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Dave In Austin  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:48:51am

CLEAN COAL!!!!!!

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Mike Lamb  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:49:14am

A Friday news drop from Pruitt? What kind of additional shit will they put on top of this turd burger?

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Charles Johnson  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:49:38am
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Kragar  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:49:38am

Fuck every one of these fucking bastards.

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Kragar  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:50:43am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:51:04am
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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:51:28am

Oh FFS he’s citing Bret Stephens fucking NYT op-ed.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:51:55am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:53:33am
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:53:50am

re: #3 Charles Johnson

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Charles Johnson  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:54:04am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:55:06am
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Barefoot Grin  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:56:07am

Pruitt is going full Mulvaney.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:56:56am

re: #13 Barefoot Grin

Pruitt is going full Mulvaney.

Never go full Mulvaney.

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Khal Wimpo (wounded at Bowling Green)  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:56:56am

re: #11 Charles Johnson

The sad thing is, that it doesn’t matter any more if they just tell bald-faced lies. Fox and Hate Radio will tell their captive audiences that this is true. Or not refer to it at all.

And they will swallow it uncritically.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:58:28am

Variation on “the world was laughing at us for joining Paris.” Scott Pruitt is a scumbag.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:58:36am

This Mother Fucker is saying the European nations want the US to suffer economically.

NO YOU ASSHOLE, PUTIN WANTS THAT.

Useless mother fucker.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:59:16am

I was going through some boxes earlier this week while housecleaning and I found in one a copy of State of Fear someone had given me.

I’ve only read it once. Crichton got pretty wacky on that one.

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jaunte  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:59:28am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:59:36am
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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 2, 2017 • 10:59:42am

And now Bullshit Spice is vomiting out lies like wet insulation dropping from my ceiling.

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Mike Lamb  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:01:13am

re: #17 The Vicious Babushka

This Mother Fucker is saying the European nations want the US to suffer economically.

NO YOU ASSHOLE, PUTIN WANTS THAT.

Useless mother fucker.

We’re the EU’s largest trade partner by a long margin (in terms of exports). In what fucking universe is it beneficial for the EU to have a US with a weak economy?

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:01:27am

re: #16 Barefoot Grin

Variation on “the world was laughing at us for joining Paris.” Scott Pruitt is a scumbag.

Wingnuts always invert reality. They have to because they want to think of themselves as heroes while being scoundrels.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:01:59am
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Charles Johnson  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:02:08am
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:02:57am

re: #19 jaunte

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Mike Lamb  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:03:51am

Pruitt: It’s a bad deal. 26% to 28% reduction is just too much. But we’re not even close to that anyways, so we might as well just pull the plug.

What. The. Fuck.

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jaunte  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:04:23am
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Barefoot Grin  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:04:37am

Told that solar has seen significant job growth, Stephen Moore—wrong-headed economist to the President-on CNN says, “well, it was a low base, but coal has seen significant gains since Trump came into office.” Speaking of low base.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:04:48am

re: #25 Charles Johnson

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Kragar  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:07:07am
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Charles Johnson  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:07:59am
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:08:48am

re: #31 Kragar

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b_sharp  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:09:16am

Spicer’s go to phrase - “very clear” even when it isn’t. Great for avoiding answering the question.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:10:01am

Sean Spicer is looking kind of shell-shocked lately.

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b_sharp  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:10:27am

re: #35 Charles Johnson

Sean Spicer is looking kind of shell-shocked lately.

That’s very clear.

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gocart mozart  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:10:29am
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Sir John Barron  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:12:13am

re: #17 The Vicious Babushka

This Mother Fucker is saying the European nations want the US to suffer economically.

We have always been at war with Europe and NATO.

/

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:12:32am

re: #28 jaunte

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:12:45am
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Sir John Barron  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:13:13am

re: #37 gocart mozart

Hey, Sean, how’s the “investigation” into Seth Rich and Wikileaks going?

//

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Sir John Barron  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:15:06am

re: #29 Barefoot Grin

Told that solar has seen significant job growth, Stephen Moore—wrong-headed economist to the President-on CNN says, “well, it was a low base, but coal has seen significant gains since Trump came into office.” Speaking of low base.

Production of coal and coal jobs have exploded since I became president. FACT.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:16:26am
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Sir John Barron  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:17:09am

re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ivanka Trump: America’s most powerful Jewish woman cnn.com pic.twitter.com

— CNN Politics

OFFS

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:18:11am

Who is outside counsel?

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jaunte  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:18:15am

re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Despite her initial popularity, a growing number of the population eventually came to dislike her, accusing her of being profligate, promiscuous,[2] and of harbouring sympathies for France’s enemies”
en.wikipedia.org

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:18:27am

re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth

Maybe they’re trolling the bigoted Trump supporters.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:19:17am
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Charles Johnson  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:22:28am

Exactly.

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A Mom Anon  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:23:17am

re: #47 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Heh. You know this is going to drive the Bannon contingency right out of their already addled minds.

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Kragar  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:24:17am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:24:21am
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EPR-radar  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:24:34am

re: #39 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Honest Republicans are completely extinct by now. One cannot be a Republican in 2017 without a deep-seated and fundamental commitment to the art of the lie in all its forms.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:24:57am
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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:26:19am
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EPR-radar  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:26:43am

re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth

Anyone can provide the answer to that little question: Trump doesn’t give a shit about the nooses found at the African American History Museum.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:26:52am

LOL, OT

I just pulled my comforter off my bed & a cat popped out on the floor.

Poor baby was passed out.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:28:41am
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Charles Johnson  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:30:50am
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jaunte  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:30:56am
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jaunte  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:31:50am
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covfefe  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:32:56am

re: #37 gocart mozart

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:33:21am

re: #60 jaunte

Republican administrations keep placing lunatics in key positions. They’re unfit to govern.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:34:33am

re: #61 jaunte

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:34:36am
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jaunte  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:34:52am

“an era of unbalanced pitchforking in which one can be shamed out of CNN and NBC, but not the Oval Office”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:36:58am
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:38:14am

re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wait, someone not only married this bullshitter, but they’re still with her after all the mad appearances?!?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:38:22am

re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth

Another one bites the dust…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:38:58am

re: #68 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Wait, someone not only married this bullshitter, but they’re still with her after all the mad appearances?!?

I’m thinking there’s a mistress in equation.

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calochortus  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:39:47am

So, I looked up the new PA coal mine that Trump touted.
The local news had a very pro-Trump piece on it, but when you get down to the details, it is a lot less impressive.
Naturally, it is significant for Somerset County, but 70-100 jobs for maybe 15 years (and maybe not) isn’t really going to turn their economy around.

They expect to hire 70 new employees in 2017, with that number growing to 100 in 2018.

He expects a number of indirect impacts, as well.

“In terms of the economic impact on the area, we see a five to six times multiplier on that in this local area, so that’s everything from truck drivers to machine guys to bartenders to everything, hospital employees. So, we think for the local Somerset County area, 500 to 600 indirect job impact,” he explained.

He expects the jobs they create and the mine to last well over a decade.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:39:58am

re: #56 EPR-radar

Anyone can provide the answer to that little question: Trump doesn’t give a shit about the nooses found at the African American History Museum.

Did he ever get to use the museum as a photo-op like he wanted?

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BeachDem  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:40:14am

re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I thought I had already read the most nauseating hagiographies to Ivanka, but I was wrong. This one surpassed the others for inducing gag reflex.

It was a rare moment in which the First Daughter’s carefully guarded faith was on public display

Except for her instagram, twitter and facebook posts…oh, and her “book.”

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covfefe  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:40:20am

re: #70 Eclectic Cyborg

Or a mister.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:40:23am

re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth

Are any of these people not tied to Russia?
nzherald.co.nz

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Charles Johnson  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:41:19am
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:42:56am

re: #76 Charles Johnson

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calochortus  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:45:27am

re: #76 Charles Johnson

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Because we can only care about one thing?

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gocart mozart  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:45:41am
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:49:05am

re: #79 gocart mozart

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Stanley Sea  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:49:24am
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Timothy Watson  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:50:47am

But those damn welfare queens in the inner cities!1!!

How to visualize the growth in disability in the United States? One way is to think of a map. Rural communities, where on average 9.1 percent of working-age people are on disability — nearly twice the urban rate and 40 percent higher than the national average — are in a brighter shade than cities. An even brighter hue then spreads from Appalachia into the Deep South and out into Missouri, where rates are higher yet, places economists have called “disability belts.” The brightest color of all can be found in 102 counties, mostly within these belts, where a Washington Post analysis of federal statistics estimates that, at minimum, about 1 in 6 working-age residents draw disability checks.

washingtonpost.com

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BeachDem  Jun 2, 2017 • 11:55:47am

re: #68 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Wait, someone not only married this bullshitter, but they’re still with her after all the mad appearances?!?

Like attracts like. Look him up. Conway was one of the lawyers who represented Paula Jones in her lawsuit against U.S. President Bill Clinton…

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gocart mozart  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:00:23pm

re: #77 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

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451_Montag  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:01:21pm

I know it all looks shit now, but the Friday witching hour approaches. Come on WaPo we’re counting on you!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:03:36pm
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Ace-o-aces  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:03:38pm

Personal note here. Looks like my work will be fixing their internet filter later today, plus my WiFi is down at home. So I’ll be incommunicado for a while. Not sure what I’ll do instead. Interact with my family? I seem to remember having a child….should probably look into that….

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gocart mozart  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:03:57pm

re: #80 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:06:57pm
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Kragar  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:07:19pm

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

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gocart mozart  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:08:09pm
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A Mom Anon  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:10:04pm

re: #82 Timothy Watson

This has been going on for awhile now. You have the folks who worked in the factories that are gone now (along with declining coal related jobs). There were little if any safety measures in most of these places (I worked in one of those places for Goodyear when I was 19. I was around open containers of Benzine all day long, we used it to clean injection molds) and so people got sick or ended up with injuries.

But then when all those jobs went away and it was an hour or more commute to find anything at all that paid above minimum wage, people began to realize that disability checks were all they could hope for. If you can get a prescription for pain meds and a doctor to sign off on you being disabled, you suddenly have two income streams. I know someone who had purposely hurt himself more than once to continue his oxy habit. The first injury was a legit back issue from a work accident, the rest (like the time he left his car in drive on a hill so it could hit him, or the time he broke his hand with a hammer). He’s 45 years old and not only has numerous injuries but also has developed COPD from years of smoking (including smoking heroin and crushed oxy pills), and recently insisted on smoking WHILE WEARING AN OXYGEN MASK and caught his face on fire. I’m sure his story in some form is repeated over and over throughout many of the places on that map. (the person in question here is a family member who refuses treatment, which ironically is covered 100 percent under his state funded health insurance).

We have a problem, lots of them. We could fix this one, but there’s no will to give a shit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:10:15pm
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wrenchwench  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:12:35pm

Won’t be putting one in stock…It will have to be a special-order item.

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calochortus  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:13:01pm

re: #82 Timothy Watson

But those damn welfare queens in the inner cities!1!!

washingtonpost.com

And what do we do with the people who just don’t seem to be able to get their act together?

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A Mom Anon  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:13:56pm

re: #94 wrenchwench

LOL. One never knows when such things will come in handy…snort. Can you build a helipad on the roof of your shop?

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Timothy Watson  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:14:22pm

re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Why doesn’t he hold it in Pittsburgh so all the citizens there can protest him?

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calochortus  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:14:49pm

re: #94 wrenchwench

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Won’t be putting one in stock…It will have to be a special-order item.

Not likely to be an impulse purchase?

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:15:57pm
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A Mom Anon  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:16:39pm

re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth

Of course he wants that. They all do, so they can point to the Violence of Liberals (cue scary music….now).

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Skip Intro  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:17:36pm

How about another creepy Trump/daughter pic?

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stpaulbear  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:17:36pm

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

I called MN Governor Mark Dayton’s office about that group this morning. I hope he signs on.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:18:23pm
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gocart mozart  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:19:43pm
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allegro  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:20:11pm

The most telling part of 45’s speech to announce the US exit from the Paris accord was the time he spent whining about the world laughing at us. No, Donnie, the world was laughing at YOU for your embarrassing and juvenile performances last week in the ME and Europe. You are an international laughing stock and you know it. That’s why you needed to pull your little, pointless power trip along with the passive aggressive digs at Macron for besting you in your handshake games.

This guy. I swear.

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wrenchwench  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:20:13pm

re: #96 A Mom Anon

LOL. One never knows when such things will come in handy…snort. Can you build a helipad on the roof of your shop?

I’d have to move my best friend, the swamp cooler. I used to go up there all the time, great views! But it’s been a couple years. This week, my swamp cooler got its seasonal set-up from Fernando, working for my landlord. He apologized for his poor English, and I said, ‘No es un problemo. Mi Espanol es muy malo.’ He laughed and said, ‘My English…es muy malo.’ I considered it a kind of victory. Doesn’t take much these days.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:21:59pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:22:21pm

re: #105 allegro

The most telling part of 45’s speech to announce the US exit from the Paris accord was the time he spent whining about the world laughing at us. No, Donnie, the world was laughing at YOU for your embarrassing and juvenile performances last week in the ME and Europe. You are an international laughing stock and you know it. That’s why you needed to pull your little, pointless power trip along with the passive aggressive digs at Macron for besting you in your handshake games.

This guy. I swear.

But he really does reflect his base in this way. Their whole thing is “Don’t laugh at us or call us stupid, or we’ll show you just how stupid we can be!”

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calochortus  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:26:05pm

Enough of this lollygagging around. Must do things.
BBL

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:26:08pm

Afternoon Lizardim.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:27:11pm

so trump wants a rally to celebrate leaving the Paris accords the same day the March For Truth is to take place, how much you want to bet he claims the M4T is really just people celebrating his idiocy in leaving the Paris Accord?

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William Lewis  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:28:22pm

re: #94 wrenchwench

Heh. All you bike people are having a bad impact on me. Why, did you see my comment last night? littlegreenfootballs.com

//// :D

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:29:49pm

This Twitter thread explains why Trump keeps talking about coal, and Pittsburgh and miners and such. It’s not about JOBS, it’s about GENDER.

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Franklin  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:35:58pm

re: #113 Blind Frog Belly White

Interesting sidebar on one of the tweets in that thread is this one:

Budweiser actively advertises against it’s own craft beer divisions.

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ObserverArt  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:37:31pm

re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth

CNN Politics ✔ @CNNPolitics
Ivanka Trump: America’s most powerful Jewish woman cnn.it
1:15 PM - 2 Jun 2017
79 79 Retweets 125 125 likes

Why does anyone actually watch CNN?

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Charles Johnson  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:38:16pm
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gocart mozart  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:39:31pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:40:32pm

re: #116 Charles Johnson

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Per Lawrence Tribe, you don’t get to claim Executive Privilege for a conversation you’ve talked about in public. Trump opened the door when he opened his trap.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:40:47pm
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darthstar  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:40:49pm

I listened live to the Spicer shit show. I don’t know why the news networks even bother. In fact, it’d be awesome one day to have the reporters just sit silently while he waits for questions. Then put their phones and notebooks away and just stare at him and see what he does.

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darthstar  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:42:09pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:42:10pm
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Timothy Watson  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:43:58pm

re: #118 Blind Frog Belly White

Per Lawrence Tribe, you don’t get to claim Executive Privilege for a conversation you’ve talked about in public. Trump opened the door when he opened his trap.

It would give the GOP a pretext to cancel the hearing.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:44:07pm

re: #122 Charles Johnson

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Not that he won’t try, of course.

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EPR-radar  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:46:12pm

re: #113 Blind Frog Belly White

This all rings true to me — Gamergate style testosterone poisoned assholes are definitely part of the RWNJ coalition of the loathsome.

The irony here (as deep as an ocean trench) is that these people are also the most gutless wonders of all humanity.

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gocart mozart  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:46:19pm
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gocart mozart  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:47:04pm
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Jack Burton  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:49:25pm

re: #113 Blind Frog Belly White

This seems like it’s simply a rebranding of “Bernie was right” and “We need to listen to rural white males in the Red States.”

Which in other words means: “Who gives a shit about the concerns of PoC, women, and the LGBTQ community? Joe Sixpack thinks brown people are taking his jobs and Nancy Pelosi is going to force him to wear a dress.”

There has to be another way to not let them win, without becoming just like them.

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Franklin  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:52:17pm

Maybe they can do a Cheerios commercial with a bi-racial family. I mean that is pretty non-controversial right?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:53:30pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:53:58pm
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A Mom Anon  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:56:41pm

re: #128 Jack Burton

This country is starting to remind me of those lottery winners you hear about. They have all this money and become spoiled brats who blow through it all in record time. I honestly have no idea how we come back from this mess. And that’s considering we even find a way to stop the bleeding before it’s entirely too late. In a sane world we’d have an Attorney General who would begin doing his fucking job, but he’s part of the cartel running things. It’s heartbreaking. People should be going to jail, they won’t.

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Ace-o-aces  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:56:56pm
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Eventual Carrion  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:57:19pm

re: #124 Blind Frog Belly White

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Not that he won’t try, of course.

Good thing we don’t have a smarter criminal in that high office.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:58:30pm

re: #128 Jack Burton

This seems like it’s simply a rebranding of “Bernie was right” and “We need to listen to rural white males in the Red States.”

Which in other words means: “Who gives a shit about the concerns of PoC, women, and the LGBTQ community? Joe Sixpack thinks brown people are taking his jobs and Nancy Pelosi is going to force him to wear a dress.”

There has to be another way to not let them win, without becoming just like them.

There’s a problem with the suggested fixes, but to me the most important part is understanding why Trump keeps talking about a tiny industry - Coal, and what he meant by Pittsburgh vs Paris, and why this resonates with his base.

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sizzzzlerz  Jun 2, 2017 • 12:59:40pm

re: #133 Ace-o-aces

She’s Jewish like Elvis was a black-belt

and an undercover FBI agent.

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Jack Burton  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:00:27pm

re: #132 A Mom Anon

This time around. When the real investigations start. When impeachment becomes a real possibility…

People *need* to go to jail. No pardons. No just go away and we wont prosecute. No not this time. There needs to be consequences to this level of shenanigans or the next guy will do it and pretty much *anyone* else is smarter than Trump so they will be better at getting away with it.

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Ace-o-aces  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:02:43pm

This guy is talking about Sheriff “Shiny Buttons” Clarke.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:04:59pm

re: #128 Jack Burton

I honestly don’t know how to thread that particular needle, to combat the ‘manly man’ bullshit. Kerry tried hunting and skeet shooting, but invariably that was seen as pandering.

The thing is, it explains a lot of things, like why Trump survived the ‘pussygrabber’ tape.

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Ace-o-aces  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:12:10pm
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ObserverArt  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:17:22pm

re: #82 Timothy Watson

But those damn welfare queens in the inner cities!1!!

How to visualize the growth in disability in the United States? One way is to think of a map. Rural communities, where on average 9.1 percent of working-age people are on disability — nearly twice the urban rate and 40 percent higher than the national average — are in a brighter shade than cities. An even brighter hue then spreads from Appalachia into the Deep South and out into Missouri, where rates are higher yet, places economists have called “disability belts.” The brightest color of all can be found in 102 counties, mostly within these belts, where a Washington Post analysis of federal statistics estimates that, at minimum, about 1 in 6 working-age residents draw disability checks.

washingtonpost.com

Boy are all the Trump supporters going to be surprised if the GOP gets their wrecking ball going like they want.

But then, who knows, maybe they will all be dead from pre-existing conditions and pollution and will never get a chance to realize or do anything about it once it happens.

Trump supporter once the checks stop: “I only wanted to fuck “them people” so why am I being fucked???”

Answer: Because you are ignorant and voted for them. You did this to yourself.

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ObserverArt  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:18:57pm

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I know it isn’t going to happen, but what a message it could be if all 50 governors join this list. A slap to Trump and Gang no finer.

Come on Johnny Kasich. Even you can do this. (But probably won’t)

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sagehen  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:20:30pm

re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump appears to be purposefully setting up conditions for a physical confrontation between his supporters and opponents.

I don’t think so.

He’s purposefully setting up conditions for the large crowd of opponents to be dishonestly labeled as supporters.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:22:08pm

re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth

This article made me want to throw up. I have heard it says among some very silly Juice that Jared and Ivanka are “The American Mordecai and Esther!” They are totally wrong.

Jared and Ivanka remind me of another Bible couple: Ahab and Jezebel.

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MsJ  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:22:50pm

re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth

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MsJ  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:24:09pm

re: #94 wrenchwench

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ObserverArt  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:24:31pm

re: #105 allegro

The most telling part of 45’s speech to announce the US exit from the Paris accord was the time he spent whining about the world laughing at us. No, Donnie, the world was laughing at YOU for your embarrassing and juvenile performances last week in the ME and Europe. You are an international laughing stock and you know it. That’s why you needed to pull your little, pointless power trip along with the passive aggressive digs at Macron for besting you in your handshake games.

This guy. I swear.

I swear at him. A lot.

The whole administration.

And all those that voted for him and third party.

Fuck ‘em all.

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bratwurst  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:25:51pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:28:34pm

re: #144 The Vicious Babushka

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This article made me want to throw up. I have heard it says among some very silly Juice that Jared and Ivanka are “The American Mordecai and Esther!” They are totally wrong.

Jared and Ivanka remind me of another Bible couple: Ahab and Jezebel.

While it is an apt comparison morally/personality wise, Jezebel was not a Jewess.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:29:00pm

re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth

I admit I LOLed.

Nice weather here today, although it’s warming up some. I went out and did my 12 miles. Whether or not that was a good idea is a different discussion, but nobody ever accused me of being particularly bright.

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ObserverArt  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:29:32pm

re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Just a reminder of a two month old story that was a goodie.

USA Today - Even the Kentucky Coal Museum is going solar

BENHAM, Ky. —Inside the Kentucky Coal Museum, visitors can peruse plenty of memorabilia on mining and the commonwealth’s coal camps. But on the roof, they’ll find a display dedicated to an unexpected industry: Solar power.

In a cost-saving move, this museum in eastern Kentucky is embracing the sun as a source of affordable energy and installing approximately 80 solar panels on its roof.

Tre’ Sexton said he was surprised when his company, Bluegrass Solar, was approached about the project. If there was one building in eastern Kentucky that wouldn’t have a solar-power system, you’d think it would be the coal museum, he said.

“Really the first time that I sat down and was talking about it with everybody, I was like…are you for real? They’re really going to go for this?” Sexton said. “I mean, that would be like showing up at a bank and they ask you if you’d mind taking some of this money out of the vault.”

But putting solar panels on top of the coal museum makes sense economically, Sexton said. Public attractions like this one can’t be profitable if they’re dealing with expensive electric bills every month. And people in eastern Kentucky are becoming more interested in alternative energy options.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:29:40pm

re: #150 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Although I suppose that is the point of the comparison, as well…

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danarchy  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:30:14pm

re: #142 ObserverArt

I know it isn’t going to happen, but what a message it could be if all 50 governors join this list. A slap to Trump and Gang no finer.

Come on Johnny Kasich. Even you can do this. (But probably won’t)

Sam Brownback, Matt Bevin, Paul LePage, Greg Abbot etc. If you got 25 I would be surprised

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:31:21pm

re: #151 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I admit I LOLed.

Nice weather here today, although it’s warming up some. I went out and did my 12 miles. Whether or not that was a good idea is a different discussion, but nobody ever accused me of being particularly bright.

The weather is turning summery here today - over 80 degrees for the second day in a row. Tomorrow should be similar, and I will be uncomfortably warm underneath Mrs. Fish’s big beastie as I wrestle her new fuel tank into position. I received the tank earlier tonight and fitted it with all of the new fittings and valves required. It should be all prepared for the installation procedure tomorrow.

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ObserverArt  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:33:58pm

re: #120 darthstar

I listened live to the Spicer shit show. I don’t know why the news networks even bother. In fact, it’d be awesome one day to have the reporters just sit silently while he waits for questions. Then put their phones and notebooks away and just stare at him and see what he does.

Come on Darth.

You know they would love that. It really is what they want and are trying to achieve. It’s why they even mentioned printing out daily “notes” and handing them out.

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:34:05pm
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ObserverArt  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:36:02pm

re: #124 Blind Frog Belly White

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Not that he won’t try, of course.

And wouldn’t the trying just be more evidence of an attempt at a cover up.

Go on Donny, do it. Put on the demonstration that will lead to your ultimate downfall. I know you can do it.

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ObserverArt  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:38:48pm

re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Damn…I just looked out my window and sure enough the right far edge of the big old H is right there to the west of me, about 5,000 feet up in the clear sky. Probably twenty miles from my house, I’d say.

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gocart mozart  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:42:29pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:43:00pm

re: #141 ObserverArt

Boy are all the Trump supporters going to be surprised if the GOP gets their wrecking ball going like they want.

But then, who knows, maybe they will all be dead from pre-existing conditions and pollution and will never get a chance to realize or do anything about it once it happens.

Trump supporter once the checks stop: “I only wanted to fuck “them people” so why am I being fucked???”

Answer: Because you are ignorant and voted for them. You did this to yourself.

I got frustrated looking for a map in that piece, because, you know, a picture is worth a thousand words and all. So I found this one:

And of course, the places where it’s highest are also most strongly pro-Trump.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:43:17pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:48:54pm
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ObserverArt  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:49:22pm

re: #161 Blind Frog Belly White

I got frustrated looking for a map in that piece, because, you know, a picture is worth a thousand words and all. So I found this one:

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And of course, the places where it’s highest are also most strongly pro-Trump.

One thing I can see on this map…two areas that carried two states for Trump. That black area down on the Ohio River and just up from it carried Ohio. And though I am not a resident of Michigan, I believe all that black in the upper parts of Michigan probably helped win Michigan.

The analysis of Ohio was the Appalachian areas turned out and voted like they have not in years. Jobs? Yeah, a false belief. Hate? You betcha! Would not surprise me if Michigan folks did the same for the same reasons.

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gocart mozart  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:50:56pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:51:08pm

re: #161 Blind Frog Belly White

I got frustrated looking for a map in that piece, because, you know, a picture is worth a thousand words and all. So I found this one:

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And of course, the places where it’s highest are also most strongly pro-Trump.

I see 17.7% for Lewis County, Idaho.
Wonder how many of them are sovereign citizens/militia.

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BeachDem  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:51:20pm

re: #144 The Vicious Babushka

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This article made me want to throw up. I have heard it says among some very silly Juice that Jared and Ivanka are “The American Mordecai and Esther!” They are totally wrong.

Jared and Ivanka remind me of another Bible couple: Ahab and Jezebel.

This will make you feel better (I also felt nauseated after reading that bullshit)

NOW THEREFORE, WE, YOUR LOYAL WONKETTE, by the authority invested in us by BECAUSE WE SAID SO, do hereby proclaim June 2, 2017, as the day Ivanka Trump should really go fuck herself and stop acting like her nepotism hire in the White House is in any way useful to the human beings of the United States of America.
wonkette.com

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:53:13pm
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MsJ  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:53:15pm

re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth

I see 17.7% for Lewis County, Idaho.
Wonder how many of them are sovereign citizens/militia.

Same with that area of northern Michigan. Complete militia country up there.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:55:36pm

re: #169 MsJ

Same with that area of northern Michigan. Complete militia country up there.

These are the areas where about 1 in 5 working age people are on disability, bitching about their tax dollars supporting drug-addicted Those People in the inner cities.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:56:44pm

OKLAHOMA CITY

NBA center Enes Kanter’s father has been detained in Turkey, the country’s official news agency reported Friday.

Mehmet Kanter was detained in his Istanbul home for an investigation undertaken by a prosecutor’s office in northwestern Turkey, according to the Anadolu news agency. He is being sent to Tekirdag province for questioning. In Turkey, people are detained, then prosecutors may seek an arrest pending trial or release the detainee.

Anadolu does not specify the scope of the investigation, but Dogan news agency says it is part of an investigation into connections to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.

The father had disowned Kanter for his public support of Gulen, who the Turkish government blames for last summer’s failed coup attempt when nearly 270 people were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded while trying to overthrow Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish government considers Gulen’s movement a terror organization. Gulen has denied all allegations of involvement in the coup attempt.

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darthstar  Jun 2, 2017 • 1:57:09pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:01:02pm

the yam’s twitter banner is now a photo of one of his airport hanger rallies.

can you smell the inadequacy?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:03:49pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:05:14pm

re: #173 Backwoods_Sleuth

the yam’s twitter banner is now a photo of one of his airport hanger rallies.

can you smell the inadequacy?

That’s not the Minnesota one, is it? I remember seeing the photos and it was incredibly manipulative… not that many people actually showed up, IIRC.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:05:41pm

re: #150 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

While it is an apt comparison morally/personality wise, Jezebel was not a Jewess.

Jezebel converted when she married Ahab, just like Ivanka.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:05:41pm
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gocart mozart  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:07:39pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:09:04pm

re: #175 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

That’s not the Minnesota one, is it? I remember seeing the photos and it was incredibly manipulative… not that many people actually showed up, IIRC.

Looks like it’s the Melbourne FL rally in February.
denverpost.com

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meteor  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:09:43pm

re: #4 Kragar

For some reason: my reason - I would not like to die.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:09:50pm

re: #176 The Vicious Babushka

Jezebel converted when she married Ahab, just like Ivanka.

As I said in the follow-up, I guess that was part of the comparison. I didn’t think about it until after I said it.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:10:40pm

re: #180 meteor

For some reason: my reason - I would not like to die.

Oh, you’ll be fine. Your grandkids are fucked, but hey, who cares about the future? For the present, we’re A-OK!

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BeachDem  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:12:34pm

re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Yo. Turns out we have a secret weapon!
An immigrant you know and love who’s unafraid to step in!
He’s constantly confusin’, confoundin’ the British henchmen
Ev’ryone give it up for America’s favorite fighting Frenchman!

[COMPANY]
Lafayette!

genius.com

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:13:59pm

In years to come we will be looking on the response to Hurricane Katrina as a model of competence & preparedness.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:14:56pm

re: #184 The Vicious Babushka

In years to come we will be looking on the response to Hurricane Katrina as a model of competence & preparedness.

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My initial response was, “Wait, wut?” Then I realized who was President. Then I shook my head. Then I went for another drink.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:15:17pm
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meteor  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:15:26pm

re: #88 gocart mozart

It’s fun to add crazy people to my block list.

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gocart mozart  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:15:50pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:16:05pm

re: #184 The Vicious Babushka

In years to come we will be looking on the response to Hurricane Katrina as a model of competence & preparedness.

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They haven’t found anyone who believes in scientific models of hurricane prediction that doesn’t also believe in AGW. They’re probably working their way through readers of chicken entrails.

Or, more likely, doing nothing.

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Nyet  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:16:27pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:17:19pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:17:35pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:18:13pm

re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Or, you know, “Do you also not believe in gravity?”

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:18:38pm

re: #186 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, given the way DT runs his business, he probably thinks losses are a great thing. Excellent for the tax write-offs and all that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:21:24pm

re: #190 Nyet

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Nyet  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:25:09pm

re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth

Thanks.

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nines09  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:25:30pm

re: #190 Nyet

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BigPapa  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:25:43pm

re: #190 Nyet

Done. Might want to wash up with some rubbing alcohol or neosporin after that bugger.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:31:35pm
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Stanley Sea  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:34:18pm

Haha, no surprise.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:43:14pm

*snerk*

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:47:00pm

re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth

*snerk*

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BUTBUTBUT YUUUUUUUGEST INAUGURATION CELEBRATION EVER!!!! IGNORE THE FAKE NEWS SIDE-BY-SIDES WITH OBUMMER’S “INAUGURATION”!!!!!

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A hollow voice says, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:49:05pm

re: #145 MsJ

The “Fuck Trump” signs may be a clue.

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Single-handed sailor  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:49:16pm

Has it really only been 3 weeks? It seems as if it was 3 months ago.

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freetoken  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:50:21pm

re: #205 Single-handed sailor

The Age of Trump has time-distortion.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:50:44pm

re: #161 Blind Frog Belly White

I got frustrated looking for a map in that piece, because, you know, a picture is worth a thousand words and all. So I found this one:

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And of course, the places where it’s highest are also most strongly pro-Trump.

They don’t have bootstraps in Appalachia?

We need to break the culture of dependency in these communities and instill some personal responsibility.

/// (Did I mess any of those old canards?)

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EPR-radar  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:54:55pm

re: #201 Stanley Sea

Haha, no surprise.

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trump must be having difficulty finding a sufficiently craven lickspittle to serve as his personal FBI director. Too bad.

He should just give that job to Kushner.

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makeitstop  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:55:05pm

Do we get a bombshell today?

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darthstar  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:55:12pm

re: #205 Single-handed sailor

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Has it really only been 3 weeks? It seems as if it was 3 months ago.

I wonder if rejected candidates are sworn to secrecy. All interview questions and comments are subject to Executive Privilege.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:56:09pm

re: #209 makeitstop

Do we get a bombshell today?

No Boom Today…Boom Tomorrow

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EPR-radar  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:57:52pm

re: #210 darthstar

I wonder if rejected candidates are sworn to secrecy. All interview questions and comments are subject to Executive Privilege.

I normally disapprove of excessive executive secrecy, but I’m willing to make an exception for the talent show part of trump’s FBI director interviews.

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ObserverArt  Jun 2, 2017 • 2:59:28pm

re: #206 freetoken

The Age of Trump has time-distortion.

Time drag.

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darthstar  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:05:35pm

I’m glad Melania’s getting some love from someone. Poor woman looks so miserable all the time.

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BeachDem  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:07:52pm

Keerist on a cracker—just what we need:

Understanding Trump
by Newt Gingrich (Author), Eric Trump (Foreword)

“Inspiring and informative — I highly recommend it!”― Sean Hannity

I KNOW everybody here wants to pre-order it!
//////////////////////////////////

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allegro  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:07:53pm

re: #214 darthstar

I’m glad Melania’s getting some love from someone. Poor woman looks so miserable all the time.

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If she’s fucking some guy in the lobby…. (that tweet was unfortunately worded)

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MsJ  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:09:31pm

re: #208 EPR-radar

trump must be having difficulty finding a sufficiently craven lickspittle to serve as his personal FBI director. Too bad.

He should just give that job to Kushner.

Wait a week.

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darthstar  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:10:19pm

re: #216 allegro

If she’s fucking some guy in the lobby…. (that tweet was unfortunately worded)

She’s the FLOTUS. She can fuck anyone she wants anywhere she wants. And she definitely doesn’t want to fuck the President…anywhere.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:10:23pm

re: #216 allegro

If she’s fucking some guy in the lobby…. (that tweet was unfortunately worded)

I thought the exact same thing when I saw those tweets earlier today.

:D

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covfefe  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:10:41pm

re: #214 darthstar

So that’s why she doesn’t want to move to the White House…

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darthstar  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:11:13pm

re: #208 EPR-radar

trump must be having difficulty finding a sufficiently craven lickspittle to serve as his personal FBI director. Too bad.

He should just give that job to Kushner.

Why do all these people have so much integrity? Can’t a guy buy a cop around here?

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ObserverArt  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:11:24pm

re: #214 darthstar

I’m glad Melania’s getting some love from someone. Poor woman looks so miserable all the time.

The Doors - Back Door Man (2006 Remastered)

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darthstar  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:11:53pm

Let this be true…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:12:29pm
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makeitstop  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:12:51pm

re: #223 darthstar

Let this be true…

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Ha! BOOM!

Like clockwork, there’s mah bombshell.

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ObserverArt  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:13:31pm

re: #220 covfefe

So that’s why she doesn’t want to move to the White House…

She’d have to rely on the Secret Service then.

What?

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BeachDem  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:13:57pm

re: #222 ObserverArt

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Lyin’ Eyes

(If only she could open them all the way)

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MsJ  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:14:26pm

re: #214 darthstar

I’m glad Melania’s getting some love from someone. Poor woman looks so miserable all the time.

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Fuck her. She’s an enabler who’s probably going to get a massive payday when she divorces him. I feel zero compassion for her. I hope the press is as brutal as they can be because BLOW JOBS are the worst thing that ever happened to America. Amirite?

Fucking hypocrites.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:14:32pm

re: #226 ObserverArt

She’d have to rely on the Secret Service then.

What?

*WHACK!*

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451_Montag  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:15:11pm

re: #207 Timothy Watson

They don’t have bootstraps in Appalachia?

We need to break the culture of dependency in these communities and instill some personal responsibility.

/// (Did I mess any of those old canards?)

It was good, but I feel it needs a bit more “moocher” and perhaps a “taker”?

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MsJ  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:15:59pm

re: #215 BeachDem

Keerist on a cracker—just what we need:

Understanding Trump
by Newt Gingrich (Author), Eric Trump (Foreword)

“Inspiring and informative — I highly recommend it!”― Sean Hannity

I KNOW everybody here wants to pre-order it!
//////////////////////////////////

If I was stranded in a desert island and that was my only reading material, I’d burn it. 😎

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:16:35pm

re: #215 BeachDem

Keerist on a cracker—just what we need:

Understanding Trump
by Newt Gingrich (Author), Eric Trump (Foreword)

“Inspiring and informative — I highly recommend it!”― Sean Hannity

I KNOW everybody here wants to pre-order it!
//////////////////////////////////

“Makes for great toilet paper if you ever run out.” Me

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MsJ  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:16:54pm

re: #218 darthstar

She’s the FLOTUS. She can fuck anyone she wants anywhere she wants. And she definitely doesn’t want to fuck the President…anywhere.

Who would? Blech!

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allegro  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:17:02pm

re: #231 MsJ

If I was stranded in a desert island and that was my only reading material, I’d burn it. 😎

You’d be sorry you did. Those pages would be useful butt wipers.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:17:21pm

re: #233 MsJ

Who would? Blech!

Himself. He wants to fuck himself hence his weird Ivanka crush.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:17:23pm

re: #231 MsJ

If I was stranded in a desert island and that was my only reading material, I’d burn it. 😎

Make the fire pit great again!

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wrenchwench  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:18:07pm

re: #234 allegro

You’d be sorry you did. Those pages would be useful butt wipers.

Then burn it.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:19:05pm

Was at Costco. Saw Senators Warren and Franken’s book but also Mike Lee who has a book about the “litlte known” patriots who went against big government. I guess Lee doesn’t know the story of why the Constitution itself was written because the Founders wanted a bigger government.

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451_Montag  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:19:27pm

re: #227 BeachDem

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(If only she could open them all the way)

New movie “Eyes wide squinty”

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:20:04pm

“A delightful fantasy with unbelievable characters including a father who lusts after the main character’s sister while also thinking he can be President.”

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MsJ  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:20:31pm

re: #234 allegro

You’d be sorry you did. Those pages would be useful butt wipers.

Who needs butt paper? Just poop in the ocean. Fish do. Think of it as nature’s bidet.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:20:55pm
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BeachDem  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:21:03pm

re: #231 MsJ

If I was stranded in a desert island and that was my only reading material, I’d burn it. 😎

Well, at least it would then serve some purpose.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:21:29pm

MacBook Pro, late-2011 model. Lately, when running LGF on Safari, the fan goes crazy. On the Activity Monitor, the CPU% on LGF is running over 300%. Anyone have any ideas?

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:21:32pm

The problem with long runs is all I want to do afterwards is nap.

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allegro  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:22:04pm

re: #241 MsJ

Who needs butt paper? Just poop in the ocean. Fish do. Think of it as nature’s bidet.

I suppose it depends on where the beach is, the Caribbean or Antarctica.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:22:05pm

re: #245 klys (maker of Silmarils)

The problem with long runs is all I want to do afterwards is nap.

HEh that’s how I feel. I got up early today and exercised but I’m sleepy.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:22:26pm

re: #235 HappyWarrior

Himself. He wants to fuck himself hence his weird Ivanka crush.

He did say he’d fuck his daughter if she wasn’t his daughter.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:23:25pm

re: #247 HappyWarrior

HEh that’s how I feel. I got up early today and exercised but I’m sleepy.

It was one of those mornings where the alarm went off at the wrong spot in the sleep cycle and so I started all zombie like. We’re just going downhill from there, I think.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:23:37pm

re: #248 Ace Rothstein

He did say he’d fuck his daughter if she wasn’t his daughter.

I’m not joking. He really is creepy around her. I didn’t like W but he treats his daughters like well his daughters. There was nothing creepy or weird at all about W Bush as a father and husband.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:24:08pm

re: #249 klys (maker of Silmarils)

It was one of those mornings where the alarm went off at the wrong spot in the sleep cycle and so I started all zombie like. We’re just going downhill from there, I think.

I hear ya. I am stil getting used to this.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:25:18pm

re: #250 HappyWarrior

He is a very strange man. He has nothing, and I mean nothing, of value to this planet. Not a fucking thing.

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ObserverArt  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:25:32pm

re: #248 Ace Rothstein

He did say he’d fuck his daughter if she wasn’t his daughter.

Wouldn’t it be funny if after all this time, and after she finds her business dead due to association with Trump the President, she tells the media her daddy is not her type, she’d never fuck a sexist pig.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:25:58pm

re: #252 Ace Rothstein

He is a very strange man. He has nothing, and I mean nothing, of value to this planet. Not a fucking thing.

Right, I felt that way about him before he became Mr. Birther. I always thought he was an obnoxious jackass.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:26:16pm

Trump let’s be honest was Paris Hilton before there was Paris Hilton.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:26:23pm

Spicer looks like he’s been on a bender for two weeks.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:27:31pm

re: #254 HappyWarrior

Right, I felt that way about him before he became Mr. Birther. I always thought he was an obnoxious jackass.

I posted yesterday that I couldn’t stand him back in the 80s when I was a teenager. I found him to be a total phony. Gary Trudeau NAILED IT for YEARS with his mocking of Trump in the Doonesbury cartoons back in the day.

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MsJ  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:27:38pm

re: #246 allegro

I suppose it depends on where the beach is, the Caribbean or Antarctica.

If I was stranded on Antarctica it would be a result of being kidnapped. I’d be dead within seconds and wouldn’t have worry about pooping.

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jaunte  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:28:55pm

re: #238 HappyWarrior

My copy of Franken’s book just arrived today. Pretty funny.

“…Here’s another [Washington cliché] that drove me crazy. It’s just the word “robust.” As in “robust funding.” Which just means “a lot of funding.” Or as in a “robust response.” Which just means a strong response.” No human being uses this word in casual conversation. But everyone in Washington uses it all the time.
That’s why I issued a fatwa against it in my office.”

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makeitstop  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:29:01pm

re: #255 HappyWarrior

Trump let’s be honest was Paris Hilton before there was Paris Hilton.

And remember, he perved out on the Paris Hilton sex tape, after perving on her when she was a little girl.

He should just have them paint ‘Free Candy’ on the side of the presidential limo and call it a day.

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darthstar  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:29:04pm

re: #241 MsJ

Who needs butt paper? Just poop in the ocean. Fish do. Think of it as nature’s bidet.

So that’s why you never catch a fish with a dirty butt.

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MsJ  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:29:23pm

re: #254 HappyWarrior

Right, I felt that way about him before he became Mr. Birther. I always thought he was an obnoxious jackass.

Likely because he’s always been an obnoxious jackass.

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A Cranky One  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:29:27pm

re: #234 allegro

You’d be sorry you did. Those pages would be useful butt wipers.

Oh, I don’t know about that. The pages are already covered with shit.

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calochortus  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:29:46pm

re: #207 Timothy Watson

They don’t have bootstraps in Appalachia?

We need to break the culture of dependency in these communities and instill some personal responsibility.

/// (Did I mess any of those old canards?)

I wonder if some people blame the Dems for turning them into those people they blamed for their own problems? Small town/rural people have often thought of themselves as the “true” Americans, backbone of the country, more godly than everyone else, and all that. Now they look around and they are dependent on drugs and welfare themselves. Their families are dysfunctional, they’re not getting respect, and they’re not sure what to do about it except try to survive. The GOP promises to right all that and return life to how it once was. They can’t, but the Dems aren’t even trying to make that promise (because it’s an empty one.)

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Donkey With No Name  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:31:01pm

re: #128 Jack Burton

This seems like it’s simply a rebranding of “Bernie was right” and “We need to listen to rural white males in the Red States.”

Which in other words means: “Who gives a shit about the concerns of PoC, women, and the LGBTQ community? Joe Sixpack thinks brown people are taking his jobs and Nancy Pelosi is going to force him to wear a dress.”

There has to be another way to not let them win, without becoming just like them.

I don’t disagree that we could frame a positive masculinity that places concern and stewardship of community, honor, diligence, respect for all, etc. as primary virtues and calls out what passes for “manly” in Trump as the thinking of a 12-year-old (and apologies to 12-year-olds who are more grown up than Trump). This is kind of a long term project though.

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Skip Intro  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:31:51pm

re: #215 BeachDem

Keerist on a cracker—just what we need:

Understanding Trump
by Newt Gingrich (Author), Eric Trump (Foreword)

“Inspiring and informative — I highly recommend it!”― Sean Hannity

I KNOW everybody here wants to pre-order it!
//////////////////////////////////

I want to see what Rush Limbaugh has to say first.

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petesh  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:32:02pm

re: #241 MsJ

Who needs butt paper? Just poop in the ocean. Fish do. Think of it as nature’s bidet.

I never drink water, fish fuck in it. —W.C. Fields

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451_Montag  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:32:28pm

re: #232 HappyWarrior

“Makes for great toilet paper if you ever run out.” Me

Wouldn’t work. I’m guessing even shit has standards and would recoil in horror.

Doesn’t bear thinking about.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:32:33pm

re: #231 MsJ

If I was stranded in a desert island and that was my only reading material, I’d burn it. 😎

And go back to wiping with banana leaves?

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darthstar  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:32:38pm

Heh…this lady’s still a fuckin’ piece of work…

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wrenchwench  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:33:08pm

re: #245 klys (maker of Silmarils)

The problem with long runs is all I want to do afterwards is nap.

Normal. The old bike racer saying is, ‘Don’t stand if you can sit, don’t sit if you can lay down.’

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BeachDem  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:34:31pm

re: #255 HappyWarrior

Trump let’s be honest was Paris Hilton before there was Paris Hilton.

He kinda wanted to fuck her too—remember, he and Melania watched Paris’ sex tape together.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:34:51pm

re: #234 allegro

You’d be sorry you did. Those pages would be useful butt wipers.

Damn. Gotta start reading all the way down the threads.

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wrenchwench  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:35:48pm

re: #273 Decatur Deb

Damn. Gotta start reading all the way down the threads.

How far back you gonna go?

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stpaulbear  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:35:57pm

re: #259 jaunte

My copy of Franken’s book just arrived today. Pretty funny.

Franken probably hates the word ‘robust’ for the same reason I hate it. Norm Coleman, who Franken defeated for senate, used the word incessantly. He was the first person I ever hear using that word and he used it for everything. It really jumped out to me back then, and I completely associate that word with Coleman. It still makes me wince. Funny to see that it affected Franken too.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:38:30pm

re: #275 stpaulbear

Franken probably hates the word ‘robust’ for the same reason I hate it. Norm Coleman, who Franken defeated for senate, used the word incessantly. He was the first person I ever hear using that word and he used it for everything. It really jumped out to me back then, and I completely associate that word with Coleman. It still makes me wince. Funny to see that it affected Franken too.

I always associate it with an australopithecine, but I think they went and renamed it.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:39:02pm
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Jack Burton  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:39:30pm

re: #276 Decatur Deb

I always associate it with an australopithecine, but I think they went and renamed it.

It’s Paranthropus robustus now.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:40:12pm

re: #274 wrenchwench

How far back you gonna go?

If you don’t get your clever shot off in a dozen comments, some lizard is going to scoop you.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:40:45pm

re: #278 Jack Burton

It’s Paranthropus robustus now.

Splitter!!1!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:40:59pm

re: #267 petesh

I never drink water, fish fuck in it. —W.C. Fields

Swim, swim, horny…

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Jebediah, RBG  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:41:05pm

re: #275 stpaulbear

I see government buzzwords are as annoying as business buzzwords.
“So, what do you do?”
“I leverage business solutions in a client-centric, synergistic paradigm.”
“So you sell toner?”

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calochortus  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:41:38pm

Public service announcement:
Two months into this quarter’s grift-a-thon FR contributions are at 67% of the goal. This is the slowest I’ve seen (though I’ve only been paying attention, and intermittently at that, for a few years) If they keep up this blazing pace, they’ll be lucky to make their goal before they start the next cycle.
It’s always more fun to snipe at the evil government than to defend your preferred one.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:41:43pm

re: #277 Ace Rothstein

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FNC would have treated George Wallace the way tehy did Kim Davis.

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Jebediah, RBG  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:41:58pm

re: #279 Decatur Deb

If you don’t get your clever shot off in a dozen comments, some lizard is going to scoop you.

I got my clever shot off once. Hurt like hell and left an ugly scar.

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wrenchwench  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:42:05pm

re: #279 Decatur Deb

If you don’t get your clever shot off in a dozen comments, some lizard is going to scoop you.

You better read all the threads since the Great Flouncing. Most of the clever shots have been done.

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gocart mozart  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:42:34pm
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Decatur Deb  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:43:03pm

re: #286 wrenchwench

You better read all the threads since the Great Flouncing. Most of the clever shots have been done.

Over and over and over…

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MsJ  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:43:22pm

re: #270 darthstar

Heh…this lady’s still a fuckin’ piece of work…

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What’s that all about? Who’s Wilding?

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jaunte  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:43:41pm

re: #282 Jebediah, RBG

Can I see something in a “holistic?”

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Dave In Austin  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:43:47pm
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Jebediah, RBG  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:44:41pm

re: #290 jaunte

Can I see something in a “holistic?”

Of course! We are wholly holistic.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:45:12pm

re: #290 jaunte

Can I see something in a “holistic?”

We’re not that agile.

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jaunte  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:45:21pm

re: #292 Jebediah, RBG

We need solutions that are both over-arching and under-arching.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:45:22pm

re: #290 jaunte

Can I see something in a “holistic?”

But a “paradigm shift” is a requirement too.

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Skip Intro  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:45:35pm

re: #291 Dave In Austin

Trump won’t be there, of course, because he has golf to catch up on.

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jaunte  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:45:59pm

re: #295 Timothy Watson

We’re shifting the paradigm into transgressive.

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Unshaken Defiance  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:46:56pm

The Trump fails are not getting to me quite so bad, it’s FRIDAY. Payday and the boss chose to be extra $ kind given some recent project results. Yaay. Thinking to run my new to me little Toyota up the California 2 in Angeles Nat’l Forest. Nice twisty mountain road. Maybe a picnic and see what inspires us to photograph. here is a Google image of a piece of that road. LA Lizards probably all know it.

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calochortus  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:47:00pm

re: #297 jaunte

We’re shifting the paradigm into transgressive.

But is it intersectional?

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Decatur Deb  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:47:08pm

re: #295 Timothy Watson

But a “paradigm shift” is a requirement too.

Makes me think of sexy puritans.

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jaunte  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:47:33pm

re: #299 calochortus

It’s inter-dimensionally curated.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:48:29pm

Good ol’ Frothy.

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BigPapa  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:48:44pm

As I await the Friday News Dump, a ponderin: when would Trump resign? Would he? He doesn’t seem as smart as Nixon, oodles of more hubris, and Nixon’s crime wasn’t criminally serious whereas Trump’s alleged crimes are actually criminal.

We bypassed Watergate the day Trump elected.

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BeachDem  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:48:53pm

re: #282 Jebediah, RBG

I see government buzzwords are as annoying as business buzzwords.
“So, what do you do?”
“I leverage business solutions in a client-centric, synergistic paradigm.”
“So you sell toner?”

And to maximize the annoyance, one of my clients uses “robust” constantly as well.

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451_Montag  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:48:55pm

Interestingly I have always hated people using quantum leap. Literally means the smallest distance moved.

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Jebediah, RBG  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:49:00pm

re: #301 jaunte

It’s inter-dimensionally curated.

Aaaagh!
“Curated” is getting so weirdly over-used and I can’t decide if I want to laugh at it or hate it.

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calochortus  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:49:20pm

re: #301 jaunte

It’s inter-dimensionally curated.

OK, now you have crossed a line. “Curated” has started to really annoy me.

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wrenchwench  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:49:45pm

re: #298 Unshaken Defiance

The Trump fails are not getting to me quite so bad, it’s FRIDAY. Payday and the boss chose to be extra $ kind given some recent project results. Yaay. Thinking to run my new to me little Toyota up the California 2 in Angeles Nat’l Forest. Nice twisty mountain road. Maybe a picnic and see what inspires us to photograph. here is a Google image of a piece of that road. LA Lizards probably all know it.

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Man, we gotta get some of those cool guard rails out here…we got nuthin’ on the edges.

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Jebediah, RBG  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:49:49pm

re: #304 BeachDem

Lucky you!

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jaunte  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:49:55pm

re: #307 calochortus

Curated is the new “stakeholder.”

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covfefe  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:50:45pm

re: #223 darthstar

When does it expand to Jill Stein?

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Timothy Watson  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:50:57pm

Has anyone on here ever listened to the ads on WTOP (a D.C. news radio station)? You could win a round of buzzword bingo in a single commercial break.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:51:47pm

re: #307 calochortus

OK, now you have crossed a line. “Curated” has started to really annoy me.

“Binary” gets on my nerves.

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makeitstop  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:52:08pm

So after my drive to CT and gig last night, then early work this morning, drive home, and even more work since I got home, you can officially call me ‘Punchy.’.

I shall now retire to the veranda with a cup of coffee and some kind bud. I’m finally off the clock!

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Decatur Deb  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:52:13pm

It’s bad when business types use business-babble. It’s positively frightening when it shows up at general officer briefings.

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EPR-radar  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:52:25pm

re: #277 Ace Rothstein

If Fox News existed in the 1940s, they would have endlessly bitched and moaned about that communist FDR cooperating with Stalin to take out that freedom-loving Hitler.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:52:42pm

re: #302 Ace Rothstein

Good ol’ Frothy.

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Dear Frothy:

Go to Germany. Learn.

Love, Me.

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BeachDem  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:53:08pm

re: #306 Jebediah, RBG

Aaaagh!
“Curated” is getting so weirdly over-used and I can’t decide if I want to laugh at it or hate it.

Let me hurry and say you could “architect” a new paradigm instead.

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jaunte  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:53:24pm
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Decatur Deb  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:53:38pm

re: #316 EPR-radar

If Fox News existed in the 1940s, they would have endlessly bitched and moaned about that communist FDR cooperating with Stalin to take out that freedom-loving Hitler.

Papers of the day did, until Winter came.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:53:40pm

re: #316 EPR-radar

If Fox News existed in the 1940s, they would have endlessly bitched and moaned about that communist FDR cooperating with Stalin to take out that freedom-loving Hitler.

“Is he left making too much of a deal about Hitler?”

“Why we should be helping General Franco in Spain.”

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Jebediah, RBG  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:54:01pm

re: #314 makeitstop

That’ll be me in a few minutes - finishing up backups, then I can get synergistic with my bicycle and head home and then some bud and hang out with my pups…

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:55:25pm

Is it just me or has BLOTUS put on a few more pounds lately?

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SteelPH  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:56:22pm

re: #284 HappyWarrior

FNC would have treated George Wallace the way tehy did Kim Davis.

They would’ve treated the Civil Rights Movement like they do Black Lives Matter.

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jaunte  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:56:41pm

re: #323 Ace Rothstein

Maybe he’s trying to match his electoral number.

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Scout  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:56:42pm

re: #319 jaunte

I really wish America at large would learn the Trumpers’ “tell” — that everything they accuse others of, they themselves are guilty of.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:57:00pm
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EPR-radar  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:57:00pm

re: #320 Decatur Deb

Papers of the day did, until Winter came.

If Hitler hadn’t been stupid enough to declare war on the US, continued support of Hitler by US conservatives would have been politically useful going forward. For starters, Ike may not have run for president as a Republican if they had had a longer track record of Hitler-loving.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:57:47pm

re: #324 SteelPH

They would’ve treated the Civil Rights Movement like they do Black Lives Matter.

I honestly have no doubt about that at all.

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BigPapa  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:58:06pm
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Ace Rothstein  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:58:28pm

re: #327 Charles Johnson

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Is that real or the Borowitz Report?

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:58:55pm

Sir Richard Branson: “He’s the most dangerous President in American history.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:59:00pm

re: #289 MsJ

What’s that all about? Who’s Wilding?

it’s one of the Bernie or Bust lawsuits about how the DNC stole the primary from Bernie.

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EPR-radar  Jun 2, 2017 • 3:59:21pm

re: #327 Charles Johnson

This is what it looks like when you report on intrigues in the Presidential Palace of a corrupt kleptocracy. The media really needs to get a grip on what they are dealing with here.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:01:00pm

re: #327 Charles Johnson

Trump also reportedly believed that angering Europe was a “secondary benefit” of pulling out of the accord.

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BeachDem  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:01:02pm

re: #330 BigPapa

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But, but the yam called Gavin’s ex (I cringe whenever I think of that) to get her oh so important opinion on his Paris decision.

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Skip Intro  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:01:24pm

re: #330 BigPapa

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Decatur Deb  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:01:29pm

re: #334 EPR-radar

This is what it looks like when you report on intrigues in the Presidential Palace of a corrupt kleptocracy. The media really needs to get a grip on what they are dealing with here.

There is no bright dividing line between much of the media and the malefactors they cover.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:02:07pm

I’m back, after my Internet service was out for two days. Typical average outage from my telephone company. I’m thinking about paying extra for dial-up service from firm in Denver or Cheyenne so I can get around my Internet problems here.

I’ll have to go back through the articles and see what horrors the GOP are perpetrating today (I won’t read about those in my newspaper or hear them on local radio).

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:05:42pm

re: #333 Backwoods_Sleuth

it’s one of the Bernie or Bust lawsuits about how the DNC stole the primary from Bernie.

Which should come with the reminder that spoofing numbers for caller ID is really fucking easy.

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stpaulbear  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:06:11pm

re: #339 Anymouse

I’m back, after my Internet service was out for two days. Typical average outage from my telephone company. I’m thinking about paying extra for dial-up service from firm in Denver or Cheyenne so I can get around my Internet problems here.

I’ll have to go back through the articles and see what horrors the GOP are perpetrating today (I won’t read about those in my newspaper or hear them on local radio).

If you see a stupid nonsense word attributed to Trump, skip to the next thing. You’ll be caught up in record time.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:07:13pm
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MsJ  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:10:35pm

re: #333 Backwoods_Sleuth

it’s one of the Bernie or Bust lawsuits about how the DNC stole the primary from Bernie.

OFFS. And DWS seriously did stupid shit like that… Calling the opposing counsel? Gah.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:10:59pm
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jaunte  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:12:45pm

re: #344 The Vicious Babushka

Trump has never been able to handle questions.
“What’s the next white note above C” got his music teacher punched.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:12:56pm

Wow so class
What if somebody said that about Kellyanne Conway?

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EPR-radar  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:14:20pm

re: #344 The Vicious Babushka

I’d start off with something simpler, like ‘what’s 2 + 2?’

Next we could move on to advanced concepts like ‘Here’s a budget deficit, reduce revenues, does the deficit go up or down?’

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:15:41pm

re: #343 MsJ

OFFS. And DWS seriously did stupid shit like that… Calling the opposing counsel? Gah.

Possibly.

Also possible is that someone used a call spoofing service to fake the number from one of her offices and disguise their voice and called to ask about the case. But I’m sure this is just a little case that nobody has a strong interest in, so it must be stupid staff.

Seriously, who the fuck trusts caller ID these days? Do these people not get 5+ daily robo-calls from random numbers, including ones that can’t possibly be real? That cures you of this mistake really damn quickly.

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allegro  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:15:43pm

re: #347 EPR-radar

I’d start off with something simpler, like ‘what’s 2 + 2?’

Next we could move on to advanced concepts like ‘Here’s a budget deficit, reduce revenues, does the deficit go up or down?’

Gotcha questions!

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:16:23pm

re: #346 The Vicious Babushka

Wow so class
What if somebody said that about Kellyanne Conway?

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You really should just delete your account Mike and just shut up. and be grateful you never got the scrutiny Kathy has gotten.

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Targetpractice  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:16:28pm

re: #346 The Vicious Babushka

Wow so class
What if somebody said that about Kellyanne Conway?

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The guy whose sociopath of a son stoned, hung, and slit the throat of a stray dog has no place to be lecturing anyone.

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EPR-radar  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:16:31pm

re: #320 Decatur Deb

Papers of the day did, until Winter came.

The difference is that a Fox News would have continued the pro-Hitler shit after Hitler declared war on the US.

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MsJ  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:16:56pm

re: #344 The Vicious Babushka

You know he couldn’t answer most of the questions posted.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:17:09pm

re: #351 Targetpractice

The guy whose sociopath of a son stoned, hung, and slit the throat of a stray dog has no place to be lecturing anyone.

This is also the guy who claimed Josh Duggar was a victim of the left too.

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gocart mozart  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:18:22pm
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Skip Intro  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:19:37pm

re: #344 The Vicious Babushka

Of course he was. How dare he?

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Decatur Deb  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:20:00pm

re: #352 EPR-radar

The difference is that a Fox News would have continued the pro-Hitler shit after Hitler declared war on the US.

Once had an idle couple hours in the UofL library, so I read all the periodicals from the week/month after Dec 7. The most impressive was a blank page in (IIRC) The New Yorker:

“Our regular columnist has enlisted.”

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:20:17pm

re: #355 gocart mozart

Brand new Roger Waters, very Floydish

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I like how people are telling Waters to shut up about politics when Nugent does nothing but politics tehse days. Seriously, I almost forget that Ted was once a somewhat successful musician before he became the wingnuts’ go to guy.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:21:27pm

I step out for half an hour to do virtual slot-car races with my son, and a hundred posts go by. Geesh, it’s almost like there’s some nutjob in the White House and crap is spewing forth like a busted sewer or something.

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Targetpractice  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:21:41pm

re: #352 EPR-radar

The difference is that a Fox News would have continued the pro-Hitler shit after Hitler declared war on the US.

“In tonight’s topic: Is FDR in league with Jewish bankers to remove the duly-elected leader of Germany from power? Our sources say the White House instigated the attack on Pearl Harbor in order to push Chancellor Hitler into declaring war.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:22:07pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:22:47pm

re: #361 Backwoods_Sleuth

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A laugh? THis man is really fucked up.

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Targetpractice  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:23:07pm

re: #361 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“This was an act of terrorism!”

“Actually, it was a gas explosion.”

“It was a joke, you humorless liberals!”

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EPR-radar  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:23:12pm

re: #359 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I step out for half an hour to do virtual slot-car races with my son, and a hundred posts go by. Geesh, it’s almost like there’s some nutjob in the White House and crap is spewing forth like a busted sewer or something.

Just another day with a dangerous asshole in the White House, enabled by an entire party full of criminals, traitors, racists, fuckwits and swivel-eyed loons.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:23:14pm

Gee I remember the Trumpers saying Trump didn’t comment on Portland immediately because it was “local.”

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:23:23pm

re: #360 Targetpractice

“In tonight’s topic: Is FDR in league with Jewish bankers to remove the duly-elected leader of Germany from power? Our sources say the White House instigated the attack on Pearl Harbor in order to push Chancellor Hitler into declaring war.”

Quite a few of them already believe Pearl Harbor was a false flag, so.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:24:23pm

Oh you know full well that they’d use Lindburgh to push the anti-FDR narrative.

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EPR-radar  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:24:57pm

re: #366 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Quite a few of them already believe Pearl Harbor was a false flag, so.

False flag as in the US attacking its own ships, or the old story that FDR knew and got the carriers out of harms way?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:25:17pm

re: #368 EPR-radar

False flag as in the US attacking its own ships, or the old story that FDR knew and got the carriers out of harms way?

The old story, basically LIHOP for WWII. Guess I should have put the “false flag” in quotes because it’s not truly a false flag conspiracy theory in the correct sense of the term.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:25:48pm

LOLOLOLOL…

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:26:03pm

re: #368 EPR-radar

False flag as in the US attacking its own ships, or the old story that FDR knew and got the carriers out of harms way?

The latter.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:26:34pm

re: #370 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOLOLOLOL…

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Such delicate snowfakes.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:27:02pm

re: #282 Jebediah, RBG

I see government buzzwords are as annoying as business buzzwords.
“So, what do you do?”
“I leverage business solutions in a client-centric, synergistic paradigm.”
“So you sell toner?”

“I’m a solutions architect.”

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:27:41pm
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Decatur Deb  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:27:53pm

re: #368 EPR-radar

False flag as in the US attacking its own ships, or the old story that FDR knew and got the carriers out of harms way?

Depends on how crazy the bastards were. The John Birch Society had its beginnings in that bunch, as well as Phyllis Schlafley’s circle.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:29:11pm

re: #374 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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What? If I fits, I sits.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:29:15pm

re: #370 Backwoods_Sleuth

I think there was a popehat tweet on this yesterday that showed some of her tweets from the time she posted the picture that pretty much undercut her case in its entirety but the power of wanting to nap makes doing a twitter search too hard right now.

(No really, I’m not lying. Brain fog.)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:29:22pm

re: #373 Barefoot Grin

“I’m a solutions architect.”

But are you adequately synergistic to meet the needs of a dynamic marketplace?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:29:59pm

re: #378 Eclectic Cyborg

But are you adequately synergistic to meet the needs of a dynamic marketplace?

Excuse me, I scored a bingo. Where may I collect my prize?

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gocart mozart  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:30:40pm

Roger Waters - Déjà Vu (Lyric Video)

f I had been God
I would have rearranged the veins in the face to make them more
resistant to alcohol and less prone to ageing
If I had been God
I would have sired many sons and I would not have suffered
the Romans to kill even one of them

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BigPapa  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:30:42pm

re: #363 Targetpractice

“This was an act of terrorism!”

“Actually, it was a gas explosion.”

“It was a joke, you humorless liberals!”

They weren’t laughing when Griffith has his stupid bloody head in a picture. They still haven’t gotten over that as it’s their wont to be perpetually outraged.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:31:38pm

re: #373 Barefoot Grin

“I’m a solutions architect.”

Bud Fox: Did mom give you fish for dinner?
Carl Fox: Spaghetti! Your mother still makes lousy spaghetti.
Bud Fox: It’s called “pasta” now, dad. “Spaghetti” is out of date.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:31:45pm

re: #375 Decatur Deb

Depends on how crazy the bastards were. The John Birch Society had its beginnings in that bunch, as well as Phyllis Schlafley’s circle.

The origins of the modern American right really are something to look at.

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MsJ  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:33:01pm

re: #362 HappyWarrior

A laugh? THis man is really fucked up.

That’s what struck me, too. Who laughs at that?

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:33:18pm

I was tempted to compare BLOTUS with Gordon Gekko, but Gekko was actually smart.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:34:49pm

re: #384 MsJ

That’s what struck me, too. Who laughs at that?

He really is a fucking bastard.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:35:15pm

re: #383 HappyWarrior

The origins of the modern American right really are something to look at.

One of my liberal Christian friends and I were talking about the Paris Accords this morning. She said something striking: “All the people I know who are climate change deniers are Christians. Why is that?” I walked through an explanation of how Christianity came to be anti-science - basically, because evolution and abortion.

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Targetpractice  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:35:42pm

“And now breaking news, as Fox News has just learned that a telegram informing Admiral Kimmel of the imminent Japanese attack was sent hours before the attack occurred. Our sources tell us that Kimmel received the telegram, but no alarm was sounded and our sailors were allowed to be slaughtered. We don’t yet know whether or not these reports are true, but we will keep you updated as we investigate the truth of this matter.”

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EPR-radar  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:35:58pm

re: #383 HappyWarrior

The origins of the modern American right really are something to look at.

Here’s a bit from Wikipedia that doesn’t seem dated at all:

A transcript of Welch’s two-day presentation at the founding meeting was published as The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, and became a cornerstone of its beliefs, with each new member receiving a copy. According to Welch, “both the U.S. and Soviet governments are controlled by the same furtive conspiratorial cabal of internationalists, greedy bankers, and corrupt politicians. If left unexposed, the traitors inside the U.S. government would betray the country’s sovereignty to the United Nations for a collectivist New World Order, managed by a ‘one-world socialist government.’” Welch saw collectivism as the main threat to western culture, and American liberals as “secret communist traitors” who provided cover for the gradual process of collectivism, with the ultimate goal of replacing the nations of western civilization with a one-world socialist government. “There are many stages of welfarism, socialism, and collectivism in general,” he wrote, “but Communism is the ultimate state of them all, and they all lead inevitably in that direction.”

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:37:41pm

re: #389 EPR-radar

Here’s a bit from Wikipedia that doesn’t seem dated at all:

Teh more things change the more they remain the same. And I got into a debate with DF over this a few years back but I contend that a lot of American concservatism hostility towards leftism was based in antisemitism.

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EPR-radar  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:38:05pm

re: #362 HappyWarrior

A laugh? THis man is really fucked up.

The laughter was general, so it’s worse than just trump laughing. trump has surrounded himself with sociopaths who find this kind of thing entertaining.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:38:20pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:38:25pm

re: #391 EPR-radar

The laughter was general, so it’s worse than just trump laughing. trump has surrounded himself with sociopaths who find this kind of thing entertaining.

Very true.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:38:40pm

re: #392 Backwoods_Sleuth

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You had ONE JOB…

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:38:50pm

re: #392 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That’s literally your goddamn job.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:39:57pm

The thing is guys American conservatives transition tehir fears. whereas tehy once feared about JEws, they now transfer to Muslims, a lot of the old fears about gays has been trasnfered onto transgendered folks.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:41:24pm

re: #395 HappyWarrior

That’s literally your goddamn job.

I imagine the implication is not in the sense of capacity, but in ability; as in, “I fucking give up, I don’t understand a goddamn thing he says and he keeps contradicting me, so I am just going to let him speak for himself.”

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caseyjr  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:41:34pm

re: #385 Ace Rothstein

I was tempted to compare BLOTUS with Gordon Gekko, but Gekko was actually smart.

Uday and Qusay Trump copy the G Gekko hairstyle.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:43:20pm
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BeachDem  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:43:57pm

re: #373 Barefoot Grin

“I’m a solutions architect.”

You’re doing it wrong—it’s “I architect solutions.”
/

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:44:25pm

re: #399 FormerDirtDart

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Oh those intolerant college leftist snowfalkes. Can’t tolerate a gun threat. // In my day. //

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Jack Burton  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:45:29pm

re: #392 Backwoods_Sleuth

The Mouth of Mauron speaks not for the Dork Lord!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:46:36pm

re: #402 Jack Burton

The Mouth of Mauron speaks not for the Dork Lord!

*SNORT*

Well done, sir. An Internet for you.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:49:08pm

heh

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Targetpractice  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:49:17pm

“New details about the naval action in the Coral Sea are now coming in, as it appears one US Navy carrier was lost and another severely damaged. We’re told that the USS Lexington was lost was a significant loss of life, while the USS Hornet suffered major structural damage but managed to make it to Pearl Harbor. In addition, several other ships were damaged or sunk in the battle. The War Department has stated that a Japanese carrier was also sunk and two others were damaged, but the Japanese have denied such reports. In light of the conflicting reports, our experts say that the US Navy has suffered a crippling blow and may not be able to stem losses in the Pacific Theater, despite earlier hopes for a breakthrough with this battle.”

(historical context: The Japanese Navy thought the Hornet sunk at Coral Sea, which caught them by surprise at Midway)

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Jack Burton  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:49:36pm

re: #403 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

*SNORT*

Well done, sir. An Internet for you.

I’m claiming this one… you saw it here first.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:49:48pm

re: #404 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh

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Didn’t this guy rail against Clinton for taking speaking fees? Hmmmm. Glass houses PRofesosr West.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:50:21pm

re: #405 Targetpractice

“New details about the naval action in the Coral Sea are now coming in, as it appears one US Navy carrier was lost and another severely damaged. We’re told that the USS Lexington was lost was a significant loss of life, while the USS Hornet suffered major structural damage but managed to make it to Pearl Harbor. In addition, several other ships were damaged or sunk in the battle. The War Department has stated that a Japanese carrier was also sunk and two others were damaged, but the Japanese have denied such reports. In light of the conflicting reports, our experts say that the US Navy has suffered a crippling blow and may not be able to stem losses in the Pacific Theater, despite earlier hopes for a breakthrough with this battle.”

(historical context: The Japanese Navy thought the Hornet sunk at Coral Sea, which caught them by surprise at Midway)

Okay, TP, I wat to see the coverage of D-Day.

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BeachDem  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:51:22pm

re: #401 HappyWarrior

Oh those intolerant college leftist snowfalkes. Can’t tolerate a gun threat. // In my day. //

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Jay C  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:52:49pm

re: #368 EPR-radar

False flag as in the US attacking its own ships, or the old story that FDR knew and got the carriers out of harms way?

The latter: though, IIRC, after the War, when Republicans got control of Congress after the elections of 1946 they made a BFD of opening an “investigation” of the Pearl Harbor attack to try to prove that very point. Of course, what they uncovered was the US’ intelligence operations - both military and civilian - in Hawaii and the Pacific in general were astonishingly FUBARed - and that the absence of the USN carriers was just a (lucky) fluke of scheduling. Not so lucky for the battleship crews, though….

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:52:56pm

re: #409 BeachDem

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EPR-radar  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:54:00pm

re: #408 HappyWarrior

Okay, TP, I wat to see the coverage of D-Day.

Today the Thousand-Year Fortress of Freedom in Europe is under renewed assault, as communist sympathizers under FDR and Stalin mount a cross-channel invasion…

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:55:19pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:55:27pm

What disgusted Truman the most about McCarthy and thus Eisenhower’s weak public response on McCarthyism was that McCarthy and Cohn went after George Marshall. Truman considered General Marshall the finest American of that era.

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TedStriker  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:56:25pm

re: #241 MsJ

Who needs butt paper? Just poop in the ocean. Fish do. Think of it as nature’s bidet.

It’s just like the quote widely attributed to W.C. Fields: “I don’t drink water…fish fuck in it.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:56:29pm

re: #413 klys (maker of Silmarils)

This is why we can’t have nice things.

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EPR-radar  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:57:25pm

re: #413 klys (maker of Silmarils)

These ‘men’ making such stupid complaints are a disgrace to both their species and gender.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:58:11pm

Everytime I hear from these types how “sensitive” and “weak” others are. They show themselves to be projecting.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:58:59pm

On the plus side, seeing that made me think of the movie again.

I think the best thing I can say is that it felt like a Marvel movie. One of the good ones.

Which, ummm, DC, maybe you should think about what that means?

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Targetpractice  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:59:10pm

re: #408 HappyWarrior

Okay, TP, I wat to see the coverage of D-Day.

“Fox News is learning now that a major invasion of the European mainland is imminent, which is consistent with reports earlier this month of a massive build-up of Allied forces along the British coast. The operation that planners are dubbing ‘Overlord’ appears to have been in the works for several months, despite Nazi assurances that such an invasion is foolhardy. We’ve received word that disgraced General George Patton, who you may remember was removed from his command several months ago due to erratic behavior, has been assigned to lead the operation under the authority of General Eisenhower. Our attempts to get a comment from the War Department have so far been fruitless.”

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gocart mozart  Jun 2, 2017 • 4:59:34pm
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Targetpractice  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:00:54pm

re: #419 klys (maker of Silmarils)

On the plus side, seeing that made me think of the movie again.

I think the best thing I can say is that it felt like a Marvel movie. One of the good ones.

Which, ummm, DC, maybe you should think about what that means?

That’s because Marvel started from (effectively) a blank slate with Iron Man, which set the tone for the pre-Avengers films as light and funny but also with moments of drama.

DC started from dark and gritty and so basically couldn’t reel audiences in with anything but “Look at all the explosions and carnage!”

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:02:28pm

re: #161 Blind Frog Belly White

I got frustrated looking for a map in that piece, because, you know, a picture is worth a thousand words and all. So I found this one:

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And of course, the places where it’s highest are also most strongly pro-Trump.

Well, the most pro-Trump state was mine, which in the map shows it as the counties with the least draw of “disability” (is that SDI, other programmes, VA Disability, or something else - it doesn’t say).

Trying to hang Donald Trump’s victory on a single factor (disability, racism, economics, industry, &c) is an exercise in futility.

The argument has also been raised about “low education” (never mind this area has some of the largest percentage of college degrees in the nation). As a low-educated person on disability myself here, I can confidently say it was the low-educated disabled that voted for Hillary Clinton - because education ain’t everything, and Trump is a Dumpster fire.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:03:41pm

re: #422 Targetpractice

That’s because Marvel started from (effectively) a blank slate with Iron Man, which set the tone for the pre-Avengers films as light and funny but also with moments of drama.

DC started from dark and gritty and so basically couldn’t reel audiences in with anything but “Look at all the explosions and carnage!”

They managed some funny/lighter moments in this one.

There’s still some explosions and carnage too, but …Chris Pine has one hell of a gift for comedic timing, I gotta say.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:03:51pm

re: #420 Targetpractice

“Fox News is learning now that a major invasion of the European mainland is imminent, which is consistent with reports earlier this month of a massive build-up of Allied forces along the British coast. The operation that planners are dubbing ‘Overlord’ appears to have been in the works for several months, despite Nazi assurances that such an invasion is foolhardy. We’ve received word that disgraced General George Patton, who you may remember was removed from his command several months ago due to erratic behavior, has been assigned to lead the operation under the authority of General Eisenhower. Our attempts to get a comment from the War Department have so far been fruitless.”

Brilliant.

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BeachDem  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:04:02pm

re: #404 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh

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From the article linked within that article—even more egregious:

reality TV star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi earned a $32,000 speaking fee in 2011 for telling Rutgers University students to “study hard, but party harder,”

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gocart mozart  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:05:03pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:05:08pm

re: #426 BeachDem

From the article linked within that article—even more egregious:

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:05:44pm

re: #427 gocart mozart

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You’re making me choose just one? And no Cheeto Benito?

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:07:03pm

Teh Gropenfuhrer works too.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:08:14pm

“Ok, shout out to this great Lafayette Square crowd, my next song is ‘fuck the French!’”

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Targetpractice  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:08:27pm

re: #425 HappyWarrior

Brilliant.

Again, I should give a bit of historical context. Patton was indeed relieved from command for (among other things) the infamous “shell-shocked soldier” incident. The only thing that really saved his career was the fact that he and Ike were good long-time friends, which meant Patton avoided being cashiered or forced into retirement. The Army actually capitalized on his infamy by assigning him to command of Operation Bodyguard, the massive misinformation campaign used to convince the Reich that the invasion was intended to take place in Calais instead of Normandy.

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Targetpractice  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:08:58pm

re: #427 gocart mozart

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Comrade Combover.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:09:03pm

re: #190 Nyet

Wow, that is one sick jerk following you on Twitter; I need to bathe my computer in bleach after that.

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MsJ  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:10:01pm

re: #399 FormerDirtDart

So which right wing outlet put a target on that school?

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BeachDem  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:12:00pm

re: #428 HappyWarrior

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scottslemmons  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:12:37pm

re: #422 Targetpractice

DC started from dark and gritty and so basically couldn’t reel audiences in with anything but “Look at all the explosions and carnage!”

DC had serious hits with Nolan’s Batman movies, and decided that was the way to have a hit comic book movie — dark colors, grimdark attitude, very little humor. That may work for Batman, but it’s less effective for a character who’s supposed to be sunny and optimistic, like Superman.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:14:00pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:15:16pm

re: #439 Anymouse

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:15:38pm

re: #438 gocart mozart

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“Barron, I’m trying to do this cyber thing.”

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:15:59pm

re: #429 HappyWarrior

You’re making me choose just one? And no Cheeto Benito?

Cheeto Pendejo

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:16:59pm

re: #442 The Vicious Babushka

Cheeto Pendejo

You have the best nicknames VB. I loved the one you had for Clarke earlier.

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TedStriker  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:18:10pm

re: #419 klys (maker of Silmarils)

On the plus side, seeing that made me think of the movie again.

I think the best thing I can say is that it felt like a Marvel movie. One of the good ones.

Which, ummm, DC, maybe you should think about what that means?

Hey, the best DC movie I’ve seen in a while is The Lego Batman Movie.

So many in-jokes…it’s funny as hell.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:19:17pm

re: #432 Targetpractice

Again, I should give a bit of historical context. Patton was indeed relieved from command for (among other things) the infamous “shell-shocked soldier” incident. The only thing that really saved his career was the fact that he and Ike were good long-time friends, which meant Patton avoided being cashiered or forced into retirement. The Army actually capitalized on his infamy by assigning him to command of Operation Bodyguard, the massive misinformation campaign used to convince the Reich that the invasion was intended to take place in Calais instead of Normandy.

Yeah the slapping incident happened in the Italy campaign IIRC. The public reaction to that incident who contend that this generation is too sensitive should see that.

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EPR-radar  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:23:50pm

re: #437 scottslemmons

DC had serious hits with Nolan’s Batman movies, and decided that was the way to have a hit comic book movie — dark colors, grimdark attitude, very little humor. That may work for Batman, but it’s less effective for a character who’s supposed to be sunny and optimistic, like Superman.

DC should know the differences between Batman and Superman better than anyone else in the world.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:24:33pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:26:14pm

re: #444 TedStriker

Hey, the best DC movie I’ve seen in a while is The Lego Batman Movie.

So many in-jokes…it’s funny as hell.

We did enjoy that one a lot.

The more time I have to digest Wonder Woman, the more I like it, honestly. It’s not a perfect movie but I think the flaws stand out a little more because it comes a lot closer than most.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:28:35pm

re: #447 FormerDirtDart

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:44:29pm

re: #343 MsJ

OFFS. And DWS seriously did stupid shit like that… Calling the opposing counsel? Gah.

It is fairly easy to spoof a caller ID number. (I get calls from telemarketers all the time with alleged local telephone numbers. Makes it pretty easy to ignore them.)

Just because the number is DWS’s number (and there is no reason to believe a lawyer is being truthful in a letter), does not mean the call came from DWS’s office.

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scottslemmons  Jun 2, 2017 • 5:45:37pm

re: #446 EPR-radar

DC should know the differences between Batman and Superman better than anyone else in the world.

The people in charge of both DC and Warner’s just don’t get Superman at all. Seriously, just don’t understand what the hell his deal is. They want him to be cynical and angry and tormented and grim. It’s bizarre.

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William Lewis  Jun 2, 2017 • 6:04:49pm

re: #427 gocart mozart

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Trumpenfuhrer, Pumpkin Pinochet, Talking Yam, etc?

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John_Manyjars  Jun 2, 2017 • 6:08:01pm

re: #28 jaunte

We need to see more of this …’LIAR’. Not ‘alternative facts’ or the odious ‘false pretenses’. These scum are LIARS.

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John_Manyjars  Jun 2, 2017 • 6:19:31pm

re: #144 The Vicious Babushka

Not a puff piece..naaaahhh….

Good thing we have ‘liberal’ news like CNN, that will keep the ruling class in check

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Jebediah, RBG  Jun 2, 2017 • 7:25:50pm
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John_Manyjars  Jun 2, 2017 • 7:37:28pm

re: #250 HappyWarrior

I disagree. There is something profoundly creepy about a ‘man’ who sends 10s of thousands of young men and women to be horribly maimed and killed for LIES about WMD, while openly being thrilled about it.

Funny how none of his kids could be bothered to serve.

No quarter for Bush/Cheney. No matter how bad tRump is, he’s got a long ways to go to match Bush’s record of inflicting pain and suffering.

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John_Manyjars  Jun 2, 2017 • 7:45:40pm

re: #367 HappyWarrior

I don’t think Lindbergh would have been suited for that role, once the war started he volunteered his services and made critical contributions towards teaching fighter pilots to get more performance out of their airplanes at the front.

I believe he also shot down at least one Japanese airplane.

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dangerman  Jun 2, 2017 • 8:30:18pm

re: #427 gocart mozart

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