Breaking: Trump Praises and Defends Alleged Wife Beater Rob Porter Despite Photos, Wishes Him Well: “He Said Very Strongly That He’s Innocent”

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This is what happens when America elects a misogynist president who unapologetically abuses and objectifies women: he defends other abusers.

Just the latest disgraceful episode in the ongoing sordid saga of this dishonest, corruption-riddled far right administration. And note that he’s almost certainly lying again when he says he “found out about it recently;” in reality, Trump and his aides knew about the allegations against Porter for more than a year.

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UPDATE at 2/9/18 10:57:50 am by Charles Johnson

And to make it even worse, CNN now reports that Trump is blaming the whole mess on his communications director, Hope Hicks.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 10:54:20am
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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2018 • 10:54:52am

Oh, it gets better. Not only is Trump defending Porter, he’s putting the blame all on the nearest woman in the room:

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 10:55:34am
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lawhawk  Feb 9, 2018 • 10:57:00am

Trumpworld:

Women should be seen, groped, exploited, and abused, and not heard.

When women do come forward, don’t trust them, even if their statements are corroborated by physical evidence, or even admissions by the accused.

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Kragar  Feb 9, 2018 • 10:57:36am

It’s just like when Putin said the Russian did nothing to fix the election.

Why won’t people see how innocent these poor misunderstood men are?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:00:31am

Fucker.

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Kragar  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:02:00am
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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:02:21am

Every indication remains that the WH expected this to be yet another “he said, she said” story where they’d circle the wagons around Porter, they’d attack the press for repeating “rumors and innuendo,” and they’d attack the ex-wives as “looking for money.” They were totally blindsided by the photo and didn’t know how to address it other than to remain in total denial.

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Jay C  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:03:20am

BTW, those looking for a stock-market trainwreck today will probably be disappointed: the DJ troughed again around the 23,400 level, but has bounced back (with which must certainly be help from our computer overlords financial advisors) to about the 23,600-700 range, which is probably going to be attempted to be established as a new “floor”/base. Maybe.

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Ace-o-aces  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:07:30am
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S'latch  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:08:25am

tone-deaf

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Citizen K  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:09:44am
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Ace-o-aces  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:10:50am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:11:24am

re: #12 Citizen K

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Smal government.

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S'latch  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:11:53am

The only thing they know how to do when they screw up is double down.

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:13:20am

re: #7 Kragar

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Ace-o-aces  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:14:05am
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lawhawk  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:14:11am
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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:14:21am

Another scandal that shows how addled Donny’s mind is: He wants to blame Hicks for the WH looking bad over defending Porter, but he also is asserting that he believes in Porter’s innocence and has wished him well.

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Unshaken Defiance  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:16:36am

Perfect example of if he’s white, it’s alright, Trump style again.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:18:27am
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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:18:39am
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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:18:52am
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:18:52am

But..but Trump thought of Hicks like a daughter /snark

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:20:02am

re: #16 MsJ

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Fox coordinating with “hostile actor” Julian Assange/Wikileaks to influence President and weaken our institutions.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:21:12am

re: #18 lawhawk

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Yep. Only going to make things worse.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:21:48am

re: #21 Charles Johnson

I suspect the percentage of conservative people on police even in CA exceeds the population. That’s something that needs to change somehow, and it will require liberals to join those organizations.

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:22:21am

re: #23 darthstar

And speaking of that asshole Jesus freak motherfucker…someone finally called him on his bullshit, “I wasn’t aware” excuses…

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sauceruney  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:22:28am

re: #2 Targetpractice

Oh, it gets better. Not only is Trump defending Porter, he’s putting the blame all on the nearest woman in the room:

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Hope Hicks probably knows enough to get Trump indicted immediately, should she decide to turn on him. This is dumber than firing Comey.

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:23:53am

re: #28 darthstar

And speaking of that asshole Jesus freak motherfucker…someone finally called him on his bullshit, “I wasn’t aware” excuses…

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Not to mention that he never answers anyway. Listen to his bullshit, robotic response. It wasn’t even a pivot. It was pure whiplash.

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:26:43am

re: #30 MsJ

Not to mention that he never answers anyway. Listen to his bullshit, robotic response. It wasn’t even a pivot. It was pure whiplash.

It’s his standard “I LOVE TRUMP” bullshit.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:29:52am
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makeitstop  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:30:49am

re: #32 Charles Johnson

Report: Make It Stop

I’m makeitstop, and I approve this message.

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lawhawk  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:31:09am

Dumber than a bag of hammers, and Shapiro supposedly went to law school:

Political decisions/calculus isn’t the same as a criminal prosecution standard.

Trump jettisoned Porter because he became a political liability. Trump is keeping Kelly and Hicks on because firing them would be a political liability, just because they both know where all the bodies are buried.

This is what right wingers don’t get. They don’t get that their actions have consequences and they include both political and criminal.

For the record, impeachment is a political process, not a criminal legal one.

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makeitstop  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:33:01am

Swalwell with the major burn.

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Kragar  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:34:30am
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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:35:58am
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KGxvi  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:38:11am

re: #34 lawhawk

For the record, impeachment is a political process, not a criminal legal one.

It’s political, but it involves legal processes. It’s not a straight vote of no confidence as exists in most parliamentary systems. Rather, it is based on that nebulous phrase “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Whether or not that was originally intended to include things like “gross incompetence”, in practice it has come to mean “the president committed serious crimes.”

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:38:41am

Found some treasure on the beach walking the dogs on Wednesday morning. And now that weed is legal, I kept it. :)

(weed shredder)

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:39:03am

In the past two days we’ve had 7 Indian spammers attempt to register and post those fucked up “AOL Support” pages. The first one waited a couple of days, then got two of those pages posted before being suspended - he must have put out the word on whatever spam network they belong to.

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:39:26am

re: #39 darthstar

What’s a weed shredder?

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Ace-o-aces  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:39:55am
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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:40:32am

re: #40 Charles Johnson

In the past two days we’ve had 7 Indian spammers attempt to register and post those fucked up “AOL Support” pages. The first one waited a couple of days, then got two of those pages posted before being suspended - he must have put out the word on whatever spam network they belong to.

What are they selling or taking about?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:40:49am

re: #34 lawhawk

Dumber than a bag of hammers, and Shapiro supposedly went to law school:

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Political decisions/calculus isn’t the same as a criminal prosecution standard.

Trump jettisoned Porter because he became a political liability. Trump is keeping Kelly and Hicks on because firing them would be a political liability, just because they both know where all the bodies are buried.

This is what right wingers don’t get. They don’t get that their actions have consequences and they include both political and criminal.

For the record, impeachment is a political process, not a criminal legal one.

He really is incredibly ignorant.

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:41:08am

re: #41 MsJ

What’s a weed shredder?

It breaks buds down into a rollable mix without making your fingers sticky.

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Scottish Dragon  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:41:15am
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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:41:42am

re: #37 darthstar

Madonna-whore complex. It’s a statement that always has a footnote equivalent to the massive read-super-fast description of effects of a medication:

Women are sacred*

*until they’re suspected of not being sacred, in which case…free for all.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:41:54am

re: #46 Scottish Dragon

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He’s such a tool.

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makeitstop  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:43:03am

re: #41 MsJ

What’s a weed shredder?

Grinds up weed so it’s easier to roll into joints or load into a bowl.

So I’ve heard. /

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:43:20am

re: #40 Charles Johnson

In the past two days we’ve had 7 Indian spammers attempt to register and post those fucked up “AOL Support” pages. The first one waited a couple of days, then got two of those pages posted before being suspended - he must have put out the word on whatever spam network they belong to.

A suggestion: All accounts must get 50 or more karma before they are able to submit a page.

Edit: If you know where the updings come from, I would recommend that they can only be earned on main pages.

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Scottish Dragon  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:43:52am

re: #34 lawhawk

Dumber than a bag of hammers, and Shapiro supposedly went to law school:

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Political decisions/calculus isn’t the same as a criminal prosecution standard.

Trump jettisoned Porter because he became a political liability. Trump is keeping Kelly and Hicks on because firing them would be a political liability, just because they both know where all the bodies are buried.

This is what right wingers don’t get. They don’t get that their actions have consequences and they include both political and criminal.

For the record, impeachment is a political process, not a criminal legal one.

Actually, he is attacking Trump in that thread for defending Moore and Porter.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:44:21am

re: #43 MsJ

What are they selling or taking about?

It could be related to this:

nj.com

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Scottish Dragon  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:46:30am
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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:46:35am

From the end of the last thread

US used to have a STET and we could again.
.25 might raise appx 150bn or so

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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:47:26am

This is another manifestation of what I think of as an org chart with a morality loosely attached which seems to define “conservatives” and Trump people in particular.

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:47:43am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:48:36am

re: #56 darthstar

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Fired three times from the Apprentice. Yet Trump thought enough to hire her a fourth time.

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Jay C  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:48:36am

re: #45 darthstar

It breaks buds down into a rollable mix without making your fingers sticky.

How does that one work? A grinder or a beater?

Asking for a friend…..

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:48:59am

re: #56 darthstar

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What amazes me is if she was fired from the apprentice three time trump still hired her

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:49:26am

re: #57 HappyWarrior

Fired three times from the Apprentice. Yet Trump thought enough to hire her a fourth time.

You win

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Jay C  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:50:49am

re: #56 darthstar

What amazes me is the “we,” which treats the White House as continuous with Trump’s reality show.

And Chait is just realizing this NOW????

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:50:52am

re: #50 Belafon

A suggestion: All accounts must get 50 or more karma before they are able to submit a page.

The code currently won’t let a new user post a page until they’ve been registered for at least 48 hours, and after that they need to have a karma rating of at least 10 or they’re limited to only one page per 15-minute interval. This prevents the mass dumping problem where they just post as many as they can as fast as they can.

These creeps are using compromised proxy servers in the US, and innocent-looking names and email addresses to register, so there’s no obvious way to tell at registration time. But every time one of them gets through, I add their IP’s CIDR range to a registration block list.

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Kragar  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:51:34am

re: #53 Scottish Dragon

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Conan the Salaryman could be the greatest thing I’ve ever read.

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:51:47am

re: #52 Charles Johnson

It could be related this:

nj.com

I had no idea AOL was still a thing. Let alone scams like that existed. But why post a bunch of those at one time on the same site? Wouldn’t that be a flashing red BEWARE light?

I guess I don’t think like a criminal.

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:53:06am

re: #57 HappyWarrior

Fired three times from the Apprentice. Yet Trump thought enough to hire her a fourth time.

It’s trump-speak for “Mah negro”.

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Scottish Dragon  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:53:54am
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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:54:49am

re: #64 MsJ

I had no idea AOL was still a thing. Let alone scams like that existed. But why post a bunch of those at one time on the same site? Wouldn’t that be a flashing red BEWARE light?

I guess I don’t think like a criminal.

They’re hoping that sites aren’t monitored and won’t see/remove their spam posts, and then they get indexed by search engines so people searching for “AOL Support” have a chance of stumbling onto one of their spam traps and calling the bogus number.

I’ve found several sites where there are hundreds of these posts, in comment sections or places where users can contribute content, so to a certain extent this scheme is working for them.

But not here.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:55:25am

re: #59 dangerman

What amazes me is if she was fired from the apprentice three time trump still hired her

One of Seth Meyers’ writers did a segment on Omarosa (I would find the video, but I can’t youtube at work). One part of the segment went like this:

Trump: You were supposed to bring me the black woman vote.
Omarosa: I don’t know any black women!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:57:01am

re: #66 Scottish Dragon

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I hate that these guys are the voice of reason on the right. They’re who exposed Milo IIRC.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:57:56am
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Patricia Kayden  Feb 9, 2018 • 11:58:39am

re: #4 lawhawk

Trumpworld:

Women should be seen, groped, exploited, and abused, and not heard.

When women do come forward, don’t trust them, even if their statements are corroborated by physical evidence, or even admissions by the accused.

So hopefully when White women vote in 2018 and 2020, they won’t vote in the majority for Trump and Republicans like they did in 2016.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:00:52pm

Welp, this tweet certainly seems to have struck a chord…

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nines09  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:01:32pm

re: #39 darthstar

Looks like a 3 chamber number. Solid find.

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Scottish Dragon  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:02:38pm
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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:02:58pm

Kelly just be lyin

Kelly offers account of Porter exit that some White House aides consider untrue

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:04:03pm
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JordanRules  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:04:09pm

re: #75 dangerman

We had video proof he was lying on Rep Wilson but meh.

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KGxvi  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:05:35pm

re: #75 dangerman

Someone on MSNBC yesterday said “Donald Trump steals integrity the way the Devil steals souls.” Might have been “dignity” but either way, gave me a laugh.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:05:46pm

re: #74 Scottish Dragon

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Why would he not deny the allegation. I’m tired of people distorting what due process actually is.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:06:07pm

re: #78 KGxvi

Someone on MSNBC yesterday said “Donald Trump steals integrity the way the Devil steals souls.” Might have been “dignity” but either way, gave me a laugh.

Everything he touches dies

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plansbandc  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:06:46pm

When you are presented with an underdog story, you are being sold a polished brochure of the American Dream that was proven invalid a very, very long time ago. It’s a brochure that, to this day, aids some very wealthy people in some very repulsive efforts to fuck you over, and to set the masses against each other.

Drew Magary

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:09:07pm

re: #74 Scottish Dragon

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There is no due process right regarding political consequences

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:12:12pm

BTW if these people are so about due process, then they should have shut up about locking her up and their stupid photoshops of Clinton being executed.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:13:12pm

Bringing you back to reality.
Sad as fuck reality.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:13:18pm
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Romantic Heretic  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:14:04pm

re: #12 Citizen K

Trump supporters don’t care how badly they are treated as long as enemies of the tribe are treated even worse.

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Kragar  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:16:10pm
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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:16:59pm

re: #58 Jay C

How does that one work? A grinder or a beater?

Asking for a friend…..

The top lid comes off and it’s got lots of teeth under the lid and a rough grid with holes on it. Twist and the flower falls through to center chamber. Bottom of center chamber has a fine screen on it, so little crystals are collected in the far bottom.

Google search images for Santa Cruz Shredder and you’ll see it broken down.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:17:59pm

re: #85 Charles Johnson

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Too late liar

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:19:05pm

re: #87 Kragar

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GOP 2016: “LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP!”

GOP 2018: “It’s shameful the way people are in such a rush to judge

See also: “Deficits”

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:20:49pm

Speaking of memos - this one sounds important.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:21:07pm

re: #85 Charles Johnson

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Is that why Porter, Bannon, & Trump have worked there?

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:21:58pm

LOL.

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:22:10pm

Okay…I thought this was funny…and it’s from way back in July.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:22:13pm

re: #92 HappyWarrior

Is that why Porter, Bannon, & Trump have worked there?

It depends on their definition of domestic abuse.

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KGxvi  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:23:50pm

re: #93 goddamnedfrank

May God Have Mercy On Your Soul - Billy Madison

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Ace-o-aces  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:24:03pm
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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:25:04pm

re: #93 goddamnedfrank

LOL.

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Holy cow. The president is functionally illiterate.

Can’t read
Can’t speak
Don’t ever see him write..except his variable signature

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:26:14pm

For the younger Lizards who may not get the reference.

Terence Trent D’Arby - Wishing Well

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:26:36pm

This is very sad.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:28:13pm

re: #97 Ace-o-aces

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Seriously the idea of campuses being filled with Marxists is fantasy.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:29:36pm
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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:29:59pm

re: #99 goddamnedfrank

For the younger Lizards who may not get the reference.

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I know who he is but don’t get the reference.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:30:06pm

re: #101 HappyWarrior

Seriously the idea of campuses being filled with Marxists is fantasy.

Back in the 70s at Pitt, Libertarianism was the prime ideology…

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makeitstop  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:30:20pm

re: #99 goddamnedfrank

For the younger Lizards who may not get the reference.

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TTD was crazy as hell, but man, he could sing. This is insane.

Sananda Maitreya aka Terence Trent D’Arby & INXS /New Sensation (live) part1

I still think he should have done the deal and taken over for Hutchence.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:31:52pm

re: #104 Joe Bacon 🌹

Back in the 70s at Pitt, Libertarianism was the prime ideology…

We had a lot of them at GMU too.

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:33:47pm

This is a good ad

YouTube

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:34:06pm

re: #103 MsJ

I know who he is but don’t get the reference.

wish him well ≡ wishing well

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:35:05pm

Why Terence Trent D’Arby became Sananda Maitreya: ‘It was that or death’

theguardian.com

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:35:51pm

re: #108 goddamnedfrank

wish him well ≡ wishing well

G R O A N.

I did Nazi that coming.

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Kragar  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:36:18pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:38:40pm

re: #107 dangerman

This is a good ad

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Yeah I liked that.

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:39:21pm

re: #111 Kragar

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!

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:42:54pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:42:54pm

re: #108 goddamnedfrank

I was racking my brain for some of kind of deeper relevance to the TTD reference.

Now I get to go back to dwelling on my personal shortcomings.

So…thanks…you bastard?

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:44:15pm
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Kragar  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:47:13pm
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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:49:04pm

So this morning some random guy came and shoveled the sidewalk from the driveway to the house. Nowhere near public access, public sidewalk, nothing. It’s a good 40’ in from the street, 30’ or so from the public sidewalk.

I called hubby to ask if he hired someone. Nope.

I was willing to pay the guy… But he disappeared into the ether.

I don’t know what to think of this. It’s weirding me out.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:51:17pm

re: #118 MsJ

So this morning some random guy came and shoveled the sidewalk from the driveway to the house. Nowhere near public access, public sidewalk, nothing. It’s a good 40’ in from the street, 30’ or so from the public sidewalk.

I called hubby to ask if he hired someone. Nope.

I was willing to pay the guy… But he disappeared into the ether.

I don’t know what to think of this. It’s weirding me out.

If you don’t see him again, pay it forward.

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:53:10pm

re: #118 MsJ

So this morning some random guy came and shoveled the sidewalk from the driveway to the house. Nowhere near public access, public sidewalk, nothing. It’s a good 40’ in from the street, 30’ or so from the public sidewalk.

I called hubby to ask if he hired someone. Nope.

I was willing to pay the guy… But he disappeared into the ether.

I don’t know what to think of this. It’s weirding me out.

Random act of kindness likely
Or you’ll get a bill in the mailbox
Or he’ll offer to put it back plus extra……

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:57:38pm
Very strongly said he’s innocent

Wow. And to think that no one has ever tried that before!

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 12:59:27pm

re: #121 sizzzzlerz

Wow. And to think that no one has ever tried that before!

It’s the strongly that makes it convincing

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:00:11pm
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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:02:51pm

re: #119 Belafon

If you don’t see him again, pay it forward.

At Christmastime, I was just starting to walk without crutches. I was limping, slowly. I went to the grocery store, limped around as I got my stuff, bought $250 worth of groceries, got it all out of the cart into the belt and realized I didn’t have my wallet. I’d either left it in the car or at the mail stop when I had just gotten my mail. The latter was now closed.

As I was ready to “run” out to the car, some random guy walks up to me and pays the bill. I said “I can’t ask you to do that” and he replied “Your not asking and I want to.”

I was blown away by the kindness. I thanked him profusely and told him I’d pay it forward.

I’m still shocked by that just thinking about it. And I’m tearing up at the memory of that kindness.

As many of you know, I met a girl online who has a very sick baby. Money for them is always tight. I came home from the store that night and sent her $250. It was the difference for them having the ability to have a real Christmas.

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Kragar  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:05:18pm
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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:07:18pm

crooked

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:07:29pm
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sizzzzlerz  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:09:17pm

re: #122 dangerman

re: #122 dangerman

It’s the strongly that makes it convincing

Ahhhh, very subtle. Just one word is the difference between 5 to 10 and being a free man.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:09:42pm

re: #126 Stanley Sea

crooked

If I was the tenants’ lawyer, I would make that request.

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:10:50pm

Lawrence in TNP mode.

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:11:34pm

re: #124 MsJ

At Christmastime, I was just starting to walk without crutches. I was limping, slowly. I went to the grocery store, limped around as I got my stuff, bought $250 worth of groceries, got it all out of the cart into the belt and realized I didn’t have my wallet. I’d either left it in the car or at the mail stop when I had just gotten my mail. The latter was now closed.

As I was ready to “run” out to the car, some random guy walks up to me and pays the bill. I said “I can’t ask you to do that” and he replied “Your not asking and I want to.”

I was blown away by the kindness. I thanked him profusely and told him I’d pay it forward.

I’m still shocked by that just thinking about it. And I’m tearing up at the memory of that kindness.

As many of you know, I met a girl online who has a very sick baby. Money for them is always tight. I came home from the store that night and sent her $250. It was the difference for them having the ability to have a real Christmas.

And your wallet?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:13:44pm

The other day, I heard someone on NPR remarking that the GOP and Trump exploding the deficit was at odds with the Tea Party having been founded over concern about the deficit.

I think I actually shouted at the radio in the car - “IT WAS NEVER ABOUT THE DEFICIT! IT WAS THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS BLACK!!!”

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:14:00pm

re: #131 dangerman

And your wallet?

Was in the car. I’d thrown it on to the front seat without putting it back in my purse. And didn’t realize that when I’d grabbed my purse to go into the store.

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:14:13pm

There’s always a tweet

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:15:17pm

re: #134 FormerDirtDart

There’s always a tweet

Trump didn’t let him go for being a wife-beater. He let him go only because it became public.

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:15:28pm

re: #133 MsJ

Was in the car. I’d thrown it on to the front seat without putting it back in my purse. And didn’t realize that when I’d grabbed my purse to go into the store.

So a not awful happy ending

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nines09  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:15:37pm
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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:17:04pm

re: #135 Belafon

Trump didn’t let him go for being a wife-beater. He let him go only because it became public.

Yup. The I got away with it mentality

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:17:20pm
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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:18:44pm

re: #136 dangerman

So a not awful happy ending

It was an amazing event with nothing but positive outcome.

Other than my bum knee and my friends sick baby both of which continue to suck.

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Ace-o-aces  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:19:58pm

re: #134 FormerDirtDart

There’s always a tweet

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Again, I think there may be a pattern here….

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:21:17pm
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Kragar  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:22:54pm
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Interesting Times  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:23:14pm

Sobering note here…

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Kragar  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:24:09pm
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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:24:21pm

re: #98 dangerman

Holy cow. The president is functionally illiterate.

Can’t read
Can’t speak
Don’t ever see him write..except his variable signature

The way he speaks and reads off the teleprompter is a sure sign he has never read much of anything his whole life.

The fact he hasn’t read and has a poor grasp on just about everything tells you all you need to know about how he was as a student.

If Daddy hadn’t given him everything to get rolling, he’d be out on the streets and no one would know who he was.

Sad it didn’t work out that way as this country would have been better off never knowing who he was.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:24:43pm

re: #144 Interesting Times

Sobering note here…

The biggest threat to a wave in November is thinking that you shouldn’t vote for Democrats because you didn’t get everything you want from the party not in power.

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:25:24pm

re: #123 FormerDirtDart

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This is what we get for not standing firm against the Pineapplists and their tropical fruit pizza agenda. It seemed harmless, or at least not worth the effort, but you see where we are now, under the heel of Big Fruit.

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KGxvi  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:25:41pm

re: #145 Kragar

Well that saves Trump from having to fire him, because you know, he’s scared to actually fire people.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:25:55pm

Did we miss the part where Schumer shut down the government to keep the DACA conversation going? Did we miss the part where Pelosi stood upright for eight hours straight talking about Dreamers?

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Skip Intro  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:26:19pm

re: #80 Stanley Sea

Everything he touches dies

And he keeps getting stronger. Sounds like a Steven King book.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:27:16pm

re: #147 Belafon

The biggest threat to a wave in November is thinking that you shouldn’t vote for Democrats because you didn’t get everything you want from the party not in power.

Too pragmatic. Thinking rationally. Won’t be listened to.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:27:32pm

re: #56 darthstar

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The sad fact is the WH is continuous with Trump’s reality show. This is “The Apprentice, White House Addition.” Soon we’ll have the Celebrity version of White House Apprentice, and people like Scott Baio will get jobs in the West Wing to replace all the people getting fired or indicted.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:27:46pm

Though I’m glad the people who ran or voted in the elections since 2016 aren’t paying attention to the hyperbole on Twitter.

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Citizen K  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:28:12pm
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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:28:38pm

re: #151 Skip Intro

And he keeps getting stronger. Sounds like a Steven King book.

Sounds like Voldemort.

I was so hoping ObserverArt was going to ‘Shop that image of Trump’s hair trying to escape with Volde on the scalp.

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nines09  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:30:47pm

50 Mooch-cycles…

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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:34:05pm

re: #109 MsJ

Why Terence Trent D’Arby became Sananda Maitreya: ‘It was that or death’

theguardian.com

I remember D’Arby filling in for deceased Michael Hutchence for the opening of Stadium Australia.

The guy had some soul pipes for sure. ANd he threw in some James Brown licks ‘cuz he could.

Sananda Maitreya aka Terence Trent D’Arby & INXS /New Sensation (live) part1

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Citizen K  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:34:47pm

This is the man that is treated like the super genius debater of the millennial era or something. Just…

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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:36:31pm

re: #116 The Vicious Babushka

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Nice meringue VB! Browned peaks and fluffy base. Mmmmmm.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:36:57pm

re: #159 Citizen K

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This is the man that is treated like the super genius debater of the millennial era or something. Just…

Wow no shit Sherlock. Krypton doesn’t exist either. Man you’re sad, Benny.

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Citizen K  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:39:27pm

re: #161 HappyWarrior

Wow no shit Sherlock. Krypton doesn’t exist either. Man you’re sad, Benny.

It’s like…he doesn’t understand why it’s important that Wakanda, as part of is fictional backstory, as a fictional country, wasn’t colonized. That’s kind of entirely the point: a country like Wakanda would only be allowed to exist in fiction, even if you take away the sci-fi of it.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:40:32pm

re: #162 Citizen K

It’s like…he doesn’t understand why it’s important that Wakanda, as part of is fictional backstory, as a fictional country, wasn’t colonized. That’s kind of entirely the point: a country like Wakanda would only be allowed to exist in fiction, even if you take away the sci-fi of it.

Right. It astounds me how ignorant he is. Maybe he should actually get his head out of his ass for once and stop being a dick on Twitter all the time.

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:43:23pm

ARGH!!

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Decatur Deb  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:44:00pm

re: #147 Belafon

The biggest threat to a wave in November is thinking that you shouldn’t vote for Democrats because you didn’t get everything you want from the party not in power.

All true, and I I’m one of the resident Dem fanatics. It’s still nice to show some coglioni when appropriate.

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Unshaken Defiance  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:46:35pm

re: #164 MsJ

ARGH!!

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What kills me too is how likely it is this guy would freak out at an Olympic hijab, modest Muslim style womens wear for sports.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:47:49pm

re: #164 MsJ

ARGH!!

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Didn’t Ted Cruz appear with this shitty excuse for a man?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:48:22pm

re: #166 Unshaken Defiance

What kills me too is how likely it is this guy would freak out at an Olympic hijab, modest Muslim style womens wear for sports.

Yep.

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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:52:37pm

re: #148 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines

This is what we get for not standing firm against the Pineapplists and their tropical fruit pizza agenda. It seemed harmless, or at least not worth the effort, but you see where we are now, under the heel of Big Fruit.

And you know where most pineapples come from don’t you???

That’s right…immigrants from Central and South America.

We traditional pizza lovers need a wall!!!

They are unAmerican. Hawaii doesn’t count because Obama!

Do you see what’s going on here?

Wake Up America! It’s an invasion of unwanted pizza topping.

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:54:09pm

re: #169 ObserverArt

And you know where most pineapples come from don’t you???

That’s right…immigrants from Central and South America.

We traditional pizza lovers need a wall!!!

They are unAmerican. Hawaii doesn’t count because Obama!

Do you see what’s going on here?

Wake Up America! It’s an invasion of unwanted pizza topping.

If it wasn’t for the upside down cake, I’d be with you.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:54:16pm

re: #169 ObserverArt

And you know where most pineapples come from don’t you???

That’s right…immigrants from Central and South America.

We traditional pizza lovers need a wall!!!

They are unAmerican. Hawaii doesn’t count because Obama!

Do you see what’s going on here?

Wake Up America! It’s an invasion of unwanted pizza topping.

Gives ‘em calves the size of hala kahiki.

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:54:27pm

re: #166 Unshaken Defiance

What kills me too is how likely it is this guy would freak out at an Olympic hijab, modest Muslim style womens wear for sports.

she won

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:54:30pm

Rod Rosenstein’s widely discussed possible replacement to fire Mueller is stepping down. Trump will put someone like Gowdy or Chaffetz in there now.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:55:00pm

re: #91 darthstar

Speaking of memos - this one sounds important.

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As if Trump isn’t horrible enough now we know that he’s planning to start an unnecessary war like his Republican predecessor did in Iraq. Oh joy!! /s

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EPR-radar  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:55:45pm

re: #163 HappyWarrior

Right. It astounds me how ignorant he is. Maybe he should actually get his head out of his ass for once and stop being a dick on Twitter all the time.

Meanwhile RWNJ cavemen view Ben Shapiro as some kind of super-genius. It would be pathetic if US conservatism weren’t so terribly dangerous.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:55:49pm

Yep while right wingers are mocking Salon for their inaccurate headline about Black Panther and berating Justin Trudeau for “human kind”, one of their own is blaming Nasser’s victims for his crimes. Nice priorities you got there conservatives.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:55:52pm

re: #173 darthstar

Rod Rosenstein’s widely discussed possible replacement to fire Mueller is stepping down. Trump will put someone like Gowdy or Chaffetz in there now.

I don’t think either of them want to be associated with Trump now.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:56:10pm

re: #173 darthstar

Rod Rosenstein’s widely discussed possible replacement to fire Mueller is stepping down. Trump will put someone like Gowdy or Chaffetz in there now.

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She might have been grabbed somewhere.

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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:56:18pm

Listening to Nicole on MSNBC and she just said a NY Times story is out that Rachel Brand is stepping down as the second in line under Rod Rosenstein at Justice. Hmmm.

Pressure? Not wanting to be there? Fear that she is going to moved up if Rosenstein goes or knows she would be going too?

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Kragar  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:56:21pm
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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:56:21pm

re: #177 Belafon

I don’t think either of them want to be associated with Trump now.

Nunes then.

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:56:25pm

re: #173 darthstar

Rod Rosenstein’s widely discussed possible replacement to fire Mueller is stepping down. Trump will put someone like Gowdy or Chaffetz in there now.

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I highly doubt Gowdy. He recently saw something he didn’t like enough to walk away from a reelection certainty and a judgeship.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:56:33pm

re: #175 EPR-radar

Meanwhile RWNJ cavemen view Ben Shapiro as some kind of super-genius. It would be pathetic if US conservatism weren’t so terribly dangerous.

Yep, he’s one of my wingnut friends favorite to post when he wants to “school liberals.” Shapiro’s an ignorant little twit who contributes nothing but his own bitterness and bile to to the debate.

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EPR-radar  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:57:14pm

re: #164 MsJ

For this ‘Christian Pastor’ I have only one question: it is the female gymnasts he is creepily aroused by, the male gymnasts, or both?

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:58:15pm
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Citizen K  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:58:47pm

re: #183 HappyWarrior

Yep, he’s one of my wingnut friends favorite to post when he wants to “school liberals.” Shapiro’s an ignorant little twit who contributes nothing but his own bitterness and bile to to the debate.

It’s remarkable how smart someone can seem when your standards are prohibitively narrowed to only take spite and contrarianism into account. On that measure, Shapiro is brilliant, as his intellectual style is basically just reflexive contrarianism to “spite the libz”.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:58:57pm

Chuck has also posted a series of photos showing himself holding big scary guns.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:59:01pm

re: #185 Charles Johnson

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Discovery will be a bitch for you, Dumbass.

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Citizen K  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:59:15pm

re: #185 Charles Johnson

“Weird Al” Yankovic - I’ll Sue Ya

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 1:59:52pm

re: #174 Patricia Kayden

As if Trump isn’t horrible enough now we know that he’s planning to start an unnecessary war like his Republican predecessor did in Iraq. Oh joy!! /s

Unnecessary NUCLEAR war.

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:00:07pm

re: #185 Charles Johnson

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EPR-radar  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:00:40pm

re: #185 Charles Johnson

CCJ has conveniently forgotten when (or never heard) a lawyer tell him that truth is an absolute defense to a libel or slander lawsuit.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:00:45pm

re: #186 Citizen K

It’s remarkable how smart someone can seem when your standards are prohibitively narrowed to only take spite and contrarianism into account. On that measure, Shapiro is brilliant, as his intellectual style is basically just reflexive contrarianism to “spite the libz”.

Yep Shapiro’s whole thing is going to college campuses berating liberal college kids. He’s a loser. I bet his folks are real proud that they sent him to law school only for him to become a glorified troll on the internet.

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Kragar  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:01:41pm

re: #187 Charles Johnson

Chuck has also posted a series of photos showing himself holding big scary guns.

You would think that given his history, he would be more than a little bit concerned over a possible accidental discharge.

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Citizen K  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:02:06pm

re: #193 HappyWarrior

Yep Shapiro’s whole thing is going to college campuses berating liberal college kids. He’s a loser. I bet his folks are real proud that they sent him to law school only for him to become a glorified troll on the internet.

Unfortunately, modern conservatism is pretty much indistinguishable from trolling at this point. And we’ve seen how effective it is as getting itself taken seriously. Actually giving tangible results, less so, but power for it’s own sake was always the prime impetus anyways.

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:02:13pm

re: #190 MsJ

Unnecessary NUCLEAR war.

As if there was such a thing as necessary nuclear war.

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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:03:02pm

re: #164 MsJ

ARGH!!

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I bet he has custom built closets. Big, large, full of all kinds of ‘stuff’ closets. Lots of them too.

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EPR-radar  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:03:40pm

re: #193 HappyWarrior

Yep Shapiro’s whole thing is going to college campuses berating liberal college kids. He’s a loser. I bet his folks are real proud that they sent him to law school only for him to become a glorified troll on the internet.

A lot of those liberal college kids have their hearts in the right place, but haven’t dealt with the kind of concentrated evil that forms US conservatism. So it isn’t surprising that Shapiro often does well in these ‘debates’.

Have I mentioned recently my view that traditional debates are often a shitty way of arriving at truth? E.g., the vulnerability of many sets of formal debate rules to a Gish galloper.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:03:42pm

re: #195 Citizen K

Unfortunately, modern conservatism is pretty much indistinguishable from trolling at this point. And we’ve seen how effective it is as getting itself taken seriously. Actually giving tangible results, less so, but power for it’s own sake was always the prime impetus anyways.

Pretty much.

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:04:46pm
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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:04:49pm

re: #170 MsJ

If it wasn’t for the upside down cake, I’d be with you.

That’s different. I am only down on pizza pineapple meant for toppings…they are the devil’s fruit.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:05:20pm

re: #198 EPR-radar

A lot of those liberal college kids have their hearts in the right place, but haven’t dealt with the kind of concentrated evil that forms US conservatism. So it isn’t surprising that Shapiro often does well in these ‘debates’.

Have I mentioned recently my view that traditional debates are often a shitty way of arriving at truth? E.g., the vulnerability of many sets of formal debate rules to a Gish galloper.

Yeah they’re just kids and they’re easy targets for Shapiro and his audience to belittle since they’re young, fairly naive, etc but as I agree with you about traditional debates. I don’t care if you’re the most effective debater in the world. If you have Shapiro’s worldview of belittling people because you don’t like their preferred gender pro-noun, I ain’t listening.

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EPR-radar  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:05:31pm

re: #200 darthstar

Someone needs to do that deck of cards thing for the Trump Gang.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:05:39pm

re: #201 ObserverArt

That’s different. I am only down on pizza pineapple meant for toppings…they are the devil’s fruit.

Unintended consequences.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:06:14pm

re: #196 darthstar

As if there was such a thing as necessary nuclear war.

Needs must when the Devil drives.

phrases.org.uk

The Tunes (Smitha’s Set)

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:07:07pm

re: #202 HappyWarrior

Yeah they’re just kids and they’re easy targets for Shapiro and his audience to belittle since they’re young, fairly naive, etc but as I agree with you about traditional debates. I don’t care if you’re the most effective debater in the world. If you have Shapiro’s worldview of belittling people because you don’t like their preferred gender pro-noun, I ain’t listening.

My son will be ready for him. He’s a big Samantha Bee fan, pays a decent amount of attention to politics, and has a sharp tongue. Starts college this fall. Maybe I should begin preparing him for Shapiro.

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Citizen K  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:08:14pm

re: #198 EPR-radar

A lot of those liberal college kids have their hearts in the right place, but haven’t dealt with the kind of concentrated evil that forms US conservatism. So it isn’t surprising that Shapiro often does well in these ‘debates’.

Have I mentioned recently my view that traditional debates are often a shitty way of arriving at truth? E.g., the vulnerability of many sets of formal debate rules to a Gish galloper.

Traditional debates have the same exact weakness that I keep attributing to our political system: the assumption of good faith on all sides. Once one side learns to ratfuck the other side, all bets are off. And it’s usually the side that tries to act in good faith that gets punished for it.

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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:09:11pm

re: #185 Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson
✔
@Green_Footballs
The floor-pooping Rage Furby is PUTTING THE MEDIA ON NOTICE! Look out. He’s gonna sue all y’all.

4:53 PM - Feb 9, 2018
38
20 people are talking about this

Look out Charles. He probably considers you and this site media and a target too.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:09:12pm

re: #206 Belafon

My son will be ready for him. He’s a big Samantha Bee fan, pays a decent amount of attention to politics, and has a sharp tongue. Starts college this fall. Maybe I should begin preparing him for Shapiro.

Good deal. Your son sounds like a good kid.

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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:11:19pm

re: #204 Belafon

Unintended consequences.

Lines were crossed.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:11:34pm
Fox News pulled a column from its website that claimed that the U.S. Olympic Committee was trying to make the sporting event “darker, gayer, different,” created a backlash online. The piece was written by Fox News executive vice president and executive editor John Moody. Moody was responding to a Washington Post report quoting U.S. Olympic officials were are “pleased” that this year’s team “includes more African Americans and Asian Americans — and even the first two openly gay men — than recent winter squads.” Moody wrote: “In Olympics, let’s focus on the winner of the race — not the race of the winner.” Many groups, including GLAAD and Human Rights Campaign, criticized the piece. In a statement, Fox said the column “does not reflect views or values of Fox News.”

washingtonpost.com

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:11:52pm

re: #208 ObserverArt

I’ve lost count of how many times he’s threatened to sue me.

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Skip Intro  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:12:01pm

re: #185 Charles Johnson

Posting a “notice” on Facebook means absolutely nothing legally.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:12:47pm

re: #212 Charles Johnson

I’ve lost count of how many times he’s threatened to sue me.

If he ever actually did, it would be your opportunity to swat this gnat.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:13:01pm

re: #211 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

washingtonpost.com

It was incredibly stupid.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:13:35pm

re: #215 HappyWarrior

It was incredibly stupid.

Reactionaries gotta react.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:13:38pm

Shitshow

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Decatur Deb  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:13:53pm

re: #211 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

washingtonpost.com

“In a statement, Fox said the column “does not reflect views or values of Fox News.”

There must be some rustic term to describe this.

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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:14:43pm

re: #212 Charles Johnson

I’ve lost count of how many times he’s threatened to sue me.

I thought you might have a spreadsheet or something, just to keep record. : )

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:15:06pm

re: #217 Stanley Sea

Shitshow

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Lazy assholes.

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:15:31pm

re: #198 EPR-radar

A lot of those liberal college kids have their hearts in the right place, but haven’t dealt with the kind of concentrated evil that forms US conservatism. So it isn’t surprising that Shapiro often does well in these ‘debates’.

Have I mentioned recently my view that traditional debates are often a shitty way of arriving at truth? E.g., the vulnerability of many sets of formal debate rules to a Gish galloper.

Ben Shapiro’s whole debate style is the Gish Gallop.

I’ve dealt with that in one of my religion counter-apologetics posts, including Ben Shapiro (he argues for creationism), and the ways to defeat the Gallop.

Shameless off-site page promotion:
Apologetics Fail #19: The Gish Gallop

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I cannot.  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:15:33pm

re: #203 EPR-radar

Except it would have like, more cards than Magic: the Gathering.

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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:16:01pm

re: #218 Decatur Deb

“In a statement, Fox said the column “does not reflect views or values of Fox News.”

There must be some rustic term to describe this.

Lying.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:17:15pm

re: #223 ObserverArt

Lying.

No…not it. Lacks that barnyard flavor.

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:17:16pm

re: #201 ObserverArt

That’s different. I am only down on pizza pineapple meant for toppings…they are the devil’s fruit.

I’m with ya.

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:17:26pm

re: #218 Decatur Deb

“In a statement, Fox said the column “does not reflect views or values of Fox News.”

There must be some rustic term to describe this.

“lying”

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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:18:32pm

re: #224 Decatur Deb

No…not it. Lacks that barnyard flavor.

I was trying to keep it at a certain level. Same substance.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:18:50pm

re: #226 Anymouse 🌹

“lying”

Nah… something more bovine, something more…Murdoch.

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:19:01pm

re: #214 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

If he ever actually did, it would be your opportunity to swat this gnat.

And take all his ill gotten gains.

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wrenchwench  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:19:25pm

re: #224 Decatur Deb

No…not it. Lacks that barnyard flavor.

Bullshit.

Chicken shit.

Sheep shit.

I’m outta shit.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:21:04pm

re: #221 Anymouse 🌹

“Ben Shapiro’s whole debate style is the Gish Gallop.”

But if you touch him and you’re icky, he’ll throw a fit.

The moment this transgender debate got heated

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Decatur Deb  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:21:20pm

re: #230 wrenchwench

Bullshit.

Chicken shit.

Sheep shit.

I’m outta shit.

Yes…It has that air about it.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:23:20pm

re: #231 Patricia Kayden

“Ben Shapiro’s whole debate style is the Gish Gallop.”

But if you touch him and you’re icky, he’ll throw a fit.

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She got transgender cooties on him.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:23:28pm

re: #231 Patricia Kayden

“Ben Shapiro’s whole debate style is the Gish Gallop.”

But if you touch him and you’re icky, he’ll throw a fit.

[Embedded content]

Video

Yep he taunted her and then cried like a baby when she stood up to him.

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Citizen K  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:24:12pm

re: #218 Decatur Deb

“In a statement, Fox said the column “does not reflect views or values of Fox News.”

There must be some rustic term to describe this.

re: #230 wrenchwench

Bullshit.

Chicken shit.

Sheep shit.

I’m outta shit.

Horseshit too.

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:24:37pm
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wrenchwench  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:26:16pm

re: #235 Citizen K

Horseshit too.

That’s the special shit. Horses eat better than everybody else in the yard.

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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:26:41pm

re: #236 FormerDirtDart

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I caught a bit of Elon saying something like: ‘You can tell it is real, because it looks so fake.’ (Paraphrased)

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:27:07pm

re: #233 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

She got transgender cooties on him.

Waiting for Mr. Shapiro to come out of the closet in three… .

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:31:36pm

re: #238 ObserverArt

I caught a bit of Elon saying something like: ‘You can tell it is real, because it looks so fake.’ (Paraphrased)

The same argument applies to the moon landing.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:31:38pm

Y’a’ll excuse me while I go into my (water) closet and whimper for a few minutes.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:31:50pm
First lady Melania Trump—who has been distant from President Donald Trump since reports surfaced that the president’s lawyer paid off a porn star to cover up an alleged affair—follows only five people on Twitter, her husband’s favorite social media platform. The most recent addition to her Twitter feed is one of her husband’s least favorite people, Barack Obama.

newsweek.com

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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:32:57pm

re: #240 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

The same argument applies to the moon landing.

I’m thinking that was the root of his comment.

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:33:04pm

Worst part? John Belushi is dead and this actual Illinois Nazi is alive.

Facebook Post

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:33:08pm

re: #242 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

newsweek.com

Hmmm.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:33:58pm

re: #242 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Which is odd since she is a birther.

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:34:25pm

re: #242 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

newsweek.com

SHADE!

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:35:29pm

re: #246 Patricia Kayden

Really odd.
Melania Trump Supported Her Husband’s Racist Birtherism Claims on TV (Teen Vogue)

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Jay C  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:35:32pm

re: #208 ObserverArt

Look out Charles. He probably considers you and this site media and a target too.

Yeah, he’s likely to sue you for (mis)using his name….

And on a more serious note: have any of Chuckles’ much-ballyhooed lawsuits ever gone anywhere (outside of the pages of whatever blog/site/toilet wall he writes for?)

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:36:25pm

re: #244 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines

Can Republicans stop him from running under their name? I guess it’s too late for them to run someone else against him. I’ve read that the district is very blue so this Nazi has zero chance of winning so at least we don’t have to worry about him going to the U.S. House.

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KGxvi  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:36:32pm

re: #244 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines

I’ve read some that it’s such a strong D district that it’s almost impossible to get non-crazy Republicans to run. But I’ve also heard that the state GOP has managed to get him kicked off the ballot in prior cycles. Question is whether they will this time or nah.

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sagehen  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:36:49pm

re: #246 Patricia Kayden

Which is odd since she is a birther.

Or pretended to be because her husband demanded she do so.

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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:36:57pm

And why does Donny Trump not favor Barack Obama???

I think the word ‘uppity’ is in the answer.

What a total weakling Trumper is for all his bravado.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:37:38pm

re: #242 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

newsweek.com

It’s even better as a visual

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:38:02pm

re: #248 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Really odd.
Melania Trump Supported Her Husband’s Racist Birtherism Claims on TV (Teen Vogue)

She ha$ million$ of reason$ to $upport Donald Trump’$ raci$t a$$ertion.

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KGxvi  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:38:17pm

re: #253 ObserverArt

And why does Donny Trump not favore Barack Obama???

I think the word ‘uppity’ is in the answer.

What a total weakling Trumper is for all his bravado.

In my experience, bravado and insecurity are directly correlated.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:39:19pm

re: #256 KGxvi

In my experience, bravado and insecurity are directly correlated.

Definitely. I came across as arrogant when I was an insecure young man.

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nines09  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:40:54pm

Your Gig Is At The Wrong Drummer

Steve Moore goes “Mad” again.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:41:56pm

re: #248 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Really odd.
Melania Trump Supported Her Husband’s Racist Birtherism Claims on TV (Teen Vogue)

That would’ve been a good time to grill her about her being an illegal immigrant.

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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:45:05pm

re: #258 nines09

Your Gig Is At The Wrong Drummer

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Video

I ‘member when he was first seen on YouTube.

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bill d. (b.d.)  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:45:37pm

John Kelly must be the leakingest SOB there ever was the way that the press slobbers all over him.

It has to be, there is no other reason.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:45:38pm

re: #259 Big Beautiful Door

That would’ve been a good time to grill her about her being an illegal immigrant.

It amuses me so much that Trump has both an illegal immigrant, someone whose family “chain migrated”, etc all in his family. I’d love to see someone point that out to him at the next presser. He’d get pissed but it’d be worth it.

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:46:03pm

Holy crap, I just read Rebecca Shoenkopf’s personal story about a violent boyfriend that was linked above by another person here.

As she notes at the very end of her article:

And I hope that other man, whom I once so loved, is never in a position where I have to let the country know.

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Jay C  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:46:19pm

re: #254 Stanley Sea

It’s even better as a visual

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Love it: Mike Pence, Mother Pence, the Asshole’s two accounts, and Obama.
I’d really like to read a tell-all from Melania one of these days…NDA notwithstanding.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:46:41pm

re: #261 bill d. (b.d.)

John Kelly must be the leakingest SOB there ever was the way that the press slobbers all over him.

It has to be, there is no other reason.

IMO the media wants to push the idea of generals like Kelly, McMaster, and Mattis civilizing and moderating Trump. But*

*Need citation, evidence not avaiable

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:47:26pm

The stock market roller coaster ride ended up big for the day, though still way down from its high last week. The price of oil, however, collapsed all day, and now is barely above $59 a barrel, a $7 dollar drop in the last week.

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nines09  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:47:29pm

re: #260 ObserverArt

They come through here every year. Play at a local amusement park. Half the crowd has no idea what’s happening.

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:47:31pm

re: #212 Charles Johnson

I’ve lost count of how many times he’s threatened to sue me.

until i updinged this it was “eleventy”

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:47:32pm

re: #264 Jay C

Love it: Mike Pence, Mother Pence, the Asshole’s two accounts, and Obama.
I’d really like to read a tell-all from Melania one of these days…NDA notwithstanding.

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if we get one. She’s going to outlive him and I bet she doesn’t think much of Don Jr, Ivanka, and Eric.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:48:06pm

re: #265 Cheechako

FYI:

Tennessee man who famously hacked Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account in 2008 is dead

Obviously the Clintons gave him MS as part of a cover-up

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Skip Intro  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:48:19pm

re: #267 Big Beautiful Door

The stock market roller coaster ride ended up big for the day, though still way down from its high last week. The price of oil, however, collapsed all day, and now is barely above $59 a barrel, a $7 dollar drop in the last week.

How’s coal doing? That’s the important thing.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:48:32pm

I need booze.

I think tonight is going to be one for the history books

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:48:42pm

re: #270 HappyWarrior

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if we get one. She’s going to outlive him and I bet she doesn’t think much of Don Jr, Ivanka, and Eric.

And we know she thinks a lot of the money a tell-all would get her.

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:49:31pm

re: #217 Stanley Sea

Shitshow

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:51:13pm

re: #265 Cheechako

FYI:

Tennessee man who famously hacked Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account in 2008 is dead

MS! She ruined his life just because he guessed her password “popcorn” EDIT, that’s what he changed the PW to.

So sad.

Her karma is toast.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:51:39pm

re: #275 dangerman

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:51:43pm

re: #230 wrenchwench

Bullshit.

Chicken shit.

Sheep shit.

I’m outta shit.

h/t colonel sherman t potter:

“horse hockey!”
“mule fritters!”
“monkey muffins!”
“buffalo bagels!”
“buffalo chips!”
“pigeon pellets!”
“pony pucks!”
“beaver biscuits!”
“cow cookies!”
“bull cookies!”
“pig feathers!”
“road apples!”

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:51:50pm

i think we might be averaging one or two days a week where some rancid bullshit doesn’t emanate from the white house

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:52:17pm

re: #273 Stanley Sea

I need booze.

I think tonight is going to be one for the history books

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thedailybeast.com
Only info I can find on him. Seems very unqualified.
Trump tapped former Ford Motor Company lawyer Jim Carroll to join McGahn’s team. Carroll has since moved over to the Office of Management and Budget, where he serves as general counsel. But before he did, the White House hired his son, James Carroll III—whose previous professional experience consisted of a stint as the sports editor of his college newspaper—as a staff assistant.

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:52:39pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:53:04pm

re: #270 HappyWarrior

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if we get one. She’s going to outlive him and I bet she doesn’t think much of Don Jr, Ivanka, and Eric.

And the lawsuits surrounding whatever wealth Mr. Trump actually has are going to be vicious. I’m not sure whether a tell-all book would help or hurt a lawsuit.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:53:20pm

re: #277 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

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пиздец

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:54:04pm

re: #282 Anymouse 🌹

And the lawsuits surrounding whatever wealth Mr. Trump actually has are going to be vicious. I’m not sure whether a tell-all book would help or hurt a lawsuit.

Well I think it would imagine who would get his estate when he dies. I just see Ivanka Melania writing a book with the help of a ghostwriter because there’s going to be a demand for it.

Had to make clear my typo here.

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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:55:31pm

re: #268 nines09

They come through here every year. Play at a local amusement park. Half the crowd has no idea what’s happening.

Really? Wow, how could you not see the show, they play it up in the intro.

I drum and have never been flashy, so I give the guy credit…what he is doing is all show and go but not easy to do. Props.

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:55:47pm

re: #244 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines

Worst part? John Belushi is dead and this actual Illinois Nazi is alive.

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the party whose candidates actually have to say that “i am not a nazi” and “i am not a witch”

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allegro  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:58:37pm

re: #270 HappyWarrior

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if we get one. She’s going to outlive him and I bet she doesn’t think much of Don Jr, Ivanka, and Eric.

She will probably need the money. She’ll never be a rich widow. Donnie is likely broke.

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:58:48pm

re: #254 Stanley Sea

It’s even better as a visual

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she’s probably got another secret/anonymous account with an outrageous handle

is she “hoarse whisperer”?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:59:40pm

re: #287 allegro

She will probably need the money. She’ll never be a rich widow. Donnie is likely broke.

That’s what I was thinking as well.

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sagehen  Feb 9, 2018 • 2:59:50pm

re: #284 HappyWarrior

Well I think it would imagine who would get his estate when he dies. I just see Ivanka Melania writing a book with the help of a ghostwriter because there’s going to be a demand for it.

Had to make clear my typo here.

In New York State, it’s impossible to disinherit a spouse. Even if you want to, even if there’s a prenup, even if she’s a third wife and your kids don’t want her to get anything.

She’ll get 1/3 of whatever’s left after debts and liens are paid.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:00:00pm

re: #288 dangerman

she’s probably got another secret/anonymous account with an outrageous handle

is she “hoarse whisperer”?

I think it’s more or less been confirmed that Horse is a dude.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:00:26pm

re: #290 sagehen

In New York State, it’s impossible to disinherit a spouse. Even if you want to, even if there’s a prenup, even if she’s a third wife and your kids don’t want her to get anything.

She’ll get 1/3 of whatever’s left after debts and liens are paid.

Thanks. Not familiar with NY inheritance laws.

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makeitstop  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:00:44pm

re: #290 sagehen

In New York State, it’s impossible to disinherit a spouse. Even if you want to, even if there’s a prenup, even if she’s a third wife and your kids don’t want her to get anything.

She’ll get 1/3 of whatever’s left after debts and liens are paid.

Two, three grand, easy.

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:05:21pm

So did Trump manage to forget the Democratic memo and pocket-approve it by his inaction?

I hope he spaced it and is too busy eating burgers and masturbating to the Ivanka-Quincy Jones sex tape to be disturbed.

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:06:42pm

re: #277 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

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well played

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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:07:52pm

re: #294 darthstar

So did Trump manage to forget the Democratic memo and pocket-approve it by his inaction?

I hope he spaced it and is too busy eating burgers and masturbating to the Ivanka-Quincy Jones sex tape to be disturbed.

I think I heard he said he is going to release it soon.

Edit to add: Now this.

Trump says White House to issue letter on Democratic Russia memo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Friday the White House would soon release a letter regarding the possible release of a classified memo written by Democrats to rebut a Republican document claiming FBI and Justice Department bias against him in the federal probe of Russia and the 2016 U.S. election.

…more at link

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:08:35pm

re: #281 MsJ

JUST IN: Trump campaign chair in KY pleads guilty to sex trafficking of minors: 21 counts against 19 victims, to get 20 yrs in prison, “felony trafficking of a minor, felony inducing a minor to engage in sex, and a third count of giving alcohol to a minor

so guilty
convicted

can we get someone official from the WH or GOP to make a statement about him NOW?

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Pineapple Pizzagate  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:08:37pm

re: #167 HappyWarrior

Didn’t Ted Cruz appear with this shitty excuse for a man?

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:09:45pm

re: #296 ObserverArt

I think I heard he said he is going to release it soon.

He just had five days to deny, not approve, it. So if he did nothing it would be approved by default. Given how fucked up his team is, that would have been the best way for it to happen…to further illustrate how he can’t even do the small things.

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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:11:18pm

re: #299 darthstar

He just had five days to deny, not approve, it. So if he did nothing it would be approved by default. Given how fucked up his team is, that would have been the best way for it to happen…to further illustrate how he can’t even do the small things.

I just added more to my comment. See the link to a Reuters article. They appear to be dicking around.

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:12:00pm
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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:12:18pm

re: #291 HappyWarrior

I think it’s more or less been confirmed that Horse is a dude.

im torn between answering with

1 - i was just speculating
or
2 - i have alternative facts

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:13:22pm

re: #302 dangerman

im torn between answering with

1 - i was just speculating
or
2 - i have alternative facts

3-Synthesis:

I have speculative facts.

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gocart mozart  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:14:05pm

re: #298 Pineapple Pizzagate

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:14:40pm

re: #164 MsJ

ARGH!!

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just saw this

im late if we’re doing pirate’s day

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Kragar  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:14:41pm
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gocart mozart  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:15:19pm
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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:15:41pm

I’m old enough to remember when I totally fuckin’ hated Jen Rubin…my what a difference Trump makes.

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gocart mozart  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:17:29pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:17:36pm

re: #308 darthstar

I’m old enough to remember when I totally fuckin’ hated Jen Rubin…my what a difference Trump makes.

As soon as Team Orange is gone, she’ll be right back to supporting the conservative outrage du jour. Ms. Rubin is only upset that Pumpkin Pinochet blew the lid off what conservatism actually is.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:21:08pm

re: #309 gocart mozart

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I mentioned Baio first!

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:21:36pm

Jim Wright with something to think about:

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:21:46pm
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ipsos  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:23:25pm

re: #310 Anymouse 🌹

As soon as Team Orange is gone, she’ll be right back to supporting the conservative outrage du jour. Ms. Rubin is only upset that Pumpkin Pinochet blew the lid off what conservatism actually is.

I dunno. I think there are a handful of former “Team Red” cheerleaders who have genuinely started rethinking things in Trumpworld. I don’t think Rubin, or Charlie Sykes for that matter, will ever be Team Blue, but I do expect that their worldview is going to look different even after Trump is gone. And I’m OK with that. We need those voices out there.

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:25:00pm

re: #313 MsJ

Sorry. I’m on my phone. From that article:

A second “dossier” is circulating among Republicans in Washington that they say shows the Clintons’ influence on the FBI’s investigation. But the evidence of that is lacking.
…
It covers just eight pages, misspells names, and relies on only one Russian intelligence source.

The so-called second dossier echoes many assertions about Donald Trump’s activities with Russians that former British spy Christopher Steele made in his reports, now called “the Steele dossier.”

And the “second dossier” is gaining increasing attention in Washington, where Republicans say it provides additional evidence of anti-Trump taint in the Trump-Russia investigation.

But to paraphrase the late Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, we’ve read the second dossier, and it’s no Steele dossier. It’s not even a dossier

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:25:08pm

Ana Navarro‏Verified account
@ananavarro
Follow Follow @ananavarro
More Ana Navarro Retweeted Josh Dawsey

In the Trump White House, Scaramucci was forced to leave faster and more abruptly for talking smack, than Rob Porter was for violently smacking women.

that is more than just wordplay

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:26:05pm

re: #311 Big Beautiful Door

I mentioned Baio first!

and you’ll have to live with it

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:27:30pm

One thing Trump has done is expanded the descriptive language used by the average person.

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:28:59pm

re: #315 MsJ

Sorry. I’m on my phone. From that article:

“dossier” is gonna be the new word du jour

watch it skyrocket in google as a whole bunch of folks (you know who they are) will have to find out what it means

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:31:21pm

File this under HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

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bill d. (b.d.)  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:33:08pm

re: #313 MsJ

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I JUST FOUND A MOAR EXPLOSIONY MEMO, REALLY>>>>THIS ONE IS GOOD!!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:33:49pm

I talk a bunch of analytical smack about what’s going on in this administration, but the way that everything keeps drifting back to cases of personal, intimate abuse, and the big picture keeps looking like abuser tactics versus a nation…it’s fucking me up and I’m having to very careful how much of it I ingest at a setting.

I’m sad for everyone going through this.

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DodgerFan1988  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:34:26pm

re: #309 gocart mozart

[Embedded content]

Arthur Jones

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:35:36pm

re: #320 darthstar

File this under HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

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It’s the Intercept. GRAIN OF SALT. No, a silo of salt.

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bill d. (b.d.)  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:35:59pm

re: #320 darthstar

File this under HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

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Can the Brits buy it for all of the decent people in the USA?

Please?

Tom Steyer has enough money to buy it, it would help on his mission to get rid of Trump too.

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prairiefire  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:37:04pm

re: #322 The Ghost of a Flea

He first triggered me when a Trump said “the Clintons are good people. I don’t want to’ hurt them.” Not justice, not blind justice, just this huge ego wrapped around a Sadist.

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:37:34pm

Talk about a Friday info dump

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:38:38pm
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Kragar  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:39:32pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:40:27pm

re: #326 prairiefire

All the variations on “we’re going to do what we want and call it justice” drive me up the wall. It’s like being a kid again.

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:40:52pm

Not sure how to take it because it’s from The Intercept. Glenn’s Website has a tenuous connexion with the truth.

On the flip side, if the article is true, then we can see more of conservatism being more important than patriotism… .

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ipsos  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:40:52pm

re: #329 Kragar

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Could be worse.

It could be Thernovith for Thenate.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:40:56pm

re: #327 FormerDirtDart

Talk about a Friday info dump

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To replace these?

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:41:24pm

Bad week for Republicans and their conspiracy theories…

The best part is the closing paragraph:

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Kragar  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:43:39pm

re: #334 darthstar

Bad week for Republicans and their conspiracy theories…

The best part is the closing paragraph:

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*insert Pacific Rim “Double Event” remark here*

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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:44:20pm

As we speak I’m looking at a Thai recipe called ma ho.

It’s pineapple topped with a savory-spicy peanut and meat mix.

Maybe it’s the general disquiet talking, but theoretically it would make a good pizza combo….

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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:46:46pm

re: #329 Kragar

I’d observe that “run for office” is another great way to grift cash with very little oversight, and that’s pretty much Mike’s thing.

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Jay C  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:47:12pm

re: #313 MsJ

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I mean, SRSLY!! Nunes hasn’t figured it out yet that he has probably trashed whatever minimal credibility his bullshit Memos (didn’t) have in the first place, so he’s going to keep on keeping on until MAYBE he finds something -anything - that may even remotely stick?

Then again, on reflection, his “audience” is probably intended to be all Republicans- things like reality or credibility don’t apply….

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:47:19pm

“-CIA is afraid of getting info that could be damaging to Trump”

So, if WE don’t buy it, the Russians won’t sell it to anyone else?

Ri-i-ight.

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:47:54pm

re: #336 The Ghost of a Flea

As we speak I’m looking at a Thai recipe called ma ho.

It’s pineapple topped with a savory-spicy peanut and meat mix.

Maybe it’s the general disquiet talking, but theoretically it would make a good pizza combo….

no it wouldnt

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:48:54pm

Herman Miller chairs, with their mesh seats and seatbacks may be comfortable, but they make it really difficult to fart surreptitiously.

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:49:07pm

re: #338 Jay C

I mean, SRSLY!! Nunes hasn’t figured it out yet that he has probably trashed whatever minimal credibility his bullshit Memos (didn’t) have in the first place, so he’s going to keep on keeping on until MAYBE he finds something -anything - that may even remotely stick?

Then again, on reflection, his “audience” is probably intended to be all Republicans- things like reality or credibility don’t apply….

It’s all for those 30% of Republican true believers. Get it out so Russian bots can RT and spread the bullshit. Nothing more.

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:49:53pm

re: #339 Blind Frog Belly White

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“-CIA is afraid of getting info that could be damaging to Trump”

So, if WE don’t buy it, the Russians won’t sell it to anyone else?

Ri-i-ight.

The whole thing screams bullshit to me.

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dangerman  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:50:35pm

re: #339 Blind Frog Belly White

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“-CIA is afraid of getting info that could be damaging to Trump”

So, if WE don’t buy it, the Russians won’t sell it to anyone else?

Ri-i-ight.

a deal to sell stolen NSA documents back to the U.S.

that we totally didnt look at or make copies of

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:53:08pm

re: #344 dangerman

a deal to sell stolen NSA documents back to the U.S.

that we totally didnt look at or make copies of

I know, right? First, if these are electronic files, how do we know they haven’t been copied, and second, if they ARE electronic files, don’t we still have them?

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:54:31pm

But of course

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ObserverArt  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:56:19pm

re: #345 Blind Frog Belly White

I know, right? First, if these are electronic files, how do we know they haven’t been copied, and second, if they ARE electronic files, don’t we still have them?

SNOWDEN!!!

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:57:20pm

re: #347 ObserverArt

SNOWDEN!!!

That right there should be enough for everyone to STFU. Comrade Snowden. 🙄

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Interesting Times  Feb 9, 2018 • 3:59:55pm

This is the question no one in the corporate media (save for a few MSNBC personalities?) is asking (if anything, the opposite, with all their endless and nauseating hagiographies of Cheeto Benito supporters):

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whitebeach  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:01:03pm

re: #344 dangerman

a deal to sell stolen NSA documents back to the U.S.

that we totally didnt look at or make copies of

Exactly. Has any intelligence organization in the history of the world ever offered to buy back documents after they’ve been in possession of the enemy? But then this is the Trump era, so I can picture the conversation:

Trump: Vlad, we’d like to get those documents back. Can we make a deal?

Putin: Of course. What’s more, I make what you call pinky promise that we never peeked at them. How about a billion dollars?

Trump: Sure. Make it a $1.1 billion. Put the extra hundred million in my usual account, OK?

Putin: No troubles, Don. It’s true what they say: You are master of the art of the deal.

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:01:10pm

Tea Pain is speculating:

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:01:34pm

re: #349 Interesting Times

This is the question no one in the corporate media (save for a few MSNBC personalities?) is asking (if anything, the opposite, with all their endless and nauseating hagiographies of Cheeto Benito supporters):

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It says that 46.2% of the people who voted in 2016 are either racists, or okay with the President being one.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:02:57pm

re: #349 Interesting Times

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bill d. (b.d.)  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:03:20pm

re: #345 Blind Frog Belly White

I know, right? First, if these are electronic files, how do we know they haven’t been copied, and second, if they ARE electronic files, don’t we still have them?

We’ll buy all the copies!!!

//

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:04:54pm

re: #353 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

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We outnumber them, but they are more favorably placed, geographically.

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:05:18pm

White House exorcism guy is back after a too-brief absence:

Facebook Post

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:06:50pm

re: #356 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines

White House exorcism guy is back after a too-brief absence:

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“No, no! I said EXERCISE!! My husband needs EXERCISE!!! What, is it my accent?”

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whitebeach  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:07:26pm

re: #356 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines

White House exorcism guy is back after a too-brief absence:

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Hey, exorcising the White House may be nonsense, but isn’t it at least worth a try?

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:07:39pm

Curling is up. BBIAB.

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:08:10pm

re: #355 Blind Frog Belly White

We outnumber them, but they are more favorably placed, geographically.

Well, y’all know what to do: We have lots of space for y’all to move to in our red states. Get cracking. It will take a lot of people moving to flip states.

Either that, or better education on issues that will require outsiders to help with.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:10:31pm

re: #340 dangerman

Not at all pizza related:

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:10:48pm

re: #358 whitebeach

Hey, exorcising the White House may be nonsense, but isn’t it at least worth a try?

At this point, I am inclined to say “yes.” Paul’s problem is that he thinks it was needed BEFORE the Rancid One moved in.

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:11:06pm

I’m not on Twitter, so I can’t send a big warning to Rep. Ted Lieu to be careful with Glenn’s known rodent copulation tendencies.

I never heard of an intelligence agency buying back information from a foreign power which stole the information in the first place. (That really doesn’t make any sense: a) Russia gets dirt b) Russia copies dirt c) Russia offers to sell information back d) USA buys it e) Russia publishes copies)

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Interesting Times  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:13:14pm

Hmmm….

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:16:06pm
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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:16:22pm

re: #364 Interesting Times

Hmmm….

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Per Jeffrey Toobin: being that high up in the Justice Dept is the creme de la creme.

It is the epitome of being at the top of your career.

You don’t leave it at that young age for $$$.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:18:49pm

If you find your Windows 10 start menu and the taskbar right-clicks not working, this fixes the issue:
1-
Right click on start menu and click on Run. “For those who the start
menu does not respond with right click, right click on taskbar - click
on Task Manager - from File menu on the left upper corner select Run new
task”.
2- Write the command regedit and click Enter.
3- Go to path [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WpnUserService].
4- Double click on Start from the right side.
5- Change the value data to 4 then OK.
6- Reboot.

I unfortunately found this solution after a Windows reset and reinstall of all my programs didn’t fix the problem.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:19:46pm

re: #365 Charles Johnson

Oops. Now how did he mistake Chuck claiming a high IQ for actual intelligence?

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Ace-o-aces  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:19:48pm

re: #356 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines

White House exorcism guy is back after a too-brief absence:

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Wow, guy is going with the Illuminati. That’s the OG of conspiracy theories. And also Bill Ayers, because we all must fear the power of the retired education professor!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:20:07pm

re: #366 Stanley Sea

Per Jeffrey Toobin: being that high up in the Justice Dept is the creme de la creme.

It is the epitome of being at the top of your career.

You don’t leave it at that young age for $$$.

It’s amazing how tempting being offered a combination of alot of money, plus the chance to escape the Trump Administration with your reputation in tact could be.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:20:43pm
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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:22:08pm

Confirmed by the NYT?

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:22:12pm

re: #371 Stanley Sea

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Elephant intelligence is a little scary, but not as scary as violent semi-intelligent humans.

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:24:03pm

re: #368 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Oops. Now how did he mistake Chuck claiming a high IQ for actual intelligence?

- Checks Mensa directory
- Doesn’t find Chuck C. Johnson listed.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:27:22pm

Allegro - you here?

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:27:56pm

re: #363 Anymouse 🌹

I’m not on Twitter, so I can’t send a big warning to Rep. Ted Lieu to be careful with Glenn’s known rodent copulation tendencies.

I never heard of an intelligence agency buying back information from a foreign power which stole the information in the first place. (That really doesn’t make any sense: a) Russia gets dirt b) Russia copies dirt c) Russia offers to sell information back d) USA buys it e) Russia publishes copies)

I sent him a note to beware the Intercept.

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:28:30pm

re: #372 Stanley Sea

Confirmed by the NYT?

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Well, no one is on record in the article, and the NYT claims they saw certain documents but did not present them in the article. They give no source for any of their information.

Wingnuts will spin it as “Dems trying to buy information on Donald Trump to smear him.”

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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:31:36pm

re: #374 Anymouse 🌹

Mensa’s directory includes a lot of shop teachers and mid-level managers.

Their tests tell you a lot about how fast and well you assemble IKEA furniture. Any skillset with specialized knowledge—in this day and age…ALL OF THEM—your basic smarts will only help you if you actually study.

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:31:49pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:32:52pm

re: #378 The Ghost of a Flea

I was just going for snark.

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dirkdigglerjr  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:36:54pm

re: #12 Citizen K

Always been convinced that the root of the anti-choice faction is about cheap labor. Evolution has provided us with great progress as a species, with the exception of sexual maturity. The pro-business right knows all to well that a sizable number of economically poor young people will have intercourse and become pregnant. These individuals and their offspring will likely have little or no advanced education, thus leading to a ready supply of cost-effective workers. At the same time, the situation gives the “moral” right the ability to rail against pre-marital sex and any social programs that would allow people to escape their cycle of poverty. These folks might abhor Darwin, but they certainly subscribe wholeheartedly to Social Darwinism. All over a blastocysts. In the 21st century, these folks truly are monsters to their fellow people.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:37:03pm

re: #380 Anymouse 🌹

I was going for deeper-cut snark.

A bunch of these alt-right boys like citing their IQ, and some even tout their MENSA “above a certain percentile” club membership to justify their pseudoscientific bullshit.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:37:56pm

re: #379 Anymouse 🌹

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:38:32pm

re: #382 The Ghost of a Flea

I was going for deeper-cut snark.

A bunch of these alt-right boys like citing their IQ, and some even tout their MENSA “above a certain percentile” club membership to justify their pseudoscientific bullshit.

The Mensa tests are pretty easy, and most intelligent people don’t seem to join the club.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:39:51pm

Post now reporting that another White House staffer resigned over domestic abuse allegations

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petesh  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:39:58pm

re: #384 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

The Mensa tests are pretty easy, and most intelligent people don’t seem want to join the club.

Fxd

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allegro  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:40:45pm

re: #375 Stanley Sea

Allegro - you here?

*waves*

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:41:07pm

re: #382 The Ghost of a Flea

I was going for deeper-cut snark.

A bunch of these alt-right boys like citing their IQ, and some even tout their MENSA “above a certain percentile” club membership to justify their pseudoscientific bullshit.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:41:08pm

re: #384 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Heh.

I learned that at age 10, when I joined and then quit.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:41:16pm

washingtonpost.com

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petesh  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:41:43pm

re: #385 Joe Bacon 🌹

Post now reporting that another White House staffer resigned over domestic abuse allegations

Link?

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:41:52pm

re: #384 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

The Mensa tests are pretty easy, and most intelligent people don’t seem to join the club.

IIRC, Mensa is an old joke. When I first heard it mentioned eons ago, dudes were joking about their membership!!!

Is it an actual thing with dues?

Do any women claim membership?

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:42:16pm

re: #387 allegro

*waves*

Did you turn me on to Broadchurch?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:42:31pm

re: #391 petesh

Link?

Post 390 has the link!

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:42:38pm

re: #392 Stanley Sea

IIRC, Mensa is an old joke. When I first heard it mentioned eons ago, dudes were joking about their membership!!!

Is it an actual thing with dues?

Do any women claim membership?

My wife is a member. The non-local group (in Cheyenne) has more women than men.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:42:50pm
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lawhawk  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:42:51pm

re: #383 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:43:23pm

re: #395 Anymouse 🌹

My wife is a member. The non-local group (in Cheyenne) has more women than men.

hmmmmmmmm

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petesh  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:43:29pm

re: #394 Joe Bacon 🌹

Post 390 has the link!

Oops. Thanks!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:44:14pm

re: #388 Anymouse 🌹

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lawhawk  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:44:26pm
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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:44:37pm

Sorry, jumping from blog to Broadchurch.

Seriously I always thought Mensa was something joked about by dudes trying to be smart.

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Skip Intro  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:44:45pm

re: #342 MsJ

It’s all for those 30% of Republican true believers. Get it out so Russian bots can RT and spread the bullshit. Nothing more.

It’s 40% now.

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lawhawk  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:45:14pm

re: #391 petesh

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:46:30pm

re: #404 lawhawk

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Just read he denies it, so he’s cool.

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bill d. (b.d.)  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:46:58pm

re: #401 lawhawk

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Shocked they will not release the memo!

Shocked!

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TedStriker  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:47:38pm

re: #265 Cheechako

FYI:

Tennessee man who famously hacked Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account in 2008 is dead

re: #271 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Obviously the Clintons gave him MS as part of a cover-up

You jest, but you know there are some wingnuts that probably think that.

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:47:45pm

re: #400 The Ghost of a Flea

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allegro  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:48:01pm

re: #392 Stanley Sea

IIRC, Mensa is an old joke. When I first heard it mentioned eons ago, dudes were joking about their membership!!!

Is it an actual thing with dues?

Do any women claim membership?

I joined in 1980 when it was a very fun organization. The Houston chapter especially. There were parties most every weekend, lunch bunches, happy hours, dinner groups, and many special interest groups on a great variety of interests and lovely people. It was an instant social life that was most welcome. Now? No need for it anymore and it’s dying a sad death.

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MsJ  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:48:32pm

A trump speechwriter just abruptly resigned, accused by wife of abuse.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:48:38pm

re: #242 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

newsweek.com

I think the affair broke her. Now she’s trying to piss him off enough for him to file for divorce first.

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prairiefire  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:49:42pm

re: #409 allegro

Brains as well as Beauty, Ms Allegro!

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allegro  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:49:57pm

re: #393 Stanley Sea

Did you turn me on to Broadchurch?

I don’t know. I mentioned it recently when someone asked about season 3, that I thought was excellent. Loved the series and hope there will be more.

I did mention Shetland to you. Another great series that you would like if you enjoyed Broadchurch.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:50:03pm

re: #392 Stanley Sea

IIRC, Mensa is an old joke. When I first heard it mentioned eons ago, dudes were joking about their membership!!!

Is it an actual thing with dues?

Do any women claim membership?

Yes, there are women involved, and whole families. I was at a science fiction convention in Michigan years ago that coincided with a Mensa convention, so I met a lot of them. They do know how to party, I’ll give them that.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:51:44pm

re: #404 lawhawk

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bill d. (b.d.)  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:53:25pm

re: #416 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

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So the guy who gives Trump his papers and the guy who writes stuff for his teleprompter both are now gone?

Talk about being rudderless.

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teleskiguy  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:53:39pm

re: #187 Charles Johnson

Chuck has also posted a series of photos showing himself holding big scary guns.

His damn fly is open in this one.

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:53:56pm

re: #409 allegro

I joined in 1980 when it was a very fun organization. The Houston chapter especially. There were parties most every weekend, lunch bunches, happy hours, dinner groups, and many special interest groups on a great variety of interests and lovely people. It was an instant social life that was most welcome. Now? No need for it anymore and it’s dying a sad death.

Depends on the local group I guess. The folks in Cheyenne are a pretty fun group.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:54:34pm

re: #413 allegro

I don’t know. I mentioned it recently when someone asked about season 3, that I thought was excellent. Loved the series and hope there will be more.

I did mention Shetland to you. Another great series that you would like if you enjoyed Broadchurch.

OK, I’m next on Shetland.

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Anymouse 🌹  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:55:03pm

re: #414 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Yes, there are women involved, and whole families. I was at a science fiction convention in Michigan years ago that coincided with a Mensa convention, so I met a lot of them. They do know how to party, I’ll give them that.

Hey, you might have met my mother. /s

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allegro  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:55:11pm

re: #412 prairiefire

Brains as well as Beauty, Ms Allegro!

Awwww, shucks. Flattery wins every time. ;)

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prairiefire  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:56:55pm

re: #422 allegro

I bet there is a Vargas out there that is a close match to your flamed hair allure.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 4:56:59pm

Unreal

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Feb 9, 2018 • 5:00:20pm

re: #424 Stanley Sea

Unreal

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Totally expected.

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allegro  Feb 9, 2018 • 5:01:04pm

re: #420 Stanley Sea

OK, I’m next on Shetland.

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Just a hint for that one. I accidentally had on the caption thing when I started to watch it and it turned out to be a good thing. Some of the characters have intense Scottish accents - one of the charms of the series - and the captions made them easier to follow. For instance, one of them talked about when meh fayther deed. Caption: my father died.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2018 • 5:03:09pm

re: #426 allegro

Just a hint for that one. I accidentally had on the caption thing when I started to watch it and it turned out to be a good thing. Some of the characters have intense Scottish accents - one of the charms of the series - and the captions made them easier to follow. For instance, one of them talked about when meh fayther deed. Caption: my father died.

Are you kidding me?!!! I don’t know how many times I rewind to TRY to understand what alec & ellie are saying.

& I KNOW it’s always important.

TY

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allegro  Feb 9, 2018 • 5:03:57pm

re: #420 Stanley Sea

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allegro  Feb 9, 2018 • 5:06:15pm

re: #423 prairiefire

I bet there is a Vargas out there that is a close match to your flamed hair allure.

Ha! Maybe in my younger days. Now I’m an old Rubens.

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EPR-radar  Feb 9, 2018 • 6:38:31pm

re: #418 teleskiguy

His damn fly is open in this one.

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How oddly appropriate. If anyone on the planet is stupid enough to try to fire a big-ass gun with his dick, it would be CCJ.

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2018 • 6:14:20am

re: #336 The Ghost of a Flea

As we speak I’m looking at a Thai recipe called ma ho.

It’s pineapple topped with a savory-spicy peanut and meat mix.

Maybe it’s the general disquiet talking, but theoretically it would make a good pizza combo….

Challenge accepted.


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