Trump Appointed Bannon to the National Security Council Without Reading the Executive Order He Signed

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If this New York Times story is accurate, Breitbart white nationalist Stephen Bannon slipped his appointment to the National Security Council into an executive order without telling the tiny-fisted fascist.

And Trump signed it without reading it.

But for the moment, Mr. Bannon remains the president’s dominant adviser, despite Mr. Trump’s anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed giving his chief strategist a seat on the National Security Council, a greater source of frustration to the president than the fallout from the travel ban.

Which is worse? That Bannon is the puppetmaster for the president of the United States? Or that the president is signing far-reaching executive orders he hasn’t even read?

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Skip Intro  Feb 5, 2017 • 6:53:53pm

Trump can’t read. I think that’s clear now.

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Targetpractice  Feb 5, 2017 • 6:54:40pm
Which is worse? That Bannon is the puppetmaster for the president of the United States? Or that the president is signing far-reaching executive orders he hasn’t even read?
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jaunte  Feb 5, 2017 • 6:55:03pm

re: #1 Skip Intro

Or is just so bone idle he won’t. Same result, either way.

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Belafon  Feb 5, 2017 • 6:55:11pm

Sounds like anew opening for Republicans to get rid of Bannon, since he wasn’t confirmed to be on the security council.

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Skip Intro  Feb 5, 2017 • 6:56:54pm

re: #3 jaunte

Or is just so bone idle he won’t. Same result, either way.

To be accurate I think he can read around 200 words. I doubt that he understands that many, especially when they’re put in sentences.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 5, 2017 • 6:58:16pm

I liked this part, too, in the article:

Usually around 6:30 p.m., or sometimes later, Mr. Trump retires upstairs to the residence to recharge, vent and intermittently use Twitter. With his wife, Melania, and young son, Barron, staying in New York, he is almost always by himself, sometimes in the protective presence of his imposing longtime aide and former security chief, Keith Schiller. When Mr. Trump is not watching television in his bathrobe or on his phone reaching out to old campaign hands and advisers, he will sometimes set off to explore the unfamiliar surroundings of his new home.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 5, 2017 • 6:59:08pm

Whaa…..?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:00:04pm

Shit shit.

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gocart mozart  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:00:22pm
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So, Schilling tweeted an article from a website lifezette.com run by Laura Ingraham which used a picture lifted from an Australian article about riots in Melbourne. australianetworknews.com A douchebag should never trust another douchebag.

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Skip Intro  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:00:25pm

re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth

Be funny if he got lost one night and it ended up as national news - except on Fox, of course.

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teleskiguy  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:00:35pm

Of course Fuckface Von Clownstick doesn’t read his EOs. He’s illiterate.

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Targetpractice  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:00:56pm

re: #4 Belafon

Sounds like anew opening for Republicans to get rid of Bannon, since he wasn’t confirmed to be on the security council.

In any other scenario, this would be a tailor-made scenario to slap Bannon’s hand and show that they still wield some measure of power. But that would release the flying monkeys on their pasty white asses, so they’ll just let it go by.

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jaunte  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:02:45pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:04:51pm

It’s stunning how these vitally important tidbits of information are quietly slipped into the middle of New York Times articles, treated as no big deal.

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lawhawk  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:05:39pm

re: #13 jaunte

It isn’t, but it does call into question whether he reads anything.

And like that - we’re into a 2pt conversion situation to tie the game.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:06:02pm

Cant watch the 2 pt conversion.

Tell me it isn’t good.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:06:29pm
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Stanley Sea  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:06:52pm

Trump is a puppet. So clear.

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Targetpractice  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:07:12pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

It’s stunning how these vitally important tidbits of information are quietly slipped into the middle of New York Times articles, treated as no big deal.

The same NYT that entertained all sorts of stories about how Hillary’s health might be failing, she might be suffering neurological degeneration, and how she had to submit to a medical examination to satisfy voters that she was fit enough to serve.

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b.d.  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:07:14pm

Has Trump come back to the party yet?

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Shiplord Kirel  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:08:30pm

So, how did Putin rig the Super Bowl?

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Timothy Watson  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:08:35pm

re: #9 gocart mozart

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So, Schilling tweeted an article from a website lifezette.com run by Laura Ingraham which used a picture lifted from an Australian article about riots in Melbourne. australianetworknews.com A douchebag should never trust another douchebag.

If you click on the photo credit to Wikimedia, it’s allegedly from Kiev, Ukraine and the Euromaiden protests.

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lawhawk  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:09:28pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

Burying the lede. That’s how the NYT rolls.

They bury the most important details and stories.

This is the kind of detail that should end an administration. To have not only a power mad Nazi drafting EOs to give himself power, but Trump didn’t even read the EO before signing to know what the hell he was doing.

That’s beyond stunning incompetence or idiocy. That’s… well… completely overlooked by the GOP though, even though had any one of these actions occurred with a Democrat, impeachment articles would have been drafted already.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:09:41pm

re: #21 Shiplord Kirel

So, how did Putin rig the Super Bowl?

Not that I’ve watched anything but Twitter but apparently there’s been some disagreement on some of the ref calls about pass completions and whatnot.

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allegro  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:12:25pm

re: #24 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Not that I’ve watched anything but Twitter but apparently there’s been some disagreement on some of the ref calls about pass completions and whatnot.

I’m still scratching my head trying to figure out the 2 point conversion that they didn’t get but did because of an off-sides by the defense.

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danarchy  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:13:39pm

re: #25 allegro

I’m still scratching my head trying to figure out the 2 point conversion that they didn’t get but did because of an off-sides by the defense.

He broke the plane, would have been 2 points with or without the offsides

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Jay C  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:14:10pm

re: #25 allegro

I’m still scratching my head trying to figure out the 2 point conversion that they didn’t get but did because of an off-sides by the defense.

On replay, it looked like Amendola actually did break the plane of the goal line with the ball, so point. Flag was irrelevant.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:14:28pm

re: #25 allegro

I’m still scratching my head trying to figure out the 2 point conversion that they didn’t get but did because of an off-sides by the defense.

I mean, my opinion of Tom Brady being an asshat and a waste of space doesn’t change regardless of the outcome of this game, so…

Time to go put away the leftovers.

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allegro  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:14:51pm

re: #26 danarchy

He broke the plane, would have been 2 points with or without the offsides

The ball crossed the line? Didn’t look like it to me, but clearly it did to them.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:15:06pm
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Timothy Watson  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:15:33pm

You know, this is starting to remind me of election night…

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:15:42pm

re: #26 danarchy

He broke the plane, would have been 2 points with or without the offsides

Yeah I hate NE but that was legit.

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Timothy Watson  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:16:21pm

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:16:43pm

re: #31 Timothy Watson

You know, this is starting to remind me of election night…

You’re not kidding. I mean I already hate NE even without their Trump connection. Knowing Trump is pulling for these guys. Agh.

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Shiplord Kirel  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:17:59pm

Overtime. Well, Republicans don’t believe in overtime—— too much like the minimum wage—— so Trump’s team may be at a disadvantage.

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lawhawk  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:19:38pm

Patriots have long history of making halftime adjustments to win games late. This isn’t surprising. Hate them all you like. Those are the facts.

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ipsos  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:19:56pm

I’m thinking Richard Spencer must be having a hard time watching a black man named White keeping his team alive….

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allegro  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:20:18pm

Damn, I’ve gnawed off two nails. LOL

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teleskiguy  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:21:20pm

Yep, still don’t give a shit about the concussionball game.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:21:47pm

Like when my main man Roger Federer plays Raffa Nadal on clay, I cannot watch this.

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allegro  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:22:22pm

re: #39 teleskiguy

Yep, still don’t give a shit about the concussionball game.

How many have died and been injured from skiing this year?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:22:28pm

I hate this so much.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:22:51pm
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teleskiguy  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:24:24pm

re: #41 allegro

How many have died and been injured from skiing this year?

How many skiers have killed themselves because of CTE?

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gocart mozart  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:24:30pm
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Timothy Watson  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:25:15pm

Fuck, fuck, fuck.

Yeah, like I said, election night.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:25:21pm

Evil prevails ahain

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:25:45pm

Goddamit, those bastards always find a way to come back in the fourth quarter.

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allegro  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:26:32pm

re: #44 teleskiguy

How many skiers have killed themselves because of CTE?

That doesn’t even make sense.

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teleskiguy  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:26:54pm

re: #49 allegro

That doesn’t even make sense.

Neither did your previous comment.

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gocart mozart  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:26:56pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:26:58pm
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danarchy  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:27:08pm

As a Massachusetts boy born and bred I understand all the haters, same reason we hated the Yankees for so long, but … nyah nyah ;)

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lawhawk  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:27:08pm

Unlike election night, this, I care nothing about. This doesn’t change a damn thing for me.

Sadly, the fact that Trump signs EOs without reading them, Bannon tries to usurp power knowing Trump doesn’t read, will now be buried by the news of this football game and the Patriots’ comeback.

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TedStriker  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:27:23pm

The Falcons blew it…and now we’ll never hear the end of it from Dear Leader and the Trumpbots.

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Belafon  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:28:26pm

re: #55 TedStriker

The Falcons blew it…and now we’ll never hear the end of it from Dear Leader and the Trumpbots.

Just remind them of all the black men it took to win.

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allegro  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:28:51pm

re: #50 teleskiguy

Neither did your previous comment.

Of course it did. You get on a high horse about football injuries while endlessly promoting a sport where death and serious injury happens almost daily. Just pointing out a bit of hypocrisy there.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:28:58pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

He sounds more like a chintzy vegan.

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bratwurst  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:29:06pm
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gocart mozart  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:29:08pm

re: #22 Timothy Watson

Ingraham fake news stealing from Australian fake news or did they both steal from ukraine?

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Timothy Watson  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:29:34pm

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:30:02pm

WELL SHIT

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Timothy Watson  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:30:26pm

re: #54 lawhawk

Unlike election night, this, I care nothing about. This doesn’t change a damn thing for me.

Sadly, the fact that Trump signs EOs without reading them, Bannon tries to usurp power knowing Trump doesn’t read, will now be buried by the news of this football game and the Patriots’ comeback.

Oh, I know. I was just being flippant.

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teleskiguy  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:30:31pm

Fuckin’ whatever, I’m out. Have a nice night, all.

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Citizen K  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:30:50pm

So.

Twitter is going to be even more insufferable for at least the next day or so as this Super Bowl is taken like a sign from god, or something…

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:31:02pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

A reply from Joyce Carol Oates? That’s bigly, Charles. ;-)

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:31:16pm

In general, it’s perfectly okay to not like a thing.

Just …be polite about it?

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:31:41pm

Gotta work tomorrow

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Timothy Watson  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:32:21pm

re: #60 gocart mozart

Ingraham fake news stealing from Australian fake news or did they both steal from ukraine?

The Aussie riots apparently happened, maybe the article just used some ‘file photo’ of a riot
news.com.au

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BeachDem  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:32:44pm

re: #53 danarchy

As a Massachusetts boy born and bred I understand all the haters, same reason we hated the Yankees for so long, but … nyah nyah ;)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:33:13pm

Sometimes it sucks being right…

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Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:33:42pm
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bratwurst  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:33:55pm

re: #67 klys (maker of Silmarils)

In general, it’s perfectly okay to not like a thing.

Just …be polite about it?

It’s so goddamn hard for people.

I personally do not like sweet potatoes.

I know many people LOVE them. I know they are better for me than regular potatoes. They are just not for me.

Even so, I somehow make it through Thanksgiving dinner without uttering “fuck those sweet potatoes with a rubber dick”.

I must be super human or something.

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blueraven  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:34:11pm

As much as I hate the outcome…Gotta hand it to Brady & NE. They never gave in.

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lawhawk  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:34:30pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

Trump’s got a guy for that. Mnuchin.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:36:04pm

re: #72 Charles Johnson

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Spencer does know a black man scored the game winning play right. Fuck, I know Patriots fans can’t help that they had this Nazi pos rooting for them just as I can’t help that Rush Limbaugh’s favorite football team is also mine but damn.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:36:25pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:36:28pm

I strongly dislike Brady but any team that blows a 25 point lead deserves to lose.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:36:40pm

re: #74 blueraven

As much as I hate the outcome…Gotta hand it to Brady & NE. They never gave in.

Absolutely. Goddamn I hate them. I’ve never hated a sports team that much. And I’ll be the first to admit jealously plays a big role.

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Citizen K  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:37:02pm

re: #72 Charles Johnson

Yep…so it fucking starts. Fantastic.

I wanted the Patriots to lose just because I’m sick of the Patriots already, but I did not need this to fuel more Trump and neo-nazi triumphalism more than it already is.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:37:21pm

Really really not looking forward to Trump embracing Brady. Though maybe Brady has some balls and calls him out for leaving the game party when the team was behind.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:37:49pm

re: #39 teleskiguy

You’re not the only one feeling that way. I went to Pitt with Tony Dorsett. Hurts me a lot to see him struggling from his injuries…

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:38:11pm

re: #80 Citizen K

Yep…so it fucking starts. Fantastic.

I wanted the Patriots to lose just because I’m sick of the Patriots already, but I did not need this to fuel more Trump and neo-nazi triumphalism more than it already is.

I know. I watch sports to get away from this crap. I’ve never liked NE at all- I’m a diehard Pittsburgh fan but the fact that a literal Nazi was cheering for NE and got his desired outcome makes this well all the more worse.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:38:55pm

re: #81 HappyWarrior

Really really not looking forward to Trump embracing Brady. Though maybe Brady has some balls and calls him out for leaving the game party when the team was behind.

LOLOLOLOL

You expect that much principle out of Brady? LOL.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:39:07pm

re: #65 Citizen K

So.

Twitter is going to be even more insufferable for at least the next day or so as this Super Bowl is taken like a sign from god, or something…

Seriously though, what was the spread? Pats by 24? At Lan Ta did a great fucking job.

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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:39:56pm

re: #76 HappyWarrior

Spencer, like all white nationalists, operates on a very shallow, sentimental level.

There was a white guy involved somewhere, therefore the white guys one.

Exactly how they handle all of history.

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TedStriker  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:40:06pm

re: #74 blueraven

As much as I hate the outcome…Gotta hand it to Brady & NE. They never gave in.

It was always gonna be a tough row to hoe for the Falcons, but it looked like they had a shot with the first half they had. Unfortunately for them, Belichick, Brady, & Co. have game management and second-half comebacks down to a science; once they started picking the Falcons apart, exploiting mistakes, and got their momentum going, it was all over except for the trophy ceremony.

Masters of the rope-a-dope, indeed.

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Citizen K  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:40:07pm

re: #85 Stanley Sea

Seriously though, what was the spread? Pats by 24? At Lan Ta did a great fucking job.

I’m not sure you can really give them credit for doing a good job when they managed to explode the record for biggest lead choked away in an SB.

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Schweppes7  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:40:13pm

And here comes the gloating. Sad, I was rather looking forward to a whiny tweetstorm following a humiliating Patriots defeat.

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BeachDem  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:41:12pm

re: #76 HappyWarrior

Spencer does know a black man scored the game winning play right. Fuck, I know Patriots fans can’t help that they had this Nazi pos rooting for them just as I can’t help that Rush Limbaugh’s favorite football team is also mine but damn.

Thank you. For the yam and the Nazi to claim credit for the win is just beyond…

I know you all hate the Pats—which is why I kept quiet tonight, but JFC—it’s not like the Patriots hadn’t won any Super bowls before the yam ran his mouth and made them even more hated.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:41:27pm

re: #88 Citizen K

I’m not sure you can really give them credit for doing a good job when they managed to explode the record for biggest lead choked away in an SB.

BAH

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:41:36pm

I’m looking forward to hearing about the spike in donations to progressive organizations up in New England.

/a girl can hope, right?

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Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:42:18pm
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Shiplord Kirel  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:43:02pm

I feel completely…………………
deflated.

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danarchy  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:43:03pm

re: #85 Stanley Sea

Seriously though, what was the spread? Pats by 24? At Lan Ta did a great fucking job.

Actually NE was favored by 3, so they covered the spread too ;)

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ipsos  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:43:38pm

For whatever it’s worth, Kraft’s late wife was a major donor to a lot of good causes around New England.

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Citizen K  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:44:17pm

re: #83 HappyWarrior

I know. I watch sports to get away from this crap. I’ve never liked NE at all- I’m a diehard Pittsburgh fan but the fact that a literal Nazi was cheering for NE and got his desired outcome makes this well all the more worse.

Best/Worst part is how the ads, the halftime show, etc, seemed designed to promote the kind of thing and kind of America Trump is trying to destroy (outside of the obvious ruthless capitalism SB commercials always represent anyway), and like magic, the game seems to turn in a way to reward the assholes as if to say, “SEE, FUCK YOU, REAL AMERICA WINS F*****TS!!!”

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Stanley Sea  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:44:33pm

re: #95 danarchy

Actually NE was favored by 3, so they covered the spread too ;)

Well, it’s definitely time for me to stfu!!!!

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jaunte  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:45:04pm

re: #89 Schweppes7

Maybe the Patriots can tell his staff how to turn the lights on.

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allegro  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:45:46pm

re: #90 BeachDem

Thank you. For the yam and the Nazi to claim credit for the win is just beyond…

I know you all hate the Pats—which is why I kept quiet tonight, but JFC—it’s not like the Patriots hadn’t won any Super bowls before the yam ran his mouth and made them even more hated.

I hate, hate, hate that now even football - one of my favorite diversions - has become political.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:46:03pm

re: #84 klys (maker of Silmarils)

LOLOLOLOL

You expect that much principle out of Brady? LOL.

I’ve had a couple beers, cut me some slack.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:46:05pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:46:32pm

re: #89 Schweppes7

And here comes the gloating. Sad, I was rather looking forward to a whiny tweetstorm following a humiliating Patriots defeat.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:48:11pm

re: #90 BeachDem

Thank you. For the yam and the Nazi to claim credit for the win is just beyond…

I know you all hate the Pats—which is why I kept quiet tonight, but JFC—it’s not like the Patriots hadn’t won any Super bowls before the yam ran his mouth and made them even more hated.

Of course. I mean don’t get me wrong. I’m always going to despise the Pats and I do use words for Tom Brady that i do for the Yam and the Nazi but there’s a lot of good people like yourself who happen to be NE fans that should not be given a hard time simply because of that.

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TedStriker  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:50:25pm

re: #90 BeachDem

Thank you. For the yam and the Nazi to claim credit for the win is just beyond…

I know you all hate the Pats—which is why I kept quiet tonight, but JFC—it’s not like the Patriots hadn’t won any Super bowls before the yam ran his mouth and made them even more hated.

Frankly, I don’t even hate the Pats; being a Titans fan, I didn’t have a dog in this hunt and really wasn’t excited about the game, but I just wanted to see someone that hadn’t won before win the SB.

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Citizen K  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:50:49pm

re: #104 HappyWarrior

Of course. I mean don’t get me wrong. I’m always going to despise the Pats and I do use words for Tom Brady that i do for the Yam and the Nazi but there’s a lot of good people like yourself who happen to be NE fans that should not be given a hard time simply because of that.

Yeah, it’s not trying to accuse Pats fans in general or anything, and I’ll fully admit full bias in cheering against the Pats anyway.

I just hate feeling like this just makes the alt-right assholes feel even more invincible and godsent than they already do, because of how much got made of Brady and Bellichek backing Trump.

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BeachDem  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:50:53pm

Made my Patriots’ donation to SPLC. (unfortunately, I think I clicked off before the “tribute” section was totally filled out—but they did get the $$.

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Kragar  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:50:58pm

re: #89 Schweppes7

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:53:09pm

re: #100 allegro

I hate, hate, hate that now even football - one of my favorite diversions - has become political.

I know exactly what you mean.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:53:34pm

The game was actually a good game. *sob* I’m a Gator, so I know.

Now onto the shit that matters. #resist.

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TedStriker  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:53:45pm

re: #108 Kragar

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allegro  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:54:14pm

re: #110 Stanley Sea

The game was actually a good game. *sob* I’m a Gator, so I know.

Now onto the shit that matters. #resist.

It really was. I can tell cuz it cost me two nails. LOL

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Schweppes7  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:55:07pm

re: #99 jaunte

Maybe the Patriots can tell his staff how to turn the lights on.

Now would be a convenient time for Bannon to give Trump an executive order to sign congratulating the Patriots on their amazing comeback victory. He can slip in a few provisions he is interested in and give it to the boss to sign while he is in a good mood!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:55:26pm

re: #106 Citizen K

Yeah, it’s not trying to accuse Pats fans in general or anything, and I’ll fully admit full bias in cheering against the Pats anyway.

I just hate feeling like this just makes the alt-right assholes feel even more invincible and godsent than they already do, because of how much got made of Brady and Bellichek backing Trump.

Right. I already had a bias against the Pats anyhow. Once a yinzer, always a yinzer! It just feels like proverbial salt on the wound that Trump and Spencer are both happy about tonight’s outcome.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:55:33pm

re: #112 allegro

It really was. I can tell cuz it cost me two nails. LOL

Go greet the sad fans with sweets.

It’ll all end up fine.

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Targetpractice  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:57:01pm

FFS, haven’t seen a choke that bad since the Warriors blew a 3-1 lead.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:57:12pm

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Yeah you never were close to saying that. Man Pats fans, as thin skinned as Trump fans? Who would have thought? Wink. And yes you guys who root for the Pats, that was a joke.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:57:30pm

re: #117 Targetpractice

FFS, haven’t seen a choke that bad since the Warriors blew a 3-1 lead.

Lest you forget, the Indians did too.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:57:57pm

Bad year to be an Indians/Warriors/Falcons fan or great news to be a Cavs/Cubs/Pats fan.

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allegro  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:58:12pm

re: #115 Stanley Sea

Go greet the sad fans with sweets.

It’ll all end up fine.

All I have is left-over Pasta Pomodoro and meatballs. I even almost finished off the rum.

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allegro  Feb 5, 2017 • 7:59:26pm

There’s the text from my gloating cousin in Boston. LOL Damn!

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Citizen K  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:00:02pm

re: #117 Targetpractice

FFS, haven’t seen a choke that bad since the Warriors blew a 3-1 lead.

I think it’s even bigger than the Warrior’s blowing that lead, because of how unprecedented the comeback was. Biggest comeback in Super Bowl History, only a touchdown off from the biggest comeback in NFL history period, and first overtime in Super Bowl history.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:01:24pm

re: #123 allegro

There’s the text from my gloating cousin in Boston. LOL Damn!

I have a lot of NE friends going back to my early political days. Honest to God, nice and good people but I hate seeing FB when their football team wins. A lot of the kids I coach in basketball are also NE fans. For this generation of kids, the Pats are what the Cowboys were for my generation. Oh well, at least I raised my kid brother to be a Steelers fan.

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ObserverArt  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:01:52pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

It’s stunning how these vitally important tidbits of information are quietly slipped into the middle of New York Times articles, treated as no big deal.

We must give him a chance.

or,

The other side needs to back off a bit he’s new at this.

That is the two themes you get from the media. No more. The Times seems to want to hold to the script in certain articles.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:02:10pm

re: #124 Citizen K

I think it’s even bigger than the Warrior’s blowing that lead, because of how unprecedented the comeback was. Biggest comeback in Super Bowl History, only a touchdown off from the biggest comeback in NFL history period, and first overtime in Super Bowl history.

I think so too. Even a longtime member of Sweet Jesus I hate the NE Pats and Tom Brady Club can acknowledge that.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:04:44pm

Anyhow, in the end, it’s just sports. And either Atlanta or New England or any of the other 30 NFL teams winning the Super Bowl is a fuck you to what Richard Spencer stands for. Men of various socio and cultural backgrounds working together for one goal. Spencer should hate the NFL and any professional sports league in this country. Might I suggest Cap Anson for an idol for him though.

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BeachDem  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:05:23pm

re: #100 allegro

I hate, hate, hate that now even football - one of my favorite diversions - has become political.

Think how you’d feel if the team you’ve rooted for since their founding now is forever tainted by the yam.

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jaunte  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:05:42pm

re: #128 HappyWarrior

Spencer is still whining days after taking one hit.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:06:32pm

T-Mobile’s “50 Shades of Grey” Superb Owl ad (below) has sparked a Twitter war between @Verizon and T-Mobile’s CEO @JohnLegere.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:08:14pm

re: #129 BeachDem

Think how you’d feel if the team you’ve rooted for since their founding now is forever tainted by the yam.

I guarantee you when sports historians look back at the Pats run, the last thing they’ll think about is the yam. As I told you two weeks ago, don’t let the fact the Yam hearts your QB ruin this for you. I’ve never let the fact that Limbaugh likes the Steelers bother me. I just look at the flip side and know that the Steelers represent where my family is from quite well and my dad’s mom was literally raised in what became Three Rivers Stadium and my Dad’s uncle may have even served in WWII with Art Rooney, Sr’s younger brother as a chaplain. You’re proud of your NE roots just like I am of my Pittsburgh roots, don’t let an asshole like the Yam ruin it just as I didn’t think NE fans should have let Curt Schilling going out to campaign for Bush immediately after the curse was reversed in 2004.

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Citizen K  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:08:45pm

re: #131 Eric The Fruit Bat

This is the one that made me spit my water up.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:09:01pm

re: #130 jaunte

Spencer is still whining days after taking one hit.

Doesn’t surprise me.

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ObserverArt  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:09:36pm

re: #31 Timothy Watson

You know, this is starting to remind me of election night…

I just got back from the game after watching and partying a bit at a buddies place. He said that same thing somewhere around the end of the third quarter.

“Feeling like election night isn’t it?” He asked.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:09:41pm

re: #134 Citizen K

This is the one that made me spit my water up.

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I love Kristin Schaal and I liked that ad but that’s a great comeback.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:10:09pm

re: #131 Eric The Fruit Bat

Kristen Schaal can make anything appear classy.

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Shiplord Kirel  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:11:03pm

A friend of mine gets seriously bent out of shape about football.
At the college level he loathes the Texas Aggies, calling them a weird cult that sets fire to a ramshackle skyscraper, worships a dog named Revile, er, Reveille, and openly conspires to cheat by putting a 12th man on the field. His real ire, though, is reserved for the professional level and the Washington Redskins. He calls them the “Foreskins:”
“They aren’t just dicks, they’re the part of a dick you cut off and throw away.”

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allegro  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:11:27pm

Gotta be the first time I’ve seen a Houston traffic report on the news after 10pm on a Sunday night.

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ObserverArt  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:11:31pm

re: #36 lawhawk

Patriots have long history of making halftime adjustments to win games late. This isn’t surprising. Hate them all you like. Those are the facts.

Yep. If there is time on the clock and you are playing the Patriots or the Steelers, the game…WARNING…the game is not over.

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Unshaken Defiance  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:11:43pm

There was a game today?
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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:12:50pm

re: #139 Shiplord Kirel

A friend of mine gets seriously bent out of shape about football.
At the college level he loathes the Texas Aggies, calling them a weird cult that sets fire to a ramshackle skyscraper, worships a dog named Revile, er, Reveille, and openly conspires to cheat by putting a 12th man on the field. His real ire, though, is reserved for the professional level and the Washington Redskins. He calls them the “Foreskins:”
“They aren’t just dicks, they’re the part of a dick you cut off and throw away.”

Cowboys fan I presume. I know a lot of Redskins fans due to me living in the DC area. I swear those people get more joy out of the Cowboys losing than their team winning though that is part of why people like sports.

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BeachDem  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:12:58pm

re: #106 Citizen K

Yeah, it’s not trying to accuse Pats fans in general or anything, and I’ll fully admit full bias in cheering against the Pats anyway.

I just hate feeling like this just makes the alt-right assholes feel even more invincible and godsent than they already do, because of how much got made of Brady and Bellichek backing Trump.

I would bet big bucks that the Nazi Spencer never rooted for the Patriots a day in his life until today.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:14:10pm

re: #144 BeachDem

I would bet big bucks that the Nazi Spencer never rooted for the Patriots a day in his life until today.

I’d agree with you on that. Hopefully he has a mini stroke when he says all those “New England elitist liberals” celebrating in a couple days.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:16:55pm

re: #141 ObserverArt

Yep. If there is time on the clock and you are playing the Patriots or the Steelers, the game…WARNING…the game is not over.

It’s gotta be tough for Browns fans. They had Belichick before be was a genius. Reminds me of a good Warren Spahn quote, “I’m the only guy who played for Casey (Stengel) before and after he was a genius.” He played way before my time but I always had a special place for Spahn since I’m a lefty and Spahn is the most winningest lefty pitcher ever and my Dad got me his autograph when Spahn was at the restaurant Dad worked at one day. Really really nice, down to earth guy. He met Ted Williams too. He liked Ted but said Ted was a little crazy- specifically requested non-alcoholic wine.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:17:12pm

Puppy bowl controversy

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:20:10pm

re: #139 Shiplord Kirel

His real ire, though, is reserved for the professional level and the Washington Redskins. He calls them the “Foreskins:”
“They aren’t just dicks, they’re the part of a dick you cut off and throw away.”

The Redskins’s owner is a real douchecanoe….

As always, this team is wart on the ass of America. I think less of anyone who thinks highly of them and their shitbag owner. Matthew McConaughey likes Dan Snyder and now I won’t watch his movies. People living in DC proper—a legitimately fantastic city—give half a shit about the Skins, because they know they’re strictly the domain of drunken racist suburbanites, rednecks dumb enough to plunk down hundreds of dollars every week to get trapped inside that roach motel of a stadium, and libertarian shitheads who abhor entitlement programs but work 9-to-5 for defense contractors. Everything wrong about the NFL is encapsulated herein. I wish the Skins never existed.

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Timothy Watson  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:20:40pm

re: #143 HappyWarrior

Cowboys fan I presume. I know a lot of Redskins fans due to me living in the DC area. I swear those people get more joy out of the Cowboys losing than their team winning though that is part of why people like sports.

When your team never wins, you have to look for the bright spots.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:23:25pm

re: #149 Timothy Watson

When your team never wins, you have to look for the bright spots.

The funniest thing is for most of my life until the mid 2000’s, the Redskins had actually been my successful than the Steelers. It’s why I always laugh when the Skins fans I know suggest I’m a bandwagoner. Of course, the funny thing is my Steelers rooting fandom sort of started as a reaction to me disliking the Cowboys but I was also aware that my grandparents were from Steelers country so it was easy for me.

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Timothy Watson  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:27:14pm

re: #148 Eric The Fruit Bat

The Redskins’s owner is a real douchecanoe….

Yeah, everyone knows Synder is a massive toolbag. He’s sued at least one newspaper over negative coverage.

And all the TV stations suck up to him until the Redskins are 0-11 in a season.

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Moebym  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:27:48pm

I didn’t actually watch (not a football fan, despite spending most of my years in football-crazy places), though I was following secondhand through LGF and other sites. I’ll admit that I, to an extent, did care about the outcome, in that I wanted the team Spencer, Trump, and his supporters were rooting for to lose.

Obviously that team won - and after a comeback, no less, making it a bit too similar to the election for my liking. But someone suggested to me that instead of feeling disappointed that Trump’s team won, that I should think of it as a blue state defeating a red state. This change of perspective did help.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:27:59pm

You know apart from the politics. I just wanted to see Atlanta win. They showed how many championships Atlanta sports teams have won (1) versus NE (37 now) and it just made it that much more easier. Now, if you’re a NE native, you obviously don’t care about that and nor should you, but when you’re technically neutral, you almost always go for the team that hasn’t won one. It’s why I got why most of the nation rooted for the Seahawks and Cardinals over the Steelers when the Steelers won the Super Bowl in 2005 and 2008. I get that. Anyhow, we now begin that long period of no meaningful sports between the end of the SB and March Madness though I am happy to say my youth basketball team kicks ass. We’re ranked second in the league and I’m real proud of my kids. Each and every one of them. They have won. They support each other.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:29:55pm

re: #152 Timothy Watson

Yeah, everyone knows Synder is a massive toolbag. He’s sued at least one newspaper over negative coverage.

And all the TV stations suck up to him until the Redskins are 0-11 in a season.

To say the least, he’s made my rooting for a team owned by the same family since its inception a lot easier to justify. I’d still be a PGH fan obviously if Washington were good but Snyder and the Rooneys is the difference between Trump and Uncle Joe Biden. One is a cocky piece of shit who thinks he’s beyond criticism. The other is like a kindly uncle who has a great heart.

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BeachDem  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:30:24pm

re: #145 HappyWarrior

I’d agree with you on that. Hopefully he has a mini stroke when he says all those “New England elitist liberals” celebrating in a couple days.

And just think—if the Patriots take their wives to the White House (ugh-gag), Tom Brady’s wife is a lot hotter and more successful than the yam’s. And Giselle is NOT a yam fan.

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allegro  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:31:11pm

re: #151 HappyWarrior

The funniest thing is for most of my life until the mid 2000’s, the Redskins had actually been my successful than the Steelers. It’s why I always laugh when the Skins fans I know suggest I’m a bandwagoner. Of course, the funny thing is my Steelers rooting fandom sort of started as a reaction to me disliking the Cowboys but I was also aware that my grandparents were from Steelers country so it was easy for me.

The Steelers with Terry Bradshaw, (before your time, hell, before you were born LOL) were a major force. My Houston Oilers were in the same division along with Cincinnati Bengals, also a power team, and Cleveland Browns who weren’t bad themselves. The Oilers were a great team under beloved Bum Phillips but that division was hell.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:32:34pm

re: #139 Shiplord Kirel

A friend of mine gets seriously bent out of shape about football.
At the college level he loathes the Texas Aggies, calling them a weird cult that sets fire to a ramshackle skyscraper, worships a dog named Revile, er, Reveille, and openly conspires to cheat by putting a 12th man on the field. His real ire, though, is reserved for the professional level and the Washington Redskins. He calls them the “Foreskins:”
“They aren’t just dicks, they’re the part of a dick you cut off and throw away.”

The Aggies are the ones that shoot their pistols in the air like Yosemite Sam? I always liked them.

Pew Pew Pew!

The other ones do the devil’s horns right? Hook em!

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Dave In Austin  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:33:13pm

Heh…..

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:33:21pm

re: #158 allegro

The Steelers with Terry Bradshaw, (before your time, hell, before you were born LOL) were a major force. My Houston Oilers were in the same division along with Cincinnati Bengals, also a power team, and Cleveland Browns who weren’t bad themselves. The Oilers were a great team under beloved Bum Phillips but that division was hell.

Yeah that was a great era. The game wasn’t as corporate back then. Much more running game friendly. I grew up a huge Bettis fan.

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Citizen K  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:34:08pm

re: #155 HappyWarrior

You know apart from the politics. I just wanted to see Atlanta win. They showed how many championships Atlanta sports teams have won (1) versus NE (37 now) and it just made it that much more easier. Now, if you’re a NE native, you obviously don’t care about that and nor should you, but when you’re technically neutral, you almost always go for the team that hasn’t won one. It’s why I got why most of the nation rooted for the Seahawks and Cardinals over the Steelers when the Steelers won the Super Bowl in 2005 and 2008. I get that. Anyhow, we now begin that long period of no meaningful sports between the end of the SB and March Madness though I am happy to say my youth basketball team kicks ass. We’re ranked second in the league and I’m real proud of my kids. Each and every one of them. They have won. They support each other.

This, this is another huge reason why I was rooting for Atlanta. You kind of have to root for the team that’s never made the summit, otherwise you’re just left with the feeling of ‘rich get richer’ and the impossibility of any sort of meaningful breakthrough.

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BeachDem  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:34:29pm

re: #154 Moebym

I didn’t actually watch (not a football fan, despite spending most of my years in football-crazy places), though I was following secondhand through LGF and other sites. I’ll admit that I, to an extent, did care about the outcome, in that I wanted the team Spencer, Trump, and his supporters were rooting for to lose.

Obviously that team won - and after a comeback, no less, making it a bit too similar to the election for my liking. But someone suggested to me that instead of feeling disappointed that Trump’s team won, that I should think of it as a blue state defeating a red state. This change of perspective did help.

That’s kind of how I think about it—I will bet that 99% (rough estimate) or so of Pats fans are NOT Trump fans (my asshole brother falls into that messy 1%, but his patronage is negated by his daughter’s love of Cam Newton and the Panthers.)

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:34:37pm

re: #157 BeachDem

And just think—if the Patriots take their wives to the White House (ugh-gag), Tom Brady’s wife is a lot hotter and more successful than the yam’s. And Giselle is NOT a yam fan.

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I didn’t know that. Good on Giselle.

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allegro  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:34:40pm

re: #159 Stanley Sea

The Aggies are the ones that shoot their pistols in the air like Yosemite Sam? I always liked them.

Pew Pew Pew!

The other ones do the devil’s horns right? Hook em!

Aggies and U.T. Never get between those fans. You’ll be killed.

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Moebym  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:35:00pm

All this talk about unexpected losses caused a memory to come flooding back. Many years back, a middle school girls’ basketball game that my mom coached ended up in a loss at the - literally - very last second due to a freak basket by the other team. The girls were crushed by the loss, sobbing profusely, and my mom had to comfort them.

It was no Super Bowl or presidential election, but to those girls, it must have felt like the end of the world.

But it wasn’t.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:36:35pm
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Timothy Watson  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:36:43pm

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:36:59pm

re: #162 Citizen K

This, this is another huge reason why I was rooting for Atlanta. You kind of have to root for the team that’s never made the summit, otherwise you’re just left with the feeling of ‘rich get richer’ and the impossibility of any sort of meaningful breakthrough.

Which is why the whole nation was pretty much rooting for the Cubs this fall. Now that one I felt really conflicted in. One of Cleveland’s players is someone who I literally went to elementary, middle, and high school with and I even played against in baseball and basketball. Plus I developed a soft spot for Cleveland despite being a diehard PGH fan due to how helpful their archdiocese was in my ancestral research there- Great Nana was born there. I still thank her Dad for moving the family to Pittsburgh though. Not because of sports though of course that was a nice side benefit.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:37:34pm

re: #157 BeachDem

And just think—if the Patriots take their wives to the White House (ugh-gag), Tom Brady’s wife is a lot hotter and more successful than the yam’s. And Giselle is NOT a yam fan.

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allegro  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:37:36pm

re: #161 HappyWarrior

Yeah that was a great era. The game wasn’t as corporate back then. Much more running game friendly. I grew up a huge Bettis fan.

Oh man, Earl Campbell, greatest running back EVER. He would drag a whole defense on his back to make a first down. We’d watch guys try to tackle him and bounce off landing on their asses. Funny as hell.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:38:29pm

re: #168 Timothy Watson

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I always thought about the agony it must have been to be a Bills fan in the early 90’s. Four consecutive SB wins and not a win to show for it. Those fans are loyal though. I respect the hell out of Bills fans and Browns fans too. Same with Lions. It’s the bad times that make the good times that much more sweeter. Part of why 2012 will always be a special year in baseball yore for me.

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jaunte  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:41:17pm

re: #171 allegro

I was at UT while Campbell played there. He made watching a 99% ground game a lot of fun.

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blueraven  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:42:11pm

same

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:42:31pm

re: #171 allegro

Oh man, Earl Campbell, greatest running back EVER. He would drag a whole defense on his back to make a first down. We’d watch guys try to tackle him and bounce off landing on their asses. Funny as hell.

Yeah that guy was amazing. Sad to hear of his current condition. That really is one of the sad side effects and so many of those guys have died too young. Mean Joe is the only Steel Curtain member left of him, LC Greenwood, Ernie Holmes, and Dwight White.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:43:14pm

re: #173 jaunte

I was at UT while Campbell played there. He made watching a 99% ground game a lot of fun.

I wish the ground game was more common. When I play custom franchise in Madden, I always have a heavy ground pound game. Played a game earlier. Got a 92 yard run with Le’veon Bell.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:44:28pm

What the fuck is going on here? I call out Richard Spencer for being happy about the Pats winning the Super Bowl, and suddenly every Pats fan thinks I was calling them Nazis? WHAT THE FUCK.

Are we having an epidemic of poor reading comprehension in this country?

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ipsos  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:48:38pm

Just saw on my FB feed where an old college friend and his wife were actually at the game, rooting hard for their Patriots. Said friend was also a HUGE Hillary supporter on FB and IRL throughout the primaries and general election. #notallpatsfans

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:48:48pm

re: #174 blueraven

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Nyet  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:49:11pm

re: #180 Charles Johnson

Frustrating, but not surprising with so many folks in search of things to be outraged about.

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Belafon  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:52:15pm

re: #177 Charles Johnson

This is the same thing going on when someone says “Some men are pigs.” Inevitably, even here, you will get one man saying “I’m not a pig” and another man saying “Not all men are pigs.” This happens even if the original comment was made by a man.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:52:18pm

Someone should point out to Spencer that the NFL is an affront to everything he believes in. It’s young men of various backgrounds, poor, rich, white, black, etc working together to win a championship. Oh and Kraft, the Patriots owner is Jewish as is Julian Edelman, Spencer was using the fact that the Pats have tons of white WRs as one of his reasons for liking them. So maybe some reverse psychology is order here. Instead of being upset that the Nazi’s team of choice win, make the Nazi’s “win” into a disappointment for him.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:52:29pm

I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen a use of a Not All hashtag that doesn’t come across as overly defensive.

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Nyet  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:52:55pm

re: #184 Belafon

I protest. Some pigs are men.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:53:32pm

re: #186 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen a use of a Not All hashtag that doesn’t come across as overly defensive.

People are defensive creatures by nature. I know how much Ziggy would bother me when he broadbrushed all Serbs. Granted, what happened in Yugoslavia under Milosevic is totally different than a sportsball rooting interest.

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allegro  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:53:36pm

re: #173 jaunte

I was at UT while Campbell played there. He made watching a 99% ground game a lot of fun.

Oh yeah. The game plan was Earl right, Earl left, and Earl up the middle. He was the offense he was so freaking powerful. Sweetest man I ever met too. I was fortunate to spend time with him on several occasions, a couple of times as his assigned assistant during charity golf tournaments. So soft spoken, humble and respectful. He talked about his proudest moment, his eyes tearing up, when he was able to buy his mom a house after he went pro.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:53:53pm

re: #187 Nyet

I protest. Some pigs are men.

Limbaugh, Rush, Jones, Alex, and Bannon, Steve agree.

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Nyet  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:54:10pm

You’re the Man now, pig.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:54:32pm

THIS is what matters

At Nashville airport, where Fuad Sharef & his family just arrived after being sent back to Iraq last week. Huge crowd

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Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:55:06pm

And if you try to point out you weren’t calling them Nazis, they get MORE upset.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:55:12pm

re: #192 Stanley Sea

THIS is what matters

At Nashville airport, where Fuad Sharef & his family just arrived after being sent back to Iraq last week. Huge crowd

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Yes, this matters more to me than a game’s outcome. Welcome home Sharef family.

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Nyet  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:55:55pm

Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:57:32pm

In the end, if the worst thing that happened to me today was that I hated a football game’s result, I’m a damn lucky guy. That’s my privilege.

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ObserverArt  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:59:10pm

re: #151 HappyWarrior

The funniest thing is for most of my life until the mid 2000’s, the Redskins had actually been my successful than the Steelers. It’s why I always laugh when the Skins fans I know suggest I’m a bandwagoner. Of course, the funny thing is my Steelers rooting fandom sort of started as a reaction to me disliking the Cowboys but I was also aware that my grandparents were from Steelers country so it was easy for me.

That’s ‘cuz you’re a young ‘un.

For us older fans (Browns, sigh) you had to put up with the ’70s Steelers. So I always see them stronger than a lot of teams.

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Belafon  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:59:16pm
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blueraven  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:59:17pm

Jeebus

from that NYT article…

Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room. Visitors conclude their meetings and then wander around, testing doorknobs until finding one that leads to an exit. In a darkened, mostly empty West Wing, Mr. Trump’s provocative chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, finishes another 16-hour day planning new lines of attack.

Usually around 6:30 p.m., or sometimes later, Mr. Trump retires upstairs to the residence to recharge, vent and intermittently use Twitter. With his wife, Melania, and young son, Barron, staying in New York, he is almost always by himself, sometimes in the protective presence of his imposing longtime aide and former security chief, Keith Schiller. When Mr. Trump is not watching television in his bathrobe or on his phone reaching out to old campaign hands and advisers, he will sometimes set off to explore the unfamiliar surroundings of his new home.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:59:32pm

People who have traveled to Munich. What do you think I should do? Allianz Arena where FC Bayern plays or Nymphenburg Palace. I’m already going to the Residenz and Olympic Stadium for reference.

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BeachDem  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:59:55pm

re: #177 Charles Johnson

What the fuck is going on here? I call out Richard Spencer for being happy about the Pats winning the Super Bowl, and suddenly every Pats fan thinks I was calling them Nazis? WHAT THE FUCK.

Are we having an epidemic of poor reading comprehension in this country?

If it helps, I’m a Pats fan; I didn’t think you were calling me a Nazi; Richard Spencer is a Nazi and has probably never rooted for the Patriots a day in his life until today ; I am sad that the name of my football team even crosses his (or the yam’s) lips.

And yes, there is a epidemic of poor reading comprehension, poor cognitive skill and basic asshattery raging through our country.

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allegro  Feb 5, 2017 • 8:59:59pm

re: #184 Belafon

This is the same thing going on when someone says “Some men are pigs.” Inevitably, even here, you will get one man saying “I’m not a pig” and another man saying “Not all men are pigs.” This happens even if the original comment was made by a man.

I got that back when I said something about Shrodinger’s rapist, thinking it was entirely non-controversial and one guy even stormed out, he was so offended that I’d called him and ALL men rapists.

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Moebym  Feb 5, 2017 • 9:00:28pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 5, 2017 • 9:00:50pm

Back to happy good soul stuff:

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 9:01:33pm

re: #197 ObserverArt

That’s ‘cuz you’re a young ‘un.

For us older fans (Browns, sigh) you had to put up with the ’70s Steelers. So I always see them stronger than a lot of teams.

Oh no doubt. For the really old ones though, the Browns were the team to beat. I really do hope the Browns can be competitive once more. There’s no fan base I respect more than the Cleveland fans. The way they lost the Browns initially was heartbreaking and they still remain loyal. And I told you why I have a soft spot for the city. That priest at the archives did a wonderful job of telling me about what life had to had been life in an Irish neighborhood for my second great grandparents in the 1870’s.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 5, 2017 • 9:01:41pm

re: #198 Belafon

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So that means the likes of Mike Pence, correct?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 9:02:58pm

re: #206 Dave In Austin

So that means the likes of Mike Pence, correct?

Highly doubt that an Evangelical like Pence gives much weight to what Francis has to say. However, Pence is former RCC, he wasn’t brought up Evangelical.

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Belafon  Feb 5, 2017 • 9:04:22pm

re: #206 Dave In Austin

So that means the likes of Mike Pence, correct?

Yep. Francis explicitly brings up Matthew 25, which to me is a direct condemnation of the US, where so many people want to claim we’re a Christian nation.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 9:05:32pm

re: #201 BeachDem

If it helps, I’m a Pats fan; I didn’t think you were calling me a Nazi; Richard Spencer is a Nazi and has probably never rooted for the Patriots a day in his life until today ; I am sad that the name of my football team even crosses his (or the yam’s) lips.

And yes, there is a epidemic of poor reading comprehension, poor cognitive skill and basic asshattery raging through our country.

Hey got your PM from earlier, thanks. I had completely forgotten the title of that docu. I’ll watch it some time and tell you what I think. Don’t know if you have Netflix or not but a good docudrama is Rebellion. It follows three young Irish women and their experiences during the Easter Rebellion. My favorite was the young woman who actually does the most fighting since she’s a Connemara gal like a lot of my Irish kin were.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 9:06:26pm

Francis to me is doing what Pius did not do in WWII and that’s speak out loudly. I don’t see Pius as Hitler’s Pope as some do but I do think Pius was guilty of not being forceful enough in his language and rhetoric in the years leading up.
Francis- not Pence. WTF is wrong with me.

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ObserverArt  Feb 5, 2017 • 9:10:34pm

re: #198 Belafon

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Fake Religion.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 5, 2017 • 9:10:55pm

re: #207 HappyWarrior

I think Pence is Catholic… Maybe not.

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William Lewis  Feb 5, 2017 • 9:12:11pm

re: #200 HappyWarrior

People who have traveled to Munich. What do you think I should do? Allianz Arena where FC Bayern plays or Nymphenburg Palace. I’m already going to the Residenz and Olympic Stadium for reference.

Be sure to go to the Deutsches Museum - an absolute delight. One of the best science and tech museums in the world alongside the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago and the Smithsonian.
deutsches-museum.de

For art, the Alte Pinakotheke is great.

And at the end of the day, any of the biergartens are a wonderful way to relax. munichbeergardens.com

I loved München & Nürnberg & Rothenburg ob der Tauber ( en.wikipedia.org ) when I was stationed in Germany.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 9:13:14pm

re: #212 Dave In Austin

I think Pence is Catholic… Maybe not.

No, he’s a huge Evangelical. Definitely not RCC at all. A lot is made of his working class Irish-American Democratic upbringing and his conversion to Evangelical Christianity coinciding with his love of Reagan. That said even those of us who may no longer be RCC in practice still have some impact in it by the Pope’s words and actions. I was baptized RCC and though I only lasted a couple weeks in CCD classes, I still feel the church has influenced me in someways.

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BeachDem  Feb 5, 2017 • 9:13:20pm

re: #209 HappyWarrior

Hey got your PM from earlier, thanks. I had completely forgotten the title of that docu. I’ll watch it some time and tell you what I think. Don’t know if you have Netflix or not but a good docudrama is Rebellion. It follows three young Irish women and their experiences during the Easter Rebellion. My favorite was the young woman who actually does the most fighting since she’s a Connemara gal like a lot of my Irish kin were.

Glad you got the PM—I will check out Rebellion—sounds good.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 9:15:00pm

re: #213 William Lewis

Be sure to go to the Deutsches Museum - an absolute delight. One of the best science and tech museums in the world alongside the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago and the Smithsonian.
deutsches-museum.de

For art, the Alte Pinakotheke is great.

And at the end of the day, any of the biergartens are a wonderful way to relax. munichbeergardens.com

I loved München & Nürnberg & Rothenburg ob der Tauber ( en.wikipedia.org ) when I was stationed in Germany.

Yep, I have thoes on my list. Going to Nurnberg too. My boss recommended that I check it out. It wasn’t originally in our plans but I put it in. Means we won’t be able to go to my great grandpa’s home village. Definitely hitting the beer halls. Wouldn’t be a trip to Munich without it.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 9:15:46pm

re: #215 BeachDem

Glad you got the PM—I will check out Rebellion—sounds good.

Yep, saw it as I was checking my emails. Yeah it’s pretty good. I’m hoping they make a second season. It ends on a bit of a cliffhanger, I won’t spoil of course.

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William Lewis  Feb 5, 2017 • 9:19:52pm

re: #216 HappyWarrior

Ok, have fun while I stay here all jelly.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 5, 2017 • 9:32:27pm

re: #218 William Lewis

Ok, have fun while I stay here all jelly.

Thanks. Really looking forward to traveling abroad once more.

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teleskiguy  Feb 5, 2017 • 10:00:56pm

re: #73 bratwurst

Nice subtweet, bro.


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