In Press Conference With Angela Merkel, Trump Blames Wiretap Lie on 9/11 Truther Napolitano

And refuses to back down on implicating Britain

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Once again, our so-called president has embarrassed the United States in front of the whole world, at his press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, by:

Refusing to withdraw his claim that Obama ordered him to be "wiretapped."
Refusing to withdraw his claim that British intelligence helped Obama commit this alleged crime.
Citing as his source "a certain very talented legal mind" on Fox News and saying, "We said nothing. Ask Fox News."

So, at the same time as he refused to repudiate or apologize for accusing President Obama of a serious crime, he tried to weasel out of it and blamed Fox News for reporting it in the first place.

WASHINGTON — President Trump refused to back down on Friday after his White House aired an unverified claim that Britain’s spy agency secretly monitored him during last year’s campaign at the behest of President Barack Obama, fueling a rare rupture between the United States and its most important international partner.

Although his aides in private conversations since Thursday night had tried to calm British officials who were livid over the claim, Mr. Trump made clear that he felt the White House had nothing to retract or apologize for. He said his spokesman was simply repeating an assertion made by a Fox News commentator.

“We said nothing,” Mr. Trump told a German reporter who asked about the matter at a joint White House news conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel. “All we did was quote a certain very talented legal mind who was the one responsible for saying that on television. I didn’t make an opinion on it.” He added: “You shouldn’t be talking to me. You should be talking to Fox.”

Oh, and that “very talented legal mind” he’s talking about? He’s referring to Andrew Napolitano, a notorious 9/11 Truther and frequent guest on the Alex Jones conspiracy sideshow.

Here’s Napolitano on the Alex Jones show, saying he thinks the US government is lying about the September 11 attacks, and that he doesn’t believe World Trade Center Building 7 “came down by itself.” This is the guy Donald Trump thinks is an authoritative source for news and intelligence information.

Media Matters

As for Trump’s demand to the press that they ask Fox News about his wiretap claim, well…

“Fox News cannot confirm Judge Napolitano’s commentary,” Shepard Smith says just now on Fox.

— Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) March 17, 2017

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Nyet Mar 17, 2017 • 1:11:05pm

@talalnansari @jdforward Did you ask about a possible David Irving connection? https://t.co/cdDTGXQZfg cc:@Green_Footballs

— Sergey Romanov (@S_ergeyR_omanov) March 17, 2017

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 1:11:56pm

It’s the goddam hair. All of these lunatics have ridiculous looking hair.

Targetpractice Mar 17, 2017 • 1:13:26pm

Yesterday, Bullshit Spice was at the podium, basically accusing the New York Times of being the source of the story. Today, Trump’s at the podium, claiming Napolitano was the source.

As always, when faced with the possibility of blowback from his actions, Trump turtles up and presents himself as the victim.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 17, 2017 • 1:13:50pm

Why does he keep saying things he knows are (demonstrably) untrue?

Sir John Barron Mar 17, 2017 • 1:14:20pm

re: #4 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Why does he keep saying things he knows are (demonstrably) untrue?

because his wingnutty base will believe them.

Nyet Mar 17, 2017 • 1:15:05pm

re: #4 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Why does he keep saying things he knows are (demonstrably) untrue?

Because he can?

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 17, 2017 • 1:15:29pm

re: #5 Sir John Barron

because his wingnutty base will believe them.

and his staff will bend over backwards to make them sound as if they were not lies or fabrications

Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 1:15:32pm

re: #4 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Why does he keep saying things he knows are (demonstrably) untrue?

The question is when are the Republicans going to step in and remove him from office? I don’t care how venal they are, they and their owners have to know Trump’s mental impairments are bad for business.

Clearly a Country For Sick Old Haters Mar 17, 2017 • 1:15:41pm

re: #5 Sir John Barron

because his wingnutty base will believe them.

And also insists on being told things that are not true. Reality makes wingnuts upset. They need constant hoaxes to feed their rage addiction. They should all be in rehab.

Targetpractice Mar 17, 2017 • 1:16:26pm

re: #4 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Why does he keep saying things he knows are (demonstrably) untrue?

Because he doesn’t get punished for doing so, but instead has been rewarded again and again throughout his life. He’s a man who grew up never hearing the word “No.”

Dr. Matt Mar 17, 2017 • 1:16:43pm

This is the future conservatives want

0% budget for art, science, space, education, healthcare, or environment

100% for Military pic.twitter.com/aQvGyI5kbj

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 16, 2017

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Skandal Mar 17, 2017 • 1:17:00pm

As Harry Truman famously said “The buck stops at Judge Andrew Napolitano”

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) March 17, 2017

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 17, 2017 • 1:18:04pm

re: #11 Dr. Matt

This is the future conservatives want

0% budget for art, science, space, education, healthcare, or environment

100% for Military

not too long after that photo was taken, one of the escort planes clipped the wing of the massive Maxim Gorkii and it crashed

Ace Rothstein Mar 17, 2017 • 1:18:15pm

re: #4 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Why does he keep saying things he knows are (demonstrably) untrue?

Why does a dog lick his balls?

Ace Rothstein Mar 17, 2017 • 1:19:33pm

Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 1:20:33pm

And while I’m royally pissed off - again - I want to know WHAT THE HELL his daughter is doing at all of these high level meetings? Her sole accomplishment in life was being born to Trump. She, like her husband, has zero qualifications to be involved in any governmental meetings at all.

Did Bush have his daughters in them? Did Obama have his?

WTF is someone who sells cheap knockoffs made in sweatshops involved in anything the US government does? Why isn’t the worthless “liberal” media making a huge stink over this?

Kragar Mar 17, 2017 • 1:21:51pm

Waiting for the day when Trump tells the press to ask Fox News why he bombed a bunch of civilians in a failed drone strike

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 17, 2017

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 17, 2017 • 1:22:53pm

re: #16 Skip Intro

WTF is someone who sells cheap knockoffs made in sweatshops involved in anything the US government does? Why isn’t the worthless “liberal” media making a huge stink over this?

DT sold himself as the ultimate outsider, the anti-politician. That somehow made it possible for him to say and do and get away with almost anything because he has torn up the playbook and is rewriting it as he goes along while the press and establishment stare on in impotent astonishment

Sir John Barron Mar 17, 2017 • 1:22:58pm

re: #17 Kragar

That was a failed Obama plan and ordered by the Deep State.

DuckDharma Mar 17, 2017 • 1:25:49pm

Trump thinking pro wrestling is real is kind of the skeleton key to how legit mentally unsound he is.

HHH on Opie and Anthony

Just wish one reporter would ask him an on-the-spot made up story just to he what he says because there’s no way he doesn’t fall for it and stomp on the bag of burning dog shit.

Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:27:43pm

Turkey’s president: Turks living in Europe should all have 5 children https://t.co/B0jDrG6NKZ via @voxdotcom

— ggt (@geegeetee) March 17, 2017

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so, the winner will be who ever makes the most babies???

It’s obscene to me to have children for this purpose.

Targetpractice Mar 17, 2017 • 1:28:14pm

re: #18 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

DT sold himself as the ultimate outsider, the anti-politician. It means that he can say and do and get away with almost anything because he has torn up the playbook and is rewriting it as he goes along while the press and establishment stare on in impotent astonishment

“He’s not a politician, he’s not bound by their rules! He’s totally unconstrained by what a politician is supposed to do! HEY! How dare you not call him ‘President’?! YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO RESPECT THE OFFICE!”

Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:29:15pm

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 17, 2017 • 1:29:45pm

re: #21 Birth Control Works

Turkey’s president: Turks living in Europe should all have 5 children

Because he knows that the best way to destroy a culture is to fill it with other people’s babies…

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 1:29:50pm

re: #16 Skip Intro

And while I’m royally pissed off - again - I want to know WHAT THE HELL his daughter is doing at all of these high level meetings? Her sole accomplishment in life was being born to Trump. She, like her husband, has zero qualifications to be involved in any governmental meetings at all.

Did Bush have his daughters in them? Did Obama have his?

WTF is someone who sells cheap knockoffs made in sweatshops involved in anything the US government does? Why isn’t the worthless “liberal” media making a huge stink over this?

One time when there was a visit with the Chinese, one of the daughters (Sasha, I think) was on hand because she actually speaks Mandarin Chinese.

Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:30:20pm

re: #11 Dr. Matt

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Whackos want war.

I simply do not understand this.

Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 1:30:53pm

So would I be correct in assuming that after working a grueling 25 hour week Trump is going on vacation again?

Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:31:08pm

re: #24 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because he knows that the best way to destroy a culture is to fill with other people’s babies…

pro-life my ass

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 17, 2017 • 1:31:12pm

re: #26 Birth Control Works

Whackos want war.

I simply do not understand this.

I understand quite clearly why whackos want war, I just don’t understand what made them that whacked.

Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 1:31:33pm

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

So maybe Ivanka is there because she’s fluent in bullshit?

Dr. Matt Mar 17, 2017 • 1:32:23pm

Rinse.Lather.Repeat

Some men are threatened by powerful women.

Some aren’t. pic.twitter.com/6lFm2TNbtU

— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) March 17, 2017

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 1:32:27pm

Merkel and Jerkel pic.twitter.com/EGtXqlmppt

— Harold Itzkowitz (@HaroldItz) March 17, 2017

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Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:32:41pm

re: #30 Skip Intro

So maybe Ivanka is there because she’s fluent in bullshit?

I’m not sure she knows why she is there —just doing what daddyking wants

Skandal Mar 17, 2017 • 1:33:30pm

GERMANY: Foreign ministry official says Trump ‘uses rudeness to compensate for his weakness, like Putin’

— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) March 17, 2017

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 1:33:55pm

re: #33 Birth Control Works

I think Trump believes he’s still doing the Apprentice.

Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:33:57pm

re: #34 Skandal

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BINGO

Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:34:29pm

re: #35 Skip Intro

I think Trump believes he’s still doing the Apprentice.

I’d say he has a faulty world-view.

Well, a delusional world-view.

Dr. Matt Mar 17, 2017 • 1:34:38pm

Fucking Priceless

The best part of this is Merkel looking at the audience like: “Can you believe this schmuck?”pic.twitter.com/0hcdAA19Na

— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) March 17, 2017

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freetoken Mar 17, 2017 • 1:35:28pm

re: #33 Birth Control Works

Ivanka is there to be a minder for her father.

I am quite convinced that Trump is on the downhill now of old age.

His nature is to lie. So when he kept bragging about his “energy”, what was really meant was his weakness.

Evidently he trusts his daughter more than his (current) wife, to look after him.

Eclectic Cyborg Mar 17, 2017 • 1:35:46pm

re: #38 Dr. Matt

Holy fuck.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 17, 2017 • 1:35:53pm

re: #38 Dr. Matt

Fucking Priceless

That is going to be portrayed as his big zinger and will become a major talking point…

Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:35:53pm

That one picture of he and Ivana on the royal bed in their robes.

Who The F**k poses for a picture with their wife on their bed in their robes?

(the insecure?)

makeitstop Mar 17, 2017 • 1:36:40pm

re: #34 Skandal

Foreign ministry official says Trump ‘uses rudeness to compensate for his weakness, like Putin’

Oh, it’s lit now.

Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:36:47pm

re: #39 freetoken

Ivanka is there to be a minder for her father.

I am quite convinced that Trump is on the downhill now of old age.

His nature is to lie. So when he kept bragging about his “energy”, what was really meant was his weakness.

Evidently he trusts his daughter more than his (current) wife, to look after him.

Well, she is doing a shit job of it.

Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 1:36:47pm

More from the “You just can’t make this shit up” file.

Former Rep. Steve Stockman appears in court, blames ‘deep state’ conspiracy for arrest

chron.com

Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 1:37:14pm

re: #44 Birth Control Works

Well, she is doing a shit job of it.

I don’t think she’s doing that well.

FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 1:37:20pm

Trump: “Major meeting” tonight at Mar-a-Lago to “talk all about the VA”

*turns to VA Sec.*

Will you be there?

*awkwardly shakes head no*

Trump: “Major meeting” tonight at Mar-a-Lago to “talk all about the VA”

*turns to VA Sec.*

Will you be there?

*awkwardly shakes head no* pic.twitter.com/Up2tPEIxbO

— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) March 17, 2017

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freetoken Mar 17, 2017 • 1:37:27pm

re: #44 Birth Control Works

Well, she is doing a shit job of it.

Or, even more worryingly, a spectacular job of it…

allegro Mar 17, 2017 • 1:37:58pm

re: #30 Skip Intro

So maybe Ivanka is there because she’s fluent in bullshit?

I think she was there because she has a vagina. Note she was seated next to Merkel. Wanted to make the ~~delicate flower~~ ~~lady~~ accomplished leader of the free world feel comfortable around all those menfolk.

Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:38:02pm

re: #38 Dr. Matt

Fucking Priceless

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Merklel is a professional.

I don’t want to conjecture what the asshole is.

Oh, I guess I just answered that question.

Targetpractice Mar 17, 2017 • 1:39:07pm

For 8 years, we were told about how “weak” our president was because tin-pot dictators would shake their fists at him and not get blown up the next day.

Now we face at least 4 years of having our own allies call our president a total twat and being told that shows he’s “strong.”

allegro Mar 17, 2017 • 1:39:18pm

re: #31 Dr. Matt

Rinse.Lather.Repeat

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Chancellor Merkel doesn’t appear to be any more delighted by Obama’s hug than she did W’s massage. Why do men always feel so free to put their hands on women?

makeitstop Mar 17, 2017 • 1:39:21pm

re: #39 freetoken

Ivanka is there to be a minder for her father.

I am quite convinced that Trump is on the downhill now of old age.

His nature is to lie. So when he kept bragging about his “energy”, what was really meant was his weakness.

Evidently he trusts his daughter more than his (current) wife, to look after him.

Like VB always says, Ivanka’s the key-jangler.

One of these days he’s going to start to blank out in the middle of a public function, and we’ll all see why Ivanka is there when she ushers him out of the room before he starts to drool on himself.

Smith25's Liberal Thighs Mar 17, 2017 • 1:39:27pm

Okay, I’m probably going to go to hell for this, so I’ll just put it behind spoiler tags…

hVj1JhN6MVD+7YxkzDzFvQQx/9CdDVRAuKXoZ5h4ukamzM6fWq4k2ioHzKh4iw/JpEOl0sO4EEuT9ow/jNyituTSopIG7zCJprfnNqLLA/oXo3me4atfluyKLopRKseAiYFU7wntlmaFQflruhNvRSG0yPYUw98gZbfU6IwlVmWpIKMWK/9H6Q==

I know you won’t judge me to bad.

Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:40:03pm

re: #51 Targetpractice

For 8 years, we were told about how “weak” our president was because tin-pot dictators would shake their fists at him and not get blown up the next day.

Now we face at least 4 years of having our own allies call our president a total twat and being told that shows he’s “strong.”

Anyone who foreign tyrant who wants power in this country is going to be allowed to have it. The Asshole will agree with them and take a bribe.

Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:40:24pm

re: #52 allegro

Chancellor Merkel doesn’t appear to be any more delighted by Obama’s hug than she did W’s massage. Why do men always feel so free to put their hands on women?

very freudian …

Targetpractice Mar 17, 2017 • 1:40:52pm

re: #53 makeitstop

Like VB always says, Ivanka’s the key-jangler.

One of these days he’s going to start to blank out in the middle of a public function, and we’ll all see why Ivanka is there when she ushers him out of the room before he starts to drool on himself.

He’s pretty much at the “Old Man Yells at Clouds!” stage, we’re just waiting now for the breaking news bulletin about how he’s been admitted to the hospital for “exhaustion.”

freetoken Mar 17, 2017 • 1:41:26pm

I think we need to seriously consider we’re looking at an Emperor-has-no-clothes scenario here.

The real brains going on is Bannon, and the Bannon-Ryan-Priebus triad is what is really pulling the levers behind the curtain.

Trump is playing along because he really thinks he knows what he is doing, but the people around him know better, and just maneuver the right people at the right time.

The only way the triad can’t get away with it is when a foreign leader comes by, and is not part of the act.

That’s why we got the asinine performance today at the presser, as very brief as it was. And it was brief. Trump actually isn’t capable of any more at this stage in his life.

And that is why his daughter (or son-in-law) is always with him.

nines09 Mar 17, 2017 • 1:43:10pm

re: #38 Dr. Matt

And the press laughs? Journalism? Really?

freetoken Mar 17, 2017 • 1:44:27pm

The reason all briefs for Trump has to be on one page is that he really can’t deal with more than one page. After the first page is turned, it’s gone…

Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:44:31pm

I know several people who think Trump is the greatest leader ever —because of the Bull Market we are experiencing.

gah

Dave In Austin Mar 17, 2017 • 1:44:45pm

Some freeloader took up the new housing I put up last fall. I can look out the bathroom window and see him (or her).

Jazzed!!!

Someone has taken up residency…. Unknown if there’s a pair. #Owl #BirdsofTexas pic.twitter.com/kOBgkkirDb

— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) March 17, 2017

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 1:45:24pm

re: #62 Dave In Austin

so very cool!

freetoken Mar 17, 2017 • 1:45:49pm

As weird as this may seem, for a democracy anyway, it’s not atypical in the history of nations for the leaders that are visible to be mere figureheads, dressed and put out for show at times of celebrations, but otherwise incapable of actually making decisions.

Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:46:00pm

re: #62 Dave In Austin

Some freeloader took up the new housing I put up last fall. I can look out the bathroom window and see him (or her).

Zazzed!!!

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Are you sure it’s not a spy-owl?

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 1:46:02pm

So there’s a question that I think is both legitimate and urgent for Americans to ask: can we trust ANYTHING that’s said by the president?

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 17, 2017

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Given how hard it is to get simple honest answers from Spicer quite doubtful. https://t.co/K8S9KUdvPu

— Karen Finney (@finneyk) March 17, 2017

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Stanley Sea Mar 17, 2017 • 1:46:28pm

He sees his son!

Pres and Mrs Trump and son Barron before boarding Air Force One for flight to West Palm Beach. pic.twitter.com/13PN7L1gtj

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 17, 2017

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freetoken Mar 17, 2017 • 1:47:47pm

re: #67 Stanley Sea

How much does it cost the taxpayer for the family to be rounded up from NYC and then everyone gathers in Florida for two days?

Is this going to be done 52 weeks a year?

Nyet Mar 17, 2017 • 1:48:06pm

re: #11 Dr. Matt

“0% budget for art, science, space, education, healthcare, or environment”

Seeing how the photo depicts the Soviet Union, that’s a pretty ignorant statement, to put it politely.

Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:48:27pm

re: #67 Stanley Sea

We don’t have titles in the US. So Trump had to give his poor kid a first name of Barron so he an pretend his child is Baron Trump.

Heir to a great empire of real estate.

I do feel for this child.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 17, 2017 • 1:48:28pm

re: #68 freetoken

How much does it cost the taxpayer for the family to be rounded up from NYC and then everyone gathers in Florida for two days?

Is this going to be done 52 weeks a year?

no, there will be some weeks when he stays down there the whole time

Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 1:48:40pm

re: #58 freetoken

His son in law is there because that’s where the possibility of making big money is. Ivanka’s there because she wants that big money.

Neither of them is doing jack shit controlling the semi-functional old man who is pretending to be president.

makeitstop Mar 17, 2017 • 1:49:16pm

re: #68 freetoken

How much does it cost the taxpayer for the family to be rounded up from NYC and then everyone gathers in Florida for two days?

Is this going to be done 52 weeks a year?

The first month of flights cost in the neighborhood of $11 million.

Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:50:07pm

re: #69 Nyet

“0% budget for art, science, space, education, healthcare, or environment”

Seeing how the photo depicts the Soviet Union, that’s a pretty ignorant statement, to put it politely.

Which did invest in the arts and science. (I don’t know about the others).

In the recent past, Ballet dancers in this country routinely changed their names to a Russian name for a reason.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 17, 2017 • 1:50:14pm

re: #73 makeitstop

The first month of flights cost in the neighborhood of $11 million.

you mean three years and nine months’ worth of Meals on Wheels?

Sir John Barron Mar 17, 2017 • 1:50:14pm

re: #61 Birth Control Works

I know several people who think Trump is the greatest leader ever —because of the Bull Market we are experiencing.

gah

But they were no doubt silent all during the stock market’s more than double increase between 2009 and 2017.

freetoken Mar 17, 2017 • 1:50:54pm

re: #72 Skip Intro

Of that I do no doubt. Ivanka and husband are in it for the inheritance and opportunities. But they could do that without being so ubiquitous. They really are showing up way too often.

Stanley Sea Mar 17, 2017 • 1:51:01pm

re: #68 freetoken

How much does it cost the taxpayer for the family to be rounded up from NYC and then everyone gathers in Florida for two days?

Is this going to be done 52 weeks a year?

Trump is on track to spend $1 billion in 4 years housing his wife in NYC and vacationing in Mar-a-Lago virtually every week.

— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) March 17, 2017

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Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:51:15pm

re: #75 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

you mean three years and nine months’ worth of Meals on Wheels?

The meals on wheels thing really pisses-me-off.

As much as I try, I think I’m going to stay pissed-off for the foreseeable future.

electrotek Mar 17, 2017 • 1:51:16pm

Texas Attorney General upset over Muslim prayers at a Frisco high school

/facepalm

Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 1:51:26pm

re: #68 freetoken

Is this going to be done 52 weeks a year?

Looks like it. And all of us get to pay for it and no one in the Trump family thinks anything about that.

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 1:51:59pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel knows that the secret to effective diplomacy is knowing what foolish foreigners need, even before they do. pic.twitter.com/8o8stWRdTA

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) March 17, 2017

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Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:52:05pm

re: #76 Sir John Barron

But they were no doubt silent all during the stock market’s more than double increase between 2009 and 2017.

They want daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly increases for the rest of their lifetimes.

Kinda like wanting free money—like those lazy welfare moms.

electrotek Mar 17, 2017 • 1:52:19pm

The Texas Attorney General is looking into the Public School Prayer Room issue many of you have questioned. #txlege https://t.co/21oyrgPKI1

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) March 17, 2017

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This clown

Targetpractice Mar 17, 2017 • 1:52:55pm

re: #76 Sir John Barron

But they were no doubt silent all during the stock market’s more than double increase between 2009 and 2017.

And will blame Democrats when the stock market takes a tumble.

Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:54:48pm

re: #76 Sir John Barron

But they were no doubt silent all during the stock market’s more than double increase between 2009 and 2017.

dismantling Dodd-Frank and any threads that might still exist of Glass-Steagall; establishing right-to-work laws; on and on.

— Robber Baron wannnabes are truly trying to turn back the clock —Make America Great again for the sociopathic greedy.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 17, 2017 • 1:54:51pm

re: #79 Birth Control Works

The meals on wheels thing really pisses-me-off.

As much as I try, I think I’m going to stay pissed-off for the foreseeable future.

yes, because so much of the program was in the form of time donated by volunteers, and its value to society was hard to measure in mere dollars invested.

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 1:55:27pm

Meals on Wheels: Donations surged after WH proposed cuts https://t.co/fM5aubIoHr pic.twitter.com/awj9KylMR2

— The Hill (@thehill) March 17, 2017

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Yeah, but this is the problem

Cons think programs like this should be voluntary, not government. They see donations as proof they’re right https://t.co/jQ8F0eVTrw

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 17, 2017

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 1:55:56pm

re: #61 Birth Control Works

I know several people who think Trump is the greatest leader ever —because of the Bull Market we are experiencing.

gah

The Dow is up around 250 points since Trump won. You’d think it was 2500 points.

Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 1:56:33pm

re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth

They want these programs privately funded. That is the way they think capitalism should work.

We know the eventual outcome —separate and unequal.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 17, 2017 • 1:57:19pm

re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth

Meals on Wheels: Donations surged after WH proposed cuts

I can already hear the talking points being formulated: proof that we did not need it. Government aid only makes people less willing to be charitable.

Shiplord Kirel Mar 17, 2017 • 1:58:11pm

re: #11 Dr. Matt

This is the future conservatives want

0% budget for art, science, space, education, healthcare, or environment

100% for Military pic.twitter.com/aQvGyI5kbj

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 16, 2017

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Fwiw, this is May Day, 1935. The big aircraft in the middle is the one and only Tupolev ANT-20 “Maxim Gorky,” which made its only May Day appearance in that year. It was destroyed in a mid-air collision on May 18, 1935, with the loss of 35 lives.
Then the world’s largest aircraft, the ANT-20 was designed, and used, purely as a propaganda machine.

It was intended for Stalinist propaganda purposes and was equipped with a powerful radio set called “Voice from the sky” (“Голос с неба”, Golos s neba), printing machinery, a library, radiostations, a photographic laboratory and a film projector with sound for showing films in flight.

Targetpractice Mar 17, 2017 • 1:58:13pm

re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Ayep. The influx of large donations (many one-time in a show of solidarity) will be spun as proof that the government doesn’t need to fund the program because charity organizations will pick up the slack through voluntary donations.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 17, 2017 • 1:58:27pm

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

I can already hear the talking points being formulated: proof that we did not need it. Government aid only makes people less willing to be charitable. Even though a lot of MOW was about volunteers helping to distribute the meals.

Ace Rothstein Mar 17, 2017 • 1:59:02pm

re: #61 Birth Control Works

I know several people who think Trump is the greatest leader ever —because of the Bull Market we are experiencing.

gah

That started three years ago.

Charles Johnson Mar 17, 2017 • 1:59:06pm

So there’s a question that I think is both legitimate and urgent for Americans to ask: can we trust ANYTHING that’s said by the president?

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 17, 2017

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Nobody should trust anything that comes from Trump or his advisers. These people are dishonest villains. @JoyAnnReid https://t.co/crOLY6Wybu

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2017

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 17, 2017 • 1:59:28pm

re: #93 Targetpractice

Ayep. The influx of large donations (many one-time in a show of solidarity) will be spun as proof that the government doesn’t need to fund the program because charity organizations will pick up the slack through voluntary donations.

I want to see how many 1%ers donate part of their tax breaks to MOW

Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 2:01:37pm

I’ve been binging New Tricks on Hulu.

One scene make me laugh out loud the other day. My hubby commented that it was good to hear me laugh.

Realized I haven’t laughed much since November.

JordanRules Mar 17, 2017 • 2:01:51pm

One of the major architects of this disaster.

Trump’s Hedge Fund Backer, Robert Mercer, opposes the Civil Rights Act - says only blacks are racist https://t.co/xnPfawxk6z via @newyorker

— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) March 17, 2017

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Sir John Barron Mar 17, 2017 • 2:02:07pm

re: #84 electrotek

This clown

People have “concerns”…

Also, this must be the first tweet that Abbott didn’t include a TCOT hashtag.

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Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 2:03:09pm

re: #95 Ace Rothstein

That started three years ago.

You won’t be able to tell that to the Fox News Drones.

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Ace Rothstein Mar 17, 2017 • 2:03:13pm

re: #59 nines09

And the press laughs? Journalism? Really?

Breitbart, Gateway Douche, LifeZette, National Review.

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Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 2:04:07pm

bbl

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 2:04:56pm

If this is going to be an every weekend thing, at least this asshole could use one of the more economical aircraft available to the 89th Airlift Wing…

pic.twitter.com/J2vEVnzk9d

— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) March 17, 2017

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 17, 2017 • 2:05:42pm

re: #92 Shiplord Kirel

per Wikipedia, there was a second one built, which also crashed due to stupidity - pilot let passenger sit at controls; passenger disengaged autopilot; plane crashed, killing ANOTHER 35 people.

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 2:05:45pm

Education Department rescinds rule that stopped aggressive student debt collectors

“Praise God for President Trump”

sanluisobispo.com

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Birth Control Works Mar 17, 2017 • 2:07:03pm

Pres. Trump, the First Lady and Barron Trump board Marine One at the White House to begin weekend trip to Trump estate in Florida. pic.twitter.com/m2AOFcmeBM

— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) March 17, 2017

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This sure looks like a lot of #MealsOnWheels to me.#p2 #UniteBlue #resist #mepolitics https://t.co/CDa7f152xS

— Bruce Bourgoine (@BruceBourgoine) March 17, 2017

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now bbl

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 2:07:48pm

South Dakota governor vetoes pair of bills that would loosen state restrictions on carrying concealed guns. https://t.co/LBlPU6DDnN pic.twitter.com/CAg5HgyJlo

— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) March 17, 2017

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electrotek Mar 17, 2017 • 2:08:10pm

re: #100 Sir John Barron

People have “concerns”…

Also, this must be the first tweet that Abbott didn’t include a TCOT hashtag.

And those “concerns” come from people outside of the school district.

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 2:10:17pm

Here’s the first page of the filing pic.twitter.com/DcG9TohQKx

— Ian Duncan (@iduncan) March 17, 2017

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 2:10:24pm

re: #104 FormerDirtDart

If this is going to be an every weekend thing, at least this asshole could use one of the more economical aircraft available to the 89th Airlift Wing…

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Stick him on an Amtrak train…

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Shiplord Kirel Mar 17, 2017 • 2:11:41pm

re: #105 Blind Frog Belly White

per Wikipedia, there was a second one built, which also crashed due to stupidity - pilot let passenger sit at controls; passenger disengaged autopilot; plane crashed, killing ANOTHER 35 people.

The second aircraft was designated ANT-20 bis because of various improvements. It was intended for regular airline service and did not have the name “Maxim Gorky.”

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 2:13:38pm

OK, this seems a little crazy to me…

Hello, future: Dubai to launch driverless flying taxi service later this year https://t.co/Ccz1ksv4eV pic.twitter.com/Toz1B7ypTB

— CNN (@CNN) March 17, 2017

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gocart mozart Mar 17, 2017 • 2:13:40pm

@GovMikeHuckabee @POTUS https://t.co/PXLq5IzzoP

— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) March 17, 2017

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GlutenFreeJesus Mar 17, 2017 • 2:15:34pm

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Sir John Barron Mar 17, 2017 • 2:15:41pm

re: #109 electrotek

And those “concerns” come from people outside of the school district.

Normally they’d like prayer in schools but in this case….

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BeachDem Mar 17, 2017 • 2:15:44pm

re: #67 Stanley Sea

He sees his son!

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And don’t they all look thrilled to be together at last.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 2:16:33pm

This is Charlie. He’s wishing you a very fun and safe St. Pawtrick’s Day. 13/10 festive af pic.twitter.com/nFpNgCWWYs

— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) March 17, 2017

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 2:17:34pm

Time for another visit I think.

Maybe it really is paradise.#BoycottHawaii pic.twitter.com/Rj9dA5uUWB

— Eric B (@RickeyRat) March 17, 2017

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Ace Rothstein Mar 17, 2017 • 2:17:50pm

re: #114 gocart mozart

He’s the last person on earth that needs to be talking about dogs.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 2:17:58pm

Trump’s budget cuts @NASA climate research, dismissing it as overly “Earth-centric.” https://t.co/YtYucm9Dev

— POLITICO Magazine (@POLITICOMag) March 17, 2017

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Check your privilege, Earth. https://t.co/F6SgGyqaAB

— Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) March 17, 2017

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 2:18:10pm

re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth

What does 13/10 mean?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 2:18:25pm

Poop Dogg has nephew named Bow Wow; both bad dogs who advocate murder and sex slavery for @POTUS and First Lady;Who let the dogs out?

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) March 17, 2017

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are u having a stroke governor should someone send prayers https://t.co/A94vybuBJT

— darth™ (@darth) March 17, 2017

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Mar 17, 2017 • 2:18:34pm

re: #62 Dave In Austin

Some freeloader took up the new housing I put up last fall. I can look out the bathroom window and see him (or her).

Jazzed!!!

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Dang. I have two of those I have to get out like right now!

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 2:18:45pm

re: #122 Skip Intro

What does 13/10 mean?

rating system

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 2:18:49pm

Second man arrested at JFK airport for cocaine strapped to his legs https://t.co/CGd7jgvKtk pic.twitter.com/dzGto62aeH

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) March 17, 2017

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goddamnedfrank Mar 17, 2017 • 2:18:51pm

re: #113 FormerDirtDart

OK, this seems a little crazy to me…

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My Dad and I have been talking about that one. The design seems dangerously top heavy and inherently unstable. If you’ve seen it in flight it looks like it they’re using constant fly by wire to keep it from flipping over. I’d have suspended the cockpit from below the propeller arms to create a self correcting natural center of gravity.

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BeachDem Mar 17, 2017 • 2:19:01pm

re: #72 Skip Intro

His son in law is there because that’s where the possibility of making big money is. Ivanka’s there because she wants that big money.

Neither of them is doing jack shit controlling the semi-functional old man who is pretending to be president.

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nines09 Mar 17, 2017 • 2:19:09pm

re: #92 Shiplord Kirel

Fwiw, this is May Day, 1935. The big aircraft in the middle is the one and only Tupolev ANT-20 “Maxim Gorky,” which made its only May Day appearance in that year. It was destroyed in a mid-air collision on May 18, 1935, with the loss of 35 lives.
Then the world’s largest aircraft, the ANT-20 was designed, and used, purely as a propaganda machine.

It was intended for Stalinist propaganda purposes and was equipped with a powerful radio set called “Voice from the sky” (“Голос с неба”, Golos s neba), printing machinery, a library, radiostations, a photographic laboratory and a film projector with sound for showing films in flight.

Imagine Stalin with a Fox News at his disposal.

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mmmirele Mar 17, 2017 • 2:19:59pm

re: #80 electrotek

Texas Attorney General upset over Muslim prayers at a Frisco high school

/facepalm

Another day when I want to ship back my high school diploma, BA and JD to the Texas educational institutions which issued them.

For the record, I am flat-out against teacher-led, school-sponsored prayer in school. I had a teacher tell me, on my first day in a new class in 2nd grade, “Deana, we are not pigs, we pray before we eat.” And this was five years after Abington Twp v. Schempp and in the fruits, nuts and granola state of California. Mrs. Gaede didn’t have to stay with those students for another five years, but she sure as hell wrecked it for me from the beginning.

That said, this is not that. This is students going off to a separate room. It’s not teacher-led. As far as I can tell, neither Abbott or Paxton, both of whom have JDs (I checked) apparently paid attention during Constitutional Law class. This is exactly how it’s supposed to work. But because it’s not the Fellowship of Christian Athletes or See You At The Pole, or some other evangelical Christian organization, it’s inherently suspect.

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Stanley Sea Mar 17, 2017 • 2:20:19pm

Statement on @realDonaldTrump’s press conference. pic.twitter.com/ttBppU2hq2

— President Bannon (@PRESlDENTBANNON) March 17, 2017

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Sir John Barron Mar 17, 2017 • 2:20:42pm

re: #126 FormerDirtDart

So that’s not a good way to carry cocaine then? Noted.

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Sir John Barron Mar 17, 2017 • 2:21:16pm

re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gov Mike must have missed the comment section at Breitbart the past eight years.

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freetoken Mar 17, 2017 • 2:21:52pm

AP trying to delicately chose words:

Trump, Merkel try to sidestep differences as president quips about both being spied upon

Though presenting a study in contrasts, President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel took a similar tack Friday in sidestepping differences after their first meeting at the White House. […]

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 2:22:19pm

Thank you @IvankaTrump for leading the charge on gender equality and workforce development. We all need to strive for #EqualityforAll. pic.twitter.com/C4cpOxAyFu

— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) March 17, 2017

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Thank you Marc for your strong engagement and passionate contribution on these critical topics! https://t.co/emRonjmTgq

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) March 17, 2017

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I’m concerned. Do you have security clearance to be attending the meetings with foreign leaders and diplomats? https://t.co/TSJh4rfOEB

— GEEZY (@GRYKING) March 17, 2017

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goddamnedfrank Mar 17, 2017 • 2:22:48pm

re: #92 Shiplord Kirel

Fwiw, this is May Day, 1935. The big aircraft in the middle is the one and only Tupolev ANT-20 “Maxim Gorky,” which made its only May Day appearance in that year. It was destroyed in a mid-air collision on May 18, 1935, with the loss of 35 lives.
Then the world’s largest aircraft, the ANT-20 was designed, and used, purely as a propaganda machine.

Man, the Russians were really obsessed with having the biggest things. I knew about the Tsar Bomba and the Tsar Cannon but not this.

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makeitstop Mar 17, 2017 • 2:23:22pm

re: #122 Skip Intro

What does 13/10 mean?

The dog gets a 13 out of 10 rating.

They’re all good dogs (Brett).

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freetoken Mar 17, 2017 • 2:23:25pm

re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth

Does not this photo provide evidence for my contention upstream?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 2:27:16pm

“We were the wretched refuse on the teeming shore,” Irish prime minister says with Donald Trump in the room. pic.twitter.com

“We were the wretched refuse on the teeming shore,” Irish prime minister says with Donald Trump in the room. pic.twitter.com/7jEfTVvIzE

— Barry Malone (@malonebarry) March 17, 2017

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 2:27:25pm

Having a pint with the lads…

Prince William and Duchess Kate toast with a pint of Guinness during a visit with Irish Guards on #StPatricksDay cbsn.ws

Prince William and Duchess Kate toast with a pint of Guinness during a visit with Irish Guards on #StPatricksDay https://t.co/S0kRLUuvQW pic.twitter.com/8N5uS69Tlh

— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 17, 2017

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 2:27:57pm

re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth

No one had to work harder to get where she is today than the president’s daughter. She’s an inspiration to us all.

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 2:32:56pm

re: #137 makeitstop

The dog gets a 13 out of 10 rating.

They’re all good dogs (Brett).

Ah, so it’s like a local camera club competition when everyone gets an extra 5 points for keeping their finger off of the lens.

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freetoken Mar 17, 2017 • 2:33:27pm

Some may want to argue over how much Reagan was affected by his disease, especially in the last few years of his Whitehouse life. I don’t know what to think about that, frankly. Slow loss of mental capability is one of those hard things, and something we all will deal with as we age.

But, if I’m even within a parsec of being right about Trump, we should see over time that he gets worse and worse.

Here’s what I’m looking at in the future - Trump at pressers by himself, or with foreign leaders where he takes questions from journalists outside the right-wing talk-sphere (which is slowly taking over the “press” in the WH.)

If I’m correct, Trump will never be able to have long, coherent discussion about a topic, in which he can control his urges.

Uncontrolled outbursts are one sign of losing mental agility as we age.

Sure, Trump’s own characterological basis - especially his arrogance - was always there. That is not new. But compare him now to the long form interviews he used to give when he was young.

He’s not just a grumpy old man. He is a grumpy old man, but also an insecure old man. He clearly feels uncomfortable without his close family around him.

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gocart mozart Mar 17, 2017 • 2:35:46pm

@gtjarruda @roddreher
I song for Dreherhttps://t.co/fyPxcxLQhr

— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) March 17, 2017

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 2:35:48pm

re: #143 freetoken

I don’t remember Reagan ever being as bad as Trump, not even at the end of his term. Trump’s problem is that he never had much upstairs to begin with.

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makeitstop Mar 17, 2017 • 2:36:27pm

re: #142 Skip Intro

Ah, so it’s like a local camera club competition when everyone gets an extra 5 points for keeping their finger off of the lens.

I think the guy just likes dogs.

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ObserverArt Mar 17, 2017 • 2:37:12pm

re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and his staff will bend over backwards to make them sound as if they were not lies or fabrications

Yeah but…they do it with more lies and fabrications.

The whole White House Staff is a pack of lying con artists.

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 2:39:16pm

re: #147 ObserverArt

Yeah but…they do it with more lies and fabrications.

The whole White House Staff is a pack of lying con artists.

And the media bends over backwards to help them.

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 2:40:47pm

re: #146 makeitstop

I think the guy just likes dogs.

I think the only dog that got less than a 10/10 was a goat

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 2:40:57pm

One Direction: Trump “kicked us out of his hotel” for refusing to meet his daughter https://t.co/S8NUAWmCcK pic.twitter.com/HW6tQy9LuK

— The Hill (@thehill) March 17, 2017

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😹
i….i cannot https://t.co/Jn184P8r6Q

— darth™ (@darth) March 17, 2017

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Eric The Fruit Bat Mar 17, 2017 • 2:40:58pm

Not al all surprising….

Jezebel: Employees Say HHS Head Tom Price Sends Staff ‘Propaganda’ Emails

Two employees at the National Institutes of Health have forwarded Jezebel emails that appear to show the newly instated head of the Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Tom Price, sending what they call “propaganda” for the controversial Republican healthcare replacement bill.

A series of weekly recap emails sent to HHS staff within the past two weeks read like press briefings, containing short summaries of Price’s media appearances with links to TV and radio interviews. A significant portion of the content from Monday’s email blast was devoted to highlighting the controversial new American Health Care Act. And an email sent to HHS staff on Monday by Price, for example, included links to several Fox News interviews about the proposed Act and noted that “it will improve healthcare for all Americans.”

According to one NIH staff member, the content of the emails are not “terribly exciting,” but are “just somewhat egregious that our ostensible boss is suggesting that we spend time to read about his day to day and watch all of the fluff interviews that he gives.” The employee continued:

“It’s frustrating to see him parrot all of this administration bullshit, both to the public in these interviews, and then directly to us as well, as if we couldn’t recognize it for the propaganda that it is. He’s sent out two emails so far (one per week), and so if the trend holds, I assume we’ll keep getting them. I’ll be very interested to see how they continue to try to spin the AHCA as being ‘patient focused’ as it continues to draw greater scrutiny.”
The employee, who has worked at NIH during the Obama Administration, said that Price’s emails are a departure from those sent by former Secretary Sylvia Burwell’s. The employee forwarded Jezebel five emails sent by Burwell, which reminded HHS staff of ethics compliance training, encouraged staff health and research initiatives, and addressed budget cut concerns. “Secretary Burwell’s emails were not overtly politicized,” he wrote. “While they would mention President Obama’s policies in passing, they certainly never cited TV appearances and interviews like Price does. Price just comes across as pandering.”

“Former HHS secretaries, from my understanding, did not do this in years and administrations past,” another NIH employee told Jezebel via email.

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Teukka Mar 17, 2017 • 2:41:58pm

re: #150 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Wha… One direction decided to go the other direction?
*badumtssssh*

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goddamnedfrank Mar 17, 2017 • 2:42:47pm

Stealing Other People’s Shit Twitter is the best!

@andreagrimes Found it here, good luck tracking down where they found it. Stay classy, and I’ll make sure to update w/this interaction. ✌ pic.twitter.com/qcmnqD1KOm

— TheProgressiveParent (@SavagePatchKids) March 17, 2017

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So you took someone ELSE’s name off the image to claim it for yourself? Good lord. https://t.co/RyFlAHippS

— andrea grimes (@andreagrimes) March 17, 2017

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@andreagrimes It’s plagiarism & turtles all the way down!

— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 17, 2017

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ObserverArt Mar 17, 2017 • 2:43:58pm

re: #21 Birth Control Works

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so, the winner will be who ever makes the most babies???

It’s obscene to me to have children for this purpose.

No longer children. They become a government political resource.

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CleverToad Mar 17, 2017 • 2:44:56pm

re: #52 allegro

Chancellor Merkel doesn’t appear to be any more delighted by Obama’s hug than she did W’s massage. Why do men always feel so free to put their hands on women?

Fantasizing about how the first meeting between Chancellor Merkel and President H. Clinton would have looked… *sigh*

Just for curiosity I googled ‘obama and merkel images’ as well as doing some poking around Pete Souza’s collections. That particular picture is ambiguous, but there are several others that seem to indicate that they had a comfortable relationship.

I always loved the pictures of Barack and Michelle with Queen Elizabeth. They looked like they were having fun.

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TedStriker Mar 17, 2017 • 2:46:59pm

re: #57 Targetpractice

He’s pretty much at the “Old Man Yells at Clouds!” stage, we’re just waiting now for the breaking news bulletin about how he’s been admitted to the hospital for “exhaustion.”

Low energy! Sad!

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blueraven Mar 17, 2017 • 2:49:52pm

re: #89 Skip Intro

The Dow is up around 250 points since Trump won. You’d think it was 2500 points.

Not that this means all that much except banks and big corps are expecting to do well with deregulation and tax cuts for wealthy…but

DOW
18,847 - Nov 7, 2016
20,915 - today

data.cnbc.com

so actually a bit over 2000 points.

edited to add link

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 2:49:55pm

In Matt 25, when Jesus talks about caring for “the least of these,” he isn’t talking about the poor in general, but fellow Christians.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) March 17, 2017

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😂 https://t.co/LtXydFKmqw

— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) March 17, 2017

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Patricia Kayden Mar 17, 2017 • 2:49:59pm

re: #3 Targetpractice

Yesterday, Bullshit Spice was at the podium, basically accusing the New York Times of being the source of the story. Today, Trump’s at the podium, claiming Napolitano was the source.

As always, when faced with the possibility of blowback from his actions, Trump turtles up and presents himself as the victim.

But neither Trump nor Spicey have renounced their original allegation that President Obama wiretapped Trump. Disgusting that they’re dragging President Obama’s reputation through the mud like this and pretty much getting away with it. I wish the Democrats in Congress were more aggressive in attacking Trump and his sycophants for doing this.

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 2:50:22pm

re: #157 blueraven

Sorry. Maths failed me.

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Cheechako Mar 17, 2017 • 2:51:26pm

A US ‘ally’ fired a $3 million Patriot missile at a $200 drone

With a price tag of about $3 million, the U.S. Army’s Patriot missile is among the most sophisticated, not to mention costliest, surface-to-air defense weapons in the world. Capable of flying five times the speed of sound, the 700-pound, five-meter-long Patriot’s main purpose is to intercept other missiles.

But according to an Army general, a U.S. ally recently used one to shoot down a different target: a $200 drone aircraft.

Gen. David Perkins, commander of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, gave a brief account of the incident at an Army symposium on March 13 in Huntsville, Alabama, available on YouTube.

“We have a very close ally of ours that was dealing with an adversary using” small quadcopters, Perkins said, indicating the situation was not a drill. “They shot it down with a Patriot missile.”

“The Patriot won,” he added with a grin. “That quadcopter that cost 200 bucks from amazon.com did not stand a chance against the Patriot.”

A disproportionate response? No doubt. But that’s exactly why Perkins brought up the anecdote in his talk, which focused on how military commanders should deal with new threats.

Though the Patriot easily took out the encroaching drone, he said, it wasn’t a very cost-effective way of dealing with the problem.

“I’m not sure that’s a good economic-exchange ratio,” Perkins said. “In fact, if I’m the enemy, I’m thinking, ‘Hey, I’m just going to get on eBay and buy as many of these $300 quadcopters as I can and expend all the Patriot missiles out there.’ “

More at link.

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Patricia Kayden Mar 17, 2017 • 2:51:48pm

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Wow. And yet when Jesus gave a parable about the Good Samaritan, he made it plain that our neighbors (to whom we owe sympathy and care) are not just those of our own religious persuasions. But I’m not surprised that a Rightwinger like Erickson is limiting his circle of care to those who share his religious beliefs.

Cold blooded and un-Christlike.

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 2:52:06pm

Good News! Trump no longer has to see the pissants by being driven from the airport to Grifter’s Home any more.

UPDATE: Landing pad ready for Marine One at Mar-a-Lago

I wonder how much that cost?

palmbeachpost.com

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GlutenFreeJesus Mar 17, 2017 • 2:52:17pm

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

@EWErickson Bitch. Jesus was JEWISH.

— efuseakay (@efuseakay) March 17, 2017

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 2:52:56pm

re: #164 GlutenFreeJesus

Jesus, what an ass this guy is. Oh, and stupid too.

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freetoken Mar 17, 2017 • 2:52:59pm

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

Good thing we don’t live in Samaria…

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MsJ Mar 17, 2017 • 2:53:05pm

re: #8 Skip Intro

The question is when are the Republicans going to step in and remove him from office? I don’t care how venal they are, they and their owners have to know Trump’s mental impairments are bad for business.

As soon as Republicans pass his budget gutting every aspect of the social net. Starving grandmothers are their wet dream. They’ll be able to masturbate to all the dying old people for years.

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Barefoot Grin Mar 17, 2017 • 2:53:28pm

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Jesus Fucking Christ.

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Dr Lizardo Mar 17, 2017 • 2:55:08pm

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m pretty sure there weren’t any “Christians” around when Jesus was talking to his followers. Christianity doesn’t split off as a separate religion until a few decades later.

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bratwurst Mar 17, 2017 • 2:56:46pm

Someone waited their whole life to write that headline. pic.twitter.com/uxLlhNNEJ7

— Slow News Day (@SlowSlownews) March 17, 2017

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Patricia Kayden Mar 17, 2017 • 2:58:33pm

re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth

So the unelected daughter of the President is going to attend high level meetings with foreign leaders? She was there when Trump met Trudeau, the Japanese PM and now Merkel. This is infuriating. What qualifications does she have besides being Trump’s daughter to attend and participate at these meetings?

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freetoken Mar 17, 2017 • 2:58:42pm

Son of Erick is just trolling the internet, hoping to get a response. It makes him feel important that people notice him.

As an “evangelist” in the Christian sense, Son of Erick is self-beclowning.

But again, that is not his goal, to be a good evangelist. His goal is to drive traffic to his not-as-successful-as-his-last-effort website, TheRegurgitant.

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freetoken Mar 17, 2017 • 2:59:09pm

re: #171 Patricia Kayden

Ivanka is her father’s keeper.

And if she’s not there, then her husband is.

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goddamnedfrank Mar 17, 2017 • 2:59:11pm

51% of Americans think free market competition would reduce prescription drug prices more than government regulation https://t.co/ZZkMzNR5dl

— Cato Institute (@CatoInstitute) March 17, 2017

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These fucking idiots. Government regulation isn’t supposed to make drugs cheap, it’s designed to make sure they’re safe & effective. https://t.co/SD8F4ta05h

— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 17, 2017

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Timothy Watson Mar 17, 2017 • 2:59:27pm

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Biblical Reinterpretations with Erick, son of Erick. Next up: Sermon on the Mount: Why Jesus really wants us to invade every country in the world.

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ObserverArt Mar 17, 2017 • 3:03:21pm

re: #92 Shiplord Kirel

Fwiw, this is May Day, 1935. The big aircraft in the middle is the one and only Tupolev ANT-20 “Maxim Gorky,” which made its only May Day appearance in that year. It was destroyed in a mid-air collision on May 18, 1935, with the loss of 35 lives.
Then the world’s largest aircraft, the ANT-20 was designed, and used, purely as a propaganda machine.

I was doing a little reading after seeing the posts here on the aircraft. Freaking wingspan was almost 70 yards wide (60 meters)…108 feet long (33 meters). Yeah that was a lot to keep in the sky.

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gocart mozart Mar 17, 2017 • 3:05:55pm

pic.twitter.com/BxrkidLMlC

— Theater of SciFi (@theaterofscifi) March 17, 2017

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Shiplord Kirel Mar 17, 2017 • 3:06:40pm

re: #129 nines09

Imagine Stalin with a Fox News at his disposal.

I’ve been thinking that an update of the Maxim Gorky might be ideal as Air Force One
for the Trumpites. Its hugely big wingspan and Russian propaganda associations would be selling points all by themselves. Add its low cruising speed, giving the septuagenarian POTUS plenty of time to nap and consult the Bannon oracle on trips, and massive loudspeakers for lecturing the Trumpen lumpetariat, and you have a real winner.

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Dr Lizardo Mar 17, 2017 • 3:07:57pm

Well, good night, Lizards.

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 3:08:04pm

re: #172 freetoken

I don’t think he was clowning. He’s that stupid.

Oh to be accused of getting my theology from Wikipedia when I’m sitting here looking at the New Testament in Greek.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) March 17, 2017

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Maybe he should learn to read Greek first.

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Barefoot Grin Mar 17, 2017 • 3:08:25pm

re: #174 goddamnedfrank

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Though if government funds were used in R/D (for example, NIH) the government does have the right to interfere in pricing by exercising “march-in rights,” from what I heard on the radio yesterday.

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Jebediah, RBG Mar 17, 2017 • 3:08:29pm

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

rating system

They’re all good dogs, Skip.

ETA this time I was only the third person to make the same joke…

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ObserverArt Mar 17, 2017 • 3:08:34pm

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

rating system

Yeah, no dog lower than a ten, most above. I love that system. Doggies deserve it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 3:11:17pm

Women know Trump’s body language he used towards Angela Merkel today. To us it is so painfully familiar. https://t.co/SXN6gmYEED pic.twitter.com/0P0NFgWkMg

— Mashable (@mashable) March 17, 2017

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 3:11:56pm

re: #182 Jebediah, RBG

Ok, the reason I asked is because doing a search of 13/10 gets me to a boatload of bible references.

I was just curious, that’s all.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 3:12:32pm

re: #180 Skip Intro

I don’t think he was clowning. He’s that stupid.

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Maybe he should learn to read Greek first.

Oh to be accused of getting my theology from Wikipedia when I’m sitting here looking at the New Testament in Greek.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) March 17, 2017

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Reading Greek does not make one a theologian any more than knowing the words to La Bamba makes one Richie Valens. https://t.co/bqnCU7sylB

— Daniel Schultz (@pastordan) March 17, 2017

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Patricia Kayden Mar 17, 2017 • 3:15:45pm

re: #173 freetoken

Ivanka is her father’s keeper.

And if she’s not there, then her husband is.

Then they are doing a horrible job since Trump has not been “kept” for the entirety of his adulthood. She needs to keep his cell phone so he can’t send out ridiculous tweets full of insults and lies.

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 3:15:55pm

Another day in Trump’s America.

Kids on winning robotics team told, ‘Go back to Mexico’

By parents.

usatoday.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 3:17:26pm

#GOP theory on service slashing is charity picks up the slack. After all, there wasn’t any poverty in the US pre-FDR.#p2 #resist #DemForce pic.twitter.com/hGPC8CBtTT

— Bruce Bourgoine (@BruceBourgoine) March 17, 2017

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goddamnedfrank Mar 17, 2017 • 3:18:03pm

Poop Dogg has nephew named Bow Wow; both bad dogs who advocate murder and sex slavery for @POTUS and First Lady;Who let the dogs out?

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) March 17, 2017

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We’ve reached pinnacle old white fuckwit. It’s all downhill from here. https://t.co/0HoDMA1PSK

— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 17, 2017

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Shiplord Kirel Mar 17, 2017 • 3:18:04pm

re: #176 ObserverArt

I was doing a little reading after seeing the posts here on the aircraft. Freaking wingspan was almost 70 yards wide (60 meters)…108 feet long (33 meters). Yeah that was a lot to keep in the sky.

Tupolev seriously considered an even larger development, the ANT-26 bomber and -28 airliner. These would have had 12 engines, a wingspan of 311 feet, and a length of 128 feet. A prototype was started but never completed or flown.

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Timothy Watson Mar 17, 2017 • 3:19:07pm

re: #180 Skip Intro

I don’t think he was clowning. He’s that stupid.

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Maybe he should learn to read Greek first.

Is he claiming to be able to read Ancient Greek too?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 3:20:31pm

Turkey Trotting Through SF Finally Captured, Poses For Hideous Mugshot https://t.co/K5IEIHV8RA pic.twitter.com/Eb27facbAP

— SFist (@SFist) March 17, 2017

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Beauty’s in the eye of the beholder, yo. https://t.co/70qf5l1kZN

— Officer Edith (@OfficerEdith) March 17, 2017

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ObserverArt Mar 17, 2017 • 3:20:52pm

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

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So Erickson is heavy back into the Kool-aid.

Almost had us fooled there Erick. Almost but not really.

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goddamnedfrank Mar 17, 2017 • 3:21:19pm

re: #191 Shiplord Kirel

Tupolev seriously considered an even larger development, the ANT-26 bomber and -28 airliner. These would have had 12 engines, a wingspan of 311 feet, and a length of 128 feet. A prototype was started but never completed or flown.

I’ve been inside the An-225. Toured it at the Paine Field Air Show in Everett Wa back around 1990/91. That thing is ridiculously huge.

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 3:21:55pm

re: #194 ObserverArt

I think he had a life threatening experience a while back. Obviously he’s over it now.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 3:22:49pm

Press release from US Attorney on the arrest, which will answer some questions. pic.twitter.com/9rbiLFJtOo

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 17, 2017

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Patricia Kayden Mar 17, 2017 • 3:24:00pm

re: #188 Skip Intro

I hope they win the big one. I love that they didn’t allow the racism to wreck their confidence.

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ObserverArt Mar 17, 2017 • 3:24:07pm

re: #164 GlutenFreeJesus

efuseakay @efuseakay
@EWErickson Bitch. Jesus was JEWISH.
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People always forget that one.

I used to use it with the folks that came by the house witnessing, etc. I’d ask them what religion Jesus was while he was on earth? Just about every time they would stumble.

Bzzt. Fail. Be on your way.

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Patricia Kayden Mar 17, 2017 • 3:24:52pm

re: #190 goddamnedfrank

And Huckabee’s son stoned and hung to death an actual stray dog. Who let the dogs out, indeed?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 3:24:53pm

Happy Friday! What a perfect day to adopt a new best friend! 💕 #TGIF #ShelterStories #MUTTS #adoptdontshop pic.twitter.com/fNBojuZnmF

— MUTTS (@MUTTScomics) March 17, 2017

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Shiplord Kirel Mar 17, 2017 • 3:25:19pm

re: #195 goddamnedfrank

I’ve been inside the An-225. Toured it at the Paine Field Air Show in Everett Wa back around 1990/91. That thing is ridiculously huge.

Here’s a nifty cutaway of the original ANT-20 Maxim Gorky, scanned from a Time-Life Epic of Flight book. It clearly shows the various compartments inside the 2 meter thick wings, including sleeping quarters and the printing press:

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Varek Raith Mar 17, 2017 • 3:26:20pm

re: #113 FormerDirtDart

OK, this seems a little crazy to me…

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I’m sorry Dave.

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ObserverArt Mar 17, 2017 • 3:27:00pm

re: #173 freetoken

Ivanka is her father’s keeper.

And if she’s not there, then her husband is.

He doesn’t trust anyone else to be in his presence.

He probaly thinks everyone is out to take from him, screw him over and the like.

He doesn’t realize a lot of people don’t want to be around him because he is an asshole!

: )

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goddamnedfrank Mar 17, 2017 • 3:27:53pm

US Secy of State Tillerson cut short his visit to S. Korea because of “fatigue,” Korean officials tell Korea Herald https://t.co/4LQjzeWRUG

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) March 17, 2017

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Remember the time John Kerry stayed on the job & negotiated a nuclear deal w/ Iran after breaking his fucking femur. Tillerson is sad & weak https://t.co/JBC0Xf6ymt

— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 17, 2017

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ObserverArt Mar 17, 2017 • 3:29:26pm

re: #180 Skip Intro

I don’t think he was clowning. He’s that stupid.

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Maybe he should learn to read Greek first.

It’s all Greek to him.

(time to ready for the Friday night jams)

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ObserverArt Mar 17, 2017 • 3:30:55pm

re: #185 Skip Intro

Ok, the reason I asked is because doing a search of 13/10 gets me to a boatload of bible references.

I was just curious, that’s all.

I give your post a 9/10.

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Patricia Kayden Mar 17, 2017 • 3:31:14pm

re: #180 Skip Intro

So the Jesus Christ that he worships only cares about Christians? Is that really the theology he wants to push?

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Jebediah, RBG Mar 17, 2017 • 3:33:20pm

Oh to be accused of getting my theology from Wikipedia when I’m sitting here looking at the New Testament in Greek.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) March 17, 2017

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@EWErickson And it is obviously all Greek to you. https://t.co/FZhjuP6jZA

— Jebediah Springfield (@JebediahRBG) March 17, 2017

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 3:33:20pm

re: #208 Patricia Kayden

So the Jesus Christ that he worships only cares about Christians? Is that really the theology he wants to push?

Only the right kind of Christians. Christians like Erickson.

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Patricia Kayden Mar 17, 2017 • 3:34:05pm

re: #205 goddamnedfrank

Isn’t Tillerson the one who wants to start a war with North Korea? He needs to save his stamina for that, I guess.

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goddamnedfrank Mar 17, 2017 • 3:34:20pm

Apparently Rex Tillerson is dying.

State department denies Tillerson was suffering from fatigue, saying no meal with South Korean leaders had been scheduled

— Julian Borger (@julianborger) March 17, 2017

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This can only mean one thing. My deepest condolences Secretary Tillerson and his family in this time of trial. https://t.co/epobPugvmF

— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 17, 2017

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 3:34:31pm

US Secy of State Tillerson cut short his visit to S. Korea because of “fatigue,” Korean officials tell Korea Herald https://t.co/4LQjzeWRUG

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) March 17, 2017

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No press pool on trip. Just one reporter who has not filed a story yet. https://t.co/SUYCaSc3KC

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 17, 2017

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That time the Secretary of State threatened war with North Korea and didn’t bring any American reporters along… https://t.co/pgzpwMV8aJ

— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) March 17, 2017

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If a tree falls in the woods… https://t.co/IeJiULN79w

— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) March 17, 2017

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goddamnedfrank Mar 17, 2017 • 3:36:22pm

Apparently Rex Tillerson is dying of Space Herpes pass it on.

— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 17, 2017

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Jebediah, RBG Mar 17, 2017 • 3:37:37pm

re: #185 Skip Intro

Ok, the reason I asked is because doing a search of 13/10 gets me to a boatload of bible references.

I was just curious, that’s all.

I was just saying “They’re all good dogs, Skip” because Dogrates had a funny exchange with someone who had asked the same question - multiple replies of “But they’re all good dogs Brent” with Brent spelled differently each time (Brant, Bront, etc.)
And dogrates is a good follow if you like pics of good dogs with captions explaining hw great they are.

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Varek Raith Mar 17, 2017 • 3:38:04pm

re: #214 goddamnedfrank

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Wow, way to dis space herpes like that.
Jerk.

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VegasGolfer Mar 17, 2017 • 3:39:04pm

I remember when I was chastised for calling 45 drumph. Good times

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Timothy Watson Mar 17, 2017 • 3:39:29pm

re: #205 goddamnedfrank

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Trump thinks government employees are lazy, but a former CEO like Tillerson can’t even put in eight hours of work without being “fatigued”.

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Barefoot Grin Mar 17, 2017 • 3:40:11pm

Does anyone else get the sense that when there is some admission of weakness, mistake, or humanity, our president sends out this directive: “never admit it!”

1. We didn’t apologize to UK
2. Tillerson wasn’t tired

etc., etc.

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BeachDem Mar 17, 2017 • 3:40:11pm

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Love this response

@EWErickson You are the first person in 2000 years to interpret Jesus this way. And there have been a lot of stupid people in 2000 years.

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And, by the way Erick son of Erick, regardless of what Christian crap you spew—we are NOT a fucking theocracy (yet) so your analogies, or whatever the fuck they are, are no applicable.

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Shiplord Kirel Mar 17, 2017 • 3:40:14pm

North Korea is behaving very badly. They have been “playing” the United States for years. China has done little to help!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2017

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Bloated anus Donald Trump is chastised for ignorant statements concerning Korean affairs, which reveal him as the offspring of drunken apes. https://t.co/yb2mcfDTq1

— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) March 17, 2017

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 3:41:32pm

In Matt 25, when Jesus talks about caring for “the least of these,” he isn’t talking about the poor in general, but fellow Christians.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) March 17, 2017

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Five years of Catholic school and a dozen years as an altar boy here to tell you — wrong. Not even close, Erick. https://t.co/FK7iUeKD9o

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 17, 2017

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Barefoot Grin Mar 17, 2017 • 3:42:21pm

I landed on a couple of twitter feeds that were mixed in reaction to the Merkel mtg. The Trump fans were universally jazzed by Trump’s 2-for-1 zinger about “something we have in common.” And a lot of “she’s tearing down western civilization” white supremacist stuff.

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gocart mozart Mar 17, 2017 • 3:42:31pm

@EWErickson
Wow. So you are incapable of understanding things in two languages. Kudos.

— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) March 17, 2017

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gocart mozart Mar 17, 2017 • 3:43:28pm

Everyone should quote that Obama quote back to
the scumbag.

@EWErickson Erick Erickson is not, in any meaningful way, a Christian and I am not sure he needs to continue the charade.

— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) March 17, 2017

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Barack Obama Is Not a Christian in Any Meaningful Way https://t.co/2jYdjkqCph

— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) March 17, 2017

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JordanRules Mar 17, 2017 • 3:44:25pm

Receipts!!!

Just left meeting w Sec Kelly #dhs. He claimed #ICE doesn’t patrol #church. I brought a photo proving they do. pic.twitter.com/oepzsewBQa

— Lou Correa (@RepLouCorrea) March 17, 2017

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Shiplord Kirel Mar 17, 2017 • 3:45:16pm

re: #220 BeachDem

Love this response

@EWErickson You are the first person in 2000 years to interpret Jesus this way. And there have been a lot of stupid people in 2000 years.

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And, by the way Erick son of Erick, regardless of what Christian crap you spew—we are NOT a fucking theocracy (yet) so your analogies, or whatever the fuck they are, are no applicable.

Hundreds of people have clubbed him about the face and neck with Matthew 25 on his Twitter feed. This is his feeble response.
Fwiw, at the time He said this, Jesus was clearly speaking as a rabbi, His ministry was very much a work in progress, and there were no “Christians” yet.

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JordanRules Mar 17, 2017 • 3:48:53pm

.@realDonaldTrump, you looked so tiny next to that terrific lady. She’s everything you won’t ever be. You keep on embarrassing yourself!

— Vicente Fox Quesada (@VicenteFoxQue) March 17, 2017

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 3:49:34pm

Exclusive: Officials who reviewed document say new US military plan for ISIS reads a lot like the Obama-era plan with an “intensification.”

— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) March 17, 2017

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A Cranky One Mar 17, 2017 • 3:50:08pm

re: #215 Jebediah, RBG

I was just saying “They’re all good dogs, Skip” because Dogrates had a funny exchange with someone who had asked the same question - multiple replies of “But they’re all good dogs Brent” with Brent spelled differently each time (Brant, Bront, etc.)
And dogrates is a good follow if you like pics of good dogs with captions explaining hw great they are.

The Twitter exchange

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Charles Johnson Mar 17, 2017 • 3:53:16pm

@EWErickson Hate to tell you this: there were no “fellow Christians” and no Christianity when Jesus reportedly said those words. Jesus was Jewish. https://t.co/QDAqMs4HeT

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2017

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 3:53:52pm

And, that doesn’t even account for the damage his excursions do to local businesses

Facing with costs of protecting the President during visits, Palm Beach officials ask Trump or government to pay up https://t.co/Tt7kqcp7Ue pic.twitter.com/zGl6cQkqUX

— CNN (@CNN) March 17, 2017

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 3:55:07pm

@FrankLuntz @_MealsOnWheels Food delivered, but was it all consumed? What is the waste factor? Were their costs overruns? This is one-sided.

— Pansylee VanMeteren (@PoeticPastries) March 16, 2017

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wtf https://t.co/WyuayhgUGS

— darth™ (@darth) March 17, 2017

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lockjawcanbefun Mar 17, 2017 • 3:57:03pm

PICTURED: Someone from a country with a rapidly rising Nazi movement and Angela Merkel pic.twitter.com/F12V8yWHta

— Bucky Isotope (@BuckyIsotope) March 17, 2017

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Myron Falwell Mar 17, 2017 • 3:57:34pm

Fake News Channel trying desperately to have it both ways.

Brett Baier says Fox News “loves” Judge Andrew Napolitano, but that Fox News was not able to verify his ‘report’ pic.twitter.com/JPMZ2yQ4qg

— Salvador Hernandez (@SalHernandez) March 17, 2017

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If it wasn’t verified, why’d Napolitano cite “sources” and talk about it in multiple Fox segments? Details here: https://t.co/5U1KQoOZHw https://t.co/HxVl88SzrU

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 17, 2017

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A Cranky One Mar 17, 2017 • 3:59:28pm

re: #232 FormerDirtDart

Posted: 4:17 p.m. Tuesday, March 14, 2017

President Donald Trump has taken to calling his Mar-a-Lago spread on Palm Beach the “winter White House.”
Palm Beach County Commissioner Dave Kerner wonders if it should have another name: “municipal service benefit unit.”
Kerner’s name is far less catchy than Trump’s, but it could give the county a way to impose a special tax on Trump to reimburse the county for the millions it has shelled out for roadway management and security assistance during the president’s frequent trips here.
The tax would not be a property tax, Kerner said. Instead, it would be a tax pegged to the value of any “special benefit” the county has provided to Mar-a-Lago’s owner — Trump.

Palm Beach Post

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 3:59:49pm

Who wants to buy my coffee table book, ‘World Leaders React To Our Dumb President’? pic.twitter.com/Qe1ZdclzB7

— Alex Zalben (@azalben) March 17, 2017

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Myron Falwell Mar 17, 2017 • 4:00:45pm

re: #231 Charles Johnson

Erick Erickson can fucking shut up and worship his false god by himself.

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Patricia Kayden Mar 17, 2017 • 4:02:05pm

re: #231 Charles Johnson

I really want to see how he responds to your revelation which you would think he would have already knew. **rolls eyes in anger**

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 4:03:22pm

If you want to see a bunch of idiots making bad decisions, go out on St. Patrick’s Day. Or just turn on the news any other day of the year. pic.twitter.com/GVd9wypGE2

— Half An Onion (@HalfOnionInABag) March 17, 2017

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 4:04:35pm

Mulvaney: “The previous administration, the Obama Administration, gutted the military, and we need to fix that.” #SpecialReport pic.twitter.com/0u5Jg7c9v9

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 17, 2017

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Gutted? We spend more on our military than Russia, China and Iran … combined … and then doubled. https://t.co/D8QUnaPqDs

— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) March 17, 2017

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 4:05:58pm

White nationalist Richard Spencer is an absentee landlord of a cotton farm that gets millions in federal subsidies https://t.co/y7a3eNYnKE

— New York Magazine (@NYMag) March 17, 2017

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Myron Falwell Mar 17, 2017 • 4:06:20pm

re: #151 Eric The Fruit Bat

Not al all surprising….

Jezebel: Employees Say HHS Head Tom Price Sends Staff ‘Propaganda’ Emails

When millions die because of a preventative pandemic, I hope he is rounded up by the survivors and buried in a pauper grave.

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 4:06:26pm

In Matt 25, when Jesus talks about caring for “the least of these,” he isn’t talking about the poor in general, but fellow Christians.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) March 17, 2017

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Uhhhhh, Jesus wasn’t a Christian. He was a Jew. https://t.co/jejGnwHsF9

— Erika Hall 🇺🇸 (@mulegirl) March 17, 2017

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 4:09:01pm

White House jumper who was on grounds for 17 minutes, “rattled the door handle” to presidential residence, @jasoninthehouse says on CNN

— Jon Passantino (@passantino) March 17, 2017

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So he was there longer than the First Lady has been? https://t.co/ROSgWvEil3

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) March 17, 2017

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Myron Falwell Mar 17, 2017 • 4:10:12pm

At least Erick the Regurgitant served one purpose today… he reminded me to mute and block his worthless butt.

Sorry but seeing purposeful manipulation of Christian dogma by Dominionists like Erick makes me deeply angry.

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Jebediah, RBG Mar 17, 2017 • 4:10:18pm

re: #230 A Cranky One

The Twitter exchange

Thanks - that makes me laugh every time!

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 4:10:22pm

. @AthertonKD Oddly enough, there’s a song about that…https://t.co/tbgSTRx24l

— Rob Sutherland (@Luckdancing) March 17, 2017

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Holy shit: here’s a folk song about piling corpses & stones on fallout shelters to keep billionaires trapped forever https://t.co/JkXnIpObqG

— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) March 17, 2017

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Romantic Heretic Mar 17, 2017 • 4:10:59pm

re: #26 Birth Control Works

Whackos want war that other people’s children die in.

Heaven forfend they should put themselves or their families on the line to defend what they believe in.

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A Cranky One Mar 17, 2017 • 4:12:15pm

re: #247 Jebediah, RBG

Thanks - that makes me laugh every time!

Thanks to the lizards who prompted me to go find it! Hadn’t read it before. I needed a chuckle.

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Myron Falwell Mar 17, 2017 • 4:12:51pm

re: #242 FormerDirtDart

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So Richard Spenser is the absentee landlord of a cotton farm in Louisiana, which no doubt is the main bankroller for his Nazi activities.

Surprised, shocked, etc., &c.

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Myron Falwell Mar 17, 2017 • 4:16:50pm

re: #249 Romantic Heretic

Heaven forfend they should put themselves or their families on the line to defend what they believe in.

This time, though, we have a government majority controlled by Dominionists who want war for nothing more but to initiate the Second Coming®; that they can ride up with their iteration of Jesus into Heaven, and fuck everyone else.

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Eric The Fruit Bat Mar 17, 2017 • 4:17:35pm

re: #180 Skip Intro

Reading New Testament in Greek? Fucking poseur. He should be reading Aramaic….

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JordanRules Mar 17, 2017 • 4:17:39pm

re: #247 Jebediah, RBG

Me too! Still tickles me immensely.

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EPR-radar Mar 17, 2017 • 4:22:06pm

re: #253 Eric The Fruit Bat

Reading New Testament in Greek? Fucking poseur. He should be reading Aramaic….

What’s the point of that? Everyone knows that the King James version of the Bible is the original language version.

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Eric The Fruit Bat Mar 17, 2017 • 4:23:08pm

re: #255 EPR-radar

What’s the point of that? Everyone knows that the King James version of the Bible is the original language version

Well, now when you put it THAT way……

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Romantic Heretic Mar 17, 2017 • 4:26:52pm

re: #139 Backwoods_Sleuth

That is an epic piece of trolling.

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Eric The Fruit Bat Mar 17, 2017 • 4:26:57pm

Eric Wemple, Washington Post: The battle within Fox News

Just weeks ago, Bill O’Reilly, another opinion anchor, invited a guest to spout off on the perils of immigration to Sweden. Though he was touted on the show as a “Swedish Defense and National Security Advisor,” the credentials of this fellow, Nils Bildt, were subsequently debunked by various in-the-know Swedes. O’Reilly himself later admitted that the “criticism is valid.”

How many other major U.S. allies can Fox News’s opinionators alienate?

Then there’s “Fox & Friends,” which appears to plan out all the ways in which it can embarrass the news side. It’s no wonder whatsoever that Napolitano’s massively challenged claim about GCHQ first saw the light of day on this program, which is easily the worst in all of televised news.

There’ll be no hysterics here about how Fox News cannot survive with this bifurcation between opinion and news. It has thrived with the split, ruling cable-news ratings. In fact, it’s a mistake to overstate the sturdiness of the wall between the sides. Sometimes news segments kick off by citing the commentary of one of their opinion folks, and it’s quite common that news anchors team up with conservative panelists against liberal panelists. Yet Smith’s statement Friday about the news side’s lack of confidence in Napolitano’s “commentary” is a clear message to its colleagues across the wall: Standards, please.

Dream on, motherfuckers….

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wrenchwench Mar 17, 2017 • 4:27:00pm

Strangest hotel/casino in Vegas is definitely Planet Parenthood I hope they don’t shut it down

— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) March 17, 2017

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majii Mar 17, 2017 • 4:30:36pm

re: #225 gocart mozart

“Erick Erickson is not, in any meaningful way, a Christian and I am not sure he needs to continue the charade.”

As I’ve mentioned here before, EE and I live in the same Middle GA city. Believe it or not, he’s a Deacon in his church. Even though I’m aware of this, I still don’t see him showing much support for the things JC cared about. He can try to give the public the impression that he’s a true Christian, but his past words and actions illustrate exactly what he thinks about a whole host of issues especially, those related to poor persons. He has a habit of publishing editorials in the local newspaper, so I will not be surprised if one pops up there soon that is related to these tweets. He has a nasty habit of using those editorials to take those who disagree with him to task. Never mind the fact that he’s in no position to pass judgment on others.

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Shiplord Kirel Mar 17, 2017 • 4:30:42pm

re: #255 EPR-radar

What’s the point of that? Everyone knows that the King James version of the Bible is the original language version.

King James Only Movement

The King James Only movement is advocacy by a loosely associated group of Christians, that the King James Version of the Bible is superior to other English translations, and that other versions, especially those based on Westcott and Hort’s revision of the text of the Greek Testament, are not to be trusted and are based on corrupted manuscripts. Adherents of the movement believe that the KJV is the last and best of a series of translations based on what they consider the most reliable of Greek New Testament manuscripts, the Textus Receptus or Majority Text and most new translations of the Bible are inferior to the King James, and are not as true to the original text.

Sorry but this noisy non-troversy reminds me of nothing so much as rival tribes of baboons screeching, jumping around, and flinging feces at each other. These people are utterly clueless about such things as comparative linguistics, the findings of archaeology, or anything else that has been learned in the past 400+ years.

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blueraven Mar 17, 2017 • 4:32:27pm

pic.twitter.com/jPGZQYh7Yp

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) March 17, 2017

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Targetpractice Mar 17, 2017 • 4:32:43pm

re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Anybody wanna clue Mulvaney in that the sequester was imposed because Republicans demanded budgetary cuts in order to raise the debt ceiling?

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 4:32:52pm

re: #218 Timothy Watson

Trump thinks government employees are lazy, but a former CEO like Tillerson can’t even put in eight hours of work without being “fatigued”.

Trump can’t put in four.

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weave Mar 17, 2017 • 4:33:21pm

@RyanYackAttack I have Twitter set so I never even see them. Life has markedly improved.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) March 17, 2017

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What a lying sack of shit. So out of all those replies he somehow magically has Twitter set to find the one positive response and replied to it but somehow is able to magically hide all of the others.

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 4:34:06pm

re: #212 goddamnedfrank

Apparently Rex Tillerson is dying.

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I though Tillerson was the entire State Department, other than Jared.

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 4:34:17pm

Responsible disclosure WikiLeaks style: Won’t Tell Tech Companies How to Patch CIA Zero-Days Until Its Demands Met https://t.co/Hd5H35xNFU

— profdeibert (@RonDeibert) March 17, 2017

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William Lewis Mar 17, 2017 • 4:36:38pm

re: #220 BeachDem

Love this response

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And, by the way Erick son of Erick, regardless of what Christian crap you spew—we are NOT a fucking theocracy (yet) so your analogies, or whatever the fuck they are, are no applicable.

Good grief. I’m writing a sermon for Sunday on the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s Well (John 4) and only wish I could work in a reference to this just to diss that guy’s utter lack of comprehension. Jesus would, at best, remove his sandals, shake the dust off onto Eric and then walk away talking about what to really do for the poor.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 4:36:41pm

@Stonekettle Then what’s your Fucking point.?

— Ron Traylor (@odawas58) March 17, 2017

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Thread.

This is why I buy whiskey by the barrel. https://t.co/G38DyUk5ed

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 17, 2017

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Targetpractice Mar 17, 2017 • 4:38:21pm

re: #267 FormerDirtDart

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I’d lay it out pretty clear and cleanly to Assange: If you want to help us, then help us. We don’t negotiate with terrorists.

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A Cranky One Mar 17, 2017 • 4:38:31pm

Hey Lizards! Stock up now. Be the envy of your neighbors!

Fireproof human skulls for your gas fireplace, barbeque or fire-pit

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 4:41:08pm

re: #271 A Cranky One

Hey Lizards! Stock up now. Be the envy of your neighbors!

Fireproof human skulls for your gas fireplace, barbeque or fire-pit

The link doesn’t work

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Targetpractice Mar 17, 2017 • 4:41:37pm

re: #271 A Cranky One

Hey Lizards! Stock up now. Be the envy of your neighbors!

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Fireproof human skulls for your gas fireplace, barbeque or fire-pit

Skulls for the skull throne!

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 4:42:23pm

Honored to join @realDonaldTrump, Chancellor Merkel and CEOs of US and German companies in a robust discussion on #WorkforceDevelopment pic.twitter.com/dJnrLpqcYF

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) March 17, 2017

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What the hell were you doing there? https://t.co/EkjN4G5IcC

— Julie 🔥🔥🔥 (@vintagegoddess) March 17, 2017

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Charles Johnson Mar 17, 2017 • 4:42:39pm

Humpback whales are gathering in massive, densely packed “super groups” and nobody knows why https://t.co/bN2mDdVQ4x pic.twitter.com/NGCgF0AojT

— CNN (@CNN) March 17, 2017

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IT BEGINS @CNN https://t.co/CLIHl8u9ZG

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2017

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Targetpractice Mar 17, 2017 • 4:43:08pm

re: #275 Charles Johnson

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So long and thanks for all the fish.

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 4:45:06pm

re: #251 Myron Falwell

So Richard Spenser is the absentee landlord of a cotton farm in Louisiana, which no doubt is the main bankroller for his Nazi activities.

Surprised, shocked, etc., &c.

Every time the media uses the term “firebrand” or “alt-right” to describe these Nazi wannabees makes me want to go kick a Trump voter in the nuts.

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jeffreyw Mar 17, 2017 • 4:46:05pm

Imgur
Supper! Home made garlic pepper sausages.

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gocart mozart Mar 17, 2017 • 4:46:40pm

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

@vintagegoddess
She is our Secretary of Emoluments, one of if not the most important job in the Trump administration.

— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) March 17, 2017

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majii Mar 17, 2017 • 4:49:21pm

re: #262 blueraven

Ms. Merkel knows more about Ivanka Trump than Trump knows. I see the skepticism in her eyes as she looks at IT.

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 4:50:35pm

re: #253 Eric The Fruit Bat

Reading New Testament in Greek? Fucking poseur. He should be reading Aramaic….

A careful reading of his tweet doesn’t actually say he’s reading it. He says he’s looking at it.

I doubt that Greek is something they teach in BillyBob’s Big Skool of Biblical Knowledge.

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Jack Burton Mar 17, 2017 • 4:50:46pm

re: #255 EPR-radar

What’s the point of that? Everyone knows that the King James version of the Bible is the original language version.

In the original English that Republican Jesus spoke.

(I knew someone who actually thought this.)

700 years before Old English (Anglo-Saxon) existed. 1100 years before Middle English where it would even begin to be slightly intelligible to modern English speakers. 1400 years before Modern English.

Assuming Jesus existed at all, and did so when claimed.

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 4:53:12pm

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

Her products are made in sweatshops and she uses unpaid interns here. WTH does she know about anything, other than screwing over other people?

Just like dear old dad.

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 4:53:58pm

Ukrainian prosecutors want to question Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, in corruption investigation https://t.co/YvGqRQF7LN pic.twitter.com/7ofvSK5aD8

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) March 17, 2017

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Ukrainian prosecutors want to question Paul Manafort in connection with a corruption investigation and have made repeated requests for assistance from US authorities, CNN has learned.

Prosecutors in Kiev said they have made seven separate appeals over the past two years for help in questioning President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, including letters to FBI Director James Comey and US Justice Department officials. Ukrainian officials said the US has not responded to those requests.

Under a “mutual legal assistance” treaty, the two countries have agreed to regularly assist each other in law enforcement efforts, such as gathering statements and other evidence for prosecutions.

US authorities confirmed to CNN that the requests were received but declined further comment.

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 4:55:18pm

re: #262 blueraven

“Who the fuck are you?”

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EPR-radar Mar 17, 2017 • 4:55:58pm

re: #277 Skip Intro

Every time the media uses the term “firebrand” or “alt-right” to describe these Nazi wannabees makes me want to go kick a Trump voter in the nuts.

Imagine a week in which all US political news is run through search and replace with two rules:

1) “Republican” —> “asshole”

2) “Trump” —> “Witless cocksplat.”

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 4:57:36pm

re: #286 EPR-radar

Actually, I wake up wanting to do that every day. The media just makes me want to kick them harder.

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 4:57:54pm

Military nude photo scandal investigation expands to gay porn Tumblr pages https://t.co/mGNYqTjSd8 pic.twitter.com/Humqy50Mde

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) March 17, 2017

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EPR-radar Mar 17, 2017 • 4:57:57pm

re: #285 Skip Intro

“Who the fuck are you?”

More like “What the fuck are you doing here?”. Merkel probably knows that Ivanka is always around to wipe daddy’s ass if need be.

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goddamnedfrank Mar 17, 2017 • 4:58:21pm

Unlike a war with Iran, attacking North Korea won’t spike oil prices to the same degree, and therefore won’t benefit Putin’s Russia. So why?

— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 17, 2017

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And that, my tweeps, should terrify the shit out of everyone.

— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 17, 2017

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Moebym Mar 17, 2017 • 4:58:44pm

re: #286 EPR-radar

There’s an extension on Chrome (I think Firefox has one as well) that will change any mention of Trump’s name on any major website to one of a growing number of nicknames. It’s called Detrumpify, and it makes reading NYT, WaPo, CNN, etc more bearable.

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Decatur Deb Mar 17, 2017 • 5:03:16pm

re: #242 FormerDirtDart

White nationalist Richard Spencer is an absentee landlord of a cotton farm that gets millions in federal subsidies

Unpaid interns pickin’ that cotton.

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Jack Burton Mar 17, 2017 • 5:03:46pm

re: #290 goddamnedfrank

Every wingnut from Florida to Nevada has wanted a Republican US president to “push the button” on the middle east for years.

As if turning it into a giant self-illuminated glass parking lot will somehow have no consequences at all but the muslim-free jesutopia they think is coming yet no one in power has had the cohones to do so because… political correctness/feminazis/libruhs or some shit.

That hurt contemplating.

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 5:03:47pm

re: #289 EPR-radar

More like “What the fuck are you doing here?”. Merkel probably knows that Ivanka is always around to wipe daddy’s ass if need be.

Or “No, I don’t want to buy a pair of your shoes”.

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 5:07:04pm

And everybody was worried about the end on “net neutrality”.
Just wait till the hospitals start “throttling” treatment…

#MayoClinic faces questions after its CEO told employees to prioritize privately insured patients. https://t.co/apDBZbvUM2 pic.twitter.com/9jzH1Bqm0L

— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) March 17, 2017

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Eric The Fruit Bat Mar 17, 2017 • 5:10:18pm

re: #291 Moebym

I still like my Make Trump Tweets Eight Again plugin….

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EPR-radar Mar 17, 2017 • 5:11:27pm

re: #295 FormerDirtDart

Let’s be real here. As long as health care is basically a business, then this is exactly what providers are going to do — look after their best paying customers as the highest priority.

Republicans look at this and say ‘Great. How can we get more of this?’

Decent people look at this and say ‘Health care shouldn’t be a business.’

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Eric The Fruit Bat Mar 17, 2017 • 5:11:32pm

re: #295 FormerDirtDart

This isn’t just limited to Mayo-it’s happening to every major healthcare system nationwide.

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teleskiguy Mar 17, 2017 • 5:11:33pm

re: #278 jeffreyw

Someone grab a bottle of Tums!

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De Kolta Chair Mar 17, 2017 • 5:12:58pm

Pat Byrnes

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 5:13:28pm

re: #298 Eric The Fruit Bat

This isn’t just limited to Mayo-it’s happening to every major healthcare system nationwide.

Where I live if you don’t already have a primary care doc you won’t be able to get one unless you pay $1800 per year up front for “concierge care”.

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Arkansawyer Mar 17, 2017 • 5:14:04pm

re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth

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When, while we were growing up, did our grandparents let us leave food on the plate? I finished so many sides of soggy fries and undercooked veggies to appease my Memaw.

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weave Mar 17, 2017 • 5:14:30pm

OK so goat fucker Erickson’s Resurgent site is now pushing the bullshit “community is better at charity than government.”

I think I know something about this. See, I work at a church. A church that has a food bank. You think the almost non-existent welfare fraud is out of control? It’s not practical for a community organization to means test recipients, so its on the honor system. So one controlling mechanism we have is wasting their time unfortunately. To get the food they have to line up way before we open, then sign up, go through a mini-little church service, be witnessed to, get a food ticket, go across a parking lot to the food warehouse, get in another line to get the food. In all it takes 2-3 hours.

Basically, it’s counting on people without jobs and who are poor have time that is worth less. Actually that’s not the primary objective of the process but it does end up being a controlling measure.

But the point is, it’s not practical. People who do not really need it come by and get free food. And we have a hard time getting donations to support it. And local businesses tend to only want to give us their garbage — a lot of which we end up throwing out and having to pay a waste removal company to get rid of.

tl;dr — Erick Erickson doesn’t know shit.

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EPR-radar Mar 17, 2017 • 5:16:38pm

re: #301 Skip Intro

Where I live if you don’t already have a primary care doc you won’t be able to get one unless you pay $1800 per year up front for “concierge care”.

Praise Prosperity Gospel Jayzus and the Golden Bull Market He rides on. May His Blessings Trickle Down upon you like Fluid Gold from the Sky.

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Decatur Deb Mar 17, 2017 • 5:16:38pm

re: #301 Skip Intro

Where I live if you don’t already have a primary care doc you won’t be able to get one unless you pay $1800 per year up front for “concierge care”.

Mine tried to go that route and failed. Don’t want a concierge doing my primary care or a bell captain doing a colonoscopy.

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Belafon Mar 17, 2017 • 5:18:22pm

re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth

@NerdPyle @PoeticPastries @FrankLuntz @_MealsOnWheels Why is it never “God provided Meels on Wheels” with these people?

— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) March 17, 2017

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b.d. Mar 17, 2017 • 5:19:11pm

re: #303 weave

Thank you for your work.

And if a precious few can afford to buy some food and still go through all of that to get it? Then I have no problem giving it to them, it’s not like they are getting a lot anyways.

I, personally, want my tax money spent on things that will help humans rather than killing them.

but hey, that’s just me.

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De Kolta Chair Mar 17, 2017 • 5:19:48pm

My toenail clippings know more about running a government than this schmuck.

.@realDonaldTrump how not to. pic.twitter.com/hLE2Mp0zZx

— Andrew Smith (@marburyjack) March 17, 2017

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b.d. Mar 17, 2017 • 5:21:10pm

re: #306 Belafon

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A very religious man was once caught in rising floodwaters. He climbed onto the roof of his house and trusted God to rescue him. A neighbour came by in a canoe and said, “The waters will soon be above your house. Hop in and we’ll paddle to safety.”

“No thanks” replied the religious man. “I’ve prayed to God and I’m sure he will save me”

A short time later the police came by in a boat. “The waters will soon be above your house. Hop in and we’ll take you to safety.”

“No thanks” replied the religious man. “I’ve prayed to God and I’m sure he will save me”

A little time later a rescue services helicopter hovered overhead, let down a rope ladder and said. “The waters will soon be above your house. Climb the ladder and we’ll fly you to safety.”

“No thanks” replied the religious man. “I’ve prayed to God and I’m sure he will save me”

All this time the floodwaters continued to rise, until soon they reached above the roof and the religious man drowned. When he arrived at heaven he demanded an audience with God. Ushered into God’s throne room he said, “Lord, why am I here in heaven? I prayed for you to save me, I trusted you to save me from that flood.”

“Yes you did my child” replied the Lord. “And I sent you a canoe, a boat and a helicopter. But you never got in.”

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Those guys seem to be very confused.

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 5:23:40pm

re: #308 De Kolta Chair

“They took away my cell phone so I’m going to hold my breath and turn blue until they give it back.”

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weave Mar 17, 2017 • 5:24:18pm

re: #307 b.d.

Thank you for your work.

Thanks, but I’m just the IT guy there. The food bank is run by selfless volunteers. They are much better persons than I will ever be.

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 5:25:12pm

The FBI slid into the DMs of @kurteichenwald seizure suspect and here’s what they found https://t.co/cj3HPZ71E7 pic.twitter.com/YLLK1UX8Ab

— Jon Passantino (@passantino) March 18, 2017

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EPR-radar Mar 17, 2017 • 5:26:53pm

re: #307 b.d.

Thank you for your work.

And if a precious few can afford to buy some food and still go through all of that to get it? Then I have no problem giving it to them, it’s not like they are getting a lot anyways.

I, personally, want my tax money spent on things that will help humans rather than killing them.

but hey, that’s just me.

Any rational budget hawk would focus on the big-ticket spending items: defense spending, health care spending in Medicare and Medicaid, and social security spending. Rational strategies for increased revenue should also be considered.

Republicans are doing none of that. Instead this ‘budget’ is a spreadsheet of wingnut resentment that will accomplish nothing except killing Americans to make the rich a tiny bit richer.

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De Kolta Chair Mar 17, 2017 • 5:30:49pm

@realDonaldTrump If your cajones were as big as you like to think they are you’d spend a weekend here in Manhattan & leave your windows open

— Mickey Bitsko (@BitskoMickey) March 18, 2017

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 5:31:30pm

re: #313 EPR-radar

They’ll end up “negotiating” and the cuts will “only” end up being 50% of what they are now. The media will praise them for negotiating while ignoring that the GOP just made huge cuts anyway.

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EPR-radar Mar 17, 2017 • 5:33:33pm

re: #314 De Kolta Chair

Trump’s meeting with the Republican Study Committee should be reported on as a meeting of crooks discussing their plans to kill people to make themselves richer.

The mainstream media will not do that. Democracy can’t function if the press does not do its job.

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 5:33:51pm

Trump Administration Files Motion Aimed At Controlling Consumer Protection Agency https://t.co/IGQgJtVWZm

— NPR (@NPR) March 18, 2017

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Anymouse Mar 17, 2017 • 5:34:45pm

WTF Twitter?

It’s St Paddy’s Day, not Saint Be Pedantic Day.

I should have started drinking already.

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 17, 2017

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fern01 Mar 17, 2017 • 5:35:02pm

re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth

I find it so insulting to Chancellor Merkel that trump would put daughter next to her at such a meeting. He is leading the US in a spiral of the biggest fail of its history.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 5:35:52pm

re: #295 FormerDirtDart

And everybody was worried about the end on “net neutrality”.
Just wait till the hospitals start “throttling” treatment…

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It was a hell of a lot more than him just using the word “prioritize”.

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De Kolta Chair Mar 17, 2017 • 5:36:03pm

A New Yorker cartoon that is sure to fly high over the greedy empty heads of the Trump family:

Pat Byrnes

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EPR-radar Mar 17, 2017 • 5:36:34pm

re: #315 Skip Intro

They’ll end up “negotiating” and the cuts will “only” end up being 50% of what they are now. The media will praise them for negotiating while ignoring that the GOP just made huge cuts anyway.

Here also the bias in favor of Republicans is just incredible. Any lefty that goes in with such an extreme starting point for negotiations is instantly hammered by all the talking heads.

Why the fuck can’t the Democrats get a 45% no bullshit marginal tax rate for the rich by going in with a 90% rate as a ‘starting point’?

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b.d. Mar 17, 2017 • 5:36:57pm

re: #315 Skip Intro

They’ll end up “negotiating” and the cuts will “only” end up being 50% of what they are now. The media will praise them for negotiating while ignoring that the GOP just made huge cuts anyway.

[media] Great comprise announced today as the Republicans have offered to save Oscar The Grouch from the PBS cut, to only cut Meals on Wheels funding by 75% rather than 100%, in exchange the Republicans have said they will be willing to only get 4 new aircraft carriers rather than 6. [/media]

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majii Mar 17, 2017 • 5:37:19pm

re: #302 Arkansawyer

“When, while we were growing up, did our grandparents let us leave food on the plate? I finished so many sides of soggy fries and undercooked veggies to appease my Memaw.”

I know what you mean. We had some neighborhood kids whose moms would cook separate foods for them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Not at my house. My mom would inform us that if we didn’t eat what she cooked, we would stay hungry, and my dad never contradicted her.

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Barefoot Grin Mar 17, 2017 • 5:42:37pm

Watching coverage of Preet’s investigation into Tom Price’s suspicious stock trades and legislation before becoming Sec. HHS. I would recommend the Fox News-style chyron: “Are they all corrupt shitbags?”

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majii Mar 17, 2017 • 5:44:34pm

re: #303 weave

“tl;dr — Erick Erickson doesn’t know shit.”

After the Recession of 2008 began, there were a whole lot of people here in GA in Erickson’s socioeconomic group who were lining up at food banks, lost their houses and cares, and were buying goods from Goodwill and the Salvation Army. It wasn’t only the poor here who fell on very hard times. He knows it happened, but it’s just like him to ignore it. I make a monthly donation to my local area food bank at the beginning of each month, a few days after my retirement check lands in my checking account, and I’m a regular donor to Goodwill donor because I have more than enough “things” than I need, so I’m clearing out the house.

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 5:45:32pm

Palm Beach may need to raise taxes to pay for Trump security at Mar-a-Lago https://t.co/Jg6RyB6NYC pic.twitter.com/9BpyjZyn9n

— The Hill (@thehill) March 18, 2017

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Decatur Deb Mar 17, 2017 • 5:45:44pm

re: #324 majii

“When, while we were growing up, did our grandparents let us leave food on the plate? I finished so many sides of soggy fries and undercooked veggies to appease my Memaw.”

I know what you mean. We had some neighborhood kids whose moms would cook separate foods for them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Not at my house. My mom would inform us that if we didn’t eat what she cooked, we would stay hungry, and my dad never contradicted her.

Each of our four kids was allowed to declare two foods that they never had to eat. If that food was the core of the night’s supper, the standing rule was “BLNM”, Better Luck Next Meal.

At my (reform) school, each table of 6 kids was served “family style”, a bowl of each course. All the food had to be eaten. It usually worked very well, though kids sometimes traded away desserts or toys to get someone to eat their share of things like rhubarb.

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Eventual Carrion Mar 17, 2017 • 5:47:54pm

re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I don’t know. We shot a $3 million missile at a fucking $200 drone. Worrying about tossing out some potato salad seems infantile.

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 5:52:16pm

re: #329 Eventual Carrion

I don’t know. We shot a $3 million missile at a fucking $200 drone. Worrying about tossing out some potato salad seems infantile.

The money has nothing to do with it. This is all about hate, the belief that “others” are getting a free ride while “hard working Americans” (i.e. white goobers) are paying for it all.

Wasting huge amounts of money on the military is good, because, damn, that thing blowed up real good! We really got our money’s worth out of that. Great entertainment.

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EPR-radar Mar 17, 2017 • 5:52:50pm

re: #329 Eventual Carrion

I don’t know. We shot a $3 million missile at a fucking $200 drone. Worrying about tossing out some potato salad seems infantile.

The food waste nonsense is just a bullshit excuse. Conservatives want to cut Meals on Wheels because that will cause people they view as ‘useless mouths’ to die off at an increased rate. It really is this simple.

The Republicans are right on the brink of becoming a full Nazi-type movement by so viciously going after the poor.

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Skip Intro Mar 17, 2017 • 5:56:21pm

re: #331 EPR-radar

At the same time, tell them that it’s going to cost us over $1 billion for the Trumps to live apart and go on vacation every weekend and they won’t even blink. “They deserve it. They’re good people” will be the response.

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Ace Rothstein Mar 17, 2017 • 5:56:35pm

re: #327 FormerDirtDart

No one wears tux shirts like that anymore. Did he have a cummerbund on too?

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prairiefire Mar 17, 2017 • 5:56:59pm

re: #328 Decatur Deb

My mom will eat rhubarb all day long.

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Decatur Deb Mar 17, 2017 • 5:59:31pm

re: #334 prairiefire

My mom will eat rhubarb all day long.

Think it’s one of those genetic “taster” things. Tastes like a mouthfull of dirt and needles to me.

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William Lewis Mar 17, 2017 • 6:03:34pm

re: #335 Decatur Deb

Think it’s one of those genetic “taster” things. Tastes like a mouthfull of dirt and needles to me.

I love beets, my ex can’t stand them. Oh, that’s right there’s an open can of pickled beets in the fridge. BRB.

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KingKenrod Mar 17, 2017 • 6:04:41pm

re: #312 FormerDirtDart

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I wouldn’t want the prosecutor to overreach, but attempted murder isn’t out of the question. You have pre-meditation, intent, and action. Plus it’s a high-profile case that could be a deterrent for other assholes who want to try stuff like this.

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EPR-radar Mar 17, 2017 • 6:04:52pm

re: #332 Skip Intro

At the same time, tell them that it’s going to cost us over $1 billion for the Trumps to live apart and go on vacation every weekend and they won’t even blink. “They deserve it. They’re good people” will be the response.

More precisely, the US has an aristocracy of wealth, and the Trumps are presently in that aristocracy. This is most of the reason why they can do no wrong in the eyes of the pig-people.

Nearly all Trump supporters really do think the rich are intrinsically better than everyone else, and therefore deserve to rule.

The evil magic of Trumpism depends every bit as much on Trump being rich as it does on Trump being an asshole.

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Cheechako Mar 17, 2017 • 6:06:48pm

re: #329 Eventual Carrion

I don’t know. We shot a $3 million missile at a fucking $200 drone. Worrying about tossing out some potato salad seems infantile.

The article stated some other country to whom we had sold the missiles did the shooting. Not the US.

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KingKenrod Mar 17, 2017 • 6:10:54pm

New Trump lackey. She knows what the boss wants to hear.

President Trump inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any other president ever has.

— Dina Powell (@APNSADinaPowell) March 17, 2017

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President @realDonaldTrump has the opportunity to be the president who, like Harry Truman, redirected U.S. foreign policy for a generation.

— Dina Powell (@APNSADinaPowell) March 18, 2017

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De Kolta Chair Mar 17, 2017 • 6:12:30pm

Trump refers to Mar-A Lago as “The Southern White House” because he likes to fantasize that slaves built it too.

— J. Elvis Weinstein (@JElvisWeinstein) March 17, 2017

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EPR-radar Mar 17, 2017 • 6:13:07pm

re: #340 KingKenrod

What a fucking imbecile. Obama inherited a worse situation than Trump did, both foreign and domestic.

Edited to add: Nobody is going to take first place in this little contest from Abraham Lincoln unless Trump really fucks up.

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goddamnedfrank Mar 17, 2017 • 6:14:18pm

The Minnie Mouse themed improvised silencer is an interesting touch. @ATFHQ @chinopolicedept pic.twitter.com/VIuGdAfphx

— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 18, 2017

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De Kolta Chair Mar 17, 2017 • 6:15:05pm

re: #340 KingKenrod

New Trump lackey. She knows what the boss wants to hear.

Speak beer to power!

@APNSADinaPowell @realDonaldTrump Yeah, whatever, I’m drinking too. As your boss no doubt says, Erin Go Braless!

— Mickey Bitsko (@BitskoMickey) March 18, 2017

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teleskiguy Mar 17, 2017 • 6:15:14pm

re: #343 goddamnedfrank

That black and white pistol is hideous.

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teleskiguy Mar 17, 2017 • 6:18:13pm

Ivanka at meeting with German Chancellor. Why? pic.twitter.com/83z38oT5XJ

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) March 17, 2017

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Because she’s there to keep daddy in line. Trump trusts her more than anybody to make sure he doesn’t make a fool of himself in public. https://t.co/kAQtjzKHne

— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) March 18, 2017

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Decatur Deb Mar 17, 2017 • 6:19:18pm

re: #344 De Kolta Chair

Speak beer to power!

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The Mahones - Paint the Town Red

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Charles Johnson Mar 17, 2017 • 6:19:56pm

Just in: Official tells CNN DOJ report to Congress does NOT confirm President Trump’s wiretapping claim

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) March 17, 2017

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Doesn’t matter. Trump will still insist he was right. @jimsciutto https://t.co/n5UF0uyDT5

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 18, 2017

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retired cynic Mar 17, 2017 • 6:19:57pm

re: #308 De Kolta Chair

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Don’t read the comments.

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KingKenrod Mar 17, 2017 • 6:23:24pm

Here’s some traditional Irish music for St. Paddy’s.

THIN LIZZY - LIVE AT THE NATIONAL STADIUM (1975) - PART 1

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De Kolta Chair Mar 17, 2017 • 6:23:45pm

@realDonaldTrump Did you put playing in quotes because your followers wont get 1970’s Negro slang?

— Mickey Bitsko (@BitskoMickey) March 18, 2017

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De Kolta Chair Mar 17, 2017 • 6:24:58pm

re: #347 Decatur Deb

Sláinte!

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De Kolta Chair Mar 17, 2017 • 6:26:47pm

re: #346 teleskiguy

Maybe because both are research scientists with doctorates in physical chemistry?

Yeah, has to be that.

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Moebym Mar 17, 2017 • 6:29:21pm

I never realized B&H Photo and Video observes Shabbat and Jewish holidays and even closes their online order system.

Guess that case for my phone will have to wait till another day.

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EPR-radar Mar 17, 2017 • 6:30:21pm

re: #351 De Kolta Chair

My God. Trump has actually said something that isn’t completely false. The Norks always behave badly. So what.

I fail to see how Trump blundering about in that part of the world will improve anything. The Chinese master plan is probably to have the US nuke North Korea more or less pointlessly. That rids China of its embarrassing client state and will make the US an international pariah for the rest of the century.

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teleskiguy Mar 17, 2017 • 6:30:25pm

re: #353 De Kolta Chair

Man, you get quite the science education with a bachelors in business from the Wharton School. A bargain!

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De Kolta Chair Mar 17, 2017 • 6:36:34pm

re: #356 teleskiguy

I got my MFA from Trump University, so if you ever need a finger painter I’m your guy!

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prairiefire Mar 17, 2017 • 6:36:43pm

re: #336 William Lewis

I love beets, my ex can’t stand them. Oh, that’s right there’s an open can of pickled beets in the fridge. BRB.

Roasted beets are all the rage in foodie salads now. They’re good.

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Decatur Deb Mar 17, 2017 • 6:37:36pm

Quite the rogues’ gallery:

The Mahones - The Hunger & The Fight (Lyric Video)

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Eric The Fruit Bat Mar 17, 2017 • 6:38:00pm

re: #355 EPR-radar

The Chinese master plan is probably to have the US nuke North Korea more or less pointlessly. That rids China of its embarrassing client state and will make the US an international pariah for the rest of the century.

Unfortunately, with Trump in the White House, that’s a real possibility.

A more sane person would spin up five-party talks with China, North Korea, South Korea, the US and Japan and come to some sort of agreement to ratchet down the tensions in the region. Don’t forget that China and North Korea don’t have real good relations right now, given the China has cut off their coal supply, and that since Kim jong-Un assumed power, many pro-China people have been purged, including the execution of his uncle Jang Song Thaek in December 2013.

China could try a regime change, but that poses serious risks if it goes very badly (see Iraq War, 2003.)

There really are no good options here.

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Anymouse Mar 17, 2017 • 6:38:21pm

Hey @EWErickson, I’m pretty sure that feeding the poor was a major plot point in One Of The Most Popular Stories In The Entire Bible pic.twitter.com/utnGMCVpFH

— Ace (@MillenialDog) March 17, 2017

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@EWErickson oh cool, now you can know that you’re a liar in TWO languages https://t.co/QGc2svB6JC

— Ace (@MillenialDog) March 17, 2017

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De Kolta Chair Mar 17, 2017 • 6:39:38pm

re: #358 prairiefire

I hated hated hated beets until my wife added pastachios. Now I’m a puppy laying contently on his back saying more more more!

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Belafon Mar 17, 2017 • 6:39:47pm

re: #343 goddamnedfrank

Looks like the Animaniacs.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 6:40:17pm

re: #346 teleskiguy

serious frowny faces on the other side of the table…

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Decatur Deb Mar 17, 2017 • 6:40:33pm

re: #361 Anymouse

Hey @EWErickson, I’m pretty sure that feeding the poor was a major plot point in One Of The Most Popular Stories In The Entire Bible

Picnic on the Mount.

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EPR-radar Mar 17, 2017 • 6:45:21pm

re: #361 Anymouse

I’m sure prosperity gospel biblical literalists have loads of fun with this:

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

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goddamnedfrank Mar 17, 2017 • 6:49:22pm

re: #363 Belafon

Looks like the Animaniacs.

Good catch.

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 6:52:29pm

UPDATE: “Major meeting” on veterans’ health care NOT happening tonight at Mar-a-Lago, The Post has learned https://t.co/O5ouOB5579 pic.twitter.com/ZktF4GClM2

— The Palm Beach Post (@pbpost) March 18, 2017

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 6:53:47pm

re: #368 FormerDirtDart

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Does Barron’s facial expression ever change from anything other than just “vacant”?

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Decatur Deb Mar 17, 2017 • 6:55:21pm

re: #369 Backwoods_Sleuth

Does Barron’s facial expression ever change from anything other than just “vacant”?

Obama’s photographer was a genius. Trump’s is a saboteur.

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FormerDirtDart Mar 17, 2017 • 6:55:24pm

I just laughed too hard at this but a reporter on NPR just accidentally said, “we have a trump from President Tweet”. 😂😂 #PresidentTweet

— Kirstin (@KirstinYklj) March 17, 2017

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Anymouse Mar 17, 2017 • 7:01:20pm

re: #337 KingKenrod

I wouldn’t want the prosecutor to overreach, but attempted murder isn’t out of the question. You have pre-meditation, intent, and action. Plus it’s a high-profile case that could be a deterrent for other assholes who want to try stuff like this.

Speaking as one with epilepsy, attempted murder might be an overreach. Seizures rarely kill people.

Aggravated battery would be much easier to prove.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 7:03:00pm

re: #372 Anymouse

Speaking as one with epilepsy, attempted murder might be an overreach. Seizures rarely kill people.

Aggravated battery would be much easier to prove.

Rivello’s intent was to end in death. His own words.

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Anymouse Mar 17, 2017 • 7:04:55pm

re: #373 Backwoods_Sleuth

Rivello’s intent was to end in death. His own words.

There is that.

I can say “I’m going to kill person X” but if I am using something that likely won’t do it (a feather pillow) I’m not sure I could be convicted on the attempted murder charge if I slugged him with the pillow. Sure the pillow might kill him, but it probably wouldn’t.

I am not a lawyer though.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 17, 2017 • 7:06:01pm

re: #374 Anymouse

There is that.

I can say “I’m going to kill person X” but if I am using something that likely won’t do it (a feather pillow) I’m not sure I could be convicted on the attempted murder charge if I slugged him with the pillow. Sure the pillow might kill him, but it probably wouldn’t.

I am not a lawyer though.

“Intent” is the operative word here.

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BeachDem Mar 17, 2017 • 7:08:32pm

re: #340 KingKenrod

New Trump lackey. She knows what the boss wants to hear.

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@mikeduncan @KevinMKruse @APNSADinaPowell The mangled syntax is a giveaway. But w/ Trump, might be a giveaway that it’s legit.

— Tracy Platt (@WhimperNotABang) March 17, 2017

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