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Kragar  May 26, 2017 • 11:32:59am

Speaking of violent war against your own people…

It only a matter of time before Republicans start trying it here.

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EPR-radar  May 26, 2017 • 11:34:22am

Trump has only nice things to say about violent foreign dictators because that is what he wants to do in the US.

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lawhawk  May 26, 2017 • 11:37:02am

That same transcript also showed Trump touting that US submarines were on patrol in waters off the Korean peninsula.

The vainglorious ignoramus can’t help himself. He’s got to show he knows stuff and always seems to leak key details to people who should not have the information.

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Teukka  May 26, 2017 • 11:37:03am

re: #1 Kragar

Speaking of violent war against your own people…

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It only a matter of time before Republicans start trying it here.

Hate to sound like The Major, but begin teaching yourself how to covertly document events, including having multi-level documentation, i.e. you have a camera person, and a camera person covering the camera person, and a camera person covering that camera person.

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Stanley Sea  May 26, 2017 • 11:37:43am

Reposting - relevant

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Kragar  May 26, 2017 • 11:38:48am

So much for “Clean Coal”

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Belafon  May 26, 2017 • 11:40:30am

re: #6 Kragar

So much for “Clean Coal”

And all of the West Virginia coal miners will bob their heads and say “If only someone had told us this sooner.”

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Kragar  May 26, 2017 • 11:41:23am

re: #4 Teukka

Hate to sound like The Major, but begin teaching yourself how to covertly document events, including having multi-level documentation, i.e. you have a camera person, and a camera person covering the camera person, and a camera person covering that camera person.

And make sure you’ve got an escape route

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Birth Control Works  May 26, 2017 • 11:42:13am

re: #5 Stanley Sea

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Nice

/grrrr

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Timothy Watson  May 26, 2017 • 11:42:50am

re: #5 Stanley Sea

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Not the first time:

Comments by Duterte
In 2016, 27 years after the incident, Duterte made remarks in one of his campaign rallies relating to the 1989 hostage crisis and the raping of the Australian missionary. Duterte made the controversial joke on April 12, when he talked to a crowd about Australian missionary Jacqueline Hamill who had been kidnapped, raped and killed in 1989 and said, “She was so beautiful. I thought, the mayor should have been first.” [17] This caused outrage from human rights and women’s rights advocates, as well as his presidential campaign rivals which condemned Duterte remarks as insensitive.[18] Duterte claimed to have ordered the storming of Davao Metrodiscom during the April 1989 hostage incident.[19] Duterte apologized for the way he spoke but insisted the remark was not a “joke” as reported by some media outlets and that he had spoken the remark in a narrative and out of “utter anger” when he recalled the incident.[20][21]

en.wikipedia.org

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Teukka  May 26, 2017 • 11:44:00am

re: #8 Kragar

And make sure you’ve got an escape route

Indeed. And have some contingency plans which could allow you to drop off the face of the earth.

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lawhawk  May 26, 2017 • 11:44:22am

IMAX level projection coming from the nutbar Roger Stone:

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 11:45:17am

re: #1 Kragar

Speaking of violent war against your own people…

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It only a matter of time before Republicans start trying it here.

And in the same breath, I ebt this chode face cries about how violent the left is because of the Ferguson protests. Oh and I’d like to see you try to kill me Wayne.

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Birth Control Works  May 26, 2017 • 11:46:10am

re: #5 Stanley Sea

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Think the UN or any country will address this?

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Timothy Watson  May 26, 2017 • 11:46:17am

re: #13 HappyWarrior

And in the same breath, I ebt this chode face cries about how violent the left is because of the Ferguson protests. Oh and I’d like to see you try to kill me Wayne.

Or those dirty intolerant liberals on college campuses.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 11:46:49am

re: #12 lawhawk

IMAX level projection coming from the nutbar Roger Stone:

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They need to sue his ass. This is pathetic. They lost heir fucking son and this ghoul is using their son’s death in the most disgusting manner possible.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 26, 2017 • 11:47:03am

re: #12 lawhawk

IMAX level projection coming from the nutbar Roger Stone:

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 11:47:28am

re: #15 Timothy Watson

Or those dirty intolerant liberals on college campuses.

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It totally went over my wingnut friend’s head when I said in plain English that Trump supporters are teh last people who should be bitching about snowflakes.

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Birth Control Works  May 26, 2017 • 11:47:29am

re: #14 Birth Control Works

Think the UN or any country will address this?

News Outlets have picked it up.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 11:48:05am

re: #5 Stanley Sea

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And this is Trump’s best pal in Southeast Asia too.

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Birth Control Works  May 26, 2017 • 11:48:21am
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Timothy Watson  May 26, 2017 • 11:49:37am

re: #20 HappyWarrior

And this is Trump’s best pal in Southeast Asia too.

Who threw in with the PRC last year. So he’s sucking up and giving away our submarines’ location to a ChiCom stooge.

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Birth Control Works  May 26, 2017 • 11:49:38am
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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 11:50:23am

re: #23 Birth Control Works

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Comparing him to Nixon is too kind but I know what she means.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 11:50:48am

re: #22 Timothy Watson

Who threw in with the PRC last year. So he’s sucking up and giving away our submarines’ location to a ChiCom stooge.

I’m going to tell my Dad to mention that part to his friend who loves Duerete and Trump both and proclaims to hate Commies.

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Dr Lizardo  May 26, 2017 • 11:51:25am

re: #21 Birth Control Works

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Yep. The GOP has morphed into a successful - and powerful - political cult along the lines of the LaRouche Movement.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 11:51:36am

re: #21 Birth Control Works

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Of course. We shouldn’t be shocked by Gianforte’s win at all. He’s got otehr messed up stuff going for him too like ties to white supremacists.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 11:52:00am

re: #26 Dr Lizardo

Yep. The GOP has morphed into a successful - and powerful - political cult along the lines of the LaRouche Movement.

Should have just let McCain win or else they wouldn’t be like this. //

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Birth Control Works  May 26, 2017 • 11:52:49am

re: #27 HappyWarrior

Of course. We shouldn’t be shocked by Gianforte’s win at all. He’s got otehr messed up stuff going for him too like ties to white supremacists.

and early ballots …

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Birth Control Works  May 26, 2017 • 11:53:33am

re: #28 HappyWarrior

Should have just let McCain win or else they wouldn’t be like this. //

No, it was the death of William F Buckley. He kept the whackos at bay.

and: The whacko religious have been planning this for a very long time —generations. The hate and fear are well entrenched.

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wrenchwench  May 26, 2017 • 11:53:58am

re: #24 HappyWarrior

Comparing him to Nixon is too kind but I know what she means.

The line is straight, but it’s angled up towards Nixon, and down towards Trump.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 11:56:00am

re: #30 Birth Control Works

No, it was the death of William F Buckley. He kept the whackos at bay.

and: The whacko religious have been planning this for a very long time —generations. The hate and fear are well entrenched.

Buckley was as crazy as the rest of them. Sorry, pet peeve of mine but I really hate giving that craven bigot any credit for anything.

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sagehen  May 26, 2017 • 11:56:15am

re: #13 HappyWarrior

And in the same breath, I ebt this chode face cries about how violent the left is because of the Ferguson protests. Oh and I’d like to see you try to kill me Wayne.

“I can hire half the working class to kill the other half.”
—JP Morgan

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Birth Control Works  May 26, 2017 • 11:56:17am

Humans are killing ourselves by overpopulation. The planet is going to wipe us out. One way or another.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 11:56:23am

re: #31 wrenchwench

The line is straight, but it’s angled up towards Nixon, and down towards Trump.

Nixon had these things called accomplishments.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 11:56:59am

re: #33 sagehen

“I can hire half the working class to kill the other half.”
—JP Morgan

He wasn’t wrong. You can set people who have similar interests against each other pretty easily.

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caseyjr  May 26, 2017 • 11:57:18am

Future headline “Citing _Gianforte rule_, jurors acquitted Seth Rich parents in brutal slaying of Sean Hannity.”

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jaunte  May 26, 2017 • 11:57:50am

Troop supporters all.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 11:58:10am

re: #37 caseyjr

Future headline “Citing _Gianforte rule_, jurors acquitted Seth Rich parents in brutal slaying of Sean Hannity.”

Is it wrong that I snickered at that. I don’t want Hannity to die for what he’s doing to the Rich’s obviously but man I wish eh would show some fuckign respect and decency for once in his life.

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wrenchwench  May 26, 2017 • 12:00:05pm

re: #35 HappyWarrior

Nixon had these things called accomplishments.

Trump thinks a bankruptcy is an accomplishment. He will force more people than ever to get one.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 12:00:24pm

re: #38 jaunte

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Troop supporters all.

If he were white, we’d be hearing about the war on white people and how black people need to get their people in line.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 12:01:07pm

re: #40 wrenchwench

Trump thinks a bankruptcy is an accomplishment. He will force more people than ever to get one.

In fact last night, he was bragging about having a 48% approval rating. AGain Trumpers, tell me again why you mock millenials but never your Snowflake in Chief?

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Kragar  May 26, 2017 • 12:01:34pm
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Dr Lizardo  May 26, 2017 • 12:02:00pm

re: #34 Birth Control Works

Humans are killing ourselves by overpopulation. The planet is going to wipe us out. One way or another.

Well, either that, or Hugo Weaving will get us.

The Matrix - Human beings are a disease / Der Mensch ist eine Krankheit

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Timothy Watson  May 26, 2017 • 12:02:58pm

re: #43 Kragar

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Most of the voters for Gianforte would gladly hang Norquist from a tree if you told them the conspiracy theory about Norquist being a sekrit Muslim.

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caseyjr  May 26, 2017 • 12:03:24pm

re: #39 HappyWarrior

Is it wrong that I snickered at that. I don’t want Hannity to die for what he’s doing to the Rich’s obviously but man I wish eh would show some fuckign respect and decency for once in his life.

i believe in “a special place in hell” for those whose energies have been to make their followers unable to see the good in fellow humans.

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Franklin  May 26, 2017 • 12:04:13pm

Has anyone else noticed that Gianforte looks like Michael Gaston? With all apologies to Michael Gaston, who I am sure is a nice person.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 12:05:21pm

re: #43 Kragar

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Tax Cuts Uber Alles or as we know it, the Grover Norquist Story. Remember hwen DF told us that this guy was okay.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 12:06:55pm

I thik Grover would castrate himself for a tax cut.

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wrenchwench  May 26, 2017 • 12:07:31pm

I need some rainbow. And a dog. And the dog needs some rainbow, too.

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Timothy Watson  May 26, 2017 • 12:08:36pm

re: #50 wrenchwench

I need some rainbow. And a dog. And the dog needs some rainbow, too.

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Taste the rainbow?

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caseyjr  May 26, 2017 • 12:08:38pm

re: #6 Kragar

So much for “Clean Coal”

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Trump will nationalize the coal mines to fuel the 300 new naval vessels.

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Birth Control Works  May 26, 2017 • 12:09:06pm

bbl

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KingKenrod  May 26, 2017 • 12:13:25pm

re: #47 Franklin

Has anyone else noticed that Gianforte looks like Michael Gaston? With all apologies to Michael Gaston, who I am sure is a nice person.

I noticed it right away, although it took a while to remember the actors’ name.

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jaunte  May 26, 2017 • 12:14:58pm
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 26, 2017 • 12:16:18pm

re: #47 Franklin

Has anyone else noticed that Gianforte looks like Michael Gaston? With all apologies to Michael Gaston, who I am sure is a nice person.

If this is really his Twitter, he’d be appalled to hear that.
twitter.com

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ObserverArt  May 26, 2017 • 12:16:20pm

re: #32 HappyWarrior

Buckley was as crazy as the rest of them. Sorry, pet peeve of mine but I really hate giving that craven bigot any credit for anything.

Awww…he sounded all knowledgeable and high-falootin’ with big words and an east coast lilt and stuff. So he gets seen as sensible and composed.

He made bigotry and uncaring look respectable.

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Birth Control Works  May 26, 2017 • 12:16:33pm

back

Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Invest $277 Million in Abstinence-Only Education

The Guttmacher Institute also found that “no program of any kind has ever shown success in convincing young people to postpone sex from age 17, when they typically first have intercourse, until marriage,” and that teens who claim to practice abstinence often still have oral sex, which can put them at risk of STDs even if they aren’t having intercourse.

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Birth Control Works  May 26, 2017 • 12:17:01pm

bbl again

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Timothy Watson  May 26, 2017 • 12:17:48pm

re: #47 Franklin

Has anyone else noticed that Gianforte looks like Michael Gaston? With all apologies to Michael Gaston, who I am sure is a nice person.

I think Gaston actually is a nice guy, he just plays arrogant slimeballs most of the type.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 26, 2017 • 12:17:56pm

re: #56 jaunte

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 26, 2017 • 12:18:56pm

re: #61 Timothy Watson

I think Gaston actually is a nice guy, he just plays arrogant slimeballs most of the type.

Even as a good-guy on Stargate:Atlantis, he played a jerk. I’ve enjoyed a lot of his work.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 12:19:25pm

re: #56 jaunte

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Because it’s far more enjoyable for the readers to have to read about the evil blah liberal Democratic president to actually have to read tripe defending Trump. It’s the same reason why FNC viewership is down.

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Franklin  May 26, 2017 • 12:19:55pm

re: #57 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

If this is really his Twitter, he’d be appalled to hear that.
twitter.com

That is him! We should start a campaign to get him verified. He’s (was) great on The Leftovers.

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ObserverArt  May 26, 2017 • 12:19:56pm

re: #40 wrenchwench

Trump thinks a bankruptcy is an accomplishment. He will force more people than ever to get one.

Oh yeah!

How did he put it?

Using the existing laws creatively. It’s business. It would be stupid not to use them.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 12:20:17pm

re: #61 Timothy Watson

I think Gaston actually is a nice guy, he just plays arrogant slimeballs most of the type.

Most people who play those roles are nice guys. Likewise, I hear horror villains are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 12:20:38pm

re: #58 ObserverArt

Awww…he sounded all knowledgeable and high-falootin’ with big words and an east coast lilt and stuff. So he gets seen as sensible and composed.

He made bigotry and uncaring look respectable.

Heh so true.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 26, 2017 • 12:22:13pm

re: #67 HappyWarrior

Most people who play those roles are nice guys. Likewise, I hear horror villains are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

Except Adam Baldwin.

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Shiplord Kirel  May 26, 2017 • 12:24:02pm

re: #53 caseyjr

Trump will nationalize the coal mines to fuel the 300 new naval vessels.

There is still one coal fired ship in US commercial (though not naval) service.
SS Badger.

SS Badger is a passenger and vehicle ferry in the United States that has been in service on Lake Michigan since 1953. Currently, the ship shuttles between Ludington, Michigan, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin,[a] connecting U.S. Highway 10 (US 10) between those two cities. It is the last coal-fired passenger vessel operating on the Great Lakes, and was designated a National Historic Landmark on January 20, 2016.

I don’t know of any coal fired naval vessels anywhere in the world, but the historic Peruvian hospital ship and transport Puno burns llama dung.

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TedStriker  May 26, 2017 • 12:24:05pm

re: #69 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Except Adam Baldwin.

Baldwin really is Animal Mother.

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scottslemmons  May 26, 2017 • 12:25:09pm

re: #67 HappyWarrior

Most people who play those roles are nice guys. Likewise, I hear horror villains are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

A list from TVTropes.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 26, 2017 • 12:26:03pm

re: #71 TedStriker

Baldwin really is Animal Mother.

Or Jayne. Violent, and empty-headed, but funny on your TV. Not funny IRL.

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ObserverArt  May 26, 2017 • 12:26:16pm

We often talk about political disputes between family members.

I wonder how the Baldwin brothers get along.

I have a feeling not well.

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Mike Lamb  May 26, 2017 • 12:26:44pm

re: #43 Kragar

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God, what an awful person. How much damages to the US can be attributed to that douche bag?

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 26, 2017 • 12:27:48pm

re: #74 ObserverArt

We often talk about political disputes between family members.

I wonder how the Baldwin brothers get along.

I have a feeling not well.

I’m sure Stephen annoys the rest. He’d fit better in Adam Baldwin’s family than Alec’s.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 12:28:58pm

re: #69 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Except Adam Baldwin.

Yeah that guy’s a prick.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 12:30:12pm

re: #72 scottslemmons

A list from TVTropes.

Yep Robert Englund was the first person I thought of. i hear he’s one of the nicest guys i nthe biz.

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Stanley Sea  May 26, 2017 • 12:30:37pm

re: #64 HappyWarrior

Because it’s far more enjoyable for the readers to have to read about the evil blah liberal Democratic president to actually have to read tripe defending Trump. It’s the same reason why FNC viewership is down.

And MSNBC’s is up.

RW always does well during a Dem admin
LW always does well during a GOP admin

Pretty simple, anger sells.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 12:30:48pm

re: #74 ObserverArt

We often talk about political disputes between family members.

I wonder how the Baldwin brothers get along.

I have a feeling not well.

Adam isn’t Alec’s brother. And if I were Alec, I’d have a problem with his wingnut brother even before he went Wingnut because of Biodome.

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ObserverArt  May 26, 2017 • 12:31:26pm

re: #76 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

I’m sure Stephen annoys the rest. He’d fit better in Adam Baldwin’s family than Alec’s.

Yeah. I didn’t mean to mix ‘em up…I was just thinking of the four Baldwin brothers. They all can be just a wee bit intense. /

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 12:31:37pm

re: #79 Stanley Sea

And MSNBC’s is up.

RW always does well during a Dem admin
LW always does well during a GOP admin

Pretty simple, anger sells.

Yep pretty simple. I definitely was more interested in reading Michael Moore’s stuff when Bush was President too. Definitely not saying the right has a monoploy on this. It’s just human nature.

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scottslemmons  May 26, 2017 • 12:32:50pm

re: #78 HappyWarrior

Yep Robert Englund was the first person I thought of. i hear he’s one of the nicest guys i nthe biz.

Horror actors (and writers and other creators) need to be in touch with human emotion to bring the scares. I think that’s why so many seem to be good people — they’ve got finely developed empathy.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 26, 2017 • 12:36:59pm

re: #78 HappyWarrior

Yep Robert Englund was the first person I thought of. i hear he’s one of the nicest guys i nthe biz.

Willie’s our friend
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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 12:37:01pm

re: #83 scottslemmons

Horror actors (and writers and other creators) need to be in touch with human emotion to bring the scares. I think that’s why so many seem to be good people — they’ve got finely developed empathy.

I never thought about it like that. My guess was that their films have probably some of the most devoted followings you get in the film industry. But that’s a great point. I haven’t met really anyone famous in the entertainment industry.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 26, 2017 • 12:37:16pm
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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 12:38:08pm

re: #86 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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Preston Brooks got a bunch of canes after he beat up Charles Sumner with one. He later chickened out when he got challenged to a duel though.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 26, 2017 • 12:38:32pm

re: #86 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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Belafon  May 26, 2017 • 12:38:32pm

re: #83 scottslemmons

Horror actors (and writers and other creators) need to be in touch with human emotion to bring the scares. I think that’s why so many seem to be good people — they’ve got finely developed empathy.

I think that applies to all of the actors, which is why the conservative ones tend to get fewer roles, and the ones they play can be kind of stiff.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 26, 2017 • 12:38:53pm
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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 12:40:25pm

re: #89 Belafon

I think that applies to all of the actors, which is why the conservative ones tend to get fewer roles, and the ones they play can be kind of stiff.

A lot of the conservative ones do tend to come off as dicks. Obviously not every conservative actor is an asshole because of his politics but I get the impression that many of them are dicks.

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scottslemmons  May 26, 2017 • 12:40:26pm

re: #89 Belafon

I think that applies to all of the actors, which is why the conservative ones tend to get fewer roles, and the ones they play can be kind of stiff.

That’s an excellent point.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 26, 2017 • 12:42:32pm
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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 12:42:46pm

I do laugh at R Lee Ermey claiming to be blacklisted. I loved him in Full Metal Jacket but the guy’s the easiest guy to typelist. Unless they’re going to make movies about retired dril lseregants, I don’t see any roles for him in the near future. Here’s the thing though that gets me about conservatives in the entertainment industry. They complain about being blacklisted when there literally was one for lefty actors in the 60’s. A real honest to God one I’m not saying all of them necessarily thought that was a good thing but I just roll my eyes when someone like Tim Allen who I honestly never found all that funny cries about being blacklisted.

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scottslemmons  May 26, 2017 • 12:43:22pm

re: #90 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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… fuck. :(

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 12:43:35pm

re: #93 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Sarah Silverman: If ‘you’re not political, you’re complicit in the insanity’ (CNN)

I enjoy how she managed to enrage the Sandbaggers and right wing with her DNC last year even though hse herself was an avid Bernie supporter. That’s why I don’t give everyone a hard time who supported Bernie. Sarah got it. Susan Sarandon OTOH.

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Teukka  May 26, 2017 • 12:44:56pm

re: #90 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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I have type-1 diabetic friends. Only have one upding to give.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 12:45:28pm

re: #90 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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Heart breaking.

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EPR-radar  May 26, 2017 • 12:53:29pm

re: #30 Birth Control Works

No, it was the death of William F Buckley. He kept the whackos at bay.

and: The whacko religious have been planning this for a very long time —generations. The hate and fear are well entrenched.

WFB kept the nut jobs from visibly taking over the party, all the while advancing their agenda as much as possible.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 26, 2017 • 12:54:44pm

re: #99 EPR-radar

WFB kept the nut jobs from visibly taking over the party, all the while advancing their agenda as much as possible.

That’s probably the only way to keep the nutjobs from trying to kill all sane Americans. You have to placate them without destroying all that’s good in the country, or lock them up.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 26, 2017 • 12:58:44pm

re: #90 klys (maker of Silmarils)

God damn it. Knowing several diabetic friends, I just … I can’t.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 26, 2017 • 12:59:04pm

I did not realize until today why Rick on The Young Ones was always talking about Cliff Richard, because this was from before my time.

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EPR-radar  May 26, 2017 • 12:59:18pm

re: #100 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

That’s probably the only way to keep the nutjobs from trying to kill all sane Americans. You have to placate them without destroying all that’s good in the country, or lock them up.

50 years of no Fox News and no hate radio would go a long way toward deprogramming these people. Their level of hatred of the other is unnatural and requires continuous propaganda to keep it going.

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Ace-o-aces  May 26, 2017 • 12:59:25pm
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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 12:59:36pm

re: #99 EPR-radar

WFB kept the nut jobs from visibly taking over the party, all the while advancing their agenda as much as possible.

I contend that WFB’s real beef with the Birchers was that they made the movement he tried to make look respectable look nutty. I’ts well remembering WFB and the JBS share an undying conviction that McCarthy was wronged and a beleif that civil rights was a communitst plot.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 1:00:40pm

re: #104 Ace-o-aces

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And I guess that’s why I don’t feel bad for him that he gets accused of being a terorrist for having a beard and being married to a Muslim. He’s fucked up. He really would cut off his dick for a tax cut.

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EPR-radar  May 26, 2017 • 1:03:29pm

re: #106 HappyWarrior

And I guess that’s why I don’t feel bad for him that he gets accused of being a terorrist for having a beard and being married to a Muslim. He’s fucked up. He really would cut off his dick for a tax cut.

Norquist is still a Republican, so he would only mutilate others for tax cuts, never himself.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 26, 2017 • 1:04:18pm

re: #103 EPR-radar

50 years of no Fox News and no hate radio would go a long way toward deprogramming these people. Their level of hatred of the other is unnatural and requires continuous propaganda to keep it going.

They’ll turn to Internet propaganda. Most addicts don’t stop using until they hit rock-bottom, and there’s no one around these people to stage an intervention when whole regions of the country are dominated by wingnuts.

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Ace-o-aces  May 26, 2017 • 1:04:46pm

re: #106 HappyWarrior

And I guess that’s why I don’t feel bad for him that he gets accused of being a terorrist for having a beard and being married to a Muslim. He’s fucked up. He really would cut off his dick for a tax cut.

I’m always amused by conservatives who accuse Norquist of being a “secret mooslim”, but still support his economic agenda. I once read something along the lines of, “Grover’s economic ideas are great for our country, but he’s an agent of the Muslim Brotherhood out to destroy America.”

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Ace-o-aces  May 26, 2017 • 1:05:31pm

I’m oversimplifying NAZI economic policy here, but you get the drift.

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EPR-radar  May 26, 2017 • 1:05:49pm

re: #105 HappyWarrior

I contend that WFB’s real beef with the Birchers was that they made the movement he tried to make look respectable look nutty. I’ts well remembering WFB and the JBS share an undying conviction that McCarthy was wronged and a beleif that civil rights was a communitst plot.

IIRC the main ideological difference between WFB and the Birchers was the compelling question of whether or not Ike was a communist. Being less nutty that the Birchers was an exceedingly low bar to clear.

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EPR-radar  May 26, 2017 • 1:07:46pm

re: #110 Ace-o-aces

The one essential element of a civil society is most voters having a commitment to reality. Because of Norquist’ precious GOP that condition is presently not met in the US, with disastrous results.

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Kragar  May 26, 2017 • 1:12:12pm
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covfefe  May 26, 2017 • 1:12:38pm

The weekend begins. Cedar plank salmon on the Pit Barrel. 25-30 min. and it’s perfect.

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dangerman  May 26, 2017 • 1:13:59pm

re: #110 Ace-o-aces

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I’m oversimplifying NAZI economic policy here, but you get the drift.

“lower” is a relative term and hence meaningless in this context - lower than what?

ignoring for the moment monetary policy and deficit financing, taxes should be adequate to fund the constitutional workings of government

tax receipts dont and shouldnt drive the size of government.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 26, 2017 • 1:15:57pm

re: #114 GlutenFreeJesus

The weekend begins. Cedar plank salmon on the Pit Barrel. 25-30 min. and it’s perfect.

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I did a 10 mile run this morning in wonderfully (unseasonably) cool weather with cloudy skies.

Now I want a nap.

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Ace-o-aces  May 26, 2017 • 1:17:50pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 26, 2017 • 1:19:46pm

re: #116 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I did a 10 mile run this morning in wonderfully (unseasonably) cool weather with cloudy skies.

Now I want a nap.

I mowed the front lawn (just barely dry enough!) and trimmed around the house with the weed eater. Now I am in my chair, trying to let my muscles relax before heading down to my church to run the tech services for a wedding.

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(Bert the Turtle)  May 26, 2017 • 1:22:28pm

re: #114 GlutenFreeJesus

The weekend begins. Cedar plank salmon on the Pit Barrel. 25-30 min. and it’s perfect.

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How do you like that Pit Barrel? Looking at getting a new grill setup this summer and I’m seriously considering one.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 26, 2017 • 1:23:45pm

The Russia cover-up is out in the open in the White House.

White House’s Russia ‘War Room’ Built On Ticking Time Bomb (The Daily Beast)

This seems like an admission of guilt.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  May 26, 2017 • 1:25:09pm

re: #116 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I did a 10 mile run this morning in wonderfully (unseasonably) cool weather with cloudy skies.

Now I want a nap.

Hosted a disc golf league at noon and just took a nap afterwards.

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John_Manyjars  May 26, 2017 • 1:25:47pm

re: #36 HappyWarrior

WWI was a great example. No one had any reason to go to war- other than profits for the Job Creators, of course.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 26, 2017 • 1:26:51pm

Law Enforcement Turns on the Law and Order President (The Daily Beast)

Party of personal responsibility (for black people); Party of law-and-order (for black people).

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Kragar  May 26, 2017 • 1:29:14pm
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John_Manyjars  May 26, 2017 • 1:29:51pm

re: #39 HappyWarrior

Noble sentiments- but I don’t think Hannity would shed many tears if the entire left wing of the USA up and died, or at least had something horrible happen to it. Look at the comments- and actions- of even ‘mainstream’ right wingers. Look at them cheer the ‘election’ of a thug in Montana that on election eve, beat a reporter 1/2 his size and sent him to the hospital- for asking a question.

Arming oneself, and taking self-defense courses would be a good start. These ‘folks’ want us DEAD.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 26, 2017 • 1:32:39pm
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caseyjr  May 26, 2017 • 1:33:24pm

re: #120 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

The Russia cover-up is out in the open in the White House.

White House’s Russia ‘War Room’ Built On Ticking Time Bomb (The Daily Beast)

This seems like an admission of guilt.

call it Special Office for Obstruction of Justice. SPOOJ

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John_Manyjars  May 26, 2017 • 1:33:31pm

re: #103 EPR-radar

It would be a good start- OTOH we still had Jim Crow and plenty of lynchings, Joe McCarthy, etc. even w/out FOX.

Hateful, bigoted trash will always be with us, I fear.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 26, 2017 • 1:33:55pm

re: #126 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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That is all kinds of awesome.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 26, 2017 • 1:34:24pm
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John_Manyjars  May 26, 2017 • 1:34:40pm

re: #58 ObserverArt

Yep. He was every bit as nasty, just put his hate into a more civilized package. Ailes was the logical progression.

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caseyjr  May 26, 2017 • 1:36:05pm

re: #124 Kragar

Trump in one word:
Malimbecile
Mal + limbic + imbecile

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 26, 2017 • 1:38:29pm
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SteelPH  May 26, 2017 • 1:41:24pm

re: #133 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Now we definitely know NATO is bad!!11ty

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wrenchwench  May 26, 2017 • 1:41:54pm

Can’t resist a dog posted by a Kat.

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petesh  May 26, 2017 • 1:43:37pm

re: #102 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

I did not realize until today why Rick on The Young Ones was always talking about Cliff Richard, because this was from before my time.

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Cliff was the biggest music star in Britain before The Beatles, and The Young Ones was one of his biggest hits (1962; 5 weeks at #1). He was huge everywhere except the U.S. — in 1964, when The Beatles exploded globally, Cliff out-sold them worldwide.

Actually The Young Ones was pretty tepid, but some of his earlier hits were great, basic rock’n’roll.

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EPR-radar  May 26, 2017 • 1:45:32pm

re: #124 Kragar

One word for Trump is really challenging. ‘evil’ is the canonical answer, but for some reason ‘revolting’ feels better at the moment.

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EPR-radar  May 26, 2017 • 1:48:32pm

re: #128 John_Manyjars

It would be a good start- OTOH we still had Jim Crow and plenty of lynchings, Joe McCarthy, etc. even w/out FOX.

Hateful, bigoted trash will always be with us, I fear.

US movement conservatism is a backlash against the end of Jim Crow and other officially sanctioned blatant racist segregation and discrimination. They are radically regressive in a way that is very rare in US history — the Confederate Lost Causers are their only real competition, and naturally there is a straight line between the two movements.

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jaunte  May 26, 2017 • 1:50:03pm
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jaunte  May 26, 2017 • 1:51:54pm
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Jebediah, RBG  May 26, 2017 • 1:52:00pm
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Jebediah, RBG  May 26, 2017 • 1:53:46pm

re: #141 Jebediah, RBG

Maybe shoulda gone with “fucknozzle.”

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BeachDem  May 26, 2017 • 1:56:25pm

re: #133 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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Good thing Melania’s not an honor student in North Carolina, or she’d get suspended and have to miss graduation.
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 26, 2017 • 1:57:18pm

re: #142 Jebediah, RBG

Maybe shoulda gone with “fucknozzle.”

Douchecanoe.

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EPR-radar  May 26, 2017 • 2:03:48pm

re: #141 Jebediah, RBG

Let’s hope that the word ‘trump’ becomes so tainted by its association with the faded Caligula presently befouling the White House that card players have to revise their terminology.

Perhaps a exception could be made in bridge: e.g. a bid of ‘3 no-fucking-way trump’.

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Jebediah, RBG  May 26, 2017 • 2:06:58pm

re: #146 EPR-radar

I think it is well on its way to not only becoming tainted, but to becoming a synonym for all sorts of unexalted things e.g. “My dog just trumped on the sidewalk and I’m out of bags”

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EPR-radar  May 26, 2017 • 2:08:20pm

re: #141 Jebediah, RBG

One word to describe Trump can’t be done in English. In German, where words are mashed together as needed it would be much easier: e.g., something like
witlessfuckingcocksplatfelcherofwetfartsoutofdeadpigeonssmegmaelemental

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Jebediah, RBG  May 26, 2017 • 2:09:04pm

re: #146 EPR-radar

Soon trumpeters will start saying they play the shit-horn because “trumpet” started sounding too negative.

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Jebediah, RBG  May 26, 2017 • 2:09:59pm

re: #148 EPR-radar

Exactly. trump is so bogglingly shitty that even our language can’t handle it.

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Teukka  May 26, 2017 • 2:10:25pm

re: #148 EPR-radar

One word to describe Trump can’t be done in English. In German, where words are mashed together as needed it would be much easier: e.g., something like
witlessfuckingcocksplatfelcherofwetfartsoutofdeadpigeonssmegmaelemental

I object to “fucking”, “smegma” and “elemental” being used in conjunction with tRump as the three actually have uses.

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Jebediah, RBG  May 26, 2017 • 2:11:35pm

re: #148 EPR-radar

Although it may end up that the word “trump” itself will become negative enough to cover it in one word.

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Charles Johnson  May 26, 2017 • 2:11:40pm
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plansbandc  May 26, 2017 • 2:13:17pm

re: #137 EPR-radar

Garbage.

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covfefe  May 26, 2017 • 2:13:33pm

re: #119 (Bert the Turtle)

How do you like that Pit Barrel? Looking at getting a new grill setup this summer and I’m seriously considering one.

It’s awesome. I wouldn’t hesitate to get one. :)

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plansbandc  May 26, 2017 • 2:15:44pm

My dog made a horking noise and trumped on me this morning. That’s no way to wake up, let me tell you.

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  May 26, 2017 • 2:17:56pm

re: #156 plansbandc

My dog trumped in the house today, which is uncharacteristic of her considering she’s very well housebroken.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 26, 2017 • 2:19:17pm
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Jebediah, RBG  May 26, 2017 • 2:20:37pm

“How did that big job interview go?”
“Well, I showed up naked and drunk and pissed in the interviewer’s coffee. I think I may have trumped it up a bit.”

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HypnoToad  May 26, 2017 • 2:23:16pm

Maybe “I trumped up,” or “Trump you!” is something that would be allowable to say on TV.

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Charles Johnson  May 26, 2017 • 2:24:39pm
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Weaselone  May 26, 2017 • 2:25:15pm

I thought Trump’s were the clumps of urine, feces and clay that you remove from scoopable cat litter.

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Jebediah, RBG  May 26, 2017 • 2:27:01pm

re: #162 Weaselone

It is fast becoming a word with many meanings.

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makeitstop  May 26, 2017 • 2:28:34pm

A pretty heavy article from Market Watch, of all places - It’s time to plan an escape route, for you and your money, from Trumpland.

How do you get here? First you lay the groundwork with a long-term, cynical marketing campaign against the “mainstream” press. Then a presidential candidate urges his supporters to ” knock the crap ” out of protestors.

Then he gets his supporters so mad at the press that a reporter needs to be escorted from a rally by the Secret Service for her own protection.

Then the candidate jokes about whether he would ever kill reporters . Then he calls them the “enemy of the people.” Then one of his colleagues physically attacks one of them.

And at each stage along the process, some people cheer him, others defend him, and others shrug it off. Each unsanctioned outrage enables the next. Sixty-two million people voted for Trump. The Republican Party and the people of Montana have now legitimized violence. The next step in the sequence is obvious.

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Charles Johnson  May 26, 2017 • 2:29:37pm
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Skip Intro  May 26, 2017 • 2:30:06pm

Trump ‘complained to Belgian PM of difficulty setting up golf resorts in EU’

A complete ass.

Donald Trump offered an insight into his approach to political life during his 30 hours in Belgium while munching “lots of” Belgian chocolates, it has been reported.

Le Soir, a Belgian daily newspaper, reported that the US president acclaimed the chocolates, which were a gift from the Belgian government, during a meeting with the country’s prime minister, Charles Michel.

“These are the best,” he said, before explaining that his ambivalent attitude towards the EU was a consequence of his experiences trying to set up businesses, notably golf resorts, on the continent.

“He made a lot of references to his personal journey. He explained, for example, the functioning of Europe on the basis of his difficulties in doing business in Ireland,” one source told the Francophone paper.

A second source told the newspaper: “Every time we talk about a country, he remembered the things he had done. Scotland? He said he had opened a club. Ireland? He said it took him two and a half years to get a license and that did not give him a very good image of the European Union. One feels that he wants a system where everything can be realised very quickly and without formalities.”

theguardian.com

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 2:30:23pm

re: #165 Charles Johnson

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Hahhaha sucks to be them.

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Romantic Heretic  May 26, 2017 • 2:30:33pm

re: #1 Kragar

Bring it!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 26, 2017 • 2:31:07pm

re: #166 Skip Intro

He is literally thinking only of himself. Couldn’t give a rat’s ass about the good of the country.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 26, 2017 • 2:32:14pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 26, 2017 • 2:32:19pm

re: #165 Charles Johnson

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of guys.

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Skip Intro  May 26, 2017 • 2:32:33pm

re: #169 thedopefishlives

He is literally thinking only of himself. Couldn’t give a rat’s ass about the good of the country.

That’s the way Republicans like it, apparently.

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covfefe  May 26, 2017 • 2:32:54pm

My lactose intolerance gives me explosive trump.

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piratedan  May 26, 2017 • 2:33:37pm

re: #165 Charles Johnson

trolls and bots don’t need to go back, mission accomplished

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 2:33:37pm

re: #170 Blind Frog Belly White

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He does realize as President, he oversees the NSA. Oops sorry. Didn’t realize that isn’t Trump.

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Amory Blaine  May 26, 2017 • 2:34:17pm

I’m really starting to hate golf.

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Skip Intro  May 26, 2017 • 2:34:33pm

re: #175 HappyWarrior

He does realize as President, he oversees the NSA.

That’s Jared’s job. Hey, where is Jared? Anybody seen Jared?

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 26, 2017 • 2:34:33pm

re: #175 HappyWarrior

He does realize as President, he oversees the NSA.

Not actually Trump.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 2:35:27pm

re: #178 Blind Frog Belly White

Not actually Trump.

Realized immediately when I saw the PCTrump. Plus it was too easy to understand.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 26, 2017 • 2:35:45pm

re: #177 Skip Intro

That’s Jared’s job. Hey, where is Jared? Anybody seen Jared?

His lawyers, I’m thinking.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 26, 2017 • 2:36:45pm

re: #179 HappyWarrior

Realized immediately when I saw the PCTrump. Plus it was too easy to understand.

Not written by an elderly demented narcissist. Coherent, if silly, thought conveyed in a way you could understand.

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EPR-radar  May 26, 2017 • 2:37:58pm

re: #176 Amory Blaine

I’m really starting to hate golf.

Why? The time Faded Caligula spends playing golf is time he is not devoting to his agenda of fucking everything up for all time.

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Skip Intro  May 26, 2017 • 2:38:18pm

So when is trump’s next campaign rally? It’s still this month, isn’t it?

It’s going to be crazy. If I was a reporter I wouldn’t show up, for personal safety reasons.

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Teukka  May 26, 2017 • 2:39:16pm

re: #183 Skip Intro

So when is trump’s next campaign rally? It’s still this month, isn’t it?

It’s going to be crazy. If I was a reporter I wouldn’t show up, for personal safety reasons.

I’d show up. In an APC.

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Skip Intro  May 26, 2017 • 2:39:54pm

re: #166 Skip Intro

Somewhere there has to be a picture of trump stuffing his face with chocolates, using both hands.

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makeitstop  May 26, 2017 • 2:40:35pm

re: #183 Skip Intro

So when is trump’s next campaign rally? It’s still this month, isn’t it?

It’s going to be crazy. If I was a reporter I wouldn’t show up, for personal safety reasons.

June 1, IIRC

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plansbandc  May 26, 2017 • 2:40:59pm

re: #162 Weaselone

It’s a great word. It means all of the shitty words rolled up into one best word. Believe me.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 26, 2017 • 2:41:35pm

re: #108 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

They’ll turn to Internet propaganda. Most addicts don’t stop using until they hit rock-bottom, and there’s no one around these people to stage an intervention when whole regions of the country are dominated by wingnuts.

Given that Sinclair continues to purchase other media outlets, even more of our nation may turn into a vast wasteland, where truth and justice will become myths and we will all learn to worship Herr Trump.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 26, 2017 • 2:44:52pm

“Describe Trump in one word:”

Caligulan? Neroid?

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 26, 2017 • 2:45:33pm

Tweet is not quite accurate, he’s only at 52 of the 59.

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Skip Intro  May 26, 2017 • 2:48:28pm

Washington Post attempts to identify all of the bling on Sheriff Clarke’s uniform. Can you help out?

washingtonpost.com

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Romantic Heretic  May 26, 2017 • 2:49:07pm

re: #79 Stanley Sea

And MSNBC’s is up.

RW always does well during a Dem admin
LW always does well during a GOP admin

Pretty simple, anger sells. drugs sell.

Because anger is a drug as dangerous as crack.

I know. I used to be an addict.

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wrenchwench  May 26, 2017 • 2:49:57pm

re: #190 klys (maker of Silmarils)

[Cat visits every national park]

Tweet is not quite accurate, he’s only at 52 of the 59.

Competition!

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Romantic Heretic  May 26, 2017 • 2:51:03pm

re: #83 scottslemmons

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my desk. - Robert Bloch, author of Psycho

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EPR-radar  May 26, 2017 • 2:52:21pm

re: #194 Romantic Heretic

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my desk. - Robert Bloch, author of Psycho

That reminds me of the old joke: “He has a heart of gold. Metallic and hard to find.”

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jaunte  May 26, 2017 • 2:53:06pm

re: #191 Skip Intro

So about half are souvenir pins.

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Interesting Times  May 26, 2017 • 2:53:10pm

re: #194 Romantic Heretic

Glad you’re here, because I wanted to ask you about something you posted earlier - a couple of quotes you’ve often repeated here, to the effect of:

“To be angered by evil is to partake in it, stupid”
“What you resist, you become.”

Now, I understand the sentiment behind the similar “he who fights monsters must take care he doesn’t become one” concept, but those two quotes seem to say that ALL fighting against injustice is bad. How does that make sense? Am I misinterpreting?

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Teukka  May 26, 2017 • 2:53:16pm

re: #195 EPR-radar

That reminds me of the old joke: “He has a heart of gold. Metallic and hard to find.”

Or this one:
A: You hear of Mr Y? He died of a Heart Attack!
B: Impossible, he doesn’t have a heart!

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jaunte  May 26, 2017 • 2:53:34pm

Like a suit covered with bumper stickers.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 26, 2017 • 2:54:02pm

re: #191 Skip Intro

Washington Post attempts to identify all of the bling on Sheriff Clarke’s uniform. Can you help out?

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washingtonpost.com

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EPR-radar  May 26, 2017 • 2:54:10pm

re: #188 Hecuba’s daughter

Given that Sinclair continues to purchase other media outlets, even more of our nation may turn into a vast wasteland, where truth and justice will become myths and we will all learn to worship Herr Trump.

When we get to Robber Barons v2.0 in the US, the plan is for the media to be completely owned to prevent a repeat of that muckraking business that derailed Robber Barons v1.0 back in the day.

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Teukka  May 26, 2017 • 2:55:16pm

re: #197 Interesting Times

Glad you’re here, because I wanted to ask you about something you posted earlier - a couple of quotes you’ve often repeated here, to the effect of:

“To be angered by evil is to partake in it, stupid”
“What you resist, you become.”

Now, I understand the sentiment behind the similar “he who fights monsters must take care he doesn’t become one” concept, but those two quotes seem to say that ALL fighting against injustice is bad. How does that make sense? Am I misinterpreting?

There are right and wrong ways of dealing with injustices.
If you get overcome with emotion, your discernment goes down the drain. It’s why appeal to emotion is a truly ancient propaganda trick.
And for some things, resistance is nil without understanding.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 2:55:35pm

re: #201 EPR-radar

When we get to Robber Barons v2.0 in the US, the plan is for the media to be completely owned to prevent a repeat of that muckraking business that derailed Robber Barons v1.0 back in the day.

Is the liberal media beig unfair when they decry the shooting of striking workers? //

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EPR-radar  May 26, 2017 • 2:58:33pm

re: #203 HappyWarrior

Is the liberal media beig unfair when they decry the shooting of striking workers? //

As the Bushies would say, this is small-ball thinking. A fully controlled media would not cover the strike in the first place. Naturally this would extend to no coverage of any unpleasantness like shooting workers.

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Romantic Heretic  May 26, 2017 • 2:58:57pm

re: #110 Ace-o-aces

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I’m oversimplifying NAZI economic policy here, but you get the drift.

Germany had the advantage of ‘free labour’. Much easier to build infrastructure etc. when you only have to feed the labourers and not very well at that.

Which is another reason the capitalist system had no problems with Nazi Germany. Low labour costs equals higher profits.

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EPR-radar  May 26, 2017 • 3:00:23pm

re: #202 Teukka

There are right and wrong ways of dealing with injustices.
If you get overcome with emotion, your discernment goes down the drain. It’s why appeal to emotion is a truly ancient propaganda trick.
And for some things, resistance is nil without understanding.

Very good points. For example, the true nature of the GOP base is a seething ball of white-hot rage. That rage can be controlled at will by any demagogue that captures that mob’s fancy, as Trump has presently done.

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wrenchwench  May 26, 2017 • 3:01:23pm

A goat of simple dreams; to stand on your ass.

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mmmirele  May 26, 2017 • 3:02:29pm

re: #90 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I also have only one upding to give.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 3:03:39pm

re: #204 EPR-radar

As the Bushies would say, this is small-ball thinking. A fully controlled media would not cover the strike in the first place. Naturally this would extend to no coverage of any unpleasantness like shooting workers.

I was being silly but eyah.

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jaunte  May 26, 2017 • 3:04:18pm

Pence spreading fascist concepts at the Naval Academy.

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Timothy Watson  May 26, 2017 • 3:05:58pm

re: #208 mmmirele

I also have only one upding to give.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 26, 2017 • 3:08:49pm

re: #210 jaunte

Yeah, that’s not scarily authoritarian at all.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 26, 2017 • 3:08:51pm

re: #210 jaunte

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Pence spreading fascist concepts at the Naval Academy.

This is why some are reluctant to depose the Orange Julius. It is not clear that those who replace him will be an improvement — except they probably won’t start WWIII.

We are so screwed!

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The Vicious Babushka  May 26, 2017 • 3:09:10pm

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Timothy Watson  May 26, 2017 • 3:10:40pm

re: #214 The Vicious Babushka

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Timothy Watson  May 26, 2017 • 3:11:54pm

re: #210 jaunte

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Pence spreading fascist concepts at the Naval Academy.

I’m sure that future officers at the Naval Academy are taught about disobeying unlawful orders, so they were probably facepalming.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 26, 2017 • 3:12:05pm

re: #214 The Vicious Babushka

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Interesting Times  May 26, 2017 • 3:12:23pm

re: #202 Teukka

There are right and wrong ways of dealing with injustices.
If you get overcome with emotion, your discernment goes down the drain. It’s why appeal to emotion is a truly ancient propaganda trick.
And for some things, resistance is nil without understanding.

Good points. Thing is, I’m not comfortable with dismissing anger altogether as an invalid and unhealthy emotion. It depends so much on context and how you channel it, after all. For example, were the people who flooded airports to protest the Muslim ban feeling anger? Of course! But unless you’re a trumpchump GOPer cultist, you wouldn’t condemn them for that. Anger is energizing, if nothing else. Apathy and resignation never helped end an unjust practice.

If you look back at 2016, you’ll see how the overriding moods of the electorate were anger, frustration, and fear. HRC and Obama tried to appeal to better angels (Michelle Obama as well, with her classic “when they go low, we go high” comments) but it ended up being a miserable failure in terms of meaningful downballot victories and the infamous EC results.

Why? Because, unlike in 2008 (where there was also plenty of anger, frustration and fear), not enough people were looking for “hope” - they wanted revenge. They wanted to throw a brick through the window of a government they perceived as having failed them. Bernie and tRrump both appealed to that, but of course tRump was far more successful since he threw white resentment/racist grievance into the mix (for which the GOPer base was primed anyway).

And this comment left earlier sums it up well:

I have to admit that I’m pissed off by the lack of hellfire coming from the Dems. They have nothing to lose by going full-throttle attack mode. I’m not a Democrat, but the Republicans have more or less declared themselves the enemy of my country as I see it, and of myself personally.

I would like to see Democrats become vicious, underhanded, unfair, brutal, merciless, and relentless. The GOP is by any measure a confederacy of dunces. That the Dems can’t find it in themselves to destroy it is disheartening.

I daresay a lot of independent and intermittent voters felt the same way, and it’s why they keep on staying home :(

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EPR-radar  May 26, 2017 • 3:13:36pm

re: #213 Hecuba’s daughter

This is why some are reluctant to depose the Orange Julius. It is not clear that those who replace him will be an improvement — except they probably won’t start WWIII.

We are so screwed!

One thing at a time. Getting rid of Faded Caligula gets rid of the threat of global thermonuclear war because of a presidential* temper tantrum.

That’s progress, even if he gets replaced by Pence who is as evil as any other Republican and more theocratic than most.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 26, 2017 • 3:14:48pm

re: #214 The Vicious Babushka

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 26, 2017 • 3:15:31pm

re: #216 Timothy Watson

I’m sure that future officers at the Naval Academy are taught about disobeying unlawful orders, so they were probably facepalming.

The other thing? Aren’t Academy grad supposed to go on to be LEADERS? They’re supposed to aspire to flag rank, right, not ‘just followink orders’.

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TedStriker  May 26, 2017 • 3:15:36pm

re: #204 EPR-radar

As the Bushies would say, this is small-ball thinking. A fully controlled media would not cover the strike in the first place. Naturally this would extend to no coverage of any unpleasantness like shooting workers.

Pretty much like the Sinclair station(s) in Montana did on the Gianforte assault, as I understand.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 26, 2017 • 3:17:10pm

re: #214 The Vicious Babushka

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 26, 2017 • 3:17:27pm

re: #222 TedStriker

Pretty much like the Sinclair station(s) in Montana did on the Gianforte assault, as I understand.

Why, when I was a boy, a Sinclair station was where you went to get gas!

So, I guess, the more things change…..

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sagehen  May 26, 2017 • 3:18:04pm

re: #201 EPR-radar

When we get to Robber Barons v2.0 in the US, the plan is for the media to be completely owned to prevent a repeat of that muckraking business that derailed Robber Barons v1.0 back in the day.

Which is, of course, the whole they hate net neutrality.

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b_sharp  May 26, 2017 • 3:18:30pm

I’m starting to think Trump is suffering from dementia and Ivanka & Jared are there to protect him from discovery and/or hurting himself.

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wrenchwench  May 26, 2017 • 3:19:47pm

re: #226 b_sharp

I’m starting to think Trump is suffering from dementia and Ivanka & Jared are there to protect him from discovery and/or hurting himself.

Welcome to the club.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 26, 2017 • 3:21:03pm

re: #219 EPR-radar

One thing at a time. Getting rid of Faded Caligula gets rid of the threat of global thermonuclear war because of a presidential* temper tantrum.

That’s progress, even if he gets replaced by Pence who is as evil as any other Republican and more theocratic than most.

The trouble is that under Trump, nothing may get accomplished because he is such a disruptive force. Pence may lead to a smoothly running authoritarian regime that accomplishes its legislative goals. A demented treasonous grifter, a misogynistic theocrat, and an Ayn Rand fanboy — the contenders for the Presidency. Not a pretty picture.

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jaunte  May 26, 2017 • 3:21:34pm

re: #226 b_sharp

That video of him wandering away from Netanyahu on stage really looked like it.

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goddamnedfrank  May 26, 2017 • 3:21:58pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  May 26, 2017 • 3:22:00pm

re: #227 wrenchwench

Welcome to the club.

Second Republican President with dementia of my adult life.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 26, 2017 • 3:22:54pm

re: #230 goddamnedfrank

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She* is why we can’t have nice things.

*meaning the ‘exhausted’ tweeter

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Brian J.  May 26, 2017 • 3:23:26pm

re: #216 Timothy Watson

I’m sure that future officers at the Naval Academy are taught about disobeying unlawful orders, so they were probably facepalming.

Nah, most of them figure there won’t ever be an enemy that can defeat the US and force a Nuremburg-style war crimes trial.

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jaunte  May 26, 2017 • 3:25:26pm

Other awards included “most likely to cry for every little thing” that was given to a girl and “most likely to become homeless” that was presented to a boy.

Once again, adults: punching down is not humor, it’s bullying.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 26, 2017 • 3:27:14pm

re: #234 jaunte

Jesus Christ! I mean, this is the kind of thing teachers might joke about in the Teachers’ Lounge, but to actually give an ‘award’ like that to kids? Fuck almighty.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 26, 2017 • 3:28:03pm

re: #234 jaunte

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Once again, adults: punching down is not humor, it’s bullying.

Is it something in the water supply? There are sane people in Texas but they are overwhelmed by the bullies, racists, and YEC

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 26, 2017 • 3:28:15pm

re: #210 jaunte

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Pence spreading fascist concepts at the Naval Academy.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 3:28:16pm

re: #234 jaunte

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Once again, adults: punching down is not humor, it’s bullying.

Why are people so sensitive these days? //

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EPR-radar  May 26, 2017 • 3:29:38pm

re: #228 Hecuba’s daughter

The trouble is that under Trump, nothing may get accomplished because he is such a disruptive force. Pence may lead to a smoothly running authoritarian regime that accomplishes its legislative goals. A demented treasonous grifter, a misogynistic theocrat, and an Ayn Rand fanboy — the contenders for the Presidency. Not a pretty picture.

If Trump actually does get removed, I think it would set off the long-awaited GOP civil war, which would scupper their legislative goals.

Even if we do end up with a smoothly functioning authoritarian regime that accomplishes its legislative goals, that is what people voted for. The opportunity to head off this disaster was missed in 2016. The only option now is to resist and fight back in the future. Trump is an existential threat to this program in a way that Pence or Ryan aren’t.

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Romantic Heretic  May 26, 2017 • 3:29:54pm

re: #197 Interesting Times

That is not how I interpret them.

The problem when fighting evil is a person risks becoming Lokai in reaction to Bele.

Two sides of the same coin.

The anger that evil creates can cloud a person’s perception and compromise their ethics. They may decide that they need to fight fire with fire.

No person thinks they are evil. Duterte and his supporters think they are doing good. Herr Schicklegruber and his supporters thought they were doing good. But they aren’t and weren’t. They’ve become evil themselves.

So those aphorisms of mine are to remind myself how easy it is to step over the line. The one about being angered by evil resonates strongly with me because, as I noted earlier, I am an addict. I’ve spent much of my life stoned out of my mind on it. I was not a nice person and it cost me dearly.

So I remind myself constantly that I can descend back into that darkness with ease. Those aphorisms I’m fond of are some of those reminders.

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Romantic Heretic  May 26, 2017 • 3:33:04pm

re: #214 The Vicious Babushka

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 26, 2017 • 3:33:05pm

Reminder: the majority of Americans who voted actually voted for the positive side of human nature. Even if only 4% of Trump voters wouldn’t vote for him today, guess what? That would have been enough to change the outcome.

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HappyWarrior  May 26, 2017 • 3:33:54pm

re: #242 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Reminder: the majority of Americans who voted actually voted for the positive side of human nature. Even if only 4% of Trump voters wouldn’t vote for him today, guess what? That would have been enough to change the outcome.

That’s actually why I’m not cynical about 2020.

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Stanley Sea  May 26, 2017 • 3:33:54pm

The yam has upside downed the whole freaking world

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danarchy  May 26, 2017 • 3:34:34pm

re: #234 jaunte

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Once again, adults: punching down is not humor, it’s bullying.

So this is clearly bad, but I have to question why it is national news…

If you scour the country looking for outrageous outrages, you are going to find them. I think taking these things that should be handled locally and making national stories out of them is what gives everybody this sense that the world is horrible and this stuff is happening everywhere all the time.

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EPR-radar  May 26, 2017 • 3:34:41pm

re: #214 The Vicious Babushka

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wrenchwench  May 26, 2017 • 3:38:28pm
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covfefe  May 26, 2017 • 3:39:14pm

re: #230 goddamnedfrank

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goddamnedfrank  May 26, 2017 • 3:40:28pm
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jaunte  May 26, 2017 • 3:41:51pm

re: #245 danarchy

The story is from the WaPo “Morning Mix” section.
“Stories from all over.”

washingtonpost.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 26, 2017 • 3:43:02pm

re: #214 The Vicious Babushka

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makeitstop  May 26, 2017 • 3:45:43pm

re: #226 b_sharp

I’m starting to think Trump is suffering from dementia and Ivanka & Jared are there to protect him from discovery and/or hurting himself.

I’ve thought that for a while. After the election it became especially obvious - no matter what the function was, either Evita or Kushner were there.

They’re there to escort him out if he starts gibbering any worse than usual.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 26, 2017 • 3:50:05pm

Who are you that anyone should give a fuck what you think?

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Timothy Watson  May 26, 2017 • 3:57:08pm

re: #253 Blind Frog Belly White

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Who are you that anyone should give a fuck what you think?

I really wish BernieBros would drop dead.

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Interesting Times  May 26, 2017 • 3:57:21pm

re: #164 makeitstop

A pretty heavy article from Market Watch, of all places - It’s time to plan an escape route, for you and your money, from Trumpland.

I want to repeat this part because I just saw the CBS Evening News report about gianforte’s repulsive victory party and equally repulsive supporters:

“And at each stage along the process, some people cheer him, others defend him, and others shrug it off. Each unsanctioned outrage enables the next. Sixty-two million people voted for Trump. The Republican Party and the people of Montana have now legitimized violence. The next step in the sequence is obvious.”

What’s it going to take for this mass psychosis gripping so much of America to end?

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Amory Blaine  May 26, 2017 • 3:58:59pm

Gahh. What a mess VB. Shovel all that wet stuff out the window if you can.

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sagehen  May 26, 2017 • 4:01:44pm

re: #244 Stanley Sea

The yam has upside downed the whole freaking world

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They’ve actually been friends for awhile, because AIDS drugs for Africa.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 26, 2017 • 4:01:45pm

re: #255 Interesting Times

“And at each stage along the process, some people cheer him, others defend him, and others shrug it off. Each unsanctioned outrage enables the next. Sixty-two million people voted for Trump. The Republican Party and the people of Montana have now legitimized violence. The next step in the sequence is obvious.”

What’s it going to take for this mass psychosis gripping so much of America to end?

Occupation by the American army and the banning of the Republican party?

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Stanley Sea  May 26, 2017 • 4:06:50pm
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jaunte  May 26, 2017 • 4:07:54pm

re: #259 Stanley Sea

Jared Kushner and Russia’s ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump’s transition team and the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities in an apparent move to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from monitoring, according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports.

I wonder what Jared thinks the NSA does?

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Anymouse  May 26, 2017 • 4:08:57pm

wonkette.com

A defence attorney allegedly attempted to intimidate an undocumented rape victim by implying she would be deported under Donald Trump’s new attack on immigrants, offered her $3,000 and asked her to recant her testimony against the alleged rapist.

They also called her hub to pressure him, and suggested he could simply beat the rapist.

She is a damn hero here. Despite the threat of deportation from the defence lawyer, she called up the Maryland AG office to report the obstruction, witness tampering, and solicitation of a crime.

The AG’s office set up a sting where she called back and the fellow repeated his requests to her. He and his accomplice have now been charged with obstruction of justice and witness tampering. A finding of guilty will see him disbarred.

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jaunte  May 26, 2017 • 4:09:13pm
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Joe Bacon  May 26, 2017 • 4:10:53pm

re: #234 jaunte

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Once again, adults: punching down is not humor, it’s bullying.

Brings back awful memories of Auschwitz High School and insensitive teachers..,

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mmmirele  May 26, 2017 • 4:12:06pm

re: #250 jaunte

The story is from the WaPo “Morning Mix” section.
“Stories from all over.”

washingtonpost.com

I particularly liked the “Arrest warrant issued for Bikram Choudhury, the hot-yoga guru accused of sexual harassment”. It’s not often you get a judge willing to issue a warrant to arrest someone based on a monetary judgment that doesn’t involve children (i.e., back child support).

washingtonpost.com

Choudhury was recently in Mexico.

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Anymouse  May 26, 2017 • 4:12:32pm

re: #255 Interesting Times

I want to repeat this part because I just saw the CBS Evening News report about gianforte’s repulsive victory party and equally repulsive supporters:

“And at each stage along the process, some people cheer him, others defend him, and others shrug it off. Each unsanctioned outrage enables the next. Sixty-two million people voted for Trump. The Republican Party and the people of Montana have now legitimized violence. The next step in the sequence is obvious.”

What’s it going to take for this mass psychosis gripping so much of America to end?

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sagehen  May 26, 2017 • 4:13:16pm

re: #259 Stanley Sea

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Theory: the intelligence community is SO determined to rid us of this traitor, they’re burning tons of sources and electronic measures by coming forward with stuff that just MUST see the light of day.

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Teukka  May 26, 2017 • 4:14:32pm

re: #266 sagehen

Theory: the intelligence community is SO determined to rid us of this traitor, they’re burning tons of sources and electronic measures by coming forward with stuff that just MUST see the light of day.

Sounds plausible. I would add international intel community.

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Stanley Sea  May 26, 2017 • 4:15:25pm

re: #259 Stanley Sea

This article is pretty damning.

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Interesting Times  May 26, 2017 • 4:15:45pm

re: #266 sagehen

Theory: the intelligence community is SO determined to rid us of this traitor, they’re burning tons of sources and electronic measures by coming forward with stuff that just MUST see the light of day.

It’s ironic in that one of the main arguments I hear from the BoB’ers is that, if any smoking gun existed, it would’ve been leaked to the press before the election. I’m hoping this is a case of, they genuinely didn’t discover enough convincing evidence until now…

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 26, 2017 • 4:16:19pm

re: #266 sagehen

Theory: the intelligence community is SO determined to rid us of this traitor, they’re burning tons of sources and electronic measures by coming forward with stuff that just MUST see the light of day.

But how do we get rid of this traitor? If he’s just locked up, Trump will pardon him.
If Trump is locked up too, Pence will pardon him and Trump.

Doing anything about this would require that Republicans be loyal to this country, and having to accept minorities was something they just can’t handle, so they’ve gone Russian.

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wrenchwench  May 26, 2017 • 4:16:55pm

Translated from Japanese by Bing:

Good morning bonito

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Patricia Kayden  May 26, 2017 • 4:17:33pm

re: #58 ObserverArt

Awww…he sounded all knowledgeable and high-falootin’ with big words and an east coast lilt and stuff. So he gets seen as sensible and composed.

He made bigotry and uncaring look respectable.

Too true. He was a straight up anti-Black racist who spoke out (eloquently) against the Civil Rights Movement. He’s not praiseworthy at all.

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sagehen  May 26, 2017 • 4:19:56pm

re: #269 Interesting Times

It’s ironic in that one of the main arguments I hear from the BoB’ers is that, if any smoking gun existed, it would’ve been leaked to the press before the election. I’m hoping this is a case of, they genuinely didn’t discover enough convincing evidence until now…

The British let Coventry be bombed, with no defenses and no evacuations, rather than compromise the Enigma info source.

Smoking guns weren’t leaked before the election, because they thought he was going to lose and keeping those info channels was important. It’s only now that he’s in the big chair that disclosure is more important than protecting sources and methods.

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Weaselone  May 26, 2017 • 4:20:34pm

re: #269 Interesting Times

They also probably assumed that Hillary would still win and
1. Unlike some portion of the NY office didn’t want to violate the Hatch Act
2. Wanted to keep those sources and measures intact
3. In the case of our allies, didn’t want to be guilty of influencing our elections themselves

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Stanley Sea  May 26, 2017 • 4:21:07pm
In addition to their discussion about setting up the communications channel, Kushner, Flynn and Kislyak also talked about arranging a meeting between a representative of Trump and a “Russian contact” in a third country whose name was not identified, according to the anonymous letter.

The Post reported in April that Erik Prince, the former founder of the private security firm Blackwater and an informal adviser to the Trump transition team, met on Jan. 11 — nine days before Trump’s inauguration — in the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean with a representative of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Anonymous letter received by the Post in mid-December.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 26, 2017 • 4:22:08pm

re: #271 wrenchwench

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Translated from Japanese by Bing:

Good morning bonito

LOL! I would have guessed the translation would be “paint me like one of your French girls…”

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jaunte  May 26, 2017 • 4:23:55pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 26, 2017 • 4:23:59pm

already discussed but here’s more

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Patricia Kayden  May 26, 2017 • 4:24:05pm

re: #79 Stanley Sea

And MSNBC’s is up.

RW always does well during a Dem admin
LW always does well during a GOP admin

Pretty simple, anger sells.

Please tell that to Andy Lack so that he stops trying to move MSNBC rightward.

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Skip Intro  May 26, 2017 • 4:24:11pm
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Anymouse  May 26, 2017 • 4:25:00pm

re: #270 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

But how do we get rid of this traitor? If he’s just locked up, Trump will pardon him.
If Trump is locked up too, Pence will pardon him and Trump.

Doing anything about this would require that Republicans be loyal to this country, and having to accept minorities was something they just can’t handle, so they’ve gone Russian.

Which traitor. There seem to be so many these days.

Moreover, with Michael Flynn, it seems that Mike Pence is entangled in this mess as well. He may wind up going down with Donald Trump.

If only Trump and some of his cronies went down, but not Pence, then I imagine Pence’s remaining term would be tainted by the case dragging into next year. It would likely stifle any legislative agenda he has as well as motivate Democrats to get out and vote.

The longer this goes on, the more likely it seems to me a wave election is coming.

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Skip Intro  May 26, 2017 • 4:26:51pm

re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth

already discussed but here’s more

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But Dr. Doobie said that Trump would be the healthiest man ever elected to the presidency. I have a copy of the letter. He even signed it.

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austin_blue  May 26, 2017 • 4:27:16pm

re: #260 jaunte

I wonder what Jared thinks the NSA does?

Drip, drip, drip.

🎵Welcome, to the Greybar Hotel, sweet Jared…🎵

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Stanley Sea  May 26, 2017 • 4:28:37pm

This is great

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Anymouse  May 26, 2017 • 4:31:16pm
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Stanley Sea  May 26, 2017 • 4:31:28pm
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Shiplord Kirel  May 26, 2017 • 4:37:56pm

re: #164 makeitstop

A pretty heavy article from Market Watch, of all places - It’s time to plan an escape route, for you and your money, from Trumpland.

I’ve given it a fair amount of thought. For real.
It is especially alarming that conservatives seem to want to expand, rather than rein in, “civil asset forfeiture.” Are we coming to the day when a right wing sheriff, like Clark, could seize your property on the grounds that you “support terrorism,” just because you spoke out against the deportation of Muslims? They have established beyond any doubt that they can steal property without gaining a criminal conviction, or even a credible charge, in the same case. These assholes love this kind of facetious middle school reasoning. Many small town police departments, and some not so small ones, live primarily on fines, seizures, and (of course) federal grants.

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Shiplord Kirel  May 26, 2017 • 4:40:36pm

US has regressed to developing nation status, MIT economist warns

The economist describes a two-track economy with on the one hand 20 per cent of the population that is educated and enjoys good jobs and supportive social networks.

On the other hand, the remaining 80 per cent, he said, are part of the US’ low-wage sector, where the world of possibility has shrunk and people are burdened with debts and anxious about job security.

Mr Temin used a model, which was created by Nobel Prize winner Arthur Lewis and designed to understand developing nations, to describe how far inequalities have progressed in the US.

When applied to the US, Mr Temin said that “the Lewis model actually works”.

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sagehen  May 26, 2017 • 4:43:57pm

re: #288 Shiplord Kirel

US has regressed to developing nation status, MIT economist warns

Please report on the new thread.


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