New From Keith Olbermann: Why Trump Is Not Fit to Be President

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When I first watched this video I thought Keith might be going a little over the top here.

But then Donald Trump whipped out his Android phone and tweeted these tweets. Now I think Keith probably understated how bad it is.

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We're Way Beyond Snark  Nov 28, 2016 • 9:42:45pm

I agree that things are as bad as Olberman suggests, but I really wish he could moderate his tone. What he says sounds like hyperbole when he shouts it.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Nov 28, 2016 • 9:43:22pm
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allegro  Nov 28, 2016 • 9:43:23pm

He’s also referring to himself in the third person a LOT more. Dissociating?

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allegro  Nov 28, 2016 • 9:44:13pm

re: #3 allegro

He’s also referring to himself in the third person a LOT more. Dissociating?

Oops… didn’t snap that those are retweets. Neverrrrrrrr mind.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 28, 2016 • 9:44:25pm
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retired cynic  Nov 28, 2016 • 9:44:30pm

re: #2 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Oh, No! This year….

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Nov 28, 2016 • 9:45:23pm

re: #2 klys (maker of Silmarils)

To be clear, this is a soccer team from Brazil who was playing in a South American tournament, not the national team of Brazil. From what I can gather. (My Spanish is a little rusty.)

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retired cynic  Nov 28, 2016 • 9:45:42pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Nov 28, 2016 • 9:49:16pm

re: #7 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Last line translates to “there are survivors” although how many is unclear.

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FormerDirtDart  Nov 28, 2016 • 9:50:09pm

re: #4 allegro

Oops… didn’t snap that those are retweets. Neverrrrrrrr mind.

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FormerDirtDart  Nov 28, 2016 • 9:53:12pm

OK, let’s see if this gains any national coverage tomorrow…

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electrotek  Nov 28, 2016 • 9:54:35pm

Why are so few concerned about Gatlinburg? Looks like a fucking disaster over there.

What the fuck is going on? It’s almost December and there are wildfires going on over there, especially when Christmas season is right around the corner!

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allegro  Nov 28, 2016 • 9:57:42pm

re: #10 FormerDirtDart

It does reduce the level of crazy that a president-elect is tweeting it, but not by a whole hell of a lot

It’s not just what he is retweeting, weird and nuts as it is. It’s that a PE is sitting there all night eyeballs glued to fucking Twitter. Clearly exhibiting where his interests lie. And IQ.

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Targetpractice  Nov 28, 2016 • 10:01:55pm

For weeks, we had the media absolutely obsessed with Hillary’s health. Every sniffle, every sneeze, every “emergency,” was presented as evidence that she was medically unfit to serve as president. There were numerous quacks brought on to talk about her state of mind, to suggest that she was mentally unfit to assume the presidency. And now, here we are, less than a month past the election and with a little over a month left to go before the new administration takes off, and only now is the media paying attention to the reality that we elected a certifiable nutter to the White House instead.

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We're Way Beyond Snark  Nov 28, 2016 • 10:03:09pm

re: #14 Targetpractice

For weeks, we had the media absolutely obsessed with Hillary’s health. Every sniffle, every sneeze, every “emergency,” was presented as evidence that she was medically unfit to serve as president. There were numerous quacks brought on to talk about her state of mind, to suggest that she was mentally unfit to assume the presidency. And now, here we are, less than a month past the election and with a little over a month left to go before the new administration takes off, and only now is the media paying attention to the reality that we elected a certifiable nutter to the White House instead.

And her emails. Don’t forget her emails.

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Donkey With No Name  Nov 28, 2016 • 10:16:49pm

I don’t really want this to be a vision of the near future …

Paranoia Agent HD Opening / Intro / OP

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allegro  Nov 28, 2016 • 10:28:09pm

I’m trying to wrap my brain around cremation for a blastocyst. First find the little sucker with a microscope. Then what? Cremate in a matchbox? Since that size would be significant overkill how about a Bic and a pinhead? Will a people crematorium provide group firing like critter crematoria? Oh no, what could I be thinking? People aren’t animals! So one blastocyst at a time…

Yeah, it’s weird out tonight.

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Kragar  Nov 28, 2016 • 10:30:49pm
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retired cynic  Nov 28, 2016 • 10:33:37pm

re: #18 Kragar

You Win!

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Stanley Sea  Nov 28, 2016 • 11:13:03pm

I am on my 8th episode of Shameless tonight! halp, I’m never going to bed!

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teleskiguy  Nov 28, 2016 • 11:14:19pm
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Alyosha  Nov 28, 2016 • 11:31:26pm

Just a periodic reminder that although near everything sucks, I’m happy that I have LGF.

#LateThanksGiving

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Amory Blaine  Nov 28, 2016 • 11:58:35pm

Soo, I was on vacation last week. Went with the wife down to Louisville for the first part of the week to stay at her cousin’s place. Nice people, she’s a liberal (in Kentucky) in a field that puts her in the RWNJ crosshairs. She gave me a look when we first got there and I knew she wasn’t handling the election results well. Which is why she probably got sick, so we really didn’t do much while we were there. Came back home on the day before Thanksgiving. Dumb move. Took us 9 hours to get home (usually takes ~5.5 hrs). What’s up with the traffic jams in the middle of nowhere in Indiana? So we got home, then guess what? I got sick too. So I took it easy around the house for the rest of the week. Which brings me to today.

Today I ran a cat 6 upstairs to the bedroom area and deployed a Wifi AP and it all turned out pretty well so I’m feeling pretty good. I get ready for work, and leave the house tonight to go work third shift. As I’m driving to work tonight in the rain, on the freeway in the dark, the fucking hood of my car flies up!! I’m in the downtown area so there isn’t much of a shoulder to pull over but I finally did. I had to bang out my hood to bring it down again and it cracked my windshield something fierce.

1 step forward two steps back. But hey, I’m alive.

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Alyosha  Nov 29, 2016 • 12:52:26am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 1:19:55am

British government also seems to have a problem with leaving meetings without a cover slip over their notes:

‘Have cake and eat it’ Brexit notes played down by government

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Lupin  Nov 29, 2016 • 1:51:39am

re: #16 Donkey With No Name

I don’t really want this to be a vision of the near future …

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If you want to imagine what the country is going to be like, fly to Rio, spend two weeks there, then project a Russian-like kleptocracy on top of it. That’s my best approximation of where we’re headed. And the media as a whole has no vested material interest (other than abstract principles) in stopping that evolution. It will be the end of *a* world but not the end of *the* world.

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Timothy Watson  Nov 29, 2016 • 2:01:38am

re: #24 Alyosha

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Regret but one upding, etc.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 2:03:31am

re: #26 Single-handed sailor

I remember sitting with my sister waiting to pick up my mom from work and grooving to this on the car radio

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 2:04:37am

re: #27 Lupin

If you want to imagine what the country is going to be like, fly to Rio, spend two weeks there, then project a Russian-like kleptocracy on top of it. That’s my best approximation of where we’re headed. And the media as a whole has no vested material interest (other than abstract principles) in stopping that evolution. It will be the end of *a* world but not the end of *the* world.

My main concern is how much of this damage will be long-lasting or even permanent.

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Timothy Watson  Nov 29, 2016 • 2:06:06am
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Single-handed sailor  Nov 29, 2016 • 2:08:27am

re: #29 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I used to wait for it to play on the radio. That’s when I discovered most top 40 radio stations had a two hour playlist. I think it was the first song that really caught my attention and got me into listening to radio and discovering the great music of the time.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 2:14:59am

re: #32 Single-handed sailor

I used to wait for it to play on the radio. That’s when I discovered most top 40 radio stations had a two hour playlist. I think it was the first song that really caught my attention and got me into listening to radio and discovering the great music of the time.

And “Brother Love’s Travelin’ Salvation Show” by Neil Diamond

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freetoken  Nov 29, 2016 • 2:26:08am
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Amory Blaine  Nov 29, 2016 • 2:26:38am

Brazil Chapecoense football team in Colombia plane crash

A plane carrying 81 people, including a top Brazilian football team, has crashed on its approach to the city of Medellin in Colombia.
Police say five people survived the crash but the rest of those on board died.
The chartered aircraft was carrying members of the Chapecoense football team.
The team was due to play in the final of the Copa Sudamericana, against Medellin team Atletico Nacional.
The first leg of the final of the cup, South America’s second most important club competition, was scheduled for Wednesday, but has now been suspended.
The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) said it was suspending “all activities”.

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Lupin  Nov 29, 2016 • 2:45:10am

re: #30 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My main concern is how much of this damage will be long-lasting or even permanent.

My guess: permanent. Some things may revert to pre-Tump (or pre-GWB) models, but I think most of our society will be changed forever.

Also such changes are not easily reversed, and often it takes violent action. My guess is we’ll see the days with armored vehicles or tanks in the streets of some of our cities.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 2:49:27am

re: #36 Lupin

My guess: permanent. Some things may revert to pre-Tump (or pre-GWB) models, but I think most of our society will be changed forever.

Also such changes are not easily reversed, and often it takes violent action. My guess is we’ll see the days with armored vehicles or tanks in the streets of some of our cities.

I believe that DT’s presidency is one of the follow-on effects of the cuts in education that started under Reagan, and that they will continue to have an even greater negative influence on the development of our society for decades to come.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 3:41:10am

I just saw the remake of Ben-Hur. Don’t waste your money.

Despite the presence of Morgan Freeman (who probably just wanted the paycheck) as a supporting character and narrator, the movie is a total dud. Never mind that we already know the story from the Charlton Heston version. There’s utterly no sense of anticipation or drama, except for the chariot race. The acting is on a par with the typical TV movie. And the more visible presence of Jesus in the story feels like a bone thrown to the Christian audiences who will sop it up like turkey gravy. I suspect writing the flick to appeal to such audiences, and to not offend them, is probably what made it a dud.

There was a Ben-Hur movie reference in a listening exercise I gave my students yesterday, specifically the famous chariot race in the 1959 version. I showed them that clip. I’m glad I skipped the new one.

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Lupin  Nov 29, 2016 • 3:54:37am

re: #37 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I believe that DT’s presidency is one of the follow-on effects of the cuts in education that started under Reagan, and that they will continue to have an even greater negative influence on the development of our society for decades to come.

I couldn’t agree more.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 3:54:37am

re: #37 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I believe that DT’s presidency is one of the follow-on effects of the cuts in education that started under Reagan, and that they will continue to have an even greater negative influence on the development of our society for decades to come.

The push for charter schools, vouchers, homeschooling of the Christian variety, and the constant battles against AP, IB and Common Core are all part of it. Once upon a time, the public schools were viewed as the great equalizer — a system to meld the waves of immigrants into American society by providing everyone a common set of values and “culture” (to use a very loaded word). Even Catholic schools largely followed the public school curriculum. But education since Saint Ronnie has been balkanized. There is no longer a common set of values and culture being taught to young people. Religious types and right-wing families have ensured their kids grow up with a tidy set of Just-So stories from kindergarten through college graduation, stories that bear no resemblance to real history, science, theology or politics. All Trump had to do was tap into a mass of people who have no freaking idea what the Constitution really says, what government really does, what the president can and cannot do, how science works, how politics work, and what happened the day before yesterday.

It’s just what the Dominionists wanted, except with an apparently irreligious leader seconded by a religious nutcase named Mike Pence.

You can expect a lot of shenanigans in local school board races and meetings, as the RWNJs will feel they’ve got the blessing of the Glorious Leader to trample education.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 3:59:09am

re: #40 wheat-dogg

It’s just what the Dominionists wanted, except with an apparently irreligious leader seconded by a religious nutcase named Mike Pence.

You can expect a lot of shenanigans in local school board races and meetings, as the RWNJs will feel they’ve got the blessing of the Glorious Leader to trample education.

It is also the accepted tenet of faith among Free Market ideologues that the Private Sector can do everything more efficiently. And I believe that is the overriding driving force, the Dominionists are just along for the ride.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 3:59:23am

It’s not that Fascism has suddenly appeared wrapped in the flag and carrying the Bible, but it’s just slipped in the back door while no one was paying attention. Any one of Trump’s coterie could become the dictator people fear might come.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 4:01:05am

re: #41 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is also the accepted tenet of faith among Free Market ideologues that the Private Sector can do everything more efficiently. And I believe that is the overriding driving force, the Dominionists are just along for the ride.

The Free Market, Invisible Hand malarkey is in itself a kind of religious faith — the god of commerce. Adam Smith is spinning in his grave now.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 4:03:12am

re: #43 wheat-dogg

The Free Market, Invisible Hand malarkey is in itself a kind of religious faith — the god of commerce. Adam Smith is spinning in his grave now.

The Invisible Hand is a metaphor for the functioning of a well regulated market. Smith made it clear that the role of government is to ensure that the market functions for everyone, both workers and consumers as well as investors and producers.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 4:11:32am

re: #44 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The Invisible Hand is a metaphor for the functioning of a well regulated market. Smith made it clear that the role of government is to ensure that the market functions for everyone, both workers and consumers as well as investors and producers.

Modern believers skip that part of The Wealth of Nations.

Non-regulation gave us the Crash of ‘29 and the Great Depression, and the Recession of 2008. I shudder to think what Trump’s administration could spawn.

China has a big problem with capital flight. The rich are not all that confident in China’s economy and banking system, so they are finding ways to stash their cash abroad. (Chinese enthusiasts play a big role in the Bitcoin movement, for example.) The 1% in the USA have already done the same thing — their funds are stashed in various places around the world, so if the American economy goes down the tubes, they’ll be just fine, tyvm. They’ll let Trump take the blame for trashing the economy, while they proceed to buy stuff up at bargain prices. Too bad for everyone else. Shoulda been born rich, kid.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 4:15:55am

I keep reminding myself we survived Ronald Reagan and W, so maybe we can survive Trump, too. I’m doing a poor job of convincing myself, though. Reagan and Bush were at least on the spectrum of being reasonable politicians. Trump is off the scale.

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Big Beautiful Door  Nov 29, 2016 • 4:17:44am

re: #30 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My main concern is how much of this damage will be long-lasting or even permanent.

Why worry about that when we know the devastating damage to be done by climate change will be permanent?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 4:26:26am

re: #45 wheat-dogg

The 1% in the USA have already done the same thing — their funds are stashed in various places around the world, so if the American economy goes down the tubes, they’ll be just fine, tyvm. They’ll let Trump take the blame for trashing the economy, while they proceed to buy stuff up at bargain prices. Too bad for everyone else. Shoulda been born rich, kid.

I recall a satirical (but prescient) bit from a Rolling Stone ca 1990: “Donald Trump proposes that if we loan him all our money, he will use it to buy up everything we own and lease it back to us.”

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The Madness of King Orange (aka Sophist)  Nov 29, 2016 • 4:36:53am

‘I voted for Trump — so there’: White shopper melts down after black workers ask her to pay for bag

Interesting how many Trump supporters as going around imagining that they are being attacked because of that support. Almost as though they have a guilty conscience, as if on some level they feel like they have done something worthy of punishment, and thus walk about expecting to be punished, interpreting any setback as the manifestation of that retribution. How’s that line go again: “the wicked flee where no man persueth”?

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 4:38:59am

re: #48 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I recall a satirical (but prescient) bit from a Rolling Stone ca 1990: “Donald Trump proposes that if we loan him all our money, he will use it to buy up everything we own and lease it back to us.”

He’s already preparing to fleece the US government out of every nickel he can.

I’m waiting for today’s news cycle to run with the disqualifying clause of his lease agreement for the Trump hotel in the old DC post office. Should be fun to watch.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 4:39:46am

re: #49 The Madness of King Orange (aka Sophist)

‘I voted for Trump — so there’: White shopper melts down after black workers ask her to pay for bag

Interesting how many Trump supporters as going around imagining that they are being attacked because of that support. Almost as though they have a guilty conscience, as if on some level they feel like they have done something worthy of punishment, and thus walk about expecting to be punished, interpreting any setback as the manifestation of that retribution. How’s that line go again: “the wicked flee where no man persueth”?

I just see it as a sign of a general breakdown of civility in interpersonal discourse. And it reflects the strong overlap between people lacking basic social and communication skills, and Trump supporters.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 4:40:28am

re: #50 wheat-dogg

He’s already preparing to fleece the US government out of every nickel he can.

I’m waiting for today’s news cycle to run with the disqualifying clause of his lease agreement for the Trump hotel in the old DC post office. Should be fun to watch.

He will just abolish the US Postal Service. End of conflict.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 4:48:59am

re: #52 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He will just abolish the US Postal Service. End of conflict.

Not so easy. The contract stipulates that no elected official of the US government may be a party to the lease agreement. So after Jan 20, Trump would be breaking the contract if he remains a party to it.

Not that he won’t try to abolish the USPS. It’s a money loser.

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Timothy Watson  Nov 29, 2016 • 4:50:35am

re: #53 wheat-dogg

Not so easy. The contract stipulates that no elected official of the US government may be a party to the lease agreement. So after Jan 20, Trump would be breaking the contract if he remains a party to it.

Not that he won’t try to abolish the USPS. It’s a money loser.

Who’s going to sue him for violating the contract terms? His own Justice Department ran by Jeff Sessions?

Hahahahahahahahaha.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 4:53:27am

re: #54 Timothy Watson

Who’s going to sue him for violating the contract terms? His own Justice Department ran by Jeff Sessions?

Hahahahahahahahaha.

So what happens if the Post Office then fails to uphold its end of the contractual terms?

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 4:58:03am

re: #54 Timothy Watson

Who’s going to sue him for violating the contract terms? His own Justice Department ran by Jeff Sessions?

Hahahahahahahahaha.

The lessor is the General Services Administration. Two legal eagles are advising the GSA to terminate the lease before Jan. 20, to prevent conflict of interest problems. Now that would be fun to watch as Trump goes into total Twitter meltdown.

huffingtonpost.com

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:00:08am

re: #55 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So what happens if the Post Office then fails to uphold its end of the contractual terms?

Won’t Trump be filling all the Cabinet positions with his lackey who will simply make things work out for him? Who is going to go after Trump when he has full control of Washington?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:01:43am

re: #57 Patricia Kayden

Won’t Trump be filling all the Cabinet positions with his lackey who will simply make things work out for him? Who is going to go after Trump when he has full control of Washington?

We are going to take the New Abnormal to new heights

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:03:38am

re: #57 Patricia Kayden

Won’t Trump be filling all the Cabinet positions with his lackey who will simply make things work out for him? Who is going to go after Trump when he has full control of Washington?

He’s not a dictator yet, and in any event, he doesn’t take office for another two months. The GSA can do what it wants until then, and we can see if Trump as president can file a lawsuit against the government for kicking him out of his tacky hotel. It would have to heard by the SCOTUS, and as yet it’s not packed with Trump justices.

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jeffreyw  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:09:49am

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Good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:15:13am

re: #60 jeffreyw

Good morning!

fried stuffing?

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:25:16am

File this in the NO SHIT folder

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:27:20am

re: #62 The Vicious Babushka

File this in the NO SHIT folder

U.S. students lag Asian, Russian peers in math, science.

KILL COMMON CORE!!! MORE CHARTER SCHOOLS!!! BREAK THE TEACHERS’ UNIONS!!!

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mmmirele  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:35:38am

What is it with conspiracy nutjobs and George Soros? I am no fan of Jill Stein, but I have found myself in the odd position of defending her in the last few days. This conspiracy fruitcake I know believes that Soros is funding Stein’s recount. I pointed out that the money was being collected via her presidential campaign website, and the upper limit on donations is $2,700.

She came back with some crazy-ass tale that it was all automated, all Soros’ money, just pushed out in fake $2,700 increments. I told her she was crazy because you just can’t donate to a campaign, you have to fill out your name, address, job title and employer before you can donate. And all this stuff is public record, available through the FEC and then sliced and diced through websites like Open Secrets.

All of that reasonable explanation made not a whit’s difference to crazy nutbar woman. It was still All About Soros. I mean, seriously, why don’t they stick to truthful things, like how a Soros-funded PAC dumped $2MM into anti-Joe Arpaio commercials? But no, George Soros is behind Jill Stein.

It’s because Soros is from a Jewish family, isn’t it?

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:40:09am

re: #64 mmmirele

What is it with conspiracy nutjobs and George Soros? I am no fan of Jill Stein, but I have found myself in the odd position of defending her in the last few days. This conspiracy fruitcake I know believes that Soros is funding Stein’s recount. I pointed out that the money was being collected via her presidential campaign website, and the upper limit on donations is $2,700.

She came back with some crazy-ass tale that it was all automated, all Soros’ money, just pushed out in fake $2,700 increments. I told her she was crazy because you just can’t donate to a campaign, you have to fill out your name, address, job title and employer before you can donate. And all this stuff is public record, available through the FEC and then sliced and diced through websites like Open Secrets.

All of that reasonable explanation made not a whit’s difference to crazy nutbar woman. It was still All About Soros. I mean, seriously, why don’t they stick to truthful things, like how a Soros-funded PAC dumped $2MM into anti-Joe Arpaio commercials? But no, George Soros is behind Jill Stein.

It’s because Soros is from a Jewish family, isn’t it?

SOROS IS TEH MOAST INCOMPETENT EVIL OVERLORD EVER EVER

Jeez you would think if he has unlimited money & seekrit sneaky superpowers why is Trump President?

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Jayleia  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:41:10am

re: #64 mmmirele

It’s because Soros is from a Jewish family, isn’t it?

Well, that and he’s kinda socialist (but anti-communist) and a few of their pet buggaboos…

…but yeah, it always comes down to The Jooz!

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:42:19am

re: #66 Jayleia

Well, that and he’s kinda socialist (but anti-communist) and a few of their pet buggaboos…

…but yeah, it always comes down to The Jooz!

Why no conspiracies about Jared Kushner? That guy is all kinds of creepy & sleazy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:45:54am

re: #66 Jayleia

Well, that and he’s kinda socialist (but anti-communist) and a few of their pet buggaboos…

…but yeah, it always comes down to The Jooz!

He is rich but he acts as if non-rich people mattered for anything in this world…

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Jayleia  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:46:52am

re: #67 The Vicious Babushka

Why no conspiracies about Jared Kushner? That guy is all kinds of creepy & sleazy.

Because he’s helping GodDerperor Trump, therefore he’s one of the GOOD ones.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:50:06am

Ladies & Gentlemen, your President-Elect

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Jayleia  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:50:44am

re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He is rich but he acts as if non-rich people mattered for anything in this world…

That’s only what he wants you to think! His act of acting like non-rich people matter is part of his game to gain power and make EVERYONE think that non-rich people matter!

Why? I…

umm…

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:53:25am

re: #70 The Vicious Babushka

Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!

This is all another distraction, bringing up an emotionally-laden issue that has already been hashed over and settled by the courts decades ago.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:54:28am

re: #72 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is all another distraction, bringing up an emotionally-laden issue that has already been hashed over and settled by the courts decades ago.

He will appoint some raving nutbag like Napolitano or Jeanine Ducklips to SCOTUS.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:55:59am

re: #73 The Vicious Babushka

He will appoint some raving nutbag like Napolitano or Jeanine Ducklips to SCOTUS.

It is a great diversion: anyone who tries to oppose his proposal is instantly branded a “flag hater”.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:57:31am

Uh oh the Trump lady who screamed at Black Michael’s employee has been doxxed.

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jeffreyw  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:58:24am

re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

fried stuffing?

That’s a homemade garlic pepper sausage.

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mmmirele  Nov 29, 2016 • 5:59:46am

re: #70 The Vicious Babushka

All I am going to say, folks, is that if you intend to burn a flag, get a 100 percent cotton one. Don’t be like the guy in Texas v. Johnson (1989) who tried to burn a polyester flag. (It melted but he still got arrested.) Go with 100 percent cotton for that true flaming effect.

//

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:04:27am

re: #72 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is all another distraction, bringing up an emotionally-laden issue that has already been hashed over and settled by the courts decades ago.

Right now, everything’s a distraction because he’s not in office yet. All we can hope to do is gleam out of them what he’ll try to do while in office and be ready. This is just another item that proves he’s going to be trying to erode first amendment rights.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:07:19am

re: #78 Belafon

Right now, everything’s a distraction because he’s not in office yet. All we can hope to do is gleam out of them what he’ll try to do while in office and be ready. This is just another item that proves he’s going to be trying to erode first amendment rights.

I already foresee him blowing up endless rhetorical smokescreens so his people can do whatever they please in the background.

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:09:12am

re: #70 The Vicious Babushka

Ladies & Gentlemen, your President-Elect

A pathetic attempt to dilute the craziness of last night with a tweet that’s not as crazy by comparison.

He’s still certifiably insane and remarkably unfit for the job.

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:11:58am

re: #73 The Vicious Babushka

He will appoint some raving nutbag like Napolitano or Jeanine Ducklips to SCOTUS.

Are either of those two with the Heritage Foundation’s Seal of Approval?

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:13:15am

re: #70 The Vicious Babushka

Ladies & Gentlemen, your President-Elect

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The Constitution be damned!

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darthstar  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:13:20am
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(alpuz)  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:13:54am

re: #75 The Vicious Babushka

Uh oh the Trump lady who screamed at Black Michael’s employee has been doxxed.

She’s insane.

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:13:59am
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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:14:42am

re: #78 Belafon

Right now, everything’s a distraction because he’s not in office yet. All we can hope to do is gleam out of them what he’ll try to do while in office and be ready. This is just another item that proves he’s going to be trying to erode first amendment rights.

He’s distracting us from his DC hotel contract issue, and the rigged election he doesn’t want investigated.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:16:12am

re: #85 Myron Falwell (no relation)

Trump’s HHS pick will take health insurance from millions of poor people. The flag tweet is not today’s big story.

HHS pick is the reason for the flag tweet…

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Franklin  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:21:02am

Finally, journalists and editors are taking note.

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darthstar  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:25:00am

re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

HHS pick is the reason for the flag tweet…

Mr. Trump, this is the person you’ll pick as HHS, and this is the tweet you’ll send to make everyone overlook the fact that he’s an idiot just like you.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:25:10am

Meanwhile, in Syria,

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:25:21am

re: #88 Franklin

Finally, journalists and editors are taking note.

But still playing into his hands by distracting us from his disastrous choices for cabinet and administration posts.

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darthstar  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:26:33am

re: #91 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

But still playing into his hands by distracting us from his disastrous choices for cabinet and administration posts.

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Franklin  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:27:42am

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

KILL COMMON CORE!!! MORE CHARTER SCHOOLS!!! BREAK THE TEACHERS’ UNIONS!!!

And yet, they don’t give a shit about solving this issue by way of wealth disparity.

Here is a great article of s Stanford research team that reviewed the PISA and TIMMS tests (among others) and found:

As part of the study, Carnoy and Rothstein calculated how international rankings on the most recent PISA might change if the United States had a social class composition similar to that of top-ranking nations: U.S. rankings would rise to sixth from 14th in reading and to 13th from 25th in math. The gap between U.S. students and those from the highest-achieving countries would be cut in half in reading and by at least a third in math.

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Bass Reeves  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:29:20am

re: #89 darthstar

Idiot implies incompetence. Price is an ideologue, not an idiot.

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lawhawk  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:29:59am

re: #12 electrotek

Why are so few concerned about Gatlinburg? Looks like a fucking disaster over there.

What the fuck is going on? It’s almost December and there are wildfires going on over there, especially when Christmas season is right around the corner!

I was out in Gatlinburg earlier this year when I visited family and saw the Great Smoky Mtns and Mammoth Caves in KY. Very pretty country, and the area hit by the wildfires right now is closing on the heart of the tourist area in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. The fires have cut the main road between NC and TN through the park (mostly due to smoke reducing visibility to nothing), meaning people have to travel 100s of miles out of the way to cross. There’s fire crews from all over the country responding to this fire, and so far the only good news is that there hasn’t been any loss of lives.

But this is devastating to the regional economy.

What’s not being mentioned is how unusual the wildfires are this time of year in TN/NC, or that there’s persistent drought across much of the East Coast, or that this is a longer term problem and another consequence of global warming and climate change.

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:30:40am
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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:30:43am

Jim being Dim, as usual.

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:32:22am

re: #96 Myron Falwell (no relation)

Can the rest of the news media catch on?

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:33:22am

re: #97 wheat-dogg

Jim being Dim, as usual.

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Right after he tweeted this BS

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darthstar  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:33:33am
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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:37:06am

Good morning, America!

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lawhawk  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:39:29am
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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:43:59am

re: #95 lawhawk

And the smoke is spreading up to Cincinnati and beyond.

Nope… no, nothing to see here! Please disperse! Nothing to see here, please!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:44:02am

re: #102 lawhawk

I will make the Empire Great Again, the force is very strong with me, the Rebel Alliance is a total mess. Sad!

Princess Leia transferred classified documents via an unsecured medium!

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:46:52am

re: #103 Myron Falwell (no relation)

And the smoke is spreading up to Cincinnati and beyond.

Nope… no, nothing to see here! Please disperse! Nothing to see here, please!

America’s burning

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:50:38am

Ali Akbar is smoking some crazy shit, man

WTF is this all about?

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lawhawk  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:52:28am

re: #106 wheat-dogg

Forget it Jake. It’s baseless BS.

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:54:22am

re: #106 wheat-dogg

Ali Akbar is smoking some crazy shit, man

WTF is this all about?

Doesn’t absolve Trump of anything.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:56:14am

Powerful tweet from Evan Rachel Wood, who plays Delores in Westworld.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:57:17am

re: #107 lawhawk

Forget it Jake. It’s baseless BS.

Well, sure.

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:59:06am

re: #109 wheat-dogg

Powerful tweet from Evan Rachel Wood, who plays Delores in Westworld.

Can someone supply a brief summary since I can’t look at the picture right now?

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Timothy Watson  Nov 29, 2016 • 6:59:25am

re: #106 wheat-dogg

Ali Akbar is smoking some crazy shit, man

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WTF is this all about?

God knows.

Clinton was for overturning Citizens United, along with jumping on the anti-video game bullshit of yesteryear, but he must not know the definition of “literally”.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:03:03am

re: #111 Belafon

Can someone supply a brief summary since I can’t look at the picture right now?

She was raped — once by a “significant other” and once by the owner of a bar. Both times she thought it was her fault, and she even contemplated suicide after the second one.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:04:24am

re: #112 Timothy Watson

God knows.

Clinton was for overturning Citizens United, along with jumping on the anti-video game bullshit of yesteryear, but he must not know the definition of “literally”.

Ali Akbar doesn’t know much about anything, as far as I can tell. He’s so deeply entrenched in right-wing bullshit it’s a wonder he can breathe.

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Franklin  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:04:29am

re: #109 wheat-dogg

Powerful tweet from Evan Rachel Wood, who plays Delores in Westworld.

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Thanks for posting that. She is a remarkable actress and is why I tune into Westworld each week. Powerful indeed.

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bratwurst  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:05:47am
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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:09:47am

re: #116 bratwurst

Liberace had a sense of self-restraint that’s sorely needed right now.

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mmmirele  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:17:42am

re: #116 bratwurst

OMG my eyes! Those shorts! Those argyle socks!

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:21:07am

re: #117 Myron Falwell (no relation)

Liberace had a sense of self-restraint that’s sorely needed right now.

My aunt loved Liberace, and even went to Vegas to catch his shows. The fact that he was quite obviously gay* never seemed to bother her, despite my aunt’s conservative nature.

* True to my reporter’s instincts, I double checked this fact, in case the ghost of Liberace ever decides to sue my spirit in the afterlife. Wikipedia has no definitive statement regarding his sexual orientation, noting that Liberace denied several times he was gay, and even went to court about it. But his friend Betty White said he was, and the entry says Liberace died of complications from HIV/AIDS. So I stand by my previous statement.

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sagehen  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:27:02am

re: #106 wheat-dogg

Ali Akbar is smoking some crazy shit, man

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WTF is this all about?

She wanted to overturn Citizen’s United.

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bratwurst  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:27:30am

re: #119 wheat-dogg

My aunt loved Liberace, and even went to Vegas to catch his shows. The fact that he was quite obviously gay* never seemed to bother her, despite my aunt’s conservative nature.

* True to my reporter’s instincts, I double checked this fact, in case the ghost of Liberace ever decides to sue my spirit in the afterlife. Wikipedia has no definitive statement regarding his sexual orientation, noting that Liberace denied several times he was gay, and even went to court about it. But his friend Betty White said he was, and the entry says Liberace died of complications from HIV/AIDS. So I stand by my previous statement.

I can recommend the Steven Soderbergh directed HBO movie “Behind the Candelabra” to anyone who has not seen it. Michael Douglas is pretty brilliant as Liberace.

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Franklin  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:28:31am

Any other Walking Dead fans here REALLY disappointed in this season?

I know TWD is not the pinnacle of writing/directing/acting, but this has been horrible.

They are really cashing in on the “Golden Age of Television” but they aren’t contributing to it. In my opinion.

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sagehen  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:31:48am

re: #119 wheat-dogg

My aunt loved Liberace, and even went to Vegas to catch his shows. The fact that he was quite obviously gay* never seemed to bother her, despite my aunt’s conservative nature.

* True to my reporter’s instincts, I double checked this fact, in case the ghost of Liberace ever decides to sue my spirit in the afterlife. Wikipedia has no definitive statement regarding his sexual orientation, noting that Liberace denied several times he was gay, and even went to court about it. But his friend Betty White said he was, and the entry says Liberace died of complications from HIV/AIDS. So I stand by my previous statement.

His boyfriend’s cover story was that he was his “assistant and driver”. There was an HBO movie about them a few years ago; Michael Douglas played Liberace, Matt Damon was the young boyfriend Scotty Thorson.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:32:48am

re: #122 Franklin

Any other Walking Dead fans here REALLY disappointed in this season?

I know TWD is not the pinnacle of writing/directing/acting, but this has been horrible.

They are really cashing in on the “Golden Age of Television” but they aren’t contributing to it. In my opinion.

I decided not to even follow this season and from what I have heard and read, I do not regret it.

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:35:16am

🔥🔥🔥

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Sir John Barron  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:37:49am

re: #115 Franklin

Thanks for posting that. She is a remarkable actress and is why I tune into Westworld each week. Powerful indeed.

Yeah I’ve been a big fan for a long time. Glad to see her getting some high profile work on Westworld. Sorry to hear what she has experienced. Happy she is still with us.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:41:19am

re: #121 bratwurst

I can recommend the Steven Soderbergh directed HBO movie “Behind the Candelabra” to anyone who has not seen it. Michael Douglas is pretty brilliant as Liberace.

Thanks for the tip. My parents watched his show on TV a few times, so I saw him on TV during the 60s and 70s. I think my mom may have liked him, but not to the extent that her sister-in-law did. My dad never said anything about him (his typical response to many questions was a non-committal “hm”) and I just thought he was one of those weird TV personalities who were famous when I was a baby, and needed to be on TV once in a while to stay famous. Like, I never quite understood why Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor were even on TV, since all they did was talk. Now I understand that they were the Kardashians of their day.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:45:29am

re: #126 Sir John Barron

Yeah I’ve been a big fan for a long time. Glad to see her getting some high profile work on Westworld. Sorry to hear what she has experienced. Happy she is still with us.

I had not seen her until Westworld, and I’m enamored. She’s a rock-solid actress playing a difficult role. Thandie Newton is chewing up scenes, too. They are both holding their own against old pros like Ed Harris and Anthony Hopkins. Dayum!

This week’s episode had some interesting reveals. I’ll not say more.

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Franklin  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:47:41am

re: #128 wheat-dogg

I had not seen her until Westworld, and I’m enamored. She’s a rock-solid actress playing a difficult role. Thandie Newton is chewing up scenes, too. They are both holding their own against old pros like Ed Harris and Anthony Hopkins. Dayum!

This week’s episode had some interesting reveals. I’ll not say more.

I waver between Anthony Hopkins and Morgan Freeman taking over the voice of my inner monologuing. Decisions, decisions.

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sagehen  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:48:46am

re: #129 Franklin

I waver between Anthony Hopkins and Morgan Freeman taking over the voice of my inner monologuing. Decisions, decisions.

Seriously? You can’t decide between God and Hannibal Lecter?!?

I’m worried about you.

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Franklin  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:50:17am

re: #130 sagehen

Seriously? You can’t decide between God and Hannibal Lecter?!?

I’m worried about you.

Muhahahahahaha!

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:50:40am

re: #129 Franklin

I waver between Anthony Hopkins and Morgan Freeman taking over the voice of my inner monologuing. Decisions, decisions.

I’d be happy with James Earl Jones. Minus the SCUBA breathing.

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Franklin  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:51:51am

re: #132 wheat-dogg

I’d be happy with James Earl Jones. Minus the SCUBA breathing.

You are not helping! Let me add one more to the list.

Field of Dreams (5/9) Movie CLIP - People Will Come (1989) HD

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:53:35am

So Trump tweeted that burning the flag should mean a loss of citizenship or one year in jail. But hey aren’t those PC college students just the worst! //

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lawhawk  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:53:51am

re: #129 Franklin

At least it’s not Christopher Walken doing your inner monologue. You’re choosing between God, Odin/Hannibal Lecter, and Darth Vader. Or, you could do Ray Liotta… as long as you don’t end up being a schnook eating egg noodles with ketchup.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:54:46am

re: #135 lawhawk

At least it’s not Christopher Walken doing your inner monologue. You’re choosing between God, Odin/Hannibal Lecter, and Darth Vader. Or, you could do Ray Liotta… as long as you don’t end up being a schnook eating egg noodles with ketchup.

Frank McCourt would be cool. I always considered him the Irish grandfather I never had.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:55:18am

re: #135 lawhawk

At least it’s not Christopher Walken doing your inner monologue. You’re choosing between God, Odin/Hannibal Lecter, and Darth Vader. Or, you could do Ray Liotta… as long as you don’t end up being a schnook eating egg noodles with ketchup.

Samuel L. Jackson would be a trip. My inner monologue would be NSFW.

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Sir John Barron  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:55:23am

re: #128 wheat-dogg

I had not seen her until Westworld, and I’m enamored. She’s a rock-solid actress playing a difficult role. Thandie Newton is chewing up scenes, too. They are both holding their own against old pros like Ed Harris and Anthony Hopkins. Dayum!

This week’s episode had some interesting reveals. I’ll not say more.

The cast is really super. Anthony Hopkins is at or near the top of any best actor list, IMO. Ed Harris. Jeffrey Wright.

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Kilroy was here  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:56:49am

re: #129 Franklin

I waver between Anthony Hopkins and Morgan Freeman taking over the voice of my inner monologuing. Decisions, decisions.

For variety you could always try
Jack Palance “You’re my number one guy”
Nicolas Cage “BEEEEEESSSSS!!!!”

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:58:21am

Not your inner thoughts but having Vin Scully do your life’s play by play.
“He gets up. And as you know, he’s been sleeping really well lately. He told me that he’s been dreaming of that girl he had a crush on 10th grade chemistry lately. And he farts!”

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:58:43am

re: #138 Sir John Barron

The cast is really super. Anthony Hopkins is at or near the top of any best actor list, IMO. Ed Harris. Jeffrey Wright.

Westworld is one of those rare shows I’ll need to watch again just to pick up all the subtleties I missed the first time. Having an entire hour, rather than just 42-45 minutes per episode really seems to give writers more freedom in scripting.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 7:59:57am

re: #139 Kilroy was here

For variety you could always try
Jack Palance “You’re my number one guy”
Nicolas Cage “BEEEEEESSSSS!!!!”

Sly Stallone: “Adrienne!!”

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wheat-dogg  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:01:13am

On that note, I’m off to bed.

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Kilroy was here  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:01:28am

re: #142 wheat-dogg

Sly Stallone: “Adrienne!!”

More like “I am the Lawwwwww”

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Unshaken Defiance  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:05:37am
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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:05:40am

re: #89 darthstar

Mr. Trump, this is the person you’ll pick as HHS, and this is the tweet you’ll send to make everyone overlook the fact that he’s an idiot just like you.

Yup. Price is a theocrat pick made no doubt by fellow theocrat Mike Pence.

Sometimes I wonder who’s using who. Is it Trump using the GOP via an extended con job? Or is it the theocrats and nihilists in the GOP taking advantage of Trump’s obvious mental instability? Or is it both occurring simultaneously?

When one side double-crosses the other, things are gonna get really ugly, really fast. This is not a healthy alliance, not in the least.

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retired cynic  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:05:49am

Well, I have always lived in Illinois, and I HATE Bruce Rauner with a purple passion. So I got an email from his office this morning, about how he wanted to establish good communication with his constituents. It had a real email address as a “from” address, so I responded:
In my opinion, what this state and its people need, as of at least 18 months ago, is for you to stop holding the budget hostage to your ‘business agenda’ and to let us move forward. Education and social services are what I notice most, and they are being hurt so badly, and Illinois’s people are being hurt so badly, it is going to take many years to recover. I hold you directly responsible for this.

Surprise, that “real” email address is a brick, and it goes nowhere. Typical.

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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:08:18am

re: #106 wheat-dogg

Ali Akbar is smoking some crazy shit, man

WTF is this all about?

I believe I mentioned this here before, but I used to go to high school with him. But he was a couple of years younger so he didn’t graduate with me.

Still blows my mind to see someone I knew in HS being cited for tweets here lol

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lawhawk  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:09:01am

re: #137 wheat-dogg

Samuel L. Jackson would be a trip. My inner monologue would be NSFW.

My inner monologue is already Samuel L Jackson.

What does the 1A mean? Does it mean you can imprison people for burning the flag?
No it doesn’t. No it doesn’t. And stop treating the Constitution like a bitch Donny. ////sarc not sarc

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Jenner7  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:10:01am

So true.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:14:19am

re: #146 Myron Falwell (no relation)

Yup. Price is a theocrat pick made no doubt by fellow theocrat Mike Pence.

Sometimes I wonder who’s using who. Is it Trump using the GOP via an extended con job? Or is it the theocrats and nihilists in the GOP taking advantage of Trump’s obvious mental instability? Or is it both occurring simultaneously?

When one side double-crosses the other, things are gonna get really ugly, really fast. This is not a healthy alliance, not in the least.

It is an interesting relationship dynamic to be sure. I think they all use each other to some extent.

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Franklin  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:14:22am

Jamie Eldridge, a State Senator from MA, was arrested this morning along with dozens of others (including community and religious leaders) during the Nationwide Day of Action.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:15:10am

re: #150 Jenner7

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So true.

Still shaking my head how we went from Obama to Trump. I mean Lincoln to Andrew Johnson was bad too, yes but at least Andrew Johnson had distinguished himself as a Southern unionist.

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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:16:01am

re: #153 HappyWarrior

Still shaking my head how we went from Obama to Trump. I mean Lincoln to Andrew Johnson was bad too, yes but at least Andrew Johnson had distinguished himself as a Southern unionist.

And at least Andrew Johnson was diplomatic.

Trump, on the other hand, lacks grace. And yes I’m being nice about it, which tears me apart inside.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:16:58am

re: #154 electrotek

And at least Andrew Johnson was diplomatic.

Trump, on the other hand, lacks grace. And yes I’m being nice about it, which tears me apart inside.

He also was self made. Probably the most humble origin story of all the Presidents honestly.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:19:01am

re: #154 electrotek

And at least Andrew Johnson was diplomatic.

Trump, on the other hand, lacks grace. And yes I’m being nice about it, which tears me apart inside.

Trump is a prick.

I’m not being so nice about it.

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lawhawk  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:20:09am

That’s McConnell’s wife btw. She was previously head of DOL under Bush. Skilled bureaucrat, but no transportation experience.

That’s yet another theme of Trump picks.

Not a single one seems to have any experience in doing the job that Trump’s picking them for.

Nominally, HHS pick Tom Price has experience as a doctor and heading up the House Budget Committee, but that’s a far cry from heading a massive bureaucracy. His key experience is his wish to gut Medicare - privatizing it. Yeah, that’s what the GOP wants to do. Gut safety net, kill Obamacare, and push all the costs on to the individual. That’s even though Medicare is far more cost effective in providing care/coverage (having millions of people under the plan drives costs down). Trump’s pick wants to savage all that. And more.

Carson has no experience with Housing, but Trump picked him for HUD. Living in a home doesn’t make one an expert.

Trump’s flirting with guys who were fired/investigated/charged with improper handling of classified info - Flynn and Petraeus. At least Petraeus was competent on battlefield strategy. Flynn was so bad that he was fired for incompetence and an inability to get along with others in the Pentagon. Flynn also has a problem with facts - an aversion in fact. Petraeus leaked classified info to his girlfriend who was writing a book. That’s a big no-no, and a world of difference from Clinton, who apparently had emails with some confidential info (a handful of paragraphs) sent to her on a private server that was not illegal in the slightest.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:20:15am

re: #146 Myron Falwell (no relation)

Yup. Price is a theocrat pick made no doubt by fellow theocrat Mike Pence.

Sometimes I wonder who’s using who. Is it Trump using the GOP via an extended con job? Or is it the theocrats and nihilists in the GOP taking advantage of Trump’s obvious mental instability? Or is it both occurring simultaneously?

When one side double-crosses the other, things are gonna get really ugly, really fast. This is not a healthy alliance, not in the least.

It is doomed to go down in flames at some point, the downside is that it will wind up taking a lot of us with it.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:24:08am

re: #157 lawhawk

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That’s McConnell’s wife btw. She was previously head of DOL under Bush. Skilled bureaucrat, but no transportation experience.

That’s yet another theme of Trump picks.

Not a single one seems to have any experience in doing the job that Trump’s picking them for.

Nominally, HHS pick Tom Price has experience as a doctor and heading up the House Budget Committee, but that’s a far cry from heading a massive bureaucracy. His key experience is his wish to gut Medicare - privatizing it. Yeah, that’s what the GOP wants to do. Gut safety net, kill Obamacare, and push all the costs on to the individual. That’s even though Medicare is far more cost effective in providing care/coverage (having millions of people under the plan drives costs down). Trump’s pick wants to savage all that. And more.

Carson has no experience with Housing, but Trump picked him for HUD. Living in a home doesn’t make one an expert.

Trump’s flirting with guys who were fired/investigated/charged with improper handling of classified info - Flynn and Petraeus. At least Petraeus was competent on battlefield strategy. Flynn was so bad that he was fired for incompetence and an inability to get along with others in the Pentagon. Flynn also has a problem with facts - an aversion in fact. Petraeus leaked classified info to his girlfriend who was writing a book. That’s a big no-no, and a world of difference from Clinton, who apparently had emails with some confidential info (a handful of paragraphs) sent to her on a private server that was not illegal in the slightest.

Really draining the swamp there, Donald. Granted Chao wasn’t the worst of Bush’s cabinet. But yeah again I don’t see how she qualifies for this at all. The only one that makes “slight” sense is Price. And you’re absolutely right, it shows how hypocritical they are for yamming about Clinton’s emails while making Flynn nat security adviser and considering Petraeus for anything.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:26:17am

re: #159 HappyWarrior

Really draining the swamp there, Donald. Granted Chao wasn’t the worst of Bush’s cabinet. But yeah again I don’t see how she qualifies for this at all. The only one that makes “slight” sense is Price. And you’re absolutely right, it shows how hypocritical they are for yamming about Clinton’s emails while making Flynn nat security adviser and considering Petraeus for anything.

Alternative Media Reality

Post Truth World

American Idiocracy

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:27:14am

re: #160 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Alternative Media Reality

Post Truth World

American Idiocracy

Yep. I mean at least with Bush’s picks. They made sense.

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:27:31am

If I didn’t know any better, it almost sounds like Fox was colluding with Trump to suppress coverage of the Price HHS pick.

half //

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:27:43am

The only Trump pick that actually “makes sense” so far is Sessions and Sessions may be the worst of the bunch.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:30:11am

Aside from his record with African-Americans, Sessions has a terrible record regarding persons with disabilities. If the Senate Dems are going to raise a stink about any of the cabinet appointees, Sessions is the one to do it to. Of coures, they all stink in some way or another.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:31:55am

re: #164 HappyWarrior

Aside from his record with African-Americans, Sessions has a terrible record regarding persons with disabilities. If the Senate Dems are going to raise a stink about any of the cabinet appointees, Sessions is the one to do it to. Of coures, they all stink in some way or another.

They can protest, but to no avail. We have to wait for things to get considerably worse before they can start to get any better.

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Jenner7  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:32:53am

This is going to be bad.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:33:06am

re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They can protest, but to no avail. We have to wait for things to get considerably worse before they can start to get any better.

Oh I know but I’m saying that we bring up Sessions past record. At least let the American people know who Trump is making AG. Sessions will very likely be the next AG but we have to bring attention to who the MFer is.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:34:39am

re: #166 Jenner7

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This is going to be bad.

Agh. Gotta love it. Petraeus actually shares top secret info and he’s likely to get promoted. Clinton does the same thing everyone was doing at State and she gets told she should be in jail. Petraeus would be better than Rudy or Mitt even though.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:35:46am

re: #167 HappyWarrior

Oh I know but I’m saying that we bring up Sessions past record. At least let the American people know who Trump is making AG. Sessions will very likely be the next AG but we have to bring attention to who the MFer is.

People knew who Trump was and still voted for him…or rather they voted because of what a MF he is

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(alpuz)  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:36:36am

re: #166 Jenner7

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This is going to be bad.

No, really bad. Sorry to be negative, but nothing I’ve seen or read says otherwise.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:38:22am

re: #169 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

People knew who Trump was and still voted for him…or rather they voted because of what a MF he is

True but the Dems shouldn’t remain silent about Sessions is all. What I’m saying is make people like Sessions a good argument of why a Trump administration is out of touch and does not care about the civil rights of all Americans.

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:38:56am

re: #164 HappyWarrior

Aside from his record with African-Americans, Sessions has a terrible record regarding persons with disabilities. If the Senate Dems are going to raise a stink about any of the cabinet appointees, Sessions is the one to do it to. Of coures, they all stink in some way or another.

Daily Kos has a diary about Session’s belief that having disabled kids is hurting schools: dailykos.com.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:40:33am

re: #172 Belafon

Daily Kos has a diary about Session’s belief that having disabled kids is hurting schools: dailykos.com.

It’s personal now.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:41:41am

Compare that with Biden who literally wrote the Americans With Disabilities Act. But hey some purer than thou lefty asshole tells me there’s no difference between the two parties.

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(alpuz)  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:41:52am

re: #171 HappyWarrior

True but the Dems shouldn’t remain silent about Sessions is all. What I’m saying is make people like Sessions a good argument of why a Trump administration is out of touch and does not care about the civil rights of all Americans.

Errrr… that’s why they voted for him.

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:42:14am

re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They can protest, but to no avail. We have to wait for things to get considerably worse before they can start to get any better.

At the very least, they shouldn’t vote to confirm any of the cabinet picks. Let them all pass by 52-48 votes.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:42:35am

re: #175 (alpuz)

Errrr… that’s why they voted for him.

I know. Just saying. I don’t want the Dems to be mum on Sessions’ nomination.

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Timothy Watson  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:43:52am

re: #177 HappyWarrior

I know. Just saying. I don’t want the Dems to be mum on Sessions’ nomination.

Might motivate some of those apathetic a-hole Dems in the future too.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:46:36am

re: #88 Franklin

Trump will pack SCOTUS with Justices to overthrow those kind of hippie dippy communist decisions. Believe me!

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:46:57am

re: #175 (alpuz)

Errrr… that’s why they voted for him.

Yup. There’s an inherent racism in the vast majority of Trump voters that was suppressed for decades, now back out in the open again.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:47:41am

re: #180 Myron Falwell (no relation)

Yup. There’s an inherent racism in the vast majority of Trump voters that was suppressed for decades, now back out in the open again.

Yeah it’s terrifying to read about all the stuff going on.

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lawhawk  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:47:42am

re: #178 Timothy Watson

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Sir John Barron  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:47:51am

re: #176 Myron Falwell (no relation)

At the very least, they shouldn’t vote to confirm any of the cabinet picks. Let them all pass by 52-48 votes.

Meanwhile, the “liberal” media will treat this as—

Dems won’t be bipartisan, won’t reach out to Trump, GOP.

After 8 years of complete GOP obstruction during which the media was like—

Obamacare passed without any GOP votes so it’s illegitimate.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:49:01am

nytimes.com
Why Mitch McConnell is a pathetic asshole, reason #100000000001

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Bass Reeves  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:50:18am

re: #180 Myron Falwell (no relation)

It was never suppressed. Maybe the Bushes managed to be fairly okay on race most of the time, the Republican party as an entity has never sought to suppress their racism, misogyny, or homophobia. It’s the only reason they have had power for the last 20 years.

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:51:56am

re: #182 lawhawk

re: #184 HappyWarrior

It won’t be easy to do, considering all of the bias towards Republicans, but every Democrat in Congress should be talking to every news organization and paper in the country. They can start with their local ones. And for places that don’t have too many, have some of the leadership show up to talk.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:52:26am

re: #185 Bass Reeves

It was never suppressed. Maybe the Bushes managed to be fairly okay on race most of the time, the Republican party as an entity has never sought to suppress their racism, misogyny, or homophobia. It’s the only reason they have had power for the last 20 years.

I agree and disagree. I think some of the more ugly racism was suppressed. However, I do agree about the homophobia given Bush cynically used opposition to same sex marriage to ensure his re-election.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:52:45am

re: #186 Belafon

It won’t be easy to do, considering all of the bias towards Republicans, but every Democrat in Congress should be talking to every news organization and paper in the country. They can start with their local ones. And for places that don’t have too many, have some of the leadership show up to talk.

Absolutely.

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ObserverArt  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:53:41am

re: #53 wheat-dogg

Not so easy. The contract stipulates that no elected official of the US government may be a party to the lease agreement. So after Jan 20, Trump would be breaking the contract if he remains a party to it.

Not that he won’t try to abolish the USPS. It’s a money loser.

Uh, the US Postal service just turned a profit…first time in 5 years. They have picked up a lot of business helping FedEx and UPS deliveries.

I know they are a whipping boy for many, but who else will deliver a 45 cent letter to the end of one lane, rocky Smithville Road in Bumbrush West Virginia…and get it there?

I think of them as a needed service not just a business.

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FormerDirtDart  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:54:27am

Deleted.
Suspect material removed…

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:55:50am

re: #189 ObserverArt

Uh, the US Postal service just turned a profit…first time in 5 years. They have picked up a lot of business helping FedEx and UPS deliveries.

I know they are a whipping boy for many, but who else will deliver a 45 cent letter to the end of one lane. rocky Smithville Road in Bumbrush West Virginia…and get it there?

I think of them as a needed service not just a business.

Think about it from the Republican perspective: How are they going to charge people $15 per delivery if the post office keeps rates so low?

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HappyWarrior  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:56:29am

re: #190 FormerDirtDart

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He constantly contradicts himself but his deluded cult thinks he’s a straight shooter. Listen, I can understand why someone would be bothered by burning a flag. I really do but it’s been upheld as a valid form of speech for years. We don’t ban speech based on whether people are offended or not. So, while I understand why a veteran especially would be bothered by flag burning, it’s not and shouldn’t be a crime.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:58:47am

re: #183 Sir John Barron

If Democratic politicians have backbones, they will stand together against Trump on every dang thing. But I can already see the rolling over with all the “working withTrump” and “give Trump a chance” talk from our side. Sigh.

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ObserverArt  Nov 29, 2016 • 8:59:04am

re: #70 The Vicious Babushka

Ladies & Gentlemen, your President-Elect

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Oh gawd no…not flag burning again!

Damn, can there be any more of a signal that he is a nationalist/fascist and does not understand the idea of true freedom.

It’s early and I’m already growing nauseous from reading crap like this.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:00:45am

re: #189 ObserverArt

I’m glad to hear that the Postal Service has finally turned a profit. It has become such a whipping boy for Republicans’ ire against the public sector.

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:00:57am

re: #192 HappyWarrior

He constantly contradicts himself but his deluded cult thinks he’s a straight shooter. Listen, I can understand why someone would be bothered by burning a flag. I really do but it’s been upheld as a valid form of speech for years. We don’t ban speech based on whether people are offended or not. So, while I understand why a veteran especially would be bothered by flag burning, it’s not and shouldn’t be a crime.

I am a veteran, and burning a flag for political purposes doesn’t bother me. Those little flags that people fly on those plastic clips bother me because they break off and I’ll occasionally find a small US flag lying on the ground.

One of my favorite scenes from Dances with Wolves is when the main character uses the flag to bandage Stands With a Fist’s wounds. A proper use of the flag.

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Bass Reeves  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:02:07am

re: #187 HappyWarrior

Maybe it’s a question of semantics. When I see suppressed, I think that means that the Republican party tried to lessen the influence of racism/racists on policy and reduce the numbers of racists in party membership. Saying that because less people use racial slurs openly, the Republicans tried to reduce racism in their party is an inaccurate opinion, and pretty much what black people have been trying to explain since Reagan was governor in California, promoting gun control because of the Black Panthers.

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Timothy Watson  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:03:44am

re: #187 HappyWarrior

I agree and disagree. I think some of the more ugly racism was suppressed. However, I do agree about the homophobia given Bush cynically used opposition to same sex marriage to ensure his re-election.

I think some of it was repressed, but the tidal wave of racism after Obama was elected, and the fact it wasn’t smacked down, allowed it to flourish and the racists realized how many of them there were out there and they didn’t have to hide it anymore.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:04:34am

re: #176 Myron Falwell (no relation)

At the very least, they shouldn’t vote to confirm any of the cabinet picks. Let them all pass by 52-48 votes.

That I can only agree with. None of them are qualified, but then again, neither is the President-elect.

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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:04:41am

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m all for taking out “In God We Trust” out of our currency.

Not because of separation of church and state, but this can be argued from a religious point of view. The use of God’s name in currency that is easily thrown around carelessly, especially with the number of pennies that are usually on the ground, could be construed as a matter of disrespect. You throw coins out the window that bears God’s name, and you as a believer end up engaging in blasphemy in the process.

Could this line of reasoning work to take out the “In God We Trust” phrase from our currency? I’m all for it because of both reasons.

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Sir John Barron  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:05:07am

re: #190 FormerDirtDart

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Any way that 2011 tweet is faked/photoshopped?

I almost retweeted this, but even for Trump, this cognitive dissonance seems a bit much.

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:06:54am

re: #201 Sir John Barron

Any way that 2011 tweet is faked?

I almost retweeted this, but even for Trump, this cognitive dissonance seems a bit much.

Trump argued in 2012 that the popular vote should determine the election, not the Electoral College.

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gocart mozart  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:07:16am
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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:07:36am

re: #201 Sir John Barron

We should all know that cognitive dissonance is an extremely strong asset of Trump’s intellect.

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Sir John Barron  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:08:09am

re: #202 Belafon

Trump argued in 2012 that the popular vote should determine the election, not the Electoral College.

Yeah, that didn’t surprise me, that contradiction. That seemed like Trump.

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Sir John Barron  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:09:56am

re: #205 Sir John Barron

Yeah, that didn’t surprise me, that contradiction. That seemed like Trump.

I do wonder why he would have tweeted that about flag burning in 2011? I don’t remember it being an issue then.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:12:09am

re: #201 Sir John Barron

Any way that 2011 tweet is faked/photoshopped?

I almost retweeted this, but even for Trump, this cognitive dissonance seems a bit much.

no confirmation of it to be found anywhere

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Franklin  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:12:27am

re: #201 Sir John Barron

Any way that 2011 tweet is faked/photoshopped?

I almost retweeted this, but even for Trump, this cognitive dissonance seems a bit much.

Pretty sure it’s fake:

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FormerDirtDart  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:14:31am

re: #157 lawhawk

@politico
Elaine Chao to be Trump’s transportation secretary

That’s McConnell’s wife btw. She was previously head of DOL under Bush. Skilled bureaucrat, but no transportation experience.

That’s yet another theme of Trump picks.

Not a single one seems to have any experience in doing the job that Trump’s picking them for.
.

Ummm…
Elaine Chao was an administrator in the Maritime Administration (part of DoT). Headed the Federal Maritime Commission. And, Deputy Secretary of Transportation in Papa Bush’s administration.
I think that’s a little bit of experience.

Now, what should be concerning was the level of department wide inaction while she was Dummy Bush’s Sec. of Labor…

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lawhawk  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:14:48am

re: #190 FormerDirtDart

Just checked the Trump Twitter archive, and didn’t return any results from 2/28/2011 or flag burning.

trumptwitterarchive.com

hmmmm

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gocart mozart  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:17:35am
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lawhawk  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:17:42am

re: #208 Franklin

That one is faked, but this one isn’t:

Compare that with his attack on the 1A and flag burning, which is protected speech.

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FormerDirtDart  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:18:25am

re: #196 Belafon

I am a veteran, and burning a flag for political purposes doesn’t bother me. Those little flags that people fly on those plastic clips bother me because they break off and I’ll occasionally find a small US flag lying on the ground.

One of my favorite scenes from Dances with Wolves is when the main character uses the flag to bandage Stands With a Fist’s wounds. A proper use of the flag.

Right now I’m looking at a rolled up “car” flag, sitting on my bookshelves, I picked up on the side of the road while I was riding my bike around 11 years ago.
What bothered me most about finding it, was that it was right in front of a FLANG Armory

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ObserverArt  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:21:32am

re: #201 Sir John Barron

Any way that 2011 tweet is faked/photoshopped?

I almost retweeted this, but even for Trump, this cognitive dissonance seems a bit much.

One of his businesses is Cognitive Dissonance Is Us.

He specializes in it.

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gocart mozart  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:23:24am
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FormerDirtDart  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:25:10am

re: #201 Sir John Barron

Any way that 2011 tweet is faked/photoshopped?

I almost retweeted this, but even for Trump, this cognitive dissonance seems a bit much.

re: #208 Franklin

re: #212 lawhawk

I have removed said post

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ObserverArt  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:25:22am

Well…just about 60° this afternoon in Columbus. I’m going to go out, clean up some leaves and twigs, buzz the grass for the last time (who knows? Could be 70° in January) and maybe lay down a bit of mulch…I have three bags still to use up. Strange weather…but I like it.

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Sir John Barron  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:28:11am

re: #210 lawhawk

Just checked the Trump Twitter archive, and didn’t return any results from 2/28/2011 or flag burning.

trumptwitterarchive.com

hmmmm

thanks for checking. it doesn’t seem right to me. I know Trump is a lunatic. But still…

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:28:20am

With respect to flags and burning them, if the person complaining does not follow the full rules for respecting the flag (not displayed at night unless with a light, doesn’t touch the ground, not used as clothing, etc.), I pretty much just tune them out entirely.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:28:43am
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danarchy  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:29:04am

At a client site today that has a content filter on their firewall and it is blocking a bunch of the twittery stuff. Never realized quite how heavily lgf relied on twitter. Seems like half the content is missing.

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retired cynic  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:31:21am

Just saw this DT tweet on Kos:

Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump
@damiranz: DonaldTrump: Pls don’t run for president. If you do and win, the rest of the world would be screwed” So true, (except friends)!
6:01 PM - 23 Aug 2014 * New Jersey, USA

And so he is set up to do just that!

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We're Way Beyond Snark  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:32:35am

re: #220 klys (maker of Silmarils)

The last I heard, burning was the way to dispose of a flag respectfully. When I see someone burning one, I say to myself, “you THINK you’re showing your disrespect…”

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Dr. Matt  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:33:02am

Never knew everipedia.com existed until today. I found it when I googled Jennifer Boyle

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lawhawk  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:34:22am

re: #223 retired cynic

That’s indeed a real tweet.

As is this one:

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:35:34am

re: #224 We’re Way Beyond Snark

The last I heard, burning was the way to dispose of a flag respectfully. When I see someone burning one, I say to myself, “you THINK you’re showing your disrespect…”

I honestly don’t care about flag burning, as long as it’s a flag that they purchased themselves. (And I believe you are correct about disposal.)

The point where I would give a shit about it being disrespectful was if they were going out and stealing flags from a veterans’ cemetery, or if it were the flag that had covered my grandfather’s casket (for example).

But most of the people whining about flag burning being disrespectful don’t actually follow the rules of respecting the flag themselves and hypocrisy irritates me.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:38:54am

The deplorables that are outraged over burning of the flag are the same ones with the confederate flag on the profile pics, front lawn, and ‘73 F150.

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lawhawk  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:42:01am

TN wildfire update:

yahoo.com

Wind conditions awful: 40-50 mph, with gusts to 70 mph.
Trees continue to fall, sending embers into air, launching secondary fires.

Rain may come in tonight and should help.

4400 acres currently burning.

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:45:15am

A better representation of what Trump thinks of the flag:

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:45:58am

Not sure if anyone has posted it, but Tom Price is a proud member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a group that takes a rather anti-science, anti-regulation approach to medicine, if this article is to be believed:

sciencebasedmedicine.org

I guess it’s a big shout out to the anti-vaxxers.

ETA: sorry, looks like a loose association: Price gets the AASP seal of approval and can be seen as a kind of representative from the tea party caucus, but it doesn’t look like he’s an actual member.

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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:49:40am

re: #225 Dr. Matt

You’d figure in an age where smartphones are ubiquitous and social media being prominent in our lives that it would give a sign for those in public to behave themselves or suffer the consequences.

But nope, they get so into the heat of the moment that they double down and make things worse in the end.

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wrenchwench  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:50:28am

re: #222 danarchy

At a client site today that has a content filter on their firewall and it is blocking a bunch of the twittery stuff. Never realized quite how heavily lgf relied on twitter. Seems like half the content is missing.

Oh, well.

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We're Way Beyond Snark  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:50:29am

re: #227 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I used to say that people who burn flags and people who get upset at flag burning deserve each other. And I don’t deserve either of them.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:51:22am
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wrenchwench  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:56:08am

re: #232 Barefoot Grin

Not sure if anyone has posted it, but Tom Price is a proud member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a group that takes a rather anti-science, anti-regulation approach to medicine, if this article is to be believed:

sciencebasedmedicine.org

I guess it’s a big shout out to the anti-vaxxers.

Title of that article from 2008: The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: Ideology trumps science-based medicine [colorized for your viewing pleasure.]

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:56:16am

Christie’s “big announcement”:

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:58:32am

re: #238 Backwoods_Sleuth

Christie’s “big announcement”:

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How many bridges will need closed down for this?

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:58:43am

re: #231 Belafon

A better representation of what Trump thinks of the flag:

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“Courage and generosity”

More like “Massive ego and vindictiveness”

He erected the flagpole to piss off his neighbors.

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:59:13am

re: #238 Backwoods_Sleuth

Christie’s “big announcement”:

“Gov. Christie announces $300M Statehouse renovation, says portions of building in danger of ‘catastrophic failures’”

Didn’t Christie get bariatric surgery for that a few years ago?

(sorry not sorry)

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Dr. Matt  Nov 29, 2016 • 9:59:42am

re: #233 electrotek

You’d figure in an age where smartphones are ubiquitous and social media being prominent in our lives that it would give a sign for those in public to behave themselves or suffer the consequences.

But nope, they get so into the heat of the moment that they double down and make things worse in the end.

When one believes that non-political correctness is being an entitled rude asshole, anything goes. Luckily the majority of society will punish such behavior.

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:02:54am

Looks like my home county - Lorain County, Ohio - wound up turning blue after all… by only 131 votes.

Facebook Post

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gocart mozart  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:04:03am
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lawhawk  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:04:15am

re: #237 wrenchwench

Charles has run posts about the AAPS numerous times. They are a junk science group of anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, and Rand/Ron Paul are among their number. They push all kinds of nonsense, like when they claimed Enterovirus D68 was being spread by illegal aliens, Ebola was about to run amok in the US, etc.

The group is fixated on opposing abortion, vaccination, universal health care coverage and Obamacare in particular, and birth control.

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gocart mozart  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:04:54am
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gocart mozart  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:05:46am
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Sir John Barron  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:05:50am

re: #225 Dr. Matt

Never knew everipedia.com existed until today. I found it when I googled Jennifer Boyle

and Jennifer works—or worked—in human resources. OK.

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:07:09am

re: #248 Sir John Barron

and Jennifer works—or worked—in human resources. OK.

Purportedly she was fired from that job before her Michael’s meltdown.

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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:07:41am

re: #249 Myron Falwell (no relation)

Perhaps it may have been over another video that was surfaced over the summer, berating the staff at a local coffee shop.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:07:49am

re: #237 wrenchwench

Title of that article from 2008: The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: Ideology trumps science-based medicine [colorized for your viewing pleasure.]

I should add that a friend who works as a scientist in pharma tipped me off about the connection. I can’t find that he’s a member of AASP, only that he’s spoken to the group and that their interests coincide. I’ll keep looking.

ETA: sorry, looks like a loose association: Price gets the AASP seal of approval and can be seen as a kind of representative from the tea party caucus, but it doesn’t look like he’s an actual member.

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gocart mozart  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:15:11am
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gocart mozart  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:16:03am

Quote of the day.

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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:17:04am

So tired of idiots assuming I’m far-left because I think Breitbart is a crock of shit.

Yes I’m sooo far-left even though I support free trade and an end to tariffs, such as the stupid ‘chicken tax’ from 1964. I’m sooo far-left even though I support capitalism and certain efforts to intervene in other countries where gross human rights violations are occurring (i.e. Syria, Myanmar).

Yep, I’m far-left because I’m a proud voter of Hillary Clinton.

/facepalm

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:18:07am

re: #254 electrotek

So tired of idiots assuming I’m far-left because I think Breitbart is a crock of shit.

Yes I’m sooo far-left even though I support free trade and an end to tariffs, such as the stupid ‘chicken tax’ from 1964. I’m sooo far-left even though I support capitalism and certain efforts to intervene in other countries where gross human rights violations are occurring (i.e. Syria, Myanmar).

Yep, I’m far-left because I’m a proud voter of Hillary Clinton.

/facepalm

You’re far left because they’re putting Breitbart in the center. Then there’s the farther left.

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Citizen K  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:18:10am

Man. I’m trying to keep the faith up. But stepping outside of personally cultivated spaces, I keep running into the horrific feeling that this country really just does deify assholes and despise everyone like me down to the rotten core. And trying to convince even seemingly reasonable people that some of the shit they accept is false just sends them screaming further and further away, convinced I’m a fucking SJW whitey-hating superdevil of all time.

Meanwhile, the Trump tragedy continues to unfold at breakneck speed with no way to stop it, it seems. And most of the country seems just fine and fucking dandy with it because ‘those people’ finally get what’s coming to them.

Fuck this country. REally, just…fuck it all at this rate.

EDIT: And…for some reason, I got blocked by ABL. And I have no idea why. :/

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makeitstop  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:19:26am

Elliot Lusztig’s Twitter feed is fire today.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:21:39am
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KGxvi  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:31:21am

re: #257 makeitstop

Elliot Lusztig’s Twitter feed is fire today.

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What is Obama supposed to do? Stage a coup and deny Trump taking office? Because that will go over well, with anyone, anywhere.

Short of a massive revolt in the Electoral College, Trump is going to be the next president. Obama has an obligation to get Trump and his team up to speed on running the federal government because this is a gig with no training wheels.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:31:38am

MrBWS is delighted that his doctor told him he can’t go back to work until next week, so he will not be in the city when this shitshow happens.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:32:36am

re: #259 KGxvi

Obama has an obligation to get Trump and his team up to speed on running the federal government because this is a gig with no training wheels.

And for a fellow who has not even ridden a tricycle before.

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makeitstop  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:34:01am

re: #259 KGxvi

What is Obama supposed to do? Stage a coup and deny Trump taking office? Because that will go over well, with anyone, anywhere.

Short of a massive revolt in the Electoral College, Trump is going to be the next president. Obama has an obligation to get Trump and his team up to speed on running the federal government because this is a gig with no training wheels.

That was just the latest tweet, not sure why that showed up. He’s making some great points about the flag burning thing.

I still want to know who this guy is. Search queries return literally nothing besides his Twitter output.

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Sir John Barron  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:34:08am

re: #260 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

MrBWS is delighted that his doctor told him he can’t go back to work until next week, so he will not be in the city when this shitshow happens.

Will the Deplorables still be changing Lock Her Up! and will dTumpft lead them on?

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sagehen  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:34:40am

re: #262 makeitstop

That was just the latest tweet, not sure why that showed up. He’s making some great points about the flag burning thing.

I still want to know who this guy is. Search queries return literally nothing besides his Twitter output.

Probably an FSB agent.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:35:16am

re: #264 Dr. Matt

What the????

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use it as an an improvised slingshot to launch yourself from the plane in an emergency?

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lockjawcanbefun  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:38:09am
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KGxvi  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:39:30am

re: #261 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And for a fellow who has not even ridden a tricycle before.

I am quite certain that the 2.5 years (over/under) of the Trump Administration will be an utter and complete shit show. I’m also fairly certain that it will be so bad that even Republicans turn on him and possibly initiate impeachment proceedings.

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makeitstop  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:40:03am

re: #265 sagehen

Probably an FSB agent.

He’s making what I’d imagine to be the opposite argument, though.

So weird that Twitter is his only presence. He gets quoted all over the place, but every reference and quote comes from Twitter.

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gocart mozart  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:40:34am
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Belafon  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:41:56am

re: #269 makeitstop

He’s making what I’d imagine to be the opposite argument, though.

So weird that Twitter is his only presence. He gets quoted all over the place, but every reference and quote comes from Twitter.

Maybe the internet has finally gone sentient.

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makeitstop  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:43:05am

re: #271 Belafon

Maybe the internet has finally gone sentient.

If it has, it’s already smarter than most of the people who use it.

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:45:29am

re: #272 makeitstop

If it has, it’s already smarter than most of the people who use it.

It’s probably an alias account. The person saying those things doesn’t want to be found. Maybe it’s Thomas Pynchon.

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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:46:51am

This sucks, but her music is too good for me to abandon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:47:52am

re: #268 KGxvi

I am quite certain that the 2.5 years (over/under) of the Trump Administration will be an utter and complete shit show. I’m also fairly certain that it will be so bad that even Republicans turn on him and possibly initiate impeachment proceedings.

It will be a balancing act…they just want to keep him wrapped up in scandals and outrages and infighting so that they can quietly turn the clock back half a century on social and economic progress.

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Lidane  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:48:27am

Sure, that seems reasonable:

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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:49:49am

re: #274 electrotek

Facebook Post

Facebook comment is gold:

Maybe she should make a duet with Morrissey.

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Stanley Sea  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:52:33am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:52:41am

re: #276 Lidane

Hannity: ‘Why Does Donald Trump Need a White House Press Office? He Doesn’t’

No, SH actually has a point. DT has a phone with Twitter. That is all he needs to keep the public informed of his plans and activities. We have entered the post-truthal age of alternate media reality.

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:55:12am

re: #277 electrotek

Facebook comment is gold:

Maybe she should make a duet with Morrissey.

MST3k Morrissey

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KGxvi  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:56:20am

re: #279 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

No, SH actually has a point. DT has a phone with Twitter. That is all he needs to keep the public informed of his plans and activities. We have entered the post-truthal age of alternate media reality.

This is also why he’s not picking a Secretary of State, he’s just going to conduct foreign policy via twitter.

//(I hope)

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gocart mozart  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:58:27am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:58:41am

re: #282 KGxvi

This is also why he’s not picking a Secretary of State, he’s just going to conduct foreign policy via twitter.

//(I hope)

he will do a bit of both

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 29, 2016 • 10:59:22am

re: #274 electrotek

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggggg

Noooooooooooooooooooooo.

Say it ain’t true, Kate

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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:03:47am

re: #285 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggggg

Noooooooooooooooooooooo.

Say it ain’t true, Kate

Gonna go keep ‘running down the hill’ in frustration now :(

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:04:27am

re: #286 electrotek

Nice reversal of lyrics. Updinged.

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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:04:49am

Da’esh just took responsibility for the attack at Ohio State University. As Iyad el-Baghdadi tweeted, they couldn’t have picked a better person for the attack. Black, immigrant, and Muslim, they know how to incite by factoring in all those qualities deemed divisive to many segments of American society.

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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:05:31am

re: #287 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Cheers.

Not going to lie, if it wasn’t for British dance act Utah Saints I would never have discovered Kate Bush.

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leftynyc  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:07:34am

re: #112 Timothy Watson

God knows.

Clinton was for overturning Citizens United, along with jumping on the anti-video game bullshit of yesteryear, but he must not know the definition of “literally”.

That’s not it. It’s this:

en.wikipedia.org

Hillary co-sponsored a bill with Bill Bennett (I think I have the correct bennett there) about banning flag burning.

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lawhawk  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:07:36am

Just in time for Trump to get control of the nuclear button, Ukraine finished the New Safe Confinement structure and placed it over the existing sarcophagus at Chernobyl so that crews can dismantle the sarcophagus and stabilize the structure.

The arch is the largest movable structure ever built, and it needed to be built away from the sarcophagus because of high radiation in the area. Once the NSC is in place, there are cranes that can move debris and monitors that can better gauge conditions inside the sarcophagus.

Ultimately, the NSC is supposed to help facilitate decommissioning of the wrecked reactor, which was the worst nuclear disaster to that point in history.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:07:46am

re: #289 electrotek

My BIL (from Somerset) introduced me to her in 1979, right after The Kick Inside came out.

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ObserverArt  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:08:50am

re: #260 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

MrBWS is delighted that his doctor told him he can’t go back to work until next week, so he will not be in the city when this shitshow happens.

Ohio…WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!

We don’t deserve this.

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lawhawk  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:08:55am

re: #290 leftynyc

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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:09:28am

re: #292 Colère Tueur de Lapin

I’m a youngin’, so bear with me lol I’m 32 and it was the my early exposure to raves in the late 90s at a young age that got me hooked on Kate Bush (hence the Utah Saints reference).

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makeitstop  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:10:48am

Any word on counter-demonstrations on Trump’s ‘Victory Tour?’

People gotta get out there and disturb that narrative, or he’ll have everyone believing that the whole damn country loves him.

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sagehen  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:13:50am

re: #269 makeitstop

He’s making what I’d imagine to be the opposite argument, though.

So weird that Twitter is his only presence. He gets quoted all over the place, but every reference and quote comes from Twitter.

He’s making the opposite argument only because the election is over.

Putin’s incentive isn’t to make America just like Russia; it’s to mire America in chaos. First getting the fascist elected, then promoting the resistance.

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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:14:46am

re: #292 Colère Tueur de Lapin

It was this use of a Kate Bush sample that got me hooked on her:

Utah Saints - Something Good f/ Kate Bush (Original Version 1992)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:16:09am

ummmm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:18:36am

Hard to believe no one has taken @TrumpTowerElevator yet for twitter fun and games.

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Kragar  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:19:29am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:20:06am

re: #299 Backwoods_Sleuth

Great, the dank whale returns to politics?

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Citizen K  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:20:13am

re: #299 Backwoods_Sleuth

ummmm

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Clearly Trump is continuing his pattern of only conferring with the best and the brightest Washington has to offer.

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wrenchwench  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:20:38am

re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hard to believe no one has taken @TrumpTowerElevator yet for twitter fun and games.

Speaking of fun and games….

OMG! Pizza!

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ObserverArt  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:21:03am

re: #299 Backwoods_Sleuth

ummmm

Bradd Jaffy ✔ @BraddJaffy
Dan Quayle walked into Trump Tower with Kellyanne Conway at 1:47, per pool
2:09 PM - 29 Nov 2016
16 16 Retweets 6 6 likes

Just there to check on the Potatoes.

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Citizen K  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:23:32am

re: #305 ObserverArt

Just there to check on the Potatoes.

He’ll be sad that the restaurants in there probably don’t served Baked Potatoe.

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KGxvi  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:23:44am

re: #290 leftynyc

That’s not it. It’s this:

en.wikipedia.org

Hillary co-sponsored a bill with Bill Bennett (I think I have the correct bennett there) about banning flag burning.

I’m something of a First Amendment absolutist, so it really bothers me when I read about a bill that is intended to turn back precedent on speech because “the Supreme Court is now more conservative.”

And considering that there are plenty of lawyers in the Senate who should know that precedent is never just limited to a particular set of facts, it’s incredibly annoying.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:25:00am

I’m surprised Trump hasn’t tried to capitalize and grandstand on the OSU attack yet. That’s not like him.

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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:25:38am

re: #308 Charles Johnson

I’m surprised Trump hasn’t tried to capitalize and grandstand on the OSU attack yet. That’s not like him.

He must have outsourced it to his League of Deplorables.

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Sir John Barron  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:25:56am

re: #296 makeitstop

Any word on counter-demonstrations on Trump’s ‘Victory Tour?’

People gotta get out there and disturb that narrative, or he’ll have everyone believing that the whole damn country loves him.

counter-demonstrations aren’t allowed. They’re staged and paid for by Soros and they’re violent not like the Lock Her Up Hillary For Prison! patriot rallies for Trump.

/

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:27:09am
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wrenchwench  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:27:20am
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leftynyc  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:28:19am

re: #294 lawhawk

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It doesn’t have the date of that vote so I have no idea if it was before or after she co-sponsored that amendment. But co-sponsor it she did.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:31:23am

re: #308 Charles Johnson

I’m surprised Trump hasn’t tried to capitalize and grandstand on the OSU attack yet. That’s not like him.

He no longer needs to use terrorist attacks for political gains….he “won”.

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Citizen K  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:31:34am
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leftynyc  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:32:17am

re: #307 KGxvi

I’m something of a First Amendment absolutist, so it really bothers me when I read about a bill that is intended to turn back precedent on speech because “the Supreme Court is now more conservative.”

And considering that there are plenty of lawyers in the Senate who should know that precedent is never just limited to a particular set of facts, it’s incredibly annoying.

I agree - I’m also a first amendment absolutist and wrote to Hillary (she was my senator at the time) about her sponsoring that unconstitutional piece of crap. I don’t know what the fuck she was thinking.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:32:40am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:33:10am

re: #289 electrotek

Cheers.

Not going to lie, if it wasn’t for British dance act Utah Saints I would never have discovered Kate Bush.

While we are Truthing: if it wasn’t for all my girlfriends who were Kate Bush fans I would not have paid much attention to her.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:34:17am

Instagram

#cupcakes #atm in #hydepark what? @sprinklescupcakes

Prince dies
Trump is elected
Cupcake ATMs

What’s next, declaring pineapple pizza America’s official food?

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Skip Intro  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:34:48am

re: #263 Sir John Barron

Will the Deplorables still be changing Lock Her Up! and will dTumpft lead them on?

Hell yes!

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:34:50am

re: #268 KGxvi

I am quite certain that the 2.5 years (over/under) of the Trump Administration will be an utter and complete shit show. I’m also fairly certain that it will be so bad that even Republicans turn on him and possibly initiate impeachment proceedings.

Republicans will add new amendments to the Constitution to
1) Make Trump President God Emperor For All His Lives
2) Make Ivanka Queen to rule in his stead after he ascends alive to Heaven
3) Change the name of the country to Trumpland

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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:35:11am

re: #318 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

In the end I would rather have more women seek inspiration from Kate Bush than Kim Kardashian lol

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:35:12am

re: #309 electrotek

He must have outsourced it to his League of Deplorables.

He has: latest headline on newsmax is about how Obama has let 50,000 Somalis (“Mostly Muslim”, they note) into the country.

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Romantic Heretic  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:35:58am

re: #267 lockjawcanbefun

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Might want to include Australia and Germany. My country is right next door, and it has one tenth the population and much smaller armed forces per capita.

We’d be easier to conquer than Iraq.

But a much harder nut to swallow. Canadians might be polite but we take less shit than most people.

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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:36:10am

re: #323 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Will all of them deplorables break their David Bowie records since he fell in love with a Somali and married one? They should be grateful as it was Iman who helped change his direction to a more sustainable lifestyle.

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Sir John Barron  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:36:49am

re: #323 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He has: latest headline on newsmax is about how Obama has let 50,000 Somalis (“Mostly Muslim”, they note) into the country.

Only 50k Somalis? Check in about an hour when newsmax increases their estimate to Eleventy-eleventy million thousand Somalis.

/

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Charles Johnson  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:36:50am
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InfidelOfFreedom  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:36:51am

re: #308 Charles Johnson

Of course our governor wasted no time in making an ass of himself:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:37:11am

re: #322 electrotek

In the end I would rather have more women seek inspiration from Kate Bush than Kim Kardashian lol

I did not mind listening to KB, but it is not really my taste and I probably would not have otherwise.

This is one of the reasons that God created women: to get men to do things they would not do otherwise.

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Romantic Heretic  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:37:31am

re: #274 electrotek

Not for me. Ms. Bush is no longer on my playlist.

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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:38:11am

re: #330 Romantic Heretic

What about Morrissey?

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electrotek  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:38:23am

re: #329 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

For sure.

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Romantic Heretic  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:39:23am

re: #280 gocart mozart

[Embedded content]

Except The Cryptkeeper is smarter and kinder than Kelly Anne.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:40:04am

Loved the headline, didn’t read the article.

From Slate.

Hamilton Brings In a Record-Breaking $3.3 Million in Ticket Sales After Mike Pence Showdown

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:41:29am

heh

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:43:06am

re: #335 Backwoods_Sleuth

Prez-elect Trump shows his constitutional ignorance … someone remind him of Scalia, 1st Amend., and Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989).

he just needs to distract us with emotionally-laden red herrings from the imminent Trainwreck that the Trump administration will be

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Citizen K  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:44:07am

re: #336 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

he just needs to distract us with emotionally-laden red herrings from the imminent Trainwreck that the Trump administration will be

Or build enough resentment to amass the power needed to change the Constitution come 2018. That’s my bigger worry.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:44:12am

re: #336 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

he just needs to distract us with emotionally-laden red herrings from the imminent Trainwreck that the Trump administration will be

I liked the pointing out how his hero Scalia figures into all of this.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:45:47am
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Romantic Heretic  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:46:25am

re: #331 electrotek

Never listened to him. In fact reading his name causes no music to play in my head.

As opposed to Cloudbusting when I hear Ms. Bush’s name.

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Stanley Sea  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:46:55am
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Belafon  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:47:33am

re: #341 Stanley Sea

It better be for McCain.

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Romantic Heretic  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:47:54am

re: #335 Backwoods_Sleuth

My reply when I saw this tweet on Facebook, “Does this mean Trump gets a year in jail for shitting on the flag?”

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ObserverArt  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:48:29am

I don’t know why everyone would expect the President of the United States to know stuff about the The United States Constitution. Or, know trifling facts like why there are 13 stripes on the U.S. flag. He’s only a typical American…that is why he was elected! /

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makeitstop  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:48:39am

McCain. Is. Fucking. Useless.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:49:41am
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makeitstop  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:51:41am

re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth

Dan Quayle just came through Trump Tower and no one recognized him.

Better for him. In comparison to all the other meatheads Trump is surrounding himself with, people will be looking at Quayle and asking ‘Who’s the smart guy?’
/

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:51:46am

re: #343 Romantic Heretic

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:52:13am

re: #305 ObserverArt

Just there to check on the Potatoes.

The resident wingnut in my office wrote an essay on one of the white boards about potatos vs potatoes.

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ObserverArt  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:54:05am

re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth

Laurie Crosswell 🌞 @lauriecrosswell
This tweet is the story of Dan Quayle’s life.


2:27 PM - 29 Nov 2016
10 10 Retweets 14 14 likes

It’s also representative of our crack journalists and the lack of depth they have because their companies can’t seem to hire people that might know some stuff…maybe well read, that kind of thing.

It’s just faces in front of a camera reading scripts off the prompter. If it wasn’t on a Tweet two minutes ago it doesn’t matter.

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bratwurst  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:56:00am

In case you were not totally convinced that libertarians are among the worst people in the world:

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wrenchwench  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:57:40am

re: #351 bratwurst

In case you were not totally convinced that libertarians are among the worst people in the world:

[Embedded content]

Megan will be feeding some happy bugs. See? Not aaaaaallllllllllllllllll bad!

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allegro  Nov 29, 2016 • 11:58:24am

re: #351 bratwurst

In case you were not totally convinced that libertarians are among the worst people in the world:

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The roaches and mosquitoes are gonna love it.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 29, 2016 • 12:00:38pm

Instagram

Who needs a drink or five?

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2016 • 12:07:11pm

Something else from the resident wingnut: When Clinton left office, one of his advisors walked out with classified info stuffed down his pants.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 29, 2016 • 12:07:41pm

re: #257 makeitstop

President Obama spoke out against Trump during the campaign season in support of Secretary Clinton several times — and did so forcefully. What the hell can he do now that the American people (or too many of them) voted for the Bigot to be President? I am sure that President Obama will speak out against Trump missteps post-inauguration.

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re: #299 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Joe Bacon  Nov 29, 2016 • 12:35:58pm

re: #319 Dr. Matt

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Prince dies
Trump is elected
Cupcake ATMs

What’s next, declaring pineapple pizza America’s official food?

Now you got me remembering when Honey BooBoo visited Sprinkles in Beverly Hills and she stuck her head inside the cupcake machine…


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