Now for Something Deliciously Wacky: Superorganism, NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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April 25, 2018 | Bob Boilen — I went from really loving the music of Superorganism to being a transformed super-fan the moment they sent me an email ahead of their Tiny Desk performance asking, “is it okay if we [bring] inflatable whales when we play?” Now I feel like the kind of fan I was when I wore a yellow radiation suit to a Devo concert in 1978.

The multinational band of theatrically fun and talented musicians in Superorganism mix melody and mischievous with almost Seussian folly. In addition to the 20-plus inflatable whales they provided, the band requested via email that we provide “7 x Crunchy apples, 7 x cans of Coca Cola (or similar, as long as they are 330mls/12oz cans it doesn’t matter).” They added, “PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT A RIDER BUT PART OF THE PERFORMANCE.”

When the seven members of the band arrived and huddled behind my desk, they blew into straws, making percussive noises, used toy cars and radios for sound effects and added lots of handclaps. And in the midst of it all was Orono Noguchi, a small-framed, self-described “average 17-year old Japanese girl living in Maine.” (That’s from an email she wrote me last year). The band set up a couple of belt pack guitar amps for their Moog and electric guitar, along with a big Anvil road case to beat on for percussion – and then they sang about prawns.

“Oh, have you ever seen a prawn cause a world war?
Have you ever kissed a prawn; got a cold sore?
Have you ever seen a prawn kick off?
Have you ever seen a prawn in a pair of handcuffs, oh

You people make the same mistakes
Over and over, it’s really kinda dumb, oh
Slow learning is kinda your thing

You do you, I’ll do me

Chillin’ at the bottom of the sea and I say…

[Chorus]

I’m happy just being a prawn.

If all this hasn’t made you curious enough to watch this Tiny Desk, we’ll never be friends and it’s probably best if you skip this. But I’m going hit the play button again and, after that, listen again to their debut, self-titled album!

SET LIST
“The Prawn Song”
“Night Time”
“Something for Your M.I.N.D.”

CREDITS
Producers: Bob Boilen Morgan Noelle Smith; Creative Director: Bob Boilen; Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Videographers: Morgan Noelle Smith, Bronson Arcuri, Beck Harlan, Dani Lyman; Production Assistant: Joshua Bote; Photo: Jenna Sterner/NPR.

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BigPapa  May 5, 2018 • 12:18:24pm

I just found out Larry David did Bernie Sanders and it’s hysterical.

Bern Your Enthusiasm - SNL

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jaunte  May 5, 2018 • 12:21:15pm

Eric Trump, a son of the president who helps manage the company, told The Washington Post that none of the cash used to purchase the 14 properties came from outside investors or from selling off major Trump Organization assets.

Instead, Eric Trump said, the firm’s existing businesses — commercial buildings in New York, licensing deals for Trump-branded hotels and clothes — produced so much cash that the Trumps could tap that flow for spending money.

“He had incredible cash flow and built incredible wealth,” Eric Trump said. “He didn’t need to think about borrowing for every transaction. We invested in ourselves.”

Pull the other one.

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ObserverArt  May 5, 2018 • 12:26:37pm

Charles, thanks for the Tiny Desk video. That was fun and refreshing.

Gives me some hope because the material my buddy and I are working on is simplistic but fun and based on lyric and rhythms as much as detailed complex arrangements.

I had to like it right off because they were singing about prawns!

And that is because one of my favorite fun songwriters/singers is Robyn Hitchcock and he often mentioned prawns.

Like this…

The Soft Boys - Where Are The Prawns

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NetworkKed  May 5, 2018 • 12:31:02pm

re: #2 jaunte

Sort of an open non-secret that only Deutchebank - and then only certain departments there - will loan him anything anymore. So yes, of course, if he’s spending money on properties it’s all “his own”. One way or another.

Never quite figured out how the party of bank-worshippers could convince themselves to support and elect someone that Big Money doesn’t actually want to work with anymore.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2018 • 12:31:28pm

re: #2 jaunte

donald trump has spent $400M+ in his own cash on property since ‘06, defying normal real-estate practices.

Pull the other one.

they want us to believe that he is a fully independent businessman, beholden to nobody.

if only there were some documents he could release that would confirm this assertion

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jaunte  May 5, 2018 • 12:32:18pm

re: #4 NetworkKed

Never quite figured out how the party of bank-worshippers could convince themselves to support and elect someone that Big Money doesn’t actually want to work with anymore.

Pirates love deregulation.

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jaunte  May 5, 2018 • 12:34:18pm
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BigPapa  May 5, 2018 • 12:35:46pm

Should I make this Private or naw?

Trumpkin Horror
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2018 • 12:36:07pm

re: #7 jaunte

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article paywalled, please provide alternate link or salient quotes

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jaunte  May 5, 2018 • 12:36:55pm

re: #9 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“…In the nine years before he ran for president, Donald Trump’s company spent more than $400 million in cash on new properties — including 14 transactions paid for in full, without borrowing from banks — during a buying binge that defied real estate industry practices and Trump’s own history as the self-described “King of Debt.”

Trump’s vast outlay of cash, tracked through public records and totaled publicly here for the first time, provides a new window into the president’s private company, which discloses few details about its finances.

It shows that Trump had access to far more cash than previously known, despite his string of commercial bankruptcies and the Great Recession’s hammering of the real estate industry. “

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jaunte  May 5, 2018 • 12:37:14pm

“Why did the “King of Debt,” as he has called himself in interviews, turn away from that strategy, defying the real estate wisdom that it’s unwise to risk so much of one’s own money in a few projects?

And how did Trump — who had money tied up in golf courses and buildings — raise enough liquid assets to go on this cash buying spree?”

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jaunte  May 5, 2018 • 12:38:03pm

So many, many Trump steaks and taco bowls sold.

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jaunte  May 5, 2018 • 12:39:26pm

“By 2011, Trump had spent at least $46 million on all-cash purchases.

Public records reveal some details about the Trump Organization’s finances during this time period.

The company was taking in tens of millions from the sale of residential properties, including a home in Palm Beach for $95 million in 2008. It made money off licensing deals: In 2015, Trump reported making at least $9.1 million from those deals over 16 months. The firm also collected rent from its commercial buildings, producing what Forbes recently estimated was $175 million annually.

But that wasn’t all free cash. Those businesses came with costs — salaries, renovations, taxes, payments on existing mortgages — that pulled money out of the business. Those costs haven’t been released.”

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ckkatz  May 5, 2018 • 12:39:54pm

From the previous thread:

re: #229 MsJ

What’s up with Fox News? They seem…agitated with trump.

Yup, I have been thinking about this too.

The best I can come up with is that Fox is worried about erosion in the viewership due to being closely tied to Trump. And they are testing the waters to see if they can diversify their audience. If so, it will be interesting to watch party discipline break down.

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Citizen K  May 5, 2018 • 12:40:21pm

Christ. The world is dire on the internet the last couple of days.

And thread from Elon James White, as a microcosm of how shit like the Starbucks incident keep happening -

Tack on the two Native American kids who got the cops called on them for being ‘too quiet’ on a fucking tour, the usual Trumpian idiocy, and….bleh.

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jaunte  May 5, 2018 • 12:41:08pm

Trump’s Russian Laundry is going to be exposed.

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freetoken  May 5, 2018 • 12:41:55pm

re: #10 jaunte

It shows that Trump had access to far more cash than previously known, despite his string of commercial bankruptcies and the Great Recession’s hammering of the real estate industry. “

I keep bringing up WWE giving Trump five or six million dollars, to his “foundation”, as it is the only example that I know for sure, of how Trump got millions of dollars for very, very little work (which totalled to a couple of appearances on TV for WWE.)

I wonder how much money has been laundered through Trump?

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Skip Intro  May 5, 2018 • 12:44:29pm

re: #17 freetoken

I keep bringing up WWE giving Trump five or six million dollars, to his “foundation”, as it is the only example that I know for sure, of how Trump got millions of dollars for very, very little work (which totalled to a couple of appearances on TV for WWE.)

I wonder how much money has been laundered through Trump?

Hundreds of millions would be my guess.

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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 12:45:33pm

re: #15 Citizen K

Christ. The world is dire on the internet the last couple of days.

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Tack on the two Native American kids who got the cops called on them for being ‘too quiet’ on a fucking tour, the usual Trumpian idiocy, and….bleh.

Over fucking mentos. JFC. Fire his ass and take away the gun.

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ObserverArt  May 5, 2018 • 12:47:07pm

re: #17 freetoken

I keep bringing up WWE giving Trump five or six million dollars, to his “foundation”, as it is the only example that I know for sure, of how Trump got millions of dollars for very, very little work (which totalled to a couple of appearances on TV for WWE.)

I wonder how much money has been laundered through Trump?

I think we can all guess why Trump always said he was being audited by the IRS.

His freaking tax forms must be as confusing as the crap that flows out of his mouth.

That is if we can even believe he is being audited.

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Charles Johnson  May 5, 2018 • 12:55:56pm

re: #3 ObserverArt

I just love the singer’s dead-pan expression throughout. This is a style of weird music that traces back to Spike Jones, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Frank Zappa, Devo, John Cage, etc.

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ObserverArt  May 5, 2018 • 1:01:31pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

I just love the singer’s dead-pan expression throughout. This is a style of weird music that traces back to Spike Jones, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Frank Zappa, Devo, John Cage, etc.

I love music that works out of the bounds of what everyone considers music and challenges people to reconsider those bounds.

Also, the singer even has a dead-pan delivery style of how she does the lyrics. I think that added to all the other happy stuff going on around her…contrasts.

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dangerman  May 5, 2018 • 1:01:47pm

re: #7 jaunte

There’s quite a lot going unstated in this article

Bribes?
Payoffs?
Laundered cash?

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BigPapa  May 5, 2018 • 1:03:19pm

Oh, you’re in a band? What do you play?
Water bucket, test tube slurper, backup vocals

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meteor  May 5, 2018 • 1:03:29pm
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Dave In Austin  May 5, 2018 • 1:04:44pm

Swimming upstream…. Runoff coming and BernieBro’s gone negative.

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Dave In Austin  May 5, 2018 • 1:05:24pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 5, 2018 • 1:06:07pm

re: #8 BigPapa

Should I make this Private or naw?

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Now those are four FUNKY Horsemen of the Apocalypse!

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ObserverArt  May 5, 2018 • 1:07:37pm

re: #23 dangerman

Bribes?
Payoffs?
Laundered cash?

All of it apparently.

Trump really has big balls to have done what he has done.

He seems to have a ton of issues in his closet and lots of questions surrounding his entire life.

Then he runs for one of the most public jobs ever that should have brought on the utmost in scrutiny of all of it.

He gets elected with all that still swirling around him and here we are.

I sure hope for the sake of the U.S. this sad time gets written down as a complete chapter in history books of what to never do again.

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jaunte  May 5, 2018 • 1:10:51pm

re: #24 BigPapa

Oh, you’re in a band? What do you play?
Water bucket, test tube slurper, backup vocals

I think I’m going to switch off piano and onto test tube slurper at next Tuesday night’s session.

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dangerman  May 5, 2018 • 1:11:07pm

re: #19 HappyWarrior

Over fucking mentos. JFC. Fire his ass and take away the gun.

I have said time and again that incorrectly or threateningly brandishing a weapon even if not fired and no injuries counts as loss of control of your weapon.

Same punishments apply. If you can’t control it you lose the right to bear it.

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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 1:11:40pm

re: #31 dangerman

I have said time and again that incorrectly or threateningly brandishing a weapon even if not fired and no injuries counts as loss if control of your weapon.

Same punishments apply. If you can’t control it you lose the right to bear it.

Agreed.

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dangerman  May 5, 2018 • 1:12:08pm

re: #20 ObserverArt

I think we can all guess why Trump always said he was being audited by the IRS.

His freaking tax forms must be as confusing full of lies as the crap that flows out of his mouth.

That is if we can even believe he is being audited.

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BigPapa  May 5, 2018 • 1:13:28pm
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Amory Blaine  May 5, 2018 • 1:14:27pm

I bought a short book by Dershowitz once. He used Jeffersons letters to defend torture. I threw it in the garbage.

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BigPapa  May 5, 2018 • 1:14:49pm

re: #30 jaunte

I think I’m going to switch off piano and onto test tube slurper at next Tuesday night’s session.

How would you write that?
(blow bubbles in test tube, adante ——————————————————————————————->)

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jaunte  May 5, 2018 • 1:16:15pm

re: #36 BigPapa

da capo al buble

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ObserverArt  May 5, 2018 • 1:16:55pm

re: #33 dangerman

Since you seem to know and work in tax prep and accounting and all that, how long can one year’s tax returns be under audit? And if it is clear there are lies, how long before the IRS takes you to court?

Reason I ask is Trump makes it sound like he has been under audit for years. Is that just more BS and there is no way he has not been audited say for 2014 return the year before he announced he was running for president? That would have been one his returns he claimed he couldn’t show.

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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 1:17:29pm

re: #35 Amory Blaine

I bought a short book by Dershowitz once. He used Jeffersons letters to defend torture. I threw it in the garbage.

I don’t blame you. Jeezus.

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ObserverArt  May 5, 2018 • 1:19:35pm

re: #35 Amory Blaine

I bought a short book by Dershowitz once. He used Jeffersons letters to defend torture. I threw it in the garbage.

Whut?

Until lately, I had no idea that Dershowitz had such crazy thinking.

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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 1:20:51pm

re: #40 ObserverArt

Whut?

Until lately, I had no idea that Dershowitz had such crazy thinking.

I think he’s someone who went nuts after 9/11.

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jaunte  May 5, 2018 • 1:23:43pm
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BigPapa  May 5, 2018 • 1:24:15pm

re: #41 HappyWarrior

I think he’s someone who went nuts after 9/11.

Went nuts, and gets paid to go on TV and spout nuttery. Gooses the ego and the bank account.

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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 1:24:34pm

re: #43 BigPapa

Went nuts, and gets paid to go on TV and spout nuttery. Gooses the ego and the bank account.

Yep.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 5, 2018 • 1:24:41pm

re: #2 jaunte

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Pull the other one.

Money laundering in broad daylight.

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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 1:25:06pm

Dersh also has the bad habit of treating all critics of Israel as if they’re anti Semitic.

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The Major  May 5, 2018 • 1:25:57pm

re: #41 HappyWarrior

I think he’s someone who went nuts after 9/11.

A whole lot of folks (my brainwashed career Navy Master Chief included) screech:

9/11 CHANGED EVERYTHING!

No, it didn’t change everything…unless you want to throw the Rule of Law out the window….

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 5, 2018 • 1:26:14pm

re: #41 HappyWarrior

I think he’s someone who went nuts after 9/11.

Some people were temporarily affected by 9/11, as we here know. Others were always assholes that hadn’t offered the evidence of their assholery until they decided to let their freak flags fly as a result.

I’m not proud to say that prior to 2001, I read several books by Victor Davis Hanson….

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Amory Blaine  May 5, 2018 • 1:27:28pm

re: #35 Amory Blaine

I bought a short book by Dershowitz once. He used Jeffersons letters to defend torture. I threw it in the garbage.

Eh, disregard. I tossed the book but my above conclusion is wrong. Sorry guys.

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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 1:27:42pm

re: #48 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Some people were temporarily affected by 9/11, as we here know. Others were always assholes that hadn’t offered the evidence of their assholery until they decided to let their freak flags fly as a result.

I’m not proud to say that prior to 2001, I read several books by Victor Davis Hanson….

Very true.

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Amory Blaine  May 5, 2018 • 1:29:52pm

George is laying next to me napping. A rare treat for me.

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BeachDem  May 5, 2018 • 1:44:13pm

Why the ever-loving fuck is Rudy Giuliani speaking at an Iranian Freedom to begin with, let alone how the fuck would he have clearance to know anything about the Iran deal?

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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 1:45:37pm

re: #52 BeachDem

Why the ever-loving fuck us Rudy Giuliani speaking at an Iranian Freedom to begin with, let alone how the fuck would he have clearance to know anything about the Iran deal?

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Just talking out of his ass as he always does.

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Jay C  May 5, 2018 • 1:46:52pm

BTW, re my previous post on the Kilauea activity, apparently, evacuations ARE being ordered: 10,000 folks reportedly (via LA Times). And not just from lava, but toxic gas as well.

And though it’s being watched very carefully,(hopefully from a safe distance) vulcanologists still aren’t sure what’s going to happen.

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Jay C  May 5, 2018 • 1:54:58pm

re: #52 BeachDem

Why the ever-loving fuck is Rudy Giuliani speaking at an Iranian Freedom to begin with, let alone how the fuck would he have clearance to know anything about the Iran deal?

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Well, here’s the scoop on that “Iran Freedom Convention” - caveat: from the Washington Times - sounds like the usual collection of anti-regime activists. It seems Rudy! was already slated to speak there: but of course, any actual knowledge of the JCPOA deal is decidedly unnecessary at events like this: slagging the mullahs and spouting the right buzzwords about “freedom” and “democracy” are all that’s needed.

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jaunte  May 5, 2018 • 1:55:40pm

Instagram video shot from inside a small prop plane at 5,000 feet.

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Unshaken Defiance  May 5, 2018 • 2:04:21pm

re: #56 jaunte

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Instagram video shot from inside a small prop plane at 5,000 feet.

I guess at night a plane can be outside the big restricted zone and still have that view.

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The Major  May 5, 2018 • 2:10:12pm

(Promoted to LGF Pages)
The Observer: Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for ‘dirty ops’ on Iran arms deal
Israeli agency told to find incriminating material on Obama diplomats who negotiated deal with Tehran

Aides to Donald Trump, the US president, hired an Israeli private intelligence agency to orchestrate a “dirty ops” campaign against key individuals from the Obama administration who helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal, the Observer can reveal.

People in the Trump camp contacted private investigators in May last year to “get dirt” on Ben Rhodes, who had been one of Barack Obama’s top national security advisers, and Colin Kahl, deputy assistant to Obama, as part of an elaborate attempt to discredit the deal.

The extraordinary revelations come days before Trump’s 12 May deadline to either scrap or continue to abide by the international deal limiting Iran’s nuclear programme.

Jack Straw, who as foreign secretary was involved in earlier efforts to restrict Iranian weapons, said: “These are extraordinary and appalling allegations but which also illustrate a high level of desperation by Trump and [the Israeli prime minister] Benjamin Netanyahu, not so much to discredit the deal but to undermine those around it.”

One former high-ranking British diplomat with wide experience of negotiating international peace agreements, requesting anonymity, said: “It’s bloody outrageous to do this. The whole point of negotiations is to not play dirty tricks like this.”

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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 2:15:02pm

re: #58 The Major

The Observer: Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for ‘dirty ops’ on Iran arms deal
Israeli agency told to find incriminating material on Obama diplomats who negotiated deal with Tehran

Infuriating.

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ObserverArt  May 5, 2018 • 2:20:11pm

re: #59 HappyWarrior

Infuriating.

More of how The Don operates.

Since he is so dirty, he thinks everyone else is too. If not, make it up.

This guy needs to see the reject button.

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The Major  May 5, 2018 • 2:23:00pm

re: #60 ObserverArt

This guy needs to see the reject button.

Let’s hope he “vapor locks” - as Dirty Harry calls those who have a fatal heart attack - sooner than later…

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 5, 2018 • 2:27:52pm

re: #60 ObserverArt

More of how The Don operates.

Since he is so dirty, he thinks everyone else is too. If not, make it up.

This guy needs to see the reject Eject button.

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jaunte  May 5, 2018 • 2:29:24pm
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Belafon  May 5, 2018 • 2:34:43pm

re: #58 The Major

(Promoted to LGF Pages)
The Observer: Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for ‘dirty ops’ on Iran arms deal
Israeli agency told to find incriminating material on Obama diplomats who negotiated deal with Tehran

He’s decided to try everything that Nixon did.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 5, 2018 • 2:40:15pm

re: #63 jaunte

Lol, some of those are great!

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freetoken  May 5, 2018 • 2:41:01pm

re: #65 Eclectic Cyborg

Lol, some of those are great!

Hey, if it worked for Nixon…

… oh…

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jaunte  May 5, 2018 • 2:42:22pm

re: #65 Eclectic Cyborg

I like that he just calls Rudy Giuliani Rudy Giuliani.

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dangerman  May 5, 2018 • 2:44:09pm

re: #38 ObserverArt

Since you seem to know and work in tax prep and accounting and all that, how long can one year’s tax returns be under audit? And if it is clear there are lies, how long before the IRS takes you to court?

Reason I ask is Trump makes it sound like he has been under audit for years. Is that just more BS and there is no way he has not been audited say for 2014 return the year before he announced he was running for president? That would have been one his returns he claimed he couldn’t show.

Sorry unscheduled nap got in the way

An audit itself takes as long as it takes. I’ve had some go a couple of years. Complex ones don’t move fast.

I think its BS though unprovable.
There are rules and statutes of limitations
you can also agree to anything
Now if they suspect fraud they can go back as far as they want without permission

If say he’s really got ten years open by agreement I’d wonder what the irs showed them they have so they agreed to that

The IRS won’t confirm or deny an audit to the public so I think it’s smoke

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 5, 2018 • 3:00:30pm

Evening Lizardim.

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freetoken  May 5, 2018 • 3:08:21pm

Just think, last week France were our friends:

France condemns Trump over claim armed civilians could have stopped 2015 Paris attacks

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Jay C  May 5, 2018 • 3:12:02pm

re: #58 The Major

(Promoted to LGF Pages)
The Observer: Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for ‘dirty ops’ on Iran arms deal
Israeli agency told to find incriminating material on Obama diplomats who negotiated deal with Tehran

So presumably, they didn’t find anything?

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dangerman  May 5, 2018 • 3:13:17pm

re: #38 ObserverArt

Since you seem to know and work in tax prep and accounting and all that, how long can one year’s tax returns be under audit? And if it is clear there are lies, how long before the IRS takes you to court?

Reason I ask is Trump makes it sound like he has been under audit for years. Is that just more BS and there is no way he has not been audited say for 2014 return the year before he announced he was running for president? That would have been one his returns he claimed he couldn’t show.

and ps - already in the news at the time

there is no reason he couldnt release a return under audit
sure it might be changed later

“under audit” is just being used as an excuse not to

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Skip Intro  May 5, 2018 • 3:17:59pm

Who the hell would? I look forward to attending the Orange Asshole’s funeral though.

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The Major  May 5, 2018 • 3:19:13pm

re: #71 Jay C

So presumably, they didn’t find anything?

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  May 5, 2018 • 3:20:03pm

Fond du Lac’s Don Gorske eats milestone 30,000th Big Mac

“This one is a biggie for me, something I have been looking forward to,” said Gorske, a 64-year-old retired prison guard. He last made the news in October 2017, when representatives from the Guinness Book of World Records traveled to Fond du Lac to record him eating his 29,482nd Big Mac, broadcast on a Facebook Live feed.

The Big Mac maniac gave a half-hour presentation to the crowd, which gathered to watch him take that first bite of the 30,000th all-beef patty, with special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame-seed bun. He showed off his record books and how he keeps track of thousands of receipts, sandwich wrappers and containers.

“People like to see proof,” he said.

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makeitstop  May 5, 2018 • 3:21:24pm

re: #73 Skip Intro

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Who the hell would? I look forward to attending the Orange Asshole’s funeral though.

I’ll wait until after it’s done. Then I’ll find a bar within walking distance of the grave, drink a gallon of beer, and then pay a visit. :)

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 5, 2018 • 3:21:43pm

re: #73 Skip Intro

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Who the hell would? I look forward to attending the Orange Asshole’s funeral though.

Mrs. FBW and I were watching “Charade” last night, in which, at Reggie’s late unlamented husband’s funeral, one guy pulls out a mirror which he shoves under the deceased’s nose and another pulls out a pin and sticks the deceased with it.

I thought of that when I read your comment.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2018 • 3:23:52pm

re: #73 Skip Intro

People close to John McCain have told the White House that McCain doesn’t want Trump to attend his funeral.

Trump only attends funerals of guys who don’t get captured…

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 5, 2018 • 3:24:30pm

re: #76 makeitstop

I’ll wait until after it’s done. Then I’ll find a bar within walking distance of the grave, drink a gallon of beer, and then pay a visit. :)

I was about to say, I couldn’t care less about his funeral. I will, however, be paying a routine visit to his grave. I might have to wait in line.

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Ace Rothstein  May 5, 2018 • 3:26:24pm

I’ll look forward to visiting Trump’s grave after not peeing for three days.

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scottslemmons  May 5, 2018 • 3:26:40pm

Well, this was enlightening in all kinds of depressing ways.

We at least know why Trump hasn’t acknowledged Shaw yet. The Republicans think of him as the villain in the Waffle House shooting. :(

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The Major  May 5, 2018 • 3:26:50pm

re: #79 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

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dangerman  May 5, 2018 • 3:27:15pm

re: #77 Blind Frog Belly White

Mrs. FBW and I were watching “Charade” last night, in which, at Reggie’s late unlamented husband’s funeral, one guy pulls out a mirror which he shoves under the deceased’s nose and another pulls out a pin and sticks the deceased with it.

I thought of that when I read your comment.

Great old movie

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 5, 2018 • 3:27:22pm

I just read about two young Native American guys who were on a college tour, when a white woman called 911 on them.

My question is this: Why is it we know the names of these two guys, but we DON’T know the name of the woman who called? Shouldn’t THAT be the lede? She called the cops on two innocent kids out of racism. Why don’t we know her name, so that her family, her neighbors, and her coworkers all know what she did? Why is her name kept secret?

I’m at the point where I no longer give a shit about being nice, or not doxxing people who do bad shit. Trump’s election has unleashed an ugly xenophobia in America and we’ll never tamp it back down if we’re being nice and proper and not naming goddam names.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2018 • 3:27:33pm

re: #81 scottslemmons

Well, this was enlightening in all kinds of depressing ways.

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We at least know why Trump hasn’t acknowledged Shaw yet. The Republicans think of him as the villain in the Waffle House shooting. :(

I remember thinking something like that in a snarky, ironic way…but thanks to Poe’s Imperative it is now being circulated as a serious talking point.

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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 3:28:06pm

re: #81 scottslemmons

Well, this was enlightening in all kinds of depressing ways.

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We at least know why Trump hasn’t acknowledged Shaw yet. The Republicans think of him as the villain in the Waffle House shooting. :(

Do we know for a fact that’s for real? I’m just saying because it’s absurd even for a conservative meme.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 5, 2018 • 3:28:31pm

re: #82 The Major

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dangerman  May 5, 2018 • 3:28:58pm

re: #81 scottslemmons

Well, this was enlightening in all kinds of depressing ways.

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We at least know why Trump hasn’t acknowledged Shaw yet. The Republicans think of him as the villain in the Waffle House shooting. :(

Can’t allow anything to derail the need for the “good guy with a gun”

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scottslemmons  May 5, 2018 • 3:29:22pm

re: #86 HappyWarrior

Do we know for a fact that’s for real? I’m just saying because it’s absurd even for a conservative meme.

I don’t know — it could be fake.

But I also wouldn’t be surprised to find it being shared unironically.

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Skip Intro  May 5, 2018 • 3:29:45pm

re: #80 Ace Rothstein

I’ll look forward to visiting Trump’s grave after not peeing for three days.

I hope everybody realizes that nobody will be allowed anywhere near Dolt 45’s grave. Probably be on one of his golf courses under 24/7 guard.

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The Major  May 5, 2018 • 3:29:45pm
re: #84 Blind Frog Belly White

I’m at the point where I no longer give a shit about being nice, or not doxxing people who do bad shit.

Intelius is a great place to start legally doxxing people.

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Citizen K  May 5, 2018 • 3:29:47pm

re: #81 scottslemmons

Yep. I saw that on another Twitter account, who took down the tweet after consideration because he felt it ended up simply propagating it more, rather than mocking it.

But I’ve made note of that several times in the last few days. It’s sickening as all hell that, somehow, that’s their takeaway. The crossways between their gun worship and fear of black men positing that 1) guns are the only security, 2) this man stopped a ‘bad guy with a gun’ WITHOUT a gun, must mean 3) black men are as powerful as a gun and therefore are inherently dangerous. It’s…I don’t know how you even get to that mindset.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2018 • 3:30:27pm

re: #86 HappyWarrior

Do we know for a fact that’s for real? I’m just saying because it’s absurd even for a conservative meme.

I really think that it was floated as an ironic parody but picked up and taken seriously because there is no point of view so absurd anymore that it will not be taken seriously by someone.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2018 • 3:31:41pm

re: #92 Citizen K

black men are as powerful as a gun and therefore are inherently dangerous. It’s…I don’t know how you even get to that mindset.

because blue lives matter!

(well, all lives matter, but some lives matter more than others, if you know what I mean..).

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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 3:31:44pm

re: #89 scottslemmons

I don’t know — it could be fake.

But I also wouldn’t be surprised to find it being shared unironically.

I hear ya.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 5, 2018 • 3:31:46pm

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

I really think that it was floated as an ironic parody but picked up and taken seriously because there is no point of view so absurd anymore that it will not be taken seriously by someone.

Poe’s Law taken to its logical extreme.

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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 3:32:03pm

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

I really think that it was floated as an ironic parody but picked up and taken seriously because there is no point of view so absurd anymore that it will not be taken seriously by someone.

Precisely why I asked.

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dangerman  May 5, 2018 • 3:32:04pm

re: #92 Citizen K

Yep. I saw that on another Twitter account, who took down the tweet after consideration because he felt it ended up simply propagating it more, rather than mocking it.

But I’ve made note of that several times in the last few days. It’s sickening as all hell that, somehow, that’s their takeaway. The crossways between their gun worship and fear of black men positing that 1) guns are the only security, 2) this man stopped a ‘bad guy with a gun’ WITHOUT a gun, must mean 3) black men are as powerful as a gun and therefore are inherently dangerous. It’s…I don’t know how you even get to that mindset.

How you get there is that 2 means 1 is wrong and that affects gun sales so come up with something stat!

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The Major  May 5, 2018 • 3:32:04pm

re: #87 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 5, 2018 • 3:32:17pm

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

I really think that it was floated as an ironic parody but picked up and taken seriously because there is no point of view so absurd anymore that it will not be taken seriously by someone.

Conservatives trade memes wherein Obama is gay and Michelle is a man.

‘Nuff said.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2018 • 3:32:37pm

re: #96 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Poe’s Law taken to its logical extreme.

Poe’s imperative.

It not only can, but it WILL be taken seriously

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 5, 2018 • 3:33:18pm

re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Poe’s imperative.

It not only can, but it WILL be taken seriously

Something akin to Rule 34, but for politics.

“If a meme exists, it will be taken seriously. No exceptions.”

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  May 5, 2018 • 3:33:36pm

Whatever the truth of the meme, it does point to the feeling among racists of the Mythical Hulking Beast- Super Negro, that must always be dealt with 10 or more shots from a police officers pistol, no matter the threat.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2018 • 3:33:47pm

re: #100 Blind Frog Belly White

Conservatives trade memes wherein Obama is gay and Michelle is a man.

‘Nuff said.

remember how Obama was an atheist communist gay and a Muslim terrorist sympathizer all at once…

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William Lewis  May 5, 2018 • 3:35:30pm

Sorry I didn’t stick around last night. I was in a real mood and would have probably been a major dickhead if I hadn’t heeded the warning signs.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 5, 2018 • 3:36:02pm

Checking in at 330PM here in Los Angeles and it’s 87 right now.

Sent a message to my friends in Honolulu hoping they are OK.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  May 5, 2018 • 3:36:48pm

re: #84 Blind Frog Belly White

I just read about two young Native American guys who were on a college tour, when a white woman called 911 on them.

My question is this: Why is it we know the names of these two guys, but we DON’T know the name of the woman who called? Shouldn’t THAT be the lede? She called the cops on two innocent kids out of racism. Why don’t we know her name, so that her family, her neighbors, and her coworkers all know what she did? Why is her name kept secret?

I’m at the point where I no longer give a shit about being nice, or not doxxing people who do bad shit. Trump’s election has unleashed an ugly xenophobia in America and we’ll never tamp it back down if we’re being nice and proper and not naming goddam names.

I still don’t understand this story. The woman called the cops because the boys were quiet? What the fucking fuck ? We do need to know her identity. I would love to find out if she is a gun-fundy from the Springs.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2018 • 3:37:29pm

re: #105 William Lewis

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 5, 2018 • 3:38:19pm

re: #107 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I still don’t understand this story. The woman called the cops because the boys were quiet? What the fucking fuck ? We do need to know her identity. I would love to find out if she is a gun-fundy from the Springs.

Funny thing is, if they’d been talkative, I bet she would’ve called the cops because they were being troublemakers or something. No matter what, they could not have prevented her from calling the police.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2018 • 3:38:21pm

re: #107 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I still don’t understand this story. The woman called the cops because the boys were quiet? What the fucking fuck ? We do need to know her identity. I would love to find out if she is a gun-fundy from the Springs.

reading the story, it was a total fuck-up, especially how the tour moved on without noticing what was happening and why.

but it does speak volumes about what is happening

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The Major  May 5, 2018 • 3:39:04pm

re: #107 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I would love to find out if she is a gun-fundy from the Springs.

Since it sounds like this was no anonymous tip, this should be part of the call record - and not protected.

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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 3:39:16pm

Too many damn people willing to call the cops. Those poor guys.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 5, 2018 • 3:40:40pm

re: #105 William Lewis

Sorry I didn’t stick around last night. I was in a real mood and would have probably been a major dickhead if I hadn’t heeded the warning signs.

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dangerman  May 5, 2018 • 3:41:15pm

re: #107 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I still don’t understand this story. The woman called the cops because the boys were quiet? What the fucking fuck ? We do need to know her identity. I would love to find out if she is a gun-fundy from the Springs.

Another example of the cops taking the call at face value.
“”They are not, definitely not, a part of the tour” she said to the dispatcher

Well they were. Email confirmation and all

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 5, 2018 • 3:42:45pm

re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

reading the story, it was a total fuck-up, especially how the tour moved on without noticing what was happening and why.

That absolutely makes NO SENSE to me. If I’m in charge of a tour I’d be damn sure that I was keeping tabs on everyone in the group!!!!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 5, 2018 • 3:42:59pm

re: #72 dangerman

and ps - already in the news at the time

there is no reason he couldnt release a return under audit
sure it might be changed later

“under audit” is just being used as an excuse not to

I was an IRS auditor in a former life and just want to agree with what you said and also add (having developed more than my share of tax fraud cases) there is the distinct possibility that he is NOT releasing any return(s) under audit because there is the real likelihood that potential fraud has been discovered during the course of a typically huge and messy “normal” big business return. And any decent investigative reporter will find that.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 5, 2018 • 3:44:16pm

re: #114 dangerman

Another example of the cops taking the call at face value.
“”They are not, definitely not, a part of the tour” she said to the dispatcher

Well they were. Email confirmation and all

Here’s how this should have gone - Cops show up, talk to woman. Cops talk to young men, confirm woman was full of shit. Cops call all the people on the tour together and publicly dress down the woman for her racism and for wasting their time, then present her with a bill for their time.

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The Major  May 5, 2018 • 3:44:23pm

re: #114 dangerman

Another example of the cops taking the call at face value.
“”They are not, definitely not, a part of the tour” she said to the dispatcher

Well they were. Email confirmation and all

How the fsck would she know that they weren’t part of the tour ? And how did she know about the tour in the first place ?

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Ace Rothstein  May 5, 2018 • 3:44:43pm

re: #116 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’ve seen the idea of all future candidates being required by law to release the last ten years of their tax returns before being eligible to run floated around. It’ll never happen, of course.

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The Major  May 5, 2018 • 3:46:31pm

re: #119 Ace Rothstein

I’ve seen the idea of all future candidates being required by law to release the last ten years of their tax returns before being eligible to run floated around. It’ll never happen, of course.

I would like to make this Amendment 0….

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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 3:47:39pm

=re: #118 The Major

How the fsck would she know that they weren’t part of the tour ? And how did she know about the tour in the first place ?

I think she was on the tour with her child. From what I have heard, they were very shy. Damned if they did, damned if they don’t.

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Citizen K  May 5, 2018 • 3:47:50pm

re: #118 The Major

How the fsck would she know that they weren’t part of the tour ? And how did she know about the tour in the first place ?

The answer to that first question is depressingly obvious: they were brown, therefore they obviously didn’t belong.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  May 5, 2018 • 3:49:01pm
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BeachDem  May 5, 2018 • 3:50:57pm

re: #107 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I still don’t understand this story. The woman called the cops because the boys were quiet? What the fucking fuck ? We do need to know her identity. I would love to find out if she is a gun-fundy from the Springs.

Here’s the police report that fills in some of the detail. Her 911 call is also around.

The whole thing was some serious bullshit. People are afraid of their own shadows—and of anyone and anything that is not identical to themselves.

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scottslemmons  May 5, 2018 • 3:51:38pm

re: #122 Citizen K

The answer to that first question is depressingly obvious: they were brown, therefore they obviously didn’t belong.

“Well, surely, a proper university would never allow those people on campus!”

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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 3:51:48pm

npr.org

Another reason why internet trolls and the alt right are just plain awful people.

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Ace Rothstein  May 5, 2018 • 3:52:29pm

And they’re off!

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The Major  May 5, 2018 • 3:53:32pm

re: #124 BeachDem

That’s the Front Rage, not the Springs. I have friends there….I’ll let ya know….

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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 3:54:11pm

re: #124 BeachDem

Here’s the police report that fills in some of the detail. Her 911 call is also around.

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The whole thing was some serious bullshit. People are afraid of their own shadows—and of anyone and anything that is not identical to themselves.

She called the cops on them laughing and keeping to themselves. Well shit. I’m pretty shy myself. I’ve been on plenty of group tours where there have been people that kept to themselves and didn’t interact.

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Archangelus  May 5, 2018 • 3:54:36pm
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PhillyPretzel  May 5, 2018 • 3:54:43pm

re: #127 Ace Rothstein

The Kentucky Derby?
::: raises mint julep :::

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Ace Rothstein  May 5, 2018 • 3:55:00pm

Justify wins by 1 1/4 lengths at +250.

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Cheechako  May 5, 2018 • 3:55:10pm

re: #119 Ace Rothstein

I’ve seen the idea of all future candidates being required by law to release the last ten years of their tax returns before being eligible to run floated around. It’ll never happen, of course.

I thought NY and CA were in the process of doing this. Two big EV States.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 5, 2018 • 3:55:36pm

re: #132 Ace Rothstein

Justify wins by 1 1/4 lengths at +250.

1-1/4 lengths? Wow. Sounds like it wasn’t much of a race.

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The Major  May 5, 2018 • 3:55:36pm

re: #124 BeachDem

And their redaction is going to make things a whole lot worse. This was the Colorado State University police force, not Fort Collins police.

Time for a FOIA….

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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 3:56:12pm

re: #130 Archangelus

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And then the beaten horse lived happily ever after.

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wrenchwench  May 5, 2018 • 3:56:38pm

re: #116 Backwoods_Sleuth

I was an IRS auditor in a former life and just want to agree with what you said and also add (having developed more than my share of tax fraud cases) there is the distinct possibility that he is NOT releasing any return(s) under audit because there is the real likelihood that potential fraud has been discovered during the course of a typically huge and messy “normal” big business return. And any decent investigative reporter will find that.

How many lives have you had? What haven’t you done?

/rhetorical, no need to answer, but I’m impressed.

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Ace Rothstein  May 5, 2018 • 3:56:59pm

My horse Fat Orange Bastard finished dead ass last.

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ObserverArt  May 5, 2018 • 3:58:39pm

re: #92 Citizen K

Yep. I saw that on another Twitter account, who took down the tweet after consideration because he felt it ended up simply propagating it more, rather than mocking it.

But I’ve made note of that several times in the last few days. It’s sickening as all hell that, somehow, that’s their takeaway. The crossways between their gun worship and fear of black men positing that 1) guns are the only security, 2) this man stopped a ‘bad guy with a gun’ WITHOUT a gun, must mean 3) black men are as powerful as a gun and therefore are inherently dangerous. It’s…I don’t know how you even get to that mindset.

Well, it certainly could have been worse.

A Black guy on PCP…with the strength of a rabid elephant throwing off cops left and right and picking the damn police cruiser up and throwing it at other cops coming at him.

Who knows who is good and bad when someone is all drugged up? Guy could’a tore that Waffle House down.

Yeah, it can always be worse.

So, you know, you just can’t take your chances after you hear all those stories.

(A revisit of a 70s scare…shit never changes)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 5, 2018 • 3:59:10pm

re: #137 wrenchwench

How many lives have you had? What haven’t you done?

/rhetorical, no need to answer, but I’m impressed.

too many lives and yet not enough…there are still many new-to-me things to learn and do.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 5, 2018 • 3:59:21pm

re: #137 wrenchwench

How many lives have you had? What haven’t you done?

/rhetorical, no need to answer, but I’m impressed.

She is the Most Interesting Woman in the World.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 5, 2018 • 4:00:11pm

re: #141 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

She is the Most Interesting Woman in the World.

indeed…

;)

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The Major  May 5, 2018 • 4:00:56pm

re: #141 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

She is the Most Interesting Woman in the World.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 5, 2018 • 4:02:14pm

re: #143 The Major

Advice I took to heart, my friend.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 5, 2018 • 4:05:22pm

speaking of taxes and fraud…

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The Major  May 5, 2018 • 4:05:57pm

re: #144 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Advice I took to heart, my friend.

Good man.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 5, 2018 • 4:07:55pm

OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY!!!!!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 5, 2018 • 4:08:25pm

re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth

OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY!!!!!

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*SNORT*

I bet he’s just full of bullshit.

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fern01  May 5, 2018 • 4:10:16pm

re: #73 Skip Intro

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Who the hell would? I look forward to attending the Orange Asshole’s funeral though.

I will be dancing in the streets rather than attending. I put it on a par with Margaret Thatcher’s funeral. There will be much rejoicing.

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The Major  May 5, 2018 • 4:11:03pm

re: #148 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

*SNORT*

I bet he’s just full of bullshit.

Let’s see if the Propecia Pinochet pulls a Cohn On Cohen….

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  May 5, 2018 • 4:12:44pm

“I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have any strange gods before Me.”
Check (Have you not seen his homes, and worship of money?)

“Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.”
Check (Come on, you know he has)

“Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.”
Check (Umm, golf. So, also see #1)

“Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
Check

“Thou shalt not steal.”
Check (not paying debts is theft)

“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”
Check ( I mean, has he ever even gone a day without lying?)

“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife.”
Check (Bus tape audio evidence)

“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods.”
Check (There’s that property on his Scottish golf course for one)

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  May 5, 2018 • 4:12:52pm

The NRA is apparently embarrassed by the brain-dead anti-YETI vandalism campaign. They are offering advice and free propaganda stickers as an alternative.

ALERT! FREE “I Stand with the NRA Foundation Sticker” for YETI Coolers

Don’t blow up your Yeti cooler. Don’t shoot your Yeti cooler full of holes. Don’t chain your Yeti cooler to the back of your pick-up truck and drag it down the highway. Don’t glue a toilet seat to Yeti cooler. Don’t hang your Yeti cooler in a tree and beat it with a baseball bat.

Put a big “I STAND WITH THE NRA FOUNDATION” sticker on your YETI cooler and keep using it. They cost too much money to destroy to make a statement. Let a sticker make your statement.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 5, 2018 • 4:12:52pm

re: #132 Ace Rothstein

Justify wins by 1 1/4 lengths at +250.

Very sloppy track:

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Hecuba's daughter  May 5, 2018 • 4:13:31pm

re: #133 Cheechako

I thought NY and CA were in the process of doing this. Two big EV States.

Would have no effect on the outcome in Trump’s situation unless all states implemented similar rules. For the past years I’ve thought that candidates should be required to release all tax returns for years after age 30.

155
Archangelus  May 5, 2018 • 4:15:28pm

re: #149 fern01

I will be dancing in the streets rather than attending. I put it on a par with Margaret Thatcher’s funeral. There will be much rejoicing.

To quote a common Jewish saying - rejoice not when thine enemy falleth (בנפול אויביך אל תשמח).

Says nothing about uttering ‘good riddance’ though… /

156
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  May 5, 2018 • 4:18:36pm
157
Interesting Times  May 5, 2018 • 4:19:33pm

re: #156 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  May 5, 2018 • 4:20:20pm

I’m not a huge fan of prop comics, but…

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 5, 2018 • 4:22:03pm

re: #156 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Oh, come on. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?!

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Ace Rothstein  May 5, 2018 • 4:22:33pm

PSA: Rusty Rudy will be on the Sunday circuit tomorrow. Unplug your TVs just to be safe.

161
Ace Rothstein  May 5, 2018 • 4:22:43pm

re: #159 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Oh, come on. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?!

Plenty.

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allegro  May 5, 2018 • 4:22:54pm

vvvvvvvzre: #154 Hecuba’s daughter

Would have no effect on the outcome in Trump’s situation unless all states implemented similar rules. For the past years I’ve thought that candidates should be required to release all tax returns for years after age 30.

It would make all the difference in even one state with a lot of electoral votes if they would not permit his name to appear on the ballot.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 5, 2018 • 4:23:34pm
164
fern01  May 5, 2018 • 4:24:12pm

re: #155 Archangelus

To quote a common Jewish saying - rejoice not when thine enemy falleth (בנפול אויביך אל תשמח).

Says nothing about uttering ‘good riddance’ though… /

My aim is to outlive him - that is to rejoice.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 5, 2018 • 4:26:55pm

re: #162 allegro

vvvvvvvz

It would make all the difference in even one state with a lot of electoral votes if they would not permit his name to appear on the ballot.

If his name had not appeared in California or New York, Trump would still have won.

166
JordanRules  May 5, 2018 • 4:27:02pm

re: #90 Skip Intro

I hope everybody realizes that nobody will be allowed anywhere near Dolt 45’s grave. Probably be on one of his golf courses under 24/7 guard.

I hope you realize that people will become exceptionally creative and find a way.

167
JordanRules  May 5, 2018 • 4:28:08pm

re: #165 Hecuba’s daughter

If his name had not appeared in California or New York, Trump would still have won.

What about both?

168
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 5, 2018 • 4:28:47pm

JFC

169
allegro  May 5, 2018 • 4:29:48pm

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

JFC

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This guy needs to go back in his box.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 5, 2018 • 4:30:12pm
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Ace Rothstein  May 5, 2018 • 4:31:14pm

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

JFC

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We tried that in 1953.

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Dave In Austin  May 5, 2018 • 4:31:32pm

re: #54 Jay C

BTW, re my previous post on the Kilauea activity, apparently, evacuations ARE being ordered: 10,000 folks reportedly (via LA Times). And not just from lava, but toxic gas as well.

And though it’s being watched very carefully,(hopefully from a safe distance) vulcanologists still aren’t sure what’s going to happen.

Nation Building!

173
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 5, 2018 • 4:32:01pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  May 5, 2018 • 4:32:21pm

re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth

They do tend to love those plastic bottle caps.
My cat stole a USB drive once. I had to redo an entire group presentation for a technical writing class.

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ObserverArt  May 5, 2018 • 4:35:11pm

re: #169 allegro

This guy needs to go back in his box.

Is Rudy the new market tester?

Trump sends him out to float an idea, then sits back and watches for the reactions.

If they are good, it is good to go and The Don can take credit for the brilliance and then sell it.

If it falls flat Rudy didn’t have all the correct details and you know, he’s a good guy, just gets a little ahead of himself.

176
DodgerFan1988  May 5, 2018 • 4:38:32pm

Fuck off!

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ObserverArt  May 5, 2018 • 4:39:12pm

re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth

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What, was that in Cleveland today?

Either his hearing sucks bad, or he has no ability to pay attention to what is going on.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 5, 2018 • 4:39:37pm
179
Charles Johnson  May 5, 2018 • 4:39:47pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 5, 2018 • 4:40:22pm

re: #177 ObserverArt

What that in Cleveland today?

Either his hearing sucks bad, or he has no ability to pay attention to what is going on.

yes, in Cleveland today

181
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 5, 2018 • 4:47:12pm
182
The Major  May 5, 2018 • 4:49:38pm

Oh, wow…..

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 5, 2018 • 4:50:06pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 5, 2018 • 4:53:43pm
185
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 5, 2018 • 4:55:05pm

oh

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Hecuba's daughter  May 5, 2018 • 4:55:32pm

re: #167 JordanRules

What about both?

Are we talking here about primaries or general election? Does the proposal apply to primaries? I don’t see how it could apply to anything but general election.

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petesh  May 5, 2018 • 4:57:08pm

re: #134 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

1-1/4 lengths? Wow. Sounds like it wasn’t much of a race.

Well, it was a decisive win by a great horse, well ridden. Came out fast, held second place for half the race (jockey had to hold him back, I think) then took over, looking beautiful. Meanwhile second and third were closing, and ended up separated by a short nose.

A fun couple of minutes, brought to you by Woodford Reserve bourbon, which I really should have been drinking instead of my 805. I was rooting for Audible, which promised us all a free download if it won; he closed faster than any other, but only for third.

188
DodgerFan1988  May 5, 2018 • 5:00:37pm

What a bunch of cockroaches.

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allegro  May 5, 2018 • 5:00:56pm

re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh

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Well that’s a fine final fuck you to Trump.

(I really wanted to add an LOL to that but then thought… um…)

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Hecuba's daughter  May 5, 2018 • 5:01:08pm

re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh

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I thought McCain was not a fan of Obama.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 5, 2018 • 5:02:45pm

Rango is doing better, eating well, etc., but still needs TLC. He was excited to go for a walk, but about halfway around the block, he stopped, and when I asked him where he wanted to go, he turned around and headed home. He’s NEVER done that! It shows a surprising amount of thought, for a Dog of Very Little Brain.

Now he’s sleeping in Stage 1 Bedfail.

Yeah, his eyes are open a bit, even though he’s asleep. Yeah, it’s creepy as fuck. Yeah, you get used to it.

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steve_davis  May 5, 2018 • 5:12:06pm

re: #191 Blind Frog Belly White

Rango is doing better, eating well, etc., but still needs TLC. He was excited to go for a walk, but about halfway around the block, he stopped, and when I asked him where he wanted to go, he turned around and headed home. He’s NEVER done that! It shows a surprising amount of thought, for a Dog of Very Little Brain.

Now he’s sleeping in Stage 1 Bedfail.

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Yeah, his eyes are open a bit, even though he’s asleep. Yeah, it’s creepy as fuck. Yeah, you get used to it.

He who must be a’bed!

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Barefoot Grin  May 5, 2018 • 5:15:53pm

This song keeps popping up in my head. Not sure why.

the sex pistols liar cd version

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Ace-o-aces  May 5, 2018 • 5:18:58pm
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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 5:20:32pm

Trump supporters calling McCsin bitter and petty? Considering he’s having Obama and Bush, two men who actually beat him in a race speak at his funeral. Maybe McCain doesn’t want Trump because Trump has never respected McCain. Obama certainly has.

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HappyWarrior  May 5, 2018 • 5:21:27pm

re: #194 Ace-o-aces

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Paul’s just mad because no one will give his sorry ass the time of day.

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BeachDem  May 5, 2018 • 5:24:57pm

I love this phrasing:

The bombshell revelations from President Trump and his lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani Wednesday night and Thursday morning about the election-eve payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels seemed like they were meant to show that the payments did not violate federal campaign laws.

Instead, all they did was shorten the fuse on that particular bomb.

washingtonpost.com

And again, I wonder, why is the yam’s personal lawyer giving foreign policy talks?


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