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teleskiguy  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:05:15pm
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Kragar  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:08:09pm

re: #1 teleskiguy

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freetoken  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:11:54pm

Trumpers on Facebook, still want to hang Hillary and Obama.

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Myron Falwell  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:12:08pm

Reposted from downstairs (re: an appointment to replace Sessions, or if Trump can pick a receaa appointment)

re: #165 Anymouse 🌹

en.wikipedia.org

No, unless the Senate goes into recess for more than three days.

The appointment must be approved by the end of the next Senate session, or the appointment ends.

And remember that Turtle Fucker McConnell is trying to delay the summer recess until he can strip away healthcare from 32M+ people.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:13:27pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:13:42pm

re: #3 freetoken

Post this to them:

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teleskiguy  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:17:53pm

Phish started their 13 night residency at Madison Square Garden tonight.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:19:20pm
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FormerDirtDart  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:20:13pm

His name is Forest

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:25:39pm

“His” name?

Or, is the green dog Forest?

Bah. It’s late….

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Kragar  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:27:29pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:27:31pm

So when does Spicer start his Fox News gig?

Half /

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nines09  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:28:02pm
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Kragar  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:28:19pm
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FormerDirtDart  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:28:41pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:28:45pm

Heh.

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Myron Falwell  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:28:59pm

re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg

So when does Spicer start his Fox News gig?

Half /

He’ll be tapped to take over for Fucker Carlson if his ratings keep slipping beyond the 70-dead demo.

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Kragar  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:35:39pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:37:14pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:39:34pm

Sean Spicer’s Long National Nightmare Is Over (goes to Wonkette)

LOL

MELISSA MCCARTHY WEEPS!

Well, we had a feeling Trumpers might start killing themselves off like flies, and we guess Spicer is the first to try to salvage a teeny tiny bit of his dignity, by getting the fuck out of Dodge right the hell now.

(more)

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No Depression  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:41:10pm

re: #18 Kragar

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“Kill…me…”

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wheat-dogg  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:46:23pm
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jaunte  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:49:13pm

re: #18 Kragar

This White House keeps thinking the way they present their message is the problem.

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MsJ  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:52:42pm

re: #15 FormerDirtDart

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Pineapple Pizzagate  Jul 21, 2017 • 7:58:37pm

re: #24 MsJ

I believe her less than I believe Jeff Sessions or Trump Jr.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:03:28pm

All the press drops, lawyers and Sean Spicer bailing out, and Reince Priebus trying to spin this on FOX News Channel sort of reminds one of the “Night of the Long Knives That Are Not the Sharpest in the Drawer”

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Myron Falwell  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:04:04pm

re: #15 FormerDirtDart

Karmatic retribution can’t come soon enough for Crooked Jill Stein.

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Myron Falwell  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:05:30pm

re: #26 Anymouse 🌹

All the press drops, lawyers and Sean Spicer bailing out, and Reince Priebus trying to spin this on FOX News Channel sort of reminds one of the “Night of the Long Knives That Are Not the Sharpest in the Drawer”

Night of the Short Sporks.

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freetoken  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:05:30pm

re: #27 Myron Falwell

Karmatic retribution can’t come soon enough for Crooked Jill Stein.

But Trump has good Karma.

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jaunte  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:05:32pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:06:12pm

re: #24 MsJ

Dr. Stein didn’t sabotage Sen. Sanders in the primaries? Yeah, neither did Mrs. Clinton. She ran against him, you know, like we do in this democratic republic.

Also, had the primaries come out differently and Sen. Sanders had won, she would have been running against him, not Mrs. Clinton (and Mr. Trump might very likely still have won).

Go home, Dr. Stein. You did your work.

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Myron Falwell  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:06:57pm

re: #29 freetoken

But Trump has good Karma.

“The greatest, most luxurious karma you’ve ever seen, BUH-LEEVE me!”

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freetoken  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:10:17pm

re: #32 Myron Falwell

Trump has big Karma. The best Karma.

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retired cynic  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:12:38pm

re: #33 freetoken

Trump has big Karma. The best Karma.

I hope it chafes his … socks.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:14:57pm

thinkprogress.org

Scaramucci once bashed Donald Trump on television. Extreme vetting… .

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mmmirele  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:15:18pm

Would there be interest in a Page about a resurgent scam going around where people are trying to do transfers or write checks on the Federal Reserve. This bad craziness is going around Facebook and YouTube. Here’s the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on it:

Video Scam Targeting Federal Reserve Bank Routing Numbers; Prosecution Possible
July 2017
Recently, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York became aware of a scheme promoted in online videos whereby individuals claim that U.S. citizens may make payments using fictitious accounts held at the Federal Reserve Banks. These fictitious accounts have been most commonly styled as secret accounts and/or Social Security trust accounts, and the individuals publishing the videos claim that substantial amounts are held within them for each U.S. citizen. To facilitate the scheme, the individuals publishing the videos have also offered bogus information on how other individuals may use online portals, such as bill-pay websites, to initiate payments from the fictitious accounts using Federal Reserve Bank routing numbers.

More at the link, but that’s what I’m talking about: newyorkfed.org

This scam has gone around before, but it seems to have caught fire in the last two weeks.

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jaunte  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:16:49pm

Scaramucci is from the “Monetize It” wing; Bannon leads the “Burn It All Down” forces.

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William Lewis  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:17:10pm

Hey, RWC? You around? Did you see my post this morning about giving a copy of my resistance pamphlet to a Democratic​ congresswoman? I only wish CL could have heard about it after her help editing it.

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Jebediah, RBG  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:17:43pm
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wheat-dogg  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:17:56pm

re: #36 mmmirele

Buy Bitcoin using your secret Federal Reserve checking account! For $39.95 I’ll tell you how!

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MsJ  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:19:37pm

re: #36 mmmirele

Would there be interest in a Page about a resurgent scam going around where people are trying to do transfers or write checks on the Federal Reserve. This bad craziness is going around Facebook and YouTube. Here’s the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on it:

More at the link, but that’s what I’m talking about: newyorkfed.org

This scam has gone around before, but it seems to have caught fire in the last two weeks.

That’s sovereign citizen crap isn’t it? You have to use a certain color pen, write your name a certain way, some other bullshit, and voila! You’re a millionaire!

People are so gullible. It’s depressing how gullible they are.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:20:29pm

re: #36 mmmirele

The fictitious Social Security accounts and fake Federal Reserve accounts sound like a sovereign citizen scam.

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Stanley Sea  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:21:41pm

re: #3 freetoken

Trumpers on Facebook, still want to hang Hillary and Obama.

Delusional adherence to THEIR fuhrer,

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dangerman  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:22:31pm

re: #41 MsJ

That’s sovereign citizen crap isn’t it? You have to use a certain color pen, write your name a certain way, some other bullshit, and voila! You’re a millionaire!

People are so gullible. It’s depressing how gullible they are.

Cf:. The current shit show of an administration

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mmmirele  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:23:53pm

re: #40 wheat-dogg

Buy Bitcoin using your secret Federal Reserve checking account! For $39.95 I’ll tell you how!

Bitcoin! A friend of mine, David Gerard, who is someone I’ve known for a couple of decades from Scientology protesting, has a book coming out about Bitcoin, the blockchain and Ethereum on Monday. (Hint: He thinks the whole thing is a terrible scam.) Here’s a link to Amazon via LGF to buy Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain.

amazon.com

I read parts of it as he was working on it, so it’s going to be funny and snarky.

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mmmirele  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:25:32pm

re: #42 Anymouse 🌹

The fictitious Social Security accounts and fake Federal Reserve accounts sound like a sovereign citizen scam.

Why yes, it’s one of the ways people get introduced to Sovereign Citizen nuttery. It’s part of the whole “your birth certificate has been monetized and if you cough up the right numbers, you can access your sekrit account!”

Every one of these yahoos has had or will have their checks returned. I guarantee it.

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Myron Falwell  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:25:40pm

re: #40 wheat-dogg

Buy Bitcoin using your secret Federal Reserve checking account! For $39.95 I’ll tell you how!

Earl Shieb will get your car painted for $49.95!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:25:48pm

re: #42 Anymouse 🌹

The fictitious Social Security accounts and fake Federal Reserve accounts sound like a sovereign citizen scam.

Exactly. I seem to remember hearing about that shit years ago.

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:26:19pm

Anyone know people in the Brooklyn vicinity that might be able to help?

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Kragar  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:28:34pm
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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:28:48pm

re: #38 William Lewis

Hey, RWC? You around? Did you see my post this morning about giving a copy of my resistance pamphlet to a Democratic​ congresswoman? I only wish CL could have heard about it after her help editing it.

I did see that gave it a +1 unless I finger fumbled. Made me happy to see word of it working. The resistance is the sum of all these little parts. All of us. So many actions large and small.

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jaunte  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:30:00pm
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jaunte  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:32:01pm

Sebastian Gorka. A true example of Trump’s skill in personnel picks.

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jaunte  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:33:38pm

“Bring me a sneering bully with a European accent to sell my domestic policies.”

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:35:40pm

So, are we about to see the Bowling Green Massacre that Kellyanne Conway promised us? How long until Reince Pribus or Jeff Sessions is out the door? How long before it dawns on the rest of the Republican caucus in the House that Trump will throw them all under a fleet of busses if necessary, including VP Pence?

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Stanley Sea  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:36:54pm

re: #11 Kragar

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That was horrific & I’ll defend Spicer for it.

Prick move

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prairiefire  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:36:54pm

Thanks Charles! Thanks lizards! I don’t know what I’d do without you guys with dealing with this crazy Drumpf regime.

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Myron Falwell  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:37:41pm

re: #52 jaunte

Of course Trump would pick the actual fucking Nazi who’s “slightly” unstable.

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MsJ  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:39:18pm

re: #47 Myron Falwell

Earl Shieb will get your car painted for $49.95!

I used to call it an Earl Slob job.

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bratwurst  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:39:54pm
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jaunte  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:41:49pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:42:11pm

So, Sean Spicer on Sean Hannity tonight, I read. I wonder if Lumpy is going to tear Spicer apart, or if Spicer is going to debase himself about how much he loved lying for his boss?

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William Lewis  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:42:16pm

re: #51 Unshaken Defiance

I see that now - more dings than when I last looked this morning :)

It’s good to keep fighting the Good Fight (cue Triumph… LOL!)

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jaunte  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:42:59pm

re: #62 Anymouse 🌹

If there’s debasement to be had, he’ll be there.

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piratedan  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:45:08pm

well, its patently obvious that Trump will not leave voluntarily… I mean, they could show him the pee tape, in front of Melania and then threaten to runn it, uncut on CNN and he would probably not give a fuck.

I think the only way to get him to go, is to publish just how poor he is and display, who really owns him, show the spreadsheet that has the dotted lines and solid lines as to what his assets are, what money he has and who really owns the businesses with his name.

Then, maybe you can shame him off the stage, otherwise, you’re looking at some kind of GOP revolt, be it the moderates or the tea party types who have finally had enough of this guy shitting on their brand, it will not be because of ethics or morals, although I’m sure that there will be lip service paid to them…

What will cause this epiphany will be the inability to get anything else passed, no HC bill, no tax cut, no infrastructure, no budget… it all goes up in flames… then and only then, when the realization that he and Pence (and maybe even those folks that sat on the treason knowledge will go) and then the GOP splits into its nihilist wing and those that simply choose to discriminate in the name of sound fiscal conservatism.

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darthstar  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:46:48pm
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darthstar  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:47:07pm

I know…I misspelled Kislyak.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:50:09pm

re: #65 piratedan

The first and foremost thing for most Republican politicians is to secure their future sinecure (reëlection).

As more and more of their wealthy donors say “enough, we didn’t buy you for this,” and Rs in vulnerable seats see their grasp on power slipping, Trump will be out the door.

Indiana is still looking into Mike Pence’s hacked E-mail account (and his wife’s) on which he conducted state business in Indiana (not sure how this is going in Indiana, but that could bring state charges).

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jaunte  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:51:12pm

Probably discussed earlier; I’m catching up…
Raise a glass for the Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough.

“…On the wonky side of the ledger, the big blow is the exclusion of a provision called the “Six-Month Lock Out,” a measure imposing a waiting period for people applying for initial individual insurance policies. “

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wheat-dogg  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:51:25pm

re: #45 mmmirele

Bitcoin! A friend of mine, David Gerard, who is someone I’ve known for a couple of decades from Scientology protesting, has a book coming out about Bitcoin, the blockchain and Ethereum on Monday. (Hint: He thinks the whole thing is a terrible scam.) Here’s a link to Amazon via LGF to buy Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain.

amazon.com

I read parts of it as he was working on it, so it’s going to be funny and snarky.

His name sounds familiar, though I am sure I’ve never met him.

I have some money invested in Bitcoin and Ethereum. Not enough to put me in the poorhouse if it all goes bust, but for now it’s given me decent returns. The technology behind the concept I believe is sound, but the people using the concept are somewhat less trustworthy. The Bitcoin community (users, miners, code devs, etc.) have been divided about changes to the basic code, and a major change is due to take place Aug. 1. There’s talk of there being up to six different types of Bitcoin by the end of the year, because the community is diverse and divided between anarchists, libertarians and more rational people who favor some centralization. Basically, a mess.

Ethereum, OTOH, had some sketchy aspects from the start, with the devs raking in a shit-ton of money at the launch, enough to attract the attention of the SEC. Meanwhile, there are scores of other projects being built on the Ethereum platform, which have also made those devs and project leaders a shit-ton of money. Well, money represented as the coins they have sold to willing investors. Cashing out millions of dollars tends to attract attention from all sorts of people.

I don’t believe all of these cryptocurrencies are scams. Most are, but a few address some real-life financial issues in a logical and secure way. The trick is determining which are going to go bust (or to jail) and which will survive into the succeeding decades.

Anyway, I’ll keep an eye out for David Gerard’s books.

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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:52:44pm

Whats playing tonight? Tortoise here.

Iframe

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:53:52pm

Video

Rush Limbaugh: One Way to End the Russia Probe Is to Just Pardon Everyone Mueller Is Investigating Right Now (with video).

That would go over like a dead duck.

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JordanRules  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:55:55pm

Joy isn’t exaggerating. Gold!

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stpaulbear  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:56:24pm

re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg

So when does Spicer start his Fox News gig?

Half /

He’ll have a daily segment where he goes on to say that he doesn’t know anything about any given topic, and he hasn’t talked to anybody about it. His segment will last 20 minutes.

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:57:53pm

re: #67 darthstar

I know…I misspelled Kislyak.

I can’t see that name without thinking of Premier Kissov in Dr. Strangelove.

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piratedan  Jul 21, 2017 • 8:59:29pm

re: #72 Anymouse 🌹

gotta love the both sides here, we investigate for the better part of 4 years the real estate deals of the President (where he lost money and was apparently the victim), to finally find a blow job, freely and willingly given.

then we attempt to kabuki impeach him for said hummer…

and here, we show 85% of the administration working with a foreign power to win the election, committing perjury, lying on security clearance forms, lying on financial disclosure forms, violating multiple emoluments clauses, possible RICO and ultimately potential treason and we should just shelve that and pardon everyone because reasons…

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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:00:15pm

re: #72 Anymouse

When I ask myself what would go too far, what would break the bond between a)Trump and the GOP, b) with his real hard core base? I get nothing from intuition or anywhere else. So far his worst offense is not kicking enough of us off medical care or put up walls between enough of us fast enough. Effing GOP all in the bag for the tyrant.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:01:53pm

re: #76 piratedan

But Her E-mails
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Interesting Times  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:04:38pm

re: #77 Unshaken Defiance

When I ask myself what would go too far, what would break the bond between a)Trump and the GOP, b) with his real hard core base?

The only thing I can think of that would get the trumpchump cult to abandon him would be evidence of weakness and “loserdom” soooo screamingly obvious that even they can’t deny it or explain it away - in other words, something that utterly destroys his image with them as an alpha and renders him utterly pathetic.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:05:37pm

re: #79 Interesting Times

Small malfunctioning penis.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:05:38pm

nytimes.com (We’ll Miss You Sean Spicer, more at the link)

Today, after 183 days, 58 news conferences, one perfect “Saturday Night Live” skewering, and countless packs of stress gum, Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, has resigned. But first, he slammed the door in an ABC News reporter’s face.

Reports indicate that Mr. Spicer quit because President Trump had appointed Anthony Scaramucci White House communications director. After all that’s happened in the last six months, for Mr. Spicer, The Mooch was a bridge too far.

The door slam was more befitting a moody teenager than the man whose job it is to communicate, but it was the perfect, flouncing end to Mr. Spicer’s tenure. How else could a six-month run of lying, whining and whining about being asked about lying end? All that was missing was a shrieked “I hate you!”

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Kragar  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:06:28pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:10:54pm

Horrifying thought if Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III goes from office:

Kris Kobach, AG.

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retired cynic  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:13:15pm

re: #83 Anymouse 🌹

Horrifying thought if Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III goes from office:

Kris Kobach, AG.

Hush yo mouf!

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:14:14pm

Park Service to raise senior citizen lifetime park passes from $10 to $80, on August 28.

The new price reflects the system-wide general park pass price, so essentially a senior citizen discount disappears from the Park Service on that day.

Passes issued before August 28 will still be good for life.

Disabled vet passes are not affected (they are still free).

cnbc.com

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prairiefire  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:15:50pm

OT. My 14 year old son has discovered “Rocky” movies. Perfect timing.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:27:54pm

I’m in total agrrrment with the theory that Trump leaked about Sessions’ perjury. Now he’s got an excuse to fire him and replace him with a loyalist. Joe Arpaio.

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Kragar  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:30:42pm

re: #87 GlutenFreeJesus

I’m in total agrrrment with the theory that Trump leaked about Sessions’ perjury. Now he’s got an excuse to fire him and replace him with a loyalist. Joe Arpaio.

I think they’re still hoping to force him to resign

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:33:24pm

re: #88 Kragar

Agreed.

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piratedan  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:33:25pm

re: #88 Kragar

I think they all want to stay and take their chances that their buddies in the GOP won’t indict them because they’re all Republicans

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darthstar  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:33:46pm

re: #87 GlutenFreeJesus

I’m in total agrrrment with the theory that Trump leaked about Sessions’ perjury. Now he’s got an excuse to fire him and replace him with a loyalist. Joe Arpaio.

Arpaio wouldn’t get confirmed. Clarke maybe…because token.

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retired cynic  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:34:09pm

re: #91 darthstar

Arpaio wouldn’t get confirmed. Clarke maybe…because token.

NO!

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darthstar  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:37:56pm

re: #92 retired cynic

NO!

It would be the runner up Scotus pick…or maybe someone who recently left office like that asshole from Virginia who was Boehner’s BFF…the turd eater…Cantor.

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retired cynic  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:39:01pm

re: #93 darthstar

It would be the runner up Scotus pick…or maybe someone who recently left office like that asshole from Virginia who was Boehner’s BFF…the turd eater…Cantor.

I could handle Arpaio before Clarke. They are both crooks, but Clarke is nutz.

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darthstar  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:39:24pm

re: #93 darthstar

It would be the runner up Scotus pick…or maybe someone who recently left office like that asshole from Virginia who was Boehner’s BFF…the turd eater…Cantor.

Doesn’t he look like he just bit into a turd?

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retired cynic  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:40:00pm

re: #95 darthstar

Doesn’t he look like he just bit into a turd?

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Absolutely.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:40:12pm

re: #94 retired cynic

I could handle Arpaio before Clarke. They are both crooks, but Clarke is nutz.

My money is still on Kobach.

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JordanRules  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:41:14pm

re: #91 darthstar

Naw. Clarke already has bus tire marks on him. He was easy for them to toss aside for lesser offenses than most of the cabal. Serves him right!

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retired cynic  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:41:34pm

re: #97 Anymouse 🌹

My money is still on Kobach.

You are closest, I think. Shudder.

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freetoken  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:42:17pm

I’m still not convinced that Sessions will quit. His stubbornness comes into play here.

But if Trump does need a new AG, would he not rather dip into the pool of slick lawyers with whom his crime family are already friendly?

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JordanRules  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:44:28pm

I wonder if Bannon wants Beauregard around still. He recruited him to the campaign and convinced him to endorse.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:47:47pm

re: #97 Anymouse 🌹

My money is still on Kobach.

I think he’s more likely than Clarke or Arpaio. The latter I see if appointed in more of a Nat Sec or LEO agency.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:48:20pm

One thing we can agree on though, the pick will suck.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:48:25pm

re: #101 JordanRules

I wonder if Bannon wants Beauregard around still. He recruited him to the campaign and convinced him to endorse.

Joe Arapaio, FBI Director.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:50:12pm

Rudy Giuliani, AG.

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JordanRules  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:50:15pm

re: #104 Anymouse 🌹

Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Screams a Maricopa County resident*

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retired cynic  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:51:32pm

Neither Clarke nor Arpaio can get confirmed, IMO. Kobach might. Cantor, I doubt it. He is a LOSER.

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freetoken  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:52:07pm

re: #105 Anymouse 🌹

Rudy Giuliani, AG.

Seems not unusual of a pick for Trump.

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freetoken  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:52:20pm

A couple of months old, but effective still:

The driving force behind far-right populism | DW Documentary

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teleskiguy  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:53:37pm

You folks are way off base. It’s going to be Attorney General Frank Stallone.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:54:04pm

re: #108 freetoken

Seems not unusual of a pick for Trump.

In fact before Sessions, he was my pick. I’ve heard rumors that Jared doesn’t like Rudy much either though.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:55:21pm

bloomberg.com

Kushner’s Amended Financial Disclosure Shows Sprawling Assets (more at the link).

Violating the Emoulments Clause is good if you’re a Trump and supported by a craven political party.

On her form, Ivanka Trump disclosed a business trust worth more than $50 million with underlying assets that include her trademarks and her jewelry and fashion lines. She also disclosed 10 assets underlying a real estate company, including interests in future hotels and golf courses in New York and a licensing deal for a hotel in India. She valued those assets between $5 million and $25 million. She also disclosed income of $529,590 from the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. [emphasis mine]

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HappyWarrior  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:56:03pm

re: #109 freetoken

A couple of months old, but effective still:

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Thanks I’ll give it a watch tomorrow.

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JordanRules  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:56:21pm

re: #111 HappyWarrior

I thought I saw some reporting that had Rudy strolling into the WH within the last week or so, with a stogie firmly in mouth. Before that I thought he might be in duck and cover mode.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:57:18pm

Arpaio is in his late 80’s. Doubt he gets a post. Perhaps gets invited to be on a commission.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:57:40pm

re: #114 JordanRules

I thought I saw some reporting that had Rudy strolling into the WH within the last week or so, with a stogie firmly in mouth. Before that I thought he might be in duck and cover mode.

Yeah I saw that too. I dunno.

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No Depression  Jul 21, 2017 • 9:59:03pm

I think he’ll pick Ronald Crump.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 21, 2017 • 10:00:17pm

re: #117 No Depression

I think he’ll pick Ronald Crump.

John Miller isn’t busy these days I hear.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 10:15:12pm

Perhaps it means something in Russian …

Ковфефе!

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freetoken  Jul 21, 2017 • 10:18:01pm

re: #120 Anymouse 🌹

Google wants to think that is Bulgarian first, not Russian, though the transliteration is the same.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 10:19:07pm

re: #121 freetoken

Google wants to think that is Bulgarian first, not Russian, though the transliteration is the same.

I left out the second “e.” I fixed it.

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BeachDem  Jul 21, 2017 • 10:20:46pm

re: #114 JordanRules

I thought I saw some reporting that had Rudy strolling into the WH within the last week or so, with a stogie firmly in mouth. Before that I thought he might be in duck and cover mode.

Here you go

littlegreenfootballs.com

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BeachDem  Jul 21, 2017 • 10:21:54pm

re: #115 HappyWarrior

Arpaio is in his late 80’s. Doubt he gets a post. Perhaps gets invited to be on a commission.

Isn’t he also, ya know, under indictment or something?

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 10:22:28pm

On the issue of where that leak about AG Sessions came from:

Russia, maybe. It sews more confusion. On the other hand, it shows they were further involved, so maybe not.

Trump, probably not. Not crafty enough, and also entangles him if Sessions has stuff on him.

Bannon wants to blow everything up, so maybe.

Pence, if he thinks he can get out of this unscathed.

Another Republican (in the House or Senate) who wants to undermine Trump.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 10:25:34pm

Tropical Storm Hillary expected in the eastern Pacific in forty-eight hours:

nhc.noaa.gov

It will likely be much stronger and more of a survivor than Don was in the Caribbean.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 21, 2017 • 10:37:05pm

re: #126 Anymouse 🌹

Tropical Storm Hillary expected in the eastern Pacific in forty-eight hours:

nhc.noaa.gov

It will likely be much stronger and more of a survivor than Don was in the Caribbean White House.

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JordanRules  Jul 21, 2017 • 10:39:38pm

re: #123 BeachDem

Ahh, right under my feet! Gratzi!

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Kragar  Jul 21, 2017 • 10:51:48pm
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bratwurst  Jul 21, 2017 • 10:55:24pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 10:56:39pm

re: #129 Kragar

Too late. Already part of the Wingnut Canon that Susan Rice is an un-American liberal that violated people’s rights in improperly revealing their names.

Meanwhile Ken Blackwell on the alleged Voter Integrity Commission twice dumped a majority of Ohio voters’ names and Social Security numbers on-line and [crickets] from the GOP about that… .

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JordanRules  Jul 21, 2017 • 10:58:25pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 21, 2017 • 10:59:30pm

bbc.com

The family of an 11-year-old girl murdered last week in New Jersey have implored President Donald Trump to let them into the US to attend her funeral.

AbbieGail Smith was allegedly stabbed in the neck by her neighbour while taking out the rubbish on 12 July.

Her father, Kenroy Smith, was deported from the US to Jamaica in 2001 following a cannabis arrest.

The State Department is not saying whether they will grant the visas (the girl’s sister in Jamaica is also denied), citing “confidentiality.”

More at the BBC

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Fineday  Jul 21, 2017 • 10:59:43pm

My bet for a new AG: Chris Christie. He has nothing to lose, and he would fire Mueller in a heartbeat.

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JordanRules  Jul 21, 2017 • 11:00:57pm

re: #134 Fineday

Kushner would cry tho.

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Jul 21, 2017 • 11:09:43pm

re: #133 Anymouse 🌹

bbc.com

The State Department is not saying whether they will grant the visas (the girl’s sister in Jamaica is also denied), citing “confidentiality.”

More at the BBC

It’s shameful that they even have think about it. I don’t care if her father is an imprisoned terrorist who has to be kept in leg irons and a straitjacket, he should be allowed to come here for his baby’s funeral.

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Jebediah, RBG  Jul 21, 2017 • 11:15:00pm

re: #132 JordanRules

That’s really well said.

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JordanRules  Jul 21, 2017 • 11:29:34pm

re: #137 Jebediah, RBG

Yeah, she found that rarified air in that one.

It will stick with me.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 21, 2017 • 11:42:17pm

So yeah. I’m still playing Pokémon Go. The big crazy event is in Grant Park, Chicago today (the 22nd). People have been there all night already. Crazy stuff.

I didn’t get a ticket. Have to work anyway. Bummer. They’re expecting over 20k people.

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Chrysicat  Jul 21, 2017 • 11:50:48pm

Sorry to be so late with this…

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teleskiguy  Jul 21, 2017 • 11:53:33pm
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JordanRules  Jul 21, 2017 • 11:56:08pm

re: #141 teleskiguy

Ha!
Unnecessary update for #7 - Out cuck a wood cuck.

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JordanRules  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:05:21am
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Kragar  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:16:02am
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JordanRules  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:29:02am

re: #144 Kragar

Earth2 timeline has that as an incredible LGBTQ interactive museum and community center!
Also Kentucky is doing it’s thing and not relying on Cali etc to exist.
#earth2yall

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:39:05am

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JordanRules  Jul 22, 2017 • 1:13:18am

re: #146 goddamnedfrank

Respect!!! Wish you didn’t have to do it. I wish you had solidarity in these familial relationships.
But damnet you are walking the walk. Humanity pushes forward.

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sagehen  Jul 22, 2017 • 1:24:48am
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Kragar  Jul 22, 2017 • 1:32:24am
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teleskiguy  Jul 22, 2017 • 1:32:41am

re: #148 sagehen

My mom turns 70 next month.

Folks, slavery in the United States is the country’s *original sin* and we’ll be paying the piper for a long long time.

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teleskiguy  Jul 22, 2017 • 1:34:42am

re: #150 teleskiguy

My mom turns 70 next month.

Folks, slavery in the United States is the country’s *original sin* and we’ll be paying the piper for a long long time.

That, and wiping out the natives through attrition and disease and calling it God’s will.

Shit man, I got that MURKA feeling!

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 22, 2017 • 2:38:27am

So, Jennifer Rubin, in her WaPo opinion piece “This Presidency can’t be saved. It’s all downhill from here” outlines four scenarios, as follows:

In light of news reports that President Trump’s team is scouring the record for conflicts of interest on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team (the essence of chutzpah) and contemplating pardons (of aides and/or himself), it is worth considering how this may all play out.

We offer several scenarios:

1. Trump orders Attorney General Jeff Sessions to fire Mueller. Sessions quits, as does Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein and Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand. Eventually someone agrees to fire Mueller. Republicans either will not pursue impeachment or are obliged to begin impeachment hearings but refuse to vote out articles of impeachment. In 2018, Democrats sweep to victory in the House and gain a seat or two in the Senate. Trump cannot be removed (two-thirds of the Senate is required for removal), but his presidency is in tatters. Some aides or ex-aides face criminal prosecution. LESSON: Republicans’ failure to stand up to Trump early dooms his presidency and crashes the GOP.

2. Trump orders Attorney General Jeff Sessions to fire Mueller. Sessions quits, as does Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein and Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand. Eventually someone agrees to fire Mueller. Republicans, together with Democrats, pass by a veto-proof majority an independent prosecutor statute. Before impeachment proceedings can finish, Democrats sweep to victory in 2018 in the House and gain a seat or two in the Senate. Trump cannot be removed, but his presidency is in tatters. Some aides or ex-aides face criminal prosecution. LESSON: Fire Mueller, and Congress will hire him back.

3. Republicans join Democrats in warning Trump not to fire Mueller. Mueller remains and keeps digging. Mueller subpoenas damaging documents; Trump refuses to comply. A court orders him to comply. He doesn’t. We have a full-blown constitutional crisis. LESSON: Congress cannot delegate all responsibility to Mueller. It must conduct a parallel investigation and, if need be, commence impeachment proceedings.

4. Republicans join Democrats in warning Trump not to fire Mueller. Mueller remains and keeps digging. Mueller subpoenas damaging documents; Trump refuses to comply. A court orders him to comply. He declares this a witch hunt, an attack on his family (or whatever). Then he resigns, claiming he has already made America great. He tells the country that Vice President Pence will carry on in his place. LESSON: Congress must protect Mueller and preserve the possibility that Trump may be forced to resign.

Interesting observations on her part.

OK……off to do the weekly shopping. Back later; in the meantime, what do you think of Ms. Rubin’s scenarios?

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Myron Falwell  Jul 22, 2017 • 2:42:48am

re: #107 retired cynic

Neither Clarke nor Arpaio can get confirmed, IMO. Kobach might. Cantor, I doubt it. He is a LOSER.

All Trump wants is someone down the chain of command at the DOJ who will fire Mueller. His own Robert Bork.

Naming a wingnut replacement (for whom confirmation would be a daunting task) is almost irrelevant.

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Chrysicat  Jul 22, 2017 • 2:44:51am

re: #152 Dr Lizardo

I’m afraid that she’s not taking into account who’s going to be allowed to vote in 2018, and that there’s a fifth, most likely scenario where ‘1’ starts to play out, and then, just like Russia in 2012, it stops because the playing field’s been tilted.

Trumpkins might *finally* realise they elected a king afterwards, but it’s too late to do anything other than hope that after Trump dies, his heirs can’t maintain the oligarchy and we might therefore get something resembling a democratic republic by 2030. More likely, they find someone to keep things going and the world outside France and Germany is safe for authoritarianism (since China loves it as well as Russia doing so) until I’m in the ground at least, and I’m 40.

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I cannot.  Jul 22, 2017 • 2:49:08am

re: #152 Dr Lizardo

The least “Destroy The Entire Country” option is option 4 and that one still makes Watergate look like a disagreement about pizza toppings. EDIT: It does seem like a replay of Watergate at first, but the Republicans are different and far more dangerous now.

Then there’s option 5, Mueller is fired, Republicans close ranks, Democrats unable to win majority thanks to gerrymandering and voter suppression. I can’t really speculate on what happens after that, except *BOOM*

I see option 5 as more likely than 3 or 4.

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Chrysicat  Jul 22, 2017 • 2:59:19am

re: #155 I cannot.

The least “Destroy The Entire Country” option is option 4 and that one still makes Watergate look like a disagreement about pizza toppings.

Then there’s option 5, Mueller is fired, Republicans close ranks, Democrats unable to win majority thanks to gerrymandering and voter suppression. I can’t really speculate on what happens after that, except *BOOM*

I see option 5 as more likely than 3 or 4.

Like it or not, I’m honestly wondering if there were ever a single country to destroy, any more than there was a single Austria-Hungary or Yugoslavia.

It seems increasingly likely that a bunch of Confederate descendants were secretly never in line with the idea that Californians or New Yorkers were of their nation, and I’m not entirely sure that, even if the original split attempt was masterminded from Moscow, said Californians and New Yorkers don’t now agree with them (we’re talking people who were able to hide how bigoted they were for their entire lifetimes, in most cases, before intentionally setting up the Voting Rights and Civil Rights Acts to be declared unconstitutional. I’ll have no more trust for any of them even if we can short-circuit a renewal of Jim Crow, and an authoritarian state; than any wizard in Rowling’s 1990s should have had for ‘reformed’ Death Eaters).

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Teukka  Jul 22, 2017 • 3:00:30am

re: #109 freetoken

A couple of months old, but effective still:

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Watching that DW documentary, a couple of things strike me… They don’t venture much outside the borders of Germany as to the network of organizations. Also, the organizations in the network for the large part formed at roughly the same time, not only in Germany but elsewhere in the West. The “plausible deniability” ploy is common.

I’ve been hearing rumors about people having been suckered in by some sort of “global conservative revolution” scam, the perpetrators being the power clique in the Kremlin, but there’s contantly this distance which keeps it from being blown wide open. The US is one of the places it seems most apparent at this juncture.

We live in interesting times (in the ancient Chinese curse sense).

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Myron Falwell  Jul 22, 2017 • 3:28:40am

re: #155 I cannot.

The least “Destroy The Entire Country” option is option 4 and that one still makes Watergate look like a disagreement about pizza toppings.

Then there’s option 5, Mueller is fired, Republicans close ranks, Democrats unable to win majority thanks to gerrymandering and voter suppression. I can’t really speculate on what happens after that, except *BOOM*

I see option 5 as more likely than 3 or 4.

Option 6:

Trump keeps talking about firing Mueller, but can’t get anyone to do it for him. And his own team can’t get united behind the idea.

Look… even if Sessions quits (which I can’t really see happening, only because Sessions is enough of a stooge devoid of principles), Rod Rothenstein becomes acting AG. Trump could do to Rothenstein what he did to Sally Yates, but that’s assuming his team is unified behind the idea. I don’t think they are. See this appointment of Mooch as WH comms director… Bannon was/is opposed to that shyster, and Trump did it anyway. This could devastate his inner circle more than you think.

In the end, it’s another empty threat, Sessions doesn’t quit, and Trump’s legal team of Sekulow, Cobb, Dewey, Cheatem and Howe continue to be outmatched and outwitted by the varsity squad.

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Myron Falwell  Jul 22, 2017 • 3:54:14am

re: #158 Myron Falwell

Mind you, it’s still a ridiculous mess, but this might be the best case scenario.

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steve_davis  Jul 22, 2017 • 4:41:14am

re: #67 darthstar

I know…I misspelled Kislyak.

He’s Russian, so it’s basically impossible to misspell his name with Roman characters.

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Myron Falwell  Jul 22, 2017 • 4:57:42am

So much for Turtle Fucker McConnell’s facade of being this smarty-pants tactician…

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Myron Falwell  Jul 22, 2017 • 5:00:32am

Has Fox News thrown Sessions under the bus yet?

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 22, 2017 • 5:01:28am

re: #161 Myron Falwell

So much for Turtle Fucker McConnell’s facade of being this smarty-pants tactician…

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McConnell’s probably torn between trying to fix it and ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 22, 2017 • 5:03:14am

re: #162 Myron Falwell

Has Fox News thrown Sessions under the bus yet?

They’re probably still trying to figure out how to angle it.

Your option #6 seems reasonable - Trump will continue flailing and failing as the White House staff Apple Dumpling Gang lurches from one crisis to another.

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Targetpractice  Jul 22, 2017 • 5:15:20am

Scenario 5: Trump fires Mueller, Republicans circle wagons in Congress and defend his actions as being within his powers as president and fend off talk about impeachment. Midterm elections come and while the DNC does well enough to win a thin majority in the Senate, gerrymandering and voter suppression ensure the GOP maintain the House by a thin sliver. 2019 begins with the House GOP setting out their plan for the next two years: Run down the clock. Meet calls for impeachment with “He’ll be gone in two years,” while using the time on the clock to pass partisan bills they know won’t pass in the Senate but will help boost their support amongst their base. Trump’s presidency basically becomes a hollow shell of itself, with nobody taking the man seriously and everybody counting the days until 2021 when whoever the DNC runs against him takes office.

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John Carter  Jul 22, 2017 • 5:27:20am

re: #77 Unshaken Defiance

When I ask myself what would go too far, what would break the bond between a)Trump and the GOP, b) with his real hard core base? I get nothing from intuition or anywhere else. So far his worst offense is not kicking enough of us off medical care or put up walls between enough of us fast enough. Effing GOP all in the bag for the tyrant.

A recession and stock market crash.

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Targetpractice  Jul 22, 2017 • 5:33:40am

re: #166 John Carter

A recession and stock market crash.

They’d blame Obama and would suffer no cognitive dissonance arguing that the awesome market right now was in fact a bubble that “everybody knew” would pop.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 22, 2017 • 5:35:29am

re: #165 Targetpractice

Scenario 5: Trump fires Mueller, Republicans circle wagons in Congress and defend his actions as being within his powers as president and fend off talk about impeachment. Midterm elections come and while the DNC does well enough to win a thin majority in the Senate, gerrymandering and voter suppression ensure the GOP maintain the House by a thin sliver. 2019 begins with the House GOP setting out their plan for the next two years: Run down the clock. Meet calls for impeachment with “He’ll be gone in two years,” while using the time on the clock to pass partisan bills they know won’t pass in the Senate but will help boost their support amongst their base. Trump’s presidency basically becomes a hollow shell of itself, with nobody taking the man seriously and everybody counting the days until 2021 when whoever the DNC runs against him takes office.

That’s a realistic scenario too.

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I cannot.  Jul 22, 2017 • 5:35:45am

NOW I KNOW WHERE I’VE SEEN “THE MOOCH” BEFORE!

Image: FqMzTuX.png

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Fineday  Jul 22, 2017 • 5:41:18am

The Cheeto Monster is tweeting again, trying to deflect to Hillary as usual.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 22, 2017 • 5:44:59am

So, here’s a sanity break (in seven parts): Abar, The First Black Superman.

en.wikipedia.org

Note: There is some use of racial expletives - it’s a 70’s blaxploitation film, and deliciously mediocre. That being said, well…..hell, I’ve never written or directed or starred in a motion picture, so the cast and crew of this flick has me beat.

Black Superman (Part 1 of 7)

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Myron Falwell  Jul 22, 2017 • 5:45:14am

re: #170 Fineday

The Cheeto Monster is tweeting again, trying to deflect to Hillary as usual.

“I can’t believe it’s not butter e-mails!”

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dangerman  Jul 22, 2017 • 5:53:06am

re: #167 Targetpractice

They’d blame Obama and would suffer no cognitive dissonance arguing that the awesome market right now was in fact a bubble that “everybody knew” would pop.

and those brilliant “everyones” are right now strategically hedging and selling short , right?

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Targetpractice  Jul 22, 2017 • 5:53:42am

Any scenario that relies upon the GOP seeing the light, realizing that Trump is a danger not simply to the party but to the country, and turning on him should be taken with a Texas-sized grain of salt. There’s no evidence whatsoever that such a GOP exists anymore, that there is a modern day Goldwater to venture to 1600 Penn Ave and tell Trump that he needs to resign “for the good of the party.” Or that, even if one exists, they could get it through his rapidly-degrading brain that there’s no future for him if the party bails on his ass.

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dangerman  Jul 22, 2017 • 5:54:25am

re: #170 Fineday

The Cheeto Monster is tweeting again, trying to deflect to Hillary as usual.

hey donny,

you won it. your beautiful maps say so.
you own it

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Myron Falwell  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:03:44am

re: #174 Targetpractice

Robert Mueller could hand down the biggest slam-dunk case for prosecution and the chances for impeachment would still be rather small, at best. Because Republicans.

It’s the cases of financial impropriety preceding January 21, and/or even his campaign, that Donnie may really be worried about… the ones that Eric Schneiderman is investigating and whom Preet Bharara got fired over.

I could be terribly wrong, but from the sounds of it, that might not even warrant impeachment?

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b.d. (bill d.)  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:05:31am

re: #170 Fineday

The Cheeto Monster is tweeting again, trying to deflect to Hillary as usual.

LOL Trumpie. OJ getting out of prison got less than a day’s outrage but you keep trying to get people pissed at Hillary.

Good luck, Americans don’t care about folks who are old news at all.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:06:19am

re: #176 Myron Falwell

Robert Mueller could hand down the biggest slam-dunk case for prosecution and the chances for impeachment would still be rather small, at best.

It’s the cases of financial impropriety preceding January 21, and/or even his campaign, that Donnie may really be worried about… the ones that Eric Schneiderman is investigating and whom Preet Bharara got fired over. From the sounds of it, they may not even need impeachment.

Yeah, just imagine Trump’s reaction if it’s ultimately revealed at the state level that he’s nothing more than a colossal fraud. That he’s nothing even remotely what he’s claimed to be and now he stands exposed as a flim-flam artist before the entire world: everybody pointing and laughing at him.

His ego would implode.

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jeffreyw  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:06:34am

Imgur


Good morning!

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:08:00am

Good morning all.
Coffee, biscuits & jam and Stage 20 (Individual Time Trial) of the Tour de France

And, of course, the Marshal of the Supreme Court…

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b.d. (bill d.)  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:08:34am

re: #179 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Deers!! So much for all of those pretty flowers.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:09:41am

re: #180 FormerDirtDart

Good morning all.
Coffee, biscuits & jam and Stage 20 (Individual Time Trial) of the Tour de France

And, of course, the Marshal of the Supreme Court…

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Nobody is asking that except you, Donnie. And the reason why is obvious: The Special Counsel was appointed to investigate YOUR ADMINISTRATION, not Hillary. You want BUT HER EMAILS!!!! to get investigated, you convince the DOJ to do it. I won’t hold my breath.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:10:57am

re: #180 FormerDirtDart

Good morning all.
Coffee, biscuits & jam and Stage 20 (Individual Time Trial) of the Tour de France

And, of course, the Marshal of the Supreme Court…

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Still whining.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:12:08am

re: #182 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Nobody is asking that except you, Donnie. And the reason why is obvious: The Special Counsel was appointed to investigate YOUR ADMINISTRATION, not Hillary. You want BUT HER EMAILS!!!! to get investigated, you convince the DOJ to do it. I won’t hold my breath.

Exactly. Mueller wasn’t appointed to investigate Clinton.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:14:46am

He knows he’s guilty as sin.

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:15:45am

As I look over my shoulder at my Boxer, Shelby, feet up sprawled across my couch, resting her head on a pillow.
Honestly I just don’t see it.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:16:48am

re: #185 HappyWarrior

And that is why he keeps bringing up her emails. He is still pointing in an other direction to get folks looking in that direction so that they will not look at him.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:17:48am

re: #187 PhillyPretzel

And that is why he keeps bringing up her emails. He is still pointing in an other direction to get folks looking in that direction so that they will not look at him.

It works for his cult and media allies. Thankfully not to Mueller.

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b.d. (bill d.)  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:18:28am

re: #184 HappyWarrior

Exactly. Mueller wasn’t appointed to investigate Clinton.

[trump] Wait until we get rid of Sessions and get a real AG who will fire Mueller and appoint a special council to get to the bottom of BENGHAZI, EMAILS, Pedophile Pizza, Uraninum deals, Anthony Weiner & Huma, Fake News, LEAKS, Cattle futures, Seth Rich, Ron Brown, Vince Foster, Roswell, the high price of heirloom seeds and Pope John Paul I [/trump]

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b.d. (bill d.)  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:21:24am

re: #186 FormerDirtDart

As I look over my shoulder at my Boxer, Shelby, feet up sprawled across my couch, resting her head on a pillow.
Honestly I just don’t see it.

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MOAR CNN FAKE NEWS! If dogs descended from wolves then how come there are still wolves? Check Mate Libtards!

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Myron Falwell  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:22:54am

re: #178 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, just imagine Trump’s reaction if it’s ultimately revealed at the state level that he’s nothing more than a colossal fraud. That he’s nothing even remotely what he’s claimed to be and now he stands exposed as a flim-flam artist before the entire world: everybody pointing and laughing at him.

His ego would implode.

Someone probably told Trump that firing Preet Bharara didn’t erase the existence of his investigation into Trump, and that Mueller would have access to it. That would be more devastating than Comey, because Preet’s investigation was more personal and threatened to expose more… so much more.

Thus the preemptive slam on Mueller, the “self-pardon” trial balloon, the rumors of firing Mueller and now attempting to blame Clinton again (although the Sessions leak is not from Team Mueller, it still fits the overall pattern).

What I’m seeing is someone who now knows he’s in deep, deep trouble and desperately trying to find a way out.

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b.d. (bill d.)  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:24:14am

re: #191 Myron Falwell

Someone probably told Trump that firing Preet Bharara didn’t erase the existence of his investigation into Trump, and that Mueller would have access to it.

Thus the preemptive slam on Mueller, the “self-pardon” trial balloon, the rumors of firing Mueller and now attempting to blame Clinton again (although the Sessions leak is not from Team Mueller, it still fits the overall pattern).

What I’m seeing is someone who now knows he’s in deep, deep trouble and desperately trying to find a way out.

Yep, hope he doesn’t decide that a war is a good diversion.

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darthstar  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:31:06am

Love Pelosi

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:35:01am

re: #191 Myron Falwell

What I’m seeing is someone who now knows he’s in deep, deep trouble and desperately trying to find a way out.

This. And this time, it’s different - in his business life, he could just BS or legally bully his way out of it. Politics is an entirely different species of animal.

Winning the Presidency was the single worst thing that ever could’ve happened to him. And I’m sure that thought has gone through his mind once or twice.

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jeffreyw  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:35:07am

re: #181 b.d. (bill d.)

Deers!! So much for all of those pretty flowers.

It was hard to keep from typing “Good morning, deer!”

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darthstar  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:35:56am

Jared’s got this, I know…

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Skip Intro  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:36:50am

In a previous thread I asked if anyone knew how many times Jared Kushner had amended his government financial forms. If anyone is interested the answer is 39 times (to date).

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darthstar  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:36:54am

re: #179 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Mmm…venison.

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Skip Intro  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:37:35am

re: #196 darthstar

Jared’s got this, I know…

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Jared doesn’t work Saturdays.

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darthstar  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:37:39am

re: #197 Skip Intro

In a previous thread I asked if anyone knew how many times Jared Kushner had amended his government financial forms. If anyone is interested the answer is 39 times (to date).

He’s not only a fucking liar, he’s a shitty liar.

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darthstar  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:39:08am

re: #197 Skip Intro

In a previous thread I asked if anyone knew how many times Jared Kushner had amended his government financial forms. If anyone is interested the answer is 39 times (to date).

Dear god, Mueller is going to have a field day with Jared.

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darthstar  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:40:21am
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darthstar  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:47:44am

Note: can’t be unseen.
:)

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:51:36am
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darthstar  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:51:44am
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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:52:40am

re: #196 darthstar

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jaunte  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:57:39am
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PhillyPretzel  Jul 22, 2017 • 6:59:27am

re: #207 jaunte

Because you (the uncouth one, that is) are going to need one.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:02:10am

re: #197 Skip Intro

In a previous thread I asked if anyone knew how many times Jared Kushner had amended his government financial forms. If anyone is interested the answer is 39 times (to date).

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jaunte  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:02:21am

Texas conservatives’ war on women continues without a weekend pause.

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darthstar  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:05:49am
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William Lewis  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:06:05am

re: #196 darthstar

Jared’s got this, I know…

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Where’s the president? Pissing his pants over the Special Prosecutor. He could care less about the people trying to live & avoid dying in Israel or the West Bank. I just wish fewer, either in the US or the Middle East or anywhere else in the world, had to pay the price of that incompetent SOB’s election.

Kyrie eleison

Christe eleison

Kyrie eleison

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jaunte  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:07:17am

re: #211 darthstar

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nines09  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:09:11am

For those interested Senator Bob Casey who is a staunch defender of the ACA will speak at a Town Hall in Erie Pennsylvania NOW
Here is the live feed.

Live Feed Bob Casey Town Hall Erie Pa

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William Lewis  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:13:36am

re: #199 Skip Intro

Jared doesn’t work Saturdays.

Please be cautious with these kind of comments. It’s too easy for them to slide into an antisemitism that that would denigrate the faith of people like our own “Viscous Babushka.” His twisting of the faith of his ancestors (especially if he really believes he is NOT doing so) is not representative of, for example, that of the vast majority of orthodox Jews. Christians have spent 2000 years sinning in this way; those of you who wish to split from us need to avoid this sin as well.

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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:15:56am

re: #209 goddamnedfrank

When somebody says “what about HRC” to me I say “what about Dewey?” He is just as relevant to the discussion after all.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:18:00am

re: #217 Unshaken Defiance

The uncouth one likes to pull out as many red herrings as possible. Baffle them with a lot of BS.

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:20:06am
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Botsplainer  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:20:30am

re: #216 William Lewis

Please be cautious with these kind of comments. It’s too easy for them to slide into an antisemitism that that would denigrate the faith of people like our own “Viscous Babushka.” His twisting of the faith of his ancestors (especially if he really believes he is NOT doing so) is not representative of, for example, that of the vast majority of orthodox Jews. Christians have spent 2000 years sinning in this way; those of you who wish to split from us need to avoid this sin as well.

It’s in the nature of mocking his hypocrisy and fair game.

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JordanRules  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:24:09am

re: #216 William Lewis

Calling out pre-sins?

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JordanRules  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:28:19am
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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:28:52am

re: #221 JordanRules

re: #220 Botsplainer

To me the point William makes is some jokes like that can really backfire. There is good reason certain insults are not allowed here, we hope to not add to the list whilst maintaining our sharp wits and remarks.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:30:08am

re: #216 William Lewis

Please be cautious with these kind of comments. It’s too easy for them to slide into an anti-antisemitism that that would denigrate the faith of people like our own “Viscous Babushka.” His twisting of the faith of his ancestors (especially if he really believes he is NOT doing so) is not representative of, for example, that of the vast majority of orthodox Jews. Christians have spent 2000 years sinning in this way; those of you who wish to split from us need to avoid this sin as well.

I see your point but A.) People are dying so the shabbos exception of preserving life applies and B.) he’s been assigned by his father in law the President as the person who is going to solve the Palestinian Israel conflict. I read it as calling out his established hypocrisy of breaking the rule whenever it’s politically expedient to fly or campaign while probably not working the phones today when it might actually conceivably save a life.

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Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:30:19am

re: #203 darthstar

Note: can’t be unseen.
:)

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Sorry, but downding for the transgender nonsense. It’s insulting to transgender folks everywhere to have to deal with the real life things they have to deal with without people using Coulter as a transgender joke.

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William Lewis  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:30:33am

re: #220 Botsplainer

It’s in the nature of mocking his hypocrisy and fair game.

I do not agree. Too many have died from westerners “mocking the hypocrisy” (or so they claim based on the Christian Bible) of the Jews. It is time we all stopped doing so.

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William Lewis  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:33:18am

re: #224 goddamnedfrank

I see your point but A.) People are dying so the shabbos exception of preserving life applies and B.) he’s been assigned by his father in law the President as the person who is going to solve the Palestinian Israel conflict. I read it as calling out his established hypocrisy of breaking the rule whenever it’s politically expedient to fly or campaign while probably not working the phones today when it might actually conceivably save a life.

Now this I may not fully agree with but we are discussing the issue on the same level. This is not a disparagement of either the faith of one side or the other. From here we can sit down an have an important and real discussion. Thank you, GDF, for understanding that.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:34:14am

re: #196 darthstar

Jared’s got this, I know…

Joyce Karam ✔ @Joyce_Karam
As Jerusalem erupts, not one phone 📞 from Tillerson to Palestine, Israel or Jordan leaders. Stunning


5:43 PM - 21 Jul 2017
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Neither Israel nor the Palestinians have oil. So why would Tillerson care?

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William Lewis  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:34:41am

I need something joyful… perhaps this will do…?

Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing (Alchemy Live)

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ObserverArt  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:35:30am

re: #163 Dr Lizardo

McConnell’s probably torn between trying to fix it and ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I wonder if he purposely wrote it with the errors to tank it.

It really does seem the healthcare bill by the Republicans has turned nuclear on them and they don’t want to touch it. But they made so much about it they have to touch it.

So, Mitch goes off into his own secret little room and conjures up a bill that may just blow itself to pieces before Mitch ever has to do anything further with it like put it up for a vote.

They may also be counting on Trump noise getting so high they can slowly put healthcare out of their agenda and claim the country has much more dire needs right now and they will repair the ACA for now and get back to a new bill later which never comes.

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:35:45am

I don’t know about y’all, but, this doesn’t grab me as a winning strategy.
Already primarying the other sitting GOP senator from AZ, this won’t win over anyone with a hint of empathy.
Hell, what should her patients make of her? Essentially attacking McCain just days after the diagnosis.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:41:47am

re: #231 FormerDirtDart

I don’t know about y’all, but, this doesn’t grab me as a winning strategy.
Already primarying the other sitting GOP senator from AZ, this won’t win over anyone with a hint of empathy.
Hell, what should her patients make of her? Essentially attacking McCain just days after the diagnosis.

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She’s obviously a Soros plant.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:48:28am

re: #231 FormerDirtDart

I don’t know about y’all, but, this doesn’t grab me as a winning strategy.
Already primarying the other sitting GOP senator from AZ, this won’t win over anyone with a hint of empathy.
Hell, what should her patients make of her? Essentially attacking McCain just days after the diagnosis.

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Hitler got 30% of the vote in 1932. For the Trumpsters, this is a winning strategy. Replace all Senate Republicans who may be insufficiently loyal to the God Emperor with those who are totally devoted to him.

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ObserverArt  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:48:48am

re: #165 Targetpractice

Scenario 5: Trump fires Mueller, Republicans circle wagons in Congress and defend his actions as being within his powers as president and fend off talk about impeachment. Midterm elections come and while the DNC does well enough to win a thin majority in the Senate, gerrymandering and voter suppression ensure the GOP maintain the House by a thin sliver. 2019 begins with the House GOP setting out their plan for the next two years: Run down the clock. Meet calls for impeachment with “He’ll be gone in two years,” while using the time on the clock to pass partisan bills they know won’t pass in the Senate but will help boost their support amongst their base. Trump’s presidency basically becomes a hollow shell of itself, with nobody taking the man seriously and everybody counting the days until 2021 when whoever the DNC runs against him takes office.

That scenario actually has some tinges of positive optimistic outcomes in it. At least the Republicans aren’t taking over the entire government forever and we’re all gonna die. That is a good thing!

But I think it still gives the Republicans too much power. The people are still angry and don’t really know who to take it out on. They really didn’t like the usual Republicans look how Trump walked all over them. Usually that much unrest manifests itself into a “throw all the bums out” kind of scenario that opens up the playing floor even with gerrymandering and voter suppression.

Add in an 11% Congressional Approval rating and 2018 is still open for the Dems to get a majority. It’s volatile out there. I think it is not always good to look at all of this from the politicians and their political party. It still comes down to the people and they are a wild…wild card.

The Democrats need some coordinated and very creative marketing strategy based on the Republicans putting Trump into the presidency and protecting him all the while doing nothing for the people.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:50:42am

I just found this - Three The Hard Way. This is my fave of the blaxploitation genre. And it has no one less that Jay ‘Dr. Shrinker’ Robinson as the genocidal, white supremacist villain.

In spoiler tags, as it’s mildly NSFW.

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jaunte  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:51:04am
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darthstar  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:51:12am
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ObserverArt  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:52:20am

re: #177 b.d. (bill d.)

LOL Trumpie. OJ getting out of prison got less than a day’s outrage but you keep trying to get people pissed at Hillary.

Good luck, Americans don’t care about folks who are old news at all.

He is trying to campaign his way out. But he only knows how to run a hate on Hillary campaign. It’s a loser like he is a loser.

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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:53:32am

Changeup-So thanks to LWC, we are going top see Chris Nolans Dunkirk tomorrow. He found the one theater near us that is actually projecting in 70mm film. CNN has a great article on why that is a better way to see a grand spectacle film. IMO better picture than digital and a very wide format that complements rather than tries to limit your eyes looking around on the screen. Room to compose a far better scene. Sadly CNN also has that page all gummed up with autoplay video that like to jump in the way in an extra annoying way.
So…

David Schwartz, chief curator of New York’s Museum of the Moving Image, explained that before digital projection, films were typically shot on 35mm film. 70mm was another option that was twice as big. Since the size of the film was bigger, it changed the look and experience for moviegoers.
“You get a much bigger image, you get more detail, you get more light going through the film from the projector,” Schwartz said. “You basically get a much brighter more vivid image.”
The format came to prominence in feature films during the 1950’s and 1960’s when filmmakers used it to create epics like “Lawrence of Arabia” that felt bigger than the screen itself. Then with the rise of smaller multiplexes, changing tastes, and 70mm being expensive to both print and project, it fell out of vogue.
The medium has since staged a brief comeback thanks to big-time directors like Quentin Tarantino, who used it to film 2015’s “The Hateful Eight.” Now, “Dunkirk” looks to continue the tradition.

But if you like WW2 films, Dunkirk is going to play well for you regardless of your theater. They had me at “it has Spitfires flying in it”.

Dunkirk - Trailer 1 [HD]

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TedStriker  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:53:42am

re: #237 darthstar

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darthstar  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:54:38am

re: #237 darthstar

This is an Indian publication. My guess is the copy editor is someone in his/her 20s who was too young to have that image forever imprinted on their memory and just thought it was a shot of factory smokestacks.

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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:57:02am

re: #240 TedStriker

re: #237 darthstar

Wait, what the…?

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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:58:11am

re: #241 darthstar

Someone better get fired.

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Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch  Jul 22, 2017 • 7:59:32am

re: #241 darthstar

This is an Indian publication. My guess is the copy editor is someone in his/her 20s who was too young to have that image forever imprinted on their memory and just thought it was a shot of factory smokestacks.

Not buying it. I just did a google image search for “smoke stacks,” “toxic emissions,” “pollution,” and the Twin Towers weren’t there.

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ObserverArt  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:00:15am

re: #209 goddamnedfrank

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DamnedFrank…I seriously hope you are writing the next great dystopian novel/movie script. I’d pay.

Edit to add. Maybe a new classification: dystopian comedy.

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freetoken  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:02:30am

re: #231 FormerDirtDart

From her website:

Senator Flake has failed to deliver during his decades in DC - he is simply too weak to fight for Arizona. Over the course of this campaign, we will show the stark difference between our philosophies and our track records. A glaring example of our differences is that while millions of us fought to stop Hillary Clinton and elect President Trump in 2016, Senator Flake supported the Clinton crime family by being a vocal member of NeverTrump and casting his ballot for Evan McMullin.

I think she got the wrong family for “crime family”.

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ObserverArt  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:03:32am

re: #217 Unshaken Defiance

When somebody says “what about HRC” to me I say “what about Dewey?” He is just as relevant to the discussion after all.

Hillary is still alive and she has puppet strings.

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darthstar  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:03:51am
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makeitstop  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:07:49am

A year ago today, Hillary Clinton named Tim Kaine as her running mate.

Today, we have a press secretary named Mooch.

I’m goin’ back to bed.

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dell*nix  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:07:56am

re: #143 JordanRules

It’s 1910 again. Like the tweet said, let her enjoy swimming however she is comfortable.

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:08:46am
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Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:11:31am

re: #251 dell*nix

It’s 1910 again. Like the tweet said, let her enjoy swimming however she is comfortable.

I’ve gotten so many awful sunburns as a child and adult, and now that I know skin cancer (melanomas) run in my family, I cover up when I’m in the sun, even in Las Vegas. Long sleeves, long pants, hat, sunscreen. I’ve told my kids that I’d wear a burqini. It would cover everything, including my scalp. I’m not really into getting into pools or going to the beach so I don’t really worry about swimwear for me.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:17:27am

re: #251 dell*nix

It’s 1910 again. Like the tweet said, let her enjoy swimming however she is comfortable.

Exactly. She’s not bothering anyone. If that’s how she wants to swim and sunbathe, who are you to get in the way?

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JordanRules  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:18:10am
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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:19:23am

re: #247 ObserverArt

Hillary is still alive and she has puppet strings.

Heh, ready for that. “just Google the damage done by Dewey in the ensuing years”. Then “your fears about an HRC admin are 100% imaginary thanks to the EC. My fears about Trump are founded by his statements, his actions, court rulings and growing evidence. How much further would you like to discuss this?” I think I will make a card that shows the current line of succession. Headline it Find Hillary!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:21:16am

re: #213 jaunte

Scaramuccia (literally “little skirmisher”), also known as Scaramouche, is a stock clown character of the Italian commedia dell’arte.

can he do the fandango?

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MsJ  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:22:35am

re: #166 John Carter

A recession and stock market crash.

The US is still big enough that it’s wouldn’t just be a US recession. It would be global.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:23:21am

re: #239 Unshaken Defiance

But if you like WW2 films, Dunkirk is going to play well for you regardless of your theater. They had me at “it has Spitfires flying in it”.

will be taking 11-year-old son to see it…

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freetoken  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:26:35am

re: #258 MsJ

Trumpers are, and have been since Obama first won, in full on hate mode. Trump knew that, he exploited that. Trumpers are for the most part not reachable.

There are, or were, long time Republicans who despise Trump and will be glad to see him go. A few are on my Facebook timeline.

But that hard-core, the Trumpers - they are in a mental state from which we should not expect them to escape. We will have them all our lives. Many are hangovers from George Wallace. Others are younger and have inherited the hate.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:27:44am

re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

will be taking 11-year-old son to see it…

Yeah, I’ve read almost universally rave reviews. The trailer alone was absolutely epic.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:29:17am

re: #260 freetoken

Trumpers are, and have been since Obama first won, in full on hate mode. Trump knew that, he exploited that. Trumpers are for the most part not reachable.

There are, or were, long time Republicans who despise Trump and will be glad to see him go. A few are on my Facebook timeline.

But that hard-core, the Trumpers - they are in a mental state from which we should not expect them to escape. We will have them all our lives. Many are hangovers from George Wallace. Others are younger and have inherited the hate.

That segment of the population is pretty much a hopeless case. I’m inclined to write them off as irredeemable.

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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:31:09am

re: #143 JordanRules

You guys will get this, not sure how the hashtag will play on Twitter.

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austin_blue  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:31:43am

re: #231 FormerDirtDart

I don’t know about y’all, but, this doesn’t grab me as a winning strategy.
Already primarying the other sitting GOP senator from AZ, this won’t win over anyone with a hint of empathy.
Hell, what should her patients make of her? Essentially attacking McCain just days after the diagnosis.

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It’s just flat-out ghoulish. Political vampirism.

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freetoken  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:33:47am

The important lesson is that many Wallace supporters never changed their mind. Many have simply died off, others remain.

This happens throughout the world, throughout the history of our species. The world changes mostly because the former generation dies off.

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makeitstop  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:35:27am

re: #264 austin_blue

It’s just flat-out ghoulish. Political vampirism.

It does set a new standard for political opportunism, doesn’t it?

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retired cynic  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:35:27am

re: #265 freetoken

The important lesson is that many Wallace supporters never changed their mind. Many have simply died off, others remain.

This happens throughout the world, throughout the history of our species. The world changes mostly because the former generation dies off.

The truly ghastly ones, the “fuck your feelings” ones, were always there. We just didn’t have them in our face the way they are now.

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:37:31am
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PhillyPretzel  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:38:53am

re: #268 FormerDirtDart

It is a waste of good paper and ink.

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JordanRules  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:49:41am

Wow.

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Skip Intro  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:50:51am

re: #249 darthstar

The GOP will appprove any piece of shit Trump nominates. Lumpy, David Duke, Alex Jones, anybody for any position. That’s reality.

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dangerman  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:54:50am

re: #270 JordanRules

Wow.

[Embedded content]

so *literally* we must now ask can a president pardon himself for crimes he committed to illegally attain the office?

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Botsplainer  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:55:55am

Abraham Lincoln: “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

Franklin Roosevelt: “Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.”

Dwight Eisenhower: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.”

Ronald Reagan: “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”

George W. Bush: “As I begin, I thank President Clinton for his service to our Nation, and I thank Vice President Gore for a contest conducted with spirit and ended with grace.
I am honored and humbled to stand here where so many of America’s leaders have come before me, and so many will follow. We have a place, all of us, in a long story, a story we continue but whose end we will not see. It is a story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, the story of a slaveholding society that became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer.”

Donald J. Trump: “While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us.FAKE NEWS”

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Skip Intro  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:58:24am

re: #272 dangerman

so *literally* we must now ask can a president pardon himself for crimes he committed to illegally attain the office?

Never really an issue until the most completely corrupt man in US political history was elected president.

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dangerman  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:58:58am

and further, for all the strict constructionists (ie no “separation of church and state”)

no, the constitution doesn’t explicitly say you can’t pardon yourself for illegally usurping the office from the rightful winner.

Does it really need to?
and are people really going to argue this?

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Lupin  Jul 22, 2017 • 8:59:20am

I thought (& have said) before that the US would sink to the level of Brazil. I was wrong. Brazil is proving more ethical.

bbc

I think you’re now approaching the level of corruption of the Philippines.

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dangerman  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:00:40am

re: #274 Skip Intro

Never really an issue until the most completely corrupt man in US political history was elected president.

…..while at the same time the congress sits idly by watching…

that’s the point most of this was never an issue because more or less everyone accepted the conventions, protocols, traditions and acted accordingly

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Skip Intro  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:01:04am

re: #275 dangerman

People won’t. Fox will, talk radio will, and certainly the president and his eunuchs will.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:01:16am

re: #268 FormerDirtDart

See, I figure that if Trump pardons himself, it’ll end up in front of the SCOTUS but that doesn’t mean Trump’s in the clear. If he pardons himself, which, after all, means admitting to a crime, NY AG Schneiderman’s office can most likely use that as evidence in their separate RICO case.

Trump can’t pardon for state crimes and it takes an admission of guilt for a pardon to take effect: Simply put, Trump hangs himself on RICO.

And he’s just dumb enough to do it, too.

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:01:25am
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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:02:15am

re: #255 JordanRules

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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:04:41am

re: #273 Botsplainer

If you Page that we can Tweet it out there.

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dangerman  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:05:03am

re: #279 Dr Lizardo

See, I figure that if Trump pardons himself, it’ll end up in front of the SCOTUS but that doesn’t mean Trump’s in the clear. If he pardons himself, which, after all, means admitting to a crime, NY AG Schneiderman’s office can most likely use that as evidence in their separate RICO case.

Trump can’t pardon for state crimes and it takes an admission of guilt for a pardon to take effect: Simply put, Trump hangs himself on RICO.

And he’s just dumb enough to do it, too.

and if he did pardon himself and the others, how does the “you cant profit from your crimes fit in?

pardon means you did the crime. how do you keep the job you illegally got? what about all the salary you got in that job you illegally got

what about all the side emoluments you generated - controversial or not they are direct result of your illegally gotten the office.

what a shit show

and here we are having to parse these thing seriously

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:05:07am

re: #274 Skip Intro

Never really an issue until the most completely corrupt man in US political history was elected president.

Reality TV and Real Estate Empires did not exist at the time of the Founding Fathers, and neither could they have conceived of them even in their wildest fever dreams…

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:06:06am

re: #283 dangerman

and if he did pardon himself and the others, how does the “you cant profit from your crimes fit in?

pardon means you did the crime. how do you keep the job you illegally got? what about all the salary you got in that job you illegally got

what about all the side emoluments you generated - controversial or not they are direct result of your illegally gotten the office.

what a shit show

and here we are having to parse these thing seriously

I figure the whole enchilada is gonna end up in front of the SCOTUS. This is truly terra incognita.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:07:15am

re: #285 Dr Lizardo

I figure the whole enchilada is gonna end up in front of the SCOTUS. This is truly terra incognita.

Which is another reason the GOP want to wait until the SCOTUS is stacked in favor of Trump…

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JordanRules  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:08:13am

re: #283 dangerman

Right. What about your SCOTUS appointment in the job you illegally got? And he gets to hear the cases about it?
Damn my head hurts.

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dangerman  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:08:22am

re: #284 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Reality TV and Real Estate Empires did not exist at the time of the Founding Fathers, and neither could they have conceived of them even in their wildest fever dreams…

that of course is true.
simpler though is what i said above, did they really need to spell out in the constitution “no, you can’t pardon yourself if you gain the office by stealing the election”?

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JordanRules  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:10:18am

re: #281 Unshaken Defiance

All banners should be beautiful enough to wear!

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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:11:01am

Goes like this-Trump self pardons, SCOTUS says no, Trump goes to jail, we all win. Or else. He self pardons, tries to stay in power and a real fight begins. I don’t mean on paper.

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dangerman  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:11:36am

re: #287 JordanRules

Right. What about your SCOTUS appointment in the job you illegally got? And he gets to hear the cases about it?
Damn my head hurts.

wow
even better! sort of
i hadnt even thought of that - *literally* every action comes into question

i’m going outside to pull some weeds. its only 93 here and should make my head hurt less

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Skip Intro  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:21:26am

Kim Davis’s Anti-Gay Views Are Going To Cost Her State Big Time

$222,695 to be exact, in legal fees to attorneys of four couples denied marriage licenses by Davis.

huffingtonpost.com

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HappyWarrior  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:31:16am

re: #292 Skip Intro

Kim Davis’s Anti-Gay Views Are Going To Cost Her State Big Time

$222,695 to be exact, in legal fees to attorneys of four copies denied marriage licenses by Davis.

huffingtonpost.com

Hope it was worth it, Kim.

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Skip Intro  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:34:15am

re: #293 HappyWarrior

Hope it was worth it, Kim.

It’s not costing her a dime. The state has to pay.

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Skip Intro  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:37:56am

This made my day after recalling my school years trying to decipher his horrible prose.

Happy Birthday, Henry Thoreau, you gassy old crank

Over at the New York Times, historian Douglas Brinkley argues that Thoreau, who died in 1862, influenced the creation of our national parks. Thoreau certainly was an inspiration for Smokey the Bear. His neighbors called Thoreau “the woods burner” for setting fire to 300 acres of local woodlands, almost eradicating Concord in the process.

Here is Thoreau’s classic, unrepentant response: “I have set fire to the forest, but I have done no wrong therein … it was a glorious spectacle, and I was the only one there to enjoy it.”

Pyromaniac, prude, hypocrite, layabout, mooch, scold, a graphomanic overwriter of densely forested, unreadable prose; Happy Birthday, Henry! Did I leave anything out?

bostonglobe.com

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Fineday  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:39:40am

I don’t know if anybody has mentioned this yet, but the terror attack in Oslo and the massacre at Utøya where 77 people were murdered happened six years ago today.

I am an atheist and I do not believe in Hell, but I do hope that Anders Behring Breivik is left to die in prison.

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Ace-o-aces  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:39:41am

The quote is from John Updike. John Updike doesn’t understand how women pee.

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dangerman  Jul 22, 2017 • 9:43:08am

re: #295 Skip Intro

This made my day after recalling my school years trying to decipher his horrible prose.

Happy Birthday, Henry Thoreau, you gassy old crank

bostonglobe.com

read walden as a teen. this paragraph knocked me senseless and set the tone for the rest of my life (so far):

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.

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Skip Intro  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:04:08am

Trump Pre-Pardons Himself for Pardoning Himself for Things He Said He Didn’t Do

politicalgarbagechute.com

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:07:58am

re: #299 Skip Intro

Of course. How else can he make america great again?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:09:11am

re: #297 Ace-o-aces

[Embedded content]

The quote is from John Updike. John Updike doesn’t understand how women pee.

John Updike doesn’t understand anatomy. The route from bladder to outside in women is direct and short, whereas in men it meanders down, and back, through the prostate and then back up through the Thingie before finally reaching the outside world. There are lots and lots of pictures of this.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:20:41am

Click through and read the threads. I found this a thought-provoking read,

Especially the thread that starts here,

It occurs to me that the 60% of America that opposes Trump’s lawlessness may need to work together, perhaps on a permanent basis, to counter the 40% that specifically wants that lawlessness. If Trump is impeached and removed, that 40% are favorably placed geographically to give them outsized power in our system.

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jaunte  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:20:56am

re: #301 Blind Frog Belly White

”..their insides weren’t the maze women’s were…”

Updike reveals his fear of women.

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MsJ  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:23:20am

re: #265 freetoken

The important lesson is that many Wallace supporters never changed their mind. Many have simply died off, others remain.

This happens throughout the world, throughout the history of our species. The world changes mostly because the former generation dies off.

And also when insulated populations expand their horizons; when they escape their insular worlds. That why Republicans hate college.

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jaunte  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:25:22am
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Romantic Heretic  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:26:10am

re: #199 Skip Intro

It never even occurred to me that this could be anti-semitic because the fact that Kushner is Jewish didn’t get called up from the depths of my memory when I read this..

I thought Skip was referring to the fact that Kushner, like his in-laws, are just lazy fucks who are not the least bit concerned with discharging their responsibilities because responsibility is something ‘The Help’ does.

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A hollow voice says, Covfefe.  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:29:56am

re: #301 Blind Frog Belly White

back up through the Thingie

I am always lost in wonder and admiration when I encounter genuine scientific terminology.

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MsJ  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:30:07am

re: #287 JordanRules

Right. What about your SCOTUS appointment in the job you illegally got? And he gets to hear the cases about it?
Damn my head hurts.

Democrats would have to demand recusal. A little promise of allowing that asshole to keep his lifetime appointment should do it.

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MsJ  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:31:11am

re: #294 Skip Intro

It’s not costing her a dime. The state has to pay.

The people of Kentucky have to pay.

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Skip Intro  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:31:38am

re: #306 Romantic Heretic

That was my point. As far as I can tell the only thing Kushner does is give his father in law really bad advice.

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Skip Intro  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:34:37am

re: #309 MsJ

The people of Kentucky have to pay.

They must be loaded since they have plenty of money to give Ken Ham for his religious businesses.

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No Depression  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:37:35am

re: #252 FormerDirtDart

[Embedded content]

“Fuck Tucker! Tucker sucks!”

-George Carlin

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:39:55am

re: #311 Skip Intro

Scam is more appropriate when it comes to that Pulpit Pimp!

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darthstar  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:41:49am
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Romantic Heretic  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:44:37am

re: #239 Unshaken Defiance

Man, does that Buchon ever look like an Emil.

And the Spitfire is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful planes to ever take to the sky.

Coincidentally I am now reading Len Deighton’s Fighter which is about the Battle of Britain. I just read about the development of the Spit and what an advanced design it was. The wing was especially well done.

Now I’m going to rant a little about Hugh Dowding. The man spent the decade before the battle preparing for it. He nursed the planes, the radar and the control system into being. He commanded them in the battle, and he won it.

The British government thanked him by firing him and sending him to America to buy aircraft. Assholes.

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wrenchwench  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:47:50am

re: #314 darthstar

[This amazing @TX21Indivisible member WORE THIS BANNER AS A SARI to smuggle it into the Texas Capitol]

Sari Not Sari Nor Sorry.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:48:10am

Zeena The Worrier Princess so worships the ground Mrs. FBW walks on that when Mrs. FBW goes out, Zeena will often lie on the rug by the front door, whimpering piteously. At times like that, she can only be distracted by scritches, treats, and walkies.

Zeena also tells Mrs. FBW when it’s time to retire for the evening, standing in front of her barking till she gets up and goes to bed.

It’s one of the clearest examples of a dog choosing her human I’ve ever seen.

Of course, when we got her, Zeena was supposed to be MY dog.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 22, 2017 • 10:50:56am

re: #315 Romantic Heretic

Now I’m going to rant a little about Hugh Dowding. The man spent the decade before the battle preparing for it. He nursed the planes, the radar and the control system into being. He commanded them in the battle, and he won it.

The British government thanked him by firing him and sending him to America to buy aircraft. Assholes.

Had it been up to others, Britain would have squandered its air defenses to fight a losing Battle for France and been left without anything to stop the Luftwaffe blitz.

Other joke was that France actually had more fighter aircraft at the end of the Battle of France then when thy started, but most of them had been moved to airbases far away from the fighting, ostensibly to keep them safe from the Luftwaffe…

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makeitstop  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:00:42am

re: #317 Blind Frog Belly White

Zeena also tells Mrs. FBW when it’s time to retire for the evening, standing in front of her barking till she gets up and goes to bed.

Scout does that with us! Every weeknight at 10:30, he’ll stand in front of us and fidget and narf until we take the hint and turn off the TV and go to bed.

If we’re watching something that we want to see the end of, he’ll eventually just give up, go upstairs to the bedroom, jump on the bed and take up every square inch he can so we have to wake him up when we finally get our Dirty Stay-Up asses to bed.

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jaunte  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:00:56am
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jaunte  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:01:24am

“Past views” from 2015.

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makeitstop  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:03:48am

re: #320 jaunte

I serve @POTUS agenda & that’s all that matters

Sweet Jesus, this punk can smooch butt with the best of them.

Reason #1 Trump hired him. He probably went all Trashcan Man in his interview, which is the surest way to Trump’s tiny, cold heart.

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ObserverArt  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:04:04am

re: #321 jaunte

“Past views” from 2015.

He’s a slick one. No compunction…no hesitation. Might have been trained by Lucifer himself.

Kellyanne is a rank amateur by comparison.

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jaunte  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:05:27am
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Ace-o-aces  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:06:07am
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wrenchwench  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:06:28am

re: #323 ObserverArt

He’s a slick one. No compunction…no hesitation. Might have been trained by Lucifer himself.

Kellyanne is a rank amateur by comparison.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:10:09am

So Hillary was engaging in “full transparency” by deleting old e-mails that were irrelevant and represented views she no longer held?

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prairiefire  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:12:07am

Ordering pizza at Pizzaria Uno in Chicago. My son saw another table’s pizza and exclaimed “it has no cheese!!!”. I told him it was under the sauce.

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jaunte  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:13:21am

Scaramucci sets fire to whatever shreds of a mask of false integrity he might have maintained. And he’s considered the “slick” one.

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BigPapa  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:13:29am

re: #328 prairiefire

Ordering pizza at Pizzaria Uno in Chicago. My son saw another table’s pizza and exclaimed “it has no cheese!!!”. I told him it was under the sauce.

That’s where the pineapple is hidden.

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terraincognita  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:13:49am

re: #325 Ace-o-aces

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” (Orwell, 1984)

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Semper Fi  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:14:33am

re: #328 prairiefire

Ordering pizza at Pizzaria Uno in Chicago. My son saw another table’s pizza and exclaimed “it has no cheese!!!”. I told him it was under the sauce.

AH! but was the bottom crust thin and slightly crispy? (The way I like it)

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:16:22am

re: #320 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Full transparency - I handed my testicles to the President during the interview, and he took them and put them in a little box he keeps in the drawer of his desk.

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prairiefire  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:16:57am

re: #330 BigPapa

Lol

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prairiefire  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:17:52am

re: #332 Semper Fi

Yep, it’s tasty.

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dangerman  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:18:09am

re: #320 jaunte

[Embedded content]

“I have no thoughts of my own”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:19:30am

Question for Scaramucci - Is the carpet in the Oval Office easy on the knees?

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jaunte  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:20:13am

I wonder if Scaramucci was promised part of the American loot or part of the Russian loot.

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prairiefire  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:21:51am

“Can you do the fangdando?” Sorry, can’t help myself.

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BigPapa  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:23:36am

Scarab deletes his old tweets so he doesn’t have to explain his evolution.

As somebody who’s gone through somewhat of an evolution, this does not engender trust, it destroys it. Being able to explain one’s personal change and evolution is an opportunity, not an exposure. This guy doesn’t want the distraction from his job as Chief Bullshit Artist.

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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:23:59am

re: #339 prairiefire

“Can you do the fangdando?”

They did set a devil aside for him.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:24:23am

Poor Mrs. FBW! This morning she comes over to me, points to her eye, and asks “Does this look like allergies? Or Pink Eye?”

Her right eye appeared to be made of very lean bacon. Her left eye just looked like an eye.

So, now she’s sitting at Urgent Care. Ever notice that these things only happen after 5 on Fridays?

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Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:25:39am

re: #317 Blind Frog Belly White

Zeena The Worrier Princess so worships the ground Mrs. FBW walks on that when Mrs. FBW goes out, Zeena will often lie on the rug by the front door, whimpering piteously. At times like that, she can only be distracted by scritches, treats, and walkies.

Zeena also tells Mrs. FBW when it’s time to retire for the evening, standing in front of her barking till she gets up and goes to bed.

It’s one of the clearest examples of a dog choosing her human I’ve ever seen.

Of course, when we got her, Zeena was supposed to be MY dog.

Same thing in my house except it’s my dog who waits for me and looks for me when I’m not here, waiting in front of the door into the garage during the day when I’m out of town. She was NOT supposed to be my dog. I had no choice in the matter. She definitely chose me.

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prairiefire  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:25:39am

re: #342 Blind Frog Belly White

Tobarex clears that right up.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:27:23am

On my FB feed this morning, there’s an ad from Power Tap, which makes power output sensors for cycling. It said,

Affordable and Accurate Power Measurement at the Pedals.

I click on the link. It’s for power-sensor pedals. $700 a pair.

They got a funny idea of ‘affordable’.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:28:17am
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dangerman  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:28:52am

re: #342 Blind Frog Belly White

Poor Mrs. FBW! This morning she comes over to me, points to her eye, and asks “Does this look like allergies? Or Pink Eye?”

Her right eye appeared to be made of very lean bacon. Her left eye just looked like an eye.

So, now she’s sitting at Urgent Care. Ever notice that these things only happen after 5 on Fridays?

Be sure to spend lots of time comparison shopping for the best price and service before you commit to anything.

Free markets!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:30:07am

re: #330 BigPapa

That’s where the pineapple is hidden.

juiced and in the sauce

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sagehen  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:31:02am

re: #315 Romantic Heretic

Now I’m going to rant a little about Hugh Dowding. The man spent the decade before the battle preparing for it. He nursed the planes, the radar and the control system into being. He commanded them in the battle, and he won it.

The British government thanked him by firing him and sending him to America to buy aircraft. Assholes.

Which is still nowhere near as awful as what they did to Alan Turing. His work shortened the war by 2 years, saved tens of millions of lives, he deserved every medal and honor ever. And they drove him to suicide.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:31:33am

re: #347 dangerman

Be sure to spend lots of time comparison shopping for the best price and service before you commit to anything.

Free markets!

Ah, you sound like you read JD Vance’s thing this morning on Conservative ideas for healthcare!

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Varek Raith  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:32:10am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:33:16am

re: #350 Blind Frog Belly White

From Vance’s column…

This scenario is a simplistic version of how many conservatives view the health care market. According to them, there was a time when the market worked reasonably well: Providers competed to offer quality services and consumers shopped around, curbing prices. Then the government, with its mandates and subsidies and regulations, wounded the market, driving up costs and decreasing quality.

And oddly enough, there’s no indication he realized this was a joke when he wrote it.

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makeitstop  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:33:20am

re: #339 prairiefire

“Can you do the fangdando?” Sorry, can’t help myself.

[pedant/lyrics cop]

Everyone is quoting this lyric. Incorrectly.

Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fandango

[/pedant/lyrics cop]

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:34:37am

re: #353 makeitstop

[pedant/lyrics cop]

Everyone is quoting this lyric. Incorrectly.

[/[edant/lyrics cop]

The pedant in me is making me point out you mistyped ‘pedant’ when you closed your tags.

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jaunte  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:35:51am

Recursive pedantree.

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jaunte  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:36:04am
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makeitstop  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:36:40am

re: #354 Blind Frog Belly White

The pedant in me is making me point out you mistyped ‘pedant’ when you closed your tags.

Since corrected, young padawan. Refresh, and all will be revealed.

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prairiefire  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:37:06am

re: #353 makeitstop

[pedant/lyrics cop]

Everyone is quoting this lyric. Incorrectly.

[/[edant/lyrics cop]

Thank you, need to get it right for the next several months, maybe less, hopefully, fingers crossed.

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wrenchwench  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:38:00am
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BigPapa  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:38:06am

re: #355 jaunte

Recursive pedantree.

Pedantvfefe

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jaunte  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:38:13am

The fangdango is a dance with wolves.

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Belafon  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:38:31am

Scaramucci will make things worse by sounding slick, and trump won’t understand why people keep talking about Russia.

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makeitstop  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:38:41am

re: #358 prairiefire

Thank you, need to get it right for the next several months, maybe less, hopefully, fingers crossed.

Didn’t mean to point you out specifically. But I read it maybe 20 times yesterday, and it got to the point where I had to look up the lyrics and reassure myself what I wasn’t mis-remembering them.

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BigPapa  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:41:40am

BREAKING: Bannon likes Thai food.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:41:42am

Posted this in another thread, but for a brief, glorious moment this was Scaramucci’s Wiki page:

Anthony Scaramucci (born January 6, 1964) is an American entrepreneur, financier, political figure, and author.[1] In June 2017, he became a senior vice president and chief strategy officer at the U.S. Export-Import Bank[2], and on July 21, 2017, President Donald Trump appointed him the White House Communications Director.[3]

On July 21, 2017 he buried his face deep in Donald Trumps butt. On January 12, 2017, President Donald Trump announced his intent to appoint Scaramucci Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs.[4] Scaramucci’s swearing-in was reportedly delayed by an extended review of his finances by the Office of Government Ethics,[5][6] although the ethics office denied that clearance was necessary before making White House appointments.[7] Ultimately, George Sifakis was appointed instead.[8]

Following the 2016 election, Scaramucci served on the Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee.[9] In 2005, Scaramucci founded global investment firm SkyBridge Capital,[10] serving as co-managing partner before selling the company in early 2017[11] to take a role in the Trump administration.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:44:06am

Just another lazy Saturday morning….

Zeena in Stage 1 Bedfail
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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:45:07am

re: #365 Barefoot Grin

before selling the company in early 2017[11] to take a role in the Trump administration.

Oddly enough, better than his boss in this particular detail. Man bites dog.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:47:14am

re: #366 Blind Frog Belly White

Two things are obvious from this picture. First, we need to get a living room rug into which Rango doesn’t disappear. Second, he appears to have a bullseye marking indicating the location of his heart.

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:50:30am
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jaunte  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:51:25am
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jaunte  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:52:03am
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Interesting Times  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:52:57am

Ha:

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darthstar  Jul 22, 2017 • 11:53:24am
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Stanley Sea  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:01:27pm

Super random, but just saw this gorgeous photo of Ali MacGraw.

78 yo

Damn.

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makeitstop  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:02:41pm

re: #370 jaunte

A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post

Umm…what?

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darthstar  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:04:39pm

re: #374 Stanley Sea

Super random, but just saw this gorgeous photo of Ali MacGraw.

[Embedded content]

Damn.

Loved her in Convoy.

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darthstar  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:05:43pm

re: #376 darthstar

Loved her in Convoy.

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Varek Raith  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:06:04pm

re: #375 makeitstop

Umm…what?

Jeff Bezos owns the WaPo.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:07:27pm

re: #378 Varek Raith

Jeff Bezos owns the WaPo.

Oh! I see! So using that logic, he’s the Kremlin Trump!

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JordanRules  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:08:00pm

re: #374 Stanley Sea

Stunning!

Whoa. Her Wiki page says she’s repped by Trump Model Management. That’s still a thing?

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Stanley Sea  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:09:21pm

re: #380 JordanRules

Stunning!

Whoa. Her Wiki page says she’s repped by Trump Model Management. That’s still a thing?

GAH.

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MsJ  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:11:28pm

re: #374 Stanley Sea

Super random, but just saw this gorgeous photo of Ali MacGraw.

[Embedded content]

Damn.

Wow. Skye looks 45. Maybe 50. Holy cow.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:11:47pm

Do I dare?

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A hollow voice says, Covfefe.  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:12:05pm

re: #368 Blind Frog Belly White

Two things are obvious from this picture. First, we need to get a living room rug into which Rango doesn’t disappear. Second, he appears to have a bullseye marking indicating the location of his heart.

I think the sleeping stuffed animals add the perfect touch.

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Varek Raith  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:12:07pm

re: #380 JordanRules

Stunning!

Whoa. Her Wiki page says she’s repped by Trump Model Management. That’s still a thing?

businessinsider.com

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MsJ  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:12:23pm

re: #375 makeitstop

Umm…what?

His idea of a witty dig. Like lying Ted or crooked Hillary. More stupid from Trump.

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makeitstop  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:15:08pm

re: #378 Varek Raith

Jeff Bezos owns the WaPo.

Oh, right.

Trump probably thinks he delivered a sick burn there.

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JordanRules  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:15:11pm

re: #385 Varek Raith

You can violate the Emoluments clause much better with our core businesses!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:17:54pm

re: #384 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.

I think the sleeping stuffed animals add the perfect touch.

It’s funny - the Greyhounds have never gutted a plushie. Our Golden used to do that within a day of receiving them. Zeena doesn’t play with them so much anymore (not dignified!), but Rango loves to toss them, and go find them and toss them again, though recently he’s been taking them out in the yard when he does Zoomies*. He’ll usually do a lap or two with them in his mouth before he drops them, runs away, runs back and grabs them (repeated multiple times).

*Greyhounds, about once a day, get a wild look in their eye, and go tearing around at full speed for about 2-5 minutes. Rango runs circles around our flowerbed, up to 15 circuits. Then they come in, pant like mad, flop on the floor, and sleep some more. Zeena doesn’t do it anymore (not dignified!)

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BigPapa  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:21:24pm
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FormerDirtDart  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:24:30pm

Still needs to be voted on in the House.

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retired cynic  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:27:16pm

re: #389 Blind Frog Belly White

It’s funny - the Greyhounds have never gutted a plushie. Our Golden used to do that within a day of receiving them. Zeena doesn’t play with them so much anymore (not dignified!), but Rango loves to toss them, and go find them and toss them again, though recently he’s been taking them out in the yard when he does Zoomies*. He’ll usually do a lap or two with them in his mouth before he drops them, runs away, runs back and grabs them (repeated multiple times).

*Greyhounds, about once a day, get a wild look in their eye, and go tearing around at full speed for about 2-5 minutes. Rango runs circles around our flowerbed, up to 15 circuits. Then they come in, pant like mad, flop on the floor, and sleep some more. Zeena doesn’t do it anymore (not dignified!)

We had Salukis. They did the run thing, too. Our farm has a very steep hill a hundred feet tall or more. When you climb it, you put out your hand, and you are touching the hill. Our last Saluki, when he was young, would do loops up and around the hill several times, then come in, take two deep breaths, and be back in calm mode. No panting. What a heart lung machine!

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jaunte  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:27:52pm

re: #389 Blind Frog Belly White

Zoomies*

My blueheeler/pointer mix does the same thing; my wife calls it ‘scootin’.

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darthstar  Jul 22, 2017 • 12:50:39pm

re: #383 Blind Frog Belly White

[Embedded content]

Do I dare?

He’s an Allman Brothers fan.

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stpaulbear  Jul 22, 2017 • 1:39:26pm

re: #370 jaunte

“A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post,this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions.”

Says QVC Donald Trump.


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