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piratedan  Mar 15, 2018 • 8:55:48pm

watching all of this shit unfold, on multiple fronts, with the GOP and the Russians and the greedy fuckers that know no allegiance to anything or anyone other than their own bottom line, I just hope that we have an opportunity to recover.

and if we recover, I have no problem whatsoever witnessing payback.

for the country
for the people harmed
and on a personal note…

for my loss of naivete in thinking that there were some basic essentials that all Americans believed in… Democracy, fairness, equality, opportunity… I guess I am just a sucker to be fleeced and taken advantage of in the eyes of the people currently in charge.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 15, 2018 • 9:00:28pm

Trump fires half his fucking cabinet in a week and the GOP just twiddles their thumbs.

I swear to God they’d let him start a nuclear war before they ever think about the word “Impeach” or the 25th.

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scottslemmons  Mar 15, 2018 • 9:01:54pm

re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg

Trump fires half his fucking cabinet in a week and the GOP just twiddles their thumbs.

I swear to God they’d let him start a nuclear war before they ever think about the word “Impeach” or the 25th.

He could nuke Kansas, and they’d shrug it off.

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piratedan  Mar 15, 2018 • 9:06:35pm

re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg

i think its because they’re all dirty and they KNOW that they are dirty and are hoping for scandal fatigue to set in and allow the media to focus on something else. As a corollary, they could be hoping for a good old fashioned war to “rally” the country together and take the heat off of them “for the good of the country”.

I have no faith at all that there’s anyone left in the GOP who has any love of country, they’ve either been compromised, are part of the over all plan or are simply too cowardly to do anything that resembles what any of the rest of us would consider to be a moral choice…

just look at what they’ve done so far:

fucked the dreamers
fucked the poor
protected the nazis
protected the NRA
protected the Russians
STILL blaming Hillary for fucking everything

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whitebeach  Mar 15, 2018 • 9:07:04pm

re: #3 scottslemmons

He could nuke Kansas, and they’d shrug it off.

Maybe. But if he nuked California, they’d be dancing in the streets.

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Kragar  Mar 15, 2018 • 9:13:18pm
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MsJ  Mar 15, 2018 • 9:14:21pm

re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg

Trump fires half his fucking cabinet in a week and the GOP just twiddles their thumbs.

I swear to God they’d let him start a nuclear war before they ever think about the word “Impeach” or the 25th.

And not then. He’d be manly. A true Republican.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 15, 2018 • 9:14:54pm

re: #5 whitebeach

Maybe. But if he nuked California, they’d be dancing in the streets.

Which is what Billy Graham Cracker’s daughter, Anne has been praying for…

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MsJ  Mar 15, 2018 • 9:14:57pm

Bernie being Bernie. Asshole.

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Kragar  Mar 15, 2018 • 9:18:40pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 15, 2018 • 9:22:59pm

re: #10 Kragar

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Targetpractice  Mar 15, 2018 • 9:31:52pm

re: #10 Kragar

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There are roughly 110 House seats that are more competitive than PA18 was.

Dems only need to flip 24 to win the majority.

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scottslemmons  Mar 15, 2018 • 9:35:09pm

re: #5 whitebeach

Maybe. But if he nuked California, they’d be dancing in the streets.

I worry about that a bit. I’m not so sure Trump would nuke California, but if the North Koreans did, I think he’d react with some sort of smug glee. And yes, every Republican in the country would guffaw nauseatingly about it.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 15, 2018 • 9:38:25pm

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austin_blue  Mar 15, 2018 • 9:45:04pm

Drumpf is hollowing out his advisors to the point that idiots, feebs, and Dominionists are replacing people with at least *some* competence.

It’s a slow-motion brain-drain of the Administration.

Meanwhile, I would like to place my name into the mix as the next Irish Ambassador, a position that has been unfilled for a year. My dad was Irish, I like Guinness, I’ve been to the country, and can tell someone to pog mo thoin. (pardon the lack of diacriticals)

I’d be perfect!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 15, 2018 • 9:48:07pm

re: #14 Joe Bacon 🌹

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Targetpractice  Mar 15, 2018 • 9:50:03pm

It’s actually rather sad that we’re sitting here, acknowledging that the people who considered barely adequate for the jobs for which they were nominated are now being replaced with complete fuck-ups for no other reason than they are accomplished kiss-asses. That the ongoing Red Wedding is for no other reason than we have a president who cannot stand being told “No.”

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 15, 2018 • 9:51:03pm

re: #16 Eclectic Cyborg

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:04:13pm

re: #18 Dr Lizardo

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petesh  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:05:28pm

Don’t hold your breath, you might need to run! Trump’s a gambler who has experience negotiating with bankers he owed enormous amounts, and persuading them that it was cheaper overall to let him slide a couple of million a year (month?) than to kill the market for those investments. This time, I don’t think he can get out of trouble but he’s damn well going to try — maybe even die trying.

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BigPapa  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:07:09pm

Oh we’re deep down the wormhole alright.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:08:25pm

I don’t know if this was noticed, what with all the craziness, but the timing of this is quite interesting.

“After 12 years of marriage, we have decided to go our separate ways,” the statement said. “We will always have tremendous respect for each other and our families. We have five beautiful children together and they remain our top priority. We ask for your privacy during this time.”

The New York Post’s Page Six and the New York Daily News reported earlier Thursday that President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law had filed for divorce in the Manhattan Supreme Court.

The White House declined to comment on the reports and referred questions to the Trump Organization.

edition.cnn.com

Maybe Vanessa sees the handwriting on the wall? Perhaps she’s trying to get her piece of the pie before assets are confiscated and Donny, Jr. goes to the slammer?

Anyway……off to work. Back later today.

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austin_blue  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:11:52pm

re: #18 Dr Lizardo

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Oh, let’s not even go there. That cannot and will not happen. The Norks have the capacity to inflict great pain on the South, but it would result in their complete destruction. If the wind is right, and it often is, we could scorch them and take out Vladivostok as collateral damage. Does anyone think the Russians want a nuclear exchange on the peninsula? Does China?

Nope nope nope all around.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:13:47pm

Added a couple of solar lights to the patio.

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austin_blue  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:14:57pm

re: #24 goddamnedfrank

Added a couple of solar lights to the patio.

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What are those? Vampire lures?

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:18:23pm

re: #25 austin_blue

What are those? Vampire lures?

I put them up with the brackets I bought for March Madness.

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Targetpractice  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:18:27pm

re: #22 Dr Lizardo

I don’t know if this was noticed, what with all the craziness, but the timing of this is quite interesting.

edition.cnn.com

Maybe Vanessa sees the handwriting on the wall? Perhaps she’s trying to get her piece of the pie before assets are confiscated and Donny, Jr. goes to the slammer?

Anyway……off to work. Back later today.

That’s the popular theory, that she sees hubby is gonna get dragged down by daddy-in-law and wants to secure her and her kids assets against efforts to seize them. If that is the thinking, then it shows she’s smarter than any Trump not named “Tiffany” or “Barron.”

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:21:35pm

Guys, there’s nothing more to Vanessa Trump filing for divorce from Jr than a woman being plum tired of a dude’s bullshit. That guy is one of the biggest douche’s imaginable, this was long overdue.

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retired cynic  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:26:11pm

re: #28 goddamnedfrank

Guys, there’s nothing more to Vanessa Trump filing for divorce from Jr than a woman being plum tired of a dude’s bullshit. That guy is one of the biggest douche’s imaginable, this was long overdue.

DT “winning” the presidency may have put it off, not hastened it.

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austin_blue  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:26:36pm

re: #20 petesh

Don’t hold your breath, you might need to run! Trump’s a gambler who has experience negotiating with bankers he owed enormous amounts, and persuading them that it was cheaper overall to let him slide a couple of million a year (month?) than to kill the market for those investments. This time, I don’t think he can get out of trouble but he’s damn well going to try — maybe even die trying.

Trump’s not a gambler. He’s a bully and a blowhard.

The reason he hopped into bed w/ the Russians, is that he lost all his bets for financing in the US with his bankruptcies and was left with only the option of laundering Russian Oligarch money through his real estate assets to keep himself afloat, pay his bills, and acquire seed money to expand his real estate Ponzi scheme.

He was trying to keep his nose above water, and money, being money, he chose to sell his soul to the Russians.

Useful Idiot to Putin, traitor to the US.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:30:17pm

re: #6 Kragar

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austin_blue  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:32:02pm

re: #31 goddamnedfrank

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I see what you did there….

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whitebeach  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:34:10pm

re: #13 scottslemmons

I worry about that a bit. I’m not so sure Trump would nuke California, but if the North Koreans did, I think he’d react with some sort of smug glee. And yes, every Republican in the country would guffaw nauseatingly about it.

Well, there we are. An intelligent, reasonable American, cautious and worrying “a bit,” saying, “I’m not so sure Trump would nuke California.”

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Brian J.  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:35:37pm

re: #10 Kragar

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The most amazing such figure comes from California. Do you know what the State Assembly would look like with a PA-18-level swing?

Seventy-eight Democrats and two Republicans (Districts 1 and 34 - and 1 would be recount-close). 78 to 2. Indeed, there’d be three districts where such a swing wouldn’t be possible as the Democrat would win more than 100% of the vote.

The State Senate would be 35 to 5, and it’d be that “close” only because four of the Senate GOoPers would not be up for election.

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austin_blue  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:37:16pm

re: #33 whitebeach

Well, there we are. An intelligent, reasonable American, cautious and worrying “a bit,” saying, “I’m not so sure Trump would nuke California.”

Inorite?

The fact that this is even conceivable is just an indication of how far we have gone off the rails in our political discourse. It is just flat fucking insane.

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Brian J.  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:38:02pm

re: #17 Targetpractice

It’s actually rather sad that we’re sitting here, acknowledging that the people who considered barely adequate for the jobs for which they were nominated are now being replaced with complete fuck-ups for no other reason than they are accomplished kiss-asses. That the ongoing Red Wedding is for no other reason than we have a president who cannot stand being told “No.”

The problem was that fascism simply didn’t breed good leadership succession. Without democracy, leaders stayed in power for far beyond their leadership dates, and in their struggle to retain power generally eliminated anyone even mildly competent. The rest was an inner cadre of gradually diminishing talent, forced to rely on lower and lower sources of income.

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wheat-dogg  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:41:00pm

re: #28 goddamnedfrank

Guys, there’s nothing more to Vanessa Trump filing for divorce from Jr than a woman being plum tired of a dude’s bullshit. That guy is one of the biggest douche’s imaginable, this was long overdue.

Vanessa is also very good-looking. She may have someone waiting in the wings, or she’s just decided to seek a better (less criminal) partner.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:42:50pm

re: #37 wheat-dogg

Vanessa is also very good-looking. She may have someone waiting in the wings, or she’s just decided to seek a better (less criminal) partner.

Life without this charmer is waiting in the wings.

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wheat-dogg  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:49:59pm

re: #38 goddamnedfrank

Life without this charmer is waiting in the wings.

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Yeah. Definitely a babe magnet there.

If Vanessa wants a sixty-ish close-to-poor teacher guy, I’d willingly volunteer, but the five step-kids could be a deal-breaker.

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whitebeach  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:50:59pm

re: #38 goddamnedfrank

Life without this charmer is waiting in the wings.

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“Come on, Van, kiss it?”

“No. Fuck no.”

“At least touch it. Pleeease?”

“No, Donnie, goddamnit, it’s a dead elephant’s tail. I don’t want it in the bed. I don’t want it in the apartment. I don’t want it in the same time zone.”

“Just the tuft there at the end?”

“That’s it. I’m sleeping at the Plaza and calling my lawyer tomorrow.”

“What? Over a little piece of tail?”

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:51:13pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:52:41pm

Wasn’t there a book all about this sort of thing a few years back? Something like, “When Bad Things Happen To Bad People”. It was in the comedy section?
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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:54:57pm

I know this will be an unpopular opinion here, but I don’t really see Haberman carrying water for Trump as much as people seem to think.

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wheat-dogg  Mar 15, 2018 • 10:55:55pm

re: #43 Blind Frog Belly White

Trump and Mags have had a falling out recently.

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austin_blue  Mar 15, 2018 • 11:06:05pm

I’m for the rack. Lots to do this weekend before the 3 week trip to the UK for a family visit and the

harpfestival.co.uk

She Who Must Be Obeyed is taking a jazz class with Park Stickney and a Clarsach class with a long time mentor.

Are Jimmy and Ice still on the Board? Last I heard they were in Edinburgh. Would love to see them.

And Alephnaught, we will be in Glasga on the 5th and 6th of April.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 15, 2018 • 11:06:17pm

re: #34 Brian J.

The most amazing such figure comes from California. Do you know what the State Assembly would look like with a PA-18-level swing?

Seventy-eight Democrats and two Republicans (Districts 1 and 34 - and 1 would be recount-close). 78 to 2. Indeed, there’d be three districts where such a swing wouldn’t be possible as the Democrat would win more than 100% of the vote.

The State Senate would be 35 to 5, and it’d be that “close” only because four of the Senate GOoPers would not be up for election.

Obviously not every district will swing as much as Pa-18 did. However, polling shows that Obamacare is now a winning issue for Democrats, and they can use it as a weapon against all the Republicans who voted to repeal it.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 15, 2018 • 11:07:31pm

re: #28 goddamnedfrank

I’m guessing that Don Jr was just bearable before he got into Twitter pimping for his dad, bathing in conspiracy and WS excretions, and whatever buzz he gets off of being bagman(child) for his dad and the Trump Org.

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wheat-dogg  Mar 15, 2018 • 11:09:41pm

re: #47 The Ghost of a Flea

I’m guessing that Don Jr was just bearable before he got into Twitter pimping for his dad, bathing in conspiracy and WS excretions, and whatever buzz he gets off of being bagman(child) for his dad and the Trump Org.

Those Junior League meetings probably got too political and personal for her taste.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 15, 2018 • 11:11:08pm

re: #43 Blind Frog Belly White

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I know this will be an unpopular opinion here, but I don’t really see Haberman carrying water for Trump as much as people seem to think.

Here is what is important; this is another humiliating black eye for our country, with our President bragging about lying to one of our closest allies. Imagine for a moment that Kim Jong Un was even slightly serious about denuclearization. With Trump planning to break the Iran denuclearization deal, and Trump bragging about lying to Canada’s PM, for what possible reason would Kim trust anything Trump promised him? If the Dotard had any shred of credibility left, its gone now.

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Targetpractice  Mar 15, 2018 • 11:11:43pm

re: #42 Blind Frog Belly White

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Wasn’t there a book all about this sort of thing a few years back? Something like, “When Bad Things Happen To Bad People”. It was in the comedy section?
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I’m showing the Trumps the same level of dignity and respect they would show the Obamas if Michelle announced she was divorcing Barack.

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piratedan  Mar 15, 2018 • 11:15:37pm

re: #42 Blind Frog Belly White

while that is certainly a laudable sentiment and there’s certainly enough other foibles to pick from, the fact remains that with pending divorce from Don Jr., it means that she is free to testify to anything she may have heard that may have been illegal.

The fact remains that the GOP routinely trots out character assassination attacks on liberal targets with little regard to how much “pain” anyone is going through (see the Rich family for example one and any kids families that dies in a school shooting incident for numerous others)…

While Sippy may not be guilty of those attacks personally, the folks that she supports on a daily basis DO.

so while the idea is really nice, when you’ve been playing with jackals and coyotes and wolves, you’re going to be considered one and you’ve taught us all to be worse people by watching the indifferent treatment of others for much greater losses. Hard to muster a thimbleful of compassion in this case.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 15, 2018 • 11:21:25pm

re: #51 piratedan

See, I’d say Cupp is blaming partisanship for the same shit that’s done every time public figures split.

And particularly that is done when one of the pair is hot garbage pizza.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 15, 2018 • 11:39:54pm

Seriously, the White House fired this asshole, escorted him off the premises without even letting him grab his shit, and the Trump Campaign immediately hired him.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 15, 2018 • 11:42:08pm

re: #53 goddamnedfrank

Seriously, the White House fired this asshole, escorted him off the premises without even letting him grab his shit, and the Trump Campaign immediately hired him.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 15, 2018 • 11:45:36pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 16, 2018 • 12:00:28am

re: #55 goddamnedfrank

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The Trump family is like a parody of the Corleone family.

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A Mom Anon  Mar 16, 2018 • 12:00:33am

Welp. The Husband was home for 8 hours before I had to call an ambulance. He began vomiting and now is dehydrated and so weak he can’t stand. So I’m sitting in the ER at 3am wondering exactly what in the everloving actual fuck else is going to go wrong.

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Single-handed sailor  Mar 16, 2018 • 12:05:09am
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freetoken  Mar 16, 2018 • 12:06:49am

re: #57 A Mom Anon

Hope whatever it is can be addressed quickly.

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wheat-dogg  Mar 16, 2018 • 12:17:26am

re: #57 A Mom Anon

Welp. The Husband was home for 8 hours before I had to call an ambulance. He began vomiting and now is dehydrated and so weak he can’t stand. So I’m sitting in the ER at 3am wondering exactly what in the everloving actual fuck else is going to go wrong.

Diabetics have to stay hydrated (water, no sweeteners) and eat something between meals to manage sugar levels. IOW change eating/drinking habits from before diagnosis. Easy to say, hard to do if you’ve lived decades with no problems.

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Targetpractice  Mar 16, 2018 • 12:25:16am

re: #53 goddamnedfrank

Seriously, the White House fired this asshole, escorted him off the premises without even letting him grab his shit, and the Trump Campaign immediately hired him.

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Recycling: Republican-style.

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A Mom Anon  Mar 16, 2018 • 12:30:16am

re: #60 wheat-dogg

They are thinking it could be a bad reaction to the oral antibiotics. The last time they checked his glucose levels they were only slightly elevated. I need to sleep so damned bad. And I had to leave The Kid and a dog frightened to death. What the fuck? We’re not bad people, we try to help others and not be assholes. I don’t think I’ve ever felt so alone in my fucking life.

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wheat-dogg  Mar 16, 2018 • 12:36:41am

re: #62 A Mom Anon

They are thinking it could be a bad reaction to the oral antibiotics. The last time they checked his glucose levels they were only slightly elevated. I need to sleep so damned bad. And I had to leave The Kid and a dog frightened to death. What the fuck? We’re not bad people, we try to help others and not be assholes. I don’t think I’ve ever felt so alone in my fucking life.

{{{A Mom Anon}}}

Your husband will be OK, if he learns to manage his diet and glucose levels. Take it easy.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 16, 2018 • 12:42:47am
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Targetpractice  Mar 16, 2018 • 12:47:24am

re: #64 goddamnedfrank

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I imagine a world where he never made the prequels.

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dell*nix  Mar 16, 2018 • 1:04:47am

re: #62 A Mom Anon

You are not alone. My sig other came home from the hospital Sunday to home hospice. She was stable till Thursday morning. Has to do with COPD. The 900 cc of fluid they pulled off her lungs did not leave them in great shape. Her daughter and grand-daughter sit with her during the day and I take the night shift. They are having a very rough time of it.

Hang in there. You seem to be strong enough to handle it.

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A Mom Anon  Mar 16, 2018 • 1:09:17am

re: #66 dell*nix

I’m so sorry. Many hugs to you.

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dell*nix  Mar 16, 2018 • 1:16:44am

re: #67 A Mom Anon

Thank you. Hopefully his will be the reaction you mentioned and he will recover from it rapidly.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 16, 2018 • 1:18:02am
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JordanRules  Mar 16, 2018 • 1:29:33am
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JordanRules  Mar 16, 2018 • 1:41:05am
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Kragar  Mar 16, 2018 • 1:45:58am

re: #41 goddamnedfrank

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EPR-radar  Mar 16, 2018 • 1:48:45am

re: #71 JordanRules

Trump and his supporters have enabled human garbage like the perps of this bit of vandalism.

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JordanRules  Mar 16, 2018 • 1:53:24am
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JordanRules  Mar 16, 2018 • 1:59:11am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 2:31:03am

The Russian nerve agent attack seems to be another point of left/right-wing overlap: while the right-wing news just seems to generally ignore it, a lot of leftist sites (like moonofalabama.org) are actively denying that it could have been possible and presenting it as a plot on the part of the warmongering anti-Russian elements, comparing it to Tony Blair’s “45-minute warning” memo.

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jeffreyw  Mar 16, 2018 • 2:59:08am

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Good morning!

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sagehen  Mar 16, 2018 • 3:16:41am

re: #43 Blind Frog Belly White

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I know this will be an unpopular opinion here, but I don’t really see Haberman carrying water for Trump as much as people seem to think.

She probably finished the book; access isn’t so important anymore.

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sagehen  Mar 16, 2018 • 3:18:55am

re: #51 piratedan

while that is certainly a laudable sentiment and there’s certainly enough other foibles to pick from, the fact remains that with pending divorce from Don Jr., it means that she is free to testify to anything she may have heard that may have been illegal.

She was already free to testify if she wanted to; marital privilege just means you can’t be forced.

It’s your doctor and your lawyer and priest/rabbi who aren’t allowed to if you don’t let them.

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Jay C  Mar 16, 2018 • 3:55:54am

BTW, in case it hasn’t been mentioned, they have finally reported on the fatalities in the Florida Intl. U. Bridge collapse: at least 6 dead -so far: crews are still searching - and nine hospitalized with injuries.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 16, 2018 • 4:30:05am

re: #75 JordanRules

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Apparently the term “fake news” was originated in Ukraine and other eastern European countries a few years ago as Russian propaganda campaigns started to hit social media there. Russia has nearly perfected the art of “flooding the zone with bullshit” (as Steve Bannon phrased his method) such that nearly anything can be true or false.

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 16, 2018 • 4:30:14am

Watching the coverage of the pedestrian bridge accident is truly horrifying. Having worked in that industry for most of my adult life, it is all I know. New York lost a pedestrian bridge while it was being built in the late 1990’s, I knew several of the carpenters on that job. I think it comes down to “it’s just a pedestrian bridge”

Reading the comments, I always chuckle when someone writes “Trumps fault”.
I found this while researching the prime contractor of the Florida Pedestrian bridge:

Munilla Construction Management, also known as MCM, has built schools, airports and highways all around the United States. Its projects have included terminals at PortMiami, various city halls and police stations, and the bridges connecting Las Olas Boulevard to the finger islands in Fort Lauderdale. Now the Miami-based firm, owned by six brothers, is playing a bit part in a national saga: the investigation of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. Manafort managed Trump’s presidential campaign from June to August 2016. He quit amid allegations that he had been paid millions of dollars under the table for consulting deals in Ukraine, and now he is facing scrutiny over a number of real estate deals. The saga has several ties to South Florida.

Read more at: bisnow.com

Manafort and the Chinese, when will Mueller open an investigation into the Chinese!!?!?!
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Barefoot Grin  Mar 16, 2018 • 4:31:05am

re: #78 sagehen

She probably finished the book; access isn’t so important anymore.

Maggie has a lot of defenders among “serious people.”

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 16, 2018 • 4:40:53am

I have to drive my middle schooler to a local (17 miles away) high school most mornings for a math class. I often kill time in a local coffee shop, but sometimes go to the McDonalds (where I am now) to hear the locals mouth off. It’s a popular place for the octogenarians in the area. Surprisingly to me, not a lot of Trump support among them.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 4:49:02am

re: #81 Barefoot Grin

Apparently the term “fake news” was originated in Ukraine and other eastern European countries a few years ago as Russian propaganda campaigns started to hit social media there. Russia has nearly perfected the art of “flooding the zone with bullshit” (as Steve Bannon phrased his method) such that nearly anything can be true or false.

People like Drudge and Breitbart also found that social media platforms were great places to float stories: soon they would be picked up by the mainstream media under the rubric “trending on Twitter/Facebook” and treated as if they actually had any merit.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 16, 2018 • 4:49:10am

I guess it’s just me here now, but what the hell:

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 16, 2018 • 4:50:03am

re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

People like Drudge and Breitbart also found that social media platforms were great places to float stories: soon they would be picked up by the mainstream media under the rubric “trending on Twitter/Facebook” and treated as if they actually had any merit.

That’s true. I think we’ve had our own brand since repeal of the Fairness Doctrine.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 4:50:05am

re: #84 Barefoot Grin

I have to drive my middle schooler to a local (17 miles away) high school most mornings for a math class. I often kill time in a local coffee shop, but sometimes go to the McDonalds (where I am now) to hear the locals mouth off. It’s a popular place for the octogenarians in the area. Surprisingly to me, not a lot of Trump support among them.

not all old men spend their afternoons yelling at clouds

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wheat-dogg  Mar 16, 2018 • 4:53:56am

re: #84 Barefoot Grin

I have to drive my middle schooler to a local (17 miles away) high school most mornings for a math class. I often kill time in a local coffee shop, but sometimes go to the McDonalds (where I am now) to hear the locals mouth off. It’s a popular place for the octogenarians in the area. Surprisingly to me, not a lot of Trump support among them.

I would like to think that the folks old enough to remember WWII also remember the guy who started it, and the ideology that enabled it, and see a lot of that now in the Trump machine.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 16, 2018 • 4:56:15am

re: #89 wheat-dogg

I would like to think that the folks old enough to remember WWII also remember the guy who started it, and the ideology that enabled it, and see a lot of that now in the Trump machine.

This is right on. A couple of the guys wear Veterans hats.

And this before I go pick up the kiddo:

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 4:59:53am

we were already discussing this here. days ago.

example after example: the wall, healthcare, guns, immigration, Afghanistan, tariffs, Korea, “space force”

it’s all about getting headlines

Remember that time, way back about two weeks ago, when President Trump berated leaders of his own party, in front of a room full of cameras, for being afraid of the NRA, and he vowed to pass a bipartisan bill that would make it harder for kids to get assault rifles?

Yeah, well, in case you missed the latest — which wouldn’t have been hard, since the one-day story was instantly eclipsed by a Cabinet shakeup and a special election — that whole thing went away Monday with a mumbled “never mind” from the White House.

Apparently gun control is really hard, and you actually have to focus on it and change some minds and anger some of your friends, and why go through all that when you’ve already gotten the headline you were after. Kind of like the time in January when Trump did the same thing on immigration, summoning lawmakers from both parties to the White House and declaring his full support for a bipartisan compromise. That lasted until breakfast the next day.

And you can already see where this alleged breakthrough summit with the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, is probably headed. The shocking announcement last Thursday played on TV like the dramatic opening of a thriller. It’s been a silent movie ever since.

This is exactly what Trump does, again and again. Forget the standard photo ops; his entire presidency, save for a giveaway-laden tax bill that actually originated in Congress, is a string of dramatic flourishes, without even the aspiration to translate them into something like actual governance.

But we’re still letting this president perform for the cameras as if he were actually planning to govern, without giving nearly as much attention to what happens on the issue once the cameras are gone. We’re still allowing ourselves to be carried along by one dramatic turn after another, because Trump knows instinctively that if he keeps us moving today, we won’t have time to dwell on whatever he promised yesterday.

(my bold)

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bill d. (b.d.)  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:03:56am

Sure am glad all of those leaks stopped when Bannon left….

//

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:05:19am

re: #91 dangerman

we were already discussing this here. days ago.

example after example: the wall, healthcare, guns, immigration, Afghanistan, tariffs, Korea, “space force”

This is exactly what Trump does, again and again. Forget the standard photo ops; his entire presidency, save for a giveaway-laden tax bill that actually originated in Congress, is a string of dramatic flourishes, without even the aspiration to translate them into something like actual governance.

It is also great symbolism for the red-meat masses:

“Build the Wall!!!” and they think that we are doing something about immigration reform.

“Trade wars are winnable: Impose taxes and tariffs on imported goods!” and they believe that we are trying to protect or bring back manufacturing jobs.

“Death penalty for drug dealers!” and they see that as a sign that we are trying to get a handle on the opioid crisis.

And then dozens of pundits step up to explain why this is not vaporware.

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:05:25am

re: #17 Targetpractice

It’s actually rather sad that we’re sitting here, acknowledging that the people who considered barely adequate for the jobs for which they were nominated are now being replaced with complete fuck-ups for no other reason than they are accomplished kiss-asses. That the ongoing Red Wedding is for no other reason than we have a president who cannot stand being told “No.”

as i just posted, its more than just not being told “no”

its that there’s no policy behind anything
and worse no desire to actually have or implement one

there is no goal or desire to govern

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:05:43am

re: #42 Blind Frog Belly White

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Wasn’t there a book all about this sort of thing a few years back? Something like, “When Bad Things Happen To Bad People”. It was in the comedy section?
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So is Donny going to sign up on trumpdating.com to find his next conquest?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:09:50am

re: #42 Blind Frog Belly White

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Wasn’t there a book all about this sort of thing a few years back? Something like, “When Bad Things Happen To Bad People”. It was in the comedy section?
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Cupp and her fellow KKKonservatives would be doing the Snoopy Happy Dance if Michelle and Barrack broke up.

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:10:09am

re: #36 Brian J.

The problem was that fascism simply didn’t breed good leadership succession. Without democracy, leaders stayed in power for far beyond their leadership dates, and in their struggle to retain power generally eliminated anyone even mildly competent. The rest was an inner cadre of gradually diminishing talent, forced to rely on lower and lower sources of income.

the peter principle writ large

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:13:32am

re: #94 dangerman

as i just posted, its more than just not being told “no”

its that there’s no policy behind anything
and worse no desire to actually have or implement one

there is no goal or desire to govern

Conservatives like to rant about the “deep state”. True professionals have careers that span more than one administration.

They serve the sitting President, but their loyalty is to serve the US government, regardless of who is running it. And they have to make sure that government continues to fulfill its tasks.

These people have careers to think about and are not about to tarnish their reputations by being associated with a shit show like the Trump administration

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:15:35am

re: #36 Brian J.

The problem was that fascism simply didn’t breed good leadership succession. Without democracy, leaders stayed in power for far beyond their leadership dates, and in their struggle to retain power generally eliminated anyone even mildly competent. The rest was an inner cadre of gradually diminishing talent, forced to rely on lower and lower sources of income.

Hitler was big on playing factions off against factions without clearly defined or delineated competencies and powers; as long as they were infighting, they were weak, and he could better control them. That also does not produce good leadership.

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wheat-dogg  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:26:59am

re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Hitler was big on playing factions off against factions without clearly defined or delineated competencies and powers; as long as they were infighting, they were weak, and he could better control them. That also does not produce good leadership.

Sounds familiar.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:27:41am

re: #42 Blind Frog Belly White

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Wasn’t there a book all about this sort of thing a few years back? Something like, “When Bad Things Happen To Bad People”. It was in the comedy section?
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People on the right literally rejoice and cackle when liberals die. Do you all recall Limbaugh’s reaction to the death of Robert Kennedy Jr.? I do. Just recently when Stephen Hawkins passed, there were some ugly comments from Rightwingers celebrating his entrance into hell.

S.E. Cupp can shut it.

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lawhawk  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:30:51am

Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area.

The commute on the NEC is a total cock-up this morning as the Portal Bridge has failed to close. It was opened overnight for boat traffic and it’s been unable to lock in the close position ever since.

This is the most heavily traveled rail segment in the US - between Newark Penn Station and NYC Penn Station.

The bridge has repeatedly failed to close over the years and there’s a replacement plan for the bridge, but it’s included in the Gateway Project. Trump’s sabotaged the funding for that plan, and therefore the replacement bridge is on hold thanks to Trump.

But getting back to Charles’ post and Trump filling his staff with loyalists.

Trump filled his staff with loyalists from day one. He values loyalty over all else, including knowledge and competency. So when Trump thinks one of his picks was disloyal, he sacks them.

He cannot tolerate anyone who doesn’t push the Trump line.

He cannot deal with anyone or anything that gives him a contrary opinion or provides him with information that goes against Trump’s beliefs or feelings.

That’s why McMaster is gone.
That’s why Comey is gone.
That’s why so many others are gone - they gave Trump news Trump didn’t want to hear, but had to hear.

Trump doesn’t accept any contrary information to his addled worldview.

This is central to the job of the president - to get all information, good, bad, and even info contrary to what the president believes, in order to get the best information and judgments to make decisions.

Trump doesn’t make informed judgments or decisions.

He’s an addled know nothing who reacts to world events and speaks without thinking.

He equates Nazis with the people protesting them. He is a bigot and nativist whose policies are applauded by white supremacists and Nazis for good reason. He lies about everything, including consequential and inconsequential acts.

And all of it is a house of cards that should come toppling down if only the GOP did their own jobs and upheld their oaths of office to protect and defend the nation against threats foreign and domestic.

Instead, they too are enabling and complicit with Trumpworld as they’re using this as an opportunity to fleece the Treasury and pass massive tax breaks that sabotage functioning government and roll back regulations protecting everyone from corporate predators, protect voting/civil rights, environmental protection, and even transit rules that would make it safer to ride the roads and rails.

Trump is the symptom of the bigger problems with the GOP.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:31:59am

re: #53 goddamnedfrank

Seriously, the White House fired this asshole, escorted him off the premises without even letting him grab his shit, and the Trump Campaign immediately hired him.

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Trump really knows how to drain the swamp and pick the best people, doesn’t he? Genius!!

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bill d. (b.d.)  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:33:51am

re: #101 Patricia Kayden

People on the right literally rejoice and cackle when liberals die. Do you all recall Limbaugh’s reaction to the death of Robert Kennedy Jr.? I do. Just recently when Stephen Hawkins passed, there were some ugly comments from Rightwingers celebrating his entrance into hell.

S.E. Cupp can shut it.

I guess that whole “F*ck your Feelings” motto that the wingnuts had doesn’t apply to them?

They took over this country based on their hurt feelings and inability to get over things.

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:34:56am
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wheat-dogg  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:38:18am

re: #105 Belafon

There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

There’s battle lines being drawn
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind

I think it’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side

It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away

Read more: Buffalo Springfield - Somethings Happening Here Lyrics | MetroLyrics

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:38:28am

re: #22 Dr Lizardo

I don’t know if this was noticed, what with all the craziness, but the timing of this is quite interesting.

edition.cnn.com

Maybe Vanessa sees the handwriting on the wall? Perhaps she’s trying to get her piece of the pie before assets are confiscated and Donny, Jr. goes to the slammer?

Anyway……off to work. Back later today.

I forget if it was pointed out here or elsewhere, but you cannot run off with stolen goods by getting a divorce. If the government decides that your money was gotten illegally, they will come after all of it.

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:38:47am

re: #105 Belafon

Oh boy. The funny thing? They all think they are brilliant.

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William Lewis  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:38:58am

re: #106 wheat-dogg

I immediately thought of those words too.

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wheat-dogg  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:40:31am

re: #109 William Lewis

I immediately thought of those words too.

I’m sure they were deliberately chosen, but maybe only boomers will get the allusion.

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:41:27am

re: #46 Big Beautiful Door

Obviously not every district will swing as much as Pa-18 did. However, polling shows that Obamacare is now a winning issue for Democrats, and they can use it as a weapon against all the Republicans who voted to repeal it.

We’re far enough in the future that people are starting to forget the skin color of the man who it’s named after.

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:42:02am

re: #106 wheat-dogg

1966, seems like yesterday.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:44:01am

re: #111 Belafon

We’re far enough in the future that people are starting to forget the skin color of the man who it’s named after.

Oh it’s much worse than that, people actually like ACA.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:45:27am

re: #106 wheat-dogg

Chumbawamba Timebomb

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:45:41am

re: #112 Shropshire Slasher

That song will always remind me of this:

Muppet Show - For What’s it’s Worth

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Varek Raith  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:45:47am

Good morning.
Are we all tired of #winning yet???

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:46:02am

re: #102 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area.

Trump is the symptom of the bigger problems with the GOP.

Don’t sugar-coat it. /

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:46:32am

re: #111 Belafon

Obviously not every district will swing as much as Pa-18 did. However, polling shows that Obamacare is now a winning issue for Democrats, and they can use it as a weapon against all the Republicans who voted to repeal it.

It was so popular that even a majority GOP Congress could not muster enough votes to totally kill it.

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lawhawk  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:53:49am

re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It was so popular that even a majority GOP Congress could not muster enough votes to totally kill it.

The only math the GOP could come up with was one that eliminated health coverage for 50 million people and not provide a single new health policy. Every other plan they concocted would cost more and cover fewer people.

So, they’ve taken to sabotaging Obamacare. Eliminating the individual mandate isn’t a winning issue because it’s eliminating funding for 10 million people.

Trump doesn’t have a plan.

The GOP had 8 years to come up with a plan, and the best they could do was something scribbled on a napkin over drunk lunch.

They’re hoping no one notices that the GOP has moved on to trying to sack Medicaid and Medicare while no one is looking. Why? Because they’re using the exploding debt as an excuse to gut the safety net.

Never mind that the debt exploded precisely because of all the tax cuts that benefit corporations and millionaires the most (going back to the Reagan and Bush tax cuts - and compounding interest). Rolling back those tax cuts on millionaires would help the economy grow more than any other measure. It would help restore funding for actual infrastructure and pay down debt.

The GOP isn’t interested in any of it and sees debt as something that is a problem only when Democrats propose social programs that are meant to address major problems - like starving kids, public health, or infrastructure.

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 5:59:43am

re: #119 lawhawk


Never mind that the debt exploded precisely because of all the tax cuts that benefit corporations and millionaires…bt.

The GOP isn’t interested in any of it and sees debt as something that is a problem only when Democrats propose social programs that are meant to address major problems - like starving kids, public health, or infrastructure.

the dems are ok with deficits that help people
the reps are ok with deficits that help themselves

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:01:05am

re: #120 dangerman

the dems are ok with deficits that help people
the reps are ok with deficits that help themselves

I recall back in the halcyon days under Clinton when we were running a surplus. Rush Limbaugh got on to explain that it was basically immoral for the government to take more money from us than it needed to operate…

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wheat-dogg  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:04:44am

From earlier today

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:06:41am

re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I recall back in the halcyon days under Clinton when we were running a surplus. Rush Limbaugh got on to explain that it was basically immoral for the government to take more money from us than it needed to operate…

Right cause we should never save for the future ..like repairs and such
And no thought to unplanned events like say hurricanes

If government was run like a business that is exactly what you’d do

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fern01  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:09:21am

re: #43 Blind Frog Belly White

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I know this will be an unpopular opinion here, but I don’t really see Haberman carrying water for Trump as much as people seem to think.

She’s only made remarks like these since trump attacked her at his latest rally. Mustn’t be getting the phone calls any more.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:13:20am

re: #123 dangerman

Right cause we should never save for the future ..like repairs and such
And no thought to unplanned events like say hurricanes

If government was run like a business that is exactly what you’d do

It just illustrates the fact that deficits are irrelevant to conservatives.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:20:59am

re: #108 Shropshire Slasher

Oh boy. The funny thing? They all think they are brilliant.

Pretty sure that is not the correct interpretation. They want to make sure the discussion is not co-oped by political blather and the under 21 bit is to make sue the focus stays on the people being affected and not getting speakers with an “older, more nuanced” perspective.

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:22:02am

re: #126 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Pretty sure that is not the correct interpretation. They want to make sue the discussion is not co-oped by political blather and the under 21 bit is to make sue the focus stays on the people being affected and not getting speakers with an “older, more nuanced” perspective.

I think he clicked on the wrong comment of mine to reply to. I think he meant to click on the one about Jr’s soon to be ex.

Edit: But then again, I could be wrong.

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Jay C  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:24:38am

re: #123 dangerman

Right cause we should never save for the future ..like repairs and such
And no thought to unplanned events like say hurricanes

If government was run like a business that is exactly what you’d do

Or use surpluses to pay down or obviate some of that mountain of government debt the Right gets so exercised over (when Democrats generate it),

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:25:10am

re: #127 Belafon

Possibly. But, history suggests that your suggestion is …. generous. I’ll retract the downding if Shropshire says he responded to a different comment.

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:25:43am

re: #128 Jay C

Or use surpluses to pay down or obviate some of that mountain of government debt the Right gets so exercised over (when Democrats generate it),

Or when Democrats get elected after Republicans generate it.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:25:58am

re: #43 Blind Frog Belly White

I know this will be an unpopular opinion here, but I don’t really see Haberman carrying water for Trump as much as people seem to think.

Actually I have found Maggie to be a little all over the place all along, sometimes appearing to be more critical, while other times seeming rather superficial.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:28:09am

And now the Stormy goes to Category 5

The lawyer representing Stormy Daniels, the porn star suing President Donald Trump, claimed Friday that she has faced physical threats.

“My client was physically threatened to stay silent about what she knew about Donald Trump,” Michael Avenatti told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on “New Day.” He said more details would be forthcoming in Daniels’ upcoming interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” which is scheduled to air later this month.

Stormy Daniels’ lawyer alleges there are 6 more women with stories similar to his client’s “She’s going to be able to provide very specific details about what happened here,” Avenatti said. He would not answer whether or not it was someone close to the President who threatened her.

cnn.com

But don’t worry folks, All those Pulpit Pimps will still rally around Gawd’s Anointed King no matter what he does and so will their brainwashed marks!

And sure enough you have Pulpit Pimps praying for Stormy’s death…

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Sir John Barron  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:29:54am

re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It was so popular that even a majority GOP Congress could not muster enough votes to totally kill it.

Well they’ve done a lot to undermine it and make it ineffectual, they’ve screwed with the markets, took away the individual mandate. We’ll have to see with the enrollment numbers in the next few years, but I’m afraid the program is, or is becoming a shell of what it was, or what it could have been.

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:31:28am

re: #132 Joe Bacon 🌹

And now the Stormy goes to Category 5

The lawyer representing Stormy Daniels, the porn star suing President Donald Trump, claimed Friday that she has faced physical threats.

“My client was physically threatened to stay silent about what she knew about Donald Trump,” Michael Avenatti told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on “New Day.” He said more details would be forthcoming in Daniels’ upcoming interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” which is scheduled to air later this month.

Stormy Daniels’ lawyer alleges there are 6 more women with stories similar to his client’s “She’s going to be able to provide very specific details about what happened here,” Avenatti said. He would not answer whether or not it was someone close to the President who threatened her.

cnn.com

But don’t worry folks, All those Pulpit Pimps will still rally around Gawd’s Anointed King no matter what he does and so will their brainwashed marks!

And sure enough you have Pulpit Pimps praying for Stormy’s death…

Eh, those guys will have to deal with their god. The story is about Stormy and Trump.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:32:54am

re: #106 wheat-dogg

Read more: Buffalo Springfield - Somethings Happening Here Lyrics | MetroLyrics

Actual song title is “For What It’s Worth”

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:33:37am

re: #129 Colère Tueur de Lapin

No, I got the right comment.

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:34:46am

re: #136 Shropshire Slasher

No, I got the right comment.

Well, then, never mind. So much for giving you the benefit of the doubt.

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wheat-dogg  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:35:26am

re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth

Actual song title is “For What It’s Worth”

Lyrics website’s fault, not mine.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:36:18am

re: #138 wheat-dogg

Lyrics website’s fault, not mine.

I figured as much, just wanted to put the correct title out there.

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:38:57am

re: #138 wheat-dogg

Lyrics website’s fault, not mine.

hey man, if you had been there then, man, youda just knowd. man
(lotsa ////)

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Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:39:49am

re: #108 Shropshire Slasher

Oh boy. The funny thing? They all think they are brilliant.

WTF?

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ObserverArt  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:42:17am

Morning.

Just saw that Tom Steyer is kicked off his Need to Impeach town hall series in Columbus. I didn’t know this was going to happen…been behind on local news since The Columbus Dispatch went paywall.

By the way…is he a Democrat? I don’t know that much about him, but I thought he was a Republican.

Not sure how effective he is, but it doesn’t hurt.

Ohio State University Radio -
Billionaire Behind ‘Need To Impeach’ Campaign Begins Town Hall Series In Columbus

A billionaire Democratic fundraiser who’s been running a TV and online campaign to impeach President Trump has launched what he says will be a series of at least 30 town hall meetings around the country, and he kicked it off in Columbus. He’ll go to Cincinnati next.

“It is wonderful to be in Columbus, Ohio, and to start off this series of town halls with you guys,” said Tom Steyer a California hedge fund manager turned progressive activist

This could be described as the opposite of a Trump rally. Around 150 attendees sat in padded straight back chairs in the basement ballroom of the YWCA in Columbus, listening to Steyer share his thoughts behind his “Need to Impeach” campaign.

There were several moments of loud applause and spontaneous shouts. But there were no signs, no chants, no protests - just an hour of pointed anti-Trump rhetoric, such as “We view this president and this campaign as a fight for the soul of America.”

Steyer had said he would be making the case for impeachment to Democrats, independents and Republicans - but the audience was overwhelmingly left leaning.

Sandy Callahan came up from Lancaster to hear Steyer’s pitch.

“I’ve watched the ads and he’s been the person who has been saying out loud what I’ve been thinking for months and months,” Callahan said. “And he’s been the only one I’ve heard say it out loud. So I wanted to know more about him.”

Callahan lives with her son David Clayton-Ready, who recently moved to Ohio.

“I think that the reason we have something like Need to Impeach to exist to begin with is kind of a symptom of the whole problem - it’s not just Trump. It’s been brewing for a long, long time, both on the Democratic and Republican side,” Clayton-Ready said.

Phyllis Elmo from Columbus is already active in progressive politics - even helping write cards to voters in recent elections in Alabama and Pennsylvania. She’s glad to see Steyer start this series of town halls to supplement his TV ad and online campaign.

“I’m really happy he’s doing it, and I’m also happy he has enough money to do it, so which unfortunately has become necessary in these days,” Elmo said.

Columbus environmental advocate Carolyn Harding is among the 5 million people who’ve signed Steyer’s online impeachment petition, and has no concerns about what he’ll do with what he’s called a digital army of activists.

“I knew that when I gave him my email. I knew that I’d be in his database. But I’m very transparent about what I stand for,” Harding said.

After the event, Steyer said he’s assembled the largest grassroots organization in the U.S. He plans to spend $30 million on ads and town halls in this midterm election year - and was asked why he wasn’t pouring the money into state and local elections instead.

“We’re doing phone banking. We’re using snail mail. We’re using all of the online means of reaching people because as far as we’re concerned, everything you’re talking about, we’re doing,” Steyer said.

Steyer’s series of town halls begin in Ohio, a state that went for Trump but has a Trump critic as governor. Steyer did say he watched John Kasich in the 2016 debates and on TV since then, but says he’s never met him.

…a bit more at link…

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:44:34am

re: #141 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch

Just ask them!

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:44:36am

re: #132 Joe Bacon 🌹

And now the Stormy goes to Category 5

The lawyer representing Stormy Daniels, the porn star suing President Donald Trump, claimed Friday that she has faced physical threats.

“My client was physically threatened to stay silent about what she knew about Donald Trump,” Michael Avenatti told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on “New Day.” He said more details would be forthcoming in Daniels’ upcoming interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” which is scheduled to air later this month.

Stormy Daniels’ lawyer alleges there are 6 more women with stories similar to his client’s “She’s going to be able to provide very specific details about what happened here,” Avenatti said. He would not answer whether or not it was someone close to the President who threatened her.

cnn.com

But don’t worry folks, All those Pulpit Pimps will still rally around Gawd’s Anointed King no matter what he does and so will their brainwashed marks!

And sure enough you have Pulpit Pimps praying for Stormy’s death…

fwiw, on a more serious note i wonder whether there is a confluence of events happening here

as the daniels story unfolds if there’s continual support for trump
and the student’s gun safety movement vs the NRA

both seem to have the beginnings, maybe the makings to unmask, expose and maybe bring down two very powerful groups. not specifically as their goal. more like as a resulting consequence

evangelicals and the NRA are being shown for the hypocrites they are
that their positions when looked at with even a cursory amount of objectivity don’t hold up

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:45:50am

re: #142 ObserverArt

Morning.

Just saw that Tom Steyer is kicked off his Need to Impeach town hall series in Columbus. I didn’t know this was going to happen…been behind on local news since The Columbus Dispatch went paywall.

By the way…is he a Democrat? I don’t know that much about him, but I thought he was a Republican.

Not sure how effective he is, but it doesn’t hurt.

Ohio State University Radio -
Billionaire Behind ‘Need To Impeach’ Campaign Begins Town Hall Series In Columbus

From what I’ve put together about Steyer, he’s left-ish, but he’s got a lot of money to spend. One the one hand, he’s one of the few rich lefties willing to spend money; on the other hand, he seems to be like lots of other rich people where he thinks it means it makes him really important. But that’s just my interpretation of what I’ve seen.

But I got Slasher wrong, so I could be wrong.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:48:23am

re: #143 Shropshire Slasher

Just ask them!

Maybe they’re tired of people talking down to them and not actually listening like Rubio and Loesch but nah they’re just a bunch of mean kids who hate adults.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:50:07am
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Barefoot Grin  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:50:12am

re: #140 dangerman

hey man, if you had been there then, man, youda just knowd. man
(lotsa ////)

far out!

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Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:50:50am

re: #143 Shropshire Slasher

Just ask them!

Just what I need…dealing with an asshole first thing in the morning.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:51:05am

TBH with all the condescending crap I see directed at millennials whether it’s screeds about avocado toast, participation trophies, or whatever, I’m fine with them having an event where only they speak.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:51:32am
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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:53:46am

Slasher’s statement reminds me of comments in one of the tweets from one of the MSD students the other day. The student said they were going to need to fix things the Boomers had messed up, which started the usual “not all Boomers” line from people. But, here’s the thing: The modern NRA belongs to the Boomers. The modern evangelical movement belongs to the Boomers. It could be argued that both of those started before the Boomers but that generation isn’t in control any more. Boomers could have, and could be, doing something about them, but they won’t because it’s about power, not doing the right thing.

And, just to be fair, as a Gen-Xer, my generation hasn’t done any better.

Edited

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Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:55:26am

re: #152 Belafon

Slasher’s statement reminds me of comments in one of the tweets from one of the MSD students the other day. The student said they were going to need to fix things the Boomers had messed up, which started the usual “not all Boomers” line from people. But, here’s the thing: The modern NRA belongs to the Boomers. The modern evangelical movement belongs to the Boomers. It could be argued that both of those started before the Boomers but that generation isn’t in control any more.

And, just to be fair, as a Gen-Xer, my generation hasn’t done any better.

I don’t have any idea what my generation is supposed to be called. I don’t know why people have to start pissing on the various generations.

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wheat-dogg  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:56:33am

re: #152 Belafon

Slasher’s statement reminds me of comments in one of the tweets from one of the MSD students the other day. The student said they were going to need to fix things the Boomers had messed up, which started the usual “not all Boomers” line from people. But, here’s the thing: The modern NRA belongs to the Boomers. The modern evangelical movement belongs to the Boomers. It could be argued that both of those started before the Boomers but that generation isn’t in control any more.

And, just to be fair, as a Gen-Xer, my generation hasn’t done any better.

Generations are not monolithic. Nor are they rigidly defined by birthdates.

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 6:57:42am

re: #148 Barefoot Grin

far out!

YouTube

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:00:23am

re: #153 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch

I don’t have any idea what my generation is supposed to be called. I don’t know why people have to start pissing on the various generations.

re: #154 wheat-dogg

Generations are not monolithic. Nor are they rigidly defined by birthdates.

I know. My parents are the same age as the Clintons but I’m ten years older than Chelsea. One of us doesn’t fall in the right dividing line. But it’s a pretty good representation of people born around the end of WW2 being a different generation than the one before.

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:01:34am

re: #150 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

TBH with all the condescending crap I see directed at millennials whether it’s screeds about avocado toast, participation trophies, or whatever, I’m fine with them having an event where only they speak.

why should a group organizing a march or event need to include speakers not of the group?

the whole concept is nuts

womens march - lets get a bunch of men up there to explain it to us
veterans - lets get a bunch of peaceniks who werent there
million man march - lets get white women to speak
cpac…..??????

just nuts

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:04:02am

re: #152 Belafon

Slasher’s statement reminds me of comments in one of the tweets from one of the MSD students the other day. The student said they were going to need to fix things the Boomers had messed up, which started the usual “not all Boomers” line from people. But, here’s the thing: The modern NRA belongs to the Boomers. The modern evangelical movement belongs to the Boomers. It could be argued that both of those started before the Boomers but that generation isn’t in control any more.

And, just to be fair, as a Gen-Xer, my generation hasn’t done any better.

and both things can be true at the same time

- not all boomers are in the nra, own guns, or are evangelicals (cf: me)
- the boomer generation did not take down the nra or the evangelicals the way the students might (as i alluded to in 144)

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:04:38am

Pointless trivia moment. In Japanese (and I suppose Chinese from which it derives) the character for “generation” 世 was sometimes used for the number 30 in the old days. 30 years being considered the range of a generation and because it was originally written in oracle bone script (I think) as three tens stacked up (十十十=三十). Now I’m off to save the world. Ta ta for now.

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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:06:16am

re: #153 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch

I don’t have any idea what my generation is supposed to be called. I don’t know why people have to start pissing on the various generations.

I fall right at the end of the Baby Boom.

As for separating generations, it is a useful tool to demographers and historians, but of course “not all …” applies to every generation’s members.

Attacks on generations, “Baby boomers are all greedy conservatives because the NRA or bank boards are mostly made up of them” or “Millenials are lazy and won’t take their heads out of their cell’ phones” are nothing more than lazy ad hominen attacks against whole groups to discount their opinions.

Is the NRA made up of mostly Baby Boomers? Probably. Do most Baby Boomers belong to the NRA? No.

Do some Millenials park their heads in video games and are lazy? Probably. Do most do that? No.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:06:27am

re: #157 dangerman

why should a group organizing a march or event need to include speakers not of the group?

the whole concept is nuts

womens march - lets get a bunch of men up there to explain it to us
veterans - lets get a bunch of peaceniks who werent there
million man march - lets get white women to speak
cpac…..??????

just nuts

Yeah I don’t get it. Honestly it’s time we listen to them. I saw a really stupid meme about it last night from a high school acquaintance.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:06:49am

heh

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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:09:08am

As an early millennial, one who spent his early years without the internet and cable, I think many of my younger generation kin are frustrated by people not listening to them and just being condescending. Whether that’s as I said stupid screeds about avocado toast and and participation trophies or in general being condescending about what they care about.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:09:43am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:10:15am
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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:10:20am

re: #163 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

As an early millennial, one who spent his early years without the internet and cable, I think many of my younger generation kin are frustrated by people not listening to them and just being condescending. Whether that’s as I said stupid screeds about avocado toast and and participation trophies or in general being condescending about what they care about.

The world’s most famous participation trophy:

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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:10:20am

re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh

[Embedded content]

Oh. I guess he didn’t get the meme of the woman posing in her daisy dukes telling an invisible liberal to not take her gun because she knows how to use it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:11:30am

re: #167 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

Oh. I guess he didn’t get the meme of the woman posing in her daisy dukes telling an invisible liberal to not take her gun because she knows how to use it.

and Dana would probably like to have a word with him…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:11:49am

I think a lot of us knew this was coming

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jaunte  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:12:16am

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:12:48am

re: #155 dangerman

[Embedded content]

Video

Family Guy is unknown here in the Czech Republic. So I played this for a group of students (the lesson plan was regarding the use of humor):

Family Guy - Bag of Weed [Original Video]

I don’t think I’d ever seen them laugh so hard.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:13:15am

good freaking grief…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Law-abiding high school students who are 18 or older should be allowed to carry long guns inside public high schools, an Ohio lawmaker said on Thursday.

Republican Rep. Niraj Antani, of Miamisburg, said state law allows those 18 or older to carry a long gun, so anyone who complies “should be able to carry and protect themselves.” He first made the remarks in an interview with the Dayton Daily News.

Antani, who previously supported gun rights on campuses, said he was not recommending arming high school students, but believes those who meet legal requirements should have the option to carry.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:13:26am

re: #166 Anymouse 🌹

The world’s most famous participation trophy:

[Embedded content]

Ha yeah.

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:14:07am

re: #169 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I think a lot of us knew this was coming

If Laura had the breasts the game gave her, she’d have done the Amazonian thing and cut one off.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:14:40am

re: #172 Backwoods_Sleuth

good freaking grief…

[Embedded content]

It’s already a pain in the ass lugging textbooks around but sure let them have guns. So fucking stupid.

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:16:19am

re: #175 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

It’s already a pain in the ass lugging textbooks around but sure let them have guns. So fucking stupid.

Only if Antini volunteers to be a teacher.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:16:26am

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

and Dana would probably like to have a word with him…

Yep.

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wheat-dogg  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:18:43am

re: #159 Barefoot Grin

Pointless trivia moment. In Japanese (and I suppose Chinese from which it derives) the character for “generation” 世 was sometimes used for the number 30 in the old days. 30 years being considered the range of a generation and because it was originally written in oracle bone script (I think) as three tens stacked up (十十十=三十). Now I’m off to save the world. Ta ta for now.

Also true in Chinese.

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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:23:40am

re: #174 Belafon

If Laura had the breasts the game gave her, she’d have done the Amazonian thing and cut one off.

If it was the original game, they would be triangles.

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Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:24:33am

re: #156 Belafon

I know. My parents are the same age as the Clintons but I’m ten years older than Chelsea. One of us doesn’t fall in the right dividing line. But it’s a pretty good representation of people born around the end of WW2 being a different generation than the one before.

And I’m old enough to be my children’s grandmother.

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:25:23am

re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh

So, what I hear you saying is that male politicians in Alabama are afraid of what would happen if women had guns.

Yeah, I can see where that might be a problem for you guys. Give a whole new meaning to Crimson Tide, eh?

is it that or that they didnt think they’d be as competent?
she’s just a gal. just a little gal….

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JordanRules  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:28:34am

Anybody care to make a prediction on who will be gone next?

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:28:43am

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹

If it was the original game, they would be triangles.

+1

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:32:09am

re: #182 JordanRules

Anybody care to make a prediction on who will be gone next?

[Embedded content]

re Perry and Shulkin there’s also this:
Trump eyes ‘Fox & Friends’ personality Pete Hegseth to take over Veterans Affairs

because, why not?

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ipsos  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:32:10am

My congresswoman just died :(

Louise Slaughter was as good as Democratic congresswomen get. Smart as hell, energetic as hell even at 88, all set to win another term this November and get her chair back. Fierce opponent of Trumpian bullshit. Fierce champion of science (she was a trained biologist).

Dammit dammit dammit I will miss her. And our local Dems are such a divided mess that I have no idea who they’ll end up running or whether they’ll win.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:33:05am

Stormy Daniels is actually a welcome distraction for Trump. It will be spun as sleaze mongering and compared to Clinton/Flowers, etc., and again totally distract from looking closer into criminal and irregular activity on the part of Trump and his organization/administration.

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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:33:29am

There I was, as a tail-end Baby Boomer, my head stuck to the television set watching the ball go back and forth in the game Pong, spending hours perfecting how to play it.

My Greatest Generation grandparents would shake their heads and complain “kids these days, just lazy playing video games… .”

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:34:24am

re: #187 Anymouse 🌹

There I was, as a tail-end Baby Boomer, my head stuck to the television set watching the ball go back and forth in the game Pong, spending hours perfecting how to play it.

My Greatest Generation grandparents would shake their heads and complain “kids these days, just lazy playing video games… .”

Lazy? I’ll have you know that I’ve walked more in the last week than I have for most of the last 6 months, playing a phone game.

Morning Lizardim.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:36:00am

re: #182 JordanRules

Great Cthulhu is pleased with all the chaos. Soon, the stars shall be right and he shall awaken from his slumber.

Iä! Iä!

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JordanRules  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:37:14am

Mueller is not distracted.

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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:38:07am

re: #185 ipsos

My congresswoman just died :(

Louise Slaughter was as good as Democratic congresswomen get. Smart as hell, energetic as hell even at 88, all set to win another term this November and get her chair back. Fierce opponent of Trumpian bullshit. Fierce champion of science (she was a trained biologist).

Dammit dammit dammit I will miss her. And our local Dems are such a divided mess that I have no idea who they’ll end up running or whether they’ll win.

She will be missed in Congress for sure.

Excuse me for a moment while I go round the village and lower the flags to half-staff in accordance with the Flag Code. (Day of death and day after for a member of the House of Representatives unless modified by proclamation)

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ObserverArt  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:39:00am

re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh

[Embedded content]

That may just be the best tweet from Wright yet. Covers all the bases of Alabama Man.

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JordanRules  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:39:28am
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ipsos  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:39:52am

re: #191 Anymouse 🌹

She will be missed in Congress for sure.

Excuse me for a moment while I go round the village and lower the flags to half-staff in accordance with the Flag Code. (Day of death and day after for a member of the House of Representatives unless modified by proclamation)

Your kindness is appreciated.

Send a picture? I’ll share it with her staff.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:40:37am

re: #185 ipsos

My congresswoman just died :(

Louise Slaughter was as good as Democratic congresswomen get. Smart as hell, energetic as hell even at 88, all set to win another term this November and get her chair back. Fierce opponent of Trumpian bullshit. Fierce champion of science (she was a trained biologist).

Dammit dammit dammit I will miss her. And our local Dems are such a divided mess that I have no idea who they’ll end up running or whether they’ll win.

Damn. I was just reading about her since I read an article on scientists in Congress. Rip to her.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:42:03am

re: #193 JordanRules

DonaldTrump may hire multiple cable news personalities as part of shake-up

Bolton has been biding his time and waiting for his shot at running things

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JordanRules  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:42:50am
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Weaselone  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:45:31am

re: #197 JordanRules

He’s fucked.

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ObserverArt  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:46:21am

re: #163 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

As an early millennial, one who spent his early years without the internet and cable, I think many of my younger generation kin are frustrated by people not listening to them and just being condescending. Whether that’s as I said stupid screeds about avocado toast and and participation trophies or in general being condescending about what they care about.

We’ve covered this ground before…but just as a gentle reminder…I think every generation feels like they aren’t listened to and judged unfairly. I think that is all covered under “coming of age.”

I do believe that is all part of the natural process for going out on your own, the breakaway from the family, etc.

That is if the damn Millennials ever leave the house and go out on their own. ///

(As a boomer I had to get the dig in…isn’t that what boomers are supposed to do? Can’t let down a whole generation…)

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ipsos  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:46:54am

re: #195 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

Damn. I was just reading about her since I read an article on scientists in Congress. Rip to her.

She was really amazing. I was so looking forward to seeing her regain the Rules Committee chair next year.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:49:09am
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ObserverArt  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:49:42am

re: #169 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I think a lot of us knew this was coming

CNET ✔
@CNET
‘Tomb Raider’ star Alicia Vikander’s bust size under fire cnet.co

7:45 AM - Mar 16, 2018

I don’t know if I want to know what this is about do I?

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electrotek  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:50:16am
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electrotek  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:50:48am

re: #169 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I think a lot of us knew this was coming

[Embedded content]

Fucking gaming nerds and their unrealistic prospects on their dream woman.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:53:46am

re: #204 electrotek

Fucking gaming nerds and their unrealistic prospects on their dream woman.

Operative word here being “dream” because for a lot of those slobbering neckbeards, that’s as close to a real woman as they’re ever gonna get.

Well, OK…..maybe a waifu pillow.

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ObserverArt  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:54:51am

re: #172 Backwoods_Sleuth

good freaking grief…

[Embedded content]

I saw that on local news. The sad thing was the woman delivering that bit did it so straight up…like this is legit.

We have collectively lost our fucking minds regarding guns in this country.

I’m sure a bunch of 17 year olds with ARs in school would never be an issue.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:55:24am

re: #169 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I think a lot of us knew this was coming

[Embedded content]

Yeah, I figured. Having seen Vikander in “Jason Bourne”, and reading that she’d be playing Laura Croft, I figured there’d be a lot of guys wondering where the bouncy boobies were.

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JordanRules  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:56:17am

re: #199 ObserverArt

Yup. I remember them going after Xers the same way. Slackers!!! We were the laziest ever in the history of lazydom! Now we just watch the media volley between boomers and millennials. And that’s cool. I’m too lazy to care!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:56:53am

re: #187 Anymouse 🌹

There I was, as a tail-end Baby Boomer, my head stuck to the television set watching the ball go back and forth in the game Pong, spending hours perfecting how to play it.

My Greatest Generation grandparents would shake their heads and complain “kids these days, just lazy playing video games… .”

I remember Atari Chess, Bridge and Othello. All weak programs that were pushovers!

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ObserverArt  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:57:59am

re: #186 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Stormy Daniels is actually a welcome distraction for Trump. It will be spun as sleaze mongering and compared to Clinton/Flowers, etc., and again totally distract from looking closer into criminal and irregular activity on the part of Trump and his organization/administration.

A distraction for everyone but Muellers investigation. It might just add to it for them.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 16, 2018 • 7:59:05am

re: #90 Barefoot Grin

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ObserverArt  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:01:24am

re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Bolton has been biding his time and waiting for his shot at running things

I think you have a spelling error in your comment.

I think you missed the ‘i’ and got one too many ‘n’s in it. It should be ruining

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A hollow voice says, Covfefe.  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:01:36am

re: #174 Belafon

If Laura had the breasts the game gave her, she’d have done the Amazonian thing and cut one off.

Weren’t those ammo caches?

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:02:02am
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JordanRules  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:02:21am

re: #185 ipsos

This is such a loss.

Thanks for your service Congresswoman Slaughter.

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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:04:02am

re: #194 ipsos

Your kindness is appreciated.

Send a picture? I’ll share it with her staff.

A picture of our flags at half-staff? Sure, I will take one. I just finished sending out the notice to the county. I will take a picture of the flag in front of the Village Hall (as it is a nicer flagstaff than the one in the village park) and one in the council room (of the flag on the staff).

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JordanRules  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:06:03am
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wheat-dogg  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:06:36am

re: #204 electrotek

Fucking gaming nerds and their unrealistic prospects on their dream woman.

Back when I worked in Computer City as a salesguy, a grandmother came in to shop for her grandson’s Christmas present. She said he really wanted Tomb Raider. When I showed her the case with Lara in her signature tank top and impressive boobage, she said, “I can see why he wants it.”

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:07:43am

re: #172 Backwoods_Sleuth

good freaking grief…

[Embedded content]

How much $$$$ has he gotten from the NRA… Just wondering…

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:08:06am

re: #199 ObserverArt

We’ve covered this ground before…but just as a gentle reminder…I think every generation feels like they aren’t listened to and judged unfairly. I think that is all covered under “coming of age.”

I do believe that is all part of the natural process for going out on your own, the breakaway from the family, etc.

That is if the damn Millennials ever leave the house and go out on their own. ///

(As a boomer I had to get the dig in…isn’t that what boomers are supposed to do? Can’t let down a whole generation down…)

while every new generation feels ignored and unfairly treated, there is an older generation concurrently and in reverse yelling “get off my lawn”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:09:42am

re: #220 dangerman

while every new generation feels ignored and unfairly treated, there is an older generation concurrently and in reverse yelling “get off my lawn”

every generation comes along to question why things are done a certain way. sometimes they have a valid point, the world changes, other times they fail to see and accept how things developed over time

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:10:17am

re: #201 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Oregon Supreme Court suspends judge for three years for refusing to marry same-sex couples

It’s the longest suspension for judicial misconduct the Court has ever issued

do the job or dont take the job
and yes, while you hold a job, the requirements may change on you
you are always free to leave

we are making incremental progress

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:10:56am

re: #202 ObserverArt

I don’t know if I want to know what this is about do I?

Laura Croft in the original games, up until the most recent one, had unrealistically large breasts that would gotten in her way big time. The actress has a much slimmer build, which makes more sense for someone that goes through what she does.

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gwangung  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:13:53am

re: #223 Belafon

Laura Croft in the original games, up until the most recent one, had unrealistically large breasts that would gotten in her way big time. The actress has a much slimmer build, which makes more sense for someone that goes through what she does.

Still sexy as hell, in my book, which should check off that box for the character.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:14:47am

Hmm….a pretty groovy tune here.

Shannon & the Clams - The Boy [Official Video]

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:14:47am

re: #224 gwangung

Still sexy as hell, in my book, which should check off that box for the character.

Yep.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:14:50am

re: #224 gwangung

Still sexy as hell, in my book, which should check off that box for the character.

It is all about ethics in reviewing video games

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:14:53am

re: #205 Dr Lizardo

Operative word here being “dream” because for a lot of those slobbering neckbeards, that’s as close to a real woman as they’re ever gonna get.

Well, OK…..maybe a waifu pillow.

not even a real woman to fantasize over
actually a “fictitious dream woman”

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wheat-dogg  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:17:01am

re: #223 Belafon

Laura Croft in the original games, up until the most recent one, had unrealistically large breasts that would gotten in her way big time. The actress has a much slimmer build, which makes more sense for someone that goes through what she does.

Also, it’s hard to find actresses with supersized boobs, much less ones with boobs that defy gravity.

IIRC, there were even some complaints about Angelina Jolie not being big enough topside to be Lara Croft.

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:17:30am

re: #206 ObserverArt

I saw that on local news. The sad thing was the woman delivering that bit did it so straight up…like this is legit.

We have collectively lost our fucking minds regarding guns in this country.

I’m sure a bunch of 17 year olds with ARs in school would never be an issue.

old enough for bunches (of guys) to carry long guns around school (safely, yeah right)
not old enough to walk out to the football field and express an opinion on it

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ObserverArt  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:18:53am

re: #223 Belafon

Laura Croft in the original games, up until the most recent one, had unrealistically large breasts that would gotten in her way big time. The actress has a much slimmer build, which makes more sense for someone that goes through what she does.

Yeah, I “figured” that was where it was going. I am not a gamer, well, I did have some auto racing games years back, but I am familiar with the character.

Maybe it is just me, but I saw Alicia Vikander on The Tonight Show with Fallon the other night and she is stunning and came off as fun and down to earth. I didn’t even know who she was and came away impressed.

In other words…what is the problem???

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:20:26am

re: #223 Belafon

Laura Croft in the original games, up until the most recent one, had unrealistically large breasts that would gotten in her way big time. The actress has a much slimmer build, which makes more sense for someone that goes through what she does.

IIRC, when Angelina Jolie played Croft, they padded up her boobies from C to D. And I seem to recall that she kept getting hot brass down her cleavage from her left-hand gun - one of those things that happens in real life if you’re wearing a tank top, with big boobies under it, while shooting semiautomatic pistols with both hands.

Note also that Vikander appears to be wearing long pants, not the Daisy Dukes Croft wears in the games, yet another change that actually makes sense for an action hero.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:22:00am

Question of the hour: What will Dotard do to attempt to distract everyone from the latest news about physical threats to Stormy Daniels and Mueller seeking documents from the Trump Crime Family Organization?

a. Fire someone on twitter
b. Insult someone on twitter
c. Declare himself Supreme Leader for Life
d. Shoot someone on 5th avenue

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:22:29am

re: #231 ObserverArt

Yeah, I “figured” that was where it was going. I am not a gamer, well, I did have some auto racing games years back, but I am familiar with the character.

Maybe it is just me, but I saw Alicia Vikander on The Tonight Show with Fallon the other night and she is stunning and came off as fun and down to earth. I didn’t even know who she was and came away impressed.

In other words…what is the problem???

Kinda makes you think they weren’t playing the game just for the exciting action, huh?

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:22:30am

re: #217 JordanRules

POLL: Only half of Trump voters say affair with porn actress would be immoral

poll: half of trumps voters don’t know what the 10 commandments are

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:22:38am

re: #233 Dr. Matt

Question of the hour: What will Dotard do to attempt to distract everyone from the latest news about physical threats to Stormy Daniels and Mueller seeking documents from the Trump Crime Family Organization?

a. Fire someone on twitter
b. Insult someone on twitter
c. Declare himself Supreme Leader for Life
d. Shoot someone on 5th avenue

All of the above.

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:23:35am

re: #235 dangerman

poll: half of trumps voters don’t know what who the 10 commandments are for

FTFY

Edit: Now that I think about it, this just applies to the other half.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:23:44am

re: #235 dangerman

poll: half of trumps voters don’t know what the 10 commandments are

They know how they apply to Democrats

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:23:57am

re: #221 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

every generation comes along to question why things are done a certain way. sometimes they have a valid point, the world changes, other times they fail to see and accept how things developed over time

oh yeah?
get off my damn lawn!

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CongoJack  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:24:26am

re: #232 Blind Frog Belly White

Note also that Vikander appears to be wearing long pants, not the Daisy Dukes Croft wears in the games, yet another change that actually makes sense for an action hero.

For some reason this reminded me (if I am remembering correctly) of the scene in A League of Their Own where the ladies were asking why they were wearing skirts to play baseball and they stated it would be hell to slide in that.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:24:47am

re: #217 JordanRules

POLL: Only half of Trump voters say affair with porn actress would be immoral yahoo.com pic.twitter.com
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) March 14, 2018

Are those half the Nazis or the evangelicals? Distinguishing the two is getting more difficult by the day.

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:25:10am

re: #224 gwangung

Still sexy as hell, in my book, which should check off that box for the character.

speaking strictly for my own self, smaller is better

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:25:27am

Speaking of Lara Croft, it just occurred to me that the character Revy from the anime Black Lagoon is clearly inspired by Lara Croft, at least in physical appearance/character design (personality wise, Revy is a violent, chain-smoking, self-confessed sociopath).

Don’t know why I never really noticed that before.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:26:16am

Yglesias keeps mentioning this, which is fair. However, I’d also point out that when Clinton proposed this, we were at the peak of a three-decade-long rise in violent crime, and we had no way of knowing we were at the peak. We assumed we were still in the linear phase of the curve and it would keep rising for a long time. People forget how bad it was and how bad we had every reason to think it would get.

Also, there’s a significant difference between ‘kingpins’ and ‘dealers’, kinda like the difference between ‘CEO’ and ‘employee’.

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:26:42am

re: #240 CongoJack

For some reason this reminded me (if I am remembering correctly) of the scene in A League of Their Own where the ladies were asking why they were wearing skirts to play baseball and they stated it would be hell to slide in that.

Remember the recent fight over Captain Phasma in Star Wars not wearing a chest plate that followed her breasts?

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Dr. Matt  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:26:52am

Dotard vs. Stormy: Who are you going to believe? The fake blond with the big tits or Stormy Daniels?

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sagehen  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:26:54am

OT:

The final season of The Americans starts Mar 28; the opening episode of the season is set in autumn ‘87, in the run-up to the arms control talks.

I remain hopeful that the season covers 2 years; it’s become important to me that the finale should include the fall of the Berlin wall.

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gwangung  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:27:48am

re: #242 dangerman

speaking strictly for my own self, smaller is better

I am quite ecumenical in that regard.

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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:27:55am

Flags in the Village of Broadwater are now at half-staff for Representative Slaughter.

Half-Staff Broadwater Village Hall
Half-Staff City Council Room
Half Staff Village Park
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:28:15am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:28:31am

re: #245 Belafon

Remember the recent fight over Captain Phasma in Star Wars not wearing a chest plate that followed her breasts?

Hey, if Batman can have nipples on HIS breastplate…..

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ipsos  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:30:07am

re: #249 Anymouse 🌹

Thanks, Anymouse! I’m sure the staff at her office will be touched by these.

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:31:38am

re: #248 gwangung

I am quite ecumenical in that regard.

Yeah, my preference in that regard is yes.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:32:07am

re: #247 sagehen

OT:

The final season of The Americans starts Mar 28; the opening episode of the season is set in autumn ‘87, in the run-up to the arms control talks.

I remain hopeful that the season covers 2 years; it’s become important to me that the finale should include the fall of the Berlin wall.

I’ve read articles that say that Philip is retired from the spy game and Paige is working with Elizabeth. It would be so 80s for Paige to follow in her parent’s footsteps, only to have that industry go under, like so much manufacturing did back then
////

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electrotek  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:32:25am

Now it is my goal to visit the My Lai memorial site before I die.

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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:33:31am

re: #252 ipsos

Thanks, Anymouse! I’m sure the staff at her office will be touched by these.

You’re welcome. Rep. Slaughter was a fine public servant. If you send them along to her office, we noticed out here in the Nebraska Panhandle.

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retired cynic  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:35:03am

re: #53 goddamnedfrank

Seriously, the White House fired this asshole, escorted him off the premises without even letting him grab his shit, and the Trump Campaign immediately hired him.

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Maybe they are just trying to keep him on side.

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danarchy  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:35:55am

re: #224 gwangung

Still sexy as hell, in my book, which should check off that box for the character.

Small boobs, big boobs, it is all irrelevant. There has yet to be a movie based on a video game that was worth the ticket price.

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:37:06am

re: #247 sagehen

OT:

The final season of The Americans starts Mar 28; the opening episode of the season is set in autumn ‘87, in the run-up to the arms control talks.

I remain hopeful that the season covers 2 years; it’s become important to me that the finale should include the fall of the Berlin wall.

we just started watching. we’re somewhere in late season 1 or early in 2.

it may be just me
i find the two main characters just a bit super hero-ish
and their targets / marks are all too vulnerable and gullible, and every one corruptable

they lead double or triple lives and always seem to have time to be everywhere, raise the kids, grocery shopping, the office, fake marriages, and every now and then an actual op
they are never seen training and still have excellent aim and win nearly every physical fight/encounter
their disguises are never detected

when some professional (say fbi or army guy) seems to get an upper hand, they end up doing something predictable and buffoonish (not frisking, getting too close, etc)

it may be just me (and it may be early in the series)

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:38:14am

re: #258 danarchy

Small boobs, big boobs, it is all irrelevant. There has yet to be a movie based on a video game that was worth the ticket price.

The original Mortal Kombat was good.

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Skip Intro  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:40:25am

re: #42 Blind Frog Belly White

By all means let’s not make jokes about Junior’s failed marriage.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:41:25am

re: #259 dangerman

we just started watching. we’re somewhere in late season 1 or early in 2.

it may be just me
i find the two main characters just a bit super hero-ish
and their targets / marks are all too vulnerable and gullible, and every one corruptable

they lead double or triple lives and always seem to have time to be everywhere, raise the kids, grocery shopping, the office, fake marriages, and every now and then an actual op
they are never seen training and still have excellent aim and win nearly every physical fight/encounter
their disguises are never detected

when some professional (say fbi or army guy) seems to get an upper hand, they end up doing something predictable and buffoonish (not frisking, getting too close, etc)

it may be just me (and it may be early in the series)

Oh, yeah. It’s early in the series. Things change.

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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:42:32am

In my capacity as the local Flag Committee Chair, the message I just sent out:

Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY25) passed away this morning. Congresswoman Slaughter was the oldest member of the US House of Representatives; she was born August 14, 1929.

In accordance with the US Flag Code, the flag should be placed at half-staff on the day of death and the day after on the death of a Representative or Senator, unless modified by proclamation. Additionally, the Representative’s or Senator’s desk is draped in black in the US House or US Senate. As such, the flag should remain at half-staff through sunset on Saturday, March 17.

Congresswoman Slaughter fell at her home on March 15, and was taken to the hospital with a concussion.

Although it has not been posted to her official US House page, her aide has already spoken to the press.

When there is an official statement (probably later today), it will appear on her US House page.

louise.house.gov

The last entry regards her fall and trip to the hospital.

For flags which cannot be lowered to half-staff, the American Legion recommends the following:

For flags displayed flat, such as on a wall, place a black bow in the centre or three black bows across the top.
For flags displayed from a gaff (such as a porch or boat), or from a fixed staff (such as a church, office, or automobile), place a black ribbon the width of one stripe and the length of the flag at the peak of the flag.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:44:38am

Dotard Jr. Is About To Get Screwed By His Dad’s Tax Plan During This Divorce

lawandcrime.com

I’m getting ill from consumption of so much popcorn.

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:45:44am

re: #262 Blind Frog Belly White

Oh, yeah. It’s early in the series. Things change.

thx

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Skip Intro  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:46:24am

re: #184 dangerman

re Perry and Shulkin there’s also this:
Trump eyes ‘Fox & Friends’ personality Pete Hegseth to take over Veterans Affairs

because, why not?

If Fox and Friends had a science/technology show Trump would have his science and technology advisor. Because Fox and their audience don’t believe in science, the post remains open.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:47:23am

re: #265 dangerman

thx

Although I would point out that in the very fist episode a Directorate S officer gets killed by someone they’re trying to kidnap.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:48:33am

Prediction: Trump Jr. starts hooking up with Tomi Lahren.

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Stanley Sea  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:49:30am

Sorry if posted

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electrotek  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:49:40am

re: #268 Eclectic Cyborg

Prediction: Trump Jr. starts hooking up with Tomi Lahren.

Or Faith Goldy.

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Swampwitch  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:50:06am

re: #268 Eclectic Cyborg

Damn. I had Willow Palin in the office pool.

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:50:27am

re: #264 Dr. Matt

Dotard Jr. Is About To Get Screwed By His Dad’s Tax Plan During This Divorce

lawandcrime.com

I’m getting ill from consumption of so much popcorn.

im liking all those people who posted that the change in the estate tax “saved” them millions (millions, i tell ya)

- only if you die. and then it’s your estate and heirs, not “you”
- it reverts after 2025. don’t you want to live that long?

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:51:14am

re: #268 Eclectic Cyborg

Prediction: Trump Jr. starts hooking up with Tomi Lahren.

Tomi really shouldn’t accept someone that far beneath her.

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:53:04am

re: #269 Stanley Sea

Sorry if posted

[Embedded content]

now im just sorry

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danarchy  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:53:24am

re: #260 Belafon

The original Mortal Kombat was good.

We’ll have to agree to disagree on that one. It didn’t suck out loud as much as say Wing Commander, but it was sort of like an OK B movie in my eyes.

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electrotek  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:53:56am

re: #275 danarchy

We’ll have to agree to disagree on that one. It didn’t suck out loud as much as say Wing Commander, but it was sort of like an OK B movie in my eyes.

Remember the Wing Commander movie? LOL

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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:54:04am

re: #258 danarchy

Small boobs, big boobs, it is all irrelevant. There has yet to be a movie based on a video game that was worth the ticket price.

Silent Hill was decent imo.

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Skip Intro  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:54:43am

re: #268 Eclectic Cyborg

Prediction: Trump Jr. starts hooking up with Tomi Lahren.

I think his Uncle Vlad introduces him to hot Russian girl Svetlana.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:54:47am

re: #238 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They know how they apply to Democrats

They know that the 10 Commandments only apply to Democrats. White Jesus always forgives Republicans.

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CongoJack  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:54:55am

re: #277 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

Silent Hill was decent imo.

Resident Evil movies? There have only been about a dozen of them - one of them has to be decent (I haven’t watched any of them).

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:56:55am

re: #280 CongoJack

Resident Evil movies? There have only been about a dozen of them - one of them has to be decent (I haven’t watched any of them).

The first one was the best IMO. I haven’t seen the last one.

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:57:38am

re: #275 danarchy

We’ll have to agree to disagree on that one. It didn’t suck out loud as much as say Wing Commander, but it was sort of like an OK B movie in my eyes.

I’m also hoping to see Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon in Pacific Rim next week, so I just kind of go to these kinds of movies to have fun.

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danarchy  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:57:54am

re: #280 CongoJack

Resident Evil movies? There have only been about a dozen of them - one of them has to be decent (I haven’t watched any of them).

I watch them because Milla Jovavich and Michelle Rodriguez rock, but no they aren’t what you would call good.

I think the franchise has yet to get a fresh rating on rotten tomatoes.

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makeitstop  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:59:05am

Geez, almost noon and no rash moves, incoherent announcements or deranged tweets.

They finally got him to drink the Diet Coke with the Xanax in it.

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sagehen  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:59:13am

re: #259 dangerman

we just started watching. we’re somewhere in late season 1 or early in 2.

it may be just me
i find the two main characters just a bit super hero-ish
and their targets / marks are all too vulnerable and gullible, and every one corruptable

they lead double or triple lives and always seem to have time to be everywhere, raise the kids, grocery shopping, the office, fake marriages, and every now and then an actual op
they are never seen training and still have excellent aim and win nearly every physical fight/encounter
their disguises are never detected

when some professional (say fbi or army guy) seems to get an upper hand, they end up doing something predictable and buffoonish (not frisking, getting too close, etc)

it may be just me (and it may be early in the series)

It’s not just you, and it is early in the series. Things become more complicated and they don’t win ‘em all.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:59:18am

re: #280 CongoJack

Resident Evil movies? There have only been about a dozen of them - one of them has to be decent (I haven’t watched any of them).

Only saw the first which was yeah okay.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 16, 2018 • 8:59:43am

re: #46 Big Beautiful Door

But but but didn’t Trump promise us amazing healthcare to replace the ACA? I must have just imagined all that.

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sagehen  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:03:34am

re: #264 Dr. Matt

Dotard Jr. Is About To Get Screwed By His Dad’s Tax Plan During This Divorce

lawandcrime.com

I’m getting ill from consumption of so much popcorn.

So much YES.

I preemptively apologize for the blatant schadenfreude, but I am going to love it when Donald Trump, Jr.’s ex-wife screws him with his father’s tax plan.

Starting January 1, 2019, alimony payments are no longer deductible to the payer or included in the income of the recipient. That means the Trumps have about nine months to resolve all their divorce issues before things get expensive for Don Jr.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:04:01am

re: #286 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

Only saw the first which was yeah okay.

Apocalypse was decent. The rest were “meh”

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MsJ  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:14:04am

re: #39 wheat-dogg

Yeah. Definitely a babe magnet there.

If Vanessa wants a sixty-ish close-to-poor teacher guy, I’d willingly volunteer, but the five step-kids could be a deal-breaker.

Seriously? Not her exceptionally poor decision making skills? That would be a deal-breaker for me. I wouldn’t marry an idiot - and someone who married Jr is an idiot, no matter how great looking she is.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:14:30am

re: #279 Patricia Kayden

They know that the 10 Commandments only apply to Democrats. White Jesus always forgives Republicans.

because they repent for their deeds and come to Jesus. There is no forgiveness for serial babykillers

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retired cynic  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:15:51am

re: #217 JordanRules

At least that get’s it below the 27% crazy line.

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:23:20am

Here’s your list of Republicans that are just fine with slavery:

GEO Group filed the congressmen’s letter with U.S. District Court in the Central District of California on March 12 as part of the Novoa v. GEO Group suit. It argues that immigrants should not be able to sue prison companies because they aren’t employees there, and that paying them $1 per day for their work is lawful. The letter also said that forced labor saves the government money and improves detainees’ morale.

Congressmen wrote that the work program’s purpose is to “(1) enhance detention operations and services through detainee productivity; and to (2) reduce the negative impact of confinement through decreased idleness, improved morale, and fewer disciplinary incidents.”

“Unless your agencies act to intervene in these lawsuits, immigration enforcement efforts will be thwarted,” the letter reads.

The letter was signed by Lamar Smith, Jody Hice, Matt Gaetz, Steve King, Mike Rogers, Paul Gosar, Andy Biggs, Louie Gohmert, Dana Rohrabacher, Paul Cook, Scott Taylor, Earl “Buddy” Carter, John Ratcliffe, Duncan Hunter, Bob Gibbs, Barry Loudermilk, Brian Babin, and John Rutherford.

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Kragar  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:24:34am
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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:30:09am

re: #294 Kragar

He lives in a world where dad’s don’t have to pay for the consequences of their actions.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:30:43am

re: #294 Kragar

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Yawn. This outrages you but not the crooked administration but someone who is a productive member of society getting a job.

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makeitstop  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:31:50am
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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:33:06am

re: #295 Belafon

He lives in a world where dad’s don’t have to pay for the consequences of their actions.

Yep. Hypocrisy thy name is Walsh.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:35:12am

re: #298 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

Yep. Hypocrisy thy name is Walsh.

Joe Walsh is as relevant as Allen West.

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makeitstop  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:36:47am

The Youtube version of my #297.

Orange Sh#thole Rambles

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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:37:35am

re: #299 Dr. Matt

Joe Walsh is as relevant as Allen West.

Yep one term benefactors of the 2010 rage.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:43:14am
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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:45:04am

Telltale (a former Jehovah’s Witness who is now an atheist) weighs in on YouTube with a brief thank you to Stephen Hawking and his work in science.

He also weighs in on the now over three thousand videos on YouTube from Christians gloating over him being in Hell. He dissects a particular video from a person who appears to be an EMT or firefighter recording the video in his uniform and at his workplace.

That guy is seriously creepy: He is positively giddy over his thought that Stephen Hawking is being punished forever for the finite crime of non-belief in something with no evidence.

(11:42)

Rest In Peace, Stephen Hawking

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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:47:09am

re: #302 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Thomas Jefferson took Madison’s Joe Pettione shirt. Little known fact.

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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:49:27am

re: #293 Belafon

Here’s your list of Republicans that are just fine with slavery:

Strictly, the XIII Amendment permits it:

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

That said, one could make an argument that such labour is only permissible in the context of a punishment handed down by a court.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:50:33am

re: #184 dangerman

re Perry and Shulkin there’s also this:
Trump eyes ‘Fox & Friends’ personality Pete Hegseth to take over Veterans Affairs

because, why not?

What about Lumpy Hannity? Can’t believe he hasn’t been offered his own gig, but I bet it would mean a substantial pay cut from his lucrative victim-claiming.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:50:42am

re: #303 Anymouse 🌹

Telltale (a former Jehovah’s Witness who is now an atheist) weighs in on YouTube with a brief thank you to Stephen Hawking and his work in science.

This delight in others’ suffering has nothing to do with any concept of Christianity that I am familiar with.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:51:27am

re: #303 Anymouse 🌹

Ugh. The thing is that as Christians, we are taught that people going to Hell is worthy of mourning over. We shouldn’t want people to be punished for all eternity, that is exactly antithetical to the point of the Gospel message. We should be trying to minister to as many people as possible, and feeling disappointment for everyone we are unable to reach before they pass on. I don’t know where this whole “I’m glad so-and-so is in Hell” bullshit got started, but it’s a ridiculously anti-Christian sentiment.

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sagehen  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:55:36am

re: #305 Anymouse 🌹

Strictly, the XIII Amendment permits it:

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

That said, one could make an argument that such labour is only permissible in the context of a punishment handed down by a court.

If they’re in immigration detention, they haven’t been duly convicted of a crime. They’re awaiting their possible potential day in court; if convicted, the sentence is likely to be deportation.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:56:41am

re: #309 sagehen

If they’re in immigration detention, they haven’t been duly convicted of a crime. They’re awaiting their possible potential day in court; if convicted, the sentence is likely to be deportation.

the point again is to throw red meat to the base

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Kragar  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:56:42am
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gwangung  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:57:40am

re: #309 sagehen

If they’re in immigration detention, they haven’t been duly convicted of a crime. They’re awaiting their possible potential day in court; if convicted, the sentence is likely to be deportation.

Well, given that being undocumented is more of a civil violation than a criminal one, I think any violation should be met with a civil punishment.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:58:23am

re: #311 Kragar

Nevada Republicans are so desperate for candidates they are offering to pay people to run for office

my ex-father in law was a Tory whom the party put up to campaign in Labour districts where they stood no chance. She tells me about going out electioneering with him during the coal miners’ strike in the 80’s and having dogs set on them…

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 9:59:13am

re: #307 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This delight in others’ suffering has nothing to do with any concept of Christianity that I am familiar with.

This IS the kind of “Christianity” I’ve experienced. And you will see Pulpit Pimps on Jesus TV gloating when someone on their Dead Pool list gets the pine condo…

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:01:50am

re: #314 Joe Bacon 🌹

This IS the kind of “Christianity” I’ve experienced. And you will see Pulpit Pimps on Jesus TV gloating when someone on their Dead Pool list gets the pine condo…

It’s a common sentiment among the same kinds of bullshit artists as produced the hatemongering Westboro Baptist fuckers. I don’t get where all this sheer unbridled hate comes from when the two most important commandments, according to Jesus, were “Love God” and “Love everybody around you that isn’t you”.

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Jay C  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:03:18am

re: #294 Kragar

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OK: some background (not that it would make much difference to xenophobic wingers): Lizbeth Mateo, despite that “undocumented” status” sounds like a perfect poster-child for the DACA program: brought here at 14, went to college, went to law school, passed the bar, set up her own practice, etc. Except for her immigration status, she sounds like a model citizen (which basically she HAS to be for the DACA program). Yet assclowns like Walsh seem to make no distinctions between people like Mateo and the guy at the carwash who sneaked across the border last week.
Though this:

Mateo was denied for the DACA program in 2015 because she briefly traveled to Mexico in 2013 as part of a campaign to see how border agents would react when they re-entered the country.

might be part of the problem…..

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:06:03am

re: #316 Jay C

OK: some background (not that it would make much difference to xenophobic wingers): Lizbeth Mateo, despite that “undocumented” status” sounds like a perfect poster-child for the DACA program: brought here at 14, went to college, went to law school, passed the bar, set up her own practice, etc. Except for her immigration status, she sounds like a model citizen (which basically she HAS to be for the DACA program). Yet assclowns like Walsh seem to make no distinctions between people like Mateo and the guy at the carwash who sneaked across the border last week.
Though this:

might be part of the problem…..

She sounds like what I want Americans to be: Someone who wants to be an American, not someone who thinks it’s something you get as a birthright.

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gwangung  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:08:25am

re: #317 Belafon

She sounds like what I want Americans to be: Someone who wants to be an American, not someone who thinks it’s something you get as a birthright.

—-who wants to be American and is willing to work their ass off for it.

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BlueGrl21  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:12:04am

re: #314 Joe Bacon 🌹

This IS the kind of “Christianity” I’ve experienced. And you will see Pulpit Pimps on Jesus TV gloating when someone on their Dead Pool list gets the pine condo…

I was raised by my grandparents and great-grandmother, all rural pious German Texas Lutherans. I never heard a word about hell. Be the best person you can, love and take care of your neighbor (including taking over a casserole), love Jesus, don’t worry about where you go when you die. Other things were simply ignored.

My Episcopal priest and I have discussed this, and it became more poignant when his adult son died last year. We don’t believe in heaven or hell, because any God that would divide and punish and reward that way isn’t much of a God. And if people think that should be the focus of any religion, they’re doing it wrong.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:12:31am

re: #318 gwangung

—-who wants to be American and is willing to work their ass off for it.

The wingnuts have this delusion that immigrants are mooching off the system but it’s just not true. And they get fed this by politicians who are either liars like Trump or have virtually no contact or desire to talk them. As you guys know, I’m a law clerk, we have tons of foreign clients who are actually pretty young- younger than me who have good jobs, educations, are entrepreneurs, etc. Walsh has it for this lady since she goes against the image of undocumented immigrants he wants to present to his readers.

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:13:29am

re: #318 gwangung

—-who wants to be American and is willing to work their ass off for it.

My definition of American would be all those people who received the buttons at the end of Tomorrowland, which, obviously, isn’t really the definition of a person from just this country but rather the definition of the kinds of people I would want to be around.

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Stanley Sea  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:15:09am
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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:16:13am

Rep. Louise Slaughter’s official House of Representatives page now has an obituary and list of accomplishments by the Congresswoman, including key pieces of legislation which are arguably issues of civil rights (such as the act she wrote and was passed during President GW Bush’s administration prohibiting discrimination based on genetic information).

louise.house.gov

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Dr. Matt  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:16:32am

re: #322 Stanley Sea

WHO CARES!?!?! WHAT ABOUT SETH RICh?!!11!!!!!! CHEK MATE M, LIZBARDSZZ11!!!!

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Kragar  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:16:47am
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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:17:51am

Speaking of immigrants who came here as children, I recently received a letter written by my great grandfather in 1936 to a cousin in Germany. In many ways, quite sad as his brother had just died tragically in a fire and his only surviving brother was chronically ill and died a few months later. But it allowed me to hear his “voice” where I never had before. I saw a man who came here young and worked hard and was proud of his family and successes but hadn’t forgotten his roots.

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:18:38am

re: #287 Patricia Kayden

But but but didn’t Trump promise us amazing healthcare to replace the ACA? I must have just imagined all that.

healthcare, the amazing wall, no fear of the nra on guns, routing the taliban, oh, and a “space force”

this presidency is no deeper than press releases

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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:19:10am

re: #325 Kragar

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He’s Ed Morrow in his delusions and Dave Letterman when he’s actually just a hack.

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:20:41am

re: #294 Kragar

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wait and see what ice does (is told to do)

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Kragar  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:22:47am
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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:29:22am

re: #314 Joe Bacon 🌹

This IS the kind of “Christianity” I’ve experienced. And you will see Pulpit Pimps on Jesus TV gloating when someone on their Dead Pool list gets the pine condo…

Me too, and not just from pulpit pimps. People who told me my child couldn’t play with them, people telling me my epilepsy is caused by demon possession or my atheism, the overwhelming majority of my family disowning me (and they belong to so-called liberal Christian sects such as the United Methodists), &c.

This is not new, but at least they aren’t breaking us on the wheel or hanging us much any more (though plenty of GOP politicians have blamed everything from the “breakdown of morals in society” to mass shootings on “atheist liberals”).

I have never seen a time when this was not the case.

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JordanRules  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:36:46am
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darthstar  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:38:56am

The best part about this new New Yorker cover isn’t the whole ‘emperor’s new clothes’ thing - though that is a good and obvious take away. No, the best part is the body language of the Press Secretary as well as her pursed and tinted lips, as well as the lazy eye. It’s her face and posture. Not Trump’s. And THAT is what’s going to get under his skin when he sees it.

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Stanley Sea  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:38:57am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:39:26am

re: #330 Kragar

Here Rep. Mike Rogers claims—without citing any evidence at all—that Russia has a campaign to “foment and fund disarmament movements in the West”

It is not illegal for foreign governments to try to influence politics in foreign countries. The problems arise if they use illegal transactions or surveillance, or if local nationals collaborate with them…

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Sir John Barron  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:40:32am

re: #332 JordanRules

sweet fancy moses

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Varek Raith  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:42:35am

re: #332 JordanRules

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That’s a tough one…
1. It’s incredibly stupid and hard to fathom.
2. It’s totally within the realm of Trump possibilities.
3. Wooweee, we’re boned.

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:44:19am

re: #315 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

It’s a common sentiment among the same kinds of bullshit artists as produced the hatemongering Westboro Baptist fuckers. I don’t get where all this sheer unbridled hate comes from when the two most important commandments, according to Jesus, were “Love God” and “Love everybody around you that isn’t you”.

If there is an after life thses folks are likely gonna be disappointed at how they get classified

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:45:43am

re: #332 JordanRules

If he’s going to people, he should at least pick a few kitchen cabinet people, like a miner from West Virginia, a steel worker from Pa, or that woman who was signing people up for the ACA but voted for him. At least these people would be wondering if what they are doing would actually affect those close to them.

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:46:41am

re: #338 dangerman

If there is an after life thses folks are likely gonna be disappointed at how they get classified

I want to be their door greeter in Hell.

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bill d. (b.d.)  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:47:27am

re: #332 JordanRules

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Corey Lewandoski?!?!?

What a great hire he was CNN, he made sure that the GOP thought you were giving some fair coverage.

//

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:47:44am

re: #293 Belafon

Here’s your list of Republicans that are just fine with slavery:

Arbeit macht frei

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:48:24am

re: #320 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

The wingnuts have this delusion that immigrants are mooching off the system but it’s just not true. And they get fed this by politicians who are either liars like Trump or have virtually no contact or desire to talk them. As you guys know, I’m a law clerk, we have tons of foreign clients who are actually pretty young- younger than me who have good jobs, educations, are entrepreneurs, etc. Walsh has it for this lady since she goes against the image of undocumented immigrants he wants to present to his readers.

She don’t feed the narrative

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HappyWarrior  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:48:50am

re: #343 dangerman

She don’t feed the narrative

Zactly

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Dr. Matt  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:49:16am

re: #332 JordanRules

The fact he is going back to Corey Lewandoski is quite telling in that no sensible human wants to work for this failed regime.

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Kragar  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:49:34am
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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:49:59am

re: #315 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

It’s a common sentiment among the same kinds of bullshit artists as produced the hatemongering Westboro Baptist fuckers. I don’t get where all this sheer unbridled hate comes from when the two most important commandments, according to Jesus, were “Love God” and “Love everybody around you that isn’t you”.

A creed to live by.
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Belafon  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:50:44am

re: #346 Kragar

And no one Republican cares?

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:54:45am

re: #346 Kragar

I guess I must’ve missed Ivanka’s Senate confirmation hearing.

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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:56:50am
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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 10:57:16am

re: #332 JordanRules

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mcmaster, mulvaney, lewandowsi, kelly

YouTube

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dangerman  Mar 16, 2018 • 11:05:27am

re: #350 Anymouse 🌹

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I read the ACLU is on it too

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InTheWeeds  Mar 16, 2018 • 11:44:41pm

re: #13 scottslemmons

I worry about that a bit. I’m not so sure Trump would nuke California, but if the North Koreans did, I think he’d react with some sort of smug glee. And yes, every Republican in the country would guffaw nauseatingly about it.

Seems pretty likely he’d just give Cali the Puerto Rico treatment.


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