Simon & Schuster Cancels Publication of Milo Yiannopoulos’s Book

Breitbart employees threaten to walk out if he isn’t fired
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Milo Yiannopoulos’s career is in total free-fall today. As you can see from the tweets above, his book deal with Simon & Schuster has been cancelled. I’m wondering if he’ll still get to keep that $250,000 advance, or if there’s some kind of “morality clause” in his contract?

And that’s not all. Other employees at the far right propaganda site Breitbart “News” are now threatening to resign if Yiannopoulos is not fired.

A senior editor at the right-wing publication tells Washingtonian that “at least a half-dozen” employees are prepared to leave the company if Milo Yiannopoulos is not promptly fired. A second Breitbart source confirms this estimate.

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“The fact of the matter is that there’s been so many things that have been objectionable about Milo over the last couple of years, quite frankly. This is something far more sinister,” the senior editor says. “If the company isn’t willing to act, there are at least half a dozen people who are willing to walk out over it.”

“Talking abut young boys and somehow seeking to ameliorate concerns over young boys’ relationships with older men…I’m pretty sure everyone in the company would vomit upon hearing these words,” the source continues. “What right-thinking person doesn’t feel sick to their stomach when hearing something like that?”

Right. His support for white supremacism, his race-baiting, his hateful comments about Muslims, his harassment of women and transgendered people, all of that was fine with Breitbart’s employees — but they draw the line at pedophilia. Nice to know they have standards.

UPDATE at 2/20/17 3:33:25 pm by Charles Johnson

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Myron Falwell  Feb 20, 2017 • 2:52:57pm

LOLOLOL

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Targetpractice  Feb 20, 2017 • 2:52:59pm

A week ago, he was a martyr to “free speech.”

24 hours ago, he was a rising star in the far-right.

Now, he’s roadkill.

Life comes at you fast.

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2017 • 2:53:22pm
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EPR-radar  Feb 20, 2017 • 2:54:02pm

The reason for this sudden change in RWNJ thinking is that pedophiles could target white boys.

All other targets of Milo Y’s abuse (non-whites, women, transgender people) are regarded as ‘other’ by US conservatives, making them fit targets for any and all abuse.

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Mike Lamb  Feb 20, 2017 • 2:54:27pm

Thanks CPAC?

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KGxvi  Feb 20, 2017 • 2:54:36pm

Good to know, at least, that the “live boy” part of the old “live boy/dead girl” adage still holds up…

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jaunte  Feb 20, 2017 • 2:54:40pm
Trump Admits He Found 12-Year-Old Paris Hilton Attractive
huffingtonpost.com

Next, conservatives.

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Bensoner  Feb 20, 2017 • 2:56:41pm

It’s sad because he was abused as a child (at least that’s what I’ve seen reported that he has said). It’s possible that he has rationalized this to deal with that trauma. But nothing justifies the intentional pain he causes with his words, and the additional humiliation he heaps upon people who voice that pain. What a disgusting man.

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2017 • 2:57:05pm

Two days to take down one of the winger nut cases is pretty good, but I think we’re going to need to pick up the pace a bit to really make a difference.

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Myron Falwell  Feb 20, 2017 • 2:58:13pm

re: #5 Mike Lamb

Thanks CPAC?

I’d love to be a fly on the wall in Bill Maher’s offices right about now.

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Mattand  Feb 20, 2017 • 2:58:19pm

I absolutely cannot wait to see what kind of hole Bill Maher is going to dig for himself over this.

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lawhawk  Feb 20, 2017 • 2:58:25pm

re: #7 jaunte

Well, there’s the fact that he was a voyeur and leered at women at the various pageants he ran. He sexually assaulted women (that’s plural for those who aren’t keeping track) by his own admission (grab ‘em by the pussy).

Even with all that, conservatives and right wingers voted for Bannon/Trump.

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Bensoner  Feb 20, 2017 • 2:59:01pm

Trump peeped on teen girls. He admitted it and it’s been verified. I always saw that as just as bad as the grabbing stuff. Let’s use this opportunity to reup that subject.

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Mattand  Feb 20, 2017 • 2:59:15pm

re: #10 Myron Falwell

LOL, six seconds! Great minds, etc.

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Shiplord Kirel  Feb 20, 2017 • 2:59:18pm

“After careful consideration.”

“HOLY FUCK! GET THIS SHIT OUTTA’ HERE! And have the place fumigated.”

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JordanRules  Feb 20, 2017 • 2:59:45pm

re: #13 Bensoner

When did he admit that?

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:00:07pm

Milo exploited the far right’s frantic desire to cast itself as something other than the insular, aging, socially regressive and demographically dying movement it is. In a way he’s the older, gay version of Benji Backer or CJ Pearson, except whereas they were young children who’d been brainwashed by their parents and grew out of it, Milo was a fully aware adult. He saw the opportunity to sell misogyny, transphobia, racial & religious intolerance, along with the second class status of his own sexuality as the grift of a lifetime.

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jaunte  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:00:17pm

re: #16 JordanRules

Trump told radio host Howard Stern in 2005 that he would often go into the dressing rooms while the contestants were naked, saying in the recordings that he could “sort of get away with things like that.”
fortune.com

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Myron Falwell  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:00:29pm

re: #11 Mattand

I absolutely cannot wait to see what kind of hole Bill Mayer is going to dig for himself over this.

Never forget.

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Bensoner  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:01:44pm

The far right is obsessed with the idea that “liberals are so easily triggered” and “hey man it’s just a joke lighten up”. Those attitudes are so destructive. And that’s who voted in the President. (Hear that This American Life episode the other week?)

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:02:31pm

I’m expecting the announcement that he’s been fired from Breitbart any minute.

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JordanRules  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:03:15pm

re: #18 jaunte

Shit, somehow I missed that. I knew there were multiple contestants saying that and I think Ivanka allegedly cosigned it.

How did people justify affirming all this sickness and putting it in the White House? Damnet America.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:03:27pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

I’m expecting the announcement that he’s been fired from Breitbart any minute.

That’d be the Trifecta.

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EPR-radar  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:03:43pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

I’m expecting the announcement that he’s been fired from Breitbart any minute.

Agreed. Milo Y is a now a political liability for RWNJs, and will be dealt with accordingly.

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lawhawk  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:04:54pm

re: #12 lawhawk

WaPo: Trump would walk in on the women in the dressing room as they were naked or getting dressed/undressed.

“I’ll go backstage before a show, and everyone’s getting dressed and ready and everything else,” he said. “And you know, no men are anywhere. And I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant. And therefore I’m inspecting it.”

Stern replied, “You’re like a doctor.”

Trump responded: “Is everyone okay? You know they’re standing there with no clothes. And you see these incredible-looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that.”

He gets away with things like that - because he’s a rich white guy.

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EPR-radar  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:05:24pm

re: #22 JordanRules

Shit, somehow I missed that. I knew there were multiple contestants saying that and I think Ivanka allegedly cosigned it.

How did people justify affirming all this sickness and putting it in the White House? Damnet America.

A half-century of worms eating into the brains of the US right is what gave us this disaster.

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Myron Falwell  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:05:28pm

re: #24 EPR-radar

Agreed. Milo Y is a now a political liability for RWNJs, and will be dealt with accordingly.

This needs to happen much more often. 😀

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:05:30pm

Russia Today’s ace angry man is going home.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:05:55pm

re: #4 EPR-radar

The reason for this sudden change in RWNJ thinking is that pedophiles could target white boys.

All other targets of Milo Y’s abuse (non-whites, women, transgender people) are regarded as ‘other’ by US conservatives, making them fit targets for any and all abuse.

You’re absolutely right.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:05:59pm

Not gonna lie, I’m enjoying the shit out of this. Couldn’t happen to a better asshole.

Another One Bites the Dust - Queen

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:06:27pm

re: #28 teleskiguy

Russia Today’s ace angry man is going home.

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I never liked him at all even when he claimed to be “liberal.” Glad Ed’s going back to the right where he belongs.

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lawhawk  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:06:49pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

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Shiplord Kirel  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:07:09pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

I’m expecting the announcement that he’s been fired from Breitbart any minute.

Night of the Long Knives.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:07:14pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

I’m expecting the announcement that he’s been fired from Breitbart any minute.

Yeah I think so too. There’s a lot of things these people will accept but sexual abuse of boys by men isn’t one of them.

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Bluesigh  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:07:24pm

re: #15 Shiplord Kirel

re: #23 Blind Frog Belly White

“moral turpitude” acknowledged and loss of what I imagine, is a working green card. That is a deportation I could get behind.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:07:33pm

re: #33 Shiplord Kirel

Night of the Long Knives.

With Milo as Ernst Rohm!

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EPR-radar  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:07:41pm

re: #25 lawhawk

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He gets away with things like that - because he’s a rich white guy.

And because the targets of Trump’s abuse were girls and women.

The only kind of sex scandal that could dent Trump’s approval among conservatives would be peeping on or abusing white boys.

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:07:55pm
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Anybody get a screenshot?

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:07:59pm

The official statement from Simon & Schuster:

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wrenchwench  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:08:56pm
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My palate ithh all furry. Thpt.

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KGxvi  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:09:08pm

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Anybody get a screenshot?

Didn’t screenshot it, but did comment about here in the last thread:

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makeitstop  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:09:17pm

re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg

Not gonna lie, I’m enjoying the shit out of this. Couldn’t happen to a better asshole.

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I can think of at least one better asshole it could happen to.

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Sherlock Hound  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:09:25pm

re: #33 Shiplord Kirel

Night of the Long Knives.

Followed by “Day of the Short Penes”.
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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:10:29pm

re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg

Not gonna lie, I’m enjoying the shit out of this. Couldn’t happen to a better asshole.

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You’re not alone here at all with that sentiment.

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:11:07pm

Rats trying to escape a sinking ship.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:11:19pm

re: #42 makeitstop

I can think of at least one better asshole it could happen to.

It may soon happen yet. BTW- I’ve been listening to that Frank Turner single. I listened to it on my way to my first day doing campaign work for Perriello. Got me in the mood for suer.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:11:31pm

re: #38 teleskiguy

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:12:10pm

LOL

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wrenchwench  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:15:06pm

Now that’s a bookstore.

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Nyet  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:15:56pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:15:57pm
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goddamnedfrank  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:16:20pm
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Bensoner  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:16:21pm

Do not let go of this. Milo was a huge hero on the right. Don’t let him be forgotten, excused, written off as a closest leftist, whatever. They own this guy.

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jaunte  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:16:39pm
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But why the Pepto-Bismol color?

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Myron Falwell  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:16:43pm

re: #28 teleskiguy

Russia Today’s ace angry man is going home.

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When you’re out of Schultz, you’re out of beer.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:17:14pm

re: #52 goddamnedfrank

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Yeah they did. Ain’t life a bitch, snowflake? You’re not entitled to a book anymore than I am a record deal.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:17:26pm

re: #53 Bensoner

Do not let go of this. Milo was a huge hero on the right. Don’t let him be forgotten, excused, written off as a closest leftist, whatever. They own this guy.

Word.

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wrenchwench  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:18:34pm

re: #35 Bluesigh

Welcome, hatchling.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:18:39pm

re: #54 jaunte

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But why the Pepto-Bismol color?

Hahahhahahahaa, hey Milo, these were the guys you thought were your friends. You were always just a gay Brit to them. They used you. You thought you were so fucking clever but you were really just a fucking pawn. I’d feel sorry for you but I’ll save my sympathies for people who actually deserve it.

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Targetpractice  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:19:37pm

re: #54 jaunte

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But why the Pepto-Bismol color?

I note that story, while on the front page, is roughly halfway down it. The internet equivalent of being on page A16. Even when defending him, the editorial staff there are half-hearted about it.

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Kragar  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:19:42pm
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EPR-radar  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:19:49pm

re: #53 Bensoner

Do not let go of this. Milo was a huge hero on the right. Don’t let him be forgotten, excused, written off as a closest leftist, whatever. They own this guy.

Hope springs eternal. RWNJs have successfully memory-holed the entire modern history of conservatism and the Republican party. Revising history so that Milo was always a degenerate leftist is nothing by comparison.

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makeitstop  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:20:08pm

re: #46 HappyWarrior

It may soon happen yet. BTW- I’ve been listening to that Frank Turner single. I listened to it on my way to my first day doing campaign work for Perriello. Got me in the mood for suer.

Great song. It’s fast becoming the unofficial theme song of The Resistance.

For those who missed it the other night, here it is.

The Sand In The Gears

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bratwurst  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:20:17pm
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Please see my new page for more breaking news on rising anti-semitism.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:20:59pm

re: #63 makeitstop

Great song. It’s fast becoming the unofficial theme song of The Resistance.

For those who missed it the other night, here it is.

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I showed it to my Dad. He loved it. I love that ‘sand in the gears’ metaphor.

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wrenchwench  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:21:05pm
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He’s the guy who kept Gabby Giffords from bleeding to death.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:21:25pm

re: #64 bratwurst

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Really Sean because the last time he was asked about it, he had a hissy fit.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:22:02pm

re: #66 wrenchwench

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He’s the guy who kept Gabby Giffords from bleeding to death.

Elected official on the state level too in AZ. A real hero and a real example for the LGBT community too. And wow I didn’t know Daniel was that young. He’s my brother’s age.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:23:47pm

dammit.
First The Bear and now Shipley the Sweary Cat.

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Kragar  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:25:24pm
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goddamnedfrank  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:26:08pm

re: #53 Bensoner

Do not let go of this. Milo was a huge hero on the right. Don’t let him be forgotten, excused, written off as a closest leftist, whatever. They own this guy.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:26:10pm
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Mike Lamb  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:26:35pm

re: #54 jaunte

Headline writer: Quick—we need a gay font! What do we have? Anything with raibows?

Editor: Of course not, you idiot. We’re Breitbart.

Headline writer: Ok, pink. We’ve got pink, right?

Editor: Sure. Let’s run it.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:27:27pm

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:28:08pm

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:28:55pm

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:30:23pm

re: #10 Myron Falwell

I’d love to be a fly on the wall in Bill Maher’s offices right about now.

He’ll find a way to spin it so that he comes off unscathed for pushing Milo’s b.s. on his show. This should be a lesson on why you shouldn’t support bigots in the name of advancing free speech. Free speech doesn’t mean that you deserve a forum or audience for your speech.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:30:53pm

Now my question is how much of that 250 K advance did Milo already spend? That’s probably why he’s crying those tears!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:31:00pm

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:32:16pm

I’m already seeing Bill Maher fans on Twitter claiming that he gets credit for all of this because he “exposed” Milo. Complete bullshit.

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makeitstop  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:33:18pm

re: #79 Joe Bacon

Now my question is how much of that 250 K advance did Milo already spend? That’s probably why he’s crying those tears!

I’d wager that advance (whatever piece he got of it, at least) is long gone.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:33:20pm

re: #81 Charles Johnson

I’m already seeing Bill Maher fans on Twitter claiming that he gets credit for all of this because he “exposed” Milo. Complete bullshit.

He didn’t expose shit. He fondled Milo the same way he does Coulter. Larry Wilmore deserves credit because he actually called the bigoted asshole what he is.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:34:52pm
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goddamnedfrank  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:35:15pm
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Fine tuned machine.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:35:32pm

re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:36:07pm

So I keep dropping paragraphs at the end of threads:

Because as much as I don’t to talk about this…
…there’s a lot of shit to mine out of this situation.

To which I’m going to add: this rise and fall are part of a larger pattern in which theatrics and ritualized autofellatio have come to define “conservatism” in place of principles, arguments, and consistency.

People are going to “support” Milo because he’s done a good job stoking their resentment and contempt. He makes them feels good, and for some that’s the end-all, be-all.

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Scottish Dragon  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:36:48pm

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:37:22pm

re: #88 Scottish Dragon

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Pedo the Frog. :)

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:38:28pm
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Myron Falwell  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:39:07pm

re: #81 Charles Johnson

I’m already seeing Bill Maher fans on Twitter claiming that he gets credit for all of this because he “exposed” Milo. Complete bullshit.

He agreed and nodded with Milo over his transphobic statements. I mean, seriously. Bill is going to get off the hook over that and it pisses me off.

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Kragar  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:40:58pm

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:40:59pm

re: #90 Charles Johnson

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:41:36pm

I guess Milo’s idea of a safe space is one where he can fantasize about teenage boys in peace.

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Scottish Dragon  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:42:18pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:43:55pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:44:46pm

It’s got nothing to do with him being gay or a Brit. Josh Duggar was hetero and American and guess what still a creep. Milo should be asking himself why Duggar didn’t get that headline. He’ll probably blame the left knowing him but it’s pretty obvious that he was always a useful tool for the right to use to deny they were homophobic. It’s hilarious. He thought he was being so clever and edgy but he was actually just a fucking tool.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:46:05pm
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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:47:22pm

Dummy should have just claimed it was ok to molest girls because it was in the Bible. He’d be in the clear.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:51:17pm

It’s revealing that Milo’s collapse was started by a CONSERVATIVE group that released the original edited clip of that Joe Rogan interview, because they were angry that a gay man was giving the CPAC keynote speech. They used the pedophilia statements against Milo to take him down but that wasn’t really their motive.

The same information has been available on non-right wing sites for years, but right wingers completely ignored it until it became politically expedient for them to use it against Milo.

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ObserverArt  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:52:03pm

Damn it!!!

Can we slow this all down…just for a minute? Stuffs happening so fast today I cannot get any work done and even come close to keeping up with the threads.

But I am not in the whirlwind that one Milo Youknowiamanass seems to find himself.

Wow!

And this is all just from Bill Maher Friday night ‘til now. I guess Milo finally touched a nerve…maybe the public’s last one. People do a little digging after Maher’s show and the past comes to catch up and bite his ass.

But how can that surpass the Brits actually discussing how much they want to distance themselves from Trump? Unprecedented in our times I would say. Has the relationship between the two countries ever gone this off the rails in the last 100 years?

I’m tired of all this winning triggered by Trump.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:52:36pm

re: #102 Charles Johnson

It’s revealing that Milo’s collapse was started by a CONSERVATIVE group that released the original edited clip of that Joe Rogan interview, because they were angry that a gay man was giving the CPAC keynote speech. They used the pedophilia statements against Milo to take him down but that wasn’t really their motive.

The same information has been available on non-right wing sites for years, but right wingers completely ignored it until it became politically expedient for them to use it against Milo.

Yep.

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makeitstop  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:52:52pm

Charles - Don’t know if you’ve heard, but Larry Coryell passed today.

He was one of many guitarists I listened to but couldn’t quite grasp when I was young. RIP.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:54:28pm

This all happened so quickly.

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Kragar  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:56:30pm

re: #100 Pawn of the Oppressor

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Joe Bacon  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:56:53pm

re: #103 ObserverArt

Damn it!!!

Can we slow this all down…just for a minute? Stuffs happening so fast today I cannot get any work done and even come close to keeping up with the threads.

But how can that surpass the Brits actually discussing how much they want to distance themselves from Trump? Unprecedented in our times I would say. Has the relationship between the two countries ever gone this off the rails in the last 100 years?

I’m tired of all this winning triggered by Trump.

Observer Art the last time US/UK relations were this strained was the Venezuela/British Guiana Border Controversy during Cleveland’s second administration. Cleveland went full Monroe Doctrine to side with Venezuela.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:58:19pm

He sent his daughter out to say those dreaded words #JCC

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2017 • 3:59:26pm

re: #105 makeitstop

Charles - Don’t know if you’ve heard, but Larry Coryell passed today.

He was one of many guitarists I listened to but couldn’t quite grasp when I was young. RIP.

It was actually yesterday - I knew Larry, although I haven’t communicated with him in a long, long time. Another sad loss.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:00:38pm

Chin up, Milo. Wait a month, claim demonic possession, say that Jesus saved you, re-title your book. ‘sall good man.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:01:37pm

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Whack-A-Mole  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:02:29pm

Sorry to go OT here (especially given the joyous news that the shitpile that is Milo’s career has finally been set aflame), but I have a couple of a couple of questions for the IT crowd here, particularly those with an IT security specialty:

I’m trying to set up as secure and anonymous of internet access device as possible.

Is TAILS still the secure OS of choice?

I assume running it (or whatever other OS is best) on a portable device so I’m not constantly hitting the same internet access point would be the ideal, correct? If so, would a Chromebook be enough hardware-wise or will I need a full-fledged laptop?

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Khal Wimpo (wounded at Bowling Green)  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:05:31pm

Checked out Milo’s FB page. Still has his little banner about his book. He must’ve been so proud about that - finally, he was going to be in the Big Time! Accepted! Invited to all the glam book parties where he would get to swan about, airily proclaiming his own fabulousness.

Years from now, he’ll have a cardboard cutout of the promo materials for his book that he’ll clutch to his mottled chest while drinking box wine and sobbing at old clips of himself on Maher. “I was so close,” he’ll whine…

Needs updating, eh?
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ObserverArt  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:05:38pm

re: #28 teleskiguy

Russia Today’s ace angry man is going home.

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Jeebus Ed you asswipe, souless mercenary. What else would you do for the bucks?

Always wondered about Ed Shultz..so it is settled now. He is worthless to anyone.

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makeitstop  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:06:27pm

re: #113 Charles Johnson

It was actually yesterday - I knew Larry, although I haven’t communicated with him in a long, long time. Another sad loss.

I knew of him as a fusion guitarist, and then I saw him do a show with ‘Jack Bruce and Friends’ - Bruce, Mike Mandel on keys and Mitch Mitchell on drums - and he put just about every rock guitarist I idolized in those days to shame.

Seeing someone doing ‘Sunshine of your Love’ on an L-5 was one of the wackiest things I’d ever seen, but he quoted the first four bars of Clapton’s solo and then went off. So long ago, but I still remember that show like it was yesterday.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:07:06pm

re: #111 Stanley Sea

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Joe Bacon  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:08:24pm

re: #114 Pawn of the Oppressor

Chin up, Milo. Wait a month, claim demonic possession, say that Jesus saved you, re-title your book. ‘sall good man.

You’re right on the spot. Wait for a month. Milo will go on the 700 Club, say he found Jesus and Old Pulpit Pimp Pat will bless him.

Then Milo will blow Pat when the cameras are turned off…

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Stanley Sea  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:08:51pm

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Skip Intro  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:08:52pm

re: #121 Stanley Sea

Is it tomorrow already?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:09:04pm

re: #118 ObserverArt

Jeebus Ed you asswipe, souless mercenary. What else would you do for the bucks?

Always wondered about Ed Shultz..so it is settled now. He is worthless to anyone.

He’s like Jim Webb. He never really was left. Just hated the right more during his moment in the sun. Not trying to pull a No True Scotsman with that.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:09:27pm

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:10:07pm

re: #122 Joe Bacon

You’re right on the spot. Wait for a month. Milo will go on the 700 Club, say he found Jesus and Old Pulpit Pimp Pat will bless him.

Then Milo will blow Pat when the cameras are turned off…

Visuals dude visuals.

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KGxvi  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:12:16pm

re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth

taking cues on security from Mar-a-Lago?

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Khal Wimpo (wounded at Bowling Green)  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:14:22pm

re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth

dammit.
First The Bear and now Shipley the Sweary Cat.

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Brought back all my kits that have passed through my life over the years. The decision to give them a humane ending is the hardest choice I have ever had to make. It devastated me in ways that are still fresh, still painful, still hard to process.

Time to pet my two new boys and take a stroll around the yard.

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Last time they opened this spillway was in 1997 and parts of Modesto flooded.

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:15:42pm

re: #130 Charles Johnson

in the crater atop Mt Rainier

That has to be one of the most dangerous places on our planet. Inside the crater of a massive active stratovolcano? No thanks!

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:17:24pm

re: #134 klys (maker of Silmarils)

The rain here today has been the most I’ve seen in years. A proper winter storm.

We are definitely in feast mode this winter.

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:20:46pm

What if Mt. Rainier - one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world - explodes and southern Seattle gets devastated by massive lahars? A Fuckface Von Clownstick response would make W. Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina look downright statesman-like.

Yeesh, my imagination gets away from me.

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ObserverArt  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:21:10pm

Will Bill Maher do a whole show on how the reaction to Milo and the quick fallout of favor is another great example of the liberals overreacting?

People should just be cool with it all, Milo was just expressing himself. /

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austin_blue  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:21:43pm

re: #130 Charles Johnson

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Nyet  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:22:19pm

Milo Wormdick, Grima Wormtongue’s less lucky descendant.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:22:43pm

re: #136 Stanley Sea

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I googled for that and found this—All Original 49 Outer Limits episodes playing at the same time…

The Outer Limits (All 49 episodes at the same time)

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Stanley Sea  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:22:45pm
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Skip Intro  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:22:49pm

So all in all, this has been a pretty good day.

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wrenchwench  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:23:20pm

re: #140 teleskiguy

What if Mt. Rainer - one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world - explodes and southern Seattle gets devastated by massive lahars? A Fuckface Von Clownstick response would make W. Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina look downright statesman-like.

Yeesh, my imagination gets away from me.

Mr. w was on top of St. Helens when it was taller. Got a pic somewhere.

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austin_blue  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:23:40pm

re: #137 klys (maker of Silmarils)

The rain here today has been the most I’ve seen in years. A proper winter storm.

We are definitely in feast mode this winter.

Pretty classic Pacific rain bomb, isn’t it? Have you heard anything on the effect it will have on Oroville?

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:24:19pm

re: #147 wrenchwench

Mr. w was on top of St. Helens when it was taller. Got a pic somewhere.

That’s neat!

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wrenchwench  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:25:59pm

re: #149 teleskiguy

That’s neat!

He also has a story about a friend who cached his stash of explosives up there…

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Skip Intro  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:26:13pm

re: #141 ObserverArt

Will Bill Maher do a whole show on how the reaction to Milo and the quick fallout of favor is another great example of the liberals overreacting?

People should just be cool with it all, Milo was just expressing himself. /

I wish he’d do the same thing for Ann Coulter.

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Amory Blaine  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:26:28pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

I’m expecting the announcement that he’s been fired from Breitbart any minute.

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Skip Intro  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:27:56pm

re: #151 Skip Intro

Speaking of ….

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nines09  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:28:14pm

“Yes. if you were a 13 year old boy….Know any?”

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thecommodore  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:28:28pm

Milo’s comment.

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:28:35pm

re: #150 wrenchwench

He also has a story about a friend who cached his stash of explosives up there…

My brother-in-law has made the summit of Rainier three times. He told me it was probably his favorite mountain he’s climbed. “It’s got everything,” he would say.

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lawhawk  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:32:55pm

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Botsplainer  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:33:19pm

So damn - I drew another twitter double secret probation. I think it was for something I said by describing Ivanka’s pops on Ivanka’s feed.

Is calling someone a “dipshit” against twitter rules?

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:35:03pm

re: #146 Skip Intro

Youtube is not the government. They can censor any channel they want to. I wish people would stop trying to turn the First Amendment into something it’s not.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:38:11pm

re: #153 Skip Intro

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Anymouse  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:39:55pm

From the previous thread:

re: #186 goddamnedfrank

He’ll get to keep his $250K advance. Just imagine how much background research that could’ve bought.

That’s not how an advance works in publishing (putting on editor hat).

An advance is “an advance against expected royalties.” Advances aren’t paid to just any writer, only a writer the publisher expects to make more money from than the size of the advance.

Advances can be non-refundable to a publisher, provided the author (or musician in the case of a record company) has complied with all the requirements of the publishing contract.

It would depend on what is in Mr. Yiannopolis’s contract. Advances can be set directly against royalties that would be paid.

An advance is literally an advance payment and royalties on sales of the book are set against it. It is not normally refundable, provided that the author fulfils their part of the contract.

It is often split into three parts, payable one-third on signature of the contract, one-third on delivery and acceptance of the manuscript and one-third on publication.

If the book is written and doesn’t need more work, then the advance might be paid in two parts, on signature and publication. In some cases the publisher will want to pay part of the advance on paperback publication (often but not necessarily a year or several months after hardback publication), but obviously it is in your interest to get the money paid to you as soon as possible. Don’t forget to take into account the tax implications of what you agree!

writersservices.com

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Skip Intro  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:41:39pm

re: #163 Patricia Kayden

Lying again, I see.

Notice how she always blames “the libs” even when it was “the conservatives” who dumped him?

Then, of course, there’s that Duggar ass who is into both pedophilia and incest. He, of course, gets a complete pass from the family values people.

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Thousands of demonstrators across the U.S. turn out to challenge Pres. Trump in a ‘Not My Presidents’ Day’ protest. abcn.ws

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The Spite House  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:42:45pm

Unpopular opinion: he should get to keep his advance. Serves S&S right for not looking into him sufficiently. Those videos didn’t just appear.

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Skip Intro  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:44:03pm

re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth

The guy who took the photo of the man carrying the nuclear football went on to praise Trump as a real “man of the people”, as long as you’re a people who buys $200,000 golf club memberships with annual dues of $14,000.

These people are completely delusional.

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jaunte  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:46:35pm

re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth

It was a mantle embraced by former owner Emmis Communications Corp, which sold the magazine in October 2016 to Genesis Park, a private equity firm co-founded by Paul Hobby, grandson of former Texas governor William P. Hobby, who owned the now-defunct Houston Post. The buyers quickly found a new editor in Taliaferro, 33, the former vice president for communications and digital strategy for Texas Exes (the University of Texas alumni association) and the editor in chief of Alcalde, UT’s alumni magazine.

Well there’s a couple of solid strikes before he even begins.

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Skip Intro  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:48:24pm

re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth

Is that why Trump looked so pissed off when he got off the helicopter this afternoon?

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Odie Hugh Manatee  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:48:32pm

Oh how the mighty stupid has fallen… it couldn’t happen to a more deserving asshole. Milo Yeahimapedo, provocative leader and advocate of a bold, new conservative era of open racism, misogyny, antisemitism and child rape.

Make conservatives choke on him.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:50:06pm

re: #160 FormerDirtDart

Conservatives stay lying and yet they always yap on and on about Judeo-Christian principles. I thought that one of the 10 Commandments proscribed lying but I guess they skipped that one.

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Skip Intro  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:50:52pm

re: #175 Odie Hugh Manatee

Like the GOP nazis back in 2008, Milo is a signpost to what the GOP will be in eight years.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:53:30pm

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ObserverArt  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:56:02pm

re: #110 Joe Bacon

Observer Art the last time US/UK relations were this strained was the Venezuela/British Guiana Border Controversy during Cleveland’s second administration. Cleveland went full Monroe Doctrine to side with Venezuela.

Thanks for the history lesson response! I thought we had been enjoying decent relations for at least a hundred years. What you mentioned was turn of the century.

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austin_blue  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:56:42pm

re: #168 The Spite House

Unpopular opinion: he should get to keep his advance. Serves S&S right for not looking into him sufficiently. Those videos didn’t just appear.

Contract law is Contract law. Violating it gets the plaintiff triple damages. So S&S is bound to the letter of the Contract, no more no less.

Hopefully, and this is probably true, the advance was spaced over the production of the book and they are saving $200,000 or so by terminating the Contract now.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:57:24pm

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Timothy Watson  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:57:38pm

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The Spite House  Feb 20, 2017 • 4:58:44pm

re: #183 austin_blue

Contract law is Contract law. Violating it gets the plaintiff triple damages. So S&S is bound to the letter of the Contract, no more no less.

Hopefully, and this is probably true, the advance was spaced over the production of the book and they are saving $200,000 or so by terminating the Contract now.

I know, I know. Just hoping they don’t get to skate on the consequences of trying to cash in on Milo.

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:01:41pm

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austin_blue  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:02:56pm

re: #182 ObserverArt

Thanks for the history lesson response! I thought we had been enjoying decent relations for at least a hundred years. What you mentioned was turn of the century.

Around 1896, if I am remembering right. (sic)

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Nyet  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:04:11pm

re: #189 teleskiguy

He’s always been envious of Milo.

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Myron Falwell  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:05:06pm

re: #188 FormerDirtDart

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Fucking Floor Shitter Rage Furby with the kill shot on Milo. I may need a grin-ectomy.

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Skip Intro  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:05:11pm

New TLC show coming soon: Growing Up Pedo, starring @Milo and Josh Duggar.

Special Appearance by President Donald J. Trump on the special relationship between fathers and daughters.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:05:36pm

re: #191 Nyet

He’s always been envious of Milo.

Yep Milo got book deals, tv gigs, and campus appearances. Chuck hasn’t gotten those.

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ObserverArt  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:06:22pm

re: #134 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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Amazing. I still remember all of yours and other Californian’s posting about the dry conditions all last year. Now this. What a drastic change.

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Skip Intro  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:06:37pm

re: #195 HappyWarrior

Are you forgetting that he wrote the definitive work on Calvin Coolidge?

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Myron Falwell  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:07:46pm

re: #194 Skip Intro

New TLC show coming soon: Growing Up Pedo, starring @Milo and Josh Duggar.

Special Appearance by President Donald J. Trump on the special relationship between fathers and daughters.

Huckster Huckabee can be the whacky next-door neighbor!

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re: #199 Myron Falwell

Huckster Huckabee can be the whacky next-door neighbor!

He should get his own show: The Dog Torturer.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:09:33pm

re: #198 Skip Intro

Are you forgetting that he wrote the definitive work on Calvin Coolidge?

I did actually.

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Skip Intro  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:10:29pm

re: #202 HappyWarrior

I did actually.

I think I have a picture of him with it somewhere if you’d care to wait.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:11:04pm

re: #204 Skip Intro

I think I have a picture of him with it somewhere if you’d care to wait.

No, it’s fine.

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Skip Intro  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:11:57pm

re: #200 FormerDirtDart

I guess there’s not even a shadow of a doubt over what Republicans stand for any more. When will the purge of religious heretics begin?

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:12:12pm

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:16:23pm

re: #148 austin_blue

Pretty classic Pacific rain bomb, isn’t it? Have you heard anything on the effect it will have on Oroville?

We just got back in this morning at 1am and were pretty much completely disconnected from the news while on vacation. (It was fantastic.) So I am so far behind on the Oroville news. Most of what I’ve been seeing is the stuff going by on Twitter.

I don’t think my normal running path is drying out anytime soon. Too much more and my 5 mile route is going to be in some serious trouble. (I’m already having to run the high side of it.)

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Myron Falwell  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:16:52pm

re: #206 Skip Intro

I guess there’s not even a shadow of a doubt over what Republicans stand for any more. When will the purge of religious heretics begin?

Republicans don’t stand for anything but to watch the world burn. They are the modern-day Jacobins sans the guillotine.

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DuckDharma  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:18:44pm

re: #196 Interesting Times

Leave,” a woman shouted on the video, flipping her off. “You don’t like America, get the fuck out … You are a disgrace to America,” the man walking next to her said.

They mocked her camera. “You can jack off to that later, the man drawled. “I’ve got a big ol’ white American redneck dick.”

The woman in the hijab told him where to stick it.

“I can put it up your little tight ass,” he countered, “and I won’t be hittin’ that clit, ‘cause it already got removed.”

Like bein gay in the 50s all over again.

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Anymouse  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:19:00pm

re: #200 FormerDirtDart

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my surprise…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:20:39pm

re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth

Curt’s going with Milo is the victim…

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:21:21pm

re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He’s really desperate to throw away his baseball legacy isn’t he? Makes Jim Bunning look almost sane.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:21:38pm

re: #213 Backwoods_Sleuth

Curt’s going with Milo is the victim…

Of course he is.

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:22:22pm

He’s never coming back.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:23:41pm

re: #214 HappyWarrior

He’s really desperate to throw away his baseball legacy isn’t he? Makes Jim Bunning look almost sane.

I want to see Trump’s tax returns, and the DNA of the bloody sock.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:24:21pm

Engadget’s article on Milo’s cancellation by Simon and Schuster is just too precious for words-go give them some love.

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Kragar  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:25:14pm

re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth

[insert “got his back” gay joke here]

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:25:37pm

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:26:26pm

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:27:46pm

re: #140 teleskiguy

What if Mt. Rainier - one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world - explodes and southern Seattle gets devastated by massive lahars? A Fuckface Von Clownstick response would make W. Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina look downright statesman-like.

Yeesh, my imagination gets away from me.

WASHINGTON STATE!!! THEY VOTED AGAINST ME. SO UNFAIR!!!!!!!

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ObserverArt  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:28:25pm

re: #144 Joe Bacon

I googled for that and found this—All Original 49 Outer Limits episodes playing at the same time…

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:28:55pm

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:30:01pm

re: #216 teleskiguy

He’s never coming back.

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Read the link. My 6th grader could put something together more coherent.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:31:25pm
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No shit

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jaunte  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:34:25pm

re: #196 Interesting Times

“During Obama, for eight years, I suffered, was unemployed, dependent on my wife’s income,” he said. Trump got him a job. He is still unemployed now, but he just enrolled in Liberty University to study divinity. It’s just a matter of time.

He stopped his furious pace and commenced yelling every reply, pointing angrily across the street at protesters who were going to “obstruct everything.” “All those losers there better shut up or put up, ‘cause I put up for the past eight years. That’s what democracy’s all about: You vote, and the person who wins, everybody supports him. Nobody protested Obama.”
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These folks are completely disconnected from reality.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:36:33pm

re: #236 jaunte

These folks are completely disconnected from reality.

Nobody protested Obama? I swear these people refuse to live in reality. That’s exactly why I refuse to feel bad for them.

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:36:51pm

re: #236 jaunte

These folks are completely disconnected from reality.

“Nobody protested Obama.”

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jaunte  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:37:44pm

re: #237 HappyWarrior

“I’m still unemployed, but Trump got me a job!!!!”

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:38:11pm

re: #238 Belafon

“Nobody protested Obama.”

Like how the hell can you say that?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:38:42pm

re: #240 jaunte

“I’m still unemployed, but Trump got me a job!!!!”

These people deserve Trump for being so stupid.

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jaunte  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:39:43pm

re: #242 HappyWarrior

He’s going to give half his wife’s income to Liberty University and then discover the prosperity preacher gigs are full up.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:40:14pm

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:40:31pm

re: #216 teleskiguy

Dude, I didn’t want to come back from my vacation and I’ve had one more recently than he had.

At least the rain has been nice?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:40:54pm

re: #243 jaunte

He’s going to give half his wife’s income to Liberty University and then discover the prosperity preacher gigs are full up.

And then blame the left when things go wrong.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:41:47pm

re: #240 jaunte

“I’m still unemployed, but Trump got me a job!!!!”

And a good ole student loan I’m sure.

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Skip Intro  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:42:02pm

re: #236 jaunte

These folks are completely disconnected from reality.

Liberty “University” is another for profit “school” that makes it’s money from government backed student loans. The majority of L.U. students come out of the deal with no job and huge debt, just like Jesus preached.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:42:45pm

re: #250 Skip Intro

Liberty “University” is another for profit “school” that makes it’s money from government backed student loans. The majority of L.U. students come out of the deal with no job and huge debt, just like Jesus preached.

It’s a racket for the Falwell family.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:45:49pm

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He’s never coming back.

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Now, Obama’s retired and vacationing, and somehow in charge of a nefarious shadow government.

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retired cynic  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:47:41pm

re: #148 austin_blue

Pretty classic Pacific rain bomb, isn’t it? Have you heard anything on the effect it will have on Oroville?

Answering this way out of time, so maybe got answered. A friend lives south of Oroville, and he said they had not had much; most had gone south of Sacramento.

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jaunte  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:48:23pm

re: #250 Skip Intro

Liberty “University” is another for profit “school” that makes it’s money from government backed student loans. The majority of L.U. students come out of the deal with no job and huge debt, just like Jesus preached.

You would think the Christians would get mad at Christians preying on Christians.

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Timothy Watson  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:50:53pm

Conservatives’ master plan was for Milo to attract young people to the conservative movement?

Jesus H. Christ, some plan. Even when I was conservative, I would killed myself before getting within a mile of that piece of shit.

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lawhawk  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:53:35pm

re: #258 jaunte

All’s forgiven, as long as those in charge get the money.

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majii  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:56:09pm

re: #241 HappyWarrior

“Like how the hell can you say that?”

It’s easy for those who believe in alternative facts. Forget about the gross disrespect the TPs, RW organizations, and RW pols showed toward PBO. Today, that never happened. It’s like what Limbaugh said when he claimed that PBO got everything he wanted because he was black while presidenting. Don’t ask RL about playing the race card because he’d swear up and down that he didn’t do it and has never done it.

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The Spite House  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:57:06pm

re: #260 Timothy Watson

Conservatives’ master plan was for Milo to attract young people to the conservatism?

Jesus H. Christ, some plan. Even when I was conservative, I would killed myself before getting within a mile of that piece of shit.

You need to think more specifically. He appeals to young men who feel like they’re the victims. They feel like they deserve to have girlfriends and blame feminism for their not having any. As I type this I wonder… have you seen any kind of female following for Milo? Any of significance?

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Skandal  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:57:14pm

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:57:49pm

Watching a food show, and nacho was the nick name of the guy who created them.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 20, 2017 • 5:58:54pm

re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth

My educated guess is that McMaster won’t last long.

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Carriages of a train were blown off rail tracks when severe storms hit the area of Austin, #Texas overnight Sunday.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:01:45pm

Read a piece about the Oroville dam in USA Today that talked about the conservative/liberal divide in CA.

Seriously, I don’t understand people. Or how people can choose to be so dense.

This isn’t just idle talk: One of the first signs heading into Oroville, population 16,000, urges residents to support seceding from California to create a new state of Jefferson. Here in inland California, Gov. Jerry Brown’s name evokes disgust, and President Donald Trump is seen as the one who really cares. Here, residents distrust a state government they think is all-too-eager to help undocumented immigrants and build a bullet train to serve the rich coastal elites, leaving them with little.

“I bet that if they put this effort into building it right the first time, they wouldn’t have to do all of this,” Hofeling, 66, says as a backhoe drops rocks into a dump truck, shaking the ground.

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weave  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:02:39pm

A friend of mine said Homeland Security was doing ID checks in Dallas at Elm and Ervay today at 1pm. Stopping anyone who was Latino looking and asking for papers. About a dozen officers.

Anyone else hear anything about this?

He said half of them looked like police, other half had Homeland Security on their shirts.

Dallas is certainly more than 100 miles from the border too….

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The Spite House  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:02:47pm

re: #268 GlutenFreeJesus

My educated guess is that McMaster won’t last long.

Yeah, he’s too good for this administration. A fatal lack of Muslim-hate.

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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:02:56pm

Alternate take:

This is entire mess is basically a marketing mistake, but a telling one.

Milo is basically a product and a performer. His “provocations” are bits in the same way comedy routines are.

However…his audience want cruelty and to not empathize—so much so they basically have imaginary outraged liberals in their heads, and seek out actual upset liberals just to sate their need—so when he workshops material, it all tilts toward greater titillation of cruelty. Each round of proclamations, articles, and harassment campaigns has incorporated difference variations on theater of cruelty, targeting different groups and individuals (as synedoches of groups). And each time, his audience not only signs on, but doubles down. It is precisely this quality to his performance that elevated him to where he is (was?): CPAC isn’t quite as guignol as Milo, but it plays out as a self-righteous variant of the same catharatic shitting on lesser folk.

Consider this mess in that light—-to play to an audience that wants more and more titillation in a very particular direction: to denigrate anything “liberals” (a giant swath of people won’t aren’t necessarily liberals in any political sense) seem to value. Playing to that inclination, mocking the concept of consent probably seemed like a brilliant new rock to throw: after all, it’s not an entirely new front to explore (as noted elsewhere, the alt-right dabbles in scoffing at consent because of its MRA element).

All this to say: how many rounds of not caring were cycled through before the people supporting him balked? That’s a rump measure of the hierarchy they impose on the world: who matters, who do they identify with. They didn’t balk at other words about sexual assault and women, et cetera. It had to get this bad before they’d recognize an issue, while the rest of us could see this coming. And now that some have balked, how is their distaste characterize-able, as opposed to their reaction to other similar scandals?

As I said with Trump, these are people who’ve already excused worse. Since Milo broke the one last aesthetic taboo by talking about boys, he won’t come out as clean, but it’s still likely he’ll be salvaged and found a use. Remember, this whole pederasty thing simply further confirms the threat of homosexuality, and he can play on that trope to sell himself in a slightly different way to the same audience. He’s still a product—a gay man that confirms the ugly things they believe—and he can still perform a variant of that function and get paid.

Remember all those fake repentant terrorists that make money on the talk circuit (Walid Shoebat being the most visible)? There you go.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:06:29pm
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That reinforcement work is actually really recent. I would be surprised to see a mudslide there, but it could happen. It’s been raining pretty much all day.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:08:40pm

re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOOK AT ALL MY LOVING FANS!!!!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:09:30pm

re: #279 GlutenFreeJesus

LOOK AT ALL MY LOVING FANS!!!!!

really love how they have their backs turned.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:09:54pm

re: #279 GlutenFreeJesus

Yes. He is delusional. G-d help the USA.

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dissing Hebrew National hotdogs…smdh…

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Jerky  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:12:46pm

Congratulations, Charles!

Seriously… you’re a big part of why this happened, and you deserve a great deal of credit. Maybe the BULK of it!

I’m sad to see, however, so many FAR Right assholes claiming to feel “vindicated” in their hatred for Milo (over his homosexuality and in some cases his Judaism) mixed in with the good, happy gleeful stuff under the #MiloGate hashtag.

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Archangelus  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:17:55pm

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:18:43pm

re: #201 Skip Intro

He should get his own show: The Dog Torturer.

This week: A special guest appearance by Mitt Romney!

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lawhawk  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:21:08pm

re: #271 klys (maker of Silmarils)

If they put in effort? Do any of these people realize that all engineering is value engineering - that you build or think you build for the conditions, and not more than that because that’s a cost thing. You could build something that handles X, so you don’t build for Y or Z because that costs more.

Were shortcuts taken or were there issues with how they built the spillway? Quite possibly. Or that the repairs done over the years were incomplete.

As technology has improved, we’ve learned more about how water flows and computer simulations can help figure out how to better engineer structures. The emergency spillway is a mess, and they’re going to have to investigate how that was ever allowed, and there’s reports that they should have been armored years ago, but the operators refused to spend for it (there’s that money thing again).

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:25:46pm

re: #293 lawhawk

The implication that all the folks in Silicon Valley are millionaires was a nice touch too.

I mean, don’t get me wrong. There are a lot out here. But there are a lot of people who aren’t as well, and it’s expensive as hell.

There’s just so much in that article that sets my teeth on edge.

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:27:38pm

And, he digs his hole a little deeper…

Earlier, I tweeted some photos that were not from Malmo. This was a mistake. As you can see, multicultural Malmo is actually very peaceful.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:28:33pm

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Honey Punch!  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:30:42pm

re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth

He should have a proctologist check out his “source”.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:30:47pm

Wow. Look at the garbage this SOB is posting.

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KGxvi  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:33:20pm

re: #293 lawhawk

If they put in effort? Do any of these people realize that all engineering is value engineering - that you build or think you build for the conditions, and not more than that because that’s a cost thing. You could build something that handles X, so you don’t build for Y or Z because that costs more.

Were shortcuts taken or were there issues with how they built the spillway? Quite possibly. Or that the repairs done over the years were incomplete.

As technology has improved, we’ve learned more about how water flows and computer simulations can help figure out how to better engineer structures. The emergency spillway is a mess, and they’re going to have to investigate how that was ever allowed, and there’s reports that they should have been armored years ago, but the operators refused to spend for it (there’s that money thing again).

From the wikipedia page on the dam:

On October 17, 2005 three environmental groups filed a motion with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission urging federal officials to require that the dam’s emergency spillway be armored with concrete, rather than remain as an earthen spillway and that it did not meet modern safety standards. “In the event of extreme rain and flooding, fast-rising water would overwhelm the main concrete spillway, then flow down the emergency spillway, and that could cause heavy erosion that would create flooding for communities downstream, but also could cause a failure, known as ‘loss of crest control.’” FERC and water agencies responsible for the cost of the upgrades said it was unnecessary and concerns were overblown.

In 2006, a senior civil engineer sent a memo to his managers stating “The emergency spillway meets FERC’s engineering guidelines for an emergency spillway,” and that “The guidelines specify that during a rare flood event, it is acceptable for the emergency spillway to sustain significant damage.”

Beyond that, the people bitching now are the same people that would have been saying something like:

hur hur hur, stupid libtards, what about the drought? Huh? It’s almost empty, why are you wasting money on something that doesn’t get used? Why not give me that money as a tax cut??

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:34:03pm

re: #264 The Spite House

You need to think more specifically. He appeals to young men who feel like they’re the victims. They feel like they deserve to have girlfriends and blame feminism for their not having any. As I type this I wonder… have you seen any kind of female following for Milo? Any of significance?

Cancer has more female followers than Milo

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A Cranky One  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:34:07pm

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:37:34pm

Milo’s book cancellation got picked up by the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s Book Editor:

Simon & Schuster cancels Milo Yiannopoulos book deal

Apparently there are limits, even for a provocateur.

Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos—well-known for his unapologetic comments about women, Muslims, minorities, transgender people and others—appears to have crossed a line. Over the weekend, a video surfaced of Yiannopoulos apparently expressing favorable views of pedophilia, and the backlash has been swift.

Yiannopoulos posted on Facebook that the video in question had been edited and that as a gay survivor of childhood sexual abuse he does not condone pedophilia.

“I understand that my usual blend of British sarcasm, provocation and gallows humor might have come across as flippancy, a lack of care for other victims or, worse, ‘advocacy,’” he wrote. “I deeply regret that.”

But a number of Breitbart employees reportedly have threatened to quit if Yiannopoulos is not fired, according to the Washingtonian. The Conservative Political Action Conference has disinvited him from its conference next week.

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lawhawk  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:40:55pm

re: #303 KGxvi

One of the blast from the past names that have come out attacking the CA response is Victor Davis Hanson, because of course he did.

Let’s just ignore that CA has continued to be constrained by various propositions, and gets back far less than it sends to DC. Or that this is an agency that relied on outdated/outmoded data and that it’s maintenance of the dam may have been suspect - or incomplete, because - money. Not wanting to spend money on infrastructure. Taxpayers not wanting to spend on infrastructure because it wasn’t deemed necessary.

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Odie Hugh Manatee  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:41:28pm

re: #90 Charles Johnson

You rang? Oh…

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Anymouse  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:41:38pm

I guess Katy Perry and Lady Gaga better watch out:

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:42:34pm

re: #301 Charles Johnson

As in the immortal words of Jesse Ventura in the Budweiser commercial….

Who is that Guy?

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Archangelus  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:43:16pm

re: #301 Charles Johnson

Wow. Look at the garbage this SOB is posting.

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Nope, not gonna, you can’t make me!!! /

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Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:45:07pm

re: #301 Charles Johnson

Wow. Look at the garbage this SOB is posting.

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Funny how much of the garbage he’s posting is about the Comet Ping Pong “pizzagate” hoax - which actually fits a pattern regarding Donald Trump and those people he surrounds himself with:

If there is some sort of outlandish story about his political opponents engaging in illegal, disgusting and/or degenerate acts getting pushed out, it is a very very safe bet that it is a cover for something that they are committing themselves. It has happened repeatedly during the past year or so and almost with a clockwork precision.

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lawhawk  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:47:07pm

re: #315 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos

IMAX called, since they want the projectors that the right wing are using to deflect whatever amoral BS they’re spewing and doing on to Democrats.

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:49:22pm

Alt-right freaking out about the “deep state.”

PANIC! WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!
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The Spite House  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:49:32pm

Rachel just mentioned IPAs and I threw up in my mouth a little. God I hate hoppy beers.

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makeitstop  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:51:30pm

I watched a few minutes of the Cernovich video.

Dude’s really not that bright. He’s supposed to be one of their heavy hitters? Not impressed.

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Anymouse  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:53:40pm

re: #315 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos

Funny how much of the garbage he’s posting is about the Comet Ping Pong “pizzagate” hoax - which actually fits a pattern regarding Donald Trump and those people he surrounds himself with:

If there is some sort of outlandish story about his political opponents engaging in illegal, disgusting and/or degenerate acts getting pushed out, it is a very very safe bet that it is a cover for something that they are committing themselves. It has happened repeatedly during the past year or so and almost with a clockwork precision.

It seems to be a truism of conservatism in general: “It’s always projection.”

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scottslemmons  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:57:17pm

So who’s CPAC’s keynote speaker now? Someone who just wasn’t quite outrageous and offensive enough?

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KGxvi  Feb 20, 2017 • 6:59:21pm

re: #309 lawhawk

One of the blast from the past names that have come out attacking the CA response is Victor Davis Hanson, because of course he did.

Let’s just ignore that CA has continued to be constrained by various propositions, and gets back far less than it sends to DC. Or that this is an agency that relied on outdated/outmoded data and that it’s maintenance of the dam may have been suspect - or incomplete, because - money. Not wanting to spend money on infrastructure. Taxpayers not wanting to spend on infrastructure because it wasn’t deemed necessary.

I met VDH once, in law school or shortly after (check that, shortly after because he was selling this book at the time EDIT: might have been during, the publication date is for the second edition), a Federalist Society event (I think). The book wasn’t very memorable, nor, quite honestly was he… just another conservative wondering why things aren’t as good as when they were kids.

Which, come to think of it, pretty accurately describes a lot of conservatives. “Things were better when I was a kid, why can’t things be like that again?”

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Skandal  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:02:30pm
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bratwurst  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:03:10pm

To nobody’s surprise whatsoever, Curt Schilling beclowned himself over Milo.

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Anymouse  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:03:27pm

re: #327 scottslemmons

So who’s CPAC’s keynote speaker now? Someone who just wasn’t quite outrageous and offensive enough?

Well, they have their entire list of speakers (sans Mr. Yiannopolis) but they don’t list a particular one as a keynote speaker.

That said, it is pretty much the constellation of wingnuts inside and out of government.

cpac.conservative.org

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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:06:37pm

re: #321 makeitstop

The meta-joke is that it’s not his job to be bright.

It’s his job to make his audience feel bright.

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Skandal  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:06:52pm

re: #332 Anymouse

The rumor mills are churning

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Anymouse  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:07:59pm

re: #334 Skandal

Richard Spencer would be so much better. What the heck is CPAC, the NSDAP?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:08:25pm
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makeitstop  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:08:56pm

re: #334 Skandal

The rumor mills are churning

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The plane had taken off from Melbourne’s second-biggest airport at Essendon on a chartered flight to King Island, 255 kilometers (160 miles) to the south, Neville said.

The mall adjoins the airport.

Police Assistant Commissioner Stephen Leane said it appeared that no one aboard the plane had survived. No one on the ground was injured.

“Looking at the fireball, it is incredibly lucky that no one was at the back of those stores or in the car park of the stores, that no one was even hurt,” Leane told reporters.

A pilot reported a “catastrophic engine failure” moments before the plane crashed into a storage area at the rear of the mall, police said.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:11:02pm
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FormerDirtDart  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:12:09pm
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nines09  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:15:49pm

re: #340 FormerDirtDart

What a lovely couple.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:16:04pm

Tomi Lahren’s YouTube account has been killed.

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The Spite House  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:16:47pm
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austin_blue  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:17:05pm

re: #271 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Read a piece about the Oroville dam in USA Today that talked about the conservative/liberal divide in CA.

Seriously, I don’t understand people. Or how people can choose to be so dense.

The first and most important concept of Public Policy and economics was the Tragedy of the Commons:

en.wikipedia.org

This concept has informed us for almost 200 years, but was not really incorporated into American law until the Nixon Administration, when the concept was expanded it to include our shared land, air, and water with the Clean Air and Clean Water acts and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The fact that we are still arguing over this goes a long way to explain the fight amongst Libs and Cons.

It’s a stupid fight, and was settled along ago. The counterforce against it was spelled out in the Preamble to the Constitution that stated:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Why are we fighting over The Founders stated dreams? That’s Originalism.

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The Spite House  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:17:10pm

re: #342 GlutenFreeJesus

Tomi Lahren’s YouTube account has been killed.

What did we do to deserve a day as glorious as this?

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Anymouse  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:18:24pm

My cat just clawed me in my appendectomy scar. (That scar is incredibly sensitive.) Amazingly, I did not throw the cat across the room; I just collapsed on the floor.

I am bleeding.

I swear, my cat is trying to kill me.

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The Spite House  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:19:22pm

re: #346 Anymouse

My cat just clawed me in my appendectomy scar. (That scar is incredibly sensitive.) Amazingly, I did not throw the cat across the room; I just collapsed on the floor.

I am bleeding.

I swear, my cat is trying to kill me.

My cat almost bit me earlier, but I was trying to clean his butt with a wet wipe so I get it.

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Kragar  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:19:28pm
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Anymouse  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:21:01pm

re: #348 The Spite House

My cat almost bit me earlier, but I was trying to clean his butt with a wet wipe so I get it.

I was eating my dinner. Perhaps he was just trying to use my abdomen as a toehold to get to my plate, I don’t know.

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austin_blue  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:21:33pm

re: #346 Anymouse

My cat just clawed me in my appendectomy scar. (That scar is incredibly sensitive.) Amazingly, I did not throw the cat across the room; I just collapsed on the floor.

I am bleeding.

I swear, my cat is trying to kill me.

Yield to your feline Overlord! Or just empty the food bowl until she realizes who’s the boss.

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Archangelus  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:21:38pm

re: #342 GlutenFreeJesus

Tomi Lahren’s YouTube account has been killed.

Milo in deep doodoo, CPAC takes a well-deserved hit, potential Breitbart civil war and now this? The day keeps getting better and better!

…Not for anyone on the Alt-Reich obviously, but for the rest of civilization as a whole….

“Happy happy, joy joy!”
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Anymouse  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:28:10pm

re: #352 Archangelus

And the day keeps getting better and better!

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YouTube is part of the Deep State!!!1!!!2!one!!

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Interesting Times  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:28:31pm
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Egregious Philbin  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:29:28pm

Another psycho nutcase bites the dust How about that free market?

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Anymouse  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:30:17pm

Now if after kicking Mr. Yiannopolis out of CPAC and Ms. Lehrer off YouTube that YouTube and CPAC are socialist plots… .

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Puss Power  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:31:25pm

Now for another first world problem. I had a salad for lunch today. I walked across the room holding the salad, and put it down on a table. I managed to flick the fork out of the salad with my elbow… and I haven’t seen that fork since. I have searched high (no, it’s not stuck into the ceiling) and low (no, it’s not under any of the furniture — it would be easier to hide there, but I searched with a flashlight), and I can’t find it, and it’s driving me nuts.

I’m beginning to think I should have gotten the letter from Hogwarts.

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jaunte  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:32:56pm

“Deep State” = people who get a paycheck from the government who actually care about and know how to do their jobs.

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Cheechako  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:33:13pm

re: #357 Puss Power

Now for another first world problem. I had a salad for lunch today. I walked across the room holding the salad, and put it down on a table. I managed to flick the fork out of the salad with my elbow… and I haven’t seen that fork since. I have searched high (no, it’s not stuck into the ceiling) and low (no, it’s not under any of the furniture — it would be easier to hide there, but I searched with a flashlight), and I can’t find it, and it’s driving me nuts.

I’m beginning to think I should have gotten the letter from Hogwarts.

Don’t worry….you’ll find it in the last place you looked.

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Anymouse  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:33:29pm
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Belafon  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:37:28pm

re: #343 The Spite House

I bet McMullen and I would almost never vote for the same things, but I would almost move to Utah and register as a Republican to vote for him in those races.

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Anymouse  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:39:27pm

re: #361 Belafon

I bet McMullen and I would almost never vote for the same things, but I would almost move to Utah and register as a Republican to vote for him in those races.

Evan McMullen probably can’t win a Republican primary.

When Republicans win elections, they double down on their crazy.

If they are seen as weak in their position, the only people that beat them come from the right (see Dave Brat v Eric Cantor).

Republican clown cars only turn to the right.

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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:39:36pm
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Kragar  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:40:31pm

re: #358 jaunte

Irony: Meal Team 6 is outraged that career intelligence agents and diplomats are keeping their oath to defend the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:42:13pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:43:23pm

re: #35 Bluesigh

“moral turpitude” acknowledged and loss of what I imagine, is a working green card. That is a deportation I could get behind.

Now that would be some irony. Karma has a wicked sense of humor.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:51:14pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 20, 2017 • 7:55:09pm

re: #368 Charles Johnson

YouTube

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 20, 2017 • 8:05:18pm

re: #366 teleskiguy

There was probably a light breeze blowing towards the camera and they didn’t want him stirring up dust. Still, they could’ve told him to do something else.

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TedStriker  Feb 20, 2017 • 8:54:18pm

re: #354 Interesting Times

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Horse-ception?

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Joe Bacon  Feb 20, 2017 • 8:54:34pm

re: #326 austin_blue

That’s the train from Chicago that hooks up in San Antonio with the train west to LA. It used to be called the Dixie Flyer. Is it still?

google.com

Amtrak now calls it the Texas Eagle.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 21, 2017 • 4:13:43am

re: #343 The Spite House

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He should. He’s actually intelligent and wouldn’t be a bunch of bullshit.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Feb 21, 2017 • 6:30:41am

re: #222 Ace Rothstein

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I would pay money to witness Woody Allen speaking at CPAC.


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