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jaunte  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:20:33am
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jaunte  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:22:45am

The tapdancing is so loud it’s hard to hear the answers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:23:49am
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Jay C  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:25:07am

“Several fires”? You mean the ones billowing clouds of toxic smoke from the seat of Sean Spicer’s pants? And various other Trump Admin officials?

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S'latch  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:25:12am

Pants on Fire!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:25:23am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:26:48am

Spicer explains how he should have been “more precise” when he lied about Manafort’s “limited role”

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ObserverArt  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:27:25am

re: #2 jaunte

The tapdancing is so loud it’s hard to hear the answers.

This would be funny if it was on SNL as a skit.

But since Spicer is really addressing the press at the White House it is, well…SAD!

(Sure would be fun to be around some of the media types when they are out of ear-shot of Trumpians and hear what they have to say about all these lies Spicer floats at one of his dog and pony shows.)

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Jay C  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:28:12am

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

Good point. Reading the account of the Westminster attack, I was struck by the swiftness and efficiency of the police/counterterror forces in protecting Parliament and the public.

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EPR-radar  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:29:18am

re: #8 ObserverArt

This would be funny if it was on SNL as a skit.

But since Spicer is really addressing the press at the White House it is, well…SAD!

(Sure would be fun to be around some of the media types when they are out of ear-shot of Trumpians and hear what they have to say about all these lies Spicer floats at one of his dog and pony shows.)

What I really want is for the media to more energetically report Trump/Spicer lies as the lies that they are. Giving this administration the benefit of the doubt for ambiguous statements etc. is idiotic.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:29:29am
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Interesting Times  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:30:03am
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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:30:23am

Spicer may not be lying when he says “How could Trump have possibly know about that!” when we now know that Trump only learned yesterday that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:31:10am
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KGxvi  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:31:22am

At some point, we’re going to need a running tally on the Malicious vs Incompetent scale for the Trump Administration. It seems their general incompetence has undermined their general maliciousness. We have to wonder how much longer that will hold.

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jaunte  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:32:00am
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EPR-radar  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:32:06am

re: #14 The Vicious Babushka

Spicer may not be lying when he says “How could Trump have possibly know about that!” when we now know that Trump only learned yesterday that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.

It’s an easy mistake. I’m sure most of the Republicans Trump knows hate Lincoln because they are confederates.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:32:29am

Trump cultists actually believe the Fuhrer has been vindicated by Nunes’ latest bullshit revelation.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:32:58am
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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:33:04am
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jaunte  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:33:10am

Spicer unwilling to vouch for the Trump Administration.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:33:41am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:34:04am

re: #13 Interesting Times

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, we are currently being governed by the comments section.

People like Breitbart and Drudge figured out that if you just float a story, no matter how preposterous, out there long enough, it will get picked up, discussed and disseminated by major news networks as if it had any real merit.

And that is one of the things historians will point to when they analyze the decline and fall of the American empire.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:34:07am
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EPR-radar  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:34:12am

re: #22 jaunte

Spicer unwilling to vouch for the Trump Administration.

Impressive. I didn’t know there existed a lie that Spicer would not happily tell.

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Kragar  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:34:31am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:35:01am
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jaunte  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:35:16am

re: #26 EPR-radar

In effect “who knows what those people I work with have been up to; they filled out papers.”

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ObserverArt  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:35:21am

re: #10 EPR-radar

What I really want is for the media to more energetically report Trump/Spicer lies as the lies that they are. Giving this administration the benefit of the doubt for ambiguous statements etc. is idiotic.

Yeah, that too.

Hopefully it is media constipation and they just need someone to step up and tell it like it is and then they all get on with it.

It always seems like they are scared of Trump and his wrecking ball ways where he will take it to their bosses and they fear they lose their jobs. Spineless would be a good word, but there is no indication of any actual structural bones in any many of them.

The German press comes over and gets right to it. Our’s hold back and look at each other waiting for someone to allow them to actually ask tough questions and report.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:35:40am

re: #25 FormerDirtDart

Why does Nunes need to “brief” Trump on intelligence that the president should have access to? This is just grandstanding

Ever since DT make his wiretapping claims, people have been scrambling to find something that would lend them some image of substance. This is close enough.

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electrotek  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:36:52am

Said this before last summer, but I’ll say it again:

I’m honestly surprised that European music festivals have managed to avoid being targeted by these miscreants. But, as we all know, it’s only a matter of time until a leading music festival like Roskilde, Pukkelpop, Glastonbury, or Parklife (to name a few) are targeted.

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jaunte  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:37:20am

Nuking your credibility is the hot new trend among Republicans.

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Targetpractice  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:38:59am

re: #33 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Nuking your credibility is the hot new trend among Republicans.

The real read from this: Cornyn saying vote for the bill because Republicans can ignore liberals, but they can’t afford to piss off their base.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:39:03am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:40:02am
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Targetpractice  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:40:11am

re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Can anyone remember a president who hasn’t even made it through his First 100 Days…having a campaign website that his press secretary can direct reporters to?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:40:29am

re: #32 electrotek

Said this before last summer, but I’ll say it again:

I’m honestly surprised that European music festivals have managed to avoid being targeted by these miscreants. But, as we all know, it’s only a matter of time until a leading music festival like Roskilde, Pukkelpop, Glastonbury, or Parklife (to name a few) are targeted.

Germany was terribly concerned about the safety of its Karneval celebrations in February, especially after the incident at the Berlin Christmas market, but nothing happened there beyond a lot of drunk revellers with death-dealing hangovers at the end of it all.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:40:34am

Well, you just know Abbot will be screaming for legislation shortly, to deny municipalities the authority to issue ID…

“…Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has proposed offering identification cards to all of the city’s residents, including undocumented immigrants. Doing so would not only grant Dallas’ large population of Mexican immigrants free access to government or other municipal services but also formally involve them in the local economy, Rawlings told local reporters Tuesday.

The photo IDs would give undocumented immigrants who don’t have access to other forms of formal identification the ability to cash checks, pursue legal employment and acquire library cards.

The ID cards could also provide undocumented immigrants an avenue to open bank accounts in addition to giving them a way to identify themselves to local law enforcement officers, Liz cedilla-Pereira, head of Dallas’ Office of Welcoming Communities and Immigrant Affairs, told Dallas News…”

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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:41:50am

re: #4 Jay C

“Several fires”? You mean the ones billowing clouds of toxic smoke from the seat of Sean Spicer’s pants? And various other Trump Admin officials?

That’s an amusing pic. I get this other vision of an Iranian propaganda missile photoshop as applied to dumpster fires.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:43:59am

re: #39 FormerDirtDart

Now in Germany, all citizens have a personal ID, and foreigners are required to present a passport and proof of legal residencebefore they can open a bank account, register a vehicle, sign a lease or employment contract, even buy or lease a cell phone.

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jaunte  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:44:33am
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KGxvi  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:44:59am

re: #34 Targetpractice

The real read from this: Cornyn saying vote for the bill because Republicans can ignore liberals, but they can’t afford to piss off their base.

That is sort of politics 101 though. You don’t really worry about the complaints from the guy who isn’t ever going to vote for you.

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jaunte  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:45:59am

“passing a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to repeal the rules — would effectively permanently ban the FCC from ever writing new privacy rules.”
act.eff.org

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:46:09am

re: #39 FormerDirtDart

Well, you just know Abbot will be screaming for legislation shortly, to deny municipalities the authority to issue ID…

He’s basically asked for legislation that says that the state preempts any local ordinances.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:46:19am

re: #43 KGxvi

That is sort of politics 101 though. You don’t really worry about the complaints from the guy who isn’t ever going to vote for you.

Nor do you try to appeal to them during a campaign.

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Jay C  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:46:41am

re: #34 Targetpractice

The real read from this: Cornyn saying vote for the bill because Republicans can ignore liberals, but they can’t afford to piss off their base.

And this is different from Republican attitudes for the last several decades HOW?

(the only difference is that right now, a few GOPers are starting to get a glimmer that their “base” aren’t always a rock-solid bloc of reflexive RW obsessives, Too few, IMO, and a fairly dim glimmer, but there’s always room for improvement)

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jaunte  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:48:01am

The donor class may appear with virtual pitchforks if the AHCA doesn’t happen, but the real trouble for R’s will come from their base if it does pass.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:48:11am

re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is all perfectly normal.

///

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Sir John Barron  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:49:24am

re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth

Shouldn’t we be talking about HRC’s emails?

///

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Dr. Matt  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:49:53am
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lawhawk  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:51:26am

re: #48 jaunte

Magic 8 Ball says: Outcome Hazy.

Much more likely, GOP blames Obama and these rubes go for it. They’ll blame Obama for their own failings, because that’s how the Party of Personal Responsibility rolls in the Shire.

Heck, I had someone claiming that half the people on Obamacare had coverage previously, and were swapping one coverage for another. That’s factually impossible, given that the uninsured rate dropped as it did. If you’re swapping coverage, then there’s no change - you’d still be covered.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:51:32am
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wrenchwench  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:52:32am
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jaunte  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:53:03am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:53:21am

Here’s @PressSec mocking the idea the Trump campaign should’ve known former chairman Manafort was once paid to advance Putin’s interests

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jaunte  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:53:41am
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lawhawk  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:54:45am

re: #55 jaunte

President #ThinSkin

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jaunte  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:55:20am

“That kitten scratched me!”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:56:08am

good to see this hearing is being all serious…

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Clearly a Country For Sick Old Haters  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:56:57am

re: #33 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Nuking your credibility is the hot new trend among Republicans.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:57:34am

re: #55 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Even more ridiculous, the Trump lawyers apparently wanted to collect royalties for the use of the Royal name & visage.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:58:06am

“Royalties for the royal name”

I amaze myself sometimes.

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wrenchwench  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:58:28am
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Interesting Times  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:59:14am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 22, 2017 • 11:59:27am

re: #17 jaunte

EXTREME VETTING!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2017 • 12:01:36pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2017 • 12:04:29pm
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Citizen K  Mar 22, 2017 • 12:04:38pm

Not to make light of how terrible the attack in London is at all. But it’s amazing how many people want things to go into immediate lockdown the moment the word ‘terrorist’ passes by someone’s lips. Like…that’s the exact purpose of terrorism: to scare the shit out of a lot of people with minimal effort and get them to take drastic actions under the assumption of asymmetric and or indiscriminate threat. Treat it as a crime, rather than an existential societal crisis, and you defang the broader scope of terrorism. That doesn’t preclude treating it as a serious crime, with extensive investigation and hunt. But it also doesn’t mean turning on the war machine because of one small scope attack.

And yeah, I get that it was the fucking Parliament building. But why was there less concern about the broader scope of things when an actual MP, Jo Cox, was shot and killed by a crazy Brexit supporter? At least, to the extent people are trying to extrapolate the meaning of this attack?

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lawhawk  Mar 22, 2017 • 12:06:24pm

Spicer can dodge and weave, but there’s inescapable facts. Trump knew Manafort for years. Ditto for Stone. They all know each other through Roy Cohn.

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Clearly a Country For Sick Old Haters  Mar 22, 2017 • 12:07:16pm

re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 22, 2017 • 12:08:05pm

re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth

NEW: “What I’ve read seems to be some level of surveillance activity, perhaps legal, but I don’t know that it’s right,” Rep. Nunes says.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2017 • 12:09:42pm
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Belafon  Mar 22, 2017 • 12:10:24pm

re: #72 FormerDirtDart

“So, we’ll go to the president, have him declare all of them illegal, and then everything will be OK.”

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 22, 2017 • 12:11:40pm

Mid day “Awwwwww”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2017 • 12:12:01pm
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electrotek  Mar 22, 2017 • 12:12:42pm

re: #38 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Germany was terribly concerned about the safety of its Karneval celebrations in February, especially after the incident at the Berlin Christmas market, but nothing happened there beyond a lot of drunk revellers with death-dealing hangovers at the end of it all.

Whew.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2017 • 12:13:11pm

*blink*

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makeitstop  Mar 22, 2017 • 12:22:59pm

re: #43 KGxvi

That is sort of politics 101 though. You don’t really worry about the complaints from the guy who isn’t ever going to vote for you.

But you gotta wonder what happens when they pass the bill to make their base happy, and then a large percentage of the base lose any coverage they might have.

I think it’s gonna end in pitchforks either way. They’ve painted themselves into a lose-lose situation.

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2017 • 12:25:37pm

re: #79 makeitstop

But you gotta wonder what happens when they pass the bill to make their base happy, and then a large percentage of the base lose any coverage they might have.

I think it’s gonna end in pitchforks either way. They’ve painted themselves into a lose-lose situation.

Let’s hope so.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2017 • 12:31:10pm

re: #62 The Vicious Babushka

Even more ridiculous, the Trump lawyers apparently wanted to collect royalties for the use of the Royal name & visage.

because he is a brand


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