Trump Loves Murderous Dictators, Part 267: Calls Kim Jong Un “Very Open” and “Honorable”

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I set this video to start at the section where Donald Trump calls North Korean despot Kim Jong Un “very open” and “honorable.” Yes, that would be the guy who ordered the assassination of his own half-brother with VX nerve gas, the guy who starves his own people and frequently has dissenters jailed, tortured and murdered.

“Honorable.”

The rest of the video is filled with Trump’s usual incoherent rambling and boasting.

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293 comments
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:05:36am

I have long stopped asking “What would they be saying if Obama had said/done that?”

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gocart mozart  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:09:07am
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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:09:12am

From the party that brought you “Worldwide Apology Tour” and the sequel “Bowing to Foreigners!” comes this year’s newest flip-flop: “Look At How Awesome He Is For Slobbering Over Dictators!”

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ObserverArt  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:09:27am

re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have long stopped asking “What would they be saying if Obama had said/done that?”

Obama? That was so long long…long ago.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:10:23am

Ty Cobb traveling yesterday

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:11:18am

re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have long stopped asking “What would they be saying if Obama had said/done that?”

They lambasted Obama for suggesting talks with Kim without preconditions.

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b.d. (Perfect Smokey Eye)  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:11:53am

re: #2 gocart mozart

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Trump with a hoe? Too unbelievable.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:14:40am

a bit of photoshop and that hoe can be a golf club

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Alephnaught  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:15:42am

Uh-oh, I must have killed the last thread with my last comment!

Anyway, from downstairs, about the discussion regarding “incels”:

re: #359 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Not being in a relationship in not what the “incels” are speaking of. It’s a toxic grouping of people who believe that the “normies” “get all the women” and that they will never find a partner. And, then they group on some site on the ‘tubes and fester and hate.

I’m not surprised they believe that “normies” “get all the women”. After all, if you’re outside the norm, that can be quite intimidating to a potential partner. Especially if “outside the norm” means “creepy entitled asshole” like the people in that Salon article mentioned above.

Of course, they go about it the wrong way. As a gay man who came of age In Glasgow Scotland in the late 80s/early 90s, I was definitely outside the norm, but I didn’t let that stop me trying my damnedest. So, at this point in my life, I have a minimum level of sympathy for these “incel” folks. I mean, come on, like nobody else has ever felt lonely or undersexed at some point in their lives? Also, “involuntary celibacy”? Surely the whole point of celibacy is that it’s a conscious choice and therefore voluntary.

(Also, I’m also aware that “normies” is a favoured term of the “alt-right”, so the prospect of getting into bed with an actual flipping Nazi might also be considered a turn-off for a potential partner. In addition to that, i suspect a great deal of these “incels” are less interested in a relationship and more interested in getting their rocks off. Relationships are hard work.)

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lawhawk  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:18:07am

re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter

They lambasted Obama for suggesting talks with Kim without preconditions.

Trump dropped the preconditions and not a word from these same right wingers.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:24:38am
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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:25:32am

re: #11 Charles Johnson

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“More Transparent,” from the Agency of Climate in this Orwellian world we live in.

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MsJ  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:26:42am

re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter

They lambasted Obama for suggesting talks with Kim without preconditions.

Remember…everything is OKIYAR. Everything. No matter how illegal, immoral or wrong.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:27:02am

Winning

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:33:34am

Everything Trump says is a reality-inverting lie. Any wingnut on Twitter can do that, but they’re not supposed to be in positions of authority!

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:36:28am

re: #15 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Everything Trump says is a reality-inverting lie. Any wingnut on Twitter can do that, but they’re not supposed to be in positions of authority!

They elected one of their own

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:36:32am

re: #9 Alephnaught

As someone noted in the previous thread, anyone can find a sexual partner. The incels want something to bitch about; it’s easier to cry about not having a sexual partner than trying to not be a complete ass and scare away all females.

A note if you see the term “foid” when reading an incel rant - it is a derogatory term for a woman; the etymology is something-something, women that won’t sleep with me are the female droids or something like that.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:38:45am

The Dow is shitting the bed again. What did Dotard say this time?

-558.07 (-2.28%)

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:39:12am

Is that clip of Melania swatting away Donald’s hand real or is it a spoof like this one

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s Visit with the Pope

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meteor  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:43:08am

re: #18 Dr. Matt

A whole bunch of stupid shit about France and North Korea.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:43:13am

re: #9 Alephnaught

Uh-oh, I must have killed the last thread with my last comment!

Anyway, from downstairs, about the discussion regarding “incels”:

I’m not surprised they believe that “normies” “get all the women”. After all, if you’re outside the norm, that can be quite intimidating to a potential partner. Especially if “outside the norm” means “creepy entitled asshole” like the people in that Salon article mentioned above.

Of course, they go about it the wrong way. As a gay man who came of age In Glasgow Scotland in the late 80s/early 90s, I was definitely outside the norm, but I didn’t let that stop me trying my damnedest. So, at this point in my life, I have a minimum level of sympathy for these “incel” folks. I mean, come on, like nobody else has ever felt lonely or undersexed at some point in their lives? Also, “involuntary celibacy”? Surely the whole point of celibacy is that it’s a conscious choice and therefore voluntary.

(Also, I’m also aware that “normies” is a favoured term of the “alt-right”, so the prospect of getting into bed with an actual flipping Nazi might also be considered a turn-off for a potential partner. In addition to that, i suspect a great deal of these “incels” are less interested in a relationship and more interested in getting their rocks off. Relationships are hard work.)

Many “incels” may be men who don’t know how to court appropriately. They do not realize how their behavior may be a turnoff for someone who might otherwise be willing but is offended by their comments or creeped out by other traits (e.g. lurking) . Guys on the spectrum may have more serious problems in this regard — and Alek Minassian appears to be one of those.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:44:09am

re: #17 Colère Tueur de Lapin

As someone noted in the previous thread, anyone can find a sexual partner. The incels want something to bitch about; it’s easier to cry about not having a sexual partner than trying to not be a complete ass and scare away all females.

A note if you see the term “foid” when reading an incel rant - it is a derogatory term for a woman; the etymology is something-something, women that won’t sleep with me are the female droids or something like that.

But then they’d have to lower their standards and accept a woman who doesn’t looks like the people they see on TV and in the movies.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:44:57am

re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter

They lambasted Obama for suggesting talks with Kim without preconditions.

They lambasted Obama for being Black. Let’s keep it real. He could do nothing right for them.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:45:15am

re: #21 Hecuba’s daughter

Many “incels” may be men who don’t know how to court appropriately. They do not realize how their behavior may be a turnoff for someone who might otherwise be willing but is offended by their comments or creeped out by other traits (e.g. lurking) . Guys on the spectrum may have more serious problems in this regard — and Alek Minassian appears to be one of those.

I don’t mean to suggest those on the spectrum are more likely to turn into killers than other people— I just meant that they may have more problems finding an appropriate mate.

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Single-handed sailor  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:45:25am

re: #18 Dr. Matt

The Dow is shitting the bed again. What did Dotard say this time?

-558.07 (-2.28%)

He’s sending Treasure Secretary to China to negotiate a trade deal rather than the qualified people from State and ITA.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:46:58am

re: #22 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

But then they’d have to lower their standards and accept a woman who doesn’t looks like the people they see on TV and in the movies.

The real people in the movies and on TV don’t look like the people in movies and on TV. It’s a pathology that doesn’t let them see women as people and not a thing to be owned and used as they see fit.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:47:22am

re: #25 Single-handed sailor

He’s sending Treasure Secretary to China to negotiate a trade deal rather than the qualified people from State and ITA.

Are there any qualified people left in State who can negotiate with China? It would be surprising if Mnuchin is the cause of the downturn.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:47:36am

re: #23 Patricia Kayden

They lambasted Obama for being Black. Let’s keep it real. He could do nothing right for them.

And for being a Democrat. Republicans have forgotten how to be Americans. One asked on Quora today what red state they can move to where they won’t have to deal with Liberals.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:47:52am

re: #25 Single-handed sailor

The best deals will be made.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:49:45am

re: #28 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

And for being a Democrat. Republicans have forgotten how to be Americans. One asked on Quora today what red state they can move to where they won’t have to deal with Liberals.

Mars. It doesn’t get much redder than that.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:50:36am

re: #26 Colère Tueur de Lapin

The real people in the movies and on TV don’t look like the people in movies and on TV. It’s a pathology that doesn’t let them see women as people and not a thing to be owned and used as they see fit.

You know that, and I know that, but I doubt they know that.

Seeing woman as people is a Liberal thing. They used to be property, and some awful men long for the bad old days.

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MsJ  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:51:49am

re: #28 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

And for being a Democrat. Republicans have forgotten how to be Americans. One asked on Quora today what red state they can move to where they won’t have to deal with Liberals.

Somalia. I’ll pay for their ticket.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:53:00am

re: #32 MsJ

Somalia. I’ll pay for their ticket.

I’ll chip in. I like to support a good cause.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:54:01am

It took me a long time to get laid, I was already out of high school and into my sophomore year of college. I was certainly interested in women, just nerdy and socially hapless.

I came to realize in retrospect that I had probably missed several chances just because I was to clueless to notice women who were signalling me.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:54:04am

re: #21 Hecuba’s daughter

Many “incels” may be men who don’t know how to court appropriately. They do not realize how their behavior may be a turnoff for someone who might otherwise be willing but is offended by their comments or creeped out by other traits (e.g. lurking) . Guys on the spectrum may have more serious problems in this regard — and Alek Minassian appears to be one of those.

It’s not that they are awkward in courtship. THEY FREAKING HATE WOMEN. Cheebus.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:54:08am

re: #29 Colère Tueur de Lapin

The best deals will be made.

By the best people.

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Jack Burton  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:54:15am

re: #9 Alephnaught

(Also, I’m also aware that “normies” is a favoured term of the “alt-right”, so the prospect of getting into bed with an actual flipping Nazi might also be considered a turn-off for a potential partner. In addition to that, i suspect a great deal of these “incels” are less interested in a relationship and more interested in getting their rocks off. Relationships are hard work.)

Although the Venn Diagram for the Alt-Right and MRAs tends to look like 1 circle, use of the term “normie” does not a nazi make. *Every* subculture refers to everyone not them as “normies” or some variation on that. Punks, Goths, Neopagans, SCA Members, Ren Faire Goers, Fans of Horror movies, Rocky Horror fans, people with Disney Passes… literally nearly every group that could possibly be considered “the other” from the mainstream, uses the term “normie”.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:54:20am

re: #18 Dr. Matt

The Dow is shitting the bed again. What did Dotard say this time?

-558.07 (-2.28%)

His attack on the Iran deal? Maybe that spooked the markets.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:56:47am

re: #38 Hecuba’s daughter

His attack on the Iran deal? Maybe that spooked the markets.

The markets are under no compulsion to close their eyes and pretend that Trump is some sort of economic genius…

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Dr. Matt  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:58:06am

Sarasota, Florida high school student under fire over his racist ‘promposal’

The Sarasota County School District has begun to address the community after a Riverview High School student’s racist prom proposal over the weekend went viral, including reaching out to the Sarasota chapter of the NAACP.

High school senior Noah Crowley, 18, sent out the “promposal” on Sunday over Snapchat. It shows a picture of himself holding a sign that states: “If I was black I’d be picking cotton, but I’m white so I’m picking U 4 prom.”

Officials with the school district responded to the social media poston Monday, saying it was “racist in nature.”

Noah has a future in GOP politics.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 24, 2018 • 11:58:30am
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jeffreyw  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:00:03pm

re: #18 Dr. Matt

The Dow is shitting the bed again. What did Dotard say this time?

-558.07 (-2.28%)

Caterpillar is reporting lower profits due to increased raw material costs. Steel costs more for some reason.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:01:45pm

re: #42 jeffreyw

Caterpillar is reporting lower profits due to increased raw material costs. Steel costs more for some reason.

Translation: Obama’s fault.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:02:37pm

re: #35 The Vicious Babushka

It’s not that they are awkward in courtship. THEY FREAKING HATE WOMEN. Cheebus.

I think the former, combined with issues that require professional help, led to the latter.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:02:41pm

re: #41 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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I again favour the full privatisation of the Monarchy: British Royal plc

Let them earn their own keep doing speeches, ribbon-cutting, branding and tourism promotions, allowing them to pay rent on Buckingham Palace and all their other residences.

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b.d. (Perfect Smokey Eye)  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:03:50pm

re: #42 jeffreyw

Caterpillar is reporting lower profits due to increased raw material costs. Steel costs more for some reason.

Trade wars are easy to win, they need to quit crying and make money anyways.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:03:51pm

re: #40 Dr. Matt

Sarasota, Florida high school student under fire over his racist ‘promposal’

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Noah has a future in GOP politics.

It would have been cooler if the girl said “fuck off, racist”, rather than liking it.

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jeffreyw  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:04:06pm

re: #43 Dr. Matt

Translation: Obama’s fault.

No need for a translation because that (Obama’s fault) goes without saying.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:04:20pm

re: #45 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I again favour the full privatisation of the Monarchy: British Royal plc

Let them earn their own keep doing speeches, ribbon-cutting, branding and tourism promotions, allowing them to pay rent on Buckingham Palace and all their other residences.

My understanding is that they do earn their keep in tourist dollars.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:04:29pm

re: #35 The Vicious Babushka

It’s not that they are awkward in courtship. THEY FREAKING HATE WOMEN. Cheebus.

It seems that some of them hearken back to a time when men did not need to court women in any romantic sense: they were chattel given in marriage by their families to the most attractive suitor or taken in wartime as sex slaves.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:04:43pm

re: #45 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I again favour the full privatisation of the Monarchy: British Royal plc

Let them earn their own keep doing speeches, ribbon-cutting, branding and tourism promotions, allowing them to pay rent on Buckingham Palace and all their other residences.

They could serve as tour guides at the palace, for a premium price

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jeffreyw  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:06:06pm

re: #45 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I again favour the full privatisation of the Monarchy: The highest bidder gets to be king.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:06:57pm

re: #49 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

My understanding is that they do earn their keep in tourist dollars.

they could do that a lot more efficiently as private citizens, and even retain the titles for purely ceremonial purposes.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:08:02pm

re: #52 jeffreyw

I again favour the full privatisation of the Monarchy: The highest bidder gets to be king.

That was much the case in the Holy Roman Empire: the Emperor was chosen by the seven Duke-Electors and they voted for whoever gave the biggest bribes.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:08:53pm

A good DK diary about some friends of the diarist who went from progressives to wingers. The short version: They hated change.

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calochortus  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:10:34pm

re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It seems that some of them hearken back to a time when men did not need to court women in and romantic sense: they were chattel given in marriage by their families to the most attractive suitor or taken in wartime as sex slaves.

As far as I can figure out, incels are upset that they can’t have sex with any woman they choose-and some of them have very high standards for a woman’s appearance, among other things. Naturally that sex would come without strings or consequences for them.

In other words, the “involuntary” part of their celibacy comes from being jerks.

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Kragar  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:11:48pm
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:12:38pm

re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

they could do that a lot more efficiently as private citizens, and even retain the titles for purely ceremonial purposes.

You sound Libertarian.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:14:33pm

re: #56 calochortus

As far as I can figure out, incels are upset that they can’t have sex with any woman they choose-and some of them have very high standards for a woman’s appearance, among other things. Naturally that sex would come without strings or consequences for them.

In other words, the “involuntary” part of their celibacy comes from being jerks.

Jerks and nitwits.

I think we could make the country a better place if in school we taught young men how to relate to women.

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Varek Raith  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:14:37pm

re: #55 Belafon

That’s depressing.
Sigh…

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petesh  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:16:05pm

re: #52 jeffreyw

I again favour the full privatisation of the Monarchy: The highest bidder gets to be king.

Hell, no! Just think of the multi-kazillionaires who might do it. Or even millionaires like Trump.

In other monarchical news, some might complain that Anne is not #7, ahead of her younger brothers, but by all accounts she’s lucky 13 since reigning is not her thing. Reining, now that’s how she became an Olympian, y’know.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:16:32pm

re: #59 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Jerks and nitwits.

I think we could make the country a better place if in school we taught young men people how to relate to women humans.

Including themselves.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:16:56pm

re: #59 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Jerks and nitwits.

I think we could make the country a better place if in school we taught young men how to relate to women.

Like I said, I was really socially hapless, did not participate in team sports, I hung out with other geeks and it took a long time before I started to get the hang of women.

Leaning an instrument helped, most of my girlfriends have had something to do with music, in fact my ex wife and most recent GF were both fiddlers and musical partners.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:18:28pm

re: #59 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Jerks and nitwits.

I think we could make the country a better place if in school we taught young men how to relate to women.

I recall all those courses they were offering college students on the nature of “consent” and how it was impossible to teach such a thing without them already having mastered the underlying concept of “respect”.

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calochortus  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:19:09pm

re: #59 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Jerks and nitwits.

I think we could make the country a better place if in school we taught young men how to relate to women.

Wouldn’t hurt to teach young women how to relate to men, either.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:19:48pm

re: #64 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I recall all those courses they were offering college students on the nature of “consent” and how it was impossible to teach such a thing without them already having mastered the underlying concept of “respect”.

College is way too late for these lessons. Ideally you start before puberty, when they can still think clearly.

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gocart mozart  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:20:25pm

Heh, took me a few minutes.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:22:00pm

re: #66 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

College is way too late for these lessons. Ideally you start before puberty, when they can still think clearly.

I am of the semi-educated opinion that men are more influenced by their hormones than women are. I have had sympathy for them ever since this realization.

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gocart mozart  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:22:35pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:23:58pm

re: #66 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

College is way too late for these lessons. Ideally you start before puberty, when they can still think clearly.

I must have developed that when I was young; my dad died when I was seven, leaving me alone with my mom and older sister.

I guess I just learned to look on women as people to be respected and protected, which is why I could never think of forcing myself on a woman who was not interested or receptive to my advances.

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b.d. (Perfect Smokey Eye)  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:24:06pm

The guy coulda/shoulda said no thanks.

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Varek Raith  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:24:16pm

re: #67 gocart mozart

e_e

/:P

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Kragar  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:25:03pm

re: #67 gocart mozart

Heh, took me a few minutes.

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The Shadow knows…

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Mike Lamb  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:25:39pm

re: #67 gocart mozart

Heh, took me a few minutes.

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Took me about 2 seconds. Not sure what that says about me.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:29:15pm

re: #68 wrenchwench

I am of the semi-educated opinion that men are more influenced by their hormones than women are. I have had sympathy for them ever since this realization.

Too few people realize this, and so, while a lot of girls get education on what’s happening to them (or at least they did when I was a kid, as I still remember that time in sixth grade when the girls all when to one of the rooms and the boys went to the playground), boys do not. Not making an excuse, but I think my childhood and early adulthood would have been a lot less chaotic had someone helped me, and I try to get ahead of things with my kids.

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:29:18pm

re: #55 Belafon

A good DK diary about some friends of the diarist who went from progressives to wingers. The short version: They hated change.

“Economy anxiety” was always a bullshit excuse for white fright. The pundits want so badly to fit Trump into the mold of a “normal” presidency and the one that was most convenient for them at the time was “People are afraid of losing jobs/opportunity/retirement!”

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First Epistle of Paul to the Bagmen  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:29:44pm
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Kragar  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:30:03pm

re: #74 Mike Lamb

Tommy Boy - Sinner

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:30:15pm

re: #71 b.d. (Untruthful Slime Ball)

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The guy coulda/shoulda said no thanks.

Considering how much of a petulant douchebag that Donny is, Jackson turning down the offer probably would have been followed by forced retirement.

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Sir John Barron  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:30:29pm

re: #71 b.d. (Untruthful Slime Ball)

Evergreen tweet:

I like how Trump has now ruined [insert name]’s life and career for no reason.

— Matthew Yglesias

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:30:32pm

re: #77 Skip Intro

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MsJ  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:30:36pm

re: #17 Colère Tueur de Lapin

As someone noted in the previous thread, anyone can find a sexual partner. The incels want something to bitch about; it’s easier to cry about not having a sexual partner than trying to not be a complete ass and scare away all females.

A note if you see the term “foid” when reading an incel rant - it is a derogatory term for a woman; the etymology is something-something, women that won’t sleep with me are the female droids or something like that.

Doesn’t that make them decels (deliberate celibates), not Incels?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:31:44pm

re: #82 MsJ

Doesn’t that make them decels (deliberate celibates), not Incels?

and women who cannot get laid are decibelles?

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:34:01pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:34:34pm

re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and women who cannot get laid are decibelles?

*blows whistle*

Flag on the play, five yard penalty for bad punning.

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ObserverArt  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:35:58pm

re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It seems that some of them hearken back to a time when men did not need to court women in any romantic sense: they were chattel given in marriage by their families to the most attractive suitor or taken in wartime as sex slaves.

Or, you conked a woman over the head with your club, drug her back to your man cave and when she woke up, she was yours.

Relationships were so much easier to understand then. Seems some guys would like it to be that way still.

And man caves are still popular!

heh.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:40:08pm

re: #86 ObserverArt

Or, you conked a woman over the head with your club, drug her back to your man cave and when she woke up, she was yours.

Relationships were so much easier to understand then. Seems some guys would like it to be that way still.

And man caves are still popular!

heh.

really bad joke (disclaimer: you are responsible for opening and reading this, it is tasteless and I generally would not tell this to anyone who did not understand my sense of humor):

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Jack Burton  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:41:03pm

re: #86 ObserverArt

Or, you conked a woman over the head with your club, drug her back to your man cave and when she woke up, she was yours.

Relationships were so much easier to understand then. Seems some guys would like it to be that way still.

And man caves are still popular!

heh.

I know that relationships are a herculean struggle that often makes you wonder if it’s worth it, but that said I’ve never understood this mind set. I want whomever I’m in a relationship with to be an equal partner, “on the same team”, and still be their own person. I can’t imagine intentionally wanting someone else to be fake at best or miserable at worst so you can be happy. If you view your partner in an adversarial way or as a competitor of some kind, that’s not a relationship and why the hell are you in it?

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:41:57pm

re: #82 MsJ

Doesn’t that make them decels (deliberate celibates), not Incels?

TBH I wouldn’t say anyone can find a partner. It’s difficult for those on the spectrum but I don’t blame women for my lack of luck in relationships especially because ASD women have it even tougher.

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Weaselone  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:42:08pm

re: #45 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I again favour the full privatisation of the Monarchy: British Royal plc

Let them earn their own keep doing speeches, ribbon-cutting, branding and tourism promotions, allowing them to pay rent on Buckingham Palace and all their other residences.

The Royals get about 40 million pounds every year from the government, they forfeit about 200 million pounds each year in profit on the lands they own.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:42:45pm

It’s easy to blame women when you get nothing but propaganda telling you that you’re owed sex because you have a penis.

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Unshaken Defiance  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:43:53pm

re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have long stopped asking “What would they be saying if Obama had said/done that?”

I’m all the way out to “You know he loves those guys because he imagines he can do that shit here in office right?” Then ” oh sorry to bring up his sex life”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:45:48pm

re: #90 Weaselone

The Royals get about 40 million pounds every year from the government, they forfeit about 200 million pounds each year in profit on the lands they own.

and how did they come to own these lands in the first place?

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Bass Reeves  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:45:57pm

re: #45 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I again favour the full privatisation of the Monarchy: British Royal plc

Let them earn their own keep doing speeches, ribbon-cutting, branding and tourism promotions, allowing them to pay rent on Buckingham Palace and all their other residences.

What is the value of their branding as private citizens again? What is an example of a country where this is done so I can better understand the context.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:46:46pm
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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:47:34pm

re: #95 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Welp. And he’s there for life.

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jeffreyw  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:48:50pm

re: #61 petesh

Hell, no! Just think of the multi-kazillionaires who might do it. Or even millionaires like Trump.

In other monarchical news, some might complain that Anne is not #7, ahead of her younger brothers, but by all accounts she’s lucky 13 since reigning is not her thing. Reining, now that’s how she became an Olympian, y’know.

Eggzactly! Replace income taxes with the cash from the winning bidder. Sure, there are details that need to be worked out…

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:49:21pm

re: #95 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

“NO DIFFERENCE!!”

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:49:24pm

re: #96 HappyWarrior

Welp. And he’s there for life.

Ugh, and he’s only 46.

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TedStriker  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:49:33pm

re: #67 gocart mozart

Heh, took me a few minutes.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:50:49pm

Nice image from kos for wingnuts who derp about “identity politics”.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:51:17pm

re: #100 TedStriker

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So it is the boner. I wasn’t sure if I was imagining it.

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First Epistle of Paul to the Bagmen  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:51:26pm

re: #99 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Ugh, and he’s only 46.

That’s not an accident. Trump is going to fill the courts with young far right assholes.

Oh, and FUCK YOU BERNIE!

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:51:36pm

re: #99 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Ugh, and he’s only 46.

Gorsuch is in his early 50’s. He’ll be done with SCOTUS when I’m in my 60’s and he’ll be making bad decisions for the children of my niece.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:52:07pm

re: #101 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Nice image from kos for wingnuts who derp about “identity politics”.

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It’s not just wingnuts. But yeah.

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ObserverArt  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:52:08pm

re: #55 Belafon

A good DK diary about some friends of the diarist who went from progressives to wingers. The short version: They hated change.

That just broke my head.

New thinking…there are regressive progressives. Who knew?

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lawhawk  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:52:33pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:53:02pm

re: #94 Bass Reeves

What is the value of their branding as private citizens again? What is an example of a country where this is done so I can better understand the context.

I started out being somewhat facetious, but at the heart of it all is the point that monarchy and aristocracy are social relics that should be abolished.

Germany still has the relics of its aristocracy, but their titles mean nothing nor do they enjoy any special rights or privileges; in fact, those in the former East Germany were quite discriminated against and those whose lands were expropriated under the Soviets (before the GDR was constituted in 1949) did not even get their property back after reunification.

(I know this because I have been translating tons of documents for a landless prince who is trying to recover his property and trying to take it to the Hague and the UN)

There is even a Monarchist movement in Germany that would like to restore the Kaiser, which I find entirely ludicrous. For starters, there was only a Monarchy from 1871-1918, and even to a lot of Germans, they were pompous comic-opera figures with pointy mustaches and silly helmets.

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gwangung  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:54:21pm

re: #106 ObserverArt

That just broke my head.

New thinking…there are regressive progressives. Who knew?

Minorities.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:54:37pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:56:13pm

re: #107 lawhawk

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In a related story, pedestrians passing by the White House were confused when they thought they heard an air raid siren coming from the Oval Office.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:56:19pm

re: #67 gocart mozart

Heh, took me a few minutes.

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Ha, me too. The shadow knows!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:58:12pm

re: #110 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Nice to see Fox actually tell the truth about what’s going on. Keep it up, until your audience is deradicalized, and can deal with reality.
Only Fox can remove the poison that Fox injected into its viewer’s minds.

This is worth noting. They must be aware that this is major news and will have to put their heads down and soldier through it all and at least slow down some of the spin they have been putting on the Mueller story.

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Sir John Barron  Apr 24, 2018 • 12:59:14pm

re: #107 lawhawk

Paul Manafort charged with conspiracy against the U.S., money laundering, and failing to register as a foreign agent. Catherine Herridge reports. pic.twitter.com

— Fox News

This is new? Wasn’t he already charged?

Anyway, great people, the best this guy has work for him. /

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:00:15pm

re: #73 Kragar

The Shadow knows…

Great minds

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:00:36pm

re: #110 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

….Nice to see Fox actually tell the truth about what’s going on. Keep it up, until your audience is deradicalized, and can deal with reality.
Only Fox can remove the poison that Fox injected into its viewer’s minds.
2:54 PM - Apr 24, 2018
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Fox news programs have told the truth in the past. It’s Hannity, Ingraham, Fox and Friends etc that spew lies and brainwash their viewers.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:01:08pm

re: #101 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

I linked to the diary containing that earlier. The story itself is depressing, but illuminating. It also shows the struggles the left is going to have.

And, I hate to bring this up, but it partially explains Bernie’s appeal: “I want to remain on the left, but I would rather talk about something other than race.”

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ObserverArt  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:02:48pm

re: #57 Kragar

Jim Renacci is running against Sherrod Brown.

Well, that is if he can win his primary against a Cleveland businessman, Mike Gibbons. It seems like it really is a big yawn in Ohio for the Republicans this primary. Very little state-wide commercials, little buzz.

Gibbons being a businessman is running a Trump-lite let businessmen run government campaign with the typical Republican BS attached.

All I hope is the Republicans are weak enough in this race to get hammered by Brown.

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MsJ  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:03:08pm

re: #107 lawhawk

Next time right wingers claim the Mueller probe is a witch hunt… oh wait, Trump says that… point out that Trump’s campaign manager was charged with conspiracy against the US, money laundering, and failing to register as a foreign agent.

Dude, don’t you know that Manafort was Obama’s campaign manager? IT’S OBAMA’S FAULT!!

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Sir John Barron  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:03:25pm

re: #107 lawhawk

Paul Manafort charged with conspiracy against the U.S., money laundering, and failing to register as a foreign agent. Catherine Herridge reports. pic.twitter.com

— Fox News

Just like when Obama’s campaign manager was charged with conspiracy against the US and money laundering. Oh no, wait, that didn’t happen. //

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:03:31pm

re: #117 Belafon

I linked to the diary containing that earlier. The story itself is depressing, but illuminating. It also shows the struggles the left is going to have.

And, I hate to bring this up, but it partially explains Bernie’s appeal: “I want to remain on the left, but I would rather talk about something other than race.”

Bernie and Trump appealed largely to the same audience, it’s just Trump was open about the white supremacism. Bernie tried to spin it as “identity politics” while largely pushing policies aimed at maintaining white privilege.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:04:16pm

re: #117 Belafon

I linked to the diary containing that earlier. The story itself is depressing, but illuminating. It also shows the struggles the left is going to have.

And, I hate to bring this up, but it partially explains Bernie’s appeal: “I want to remain on the left, but I would rather talk about something other than race.”

And I clicked that link.

Talking about race upsets racists. Having a good job, where they work side-by side with people of different races would be more effective in reducing racism. It’s why city people are less racist.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:04:41pm

re: #117 Belafon

I linked to the diary containing that earlier. The story itself is depressing, but illuminating. It also shows the struggles the left is going to have.

And, I hate to bring this up, but it partially explains Bernie’s appeal: “I want to remain on the left, but I would rather talk about something other than race.”

Yes. And thanks for that link. It was a good read even if it did illustrate many of my frustrations with my fellow white progressives.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:05:11pm

re: #121 Targetpractice

Bernie and Trump appealed largely to the same audience, it’s just Trump was open about the white supremacism. Bernie tried to spin it as “identity politics” while largely pushing policies aimed at maintaining white privilege.

Neither of them cared much about blacks, but you cannot really compare DT’s outright hostility to BS’s neglect.

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:05:15pm

re: #119 MsJ

Dude, don’t you know that Manafort was Obama’s campaign manager? IT’S OBAMA’S FAULT!!

I’m convinced if I check the usual suspects, they’re already spreading the talking point that Manafort was totally a “Deep State” agent who joined the Trump campaign strictly to give an excuse to “investigate.”

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lawhawk  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:05:49pm

re: #114 Sir John Barron

It was relevant because they updated papers to show that the search warrants were looking for info relating to the June 2016 meeting that everyone in Trumpworld lied about.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:05:56pm

re: #122 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

And I clicked that link.

Talking about race upsets racists. Having a good job, where they work side-by side with people of different races would be more effective in reducing racism. It’s why city people are less racist.

It’s not even racists always. Just people who refuse to see how race is a problem.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:06:28pm

re: #127 HappyWarrior

It’s not even racists always. Just people who refuse to see how race is a problem.

Crypto-racists.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:06:32pm

re: #124 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Neither of them cared much about blacks, but you cannot really compare DT’s outright hostility to BS’s neglect.

*Insert MLK’s statement about the dangers of the moderate whites*

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:06:58pm

re: #124 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Neither of them cared much about blacks, but you cannot really compare DT’s outright hostility to BS’s neglect.

Both were playing for the same audience, they were just playing different tunes. The latter has made it clear for years that he thinks the future of the DNC lies in bringing back the Southern white vote by appealing to the “working class.”

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:07:16pm

re: #124 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Neither of them cared much about blacks, but you cannot really compare DT’s outright hostility to BS’s neglect.

If you’re African American, what’s the difference between Bernie telling you “It’s a distraction from the class war” and Trump telling you you’re a gang banger.

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Mattand  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:07:34pm

re: #122 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

And I clicked that link.

Talking about race upsets racists. Having a good job, where they work side-by side with people of different races would be more effective in reducing racism. It’s why city people are less racist.

Eh, you need to meet my brother’s in-laws. Most have never left South Philly.

They’re definitely city people, but they definitely ain’t less racist.

Standard “hashtag not all Philadelphians” disclaimer applies.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:09:32pm

re: #130 Targetpractice

Both were playing for the same audience, they were just playing different tunes. The latter has made it clear for years that he thinks the future of the DNC lies in bringing back the Southern white vote by appealing to the “working class.”

He’d rather have working class whites vote for us, ones who resent my niece for having birth right citizenship than her aunts, professionals who are naturalized and living the American Dream. Bernie may not be a bigot in the sense Trump is but he’s shown himself to be a close flavor.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:11:26pm

re: #132 Mattand

Eh, you need to meet my brother’s in-laws. Most have never left South Philly.

They’re definitely city people, but they definitely ain’t less racist.

Standard “hashtag not all Philadelphians” disclaimer applies.

Mom’s cousins are products of a much more white environment than she is. Both had working class parents but one sympathizes with BLM and Kaep and vividly remembers her dad not being happy when she had a black playmate.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:13:20pm

re: #28 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

And for being a Democrat. Republicans have forgotten how to be Americans. One asked on Quora today what red state they can move to where they won’t have to deal with Liberals.

To be fair, I wouldn’t move to a red state. If they all moved to red states and concentrated their voting power, I’d be alright with that.

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:13:36pm

A lot of Bernie supporters voiced their acceptance of Trump presidency in public on the grounds that they figured it would destroy the “duopoly,” but the Kos diary and my own experiences lead me to believe a lot of them figure that a Trump presidency will also lead to a halting if not a rollback of those “identity politics” they feel are threatening their own privilege. The worst case scenario in their minds is that Trump simply maintains the “status quo” and gets voted out in 2020.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:14:32pm

I’m interested in what Lizards of color think if Bernie is just clueless or a racist. I admit I’m more inclined to the former but I’m a white man so I may overlook some things that others see.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:15:19pm

re: #109 gwangung

re: #106 ObserverArt

That just broke my head.

New thinking…there are regressive progressives. Who knew?

Minorities.

And a majority: Women. The women’s movement of the seventies had its beginning in the several movements of the sixties, in which women ‘discovered’ they were not equals as leaders.

Oh, the setbacks we all have to deal with.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:16:25pm

re: #135 Patricia Kayden

To be fair, I wouldn’t move to a red state. If they all moved to red states and concentrated their voting power, I’d be alright with that.

Most states are red right now. It they GTFO of the midwest and head south, that would be ideal.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:17:13pm

re: #136 Targetpractice

A lot of Bernie supporters voiced their acceptance of Trump presidency in public on the grounds that they figured it would destroy the “duopoly,” but the Kos diary and my own experiences lead me to believe a lot of them figure that a Trump presidency will also lead to a halting if not a rollback of those “identity politics” they feel are threatening their own privilege. The worst case scenario in their minds is that Trump simply maintains the “status quo” and gets voted out in 2020.

The thing is and I’ve never gotten an answer from a Bernie supporter on this is if “We lost the working class” as he claims, why do we still retain the support of minority working class folks perhaps at an even higher rate than professional minorities.

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gwangung  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:17:46pm

re: #137 HappyWarrior

I’m interested in what Lizards of color think if Bernie is just clueless or a racist. I admit I’m more inclined to the former but I’m a white man so I may overlook some things that others see.

It’s not either/or. He’s clueless and has several implicit biases about race, and he’s simply not ready to adjust some long held internal beliefs to accommodate new facts. And in areas where he is not knowledgeable, he’s not willing to concede that he’s can be clumsy; he’s still cocksure that he has the right message and the right way to say it.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:18:24pm

re: #131 HappyWarrior

If you’re African American, what’s the difference between Bernie telling you “It’s a distraction from the class war” and Trump telling you you’re a gang banger.

One ignores what you’re dealing with, the other directly calls you scum.
I’d rather be ignored than called scum, but working to reduce racism would be cooler.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:19:16pm

re: #141 gwangung

It’s not either/or. He’s clueless and has several implicit biases about race, and he’s simply not ready to adjust some long held internal beliefs to accommodate new facts. And in areas where he is not knowledgeable, he’s not willing to concede that he’s can be clumsy; he’s still cocksure that he has the right message and the right way to say it.

Thanks man. Good points.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:19:41pm

re: #101 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Nice image from kos for wingnuts who derp about “identity politics”.

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That cartoon needs to go viral. I can’t stand this nonsense about “identity politics” which is code for “you non-Whites really need to shut up”. It’s insulting when you see all the mess minorities are facing in this country.

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Bass Reeves  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:19:47pm

re: #137 HappyWarrior

I’m interested in what Lizards of color think if Bernie is just clueless or a racist. I admit I’m more inclined to the former but I’m a white man so I may overlook some things that others see.

This is an interesting question, in such that it doesn’t really change the outcome of his actions whether done through ignorance or spite. When given the opportunity to be the recipient of clues, he’s opted out.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:20:32pm

re: #142 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

One ignores what you’re dealing with, the other directly calls you scum.
I’d rather be ignored than called scum, but working to reduce racism would be cooler.

In a way I appreciate Bernie for showing me the left can be just as ignorant as the right about race stuff. I admit I was naive about that.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:21:07pm

re: #137 HappyWarrior

I’m interested in what Lizards of color think if Bernie is just clueless or a racist. I admit I’m more inclined to the former but I’m a white man so I may overlook some things that others see.

Clueless. However, his cluelessness is not excusable given his age. By now, he should understand how central racism is to the lives of people of color in this country.

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Kragar  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:22:39pm

re: #137 HappyWarrior

I’m interested in what Lizards of color think if Bernie is just clueless or a racist. I admit I’m more inclined to the former but I’m a white man so I may overlook some things that others see.

Its both. He’s ignorant and he refuses to accept criticism, blaming people for not seeing how great he is.

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Bass Reeves  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:22:58pm

re: #142 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

One ignores what you’re dealing with, the other directly calls you scum.
I’d rather be ignored than called scum, but working to reduce racism would be cooler.

The one ignoring what I’m dealing with is the one okay with me being called scum. The one ignoring what I’m dealing with may not actually be on my side when they become “aware” of the situation.

I’d prefer dealing with the open racist, because I can take measures to protect myself. I had to do that this weekend, in fact.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:23:06pm

re: #145 Bass Reeves

This is an interesting question, in such that it doesn’t really change the outcome of his actions whether done through ignorance or spite. When given the opportunity to be the recipient of clues, he’s opted out.

Thanks. I just don’t know but I tell you this, when I saw him dismiss Southern states and their predominant AA Dem primary electorate as states that were going GOP anyhow while pumping his chest after winning caucuses in equally GOP states but ones much whiter in electorate, I began to see some spite.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:23:10pm

re: #136 Targetpractice

A lot of Bernie supporters voiced their acceptance of Trump presidency in public on the grounds that they figured it would destroy the “duopoly,” but the Kos diary and my own experiences lead me to believe a lot of them figure that a Trump presidency will also lead to a halting if not a rollback of those “identity politics” they feel are threatening their own privilege. The worst case scenario in their minds is that Trump simply maintains the “status quo” and gets voted out in 2020.

At the local Bernie headquarters before the election, when the woman who was tending the place was asked about the prospect of helping Trump get elected, her answer was, ‘Good. It will bring on a bloody revolution. We need one of those.’

Not her blood she was talking about.

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:23:25pm

re: #129 Belafon

*Insert MLK’s statement about the dangers of the moderate whites*

“Letter from the Birmingham Jail” is every bit as relevant today as it was then. The “radicals” of the day who fought for equality are now the old men and women who worry that the fight they once supported has now left them in danger of becoming the minority and so afraid that “social justice” will fall on them instead.

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makeitstop  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:23:36pm

re: #107 lawhawk

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C’mon, he hardly knew the guy.
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First Epistle of Paul to the Bagmen  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:23:38pm

re: #147 Patricia Kayden

Clueless. However, his cluelessness is not excusable given his age. By now, he should understand how central racism is to the lives of people of color in this country.

Yet Bernie is all set to screw the Dems again in 2020. I have nothing but contempt for him and his idiot followers.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:24:23pm

re: #80 Sir John Barron

Evergreen tweet:

When you lay down with dogs, you get fleas (or trumped). Sad.

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:25:22pm

re: #151 wrenchwench

At the local Bernie headquarters before the election, when the woman who was tending the place was asked about the prospect of helping Trump get elected, her answer was, ‘Good. It will bring on a bloody revolution. We need one of those.’

Not her blood she was talking about.

Everybody I’ve ever met who voiced open support for a “revolution” always imagined themselves as the eventual member of whatever leading authority came to power in the wake of the bloodshed. They never saw themselves as the foot soldiers, they all saw themselves as a future “Founding Father.”

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gwangung  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:25:33pm

re: #151 wrenchwench

At the local Bernie headquarters before the election, when the woman who was tending the place was asked about the prospect of helping Trump get elected, her answer was, ‘Good. It will bring on a bloody revolution. We need one of those.’

Not her blood she was talking about.

And too cocksure that HER faction was going to come out on top afterwords.

News flash, geniuses….revolutions (bloodless or not) don’t just happen. They need to be lead and carefully managed so that the right people come out in charge AND they have a program that can be implemented quickly and efficiently when they do have power. Hint: democracy may not be compatible with these circumstances.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:25:38pm

re: #151 wrenchwench

At the local Bernie headquarters before the election, when the woman who was tending the place was asked about the prospect of helping Trump get elected, her answer was, ‘Good. It will bring on a bloody revolution. We need one of those.’

Not her blood she was talking about.

She must be like this Berner:

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:25:44pm

re: #151 wrenchwench

She sounds like Susan Sarandon and Jimmy Dore. Privileged folk.

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Varek Raith  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:26:21pm

I hear Maytags are great for laundering money.
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What?

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:27:04pm

re: #157 gwangung

And too cocksure that HER faction was going to come out on top afterwords.

News flash, geniuses….revolutions (bloodless or not) don’t just happen. They need to be lead and carefully managed so that the right people come out in charge AND they have a program that can be implemented quickly and efficiently when they do have power. Hint: democracy may not be compatible with these circumstances.

And even if the “right” authority comes to power, that’s no guarantee it will stay in power. See also: The rise of Stalin in the wake of Lenin’s death.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:27:05pm

re: #147 Patricia Kayden

Clueless. However, his cluelessness is not excusable given his age. By now, he should understand how central racism is to the lives of people of color in this country.

His age may give him a different perspective. At my age, racism seems to have increased, since I was born in the 60s and my memories start in the 70s (all but one anyway). At his age, he’s seen the terrible racism from before and during the 60s, and will be comparing the present to then. That’s no excuse to ignore racism, but it may explain why it seems like less of an issue to an older person.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:27:19pm

re: #159 Patricia Kayden

She sounds like Susan Sarandon and Jimmy Dore. Privileged folk.

Didn’t know Dore. Holy shit.

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gwangung  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:28:31pm

re: #158 The Vicious Babushka

She must be like this Berner:

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Woman’s a fucking idiot.

In ANY stable, long term fundraising scheme, the 90/10 rule applies…90% of the money comes from 10% of the donors.

And dont point to the Sanders 2016 campaign….A) we don’t know if it can be sustained long term, and b) there were plenty of problems with administration (lots of room for graft and corruption) and questions about origin of some funds.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:28:31pm

re: #158 The Vicious Babushka

She must be like this Berner:

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I know better than to say, ‘They’re all alike’, but the ones who think share some similar thoughts.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:28:51pm

re: #156 Targetpractice

Everybody I’ve ever met who voiced open support for a “revolution” always imagined themselves as the eventual member of whatever leading authority came to power in the wake of the bloodshed. They never saw themselves as the foot soldiers, they all saw themselves as a future “Founding Father.”

They want to be a founding father, but instead would be cannon-fodder.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:29:13pm

I must confess something. I like Larry Whitmore very much but I was bothered he got Bernie to trash Cruz’s attack of “New York” values. Bernie Is the one who left New York and HRC is the one who went TO New York.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:30:04pm

I appreciate this conversation guys. Can’t have it with many people.

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Jack Burton  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:34:38pm

I’ve noticed that if I browse through the posts of BernieBros I know on Facebook, I eventually run into conspiracy theories and right-wing bullshit.

Trying to argue with them is like trying to scream in space.

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KGxvi  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:36:19pm

re: #169 Jack Burton

I’ve noticed that if I browse through the posts of BernieBros I know on Facebook, I eventually run into conspiracy theories and right-wing bullshit.

Trying to argue with them is like trying to scream in space.

I tried to scream into the abyss, but the abyss simply responded, “well, actually…”

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:36:22pm

re: #169 Jack Burton

I’ve noticed that if I browse through the posts of BernieBros I know on Facebook, I eventually run into conspiracy theories and right-wing bullshit.

Trying to argue with them is like trying to scream in space.

The BBs to me prove the circular ideological spectrum.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:37:19pm

BBs definitely are less sympathetic towards victims of racism, homophobia, nativism, & sexism.

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Jack Burton  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:38:00pm

re: #170 KGxvi

I tried to scream into the abyss, but the abyss simply responded, “well, actually…”

Berniesplaining… yes it’s a thing.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:38:11pm

Yesterday I was sitting in my home theater, and heard my cat meowing.
I told her to come to me, but she continued to insist I come to her. She has four usual spots. Her chair in my home theater, my bed, the kitchen by her bowls, and the back of the couch in my living room. I checked them all, and couldn’t find her.

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:38:35pm

In reference to the discussion last night, this is the sort of shit that would warrant a page about Rage Furby’s imminent divorce:

In court filings, Delgado claimed that Miller texted her saying Trump campaign manager and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has “shriveled up fun bags” that needed to remain “covered.”

Miller also allegedly said the Moon landing was fake, which he reportedly learned from spending time with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) advisors.

“It really does feel like the Handmaid’s Tale,” Delgado told DailyMailTV. “[The system] treats women, especially single mothers, like mules.”

“As a conservative we hear the term ‘white male privilege’ and we kind of roll our eyes at it,” she admitted. “I don’t. I see it all the time in this case.”

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Varek Raith  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:38:36pm

re: #170 KGxvi

I tried to scream into the abyss, but the abyss simply responded, “well, actually…”

…it’s about ethics in games journalism.”

;)

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KGxvi  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:39:22pm

re: #173 Jack Burton

Berniesplaining… yes it’s a thing.

The esplaining movement knows no ideology, just that you’re wrong.

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Varek Raith  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:39:46pm

re: #174 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Yesterday I was sitting in my home theater, and heard my cat meowing.
I told her to come to me, but she continued to insist I come to her. She has four usual spots. Her chair in my home theater, my bed, the kitchen by her bowls, and the back of the couch in my living room. I checked them all, and couldn’t find her.

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My cat likes to sit in the bath tub.
I gave up figuring out why.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:40:53pm

re: #178 Varek Raith

My cat likes to sit in the bath tub.
I gave up figuring out why.

This sink thing is entirely new. It is a sort of box I suppose.

I had a cat that would pee right on the drain in the tub. It saved kitty litter costs, but dissolved the chrome on the drain.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:41:01pm

re: #41 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

A reminder to rewatch “Kind Hearts And Coronets”.

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Varek Raith  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:41:37pm

re: #179 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

This sink thing is entirely new. It is a sort of box I suppose.

Heh.
My cat also loves to sit on paper plates.

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petesh  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:41:40pm

re: #156 Targetpractice

Everybody I’ve ever met who voiced open support for a “revolution” always imagined themselves as the eventual member of whatever leading authority came to power in the wake of the bloodshed. They never saw themselves as the foot soldiers, they all saw themselves as a future “Founding Father.”

Yeah, and anyone who recalls a past life was Cleopatra or Caesar or some such.

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MsJ  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:42:46pm

re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and women who cannot get laid are decibelles?

Only if they’re screaming about it.

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KGxvi  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:48:10pm

re: #182 petesh

Yeah, and anyone who recalls a past life was Cleopatra or Caesar or some such.

Reminds me of this:

Our Past Lives… :-)

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:48:23pm

re: #172 HappyWarrior

BBs definitely are less sympathetic towards victims of racism, homophobia, nativism, & sexism.

Except when they can weaponize those issues against specific liberals. They decry identity politics out of one side of their mouths while demanding lifelong ideological purity of everyone who they perceive as failing their Polyanna-ass socialist policy litmus test. This is where Clinton could never live down her admittedly awful sounding 90’s crime bill super-predators comment, while Sanders was given a pass on voting for that bill and campaigning on that vote for years. We saw the same thing with gay marriage & DADT, the far left only allows its own heroes to evolve.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:49:01pm

re: #174 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Yesterday I was sitting in my home theater, and heard my cat meowing.
I told her to come to me, but she continued to insist I come to her. She has four usual spots. Her chair in my home theater, my bed, the kitchen by her bowls, and the back of the couch in my living room. I checked them all, and couldn’t find her.

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Nothing recent, but worth a look at what’s there.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:50:03pm

re: #179 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

This sink thing is entirely new. It is a sort of box I suppose.

Cool porcelain.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:50:53pm

The diehard BernieBros I know of who voted third party believed all the allegations again HRC and wanted her locked up. They never commented on race issues, except to compare Bernie and Hillary in the mid 1960’s — and not today.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:54:01pm
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gwangung  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:54:31pm

re: #188 Hecuba’s daughter

The diehard BernieBros I know of who voted third party believed all the allegations again HRC and wanted her locked up. They never commented on race issues, except to compare Bernie and Hillary in the mid 1960’s — and not today.

Hmph. Bernie never went undercover to fight segregation.

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Jack Burton  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:54:43pm

re: #176 Varek Raith

…it’s about ethics in games journalism.”

;)

LOL. Earlier I said the Venn Diagram of the Nazi-Shitheads and Mens-Rights Shitheads was almost a circle… I totally forgot about how many Bernie Bros are Gamergate Shitheads and that overlaps with both of the above.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:55:19pm

re: #188 Hecuba’s daughter

The diehard BernieBros I know of who voted third party believed all the allegations again HRC and wanted her locked up. They never commented on race issues, except to compare Bernie and Hillary in the mid 1960’s — and not today.

They used what HRC did as a seventeen year old to attack her. The Goldwater Girl thing. Oh and they pushed a photo of another guy as Bernie.

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KGxvi  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:55:42pm

re: #190 gwangung

Hmph. Bernie never went undercover to fight segregation.

are you admitting that Hillary engaged in blackface?

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:56:08pm

re: #188 Hecuba’s daughter

The diehard BernieBros I know of who voted third party believed all the allegations again HRC and wanted her locked up. They never commented on race issues, except to compare Bernie and Hillary in the mid 1960’s — and not today.

Shit, they didn’t even want to compare what Hillary and Bernie were doing in the 70’s. He fled to Vermont to snort powdered maple syrup for a decade while she was going under cover in the Deep South to root out illegally segregated private schools.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:56:44pm

re: #190 gwangung

Hmph. Bernie never went undercover to fight segregation.

Bernie left the most diverse city in the world for one of the whitest places in the US. I don’t think it was race based but it definitely doesn’t give him any understanding of what urbanite PoC go through.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:57:12pm

re: #185 goddamnedfrank

Except when they can weaponize those issues against specific liberals. They decry identity politics out of one side of their mouths while demanding lifelong ideological purity of everyone who they perceive as failing their Polyanna-ass socialist policy litmus test. This is where Clinton could never live down her admittedly awful sounding 90’s crime bill super-predators comment, while Sanders was given a pass on voting for that bill and campaigning on that vote for years. We saw the same thing with gay marriage & DADT, the far left only allows its own heroes to evolve.

Agreed.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:58:01pm

re: #189 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Ya know, it’s the constant, casual lying about things that are so easily debunked that gets me. He must have gone his whole life never having to own up to anything.

I mean, here Trump is, telling Comey the pee tape allegations are ridiculous because he didn’t stay overnight, and saying maybe Comey should investigate it - during the course of which Comey would discover that Trump had lied to him.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2018 • 1:58:32pm

re: #189 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

EXCLUSIVE: Trump stayed overnight in Moscow during Miss Universe 2013—the pageant’s host confirms it, @AndrewKirell reports thebea.st
3:43 PM - Apr 24, 2018

Miss Universe 2013 Host Thomas Roberts Confirms: Trump Stayed Overnight in Moscow
The former NBC host won’t say if he has been interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
thedailybeast.com
15 15 Replies 101 101 Retweets 139 139 likes

Trump was not under oath when he lied about this weekend. So he hasn’t as yet violated any laws with his constant stream of public or private falsehoods while he has been President. Of course, the situation will change if he is actually forced to testify to Mueller.

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KGxvi  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:00:28pm

re: #197 Blind Frog Belly White

Ya know, it’s the constant, casual lying about things that are so easily debunked that gets me. He must have gone his whole life never having to own up to anything.

I mean, here Trump is, telling Comey the pee tape allegations are ridiculous because he didn’t stay overnight, and saying maybe Comey should investigate it - during the course of which Comey would discover that Trump had lied to him.

Trump is the worst case scenario of a rich kid grown up. From an era when a large enough donation/legacy could get you into the right school. Never had to do the grunt work in the family business. Always knew dad would bail him out.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:01:20pm
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Varek Raith  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:02:03pm

re: #200 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Oh for the love of….

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:02:51pm

re: #198 Hecuba’s daughter

Trump was not under oath when he lied about this weekend. So he hasn’t as yet violated any laws with his constant stream of public or private falsehoods while he has been President. Of course, the situation will change if he is actually forced to testify to Mueller.

No, but in true Trump fashion, it was even stupider. He lied about the weekend while asking the FBI Director to investigate the weekend!

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KGxvi  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:03:07pm

re: #200 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

When “no comment” means whatever the worst possible answer is.

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Varek Raith  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:03:20pm

re: #202 Blind Frog Belly White

No, but in true Trump fashion, it was even stupider. He lied about the weekend while asking the FBI Director to investigate the weekend!

EYE R SMRT.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:04:35pm

re: #203 KGxvi

When “no comment” means whatever the worst possible answer is.

Just another day in the Trump White House.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:07:08pm

Oh, hey.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:07:24pm
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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:08:11pm

re: #206 Blind Frog Belly White

Oh, hey.

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Wow.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:09:01pm

re: #208 HappyWarrior

Wow.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:10:28pm

re: #207 goddamnedfrank

omg, the face she is making

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Mike Lamb  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:11:28pm

re: #203 KGxvi

When “no comment” means whatever the worst possible answer is.

Correct. Absolutely correct. If it was secured, there is zero reason not to confirm it.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:11:31pm
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The Major  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:11:42pm

re: #202 Blind Frog Belly White

No, but in true Trump fashion, it was even stupider. He lied about the weekend while asking the FBI Director to investigate the weekend!

If he made that statement with Comey and another FBI’er in the room….18 USC 1001?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:12:17pm

The islands purpose is obviously to balance the planet due to the numerous cat & rabbit islands in the pacific

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:13:07pm

re: #210 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

omg, the face she is making

I KNOW RIGHT!

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:13:56pm

re: #212 goddamnedfrank

I hope Art Rooney agreed.

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KGxvi  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:14:11pm

re: #212 goddamnedfrank

Dear Rich People: how about you say that shit publicly and to the Republicans in Congress that you donate money to, so we can be rid of this shit show?

Signed, everyfuckingone else

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The Major  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:14:57pm

re: #207 goddamnedfrank

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Ace-o-aces  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:15:06pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:15:32pm

re: #206 Blind Frog Belly White

re: #208 HappyWarrior

re: #209 Blind Frog Belly White

From a few hours ago

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CleverToad  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:15:41pm

re: #214 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

The islands purpose is obviously to balance the planet do to the numerous cat & rabbit islands in the pacific

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I hadda… (ignore the annoying ad, if it plays)

Pig Island

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:16:00pm

re: #214 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Those are the most domestic-looking feral pigs I’ve seen. Aoo the ones I’ve seen look more like this:

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makeitstop  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:16:25pm

Trump can’t get any good lawyers because the people he’s going after keep hiring them.

Fired FBI Director James Comey has retained former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald as one of his personal attorneys, bringing in a heavy-hitting former prosecutor, close friend and longtime colleague to help him navigate his dramatic role as a potential witness in the investigation of President Trump’s campaign and potential obstruction of justice.

Two Capitol Hill sources independently confirmed to TPM that Fitzgerald was serving as a lawyer for Comey.

The hiring adds an additional twist to President Trump’s recent decision to pardon Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, for his role in the Valerie Plame affair.

Comey, then the deputy attorney general, was the man who authorized the special counsel’s investigation into “the alleged unauthorized disclosure of a CIA employee’s identity” in late 2003, the case that eventually led to Libby’s conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice. His choice for special counsel, the prosecutor who got the guilty verdict on Libby, was none other than Fitzgerald.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:16:31pm

This admin is a disaster.

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:16:56pm

re: #220 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

From a few hours ago

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Gee, perhaps a reporter could ask Donny if Jackson peddling pills illegally would mean he’s a “drug dealer” who should be executed.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:17:28pm

re: #225 Targetpractice

Gee, perhaps a reporter could ask Donny if Jackson peddling pills illegally would mean he’s a “drug dealer” who should be executed.

Don’t be silly, Jackson is white.

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KGxvi  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:17:40pm

re: #214 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

The islands purpose is obviously to balance the planet do to the numerous cat & rabbit islands in the pacific

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Strange in that they haven’t grown tusks. Usually wild/feral pigs will grow tusks in less than a year.

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KGxvi  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:20:02pm

re: #206 Blind Frog Belly White

Oh, hey.

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The guys on Pod Save America, who know Jackson from their time working in the White House, had nothing but positive things to say about him. And obviously, Obama kept him on through his second term. Feels like there’s going to be more to this story.

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:20:34pm

When you’re supposedly leading a “war on drugs” only to find out that your latest cabinet nominee was caught peddling pills and kept his job.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:20:35pm

re: #224 HappyWarrior

This admin is a disaster.

You just know Trump took all of 10 seconds thinking about this. His staff probably put together files on the top 2-5 candidates, and maybe even briefed him on them, and then he thought, “The VA - that’s hospitals, right? For veterans? Ronnie Jackson’s perfect! He’s a DOCTOR and a VETERAN! Brilliant!”

Like Carson for HUD - “Housing and Urban Development? Urban…sounds black. Who do I know who’s black?”

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BigPapa  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:21:12pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

‘more transparent’

Euphemism for Small Government of Both Sides

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:22:29pm

re: #227 KGxvi

Strange in that they haven’t grown tusks. Usually wild/feral pigs will grow tusks in less than a year.

A friend gave me a feral pig skull he had from a ranch where he had hunting permission. The roots of the tusks are almost as long as what you see protruding.

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Ace-o-aces  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:24:44pm

re: #175 Targetpractice

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:25:04pm

re: #232 Blind Frog Belly White

A friend gave me a feral pig skull he had from a ranch where he had hunting permission. The roots of the tusks are almost as long as what you see protruding.

The better to nudge you with all his weight.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:25:45pm
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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:26:34pm

re: #233 Ace-o-aces

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I think Ted Cruz is a fake human being.

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makeitstop  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:26:41pm

re: #228 KGxvi

The guys on Pod Save America, who know Jackson from their time working in the White House, had nothing but positive things to say about him. And obviously, Obama kept him on through his second term. Feels like there’s going to be more to this story.

Smells a little like a setup. I could be wrong, since there have been no denials.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:27:41pm

re: #236 HappyWarrior

I think Ted Cruz is a fake human being.

You can Beto nthat.

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fern01  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:27:55pm

Minor news from down under - but what sane person should trust anything trump says

Donald Trump sends incoming ambassador to Australia Harry Harris to South Korea instead

abc.net.au

16 months in - no ambassador & the one that was coming is heading off to South Korea (where no doubt he is very much needed) - yet again there seem to be few who want to work for trump.

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First Epistle of Paul to the Bagmen  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:28:44pm

re: #225 Targetpractice

Gee, perhaps a reporter could ask Donny if Jackson peddling pills illegally would mean he’s a “drug dealer” who should be executed.

Yeah, right after Limbaugh and Kudlow.

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KGxvi  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:29:38pm

re: #237 makeitstop

Smells a little like a setup. I could be wrong, since there have been no denials.

This is one of those stories where I feel like waiting for more information is the best way to proceed.

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:29:57pm

re: #235 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Which is why we can expect when he finally makes his way to Pyongyang, Li’l Kim will put a lot of money into throwing a huge parade and buttering up the Comrade Combover…before telling him that there’s no way NK’s giving up their nukes and Donny’s only hope of getting a “win” is getting some minor “concession” that he can argue Obama never would have been able to get.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:30:03pm

re: #238 wrenchwench

You can Beto nthat.

Beto’s campaign has definitely taken note.

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Jack Burton  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:30:07pm

re: #236 HappyWarrior

I think Ted Cruz is a fake human being.

Skinjob?

/

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:30:35pm

re: #244 Jack Burton

Skinjob?

/

Nah, he’s a Visitor.

/

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:32:34pm

re: #238 wrenchwench

You can Beto nthat.

Hey-yo!

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:33:00pm

re: #244 Jack Burton

Skinjob?

/

You see Men In Black? Edgar.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:33:58pm

re: #247 HappyWarrior

You see Men In Black? Edgar.

Sugar….

In water….

MORE!

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:34:15pm

The drinking on the job allegations might explain why Jackson was going on about Trump’s “genes” and lying his ass off Trump being in good health.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:39:06pm
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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:39:40pm

re: #248 Blind Frog Belly White

Sugar….

In water….

MORE!

Poor Heidi and the girls. Seriously this guy thinks Lisa is the bad guy on the Simpsons ffs. He’s definitely not of this world.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:40:37pm

re: #249 Targetpractice

The drinking on the job allegations might explain why Jackson was going on about Trump’s “genes” and lying his ass off Trump being in good health.

Yeah that was still very weird and how Trump could live to 200 if he ate better.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:42:59pm

re: #252 HappyWarrior

Yeah that was still very weird and how Trump could live to 200 if he ate better.

Maybe get down to 200 if he ate better….

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:43:08pm
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gocart mozart  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:44:03pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:44:58pm

The contrast.

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William Lewis  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:45:58pm

re: #256 Blind Frog Belly White

The contrast.

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adults vs children.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:46:22pm

Evening Lizardim.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:49:16pm

re: #254 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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I got a new iPhone that launches Siri, even when the phone’s locked, if you say “Hey Siri”.

I tested, and it even works if you’re telling your wife, “My new phone launches Siri if I just say, ‘Hey Siri’.”

I found the switch and turned it off, but that doesn’t mean it’s not listening. I only hope it’s just The Machine listening, and not Samaritan.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:50:04pm

re: #257 William Lewis

adults vs children.

Melania’s hat is so odd, I almost think it’s there to keep him out of range.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:51:00pm

re: #259 Blind Frog Belly White

I got a new iPhone that launches Siri, even when the phone’s locked, if you say “Hey Siri”.

I tested, and it even works if you’re telling your wife, “My new phone launches Siri if I just say, ‘Hey Siri’.”

I found the switch and turned it off, but that doesn’t mean it’s not listening. I only hope it’s just The Machine listening, and not Samaritan.

Siri also has a tendency to activate when you say anything that is vaguely similar in phonetics to the phrase, “Hey Siri”, which has led to some rather … interesting … drunk-texts-to-Siri in the fish household.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:55:15pm

re: #253 Blind Frog Belly White

Maybe get down to 200 if he ate better….

There’s been too many weird moments in this admin to count.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:55:56pm

I started watching Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee this week. Funny series.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:58:21pm

YOU DECIDE!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 2:58:44pm

re: #263 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

I started watching Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee this week. Funny series.

A week ago, Mrs. FBW and I started watching Sneaky Pete on Amazon.

Now she’s asking when Season 3 comes out.

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gocart mozart  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:05:23pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:05:54pm

re: #266 gocart mozart

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We need a young priest and an old priest.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:07:50pm
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Varek Raith  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:09:06pm

re: #268 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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I’m no cooler expert but, ain’t those pricey?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:09:39pm

re: #266 gocart mozart

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“Your mother sews socks that smell!”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:10:24pm

re: #268 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Why not just take a couple hundred bucks out into a parking lot and set it on fire?

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William Lewis  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:11:00pm

re: #269 Varek Raith

I’m no cooler expert but, ain’t those pricey?

Yep. Hundreds each. Stupid children.

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BlueGrl21  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:11:22pm

re: #238 wrenchwench

You can Beto nthat.

There would be a few pissed-off people in Houston if someone said the moon landing was faked, as we take great pride in the men and women of NASA.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:11:27pm

re: #268 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

WATCH: NRA backers blow up Yeti coolers after NRA announces company is cutting ties

NRA sounding like that deranged boyfriend warning his girlfriend what will happen if she tries to break up with him…

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Varek Raith  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:11:31pm

re: #272 William Lewis

Yep. Hundreds each. Stupid children.

Facepalm.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:11:53pm

re: #268 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Go ahead throw your vote errr money away.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:12:16pm

re: #271 Blind Frog Belly White

Why not just take a couple hundred bucks out into a parking lot and set it on fire?

Because it’s supposed to be a powerful political statement. Too bad all it amounts to is a bunch of whiny man-bitches throwing a temper tantrum on public media.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:12:27pm

re: #272 William Lewis

Yep. Hundreds each. Stupid children.

Yeah it’s so stupid.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:13:57pm

re: #274 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

NRA sounding like that deranged boyfriend warning his girlfriend what will happen if she tries to break up with him…

More like the guy who comes home early to find his wife in bed with another man. He pulls out a gun and holds it to his head.

When his wife starts laughing, he says, “DON’T LAUGH!! YOU’RE NEXT!!”

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whitebeach  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:15:23pm

re: #271 Blind Frog Belly White

Why not just take a couple hundred bucks out into a parking lot and set it on fire?

It’s like if your mortgage holder cut its ties with the NRA, so you fill your house with tannerite, back off a hundred yards with your fave crazy rifle, and open fire.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:16:59pm

re: #279 Blind Frog Belly White

More like the guy who comes home early to find his wife in bed with another man. He pulls out a gun and holds it to his head.

When his wife starts laughing, he says, “DON’T LAUGH!! YOU’RE NEXT!!”

Butbutbut these NRA members are towering pillars of masculinity, they would never find themselves cuckolded…////

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Varek Raith  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:18:18pm

So the Toronto attacker is MRA incel woman hater type?
JFC.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:19:23pm

re: #233 Ace-o-aces

…Why is everybody ignoring the accusation that TED CRUZ thinks the moon landings were fake? That’s crazy bat-shit territory.
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It didn’t say Ted Cruz believed that, right?, just someone on his staff?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:19:34pm

re: #282 Varek Raith

So the Toronto attacker is MRA incel woman hater type?
JFC.

Just read that myself. Ugh. The crazy, it burns.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:20:57pm

re: #283 Hecuba’s daughter

It didn’t say Ted Cruz believed that, right?, just someone on his staff?

True, but you’d think that would be the sort of thing that would lead to instant dismissal, on the grounds that anyone who believes that is too stupid to be relied on for even tasks as simple as breathing.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:24:25pm

re: #285 Blind Frog Belly White

True, but you’d think that would be the sort of thing that would lead to instant dismissal, on the grounds that anyone who believes that is too stupid to be relied on for even tasks as simple as breathing.

Given the GOP is infested with people who don’t believe in evolution and who believe the earth is 6000 years old, this doesn’t seem out of line with what’s acceptable for Senator’s staff.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:26:25pm

re: #286 Hecuba’s daughter

Given the GOP is infested with people who don’t believe in evolution and who believe the earth is 6000 years old, this doesn’t seem out of line with what’s acceptable for Senator’s staff.

Yeah. If your religion requires you to believe one ridiculous thing in the face of overwhelming evidence, you’ll believe a whole lot of others.

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MsJ  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:29:53pm

re: #269 Varek Raith

I’m no cooler expert but, ain’t those pricey?

$250 plus.

I say shoot up more. Then replace it and shoot that one up again. 🙄🙄🙄

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The Major  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:31:02pm

re: #261 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Siri also has a tendency to activate when you say anything that is vaguely similar in phonetics to the phrase, “Hey Siri”, which has led to some rather … interesting … drunk-texts-to-Siri in the fish household.

All digital voice assistants (Google Assistant, Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Microsoft’s Cortana) exhibit this behavior.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:36:25pm

re: #289 The Major

All digital voice assistants (Google Assistant, Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Microsoft’s Cortana) exhibit this behavior.

Yep, which will be fun since that’s the space I’m going to be working in.

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Varek Raith  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:39:04pm

Oh the fun I had disabling all the spyware “telemetry” programs in Windows 10.
:P

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 24, 2018 • 3:55:35pm

re: #271 Blind Frog Belly White

Why not just take a couple hundred bucks out into a parking lot and set it on fire?

HURR HURR!!!! OWN TEH LIBTARDZ!!!11!!! MAKES TEHM ALL TRIGGURD!!!!!

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 24, 2018 • 4:08:57pm

re: #286 Hecuba’s daughter

Given the GOP is infested with people who don’t believe in evolution and who believe the earth is 6000 years old, this doesn’t seem out of line with what’s acceptable for Senator’s staff.

“Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities” Voltaire


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