Chuck C. Johnson Says He’s Advising the Trump Administration on Nominees - and He’s a Holocaust Denier

No way to spin this
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Cyberstalker and harassment specialist Chuck C. Johnson (who is NOT ME) has been bragging lately about his connections to the Trump administration, even threatening on Facebook to use them to get even with Twitter for banning his Wesearchr scam site.

It’s difficult to say how extensive those connections really are, but there’s no doubt he has friends in the Trump White House; he used to write for Breitbart “News,” was seen in the VIP section at the GOP convention, and has been at several recent Trump events. And Forbes magazine recently claimed that several sources inside the Trump team told them Johnson was advising on possible cabinet nominees.

The reason why I’m writing about this loathsome character again: yesterday he did an “Ask Me Anything” in Reddit’s “altright” (read: neo-Nazi) section — and came all the way out as a Holocaust denier. Here’s the exchange. (The term “JQ” is a neo-Nazi abbreviation for “Jewish Question.”)

justacolyte:
what are your thoughts on the Holocaust, WW2, and the JQ in general?

ChuckCJohnson:
I do not and never have believed the six million figure. I think the Red Cross numbers of 250,000 dead in the camps from typhus are more realistic. I think the Allied bombing of Germany was a ware crime. I agree with David Cole about Auschwitz and the gas chambers not being real. I read the German War (highly recommend), Bloodlands, Mein Kampf, and all of David Irving. I’m more or less of the view that the war was an outgrowth of the efforts of communism to spread itself throughout the world. I also believe that the fears of German extermination were not misplaced, especially in light of the Ukrainian famine. But I support Israel as a Jewish state and Zionism as a concept. I’m pro-ethno state, generally. I understand why and how Hitler rose to power but think too much of our focus on World War II is spent trying to understand Hitler and not enough is spent trying to understand Weimar. Mecius Moldbug, aka Curtis Yarvin, is right. America is a communist country.

So there you have it, in black and white, no way to spin this. A person who’s closely connected with the Trump administration, and who may even be advising them on government nominees, is a low-life Holocaust denier who thinks the Allied bombing of Germany in WWII was a “ware [sic] crime.”

Is this surprising? Not really. Chuck C. Johnson has made no secret of his white supremacist ideology for quite a while, but it’s notable because it’s the first time he’s gone on the public record as a Holocaust denier — and because he’s clearly doing something with the Trump administration.

UPDATE at 1/27/17 10:59:27 am by Charles Johnson

And from that same AMA, here’s Chuck boasting that he was asked to be in the Trump administration, but chose to “work to fill it with friends and allies.”

I essentially had a choice between being in the Trump administration or working to fill it with friends and allies. I have tried to get some of the most qualified people in the country into the government. So far, so good. Much more work to go.

Trump is the beginning of roll back. He is not the end point. Any movement that bets on the heart beat of a 70 year old who is hated isn’t going to go very far. This is ultimately why Trumpism is a dead end.

The smartest way you can change the world is to try to red pill the children of eminent/powerful men. This is especially true if you can’t red pill the men themselves. Ask lots of questions. Suggest lots of books. Really powerful people know that there’s something wrong with the world. Help them see the answers.

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371 comments
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electrotek  Jan 27, 2017 • 10:55:05am

And we gave Mahmoud Ahmadinejad massive bashing for his Holocaust comments a decade ago.

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Jan 27, 2017 • 10:56:06am

Chuck C. Johnson, living proof against the idea of white supremacy.

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bratwurst  Jan 27, 2017 • 10:59:17am

He spits in the face of millions of victims and their descendants, but hey…he remains a Republican in good standing because he’s pro-Israel.

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Dr Lizardo  Jan 27, 2017 • 10:59:55am

re: #2 A wild WITHAK appeared!

Chuck C. Johnson, living proof against the idea of white supremacy.

Yep; funny out so many of those who advocate white supremacy turn out to be complete schmucks. They love to brag about their intelligence (LOfuckingL) and their masculinity….hell, most of them probably couldn’t get laid in a morgue.

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Kragar  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:00:19am

“A person who’s closely connected with the Trump administration, and who may even be advising them on government nominees, is a low-life Holocaust denier.”

This would be another reason why I posted this earlier.

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lawhawk  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:00:49am

Unfu…

Fuck that… This asshat has been pushing white supremacist anti-factual nonsense like this for years. Alternative viewpoints and other similar bullshit.

If Sergey were around, he probably would have an aneurysm over this.

He fits in with Trump’s cabal of cronies because those closest to Trump are white supremacists and neo Nazis.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:01:17am

Wish I could be surprised.

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allegro  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:01:46am

re: #2 A wild WITHAK appeared!

Chuck C. Johnson, living proof against the idea of white supremacy.

I dunno. They are supremely dumbass offensive.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:02:05am

From that same AMA, here’s Chuck boasting that he was asked to be in the Trump administration, but chose to “work to fill it with friends and allies.”

I essentially had a choice between being in the Trump administration or working to fill it with friends and allies. I have tried to get some of the most qualified people in the country into the government. So far, so good. Much more work to go.

Trump is the beginning of roll back. He is not the end point. Any movement that bets on the heart beat of a 70 year old who is hated isn’t going to go very far. This is ultimately why Trumpism is a dead end.

The smartest way you can change the world is to try to red pill the children of eminent/powerful men. This is especially true if you can’t red pill the men themselves. Ask lots of questions. Suggest lots of books. Really powerful people know that there’s something wrong with the world. Help them see the answers.

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:02:07am

scmp.com

(South China Morning Post)

China steps up preparations for possible military conflict with the US.

China is stepping up preparedness for a possible military conflict with the US as the Donald Trump presidency has increased the risk of hostilities breaking out, state media and military observers said.

Beijing is bracing itself for a possible deterioration in Sino-US ties, with a particular emphasis on maritime security.

The People’s Liberation Army said in a commentary on its official website last Friday, the day of Trump’s inauguration, that the chances of war have become “more real” amid a more complex security situation in Asia Pacific.

The commentary written by an official at the national defence mobilisation department in the Central Military Commission said the call for a US rebalancing of its strategy in Asia, military deployments in the East and South China Seas and the instillation of a missile defence system in South Korea were hot spots getting closer to ignition.

(more at the link)

Calling the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, about that Doomsday Clock… .

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:03:00am

re: #4 Dr Lizardo

Yep; funny out so many of those who advocate white supremacy turn out to be complete schmucks. They love to brag about their intelligence (LOfuckingL) and their masculinity….hell, most of them probably couldn’t get laid in a morgue.

Health and appearance, too. Steve Bannon is one of the most unhealthy-looking, disheveled slobs I’ve ever seen. His outward appearance is truly a reflection of his psyche.

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lawhawk  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:03:24am

re: #5 Kragar

This is a guy who seriously doesn’t get what his powers are and what his rights and responsibilities are as the Commander in Chief to not even suggest torturing, which is against the Geneva Conventions.

There are damned good reasons not to torture people - mostly because we don’t want our troops tortured or mistreated. There’s also the fact that torture simply doesn’t work as coerced info isn’t likely to be accurate or timely.

But the idiots who think 24 is factual don’t get that torture doesn’t work. People will say anything to stop the torture. They will tell the torturer what they think they want to hear, even when they don’t know anything of use.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:04:40am

re: #12 lawhawk

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This is a guy who seriously doesn’t get what his powers are and what his rights and responsibilities are as the Commander in Chief to not even suggest torturing, which is against the Geneva Conventions.

There are damned good reasons not to torture people - mostly because we don’t want our troops tortured or mistreated. There’s also the fact that torture simply doesn’t work as coerced info isn’t likely to be accurate or timely.

But the idiots who think 24 is factual don’t get that torture doesn’t work. People will say anything to stop the torture. They will tell the torturer what they think they want to hear, even when they don’t know anything of use.

Mattis should just resign immediately then.

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lawhawk  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:05:07am

I’m going to have to make a macro of this:

Unfu…

No, fuck it, totally believable

That’s going to wear out the keyboard and we’re just a week into this unqualified, unprepared, and unrepentant bigot’s regime.

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bratwurst  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:06:08am

Also…

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lawhawk  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:06:39am
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Timothy Watson  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:06:43am
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Interesting Times  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:08:09am

re: #12 lawhawk

On a side note, I know Theresa May wanted to kiss up to Pumpkin Pinochet, but color-coordinating her outfit to his skin tone is a bit much.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:09:22am

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electrotek  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:10:23am

re: #19 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

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jaunte  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:10:40am
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Citizen K  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:10:43am

Jesus Christ, Charles, the header photo is just abusive. We don’t need to see that first thing in the post.

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lawhawk  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:10:52am

Not surprising if that’s confirmed. None of the Trump EOs so far look like they’ve been written by someone familiar with US law.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:11:20am

re: #9 Charles Johnson

From that same AMA, here’s Chuck boasting that he was asked to be in the Trump administration, but chose to “work to fill it with friends and allies.”

He says he was working to get some of the “most qualified people” into those offices. From the looks of things, he was trying to get the people most qualified to completely destroy all of the departments involved… In which case, I have to concede, he did a damn masterful job of it.

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Citizen K  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:12:48am

re: #2 A wild WITHAK appeared!

Chuck C. Johnson, living proof against the idea of white supremacy.

The only right response to racists like Chuckie Floorshitter
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allegro  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:13:15am

re: #24 thedopefishlives

He says he was working to get some of the “most qualified people” into those offices. From the looks of things, he was trying to get the people most qualified to completely destroy all of the departments involved… In which case, I have to concede, he did a damn masterful job of it.

I don’t believe anything that sick little muffin fucker says. Just like his heroes.

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I cannot.  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:13:35am

re: #22 Citizen K

Or anywhere at all.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:13:49am

re: #6 lawhawk

Unfu…

Fuck that… This asshat has been pushing white supremacist anti-factual nonsense like this for years. Alternative viewpoints and other similar bullshit.

If Sergey were around, he probably would have an aneurysm over this.

He fits in with Trump’s cabal of cronies because those closest to Trump are white supremacists and neo Nazis.

Sergey is probably well aware of this, as even when he’s not here, he’s still plugged in. (He does Twitter, after all.) I imagine he’s probably emptied his local liquor store of vodka.

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ObserverArt  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:13:49am

Gotta give it to you Charles…you certainly picked a completely bug-eyed nuts photo of Chucky for the thread. He looks certifiable.

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lawhawk  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:15:01am

re: #29 ObserverArt

Gotta give it to you Charles…you certainly picked a completely bug-eyed nuts photo of Chucky for the thread. He looks is certifiable.

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ObserverArt  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:16:13am

re: #5 Kragar

“A person who’s closely connected with the Trump administration, and who may even be advising them on government nominees, is a low-life Holocaust denier.”

This would be another reason why I posted this earlier.

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And a good and proper rant it was Kragar.

Much respect.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:16:30am

re: #13 HappyWarrior

Mattis should just resign immediately then.

No! If Mattis resigns, there will be no responsible adults in the Situation Room when the next international crisis hits.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:17:40am
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Interesting Times  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:18:01am

Woah…I thought, based on responses downstairs, that PhotoshopHandGate was done, but lo and behold, a new throbbing memo:

And based on his profile info - “Disney Feature Animation layout artist and supervisor” - he’s in a prime position to recognize these things.

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allegro  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:18:19am

re: #32 Big Beautiful Door

No! If Mattis resigns, there will be no responsible adults in the Situation Room when the next international crisis hits.

Trump IS the international crisis. I have little faith in Mattis or anyone else in there having much say in the matter.

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:18:35am

re: #25 Citizen K

I’ve seen that before; what’s it from?

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Sir John Barron  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:19:18am

re: #9 Charles Johnson

I essentially had a choice between being in the Trump administration or working to fill it with friends and allies. I have tried to get some of the most qualified people in the country into the government. So far, so good. Much more work to go.

This is truly special.

/

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ObserverArt  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:20:13am

re: #13 HappyWarrior

Mattis should just resign immediately then.

I expect him to in due time. He seems to be a decent guy, it would not surprise me once he gets a true feel for the craziness in the Trump camp he will bow out. And if he does, I hope like hell he blasts Trump bigly.

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Mike Lamb  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:21:05am

Oh c’mon….he’s not a Holocaust denier…he’s just Holocaust denier curious. Isn’t that what he said when he went to some White Nationalist convention? It’s just ideas, amirite?

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Citizen K  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:21:11am

re: #36 A wild WITHAK appeared!

I’ve seen that before; what’s it from?

The comic Preacher, I believe.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:21:31am

re: #32 Big Beautiful Door

No! If Mattis resigns, there will be no responsible adults in the Situation Room when the next international crisis hits.

True, good point.

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lawhawk  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:21:46am

re: #34 Interesting Times

Where’s the fucking macro… damnit….

Unfu…

No, fuck it, totally believable

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Franklin  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:22:15am

*hear

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lockjawcanbefun  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:22:20am

And Chuck’s morphing into a beard without a face continues.

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lawhawk  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:22:28am

re: #39 Mike Lamb

Exploring different viewpoints.

That’s his go to phrase.

He’s alt-fact curious.

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Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:22:38am

re: #9 Charles Johnson

From that same AMA, here’s Chuck boasting that he was asked to be in the Trump administration, but chose to “work to fill it with friends and allies.”

This quote from Chuck regarding “red pilling” comes straight out of the militant white nationalist playbook - the term is for those who are fully on board with racial hatred and are willing to follow in the footsteps of individuals like Anders Breivik or Dylann Roof in an attempt to trigger a full-blown race war.

The smartest way you can change the world is to try to red pill the children of eminent/powerful men. This is especially true if you can’t red pill the men themselves. Ask lots of questions. Suggest lots of books. Really powerful people know that there’s something wrong with the world. Help them see the answers.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:22:56am

re: #34 Interesting Times

Woah…I thought, based on responses downstairs, that PhotoshopHandGate was done, but lo and behold, a new throbbing memo:

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And based on his profile info - “Disney Feature Animation layout artist and supervisor” - he’s in a prime position to recognize these things.

That’s unreal.

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EPR-radar  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:23:17am

re: #38 ObserverArt

I expect him to in due time. He seems to be a decent guy, it would not surprise me once he gets a true feel for the craziness in the Trump camp he will bow out.And if he does, I hope like hell he blasts Trump bigly.

Mattis is the person in the best position to keep the tiny-fingered vulgarian’s hands off the nuclear launch codes. Assuming Mattis is even marginally sane/competent, it’s probably better that he stay.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:23:28am

re: #35 allegro

Trump IS the international crisis. I have little faith in Mattis or anyone else in there having much say in the matter.

Trump seems to be backing down on torture, deferring to Mattis’ judgment. If anyone is going to stop Trump from using nukes, its Mattis.

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wrenchwench  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:23:31am

re: #34 Interesting Times

Woah…I thought, based on responses downstairs, that PhotoshopHandGate was done, but lo and behold, a new throbbing memo:

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And based on his profile info - “Disney Feature Animation layout artist and supervisor” - he’s in a prime position to recognize these things.

Consider this a second upding for the bolded part.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:23:51am
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Kragar  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:24:59am
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lawhawk  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:25:26am

re: #51 Charles Johnson

That’s the question - where are the source images we’re talking about for the so-called manipulated image. I found one that appears to be the unretouched source image (uncropped):

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thedopefishlives  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:26:07am

re: #53 lawhawk

Can we get a comparison between this photo and the cropped version, see if there’s been any enhancement?

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:26:35am

re: #48 EPR-radar

Mattis is the person in the best position to keep the tiny-fingered vulgarian’s hands off the nuclear launch codes. Assuming Mattis is even marginally sane/competent, it’s probably better that he stay.

Every indication I’m aware of is that Mattis is exceptionally sane and competent. He may be our only hope of surviving the next four years.

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ObserverArt  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:27:03am

re: #34 Interesting Times

Woah…I thought, based on responses downstairs, that PhotoshopHandGate was done, but lo and behold, a new throbbing memo:

[Embedded content]

And based on his profile info - “Disney Feature Animation layout artist and supervisor” - he’s in a prime position to recognize these things.

Did you see the proof it was Photoshopped I put up at the end of the last thread? The hand is definitely bigger!

My what big hands you have Mr. President
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Scottish Dragon  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:27:12am

re: #53 lawhawk

That’s the question - where are the source images we’re talking about for the so-called manipulated image. I found one that appears to be the unretouched source image (uncropped):

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All those darn libtard bees attacking his poor hand in January!

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Interesting Times  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:28:28am

re: #53 lawhawk

That’s not the original upon which the photo in question is based. Look at the coats - in your photo, they’re windswept, but in the disputed pics, they aren’t (esp. Obama’s)

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Dr. Matt  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:28:30am
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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:28:34am

re: #55 Big Beautiful Door

Every indication I’m aware of is that Mattis is exceptionally sane and competent. He may be our only hope of surviving the next four years.

Let’s hope he’s the designated survivor often.

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:29:55am

re: #56 ObserverArt

Did you see the proof it was Photoshopped I put up at the end of the last thread? The hand is definitely bigger!

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In the left hand photo, Mr. Trump’s “hand” is bigger than Mr. Obama’s head. That might be a clue.

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Clearly a Country For Sick Old Haters  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:30:21am

re: #5 Kragar

“A person who’s closely connected with the Trump administration, and who may even be advising them on government nominees, is a low-life Holocaust denier.”

This would be another reason why I posted this earlier.

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Charles,

If possible it would be nice to have [Like All] and [Retweet All] buttons in posts with multiple tweets, even if that means we still need to like and retweet in a bunch of popups.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:30:50am

re: #59 Dr. Matt

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They’ve been wanting to repeal it for eight years and still don’t have an actual plan. Here’s an idea. How about we just improve on what we have. Nah can’t do that. That would be admitting that they lied about ACA to get into power in the first place and that Obama was right and we can’t have that for the toddler party acn we?

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:31:38am

re: #44 lockjawcanbefun

And Chuck’s morphing into a beard without a face continues.

*sings to the tune of Billy Idol’s “Eyes Without a Face”*

🎼🎶…beard without a face…🎵

*gags slightly*

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:32:03am

re: #59 Dr. Matt

Geez, the Trump Administration has more leaks than the Watergate plumbers, and it’s only week one.

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ObserverArt  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:32:11am

re: #48 EPR-radar

Mattis is the person in the best position to keep the tiny-fingered vulgarian’s hands off the nuclear launch codes. Assuming Mattis is even marginally sane/competent, it’s probably better that he stay.

I agree. But he could also be a great alarm to let congress and the American people know we are looking at some real dangerous thinking. If he opens his mouth and does warn, he will most likely be tossed out.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:32:21am
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Dr. Matt  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:33:01am

re: #43 Franklin

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*hear

Zuper IQ!~!!!!!!

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gocart mozart  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:33:24am
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Clearly a Country For Sick Old Haters  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:33:52am

re: #63 HappyWarrior

They’ve been wanting to repeal it for eight years and still don’t have an actual plan. Here’s an idea. How about we just improve on what we have. Nah can’t do that. That would be admitting that they lied about ACA to get into power in the first place and that Obama was right and we can’t have that for the toddler party acn we?

Policy is almost always driven by personalities and egos rather than reason. It’s a defect that comes from being a primate with higher-reasoning-skills patched on top of a primate mind. I see it constantly in business and politics.

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lawhawk  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:33:57am

re: #58 Interesting Times

The left image is the disputed one. That’s the one that was photo edited, the one on the right is not the same time/angle as the left.

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electrotek  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:34:02am

re: #69 gocart mozart

Goddamn what a desperate creep.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:34:15am

Turns out the source for the suspect image is a freeze-frame from a TV broadcast. Not a good source at all. Very possible all we’re seeing is distortion from numerous stages of reproduction.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:35:05am
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I Would Prefer Not To  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:35:11am

I’ve always wanted to smack him. I don’t think I could hold back now. If I every get the chance. Let’s just say that I’m not sure a jury here in NYC would convict me. Even if they did it would be worth it.

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MsJ  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:35:26am

re: #34 Interesting Times

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:35:53am

Lest we forget, only yesterday Mr. Trump signed an executive order requiring weekly publication of “immigrant crimes,” similar to the Criminal Jew publication put out by Nazi Germany:

independent.co.uk

Donald Trump has ordered his new administration to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants.

The US President’s sweeping new executive order on immigration, which he signed on the fifth day of his presidency, includes a paragraph mandating the Secretary for Homeland Security to “make public a comprehensive list of criminal actions committed by aliens” in the US.

The list will also include details of so-called “sanctuary cities” that refuse to hand over immigrant residents for deportation.

(more at The Independent)

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Clearly a Country For Sick Old Haters  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:36:17am

re: #69 gocart mozart

So funny. Martin is a just not right in the head.

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ObserverArt  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:36:53am

re: #61 Anymouse

In the left hand photo, Mr. Trump’s “hand” is bigger than Mr. Obama’s head. That might be a clue.

Yeah!

(I did the image to make it that way. Just goofing around. If Trump wants bigly hands, I can give him bigly hands.)

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Interesting Times  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:37:04am

re: #73 Charles Johnson

Turns out the source for the suspect image is a freeze-frame from a TV broadcast. Not a good source at all. Very possible all we’re seeing is distortion from numerous stages of reproduction.

True, although it’s odd that in the animated gif, the hand and the surrounding area seem to be the only things that significantly change shape.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:37:30am

Sorry, I’m leaning toward definitely not Photoshopped for that hand image. I think people are jumping to unwarranted conclusions based on a very bad source image taken from a freeze-frame of a TV show. That means it’s gone through several stages of compression and alteration, and I think we’re just seeing the slight distortions introduced by that.

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:37:34am

re: #73 Charles Johnson

Turns out the source for the suspect image is a freeze-frame from a TV broadcast. Not a good source at all. Very possible all we’re seeing is distortion from numerous stages of reproduction.

I’m not sure that Mr. Trump’s hand being bigger than Mr. Obama’s head would be a distortion induced by a photograph of a television set.

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EPR-radar  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:38:20am

Hey, POTUS Fuckface von Cocksplat,

It’s time for another love note from Occupied America. The theme this time will be insults, you incompressible jizztrumpet.

I’m sure you don’t mind, since you insulted your way to the Oval Office and anything you or the Republicans have ever done is totally a legitimate way to seek or gain power. You are a dumpster fire that has surrounded himself with flaming turds from lethally diseased pigs.

Your pathetic attempts to increase your hand size in a recent photo have been duly noted with much derision all around. There is nothing you can do to alter the fact that your inauguration crowd size and vote totals were pathetic compared to those of the black guy. I wouldn’t dwell on this issue, except that you seem to regard it as being the most important political issue of the past few days. Are you an idiot, or do you just play one on TV?

I don’t think you get how truly you are despised, because you hang out with wingnuts, and wingnuts are professionally outraged all the time by fake bullshit like Obaba supposedly not being an American citizen. Outrage based on a foundation of lies and bullshit is always weakened by that foundation because what kind of mental defective truly believes that shit? You just say it because it is politically useful.

There is no comparison between wingnut outrage and the outrage of rational people who see you, your administration and your party systematically trying to end everything that is good about America while fostering all of the ugliest parts of America.

In hopes this finds you obsessing endlessly over your innumerable issues to the detriment of your health, eat shit and die.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:38:20am

re: #80 Interesting Times

True, although it’s odd that in the animated gif, the hand and the surrounding area seem to be the only things that significantly change shape.

It’s a very light section of the image, against a very dark background. Prime candidate for distortion.

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:39:20am

re: #73 Charles Johnson

Regardless of the hand size question, those are damned short fingers.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:40:35am

Washington Post’s Philip Bump agrees with me:

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Interesting Times  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:41:32am

re: #84 Charles Johnson

It’s a very light section of the image, against a very dark background. Prime candidate for distortion.

Makes sense. For what it’s worth, someone else did a comparison gif:

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Clearly a Country For Sick Old Haters  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:42:39am

re: #81 Charles Johnson

Sorry, I’m leaning toward definitely not Photoshopped for that hand image. I think people are jumping to unwarranted conclusions based on a very bad source image taken from a freeze-frame of a TV show. That means it’s gone through several stages of compression and alteration, and I think we’re just seeing the slight distortions introduced by that.

I’m not taking any side on this, but freeze-frames from TV can be crystal-clear 1920x1080 images these days. Was this a distorted, low-bitrate video?

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:44:58am

Karen Pence spewing alternative facts about her husband at the so-called March for Life:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:47:05am
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makeitstop  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:48:10am
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allegro  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:48:12am

re: #89 Anymouse

Karen Pence spewing alternative facts about her husband at the so-called March for Life:

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Geez, Karen, who do you hang out with?

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MsJ  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:49:05am

re: #85 Grunthos the Flatulent

Regardless of the hand size question, those are damned short fingers.

Regardless of whether it’s ‘shopped or not, the whole concept is freaking hysterical.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:49:21am

re: #88 Clearly a Country For Sick Old Haters

I’m not taking any side on this, but freeze-frames from TV can be crystal-clear 1920x1080 images these days. Was this a distorted, low-bitrate video?

You’re not seeing an original source image here. You’re seeing a picture taken by a TV camera of a photo hanging on a wall, which is then processed for broadcast. And even 1080p TV images are compressed and processed before they’re broadcast.

So again, you’re seeing an image that isn’t the original, and that’s been through several stages of processing and compression. This is not a good comparison at all, and I think Philip Bump’s GIF pretty much ends the debate. It isn’t shopped.

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Clearly a Country For Sick Old Haters  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:50:26am

re: #89 Anymouse

Karen Pence spewing alternative facts about her husband at the so-called March for Life:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:50:55am
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lawhawk  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:51:01am

Unfu…

No, fuck it, totally believable.

We’re chasing after whether Trump had someone photo edit his hands all while he’s pushing the most extreme and regressive agenda in our nation’s history. Seriously. This is a sideshow distraction over what the administration is doing.

Yeah, I get that he’s got some serious body image issues.

That’s the least objectionable thing going on right now.

And Trump would prefer that you focus on his hands, all while he’s directing Bannon and the like (or they’re doing what they want and Trump’s assenting to it) are pushing a bigoted, undemocratic, and regressive agenda.

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KGxvi  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:52:18am
I’m pro-ethno state, generally

This is the geopolitical equivalent of “we’d all be better off if we stuck with our own kind” right?

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Scottish Dragon  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:52:19am

Rod Dreher now very upset this afternoon that liberals said bad things to ex NC governor McCory.

He was very angry about the women’s march last Saturday.

He was also really upset at the cast of Hamilton.

I notice that Rod gets upset a lot whenever progressives actually say anything at all. He also seems to use that as an excuse of why he loathes those “elites” because How dare they be uppity like that and not know their place in real ‘Mercan society!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:52:29am
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Scottish Dragon  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:53:15am

re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth

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My God. I can’t look at that.

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:53:42am

Texas state legislator infuriates Muslims in Texas with a “survey” he mailed and asked them to sign along with contact information, in which he essentially asks are you a) a little bit radical, b) a whole lot radical c) off-the-scale radical.

nytimes.com

The sender, as noted in the return address, was State Representative Kyle Biedermann, a central Texas hardware store owner who had officially become a member of the Legislature less than a month earlier. More than 400 surveys went out. Only one came back, Mr. Biedermann said.

One question asked if the respondent would support a pledge for religious freedom and safety from harm for former Muslims. Another asked if the Muslim Brotherhood should be declared a terrorist organization. The survey also asked if the respondent supported the Muslim Reform Movement, which espouses opposition to “violent jihad” or “violent Islamic extremism.”

Bee Moorhead, executive director of Texas Impact, a statewide religious advocacy network that includes Christians, Jews and Muslims, said the group sent a letter to mosques and Muslim organizations urging them to disregard the survey. “What’s wrong with it is that an elected official in a position of power sent out that letter in a way that would have made someone think the survey was an official piece of business of the State of Texas,” Ms. Moorhead said in an interview. “It was an intimidating and misleading piece of communication on the part of a public servant.”

(more at the New York Times)

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Interesting Times  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:54:45am

re: #98 lawhawk

We’re chasing after whether Trump had someone photo edit his hands all while he’s pushing the most extreme and regressive agenda in our nation’s history. Seriously. This is a sideshow distraction over what the administration is doing.

I was worried about that as well, though I suppose it’s kind of like the earlier brouhaha over the video of Melania’s collapsing smile (though that one turned out to be true) - trivial in the grand scheme of things and compared to other events, but powerful for its symbolism.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:55:17am
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lawhawk  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:55:27am

re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth

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KGxvi  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:55:33am

re: #13 HappyWarrior

Mattis should just resign immediately then.

I’d prefer he call Pence and ask about a meeting to discuss Section 4 of the 25th Amendment.

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jaunte  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:57:09am
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jaunte  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:57:32am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:57:39am

re: #102 Scottish Dragon

My God. I can’t look at that.

It gets harder to look at when there are actual faces attached to the names.

And there’s no way to spin how what the Trump administration is doing right now is any different.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:58:02am

I’m not a lawyer (Where the hell is lawhawk when you need him?) but I think being a nazi is not going to help him win a lawsuit against Twitter.

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gocart mozart  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:59:03am
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Dr. Matt  Jan 27, 2017 • 11:59:09am

oh ffs

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ObserverArt  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:01:04pm

re: #76 MsJ

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If I was making the hand bigger, I would not use the Photoshop warp tool. If I had to do it and I was being paid, I would first see if I could get a higher resolution original image that was larger (thus more resolution) than the final I needed. Then you have enough resolution to work with.

I would then “draw” a proper path to select just the hand from the larger image and then paste it over the smaller hand but on it’s own Photoshop document layer.

I then would get it to size I want. Then I would duplicate the layer so that I have an original and now a working layer. You never know when you go too far, so I always keep layers I can go back to to start over with the mods.

On the new layer I then work with the eraser tool and clone tool to make sure I blended it into the background. so you can’t see the mod. By feathering the edge with the eraser set at a low rate of pixel elimination you can blend the overlay into the background.

The clone tool allows you to add pixels you might need to get the backgrounds to match back up, etc. It all depends on what is needed.

Then if needed, a little blurring to get it softer to match the focus and sharpness of the original and a little extra “noise” to match the “grain” of the original.

If that guy is from Disney, he is cutting corners in my estimation. Paths give you way more control. Warping is fun for sure, but it is hard to control if you want a natural look.

If you have the time, you can work an image to the point no one can tell.

I did a photo for a good client where I had to add a person to a group of ladies sitting on a staircase. One of the members of the club wasn’t able to make their get-together but my client wanted her in the photo. She gave me some images of the missing woman and I ‘shopped her into the image. The client showed some of her friends the finished shop and asked them to point out who was added. None of them picked the woman that was added. I was happy to have fooled them.

I love Photoshop! I was lucky to have run the dark room at the Art College I attended so I learned the old ways to doctor photos. I’ve done airbrushing retouching of photos, and that was difficult.

Once Photoshop came out I was in heaven! But having the analog and film background made me understand the tools in Photoshop as many are named from the actual analog processes.

Sometimes the goof ‘shops I’ve done have been taken serious and no one got the joke. That’s when I realized I was getting good at it.

So for anyone wanting to working Photoshop…this has been a little lesson of what to do! it is one hell of a tool. And fun.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:01:28pm

re: #59 Dr. Matt

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The dog can’t quite figure out what to do next now that its caught the car.

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:01:30pm

re: #98 lawhawk

Unfu…

No, fuck it, totally believable.

We’re chasing after whether Trump had someone photo edit his hands all while he’s pushing the most extreme and regressive agenda in our nation’s history. Seriously. This is a sideshow distraction over what the administration is doing.

Yeah, I get that he’s got some serious body image issues.

That’s the least objectionable thing going on right now.

And Trump would prefer that you focus on his hands, all while he’s directing Bannon and the like (or they’re doing what they want and Trump’s assenting to it) are pushing a bigoted, undemocratic, and regressive agenda.

Sending it to Mr. Trump’s and Mr. Spicer’s Twitter accounts forces them to refute it. It makes them spend time doing that instead of the destructive policies they are working on.

We can deflect just as they can. We can also talk about more than one thing at a time (creeping fascism and questions of whether a photograph has been altered - liberals can multi-task).

Similar to President Johnson’s quip about an opponent being a “swine copulator,” which he knew wasn’t true. He just wanted to hear his opponent deny it.

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MsJ  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:02:26pm

re: #110 Backwoods_Sleuth

It gets harder to look at when there are actual faces attached to the names.

And there’s no way to spin how what the Trump administration is doing right now is any different.

I RT’d every one of them with photos because that makes it “real”. I also RT’d most of the rest, too.

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allegro  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:03:47pm

re: #112 gocart mozart

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I looked at that a few months ago. The result? My hands are exactly the same size. I’m a 5’2” woman with (relative to other women my size) short fingers. Ha!

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MsJ  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:04:13pm

re: #114 ObserverArt

LOL!! That’s why you do what you do (well!) and I think…huh, what’d you just say?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:04:21pm
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ObserverArt  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:04:52pm

re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Wow. That is powerful.

Fuck Chuck C. Johnson.

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Henny Penny  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:05:41pm

Why does the moon look bigger when it is low in the horizon?
Moon illusion

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jaunte  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:05:42pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:05:55pm
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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:06:11pm

re: #123 jaunte

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Zing.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:06:30pm

re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth

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God she’s awful.

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Kragar  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:07:01pm

re: #92 allegro

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:07:50pm
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thedopefishlives  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:08:39pm

re: #127 Kragar

Nobody likes Pence. NOBODY.

Every time Mike Pence comes up, I am going to link this image. I cannot emphasize enough how much damage he did to my family’s home state.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:09:48pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:10:46pm

oh dear…

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Belafon  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:11:16pm

re: #122 Emptor scriptor Remorse

Because our brains suck.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:11:16pm

re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, that’s one quick way to ensure we won’t have any allies left.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:11:56pm
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jaunte  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:12:19pm

re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump admin is costing more lives every day.

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ObserverArt  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:12:47pm

re: #119 MsJ

LOL!! That’s why you do what you do (well!) and I think…huh, what’d you just say?

People that mess with Photoshop here would be able to figure it out. That is just a primer of the steps you can take to do a simple mod to an image. There are tons more when you get into manipulating colors, tones, textures, etc. I just thought it might help some know what the tools do and how to work with them.

It is a very complicated program. But if you just want to have some fun, knowing some of the processes can help.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:14:31pm
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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:14:38pm

re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Demostrators, that’s what they are Sean. FFS grow up.

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:14:41pm

re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh dear…

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Nikki Haley is a wingnut as well. Just because she caved to irresistible pressure to remove the Confederate Battle Flag from Columbia’s statehouse did not magically turn her into a moderate.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:15:10pm

re: #127 Kragar

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That’s funny right there.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:15:24pm

Unbracketed italics tag in post 77 has borked the page.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:15:39pm

Oh I see. It’s my fault he didn’t read the article.

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Interesting Times  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:15:48pm

re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth

Okay, this is the one thing he’s done that’s left me not only shocked, but surprised - why would he want to abolish the only thing that let him win?

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:15:54pm

re: #130 Charles Johnson

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Always have been. Even when I leaned more anti choice, I never liked the movement.

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gocart mozart  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:16:10pm
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allegro  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:16:35pm

re: #144 Interesting Times

Okay, this is the one thing he’s done that’s left me not only shocked, but surprised - why would he want to abolish the only thing that let him win?

He really thinks he won the popular vote.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:16:44pm
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Belafon  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:16:50pm

re: #144 Interesting Times

Okay, this is the one thing he’s done that’s left me not only shocked, but surprised - why would he want to abolish the only thing that let him win?

Because he’s just making it up as he goes along.

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Shiplord Kirel  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:16:51pm

Don’t worry, NORKs, Rome wasn’t burned in a day.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:17:21pm

re: #144 Interesting Times

Okay, this is the one thing he’s done that’s left me not only shocked, but surprised - why would he want to abolish the only thing that let him win?

He’s delusional enough to think he’ll win popular vote next time.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:17:35pm

re: #147 allegro

He really thinks he won the popular vote.

And that.

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:17:44pm

re: #142 The Vicious Babushka

Unbracketed italics tag in post 77 has borked the page.

Well, that would be me … I left off the parenthesis at the end, I can’t tell if I left off the close italics command because “editing time has expired.”

That said, the page is working fine for me. You need a dial telephone and ADSL apparently. /s

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thedopefishlives  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:18:19pm

re: #152 HappyWarrior

He’s delusional enough to think he’ll win popular vote next time.

I hope he rams this change through. Let the Republicans choke on it. If he accomplishes one single thing during his Presidency, let it be this. The end of the Republic is at hand; all hail the rise of the Democracy.

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lawhawk  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:18:37pm

re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:18:57pm

I am teh shocked:

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:19:04pm

re: #155 thedopefishlives

I hope he rams this change through. Let the Republicans choke on it. If he accomplishes one single thing during his Presidency, let it be this. The end of the Republic is at hand; all hail the rise of the Democracy.

I certainly wouldn’t complain.

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ObserverArt  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:19:06pm

re: #143 Charles Johnson

Oh I see. It’s my fault he didn’t read the article.

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Stuart Waugh is an engineer.

God help us. If Stuart can’t figure out your format I hope he engineers not critical things.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:20:34pm

re: #144 Interesting Times

Okay, this is the one thing he’s done that’s left me not only shocked, but surprised - why would he want to abolish the only thing that let him win?

He is so full of himself, he may actually believe he would win the popular vote if he campaigned in New York and California.

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jaunte  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:20:36pm
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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:20:57pm

Haley is being an idiot. Our NATO allies helped us after 9/11. Its people of all nationalities that have died in Afghanistan and she knows it. Man this is making the Bush admin look diplomatic.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:22:09pm

re: #155 thedopefishlives

I hope he rams this change through. Let the Republicans choke on it. If he accomplishes one single thing during his Presidency, let it be this. The end of the Republic is at hand; all hail the rise of the Democracy.

Won’t happen; McConnell isn’t as stupid as Trump is.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:22:59pm

re: #163 Big Beautiful Door

Won’t happen; McConnell isn’t as stupid as Trump is.

Oh, I know, but the irony would be glorious and let’s face it: It would all but guarantee that Drumpf would be a single-term President.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:23:06pm
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Kragar  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:24:02pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:24:07pm
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nines09  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:24:17pm
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thedopefishlives  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:24:18pm

re: #161 jaunte

All of us knew this was coming. I’m surprised that it took them this long. All this whinging about the size of Drumpf’s … inauguration crowd managed to distract him from his true purpose for a week, at least.

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gocart mozart  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:25:16pm
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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:25:24pm

re: #162 HappyWarrior

Haley is being an idiot. Our NATO allies helped us after 9/11. Its people of all nationalities that have died in Afghanistan and she knows it. Man this is making the Bush admin look diplomatic.

And as I recall, a legislative opponent in South Carolina told her to “go back to her own country.” (She was born in South Carolina.)

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:26:10pm

re: #171 Anymouse

And as I recall, a legislative opponent in South Carolina told her to “go back to her own country.” (She was born in South Carolina.)

Yeah. You’d think she know better.

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De Kolta Chair  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:26:40pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:26:47pm

O_o

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Interesting Times  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:27:22pm

re: #160 Big Beautiful Door

He is so full of himself, he may actually believe he would win the popular vote if he campaigned in New York and California.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:27:32pm

re: #144 Interesting Times

Okay, this is the one thing he’s done that’s left me not only shocked, but surprised - why would he want to abolish the only thing that let him win?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:28:02pm
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makeitstop  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:28:06pm

NYT goes there.

These are lies; good old-fashioned lies, baldfaced and flat-out lies.

Some have suggested that we in the media should focus a bit less on these lies — some of them issued in tweets and some in interviews or news conferences — and focus more on policies, particularly the ineptitude of the gathering cabinet and the raft of executive orders that Trump himself is signing.

But I take the position that this is all worthy of coverage, that there are simply different kinds of news being unearthed about this administration that exist on different strata.

To take it even further, it may be these seemingly smaller infractions that produce the greater injury because the implications are more profound. Trump does not simply have “a running war with the media,” as he so indecorously and disrespectfully spouted off while standing on the hallowed ground before the C.I.A. Memorial Wall. He is in fact having a running war with the truth itself.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:28:36pm
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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:31:16pm

re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Typical “pro life” crap.

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nkdee  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:32:01pm

Quick…somebody e-mail Donald this ASAP:

“Trump is the beginning of roll back. He is not the end point. Any movement that bets on the heart beat of a 70 year old who is hated isn’t going to go very far. This is ultimately why Trumpism is a dead end.”

That may “end” Chuckie’s “influence”.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:35:24pm

They always find THE BEST WORDS.

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Sir John Barron  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:37:23pm

re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s just because libtard Dem Party wants to abort all Black people, when they aren’t putting all the Blacks on the liberal plantation and making them all vote for the Democrat Party and keeping them all on welfare.

/////

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:38:16pm
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allegro  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:41:30pm

re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth

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19 million are following to go WTF?!

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Kragar  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:42:47pm

re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:44:20pm

wait..what???

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:45:23pm

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:45:36pm

Whelp. My Internet service went out. Kicked my dial telephone, unpluged and plugged in again my Teletype, cursed at the modem, and I got my boot up screen.

Commodore 64 Start Screen
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thedopefishlives  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:46:06pm

re: #189 Anymouse

Whelp. My Internet service went out. Kicked my dial telephone, unpluged and plugged in again my Teletype, cursed at the modem, and I got my boot up screen.

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Did you check the string to ensure that it was tied tightly enough between the cans?

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KGxvi  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:46:16pm

re: #144 Interesting Times

Okay, this is the one thing he’s done that’s left me not only shocked, but surprised - why would he want to abolish the only thing that let him win?

Because he didn’t really want the job.

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EPR-radar  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:48:03pm

re: #172 HappyWarrior

Yeah. You’d think she know better.

Nikki Haley is a Republican elected official. Therefore she’s incapable of knowing better.

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:48:14pm

re: #190 thedopefishlives

Did you check the string to ensure that it was tied tightly enough between the cans?

No I didn’t. Thank you for that reminder.

[checking]

Hmm. Maybe that’s the problem. One of the cans rolled under my telephone table, and the string is slack.

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Franklin  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:49:05pm

OT: 20 kilograms of red hot steel vs. frozen lake

20 kilograms of red hot steel vs. frozen lake

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Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:49:29pm
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lawhawk  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:49:51pm

Unfu…

No, fuck it, totally believable:

I told you, thinks macro thing is gonna come in real handy.

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EPR-radar  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:51:09pm

re: #191 KGxvi

Because he didn’t really want the job.

Perhaps he would have preferred to lose completely rather than win in the electoral college and lose in the popular vote. The man’s shallowness knows no bounds.

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:51:42pm

re: #197 lawhawk

Unfu…

No, fuck it, totally believable:

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I told you, thinks macro thing is gonna come in real handy.

Don’t we have travel restrictions against going to Syria right now? If so, she broke the law unless she got prior dispensation from the State Department (which isn’t exactly functioning right now).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:52:22pm

is it safe to assume that part of today’s rider numbers include workers (which the other two days wouldn’t)?

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:53:32pm

re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth

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is it safe to assume that part of today’s rider numbers include workers (which the other two days wouldn’t)?

Why yes I believe it would. What is the average day on the DC metro at that time?

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KGxvi  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:55:19pm

re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth

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is it safe to assume that part of today’s rider numbers include workers (which the other two days wouldn’t)?

Trump’s inauguration was on a Friday, so it probably would have included regular riders. Unless people in DC took the day off because of the event, which I suppose is possible.

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:55:27pm

As a reminder:

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Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:56:09pm
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thedopefishlives  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:57:04pm

re: #202 KGxvi

Trump’s inauguration was on a Friday, so it probably would have included regular riders. Unless people in DC took the day off because of the event, which I suppose is possible.

I thought Inauguration Day was a holiday in DC.

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Timothy Watson  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:57:39pm

re: #185 allegro

19 million are following to go WTF?!

Following him on Twitter might give them a precious few extra minutes to hide when Trump orders air or nuclear attacks on their country.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:57:50pm

re: #202 KGxvi

Trump’s inauguration was on a Friday, so it probably would have included regular riders. Unless people in DC took the day off because of the event, which I suppose is possible.

I recall a couple of folks here noting that inauguration day was a holiday in DC.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:58:58pm
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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 12:59:39pm

re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth

I recall a couple of folks here noting that inauguration day was a holiday in DC.

It is, as well as the surrounding cities and counties in Maryland and Virginia. /village-flag-committee-chair

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steve_davis  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:00:33pm

re: #12 lawhawk

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This is a guy who seriously doesn’t get what his powers are and what his rights and responsibilities are as the Commander in Chief to not even suggest torturing, which is against the Geneva Conventions.

There are damned good reasons not to torture people - mostly because we don’t want our troops tortured or mistreated. There’s also the fact that torture simply doesn’t work as coerced info isn’t likely to be accurate or timely.

But the idiots who think 24 is factual don’t get that torture doesn’t work. People will say anything to stop the torture. They will tell the torturer what they think they want to hear, even when they don’t know anything of use.

torture doesn’t actually work that way. the assumption during professionally applied torture is that people will lie and that when people are in extreme pain they will say anything. therefore, torture is never used to extract some single factoid out of a person. instead, torture is used in such a way that the victim will simply start talking and won’t stop until a person has been broken down into a babbling idiot, of no future use. people get turned into turkeys. the mob refers to their torturers as turkey doctors (thanks, Don Pendleton!)

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:00:51pm

re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth

Muslims should just say they are Christians then. It’s easy enough to “prove”.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:01:22pm

re: #212 GlutenFreeJesus

Muslims should just say they are Christians then. It’s easy enough to “prove”.

They sprinkle you with holy water, though. Everyone knows that Muslims catch fire when exposed to holy water.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:02:21pm

*blink*

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:04:20pm

guess who recently resigned her position on the Wells Fargo BoD ahead of her nomination to Transportation Secretary?

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KGxvi  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:06:20pm

re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth

*blink*

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Well, it’s “repaired” in the sense that Bibi gets to do whatever the fuck he wants with no threat of repercussions. Which, according to more than a few within the wingularity, is exactly how the relationship is supposed to work.

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jaunte  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:09:40pm
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Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:10:12pm
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De Kolta Chair  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:11:30pm
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mmmirele  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:15:02pm

re: #194 Franklin

Watch all the way to the end for the surprise!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:15:10pm
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lawhawk  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:15:43pm

He deleted the earlier tweet (it included a typo)

Notably absent from that list of pro life - women.

Yeah, minor oversight, but seeing how women are the ones affected directly by whatever bans, criminalization, or unnecessary medical procedures a bunch of white guys (and invariably, it’s a bunch of white guys voting this stuff), you’d think the woman carrying the sign would wonder about the life of the woman being forced to carry to term.

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Sir John Barron  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:15:44pm

re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth

I recall a couple of folks here noting that inauguration day was a holiday in DC.

yes

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:16:04pm

re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth

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They turn into chickens when a Republican is in the White House.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:16:06pm

re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth

I recall a couple of folks here noting that inauguration day was a holiday in DC.

The federal employees were off but contractors weren’t.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:17:16pm

re: #226 HappyWarrior

The federal employees were off but contractors weren’t.

My guess is a lot of DC was given the day off to avoid traffic. I have one friend who works in the DC area (not federal, not contractor) who had it as a holiday for that reason.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:17:42pm
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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:17:46pm

Today isn’t a federal holiday. If I were still working in DC, I’d have to work today but I would have had last Friday off.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:18:11pm
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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:18:22pm

re: #227 klys (maker of Silmarils)

My guess is a lot of DC was given the day off to avoid traffic. I have one friend who works in the DC area (not federal, not contractor) who had it as a holiday for that reason.

Yeah wouldn’t surprise me.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:18:23pm

re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth

If it’s national security, does that mean that the wall will come from the military budget? Oh, I bet the wingnuts will LOVE that.

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Belafon  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:19:50pm

re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth

Imagine if Obama tried to justify anything as a national defense need. TYRANNY!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:20:21pm
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EPR-radar  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:20:28pm

re: #225 Big Beautiful Door

They turn into chickens when a Republican is in the White House.

Republican fiscal chickenhawks are as numerous and as offensive as the better known defense GOP chickenhawks.

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Droid Builder  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:20:28pm

re: #203 Anymouse

As a reminder:

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Business Insider says the 19.5% stake was sold to Glencore Plc and Qatar’s state-owned wealth fund. Could just be a holding stake however.

businessinsider.com

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:20:35pm

Two and one-half hour secret recording of the Republican retreat revealed Republicans are worried that repealing the ACA and “defunding” Planned Parenthood will damage them in both the Senatorial and House elections in 2018.

Dog catches car.

It was released to numerous outlets. The Washington Post called staffers and verified that the Republicans on the tape actually said the things they did.

washingtonpost.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:23:36pm
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allegro  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:24:16pm

re: #237 Anymouse

Two and one-half hour secret recording of the Republican retreat revealed Republicans are worried that repealing the ACA and “defunding” Planned Parenthood will damage them in both the Senatorial and House elections in 2018.

Dog catches car.

It was released to numerous outlets. The Washington Post called staffers and verified that the Republicans on the tape actually said the things they did.

washingtonpost.com

Damn right it will.

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Sir John Barron  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:24:30pm

re: #202 KGxvi

Trump’s inauguration was on a Friday, so it probably would have included regular riders. Unless people in DC took the day off because of the event, which I suppose is possible.

was that just last week? Feels longer.

/

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:25:14pm
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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:26:47pm

re: #239 allegro

Damn right it will.

If they go full-steam ahead with repeal and no replace, lots of people go off insurance and Medicaid.

They also were concerned cutting Medicaid or making it block grants would damage them as well.

If they don’t repeal it, the six years they’ve spent propagandising their own voters will also bite them (might be interesting to see what happens if Dems came out for a change in midterms and GOPers stayed home).

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Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:27:14pm

Man, people are suddenly eager to put the “fake news” label on everything, even before they read it.

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Belafon  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:28:01pm

re: #239 allegro

Damn right it will.

And the best part is, it will hurt them whether or not they actually do anything, since we have more than enough recordings of them wanting to do something. We can energize those that want to keep them, and they’ll piss off those that don’t.

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allegro  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:29:36pm

re: #242 Anymouse

If they go full-steam ahead with repeal and no replace, lots of people go off insurance and Medicaid.

They also were concerned cutting Medicaid or making it block grants would damage them as well.

If they don’t repeal it, the six years they’ve spent propagandising their own voters will also bite them (might be interesting to see what happens if Dems came out for a change in midterms and GOPers stayed home).

Gotta figure a whole bunch of their current supports will turn on them when they lose their health insurance as well. Math appears to not be in their favor for repeal.

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Stanley Sea  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:29:52pm

re: #238 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Fucking gross

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Belafon  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:30:50pm

re: #238 Backwoods_Sleuth

I wonder if he’d ever try to rub Merkel’s shoulders?

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:31:05pm

re: #243 Charles Johnson

Man, people are suddenly eager to put the “fake news” label on everything, even before they read it.

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Concerned trolls are concerned I see.

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allegro  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:31:11pm

re: #247 Belafon

I wonder if he’d ever try to rub Merkel’s shoulders?

Lower.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:32:39pm

re: #156 lawhawk

This kind of bullshit might fly with SC Republicans but is so fucking immature and dangerous at the U.N.

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:32:41pm

re: #245 allegro

Gotta figure a whole bunch of their current supports will turn on them when they lose their health insurance as well. Math appears to not be in their favor for repeal.

Math has a liberal bias.

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jaunte  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:33:47pm
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EPR-radar  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:35:25pm

re: #252 jaunte

The fact that the Republican death cult has appropriated the term “pro-life” for being in favor of forced pregnancy is surely one of the great ironies of the age.

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:35:32pm

As a reminder, as President Obama left office, he said he would fully support any Republican health care plan that was as good or better than the current ACA.

Too bad the ACA was originally their plan.

Moreover, Obama supporting anything sets wingnuts into a rage. If they did come up with something and Mr. Obama supported it, it would be dead-on-arrival with their voting base.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:38:13pm

I guess Obama is completely avoiding political commentary for while.

Not that I blame him.

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De Kolta Chair  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:39:17pm

re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth

is it safe to assume that part of today’s rider numbers include workers (which the other two days wouldn’t)?

Does the Pope tango in the woods?

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:39:59pm

re: #255 Eclectic Cyborg

I guess Obama is completely avoiding political commentary for while.

Not that I blame him.

He is vacationing on Sir Richard Branson’s private island in the Caribbean at Sir Branson’s invitation.

He and his wife deserve a break. They’ll be back next week.

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:41:05pm

I am off for a nap … village board meeting tonight I need to rest up for.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:42:43pm
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Shiplord Kirel  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:43:05pm

re: #220 The Vicious Babushka

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This is very gratifying. I had expected a revolt by the professional civil service but I did not expect it to be so well organized so quickly. I was obviously a little behind on the social media learning curve.
We are off to a very good start.

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MsJ  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:43:44pm

re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth

wait..what???

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USPS to Guatemala: $25.00

UPS to Guatemala: $120.00

Get it now?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:44:56pm

re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth

I always get hung up on “Together we’ll make love..”

Most awkward phrasing ever??

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MsJ  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:46:32pm

re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth

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is it safe to assume that part of today’s rider numbers include workers (which the other two days wouldn’t)?

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EPR-radar  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:47:51pm

re: #262 Eclectic Cyborg

I always get hung up on “Together we’ll make love..”

Most awkward phrasing ever??

These are words from Trump, therefore they are lies. No real need to analyze more deeply.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:48:04pm

re: #263 MsJ

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Today is a workday.

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Interesting Times  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:48:36pm

re: #260 Shiplord Kirel

This is very gratifying. I had expected a revolt by the professional civil service but I did not expect it to be so well organized so quickly.

It had to have been in the works for a long time (at least since Nov 9). Also, they knew very well what they were in for thanks to the playbook used by Canada’s previous wannabe-fascist regime:

Beyond tight communications controls, the Harper Government has also constrained or eliminated several high-profile research labs, scientific institutions, and other data-gathering organizations. The effect of these closures is that the very building block of science—evidence—is cut off at its roots.

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Sir John Barron  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:55:45pm

re: #257 Anymouse

He is vacationing on Sir Richard Branson’s private island in the Caribbean at Sir Branson’s invitation.

He and his wife deserve a break. They’ll be back next week.

Obamas on vacation again?!?!? On my tax dollars??!?!

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MsJ  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:58:37pm

re: #265 HappyWarrior

Today is a workday.

I know…I would like to see a revised figure tweet which is why I asked.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 1:59:05pm

re: #268 MsJ

I know…I would like to see a revised figure tweet which is why I asked.

I’d too.

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Anymouse  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:01:06pm

LOL:

Someone bought alternativefacts.com

It takes you to an article at Psychology Today on gaslighting, how to identify it, and how to protect yourself from it.

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William Lewis  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:13:55pm

OT, but I feel the need to remind people that today is the 50th Anniversary of the fire aboard the Apollo 1 capsule that killed Command Pilot Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Senior Pilot Edward H. White II, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee.

May we never stop reaching for the stars so that they may rest in peace.

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unproven innocence  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:16:44pm

A few minutes ago, another salvo against the First Amendment:
President Trump echoes Bannon: Media is ‘opposition party’
Posted 4:55 pm, January 27, 2017, by CNN Wire
Excerpts:

“I think the media is the opposition party in many ways,” Trump said in an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody.
[snip]

In what has been a whirlwind first week in office, Trump has demonstrated that he and his administration intend to continue the anti-media rhetoric that propelled his presidential campaign. On Saturday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer delivered an angry statement in which he wrongly accused journalists of misreporting on the crowd size at the inauguration ceremonies the day before.

Bannon, the former chairman of the right-wing news site Breitbart, was reportedly among the Trump advisers who pushed Spicer to deliver the statement.

Trump hasn’t just relied on his staff to ridicule and attack journalists. Speaking at CIA headquarters last Saturday, Trump said he has a “running war” with the media.

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jaunte  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:17:52pm

Young white guys don’t need Planned Parenthood.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:20:13pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:20:18pm

re: #273 jaunte

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Young white guys don’t need Planned Parenthood.

Cause they can’t get any? Or is that implied?

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allegro  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:21:02pm

re: #273 jaunte

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Young white guys don’t need Planned Parenthood.

Until they get hit with the paternity suits.

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Skip Intro  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:21:55pm

re: #245 allegro

Gotta figure a whole bunch of their current supports will turn on them when they lose their health insurance as well. Math appears to not be in their favor for repeal.

With the strength of the RW propaganda networks and their millions of true believers who knows who they’ll blame.

Oh wait, I know. Obama, Hillary, and the Democrats. That’s who.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:22:24pm

re: #273 jaunte

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Young white guys don’t need Planned Parenthood.

Actually, PP has services for men as well as women.

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allegro  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:22:45pm

re: #277 Skip Intro

With the strength of the RW propaganda networks and their millions of true believers who knows who they’ll blame.

Oh wait, I know. Obama, Hillary, and the Democrats. That’s who.

I think the GOP will entirely own this one.

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jaunte  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:23:29pm

re: #275 I Would Prefer Not To

In their minds, they’re invulnerable. That’s why they don’t want to buy insurance or help anyone else, and they can’t imagine being drafted to fight a needless war.

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MsJ  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:23:35pm

re: #269 HappyWarrior

I’d too.

Average DC Metro Ridership per Wikipedia: 836,800 per week, calculating a 5 day week (which would be high); 167,360 daily.

So:
For you crowd size folks: Metro rail ridership as of 11 a.m.:
March for Life (today): 237K 69k
Women’s March: 275K
Trump’s Inauguration: 193K

Still too damn many, even if it was 10k.

As an aside, I went to the Rally to Restore Sanity and the Metro was insane. I cannot image with Obama’s inauguration was like. This too is from Wikipedia:

The highest ridership for a single day was on the day of the inauguration of Barack Obama, January 20, 2009, with 1,120,000 riders. It broke the previous record, set the day before, of 866,681 riders.[27] June 2008 set several ridership records: the single-month ridership record of 19,729,641 total riders, the record for highest average weekday ridership with 1,044,400 weekday trips, had five of the ten highest ridership days, and had 12 weekdays in which ridership exceed 800,000 trips.[11]

On October 30, 2010, the crowd at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear broke a 19-year record in Saturday ridership, with 825,437 trips. The previous record had been set on June 8, 1991 at 786,358 trips during the Desert Storm rally.[29][30]

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Stanley Sea  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:24:07pm

re: #276 allegro

Until they get hit with the paternity suits.

And gonorrhea.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:24:25pm

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Couldn’t have happened to a nicer douche. Abbott only cares about appealing to the conservative twitter sphere than governance.

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EPR-radar  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:24:28pm

re: #272 unproven innocence

Let’s hope the main stream media takes this declaration of war seriously, and runs endless stories on the lies and perfidy that are the defining traits of Trump and the Republicans.

The immediate termination of David Brooks and all other odious both siderist bullshit artists would be a good start.

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wrenchwench  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:24:51pm

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

[‘Bury this!’: Used menstrual products pelted at Texas governor after he signs ‘fetal burial’ order]

He will have to examine each one for blastospheres so he knows how he must dispose of them. Or go to jail.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:25:20pm

re: #281 MsJ

Average DC Metro Ridership per Wikipedia: 836,800 per week, calculating a 5 day week (which would be high); 167,360 daily.

So:
For you crowd size folks: Metro rail ridership as of 11 a.m.:
March for Life (today): 237K 69k
Women’s March: 275K
Trump’s Inauguration: 193K

Still too damn many, even if it was 10k.

As an aside, I went to the Rally to Restore Sanity and the Metro was insane. I cannot image with Obama’s inauguration was like. This too is from Wikipedia:

I was at that rally too. It was packed that day:

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Skip Intro  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:25:21pm

re: #279 allegro

I think the GOP will entirely own this one.

You are ignoring the popularity of “alternative facts” inside the GOP.

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Timothy Watson  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:27:55pm

re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth

Actually, PP has services for men as well as women.

Yeah, was going to stay that. They do STD testing and cancer screenings for men.
plannedparenthood.org

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Skip Intro  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:28:05pm
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jaunte  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:28:52pm

re: #275 I Would Prefer Not To

Cause they can’t get any? Or is that implied?

I should have used the /

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MsJ  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:29:25pm

re: #286 HappyWarrior

I was at that rally too. It was packed that day:

We came in from the farthest Metro point (in VA) and had to wait for two trains to get on. Anyone further into DC was not getting on. I have no idea how they manage that.

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wrenchwench  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:33:41pm

re: #290 jaunte

I should have used the /

Or they should have, but that’s expecting a lot.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:34:16pm
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Decatur Deb  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:35:28pm

NTTAWWT

GA GOP lawmaker recovering after being shot at adult cinema parking lot carrying thousands in cash

rawstory.com

Read the comments.

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Skip Intro  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:36:00pm

Driving on Humboldt Bay’s North Jetty is Not Advised

Is that a Trump sticker on his rear window? Can someone blow that part up?

Driving on Humboldt Bay’s North Jetty is Not Advised

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:36:23pm

re: #293 Charles Johnson

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At this point the only thing that would surprise me would be if the Trump Administration did something that WASN’T a colossal fuck up.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:36:29pm

Vincente isn’t stopping, and it is great:

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EPR-radar  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:36:51pm

re: #293 Charles Johnson

Young earth creationism is mainstream in the Republican party, and anything goes once irrationality has reached that level. Alex Jones is the same level of nonsense, presented less credibly.

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Jenner7  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:37:02pm
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Skip Intro  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:38:19pm

re: #294 Decatur Deb

Looks like Sean Hannity’s brother.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:38:20pm

re: #295 Skip Intro

Darwin Award winner? I did not watch the whole video.

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Timothy Watson  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:38:43pm

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Skip Intro  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:39:14pm

re: #296 Blind Frog Belly White

Well, that’s never going to happen.

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:39:25pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:39:40pm

re: #294 Decatur Deb

I could not sign in without agreeing to their “rules.”

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Sir John Barron  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:39:58pm

re: #294 Decatur Deb

NTTAWWT

GA GOP lawmaker recovering after being shot at adult cinema parking lot carrying thousands in cash

rawstory.com

Read the comments.

WILL LIBERALS STOP AT NOTHING TO SMEAR AND HARASS FAMILY-LOVING PATRIOTIC AMERICANS AT ADULT CINEMAS?!?

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EPR-radar  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:40:28pm

re: #294 Decatur Deb

NTTAWWT

GA GOP lawmaker recovering after being shot at adult cinema parking lot carrying thousands in cash

rawstory.com

Read the comments.

My favorite:

He was just going to deposit the money, and mistook the liquor store for the bank. It’s an easy mistake for a Republican.

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electrotek  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:41:31pm

Look at how pro-Russian Trumpkins desperately deflect to Muslim countries when they can’t handle the fact that Russia is horrible for women:

Facebook Post

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Decatur Deb  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:42:14pm

re: #306 Sir John Barron

WILL LIBERALS STOP AT NOTHING TO SMEAR AND HARASS FAMILY-LOVING PATRIOTIC AMERICANS AT ADULT CINEMAS?!?

I love that this doof excuses his presence at the movie by saying he was going to the liquor store—still a Southern Baptist fail, Buttercup.

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Skip Intro  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:42:16pm

re: #301 PhillyPretzel

Coast guard helicopter had to risk a man’s life to get this dumbshit off of the jetty.

He was lucky, though. I doubt that the CG will have the money to do that for much longer. I believe the GOP plans to convert the CG into a floating escort service for billionaire’s yachts.

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wrenchwench  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:44:26pm

re: #310 Skip Intro

Coast guard helicopter had to risk a man’s life to get this dumbshit off of the jetty.

He was lucky, though. I doubt that the CG will have the money to do that for much longer. I believe the GOP plans to convert the CG into a floating escort service for billionaire’s yachts.

At which point the fleet of the Mexican cartels expands greatly.

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Sir John Barron  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:45:37pm

re: #309 Decatur Deb

I love that this doof excuses his presence at the movie by saying he was going to the liquor store—still a Southern Baptist Fail, bunky.

There wouldn’t BE any adult cinemas if it weren’t for G-d hating libtards!!!

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Tarkloon  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:47:27pm

In case any of you were wondering what was meant by the “red pill” comments at the end of the interview, here’s a primer.

telegraph.co.uk

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:47:36pm
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goddamnedfrank  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:48:40pm

re: #299 Jenner7

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:51:51pm

re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Can you say prick?

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allegro  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:52:30pm

He’s still looking for those two Corinthians.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:52:53pm

re: #299 Jenner7

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And the Christian right will eat this shit up. Really erally messed up. The refugee’s religion shouldn’t matter.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:53:23pm

Cincinnati Zoo had lots of cute babies arriving recently, but this one is extra special and they are trying their best to save her:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:54:28pm

re: #319 Backwoods_Sleuth

Cincinnati Zoo had lots of cute babies arriving recently, but this one is extra special and they are trying their best to save her:

[Embedded content]

earlier tweet about her:

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electrotek  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:55:17pm

re: #299 Jenner7

So we shouldn’t be surprised if we see Central American refugees identify as Syrian Christians so they can get in easily.

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wrenchwench  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:55:26pm

That’s the Canadian Vancouver, not Vancouver, USA. They’re all crossing the border.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:56:18pm

re: #321 electrotek

So we shouldn’t be surprised if we see Central American refugees identify as Syrian Christians so they can get in easily.

Somehow I thought of the Mexicans and Persians thing on South Park heh.

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Timothy Watson  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:56:50pm

re: #322 wrenchwench

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That’s the Canadian Vancouver, not Vancouver, USA. They’re all crossing the border.

Moving up there temporarily but they’re be back to feast on the carrion that will be the United States.

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allegro  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:57:15pm

re: #319 Backwoods_Sleuth

Cincinnati Zoo had lots of cute babies arriving recently, but this one is extra special and they are trying their best to save her:

[Embedded content]

Awwww, she is not taking that bottle well. Not a good sign. :(

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MsJ  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:57:18pm

re: #295 Skip Intro

Driving on Humboldt Bay’s North Jetty is Not Advised

Is that a Trump sticker on his rear window? Can someone blow that part up?

[Embedded content]

Pfffft. Who cares what the National Weather Service says. Here, hold my beer.

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MsJ  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:58:44pm

re: #301 PhillyPretzel

Darwin Award winner? I did not watch the whole video.

HQG+PC9gMjgwX3IMFraTNIyd6ThzyVsxOU3tQ3og0Wy8lqfiDaH3Lv/GUcsazzcCHAqeaPJ2q8w=

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 27, 2017 • 2:58:52pm

re: #326 MsJ

He may not listen to the NWS but I sure do.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:01:49pm

re: #322 wrenchwench

[Embedded content]

That’s the Canadian Vancouver, not Vancouver, USA. They’re all crossing the border.

Several young ones there. The ones looking more “adult” in coloring are probably the eagle version of teenagers hanging out at the mall…

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:02:13pm

Okay, it’s three months away or so but I’m going to a march for immigrants with my in laws. Already know what I’m going to do for my sign.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:03:10pm

re: #325 allegro

Awwww, she is not taking that bottle well. Not a good sign. :(

It’s been three days and she’s still with us, so still feeling positive.

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Stanley Sea  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:03:50pm

re: #294 Decatur Deb

NTTAWWT

GA GOP lawmaker recovering after being shot at adult cinema parking lot carrying thousands in cash

rawstory.com

Read the comments.

There is only one reason to be on Victory Drive at night with a lot of cash*, and a little searching shows that the Foxes Cinema is a well known place for gay hook-ups.

*I know this because ages ago I was 19 year old infantryman on Victory Drive at night with a lot of cash.

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wrenchwench  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:03:55pm

re: #331 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s been three days and she’s still with us, so still feeling positive.

I thought she had fallen asleep at the bottle.

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MsJ  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:04:07pm

re: #325 allegro

Awwww, she is not taking that bottle well. Not a good sign. :(

You think? I thought she was sucking with vigor.

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allegro  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:05:57pm

re: #334 MsJ

You think? I thought she was sucking with vigor.

She got a few in but stopped. That’s why the person feeding her was massaging her mouth to get her to suck again.

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ObserverArt  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:07:18pm

re: #302 Timothy Watson

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WT/VAcymF08/sCyUPRjV+zp0Qc7FsW9M

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:11:40pm

re: #334 MsJ

You think? I thought she was sucking with vigor.

re: #335 allegro

She got a few in but stopped. That’s why the person feeding her was massaging her mouth to get her to suck again.

They were tube feeding her until today, so the bottle and sucking is a new thing for her to learn.

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allegro  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:12:19pm

re: #337 Backwoods_Sleuth

They were tube feeding her until today, so the bottle and sucking is a new thing for her to learn.

Ah. Didn’t know that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:12:54pm

re: #337 Backwoods_Sleuth

They were tube feeding her until today, so the bottle and sucking is a new thing for her to learn.

oh, and swallowing, too, perhaps

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wrenchwench  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:14:15pm

Oooh, the colors

This image is an artistic representation of the chemical structure of LSD — highlighted in yellow — interlocking into a red-orange ribbon diagram of the serotonin receptor. neurosciencenews.com image is credited to Annie Spikes.

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ObserverArt  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:15:28pm

I hope the idiot rescued by the Coast Guard gets a nice surprise in his mail in a few days.

A big fat bill for the service.

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wrenchwench  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:17:34pm

re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh, and swallowing, too, perhaps

And staying awake to do so.

Anyone who has been intubated can have a difficult time with swallowing for a time afterwards. Not me, fortunately. But I was in the ‘dining club’ at the rehab hospital so they could watch for problems.

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Timothy Watson  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:18:01pm

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Shiplord Kirel  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:18:08pm

You might be cool, but you will never be as cool as Johnny Cash in this picture:

Facebook Post

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:18:10pm

re: #299 Jenner7

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Because Muslims would never, ever pretend to be Christians…

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De Kolta Chair  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:18:35pm

re: #271 William Lewis

OT, but I feel the need to remind people that today is the 50th Anniversary of the fire aboard the Apollo 1 capsule that killed Command Pilot Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Senior Pilot Edward H. White II, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee.

May we never stop reaching for the stars so that they may rest in peace.

I well recall how sad everyone was about that.

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jaunte  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:19:14pm
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BeachDem  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:21:07pm

re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh dear…

[Embedded content]

Yeah—Nikki is not ready for her closeup (as I’ve been saying all along.) Yet sad that she’s one of the least horrible—shows how low that bar is.

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Jack Burton  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:21:45pm

re: #294 Decatur Deb

NTTAWWT

GA GOP lawmaker recovering after being shot at adult cinema parking lot carrying thousands in cash

rawstory.com

Read the comments.

You’re probably wondering why we’re standing here with a pile of money and no pants on.

Well actual…

Well I can assure you that it has absolutely nothing to do with the Japanese Mafia. Not a thingy-dingy.

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Tigger2  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:23:48pm

A disgruntled Trump Voter.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:27:02pm

re: #350 Tigger2

A disgruntled Trump Voter.

[Embedded content]

looks like he might have also been one of those “wall of meat” bikers to protect trump during the inauguration…

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Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:27:07pm
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jaunte  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:28:08pm

The simpletons in the White House don’t know or care.

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Timothy Watson  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:29:39pm

re: #353 jaunte

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The simpletons in the White House don’t know or care.

Trump’s allies are going to make the “Coalition of the Willing” look like the fucking United Nations.

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retired cynic  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:30:00pm

re: #194 Franklin

OT: 20 kilograms of red hot steel vs. frozen lake

[Embedded content]

Video

They should have just used ‘diffindo.’

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BeachDem  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:30:41pm

re: #162 HappyWarrior

Haley is being an idiot. Our NATO allies helped us after 9/11. Its people of all nationalities that have died in Afghanistan and she knows very little about anythingit. Man this is making the Bush admin look diplomatic.

FIFY—she is a blatant self-promoter, much like Tulsi Gabbard.

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MsJ  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:31:26pm

re: #350 Tigger2

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HappyWarrior  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:31:44pm

re: #354 Timothy Watson

Trump’s allies are going to make the “Coalition of the Willing” look like the fucking United Nations.

You know as much as I disliked how Bush’s team treated France and Germany, they did at least appreciate the countries that did join in on Iraq. Now iraq was a mistake obviously but whereas Bush had “You forgot Poland”, Trump is now “Well we have Russia!”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:33:06pm
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Skip Intro  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:33:16pm

re: #341 ObserverArt

I hope the idiot rescued by the Coast Guard gets a nice surprise in his mail in a few days.

A big fat bill for the service.

Since he broke his tie rods he’ll definitely have a nice towing bill to look forward to, unless his truck got washed off of the jetty.

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MsJ  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:37:29pm

re: #360 Skip Intro

Since he broke his tie rods he’ll definitely have a nice towing bill to look forward to, unless his truck got washed off of the jetty.

I thought he was going into the drink for sure. If that vehicle is still there I’d be amazed.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:41:14pm

The Roe v. Wade fight continues…

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jaunte  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:44:50pm

re: #360 Skip Intro

He should get a fine for dumping his vehicle in the Pacific, too.

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wrenchwench  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:44:51pm

re: #362 GlutenFreeJesus

The Roe v. Wade fight continues…

Because the Hyde Amendment has been passed every year since 1976, I don’t hold much hope for the renewal of my illusion that the battle was over.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:45:19pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:46:43pm
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Timothy Watson  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:47:32pm

re: #365 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

While it’s far from the worst about the Trump presidency, Kelly managing to spin her “opposition” to Trump into respectability is certainly disgusting.

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Jebediah, RBG  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:51:07pm

re: #365 Backwoods_Sleuth

Every time I see that Megyn Kelly’s smug mug I hear this in my head:

Santa Clause is a black man by Akim & Teddy (1973)

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retired cynic  Jan 27, 2017 • 3:59:16pm

re: #335 allegro

She got a few in but stopped. That’s why the person feeding her was massaging her mouth to get her to suck again.

I’ve fed lots of foals by bottle, to get weak ones going, and I agree it didn’t look good. Her eyes and nostrils didn’t flicker, and the fingers manipulating the lips, and pulling the nipple in and out are things you would do to stimulate sucking.

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retired cynic  Jan 27, 2017 • 4:00:14pm

re: #337 Backwoods_Sleuth

They were tube feeding her until today, so the bottle and sucking is a new thing for her to learn.

Just got to this comment. Yep, that could explain some things.

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gocart mozart  Jan 27, 2017 • 4:01:50pm

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