Trump to McCain: “At Some Point I Fight Back and It Won’t Be Pretty”

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Just some more vindictive threats from the malignant narcissist squatting in the Oval Office, after John McCain dared to criticize him.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned Sen. John McCain that “I fight back” after McCain questioned “half-baked, spurious nationalism” in America’s foreign policy.

McCain, a former Navy pilot who spent 5½ years in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp and is battling brain cancer, offered a simple response to Trump: “I have faced tougher adversaries.”

Trump said in a radio interview with WMAL in Washington, “I’m being very, very nice but at some point I fight back and it won’t be pretty.”

Here’s what John McCain said to attract the ire of the Orange Oligarch.

“To abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems,” he said, “is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.”

He continued: “We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil.”

“Blood and soil” is an explicit reference to the white supremacist connections of this disreputable, degraded White House.

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127 comments
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The Ghost of a Flea  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:06:44pm

I swear on the bones of this robot, it’s all just a dude using domestic abuse tactics on a national scale.

And it works because there’s a lot of folks who love the idea of arbitrary exercise of power as the “natural” order of things.

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wrenchwench  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:09:05pm
it won’t be pretty

Well selected photo accompaniment.

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JordanRules  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:10:28pm

re: #1 The Ghost of a Flea

I just commented to someone again about how the nation is in a very abusive, unhealthy relationship.

Power dynamics of the deplorables are deplorable.

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Kragar  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:11:23pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:12:13pm
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A Mom Anon  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:13:13pm

I was thinking about the public image the Nazis are using and how it seems to be working. To some degree at least. I can’t believe we still have to fight this shit in 2017, but here we are, baptized in evilstupid.

I live in a house with two men who work and get dirty for a living. Their main piece of work clothing? Khaki pants. Along with long and short sleeve polo style shirts. Look around you at regular working people doing either dirty jobs or service jobs. What are they wearing a lot of the time? That same uniform (though you usually don’t see white shirts, because working hard would trash them). The white shirt seems to be a tribute to the Moron In Chief’s preferred golf attire, but I think that choice of clothing normalizes them. Makes them look like a husband, son or brother, The Nazi Next Door. Perfectly harmless, just MAGA-ing, nothing to see here, just your neighbors being patriotic. Those torches are just to keep the mosquitoes (and in this case flies) away.

I don’t know, am I reaching?

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The Ghost of a Flea  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:15:21pm

re: #3 JordanRules

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:17:06pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:17:22pm

re: #4 Kragar

Wow she looks so old in that photo.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:18:33pm
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lawhawk  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:19:31pm
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JordanRules  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:21:48pm

re: #7 The Ghost of a Flea

Really sad observation from that group. In the broad sense, I too see it everywhere. Very unhappy folks finally found a new drug.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:21:54pm

re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:22:07pm

re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth

Shorter McCain: “Come at me, bro!”

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nines09  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:24:31pm

McCain came back from Nam. Many did not. He’s been afforded the best in healthcare. Many have not. He could have been a stalwart of Veterans and the voice of the sometimes voiceless. But he didn’t. Trump hocked loogies on him and other Vets. McCain never got an apology, not only for himself, but the others who have no voice and he voted for Trump. There comes a time when either you cut bait or fish. McCain is still cutting bait.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:26:01pm

re: #6 A Mom Anon

See, I’d say no, you’re not reaching, because the NSDAP specifically positioned itself as representing the status quo and the “average” German while they presented the middle class as betrayed by the government and endangered by a vast, unsavory underclass.

Politics is a formalization of culture, and impacting the latter can transform the former. And that’s exactly where we are. The reactionary right has been dicking with what all the important ideas about what America is for decades. They’re sold their followers that it’s normal and good to be constantly angry and afraid of people that aren’t different, that’s it’s an attack to differ, and most importantly that what is “True” is a product of strong emotion and what is “Proof” is defined by affiliation.

You’re spot on.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:26:34pm

Fox assembles the world’s largest pile of garbage humans==>

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:28:04pm

MOAR GARBAGE PEOPLE

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:28:23pm

re: #17 The Vicious Babushka

Fox assembles the world’s largest pile of garbage humans==>

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CongoJack  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:28:45pm

re: #17 The Vicious Babushka

Fox assembles the world’s largest pile of garbage humans==>

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Geez.

Seriously if we help the sick how are they suppose to get healthy?

Oh geez, if we shelter the homeless how will they ever find permanent shelter?

Lordy if we visit the imprisoned how are they ever going to get free?

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A dark and stormy covfefe  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:29:16pm

re: #8 Joe Bacon 🌹

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makeitstop  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:29:35pm

Man, that Josh Marshall piece that Charles retweeted is brutal.

We shouldn’t be having this conversation at all. There was no need to until now. I don’t know what happened between Kelly and Obama. Almost 500 Americans died in Afghanistan in 2010. I doubt Obama spoke by phone to every single family. We don’t know who wanted to talk and who didn’t. We don’t know enough to litigate these questions and we really have no business doing so. We’ve had the most horribly polarized politics during the Bush and Obama presidencies. Yet none but those on the fringes of the political debate felt the need to go here.

But now we are. And that’s the thing: Donald Trump poisons everything. It’s like an abuser with a captive family; he poisons everything, inflames everything, destroys and degrades anything in his path for his own ends. No one gets out in one piece. He’s poison. He’s just poison. There’s no other way to put it. He hurts the country every moment he’s in office.

Sad, but true.

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BlueSpotinAL  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:29:44pm

re: #18 The Vicious Babushka

MOAR GARBAGE PEOPLE

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I fire people for not being front-stabby enough.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:30:00pm

re: #18 The Vicious Babushka

MOAR GARBAGE PEOPLE

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Big Beautiful Door  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:31:17pm

It won’t be pretty Donald? No joke, everything about you is butt ugly.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:31:37pm

Trump to McCain: “At Some Point I Fight Back and It Won’t Be Pretty”

bluff from the king of empty threats

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lawhawk  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:32:23pm
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Kragar  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:34:01pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:34:15pm

jeebus…this is horrifying

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lawhawk  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:34:19pm
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makeitstop  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:35:33pm

re: #26 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

Trump to McCain: “At Some Point I Fight Back and It Won’t Be Pretty”

bluff from the king of empty threats

Seriously.

McCain was tortured for better than five years. He’s not running for reelection.

He’s fucking dying.

What’s Trump going to threaten him with? A primary opponent in a campaign that will never happen?

McCain could do a lot more damage to Trump than vice versa.

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petesh  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:37:23pm

re: #22 makeitstop

Josh Marshall is very good on Trump.

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Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:40:11pm

re: #31 makeitstop

Seriously.

McCain was tortured for better than five years. He’s not running for reelection.

He’s fucking dying.

What’s Trump going to threaten him with? A primary opponent in a campaign that will never happen?

McCain could do a lot more damage to Trump than vice versa.

And I truly hope he does. I hope McCain let’s him have it.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:40:27pm

re: #31 makeitstop

Seriously.

McCain was tortured for better than five years. He’s not running for reelection.

He’s fucking dying.

What’s Trump going to threaten him with? A primary opponent in a campaign that will never happen?

McCain could do a lot more damage to Trump than vice versa.

McCain is quite literally out of fucks to give. He can redeem himself by making a difference before he goes.

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SteelPH  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:42:36pm

re: #34 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

McCain is quite literally out of fucks to give. He can redeem himself by making a difference before he goes.

I’ll save my praise for when he actually takes action.
Otherwise, it’s just empty rhetoric.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:43:21pm

re: #35 SteelPH

I’ll save my praise for when he actually takes action.
Otherwise, it’s just empty rhetoric.

My point exactly. Up to this point, he has been all hat and no cattle. I’ll believe it when I see it, as the saying goes.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:43:21pm

re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth

I couldn’t make head or tails out of that, here is the painting about the mayor and the dogpark:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:45:50pm

re: #37 Shropshire Slasher

I couldn’t make head or tails out of that, here is the painting about the mayor and the dogpark:

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maybe try reading the article.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:46:32pm

re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth

Thanks, I will try that.

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lawhawk  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:47:19pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:48:46pm

jeebus, it’s too early to be troll asshole hour…

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FormerDirtDart  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:49:20pm

Clicky for thread

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:52:03pm

re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth

jeebus, it’s too early to be troll asshole hour…

Gentle reminder that for some people, trolling is not a hobby, it is the core of their existence.

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FormerDirtDart  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:52:38pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:52:47pm

re: #43 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Gentle reminder that for some people, trolling is not a hobby, it is the core of their existence.

indeed…and they are so freaking obvious.

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sizzzzlerz  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:55:14pm

re: #34 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

McCain is quite literally out of fucks to give. He can redeem himself by making a difference before he goes.

I don’t think he can ever fully redeem himself. His selection of Palin was inexcusable and has led to a whole raft of know-nothings at all levels of government to our detriment and carved a direct path for Trump. He’s also been a lock-step Republican for almost his entire career, maricky image aside. Only these last health care votes have gone significantly against the party. I’ve always considered death-bed confessions to be too small and too late. If you felt that way, why didn’t you speak up when it would have made a difference?

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Belafon  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:55:35pm

re: #44 FormerDirtDart

“The boy is sick. We need to amputate.”
“Oh my god, what needs to be done?”
“I think we have to remove his right arm and leg.”
“Oh no, what’s he got?”
“A cold.”

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lawhawk  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:56:20pm

Amazing how the white supremacists and bigots have come out of the woodwork.

Thought this guy was smart when I followed CNBC regularly. Turns out he’s a full blown white supremacist/Confederate:

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Belafon  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:57:06pm

re: #46 sizzzzlerz

I don’t think he can ever fully redeem himself. His selection of Palin was inexcusable and has led to a whole raft of know-nothings at all levels of government to our detriment and carved a direct path for Trump. He’s also been a lock-step Republican for almost his entire career, maricky image aside. Only these last health care votes have gone significantly against the party. I’ve always considered death-bed confessions to be too small and too late. If you felt that way, why didn’t you speak up when it would have made a difference?

I don’t have a whole lot of energy to devote to him, but if he makes like tougher for Trump and other Republicans on his last few days, I won’t laugh when I read his obituary.

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KGxvi  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:57:28pm

re: #26 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

Trump to McCain: “At Some Point I Fight Back and It Won’t Be Pretty”

bluff from the king of empty threats

Here’s something I have been wanting to say about the whole bluffing thing. People really don’t understand the dynamics of what a bluff is in poker and that means the analogy falls apart in the real world.

So, here’s the thing about bluffing in poker: you do it to exert leverage when you think your opponent is weak. The idea is to win a hand by betting enough to convince your opponent that he doesn’t have adequate equity in the pot to win. But a bluff only works if your opponent has a weak hand. And it never works if you just randomly throw a bet out, to do it properly, you have to tell a story over the course of the hand - and really, over the course of several hands.

And 99% of the time, a bluff only works if the other person folds. But if you get called, you lose. And a smart poker player knows once they get caught bluffing, they have to rebuild their table image - otherwise you always get called and the only way to win is if you have the best hand.

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CongoJack  Oct 17, 2017 • 1:59:04pm

re: #50 KGxvi

Here’s something I have been wanting to say about the whole bluffing thing. People really don’t understand the dynamics of what a bluff is in poker and that means the analogy falls apart in the real world.

So, here’s the thing about bluffing in poker: you do it to exert leverage when you think your opponent is weak. The idea is to win a hand by betting enough to convince your opponent that he doesn’t have adequate equity in the pot to win. But a bluff only works if your opponent has a weak hand. And it never works if you just randomly throw a bet out, to do it properly, you have to tell a story over the course of the hand - and really, over the course of several hands.

And 99% of the time, a bluff only works if the other person folds. But if you get called, you lose. And a smart poker player knows once they get caught bluffing, they have to rebuild their table image - otherwise you always get called and the only way to win is if you have the best hand.

Truth!

And now I want to go play some online texas hold’em.

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Belafon  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:00:41pm

dailykos.com

*Picture of Envelope with George Soros*

Yup. After years of waiting, finally, today, The Envelope dropped through the mail slot!

I was beside myself. I was beginning to think it would never come, that people here were right and the whole thing was just a right wing lie.

But no. Finally, all my years of marching, resisting, writing, making songs and videos paid off. And, frankly, I was thinking the payoff should be pretty generous. I mean, for god’s sake, I was in the streets against Nixon. The thought of all those years of back pay, maybe even with interest, made me a little dizzy.

Go read the rest.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:04:12pm

Chinning, it’s not what you think.

nypost.com

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KGxvi  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:04:16pm

re: #51 CongoJack

Truth!

And now I want to go play some online texas hold’em.

I can’t decide if Trump would be the type of person I want to play against or the type of person I’d hate playing against. I mean, I doubt he’d have anything resembling a poker face, but he also strikes me as the sort who would be a complete maniac at the table, and those guys are the fucking worst because all they have to do is get lucky a few times

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scottslemmons  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:06:03pm

re: #26 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

Trump to McCain: “At Some Point I Fight Back and It Won’t Be Pretty”

bluff from the king of empty threats

Trump will wait ‘til McCain is dead to start “fighting.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:06:11pm

heh

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CongoJack  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:07:08pm

re: #54 KGxvi

True but after a few hands (and lets say tRump wins a few hands by being a bully) you can kind of tell quickly when they are just trying to take the pot by force. Then if you ever have an ace up your sleeve all you have to do is go all in/call once and they are broken.

God I haven’t played poker in years… the itch is back (luckily I only play on pokerstars with fake money).

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Jay C  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:07:11pm

re: #36 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

My point exactly. Up to this point, he has been all hat and no cattle. I’ll believe it when I see it, as the saying goes.

Yeah, and the thing with McCain is that “up to this point” has been, basically, his entire political career. He’s constructed his whole political persona around being seen/perceived/publicized as the “Brave Republican Maverick Senator”, while, in reality, voting in knee-jerk lockstep with the Party. But usually while carping about it afterwards, and being endlessly lauded for his maverickiness in the media thereby.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:09:22pm

What a difference a few months makes. Just ask Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. In June, Religious Right activist Ralph Reed introduced McConnell at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference as “a gift to the United States of America” and “one of the most distinguished public servants who has served in the Senate in our lifetimes.” McConnell had seemingly entered the Religious Right’s pantheon of heroes for blocking Senate consideration of Obama Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, ensuring the seat was vacant so that President Donald Trump could name Religious Right dream justice Neil Gorsuch.

But at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit this past weekend, in the very same hotel ballroom, McConnell was mocked, vilified and targeted for defeat. The conference’s star speaker, after Trump himself, was Breitbart brawler Steve Bannon, who declared all-out war against the Republican establishment and specifically against McConnell and his Senate colleagues.

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KGxvi  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:17:24pm

re: #57 CongoJack

True but after a few hands (and lets say tRump wins a few hands by being a bully) you can kind of tell quickly when they are just trying to take the pot by force. Then if you ever have an ace up your sleeve all you have to do is go all in/call once and they are broken.

God I haven’t played poker in years… the itch is back (luckily I only play on pokerstars with fake money).

Up until about 2 months ago, I had been fairly regularly playing the local tournament scene here in LA. Mostly smaller events, in the $150-500 buy in range, and was running a slight profit. But I hit a patch where I wasn’t cashing and other things came up that were occupying my Friday nights. I definitely needed a break from the grind, but am starting to get the desire to jump back in.

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bratwurst  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:18:46pm

Can anyone recommend a blog where the legacy of John McCain is constantly being debated? I just don’t feel like the topic comes up often enough around here.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:18:56pm

Look at that picture up top again. Dotard is using the White House as a giant hairclip.

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Belafon  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:22:44pm

re: #61 bratwurst

Can anyone recommend a blog where the legacy of John McCain is constantly being debated? I just don’t feel like the topic comes up often enough around here.

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Things we don’t do enough here:
Talk about McCain
Talk about Trump
Whine about Democrats not being able to get their message out.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:23:11pm
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MsJ  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:24:28pm

re: #60 KGxvi

Up until about 2 months ago, I had been fairly regularly playing the local tournament scene here in LA. Mostly smaller events, in the $150-500 buy in range, and was running a slight profit. But I hit a patch where I wasn’t cashing and other things came up that were occupying my Friday nights. I definitely needed a break from the grind, but am starting to get the desire to jump back in.

I used to play in tournaments quite a bit. I never got into the online Hold ‘em tourneys (because most people suck - my first [and last] online tourney, I had AA in the pocket. First hand (literally the first fucking hand) *TWO* people went All In before the flop. I folded my AA. One had AK and another AJ. I was like ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?) because, well, people suck. They watch it on television (which never shows the fold, fold, fold, fold to the SB, BB and that’s that…over and over) so they think every hand is playable. GAH!

So I play in live tourneys (not so much in the last couple of years, but when I was traveling all over the place for work, that was my night out entertainment wherever I went that had tourneys). My last seven tourneys I made the final table and four of those I came in 3rd. I only won one a couple of months prior but talk about the high you get from that, heck, just making the final table. Whew.

Great way to get out from under the trump bullshit, too. Go for it and enjoy!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:24:41pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

Thing is, this shouldn’t be surprising, because the reactionary “Christian” right operates with exactly the same use-value-only standard that Trump does. It just manifests differently because they value the appearance of a consistent and Godly ethos…even though they’ve taken their religion, hollowed it out, and filled it with crackpottery that colors far outside the sacred text’s lines plus the same venal shit every other shitbird wants.

McConnell gave them what they wanted, but now they see a window where they can get even more and he’s an obstacle. Their bread and butter is black-and-white distinctions where they’re always the hero and anyone that’s an obstacle is a metaphysical peril, so they can’t just dump him. They have to drag the fucker and damn his name.

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Unshaken Defiance  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:27:45pm

re: #53 Shropshire Slasher

Chinning, it’s not what you think.

nypost.com

NY Post, went and looked. Urban Dictionary? not a chance.

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TedStriker  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:28:22pm

re: #48 lawhawk

Amazing how the white supremacists and bigots have come out of the woodwork.

Thought this guy was smart when I followed CNBC regularly. Turns out he’s a full blown white supremacist/Confederate:

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Damn, what a piece of racist shit…

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Charles Johnson  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:28:42pm
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TedStriker  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:30:11pm

re: #55 scottslemmons

Trump will wait ‘til McCain is dead to start “fighting.”

Guaranteed…the coward will wait until McCain is dead to broadside him with a bunch of lies and half-truth, trusting on his hordes of supporters to eat it up.

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nines09  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:31:00pm

re: #69 Charles Johnson

There’s that Johnny we know…..

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KGxvi  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:32:19pm

re: #69 Charles Johnson

Is it a walk back or more of a “no, when I said ‘fuck you’ I mean the plural ‘you’ not the singular”?

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wrenchwench  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:32:36pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

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But at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit this past weekend, in the very same hotel ballroom, McConnell was mocked, vilified and targeted for defeat. The conference’s star speaker, after Trump himself, was Breitbart brawler Steve Bannon, who declared all-out war against the Republican establishment and specifically against McConnell and his Senate colleagues.

Anti-establishment conservatives. I was done with that concept the first time I saw it. Less than a year ago.

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scottslemmons  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:32:58pm

re: #70 TedStriker

Guaranteed…the coward will wait until McCain is dead to broadside him.

Right, the dead can’t sue for libel — and the extremely loud outrage will give Trump the ego charge he craves. He’s always happiest when he’s trolling.

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wrenchwench  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:35:15pm

re: #62 Dave In Austin

Look at that picture up top again. Dotard is using the White House as a giant hairclip.

I prefer to see it as the White House trying to remove its own tumor.

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:35:22pm

Upper crusty Lubbock Baptist lady shares her true feelings. Alcohol was involved if I know my bigots (and I certainly do).

Facebook Post

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ObserverArt  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:38:40pm

re: #61 bratwurst

Can anyone recommend a blog where the legacy of John McCain is constantly being debated? I just don’t feel like the topic comes up often enough around here.

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And now you know why he has been around so long.

He is always talked about so he is seen to be out there “stirring it up.”

That apparently makes him a maverick.

Best political marketing for Arizona ever.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:41:57pm

re: #60 KGxvi

Up until about 2 months ago, I had been fairly regularly playing the local tournament scene here in LA. Mostly smaller events, in the $150-500 buy in range, and was running a slight profit. But I hit a patch where I wasn’t cashing and other things came up that were occupying my Friday nights. I definitely needed a break from the grind, but am starting to get the desire to jump back in.

I used to play at the bike every week. Cashed in a few $40 tournaments. Moved back to Brooklyn, don’t have time/money. Will play again someday.

Trump is a coward/bully. would be a terrible player because he’s afraid to lose in public.

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MsJ  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:42:14pm

re: #77 ObserverArt

And now you know why he has been around so long.

He is always talked about so he is seen to be out there “stirring it up.”

That apparently makes him a maverick.

Best political marketing for Arizona ever.

Mavricky McMavrick.

OY.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:42:34pm

re: #75 wrenchwench

I prefer to see it as the White House trying to remove its own tumor.

Now that you mention it, I do see the attempted extraction.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:43:40pm

Music, science, automotive, road construction, I love it!

Why California’s Musical Road Sounds Terrible

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:53:05pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

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i just have to laugh when i hear how paul ryan is just a rino who has to go

and when i say laugh, i mean laugh a lot

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Mike Lamb  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:53:06pm

re: #44 FormerDirtDart

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Which would eat away a lot of the cost savings of the CSRs.

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dangerman  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:53:22pm

re: #63 Belafon

Things we don’t do enough here:
Talk about McCain
Talk about Trump
Whine about Democrats not being able to get their message out.

//

…discuss pineapple on pizza yes/no

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Belafon  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:54:03pm

re: #84 dangerman

…discuss pineapple on pizza yes/no

I can’t believe I forgot that one.

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JordanRules  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:56:29pm

re: #69 Charles Johnson

Oof.

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dangerman  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:57:04pm

re: #79 MsJ

Mavricky McMavrick…..face

OY.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:57:15pm

re: #85 Belafon

I can’t believe I forgot that one.

Sometimes the brain intentionally blocks out painful subjects or memories.

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makeitstop  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:57:19pm

re: #84 dangerman

…discuss pineapple on pizza yes/no

I belonged to a Les Paul guitar forum (ended up bailing because it was crawling with wingnuts) where the equivalent of the ‘pineapple’ argument was whether the pickguard on a Les Paul should be left on or taken off.

As far as I know, the argument is still going.

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:57:27pm

re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth

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My money is on the naval aviator guy who survived the Hanoi Hilton.

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:57:35pm

Trump bankrupted four casinos. I don’t see him as any Phil Ivey at a poker table.

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dangerman  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:58:00pm

re: #85 Belafon

I can’t believe I forgot that one.

They don’t call me “trouble” fer nuthin

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:58:14pm

re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth

NEW VIDEO: Asked about Sudan and the Muslim ban, he didn’t seem to know what Sudan WAS. Trump IS F*cking Nuts

The people who elected him do not know or care and are pleased to have a President who does not know or care either.

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dangerman  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:59:19pm

re: #89 makeitstop

I belonged to a Les Paul guitar forum (ended up bailing because it was crawling with wingnuts) where the equivalent of the ‘pineapple’ argument was whether the pickguard on a Les Paul should be left on or taken off.

As far as I know, the argument is still going.

Yeah yeah that’s interesting but what did they think about the pizza thing??

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Oct 17, 2017 • 2:59:54pm

re: #46 sizzzzlerz

He’s also been a lock-step Republican for almost his entire career, maricky image aside.

i don’t even remember anymore what it was that he said that ever gave him his maverick image

all i know is that by 2007-8 it was completely gone

96
Scottish Dragon  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:00:14pm

re: #15 nines09

McCain came back from Nam. Many did not. He’s been afforded the best in healthcare. Many have not. He could have been a stalwart of Veterans and the voice of the sometimes voiceless. But he didn’t. Trump hocked loogies on him and other Vets. McCain never got an apology, not only for himself, but the others who have no voice and he voted for Trump. There comes a time when either you cut bait or fish. McCain is still cutting bait.

I disagree. McCain has been biding his time to do the most damage. His votes to kill the GOP plan to kill Obamacare are a case in point. McCain has not forgotten or forgiven what Trump has said and done. He is just serving his payback in Klingon style: cold.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:00:52pm

Mooch just donated $25k to the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

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dangerman  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:01:05pm

re: #93 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The people who elected him do not know or care and are pleased to have a President who does not know or care either.

This is so completely disheartening

99
dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:01:46pm

re: #96 Scottish Dragon

I disagree. McCain has been biding his time to do the most damage. His votes to kill the GOP plan to kill Obamacare are a case in point. McCain has not forgotten or forgiven what Trump has said and done. He is just serving his payback in Klingon style: cold.

allow me to chime in a bwahahahaha in regards to that now famous thumbs down

100
Ace Rothstein  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:01:57pm
101
dangerman  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:02:24pm

Sitting in Newark airport waiting for a flight.
Bored.

Does it show?

102
JordanRules  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:04:15pm

Some quality submissions for this hashtag.

103
dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:04:29pm

re: #89 makeitstop

I belonged to a Les Paul guitar forum (ended up bailing because it was crawling with wingnuts) where the equivalent of the ‘pineapple’ argument was whether the pickguard on a Les Paul should be left on or taken off.

As far as I know, the argument is still going.

this is obviously not nearly as important as pgmrs arguing about whether the open curly braces go at the end of the line or on the next line

//// (ok actually i do take it seriously)

104
austin_blue  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:05:26pm

re: #101 dangerman

Sitting in Newark airport waiting for a flight.
Bored.

Does it show?

Wander down to Vino Volo and get a nice glass of wine and some Marcona almonds.

105
FormerDirtDart  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:06:41pm
106
dangerman  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:07:12pm

re: #103 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

this is obviously not nearly as important as pgmrs arguing about whether the open curly braces go at the end of the line or on the next line

//// (ok actually i do take it seriously)

Spaces vs tabs?

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TedStriker  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:07:33pm

re: #96 Scottish Dragon

I disagree. McCain has been biding his time to do the most damage. His votes to kill the GOP plan to kill Obamacare are a case in point. McCain has not forgotten or forgiven what Trump has said and done. He is just serving his payback in Klingon style: cold.

I like Khan’s rendition:

Revenge is a dish best served cold

McCain’s an asshole, but I’ll take an assist against Cheeto Benito from him when I can get it and it makes sense.

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dangerman  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:08:51pm

re: #104 austin_blue

Wander down to Vino Volo and get a nice glass of wine and some Marcona almonds.

Jet blue terminal
We got a ben & jerrys

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William Lewis  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:09:14pm

re: #103 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

this is obviously not nearly as important as pgmrs arguing about whether the open curly braces go at the end of the line or on the next line

//// (ok actually i do take it seriously)

(who-uses-curly-brace-p)
nil

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:10:10pm
111
Cheechako  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:10:12pm

Here’s a 9 minute video showing the destruction from the Northern California wildfires:

TUBBS FIRESTORM: Raw Berkeley Fire Dept. video shows desperate battle with Tubbs Fire

Unbelievable destruction. Looks like the aftermath of a nuclear bomb. A clear warning of what the results would be following a nuclear explosion.

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jaunte  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:10:23pm

re: #102 JordanRules

“Vice Without Principles”

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:12:08pm
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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:12:23pm

re: #106 dangerman

Spaces vs tabs?

hey you can always set your editor to display the ascii code for whitespace characters

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:14:48pm

re: #109 William Lewis

(who-uses-curly-brace-p)
nil

i once brought a date back to my apartment, and after perusing my bookshelf she gave me a funny look and said “gee you seem to have a deep interest in speech impediments”

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MsJ  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:15:22pm

re: #100 Ace Rothstein

What does this mean? I don’t understand.

Russia news we’re gettin’ says Mueller’s already caught his limit and he’s cullin’ his way back to the dock. Thing’s are lookin’ good!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:17:08pm

re: #102 JordanRules

Some quality submissions for this hashtag.

[Embedded content]

Grumpy Old White Men

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Skip Intro  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:17:13pm
119
Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:18:12pm

re: #116 MsJ

What does this mean? I don’t understand.

I think, based on the account that tweeted it, the Trump-humpers must believe that Mueller’s investigation is faltering. Boy, are they in for a rude awakening. Especially if they’re getting that information from Russia…

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:18:42pm

re: #118 Skip Intro

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Gee, you think Rupert Murdoch has a type?

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Belafon  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:20:47pm

“Monsters vs. Mexicans”

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Decatur Deb  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:23:47pm

re: #116 MsJ

What does this mean? I don’t understand.

Russia news we’re gettin’ says Mueller’s already caught his limit and he’s cullin’ his way back to the dock. Thing’s are lookin’ good!

Perhaps it’s optimistic, but here in Large-Mouth Bass country that likely means that Mueller has caught more pond scum than he can manage, and is throwing small-fish cases overboard as he heads to prosecution.

123
Stanley Sea  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:26:32pm

re: #111 Cheechako

Horrifying.

What a job.

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KGxvi  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:30:21pm

re: #81 Shropshire Slasher

Music, science, automotive, road construction, I love it!

[Embedded content]

Video

That reminds me of this:

BBC Top Gear - The Musical Road

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Unshaken Defiance  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:46:06pm

re: #118 Skip Intro

126
sagehen  Oct 17, 2017 • 3:49:54pm

re: #111 Cheechako

Here’s a 9 minute video showing the destruction from the Northern California wildfires:

[Embedded content]

Unbelievable destruction. Looks like the aftermath of a nuclear bomb. A clear warning of what the results would be following a nuclear explosion.

Except that for a nuclear explosion, there’s no time for evacuation. And even the still-standing towns 15 miles away are no longer inhabitable.

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Mike Lamb  Oct 17, 2017 • 4:02:05pm

re: #119 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I think, based on the account that tweeted it, the Trump-humpers must believe that Mueller’s investigation is faltering. Boy, are they in for a rude awakening. Especially if they’re getting that information from Russia…

Nah…I think he’s implying that Mueller has all the information that he needs and that he’s paring down his witness list to just the big fish.


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