pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:38:44pm

re: #5 BlueGrl21

Y’all, I am showing so, so, so much restraint right now. And it’s killing me to be this classy, truly.

I have been putting up with the Ted Cruz freaks in my life for MONTHS. “He’ll never support Trump, he won’t ever sacrifice his principles! Balls of steel, true Conservatives never back down!”

I am not going to troll them on Facebook or Twitter. I am not going to troll them on Facebook or Twitter. I am not going to troll them on Facebook or Twitter.

I will show the restraint they are not capable of.

You truly have the equanimity of a Zen Master. I would be trolling them so hard.

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wrenchwench  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:39:43pm
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freetoken  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:43:25pm

Over the past few years I’ve grown disenchanted with NPR, at least their “News” portion of their activities.

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freetoken  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:45:30pm

Too many of their news articles strike me as being as vacuous as any of the blab-n-grab-webhits mainstream media.

Except at NPR the articles wear Cardigan sweaters.

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Thanos  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:45:53pm

re: #23 freetoken

Over the past few years I’ve grown disenchanted with NPR, at least their “News” portion of their activities.

They’ve really cowered down since the House threatened to go after their funding a few years back.

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darthstar  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:46:20pm
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darthstar  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:47:05pm
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thedopefishlives  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:47:40pm

re: #19 Charles Johnson

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I could use an evisceration right now. I’ve been eating too much recently and that would cut me right down to size.

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Frankie Five Angels  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:48:13pm

Holy shit, this Clinton ad on Trump’s comments about women.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:51:05pm

re: #29 Frankie Five Angels

Holy shit, this Clinton ad on Trump’s comments about women.

How Trump is anywhere near to winning the Presidency is beyond me. America has a dark, ugly underside.

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:51:08pm

re: #16 Charles Johnson

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Claims without evidence, threats without action, do these pod-people ever back up anything?

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:51:11pm

re: #25 Thanos

They’ve really cowered down since the House threatened to go after their funding a few years back.

That’s a shame. I know it’s too easy to be principled about other people’s careers, but they really shouldn’t have given in to that political pressure.

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Thanos  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:53:04pm

The mispers are a London band that sound like the band that the original Undertones should have grown into. Here’s a weekend travel anthem for those who might be hitting the road.

“These lost ideas - a love we couldn’t own
Live out our years - afraid of letting go” …

The Mispers - Weekend

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Thanos  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:54:14pm

re: #32 EPR-radar

That’s a shame. I know it’s too easy to be principled about other people’s careers, but they really shouldn’t have given in to that political pressure.

Yeah, but they are eying a house full of steely eyed wingnuts every day….

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:55:43pm
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Stanley Sea  Sep 23, 2016 • 4:59:27pm

re: #29 Frankie Five Angels

Holy shit, this Clinton ad on Trump’s comments about women.

Playing on the TV in Texas? Or just on the net?

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Skip Intro  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:00:52pm

This is the man Ted Cruz just endorsed, as defined by Ted Cruz in May.

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William Lewis  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:03:53pm

re: #25 Thanos

They’ve really cowered down since the House threatened to go after their funding a few years back.

It’s only going to get worse since they axed their comment section rather than take on the alt-right trolls that had destroyed it. I’m willing to bet their views are dropping because the comments were one of the few things that drew people to their really not very good web site. My other bet is they go with fluff and click bait to try and get the views back and get even further away from real journalism.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:03:59pm

SERVILE PUPPY

who’s a puppy!

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:05:15pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

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I blocked him, his timeline is a bad joke.

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:05:20pm

Not that Cruz had many friends but how could he have any considering what he just did?

He walked out on the plank, jumped back and helped the horde push his remaining devotees into the sea.

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Stanley Sea  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:06:55pm
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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:07:26pm

re: #37 Skip Intro

99% of what Ted Cruz says there about Trump applies just as well to Ted Cruz (or to any elected Republican official).

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Skip Intro  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:10:10pm
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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:11:16pm

re: #38 William Lewis

It’s only going to get worse since they axed their comment section rather than take on the alt-right trolls that had destroyed it. I’m willing to bet their views are dropping because the comments were one of the few things that drew people to their really not very good web site. My other bet is they go with fluff and click bait to try and get the views back and get even further away from real journalism.

NPR started down the path to their annihilation as journalists by submitting to ideological demands from Congressional Republicans. Everything after that is simply working out the details of embalming and interring their corpse.

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:13:49pm

LOL, I noticed that Hillary Clinton retweeted this today:

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Skip Intro  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:14:34pm
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gocart mozart  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:20:56pm

Is Gary Johnson on shrooms?

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gocart mozart  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:23:46pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:24:51pm

re: #48 gocart mozart

Is Gary Johnson on shrooms?

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Probably

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gocart mozart  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:25:10pm
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Bass Reeves  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:26:58pm

re: #48 gocart mozart

I’m not gonna lie, I got what he was trying to do, I think it would have been hilarious if they weren’t sitting so close together.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:28:09pm
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BlueGrl21  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:28:35pm

Texas Hold ‘Em

MONTHS of this face on my Facebook and Twitter. MONTHS of this meme.

I won’t use this today. I will wait patiently for the inevitable Killary meme. This will be my response.

I play the long game.

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Emptor scriptor Remorse  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:29:31pm

re: #48 gocart mozart

I hope so.

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Stanley Sea  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:32:31pm

This guy’s entire business acumen is how to scam.

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Jayleia  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:32:59pm

re: #54 BlueGrl21

Head looks like the wrong proportion, head looks like its oriented wrong on all 3 axis.

…yes, I spend too much time here.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:33:21pm

The Cincinnati Enquirer hasn’t endorsed a Democrat since 1916. Today it endorsed Hillary Clinton:

Clinton is a known commodity with a proven track record of governing. As senator of New York, she earned respect in Congress by working across the aisle and crafting bills with conservative lawmakers. She helped 9/11 first responders get the care they needed after suffering health effects from their time at Ground Zero, and helped expand health care and family leave for military families. Clinton has spent more than 40 years fighting for women’s and children’s rights. As first lady, she unsuccessfully fought for universal health care but helped to create the Children’s Health Insurance Program that provides health care to more than 8 million kids today. She has been a proponent of closing the gender wage gap and has stood up for LGBT rights domestically and internationally, including advocating for marriage equality.

Trump is a clear and present danger to our country. He has no history of governance that should engender any confidence from voters. Trump has no foreign policy experience, and the fact that he doesn’t recognize it - instead insisting that, “I know more about ISIS than the generals do” - is even more troubling. His wild threats to blow Iranian ships out of the water if they make rude gestures at U.S. ships is just the type of reckless, cowboy diplomacy Americans should fear from a Trump presidency. Clinton has been criticized as being hawkish but has shown a measured approach to the world’s problems. Do we really want someone in charge of our military and nuclear codes who has an impulse control problem? The fact that so many top military and national security officials are not supporting Trump speaks volumes.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:34:01pm

re: #54 BlueGrl21

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MONTHS of this face on my Facebook and Twitter. MONTHS of this meme.

I won’t use this today. I will wait patiently for the inevitable Killary meme. This will be my response.

I play the long game.

You have the patience of a saint. And the diabolism of a devil worshipper.

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:37:33pm

Look at those faces I don’t see how anyone could think they did it.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:38:08pm

The ol’ ski hill is looking very pretty!

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:38:31pm

re: #53 Charles Johnson

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Imagine, if you dare, the response in 1968 or ‘72 if it had emerged that a major adviser to Humphrey or McGovern was under investigation for ties to the Kremlin.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:48:24pm
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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:49:10pm
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gocart mozart  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:49:30pm
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petesh  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:49:52pm

re: #64 teleskiguy

What a … brave … fashion statement

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:50:01pm

re: #56 Stanley Sea

This guy’s entire business acumen is how to scam.

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Literally nothing about Trump’s evolving story makes sense, in fact he seems to be digging the hole even deeper. Why use a charity auction website at all to pay off a personal lawsuit settlement obligation that he claims he never had? If the charity auction site wrongly implied the funds were to benefit the Trump Foundation, as Trump’s people claim, why was the check settling the dispute then paid by the Foundation, and reported to the IRS as a tax free charitable contribution? He claims he didn’t write off the cost memberships but that’s almost irrelevant because he did sell them off in effect to generate personal income, the tax on which he clearly never paid because that income was wrongly attributed to his 501c3 Foundation.

Also, since the lawsuit settlement is confidential and he refuses to release his tax returns he’s created a situation where conveniently nothing he says can be verified.

Then there’s the portraits of Trump he used Foundation money to purchase, one of which has turned up gracing one of his properties, and where’s Tim Tebow’s helmet? The whole mess just keeps getting worse and worse, while most of the national media continue to pay it as little attention as possible.

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Stanley Sea  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:53:27pm

re: #48 gocart mozart

Is Gary Johnson on shrooms?

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I didn’t watch this before, I just did. He has no clue how to behave.

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:53:57pm

In the world I live in, one needs to apologize before being forgiven:

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:54:50pm
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De Kolta Chair  Sep 23, 2016 • 5:57:32pm

Damn. Monty Python star Terry Jones reveals dementia diagnosis

“We shall use my largest scales.”
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nines09  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:01:06pm

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:01:20pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:01:51pm

Man, the CSS files for a site like LGF can really get gnarly over time.

I spent several hours today starting to get this mess organized in a more logical and modularized fashion, so I don’t have to (for example) make sure the CSS styles are synchronized between the main pages and the LGF Spy pages. It’s a little like extracting spaghetti that already has sauce on it and cleaning the sauce off each strand, bit by bit.

Step by step. Inch by inch. Niagara Falls.

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:04:03pm

re: #75 Charles Johnson

Man, the CSS files for a site like LGF can really get gnarly over time.

I spent several hours today starting to get this mess organized in a more logical and modularized fashion, so I don’t have to (for example) make sure the CSS styles are synchronized between the main pages and the LGF Spy pages. It’s a little like extracting spaghetti that already has sauce on it and cleaning the sauce off each strand, bit by bit.

Step by step. Inch by inch. Niagara Falls.

Ok, I wont even begin to act like I know what you are talking about. :))

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:05:39pm

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:06:37pm

I see gonorrhea endorsed syphilis.

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compound_Idaho  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:07:16pm

re: #68 goddamnedfrank

Literally nothing about Trump’s evolving story makes sense, in fact he seems to be digging the hole even deeper. Why use a charity auction website at all to pay off a personal lawsuit settlement obligation that he claims he never had? If the charity auction site wrongly implied the funds were to benefit the Trump Foundation, as Trump’s people claim, why was the check settling the dispute then paid by the Foundation, and reported to the IRS as a tax free charitable contribution? He claims he didn’t write off the cost memberships but that’s almost irrelevant because he did sell them off in effect to generate personal income, the tax on which he clearly never paid because that income was wrongly attributed to his 501c3 Foundation.

Also, since the lawsuit settlement is confidential and he refuses to release his tax returns he’s created a situation where conveniently nothing he says can be verified.

Then there’s the portraits of Trump he used Foundation money to purchase, one of which has turned up gracing one of his properties, and where’s Tim Tebow’s helmet? The whole mess just keeps getting worse and worse, while most of the national media continue to pay it as little attention as possible.

The problem is that Hillary cannot call him on it. She accepts $100K+ speaking fees. Seriously, WTF does she have to say that is worth $100K. The correct answer would be nothing. $1M fee for her husband to sit on a board? It is all just bribery, payola, and business as usual. Anyone worth of voting for has no interest in being involved in politics this shit.

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:07:59pm
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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:08:12pm

[Can’t find this tweet right now: twitter.com ]

If only Obama hadn’t taken our guns!!!

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:08:25pm

re: #78 The Ghost of a Flea

I see drug-resistant gonorrhea endorsed drug-resistant syphilis.

FIFY

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freetoken  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:09:46pm

re: #79 compound_Idaho

The problem is that Hillary cannot call him on it.

You seem to miss the point - it’s GDF, and anyone else who actually cares about our society, who are calling Drumpfskind on “it”, not Hillary.

MBFF (Magical Balance Fairy Fail.)

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:10:58pm

re: #79 compound_Idaho

You might want to do some research before you drop your false equivalence canard here.

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:11:22pm

re: #81 b.d.

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allegro  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:11:37pm

re: #79 compound_Idaho

The problem is that Hillary cannot call him on it. She accepts $100K+ speaking fees. Seriously, WTF does she have to say that is worth $100K. The correct answer would be nothing. $1M fee for her husband to sit on a board? It is all just bribery, payola, and business as usual. Anyone worth of voting for has no interest in being involved in politics this shit.

You seem to be missing a clue.

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:12:02pm

re: #85 b.d.

Embedding anything more than 1 tweet = bork now?

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:12:56pm

re: #79 compound_Idaho

You obviously have no idea how the speaking circuit works.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:13:41pm

re: #79 compound_Idaho

The problem is that Hillary cannot call him on it. She accepts $100K+ speaking fees. Seriously, WTF does she have to say that is worth $100K. The correct answer would be nothing. $1M fee for her husband to sit on a board? It is all just bribery, payola, and business as usual. Anyone worth of voting for has no interest in being involved in politics this shit.

lolwut?

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:13:44pm

re: #79 compound_Idaho

SQUIRREL

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majii  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:15:35pm

re: #45 EPR-radar

“NPR started down the path to their annihilation as journalists by submitting to ideological demands from Congressional Republicans. Everything after that is simply working out the details of embalming and interring their corpse.”

I agree with this 100%. Here in GA, one of our state lawmakers, Chip Rogers-R [Senate Majority leader,] resigned from the state legislature in 2013 after an org called the Christian Coalition discovered he supported gambling and had been lying about his support. Our corrupt Gov., Nathan Deal-R, installed Rogers in a $150,000 per year job at Georgia Public Broadcasting, a salary paid with tax dollars, causing some employees to quit and others to protest stridently. Rogers stayed at GPB less than a year. I think a major reason he left was because it became publicly known that he was working at GPB and was working as a lobbyist for an Asian hotel group at the same time. It always seems that no matter how many offenses a high-level GOPer commits, s/he always lands on his/her feet and ends up in a high paying job.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:15:58pm

Umphrey’s McGee are streaming their concert tonight in Charleston, SC for free. Watch here if you want some face-melting rock ‘n’ roll.

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:16:06pm

Twenty-Plus Errors, Fabrications, And Distortions In Peter Schweizer’s Clinton Cash
mediamatters.org

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:17:16pm

re: #90 The Ghost of a Flea

SQUIRREL

Idaho Ground Squirrel?

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:17:37pm

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:18:16pm

re: #79 compound_Idaho

The problem is that Hillary cannot call him on it. She accepts $100K+ speaking fees. Seriously, WTF does she have to say that is worth $100K. The correct answer would be nothing. $1M fee for her husband to sit on a board? It is all just bribery, payola, and business as usual. Anyone worth of voting for has no interest in being involved in politics this shit.

The flamboyant real estate magnate earned on average $250,000 per speech in the past year, according to his personal financial statement released on Wednesday by the Federal Electoral Commission

.

reuters.com

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:19:51pm
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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:19:59pm

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:20:08pm

re: #96 b.d.

Imagine paying Trump $450,000 for a speech. Money to burn.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:20:17pm
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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:20:25pm

re: #79 compound_Idaho

That’s a steaming load of stupid for a Friday evening.

Attempted equivalency between Clinton’s normal speaking circuit arrangements and Trump’s bizarre and likely criminal self-dealing with his ‘foundation’ is really weak sauce.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:21:12pm

re: #79 compound_Idaho

What could a twice-elected Senator and former Secretary of State who also happened to be First Lady for 8 years after building a career as a lawyer with the biggest firm in Arkansas, and working for decades on programs for woman and children, and coming within spitting distance of being the first woman nominated by a major party for the Presidency possibly have to say that would be of interest to anyone?
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jaunte  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:21:48pm

re: #102 Blind Frog Belly White

Well, has she ever fired Gary Busey?

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Single-handed sailor  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:21:53pm

re: #79 compound_Idaho

The problem is that Hillary cannot call him on it. She accepts $100K+ speaking fees. Seriously, WTF does she have to say that is worth $100K. The correct answer would be nothing. $1M fee for her husband to sit on a board? It is all just bribery, payola, and business as usual. Anyone worth of voting for has no interest in being involved in politics this shit.

The Most Expensive Speeches

An examination of the highest speaking fees ever paid puts Donald Trump Donald Trump on top with the staggering $1.5 million the Learning Annex paid him for each speech he delivered at the company’s real estate “wealth expos” in 2006 and 2007.

Just ask Bill Zanker, founder and president of the Learning Annex. Zanker hired Trump in 2005 to speak at three real estate investing seminars for $1 million a pop. Those went so well that the company proceeded to hire The Donald for another 17 seminars in 2006 and 2007 for $1.5 million each. Zanker claims that he’s turned a profit on every event, where admission prices top out around $500. He also co-authored Trump’s 2007 book Think Big And Kick Ass In Business And Life.

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:22:09pm

re: #99 jaunte

Imagine paying Trump $450,000 for a speech. Money to burn.

I would wager that SoS Clinton at least does a little background work before a speech, I’d bet money that Trump does them all almost completely blind and off the cuff.

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:22:13pm
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majii  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:22:46pm

re: #61 Tigger2
“Look at those faces I don’t see how anyone could think they did it.”

I took my dog with me the other day to run a few errands. When I got to the grocery store, I left him in the car with the windows cracked, the air conditioning on, water available and of course, a snack. I had hidden a Slim Jim, his favorite snack, in his “Go Bag.” I wasn’t in the store very long, but when I returned to the car, I saw an empty Slim Jim wrapper on the seat where he was sitting. He was looking all innocent, but I knew he wasn’t. He had gone into the “Go Bag,” got the SJ out, ate it and left the bag sitting upright, looking the same way I left it. He’s a very smart and sneaky critter.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:23:20pm
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Stanley Sea  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:23:44pm

re: #71 Charles Johnson

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:23:48pm

re: #103 jaunte

Well, has she ever fired Gary Busey?

President Obama uses annual press dinner to poke fun at Donald Trump

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:26:46pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:28:12pm

re: #87 b.d.

Embedding anything more than 1 tweet = bork now?

You found a bug. Now fixed.

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:28:33pm

Here we go. The main thread on RedState about the Cruz endorsement of Trump has over 300 comments on it, which is a hell of a lot for RedState.

Time for some delicious wingnut tears.

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:31:03pm

re: #112 Charles Johnson

Thank you.

I don’t care if you are the lesser Charles, you rock in my book.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:31:08pm

re: #71 Charles Johnson

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compound_Idaho  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:31:20pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

lolwut?

I’ll summarize

1) she is a sleazeball that married well
2) I wasn’t defending Trump
3) I wish someone worth voting for was running.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:31:40pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:32:06pm

re: #116 compound_Idaho

I’ll summarize

1) she is a sleazeball that married well
2) I wasn’t defending Trump
3) I wish someone worth voting for was running.

lolwut?

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allegro  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:33:03pm

re: #116 compound_Idaho

I’ll summarize

1) she is a sleazeball that married well
2) I wasn’t defending Trump
3) I wish someone worth voting for was running.

Look! Over there! The clue is getting away!

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:33:53pm

re: #116 compound_Idaho

You know, stopping mass persecution is worth voting for.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:34:28pm

re: #116 compound_Idaho

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William Lewis  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:34:45pm

re: #116 compound_Idaho

Please repost this on April 1 so that President Clinton can have a good laugh.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:35:09pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:35:42pm

re: #119 allegro

Look! Over there! The clue is getting away!

I think he has to know which direction the clue is, because he keeps running the opposite way.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:36:41pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:37:07pm

Also, “someone worth voting for” coming from that particular poster really means “a Republican who was better at dog whistles” because seriously, there’s not that much difference between what Donald says he’d do and what Ted wanted to do. For example.

…well, maybe Ted would have had slightly better impulse control.

But from a policy viewpoint? Hah.

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:37:15pm

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:37:22pm

re: #116 compound_Idaho

I’ll summarize

1) she is a sleazeball that married well
2) I wasn’t defending Trump
3) I wish someone worth voting for was running.

YouTube

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FormerDirtDart  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:37:44pm
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jaunte  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:38:32pm

Hurr hurr!

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:39:00pm

re: #116 compound_Idaho

I’ll summarize

1) she is a sleazeball that married well
2) I wasn’t defending Trump
3) I wish someone worth voting for was running.

If you keep digging I’m sure you will find some potatoes soon.

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:39:51pm

How can anyone blindly voting for Trump honestly question fringe things about Clinton?

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:40:00pm

Sure, the most qualified US Presidential candidate at least since GHWB is only where she is because she “married well.” Trenchant, and not at all sexist criticism. Golly good show old chap.

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:40:29pm

I keep hearing vague smears of Hillary Clinton. If there are any specifics in which she’s a “sleaze” bring em out.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:41:11pm

re: #133 goddamnedfrank

Sure, the most qualified US Presidential at least since GHWB is only where she is because she “married well.” Trenchant, and not at all sexist criticism. Golly good show old chap.

I’m just shocked we got a second response. Someone’s really bored tonight.

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petesh  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:41:31pm

re: #133 goddamnedfrank

Actually, the one who “married well” was Bill. Why, there’s even a long-standing joke abut that …

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:41:43pm

re: #134 jaunte

I keep hearing vague smears of Hillary Clinton. If there are any specifics in which she’s a “sleaze” bring em out.

SHE’S A CLINTON! WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED?!?

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:42:24pm

re: #129 FormerDirtDart

That upper left headline should read, “Obama Vetoes Bi-Partisan Election Year Pandering.”

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:42:28pm

re: #134 jaunte

I keep hearing vague smears of Hillary Clinton. If there are any specifics in which she’s a “sleaze” bring em out.

The Clinton Foundation saved some lives but a lot of other people who they ignored died.

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:42:41pm

re: #137 teleskiguy

Ted Cruz is doing exactly the same thing tonight.

HIllary, she’s like the death-asteroid, in ways we just can’t describe.

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allegro  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:43:04pm

re: #129 FormerDirtDart

Well, they’re talking about him (Cruz) again after a very long spell of ignoring his ass. He accomplished his goal.

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lawhawk  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:43:14pm

Of course Trump supporters are blaming their racism on Obama. This is the Party of Personal Responsibility™ after all. It’s always someone else’s responsibility for when they don’t get what they want.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:43:35pm

re: #133 goddamnedfrank

Sure, the most qualified US Presidential candidate at least since GHWB is only where she is because she “married well.” Trenchant, and not at all sexist criticism. Golly good show old chap.

They don’t even know they’re doing it.

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allegro  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:43:49pm

re: #131 Tigger2

If you keep digging I’m sure you will find some potatoes soon.

At least a yam.

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:43:53pm

re: #134 jaunte

I keep hearing vague smears of Hillary Clinton. If there are any specifics in which she’s a “sleaze” bring em out.

We all know the real answer to that question. 1) She’s a Democrat. 2) She’s married to Bill Clinton. That’s good enough for wingnuts.

Back in reality, RWNJs haven’t come up with anything more substantial than Bill’s affairs in 24 years of uninterrupted digging for dirt.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:44:43pm

re: #145 EPR-radar

We all know the real answer to that question. 1) She’s a Democrat. 2) She’s married to Bill Clinton. That’s good enough for wingnuts.

Back in reality, RWNJs haven’t come up with anything more substantial than Bill’s affairs in 24 years of uninterrupted digging for dirt.

Don’t forget 3) she’s got ladybits.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:45:01pm

re: #20 gocart mozart

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Christ, how many times is he going to stop in Southwest Virginia? Does he realize that all the people are in northern Virginia and Hampton Roads?

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:45:41pm

A lot of these wingnuts seem to forget that a 2nd term of Obama was going to be the irreversible death knell of this country.

Why are they even bothering now?

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:45:46pm

RedState comedy gold:

You just go right on sucking that thumb if it gives you comfort. To support Trump at any time for any reason is to be a scumbag. Cruz supports Trump.

The syllogism isn’t that hard to work out.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:46:09pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:46:14pm

re: #137 teleskiguy

SHE’S A CLINTON! WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED?!?

“Do you have any evidence for that?”

“There’s more to life than evidence.”

“Get in the fuckin’ sack!”

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Timothy Watson  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:46:16pm

re: #133 goddamnedfrank

Sure, the most qualified US Presidential candidate at least since GHWB is only where she is because she “married well.” Trenchant, and not at all sexist criticism. Golly good show old chap.

I thought Bill Clinton was a hayseed hick or whatever.

They really need to coordinate their talking points.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:47:18pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:48:14pm
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FormerDirtDart  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:48:17pm
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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:49:53pm

re: #154 Charles Johnson

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How dare you not trust someone who’s Twitter handle is @prisonplanet ?!

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:51:01pm

re: #147 Timothy Watson

Christ, how many time is he going to stop in Southwest Virginia? Does he realize that all the people are in northern Virginia and Hampton Roads?

People don’t count. It’s acreage you can paint red on a map that confers legitimacy. If they have more square miles, but don’t win, the election was stolen.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:54:43pm

re: #157 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

People don’t count. It’s acreage you can paint red on a map that confers legitimacy. If they have more square miles, but don’t win, the election was stolen.

How com thuh cities get more votes than I do?

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:56:12pm

re: #157 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

People don’t count. It’s acreage you can paint red on a map that confers legitimacy. If they have more square miles, but don’t win, the election was stolen.

Playing recordings of cow farts from all those empty square miles as a stump speech would be more sensible than anything that has come from Trump’s mouth-anus lately.

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2016 • 6:58:15pm

More RedState comedy gold:

I used to be #nevertrump #neverhillary.

That changed today. I’m #imwithher now because I can now see that the GOP will stop at nothing now to fulfill every whim of Trump. And they own the House and they will likely own the Senate. And now we see the power of the Party of Trump. They will bring all dissenters to heel, and they will rule the party with an iron fist.

I’m going to vote for the lying, evil, corrupt, vile Hillary Clinton because I’m voting for checks and balances, and divided government. And that’s our only chance.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:01:30pm

re: #124 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I think he has to know which direction the clue is, because he keeps running the opposite way.

Just like Pokémon.

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Targetpractice  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:01:35pm

re: #160 EPR-radar

More RedState comedy gold:

Allow me to again reiterate that if Bill had any part in convincing Trump to run this year, he deserves a spot on Mt. Rushmore.

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freetoken  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:01:48pm

re: #160 EPR-radar

Their worldview is collapsing - they can’t face reality.

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retired cynic  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:02:35pm

MacFolk: I plan to hold off on Sierra OS for a bit, for a few bug fixes to come down the tubes. Same with iOS10. Just interested if anyone does upgrade, what the experience was like. Thanks!

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:03:01pm
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stpaulbear  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:03:41pm

John Cole is great when he’s mad.

I was a winger for years, and we can discuss that particular psychosis at a later date, but what I can explain to you right now is that they fucking hate you.

They just do.

They hate you because you respect gay people as normal human beings.

They hate you because you respect African-Americans as normal human beings.

They hate you because you respect Asians, Latinos, and everyone else who isn’t a straight white male.

They hate you because you respect a woman’s right to choose.

They hate you because you respect the right of people to be with who they love.

They hate you because you respect the right of anyone to adopt a child.

They hate you because you respect international law.

They hate you because you believe in economic and tax fairness.

They hate you because you respect the right of anyone to worship any way they want.

They hate you because you respect scientists and their collective knowledge.

They hate you because you respect teachers and the work they do educating Americans.

They hate you because you respect the human dignity of every American.

They hate you because you respect the rights of people over corporations.

They hate you because you respect nature and think we have a duty to take care of the environment.

They hate you because you respect your right to vote, and they don’t think you deserve it.

They hate you because you respect the constitution and the rule of law.

They hate you because you respect laws against torture.

In short, they hate you. Period.

They masquerade their bullshit in the words of Jesus and the all-knowing free market, but it is transparent what motivates them. Not love for their fellow man, not love for their fellow citizen, not love for country- what motivates them is hate for the other.

You.

They fucking hate you. They want you, and everyone who speaks for you, and every institution that represents your values, whether it be Planned Parenthood or food banks or ACORN- you name it. They want it destroyed.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:03:49pm

re: #164 retired cynic

iOS 10.0.2 was just released today. It’s been great for me.

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:05:00pm

re: #162 Targetpractice

Allow me to again reiterate that if Bill had any part in convincing Trump to run this year, he deserves a spot on Mt. Rushmore.

I’ll hold that thought until after the election. After all, Satan’s Anus may actually win this thing.

Over at RedState, I haven’t seen anyone yet comment on Trump being supernaturally evil. Those really make my day.

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MsJ  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:05:28pm

re: #116 compound_Idaho

You misogynistic motherfucker. Fuck you.

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:05:41pm

re: #116 compound_Idaho

I’ll summarize

1) she is a sleazeball that married well
2) I wasn’t defending Trump
3) I wish someone worth voting for was running.

She married someone who wasn’t very well off until after they left the White House.

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freetoken  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:08:44pm

re: #168 EPR-radar

I’ll hold that thought until after the election. After all, Satan’s Anus may actually win this thing.

An anagram for “A suntan Ass”.

Just a coincidence, I’m sure.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:09:42pm

Ouch. She burned me soooooo baaaaaad.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:11:16pm

re: #116 compound_Idaho

I’ll summarize

1) she is a sleazeball that married well
2) I wasn’t defending Trump
3) I wish someone worth voting for was running.

Seriously, delete your account and go away.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:11:24pm

re: #172 Dr. Matt

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Ouch. She burned me soooooo baaaaaad.

He’s not a warrior, he’s an idiot. And she’s following an idiot, which is even worse.

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:11:34pm

The day Varys knew he’d met his match…

Later lizards, and may the little birds watch over you.

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:11:47pm

LOL, wingnutspeak comes back to haunt:

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:12:27pm

re: #166 stpaulbear

That John Cole piece is from 2012. RWNJ hatreds have only gotten worse since then.

Nice conclusion on it:

I just do not understand why more people do not recognize this. The Republicans have declared total war on America, and people are responding like this is politics as usual. It isn’t. It really isn’t. It’s really all or nothing at this point. We put the birchers/tea party/conservatives back in their place and destroy the current GOP, or we deal with this shit for the next forty-sixty years.

I know I am Godwining this post, but we are at the point where we know who is going to set the Reichstag fire. Are we up to stopping them?

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Dr. Matt  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:13:52pm

re: #174 Blind Frog Belly White

He’s not a warrior, he’s an idiot. And she’s following an idiot, which is even worse.

They use words like “warrior” and “patriot” and have zero comprehension of what they actually mean and have sacrificed zero to actually label themselves as such.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:15:35pm

re: #177 EPR-radar

That John Cole piece is from 2012. RWNJ hatreds have only gotten worse since then.

There was a time when I thought that the Right and the Left wanted the same basic things, but wanted different paths to get there - the Right believed that The Market would take us there, and the Left believed more in Government to get us there. But in the end, the utopias would look the same.

Boy, was I wrong.

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:16:44pm

re: #140 jaunte

Ted Cruz is doing exactly the same thing tonight.

HIllary, she’s like the death-asteroid, in ways we just can’t describe.

That’s OK. I don’t think his kids want to look him in the eye anyway.

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:18:24pm

re: #179 Blind Frog Belly White

There was a time when I thought that the Right and the Left wanted the same basic things, but wanted different paths to get there - the Right believed that The Market would take us there, and the Left believed more in Government to get us there. But in the end, the utopias would look the same.

Boy, was I wrong.

The utopia for the Trumphhroids is a 21st century American fascism.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:18:51pm

re: #180 Belafon

That’s OK. I don’t think his kids want to look him in the eye anyway.

Giphy

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:19:32pm

Maureen Dowd is on Bill Maher and I haven’t had to run to the bathroom to vomit once!

yet.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:20:32pm

re: #183 b.d.

Maureen Dowd is on Bill Maher and I haven’t had to run to the bathroom to vomit once!

yet.

So, you just puked in situ?
//

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Dr. Matt  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:20:46pm

re: #180 Belafon

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:24:19pm

re: #181 EPR-radar

The utopia for the Trumphhroids is a 21st century American fascism.

They want the early 20th century right to threaten and kill blacks with 21st century weapons.

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retired cynic  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:24:45pm

We built a dandy potato gun here, out of PVC pipe. Got a quarter mile carry. This column carries potato guns and punkin chunkers to a new level: a bigger version on the Mexican side, that could clear Donald’s wall without breaking a sweat. In face, our little potato gun would have done that!

juanitajean.com

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:25:20pm

re: #181 EPR-radar

The utopia for the Trumphhroids is a 21st century American fascism.

For a while, I thought they wanted a Theocracy, but their ready embrace of the obviously godless Trump make it clear THAT wasn’t it, either.

No, they really want to return to what they see as the zenith for white men - the 1950s. When women, Blacks and Latinos knew their place, and Islam was an exotic thing you only heard about in newsreels.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:25:54pm

OH FUCK THIS SHIT:

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:26:30pm

Just because: one of my favorite bands and the guitar player was a friend in high school (this song has been covered by several bands including The Replacements):

The Vertebrats - Left In The Dark

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retired cynic  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:26:31pm

re: #187 retired cynic

One comment says we ought to build two, and play lawn darts with Donald. Loser has to keep him.

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William Lewis  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:27:26pm

re: #188 Blind Frog Belly White

For a while, I thought they wanted a Theocracy, but their ready embrace of the obviously godless Trump make it clear THAT wasn’t it, either.

No, they really want to return to what they see as the zenith for white men - the 1950s. When women, Blacks and Latinos knew their place, and Islam was an exotic thing you only heard about in newsreels.

And those newsreels were telling of successful CIA coups that keep them from having any power or control over our oil.

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:28:09pm

re: #189 Timothy Watson

GOP Rep. Dave Brat has achieved a remarkable feat.

He has jammed his head so far up his ass that his tonsils frame everything he sees.

Bravo.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:28:25pm

re: #192 William Lewis

And those newsreels were telling of successful CIA coups that keep them from having any power or control over our oil.

Yeah, but they weren’t telling us they were CIA coups. It was popular uprisings.

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:31:26pm

re: #188 Blind Frog Belly White

For a while, I thought they wanted a Theocracy, but their ready embrace of the obviously godless Trump make it clear THAT wasn’t it, either.

No, they really want to return to what they see as the zenith for white men - the 1950s. When women, Blacks and Latinos knew their place, and Islam was an exotic thing you only heard about in newsreels.

But that communist Ike was president in the 50s, and the marginal tax rates were confiscatory.

The common clay of the new west (i.e., morons) may cluelessly yearn for a return to the 1950s, but the sociopaths riding on the back of this particular tiger want to at least undo all of the New Deal.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:32:16pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:34:55pm

Damn, this guy is kind of a choad. Not a great Comment-to-Karma ratio.

Karma: 87

compound_Idaho
Registered since: Feb 14, 2012 at 5:31 pm
No. of comments posted: 563
No. of Pages posted: 0

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:39:56pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:46:28pm

First night since last May that I’ve had to turn the heat on. Temps below freezing tonight, few inches of snow has already fallen in the high country. Summer is over.

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:47:35pm

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:48:36pm

re: #199 teleskiguy

First night since last May that I’ve had to turn the heat on. Temps below freezing tonight, few inches of snow has already fallen in the high country. Summer is over.

Sunday, it will finally start being autumn here in Dallas.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:49:38pm

re: #195 EPR-radar

But that communist Ike was president in the 50s, and the marginal tax rates were confiscatory.

The common clay of the new west (i.e., morons) may cluelessly yearn for a return to the 1950s, but the sociopaths riding on the back of this particular tiger want to at least undo all of the New Deal.

The rise of Trump has made a lot of things clear. The ACTUAL, rank and vile Right likes Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, etc. They just don’t want Those People getting them, because you know, Those People are lazy and shiftless, and they’ll cheat if you let them.

They really don’t care that much about things like tax rates, either, except they JUST KNOW that Those People don’t pay as much as they should.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:50:21pm

I am going to sleep kids. I spent three and a half hours making phone calls tonight after getting up at 4:30 am for work.

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Stanley Sea  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:54:04pm

re: #180 Belafon

That’s OK. I don’t think his kids want to look him in the eye anyway.

They are GIRLS. He has no clue.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:55:07pm

re: #202 Blind Frog Belly White

The rise of Trump has made a lot of things clear. The ACTUAL, rank and vile Right likes Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, etc. They just don’t want Those People getting them, because you know, Those People are lazy and shiftless, and they’ll cheat if you let them.

What they don’t understand is that if Hair Furor and the rest of the Suicide Squad known as the GOP gets the reins of both houses again, every bit of progress that has been made since the Great Deal thru Obamcare starts to go away-very quickly.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:55:16pm

What a putz.

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gwangung  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:56:06pm

re: #206 teleskiguy

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What a putz.

That doesn’t even make sense.

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Jenner7  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:56:21pm

re: #206 teleskiguy

Didn’t his campaign originally say he was planning on going on Tuesday?

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:56:32pm

re: #206 teleskiguy

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What a putz.

Huh? What’s he talking about?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:57:03pm

re: #205 Eric The Fruit Bat

What they don’t understand is that if Hair Furor and the rest of the Suicide Squad known as the GOP gets the reins of both houses again, every bit of progress that has been made since the Great Deal thru Obamcare starts to go away-very quickly.

They don’t care about policy. They just want the loud, angry guy who hates all the right Americans and isn’t afraid to say so.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:57:42pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:58:03pm

re: #209 Belafon

Huh? What’s he talking about?

What a schmuck.

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 7:59:03pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:01:02pm

Ted Cruz is the first in a long line of NeverTrumpers that will flip in the coming weeks. I’ll put money down that even doughy pantload Jonah Goldberg will tell his audience to vote for Trump soon.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:01:42pm

re: #166 stpaulbear

Shorter version:

They hate you because you’re in their way.

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:03:35pm

re: #214 teleskiguy

Ted Cruz is the first in a long line of NeverTrumpers that will flip in the coming weeks. I’ll put money down that even doughy pantload Jonah Goldberg will tell his audience to vote for Trump soon.

It was easy to tell Cruz would, and Goldberg and Shapiro will follow. There’s still plenty that surprised me because they are being rational, such as GHWB.

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retired cynic  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:05:17pm

re: #216 Belafon

It was easy to tell Cruz would, and Goldberg and Shapiro will follow. There’s still plenty that surprised me because they are being rational, such as GHWB.

What about the conservative newspapers that have broken with tradition and endorsed Hillary? Will any of them flip?

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Jenner7  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:05:41pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:06:36pm

re: #150 Charles Johnson

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I’m terrified. My children are Chinese immigrants. Would President-for-Life Trump strip of them of their citizenship and deport them? I don’t want to find out!

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retired cynic  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:06:48pm

re: #218 Jenner7

Oh, no….

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:06:56pm

re: #217 retired cynic

What about the conservative newspapers that have broken with tradition and endorsed Hillary? Will any of them flip?

I bet some of them will. Conservative hatred for Hillary Clinton is white hot, it’ll cloud all these cons minds the closer we get to election day.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:07:34pm

re: #218 Jenner7

Reset the fucking clock. Mother fucker.

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FormerDirtDart  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:08:24pm

Giphy

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:08:27pm

re: #214 teleskiguy

Ted Cruz is the first in a long line of NeverTrumpers that will flip in the coming weeks. I’ll put money down that even doughy pantload Jonah Goldberg will tell his audience to vote for Trump soon.

Yep.

They all will endorse Trump as the only way to stop the evil Clinton.

Freaking pitiful but totally expected.

Then they’ll start the entire principle over party bs all over again starting Nov. 9th.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:09:27pm

re: #222 teleskiguy

The description concerns me in regards to what a racial backlash might be to this politically.

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retired cynic  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:10:01pm

re: #223 FormerDirtDart

You’d think saying Bold Truth Teller about Trump would cause lightning to strike him down instantly.

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:11:10pm

re: #218 Jenner7

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It is too soon to comment on this shooting, we don’t know if the shooter is:

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Conceal Carry Permitted
On food stamps
Republican

Judgement to follow, stay tuned/

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:11:50pm

re: #223 FormerDirtDart

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:13:01pm

re: #217 retired cynic

What about the conservative newspapers that have broken with tradition and endorsed Hillary? Will any of them flip?

I don’t see a newspaper flipping after making a big announcement like that. It’s kind of a group effort to select a candidate. It wasn’t easy in the first place.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:15:08pm

Just keep in mind that they don’t actually believe he’s a truth-teller; it’s that they’ll work backwards once they have power to trim away everything but that counterfeit “truth.”

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:15:44pm

re: #225 Ziggy_TARDIS

The description concerns me in regards to what a racial backlash might be to this politically.

I have no clue where you’re getting anything regarding your statement here.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:17:29pm

re: #225 Ziggy_TARDIS

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:19:42pm
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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:22:13pm

re: #232 teleskiguy

Trump could use this to try to narrow the election. This is something he would do.

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retired cynic  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:24:03pm

re: #234 Ziggy_TARDIS

I agree he would try anything.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:24:27pm

re: #234 Ziggy_TARDIS

Yeah, well, it’s not working. His poll numbers haven’t moved much at all since the Chelsea bombing. You’re right, if there’s a religious or racial connotation to this horrible crime Trump will jump all over it and congratulate himself and all that other bullshit.

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majii  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:24:49pm

re: #216 Belafon

“It was easy to tell Cruz would, and Goldberg and Shapiro will follow. There’s still plenty that surprised me because they are being rational, such as GHWB.”

I think the main reason Cruz decided to endorse Trump was self-serving. After his failure to endorse Trump at the GOP Convention, his poll numbers began to fall among Texas voters, and he picked up a challenger. He’s trying to insure he gets reelected so he can stay in the Senate and have another chance to run for POTUS in 2020. It’s all about Ted Cruz and what Ted Cruz wants. He’s never really been a “principled individual,” only an opportunist. There’s no way in hell I’d endorse someone who had disrespected me, my significant other and one of my parents. Cruz’s entire career in Congress has been built upon pulling one stunt after another to advance his political career. He is supposed to be one of the smartest persons in Congress, but he has done very little to convince me of it. I see him the same way I see Marco Rubio and most of the other GOPers in Congress———he’s a well-paid, very lazy politician, i.e, a moocher who says he hates big government but somehow refuses to remove his lips from the government teat.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:26:50pm

Suspect at large. JFC.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:28:06pm

re: #236 teleskiguy

Worried it might eventually.

Missed my meds last night, and am stressed with schoolwork.

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Stanley Sea  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:28:14pm

Y’all, there are GOP never Trumps that will stay that way till the end.

Don’t broad brush the morally correct ones with the weaks.

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majii  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:28:49pm

re: #221 teleskiguy

“I bet some of them will. Conservative hatred for Hillary Clinton is white hot, it’ll cloud all these cons minds the closer we get to election day.”

I read that since the Dallas Morning News endorsed HRC, it has been under attack. Some in Texas have said they’re canceling their subscriptions, and of course, there are those who’ve been making ugly comments in the newspaper’s blog sections. It doesn’t surprise me that some Texans have resorted to attacking the DMN because, it’s what right-wingers do when things don’t go their way. I think it’s also what has caused the GOP to lurch so far to the right in the past few decades.

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Stanley Sea  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:29:04pm

re: #239 Ziggy_TARDIS

Take your meds. Catch up with school work. Log off.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:29:46pm

re: #240 Stanley Sea

Y’all, there are GOP never Trumps that will stay that way till the end.

Don’t broad brush the morally correct ones with the weaks.

I have my doubts. The people that run this party have been craven fucks for a long time, almost as long as I can remember.

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Stanley Sea  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:30:34pm

NONE
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Stanley Sea  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:31:12pm

re: #243 teleskiguy

I have my doubts. This party has been craven fucks for a long time, almost as long as I can remember.

Nope.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:33:17pm

I’d like to see the GOP as we see it today just go away and be replaced. The rot from within is almost complete.

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:34:37pm

re: #246 teleskiguy

I’d like to see the GOP as we see it today just go away and be replaced. The rot from within is almost complete.

I think a lot of the big money people probably agree with you. .

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dangerman  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:35:33pm

re: #241 majii

“I bet some of them will. Conservative hatred for Hillary Clinton is white hot, it’ll cloud all these cons minds the closer we get to election day.”

I read that since the Dallas Morning News endorsed HRC, it has been under attack. Some in Texas have said they’re canceling their subscriptions, and of course, there are those who’ve been making ugly comments in the newspaper’s blog sections. It doesn’t surprise me that some Texans have resorted to attacking the DMN because, it’s what right-wingers do when things don’t go their way. I think it’s also what has caused the GOP to lurch so far to the right in the past few decades.

Lost to a black man. Losing and will lose to a woman they’ve hated for decades. No positive vision for the future. When you have no ideas only thing left is to obstruct

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:44:18pm

re: #237 majii

Cruz is aiming for a Supreme Court slot-and Trump will probably nominate him. He knows his Presidential aspirations are shot.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:45:46pm

re: #249 Eric The Fruit Bat

Now *that’s* a frightening thought, Associate Justice Ted Cruz.

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allegro  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:49:22pm

Everything about these guys is frightening.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:50:59pm
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BeachDem  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:51:01pm

re: #241 majii

“I bet some of them will. Conservative hatred for Hillary Clinton is white hot, it’ll cloud all these cons minds the closer we get to election day.”

I read that since the Dallas Morning News endorsed HRC, it has been under attack. Some in Texas have said they’re canceling their subscriptions, and of course, there are those who’ve been making ugly comments in the newspaper’s blog sections. It doesn’t surprise me that some Texans have resorted to attacking the DMN because, it’s what right-wingers do when things don’t go their way. I think it’s also what has caused the GOP to lurch so far to the right in the past few decades.

I’m guessing that the editorial boards that went against long time Republican endorsements to come out for Hillary gave it a lot of serious thought before doing so.

The Cincinnati Enquirer, for example, didn’t just endorse Hillary—they came out strong against Trump, saying:
Trump is a clear and present danger to our country.
and
His wild threats to blow Iranian ships out of the water if they make rude gestures at U.S. ships is just the type of reckless, cowboy diplomacy Americans should fear from a Trump presidency.
and
Do we really want someone in charge of our military and nuclear codes who has an impulse control problem?

They didn’t just go with “lesser of two evils,” they came out strong. I believe they know they’ll get backlash and did not make the decision to endorse on a whim.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:51:06pm

I’ve made the big time, guys!

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Stanley Sea  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:51:40pm

What’s up with the mall shooting?

Has Herr Drumpf tweeted his take yet?

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allegro  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:55:00pm

re: #255 Stanley Sea

What’s up with the mall shooting?

Has Herr Drumpf tweeted his take yet?

Gotta make sure it wasn’t a white guy first.

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BeachDem  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:57:10pm

re: #250 teleskiguy

Now *that’s* a frightening thought, Associate Justice Ted Cruz.

Associate Justice Mike Lee (who, in the words of Charles Pierce “is to the Constitution what Paul Ryan is to actual economics. Which is to say, he is recognized as a konztitooshinul skolar because he keeps telling people that he is — just as the Zombie Eyed Granny Starver has become known as a “budget wonk” because enough people have called him that) is even scarier. And I believe Trump has even mentioned him as a possibility.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 8:59:26pm
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philosophus invidius  Sep 23, 2016 • 9:00:33pm

re: #252 Charles Johnson

Emoji frog now requires an automatic block as well.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 23, 2016 • 9:06:49pm

re: #258 teleskiguy

Sadly a lot of people won’t even get that reference.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 23, 2016 • 9:07:51pm

And of course, WA is an open carry state…

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 9:09:21pm

re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg

freetoken better get it!

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2016 • 9:13:24pm

re: #240 Stanley Sea

Y’all, there are GOP never Trumps that will stay that way till the end.

Don’t broad brush the morally correct ones with the weaks.

While conceding that there will be some within the GOP whose concept of principal won’t allow them to support Trump I’d hesitate to conflate that with them being “morally correct.” For one thing in many cases the things they object to most about him are his wishy washy stance when it comes to religious issues like gay rights and abortion, or the positions he’s staked out in the past that run counter to their cold, cruel, Ayn Rand brand of Social Darwinism. In other words they generally aren’t opposing Trump because he’s a snake, but because he’s not their brand of snake.

I’ll give them credit for being smart enough to know that they’re being lied to and for caring about other things than just sticking it to minorities. Unfortunately I find those things they do care about tend to be fairly repugnant in their own right.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2016 • 9:15:23pm

re: #263 goddamnedfrank

You said it better than I could right now. Good show!

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Romantic Heretic  Sep 23, 2016 • 9:31:23pm

re: #218 Jenner7

More blood to water The Tree of Liberty™.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 24, 2016 • 12:59:25am

re: #257 BeachDem

Associate Justice Mike Lee (who, in the words of Charles Pierce “is to the Constitution what Paul Ryan is to actual economics. Which is to say, he is recognized as a konztitooshinul skolar because he keeps telling people that he is — just as the Zombie Eyed Granny Starver has become known as a “budget wonk” because enough people have called him that) is even scarier. And I believe Trump has even mentioned him as a possibility.

The next President might get to appoint four Justices. If its Trump, that means an end to Roe v. Wade, marriage equality, voting rights and civil rights, except for corporations whose rights will continue to be exalted over living human beings.


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