And Now, Your Sunday Night All-Caps Totally Batshit Nuclear War Threat From the President of the United States

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Yes, this is a real tweet by the president of the United States. I double-checked to make sure it wasn’t a parody account. It isn’t.

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1
jaunte  Jul 22, 2018 • 8:53:33pm

I was thi-i-i-is close to winding up the evening with a couple of episodes of Longmire, and I had to check Twitter.

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jaunte  Jul 22, 2018 • 8:56:01pm
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makeitstop  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:00:15pm

I think he’s coming to the realization that he won’t be getting away with selling the country out to Russia, and that no one really likes him all that much.

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teleskiguy  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:02:10pm
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Dr Lizardo  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:02:34pm

re: #3 makeitstop

I think he’s coming to the realization that he won’t be getting away with selling the country out to Russia, and that no one really likes him all that much.

Alternatively, Trump is likely hearing about news before we do, and maybe he just got some news that will come out either tomorrow or Tuesday that isn’t very good news. Perhaps a Manafort plea? Maybe further indictments? Maybe Cohen flipped? Who knows. But if it’s the case that some really bad news is about to come out real soon, we’ll all know about it.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:02:42pm
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BeachDem  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:03:51pm

“The level of corruption and wealth among regime leaders shows that ______ is run by something that resembles the Mafia more than a government.”

So—a protester talking about the yam administration? Nope—Mike Pompeo talking about Iran. Hard to keep the Mafia organizations straight. Sigh.

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wheat-dogg  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:05:46pm

Rouhani warned Trump on Sunday not to wage war with Iran.

Addressing a gathering of Iranian diplomats, Rouhani said: “Mr Trump, don’t play with the lion’s tail, this would only lead to regret,” the state new agency IRNA reported.

“America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars,” Rouhani said, leaving open the possibility of peace between the two countries, at odds since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

“You are not in a position to incite the Iranian nation against Iran’s security and interests,” Rouhani said, in an apparent reference to reported efforts by Washington to destabilize Iran’s Islamic government.

reuters.com

So, rather than address those comments publicly, Trump took the passive-aggressive mode of tweeting out his response. Such convincing. Very courage.

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makeitstop  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:08:05pm

re: #5 Dr Lizardo

Alternatively, Trump is likely hearing about news before we do, and maybe he just got some news that will come out either tomorrow or Tuesday that isn’t very good news. Perhaps a Manafort plea? Maybe further indictments? Maybe Cohen flipped? Who knows. But if it’s the case that some really bad news is about to come out real soon, we’ll all know about it.

I think the demonstrators yelling ‘Lock him up’ as he arrived at the White House tonight might have gotten under his skin a little bit, too.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:08:17pm

A feelgood thread before we all die.

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BeachDem  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:09:32pm

re: #8 wheat-dogg

Rouhani warned Trump on Sunday not to wage war with Iran.

reuters.com

So, rather than address those comments publicly, Trump took the passive-aggressive mode of tweeting out his response. Such convincing. Very courage.

And he had Pompeo run his mouth as well:

Pompeo’s hard-line speech comes just three weeks before the first round of banking sanctions suspended under the Iran nuclear deal is reimposed after President Trump withdrew from the landmark agreement in May. Bigger sanctions coming in November are aimed at cutting off virtually all Iran’s oil market.

Pompeo stopped short of calling for regime change, but he announced stepped-up U.S. government broadcasting in Farsi that is likely to foment further unrest against the government.

washingtonpost.com

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HappyWarrior  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:10:52pm

Hillary was too emotional for the job clearly.//

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jaunte  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:12:35pm

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Single-handed sailor  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:12:37pm

JFC

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retired cynic  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:13:30pm

re: #10 goddamnedfrank

A feelgood thread before we all die.

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I love his pinned tweet.

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wheat-dogg  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:14:27pm

Seeing Trump wearing his super-long monochromatic ties has convinced me I will never wear a monochromatic tie ever again. I think I may still have one all-black tie, so it’s no big loss.

Also I hardly wear ties of any kind now.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:15:36pm

re: #14 Single-handed sailor

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Belafon  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:16:42pm

re: #5 Dr Lizardo

Alternatively, Trump is likely hearing about news before we do, and maybe he just got some news that will come out either tomorrow or Tuesday that isn’t very good news. Perhaps a Manafort plea? Maybe further indictments? Maybe Cohen flipped? Who knows. But if it’s the case that some really bad news is about to come out real soon, we’ll all know about it.

Maybe Trump is finding out that Russia likes Iran, too, and is trying to make more noise to get daddy to notice him.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:17:58pm

re: #14 Single-handed sailor

JFC

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My desperate fucking hope is that these polls aren’t being re-jiggered to reflect the fewer and fewer number of people who identify as Republican, and as such are just vastly overweighing the Republican responses of the remaining die hards.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:19:10pm

re: #18 Belafon

Maybe Trump is finding out that Russia likes Iran, too, and is trying to make more noise to get daddy to notice him.

Putin will pull Trump’s choke chain in 5…4…3…2…1…

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jaunte  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:20:08pm

The sociopath has thought about it.

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sagehen  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:21:39pm

repost from downstairs:

Reminder:

after 9/11, Teheran held a MASSIVE candlelight vigil and prayed for our dead. During our initial invasion of Afghanistan, they were EXTREMELY helpful to us — allowed us to use their border crossings, gave us the most up-to-date maps, their spies and security service provided our special forces with personal introductions to anti-Taliban militias. That was one of our missed chance for rapproachment; they extended diplomatic offers, but then George Bush (in a speech written by David Frum) named them part of the Axis of Evil, and there went that opportunity.

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Interesting Times  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:22:00pm

re: #19 goddamnedfrank

My desperate fucking hope is that these polls aren’t being re-jiggered to reflect the fewer and fewer number of people who identify as Republican, and as such are vastly overweighing the Republican responses of the remaining die hards.

I have no desire to give Murdoch’s WSJ the clicks, but if you look at the larger thumbnail preview, the headline trails off with “buoyed by Republican Su…” (Support? Supplication? Submission? They all work).

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BeachDem  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:22:21pm

One last bit of lighthearted news (before, as Frank said, we all die)

Trump chicken dressed in prison stripes circles Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:23:21pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:23:26pm

re: #24 BeachDem

RUFUS THOMAS, THE FUNKY CHICKEN

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Belafon  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:23:35pm

re: #14 Single-handed sailor

Random fluctuations.

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ipsos  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:23:45pm

Welp.

At least it’s Friday and this long week of craziness is almost o-

NOT EVEN MONDAY MORNING YET?

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck it’s gonna be some even crazier shit all up in here this week, isn’t it?

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Ace-o-aces  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:23:48pm
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Ace Rothstein  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:29:31pm

This shit ain’t funny.

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:34:35pm

re: #25 DodgerFan1988

Jesus Christ! That really pisses me off.

And that jerk looks so fucking pleased with himself.

I hope the player gets the kid another ball, signed by the whole team.

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mmmirele  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:35:42pm

Somehow my cat knows when it’s Sunday night, because she lays down on my bed before I go to bed every Sunday night. Every other night, she curls up next to me *after* I’ve fallen asleep and generally leaves before morning. I wonder what signal(s) I’m sending that tell her I’m getting ready for another work week? Hmmm.

PS Someone needs to take the phone away from the short-fingered vulgarian.

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wheat-dogg  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:36:13pm

re: #22 sagehen

repost from downstairs:

Reminder:

after 9/11, Teheran held a MASSIVE candlelight vigil and prayed for our dead. During our initial invasion of Afghanistan, they were EXTREMELY helpful to us — allowed us to use their border crossings, gave us the most up-to-date maps, their spies and security service provided our special forces with personal introductions to anti-Taliban militias. That was one of our missed chance for rapproachment; they extended diplomatic offers, but then George Bush (in a speech written by David Frum) named them part of the Axis of Evil, and there went that opportunity.

Not surprisingly, the people of Iran don’t seem to hate or even dislike Americans. This travel writer for PBS visited there in 2014 and was welcomed warmly everywhere.

Rick Steves’ Iran

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Single-handed sailor  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:36:20pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:36:35pm

re: #30 Ace Rothstein

This shit ain’t funny.

It’s not funny at all.

It’s scary.

It’s the novel Night At Camp David coming to life.

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:43:44pm

re: #31 Romantic Heretic

Jesus Christ! That really pisses me off.

And that jerk looks so fucking pleased with himself.

I hope the player gets the kid another ball, signed by the whole team.

Basically what Ayn Rand’s Objectivism and Trumpism has turned this country into.

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BeachDem  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:44:48pm

re: #31 Romantic Heretic

Jesus Christ! That really pisses me off.

And that jerk looks so fucking pleased with himself.

I hope the player gets the kid another ball, signed by the whole team.

They did.

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teleskiguy  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:45:47pm

A fucking wildfire is burning close to my house. President Fuckface Von Clownstick is threatening nuclear war with Iran on Twitter. Yeah, this Sunday has been fan-fucking-tastic.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:49:03pm

re: #34 Single-handed sailor

For making those ‘backchannel connections.’

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teleskiguy  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:52:35pm

Paul Manafort’s trial starts on Wednesday.

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KGxvi  Jul 22, 2018 • 9:53:15pm

re: #33 wheat-dogg

Not surprisingly, the people of Iran don’t seem to hate or even dislike Americans. This travel writer for PBS visited there in 2014 and was welcomed warmly everywhere.

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I’ve heard the same thing about Cuba. It’s almost always about the dick waving of political leaders. Same as it’s always been

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:02:23pm

re: #40 teleskiguy

Paul Manafort’s trial starts on Wednesday.

Trump isn’t the only one scared about this.

Remember that Mueller listed Tad Devine as a key witness in this trial.

You got to believe that Bernie Sanders is also shaking in his bed tonight!

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teleskiguy  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:04:18pm

Facebook Post

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JordanRules  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:05:09pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:10:00pm

Just got back from awesome Jason Isbell and 400 Unit/Brandi Carlile show and catching up.

RE: public library discussion—another reminder that Republicans know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

RE: Trump and Iran: I think he thinks he’s bluffing. Bibi and Bolton and their ilk—not so much. This is sounding eerily reminiscent of pre-Iraq. An attack on Iran would be disastrous.

Good night. Time for bed.

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JordanRules  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:10:40pm

Ahhh, it was a beautifully groomed message even back then.

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Kragar  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:10:45pm
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Kragar  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:11:10pm
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DodgerFan1988  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:19:57pm

Basically

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Targetpractice  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:22:45pm

re: #48 Kragar

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Are there any remaining openings in the 101st Chairborne?

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Dave In Austin  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:25:05pm

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:25:59pm

Audience bursts out laughing after GOP Senate candidate says Trump is ‘standing up’ to Russia | TheHill

thehill.com

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Targetpractice  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:26:36pm

So we’re about to see Trump foreign policy 101 in action again: Make a lot of grandiose threats, push the world to the brink of war, and then take credit when you “deescalate” the situation as a “peacemaker.”

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Kragar  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:27:28pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:29:31pm

I agree with whomever said Bolton probably wrote that tweet.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:30:30pm

Though characterically demented, this tweet seems a little too articulate for Trump himself. Has he added a house lunatic to his personal staff?

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A dark and stormy covfefe  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:32:54pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:33:32pm

re: #56 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Though characterically demented, thus tweet seems a little too articulate for Trump himself. Has he added a house lunatic to his personal staff?

Bolton was my theory originally, but maybe he’s learned something really bad (i.e., objectively good) is going to go down tomorrow and it shocked him into momentary focus.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:36:06pm

Not for the first time, I’m glad I’m not Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

Fuckface: “The Iranians are talking shit again! Nuke the bastards!”
Chairman-JCS: “Er, how about we talk about this first.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 22, 2018 • 10:36:50pm

1 dead, 13 wounded in Toronto shooting per CBC.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 22, 2018 • 11:11:24pm

re: #58 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Bolton was my theory originally, but maybe he’s learned something really bad (i.e., objectively good) is going to go down tomorrow and it shocked him into momentary focus.

War is inevitable if he comes to see it as the only thing to get him out of the noose he has been stepping into for the past year.

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Odie Hugh Manatee  Jul 22, 2018 • 11:13:12pm

Now I understand why Trump likes long ties.

Putin’s Puppy
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wheat-dogg  Jul 22, 2018 • 11:22:47pm

re: #62 Odie Hugh Manatee

At first I thought the tie was caught in Putin’s zipper.

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 22, 2018 • 11:31:50pm

Traitor

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 22, 2018 • 11:40:08pm

re: #64 DodgerFan1988

Please note this proud Deplorable is holding a sign with the Russian flag on it ABOVE the American flag. So Patriotic isn’t it?

That is the talking point that has been successfully sold; regardless of collusion or violation of laws, they helped keep us safe from Hillary.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jul 23, 2018 • 12:14:59am

The video at the link mentions ‘records’ not ‘recordings.’ Unless I misheard it.
Now, I understand how the FOIA request got the FISA warrant request released. But, wondering what could have prompted the FBI to release actually recordings. (if they did)

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Odie Hugh Manatee  Jul 23, 2018 • 12:17:31am

At least Putin found a use for them, however small.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 23, 2018 • 1:12:22am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2018 • 1:31:11am

re: #68 Patricia Kayden

Anti-Trump protesters shout “LOCK HIM UP!” just as Trump & Melania arrive at the White House on the 7th Day of consecutive protests, Sunday, July 22, 2018.

Hard to complain about “lack of civility” when “Lock her up!” was one of the catchphrases of his campaign.

But they still will…

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 23, 2018 • 1:43:44am
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teleskiguy  Jul 23, 2018 • 1:45:57am

I can’t sleep, knowing there’s a goddamned wildfire right across the valley.

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teleskiguy  Jul 23, 2018 • 1:48:23am

I can still see flames from my driveway.

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rhuarc  Jul 23, 2018 • 1:50:09am

re: #71 teleskiguy

I can’t sleep, knowing there’s a goddamned wildfire right across the valley.

This may be an obvious question, but is there currently a chance that the fire will head your way?

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Single-handed sailor  Jul 23, 2018 • 1:53:44am
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Single-handed sailor  Jul 23, 2018 • 1:54:50am
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Single-handed sailor  Jul 23, 2018 • 1:57:07am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2018 • 1:57:16am

re: #75 Single-handed sailor

The first rule of diplomacy is write your threats in all caps or nobody will take them seriously

He only knows Twitter Diplomacy

This shit will go down in history if there is anybody left to write it afterwards

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teleskiguy  Jul 23, 2018 • 1:58:49am

re: #73 rhuarc

This may be an obvious question, but is there currently a chance that the fire will head your way?

Right now, no. And when it blew up last night the fire was being blown across rugged terrain to the northeast, aided by winds from the southwest, away from any buildings. First thing this morning when the sun comes up we’re getting some slurry drops and a couple of helicopters to drop water on it. Truth be told, it looked a lot worse when it first started (by lightning) than it actually is.

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teleskiguy  Jul 23, 2018 • 2:00:17am

This is the second wildfire I’ve seen close to where I live. The first one was in 1997 when I was still in high school. It was put out within a week. The burn scar is still visible to this day.

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Single-handed sailor  Jul 23, 2018 • 2:03:15am
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DodgerFan1988  Jul 23, 2018 • 2:06:49am
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unproven innocence  Jul 23, 2018 • 2:48:07am

re: #22 sagehen

repost from downstairs:

Reminder:

after 9/11, Teheran held a MASSIVE candlelight vigil and prayed for our dead. During our initial invasion of Afghanistan, they were EXTREMELY helpful to us — allowed us to use their border crossings, gave us the most up-to-date maps, their spies and security service provided our special forces with personal introductions to anti-Taliban militias. That was one of our missed chance for rapproachment; they extended diplomatic offers, but then George Bush (in a speech written by David Frum) named them part of the Axis of Evil, and there went that opportunity.

I remember posting links here to two or so pics of those candlelight sympathy demonstrations in Tehran, in mid-sept 2001.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2018 • 2:50:19am

re: #82 unproven innocence

I remember posting links here to two or so pics of those candlelight sympathy demonstrations in Tehran, in mid-sept 2001.

That is not the point. They are our enemy and must be destroyed IN ALL CAPS

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unproven innocence  Jul 23, 2018 • 3:06:52am

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

That is not the point. They are our enemy and must be destroyed IN ALL CAPS

I disagree.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 3:22:48am

get ready for more nonsense:

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Odie Hugh Manatee  Jul 23, 2018 • 3:23:45am

Now this pic is just plain disturbing.

“Since he took my balls…”

I know it’s fake… the hands are too big.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 3:25:49am
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teleskiguy  Jul 23, 2018 • 3:40:58am

The good news on the wildfire front, it’s currently 59° F with a dew point of 50° F. So it has definitely not grown much overnight.

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teleskiguy  Jul 23, 2018 • 3:46:14am
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 23, 2018 • 3:51:03am

re: #89 teleskiguy

That would be the most hideous and far-reaching disaster in human history. Having the Soviets back wouldn’t be so great either.

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teleskiguy  Jul 23, 2018 • 3:59:40am

How appropriate.

Disco Inferno (LP/12” Version)

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teleskiguy  Jul 23, 2018 • 4:07:19am

He’s taking a shit.

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teleskiguy  Jul 23, 2018 • 4:08:38am

re: #92 teleskiguy

Shit, didn’t even see that five period ellipsis. He’s not done yet! Stay tuned!

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teleskiguy  Jul 23, 2018 • 4:11:46am

re: #92 teleskiguy

There it is! Took him eight minutes.

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teleskiguy  Jul 23, 2018 • 4:14:30am

Fuckface Von Clownstick is lashing out bigly. He’s sounding like he feels cornered more and more.

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steve_davis  Jul 23, 2018 • 4:15:46am

re: #10 goddamnedfrank

A feelgood thread before we all die.

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it’s worth reading, though you have to take an extra step once you get to the link in order to get to that story. actually made me laugh out loud.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2018 • 4:20:20am

re: #95 teleskiguy

Fuckface Von Clownstick is lashing out bigly. He’s sounding like he feels cornered more and more.

Something’s going down. He’s predictable as hell - whenever some shit is about to hit the fan news-wise, he lashes out on Twitter to pre-emptively deflect and distract. Remember, he usually knows about what’s gonna be headline news a few days before it hits the streets (journalists will call and ask for a comment; that’s SOP for the news media).

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 23, 2018 • 4:23:24am

re: #92 teleskiguy

He’s taking a shit.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 23, 2018 • 4:35:32am

re: #98 goddamnedfrank

He’s behaving just like an innocent man would.

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makeitstop  Jul 23, 2018 • 4:39:56am
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sagehen  Jul 23, 2018 • 4:55:16am

For all the times that he’s ever characterized Obama’s poll numbers as low…. it’s worth remembering that Obama’s lowest-ever approval ratings (in his entire 8 years), were higher than Trump’s highest-ever approval ratings (including the “let’s give him a chance” honeymoon phase).

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teleskiguy  Jul 23, 2018 • 5:08:56am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 23, 2018 • 5:36:45am
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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 5:40:38am

re: #94 teleskiguy

There it is! Took him eight minutes.

Oh, I’m glad we got the guy from Judicial Watch to chime in on this.

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jeffreyw  Jul 23, 2018 • 5:43:22am

Imgur


Good morning!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 23, 2018 • 5:43:50am

By the way…I wonder how much Russian money flows to Judicial Watch?

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Teukka  Jul 23, 2018 • 5:45:13am

re: #106 Joe Bacon 🌹

By the way…I wonder how much Russian money flows to Judicial Watch?

How much is $oro$ paying you? Has Killary threatened to off your kin if you don’t ask that question? #FakeNews! #DeepState! 111tyyuy111!!

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Rocky-in-Connecticut  Jul 23, 2018 • 5:46:22am

At this point I think certainly Republican Congressional members and also most Trump supporters know they are dealing with a pure toddler in the White House. They are content in keeping an insane orangutan under control as long as they can keep their feet on the gays, blacks, Mexicans, etc etc…but watch out when the other side of Fascism starts to raise it’s head… you know… actual war. …they will turn on him.

The entire Conservative philosophy is based on personal gain and avoiding the costs as much as possible either by active denial or socializing the losses. When it comes to the downside of Conservative Fascism, war is as bad as it gets and it is the Trump supporters themselves that will disproportionaly pay the price with their own lives, or their children’s lives on a far away battlefield.

Trump will see all support drop if his obsession with Iran results with any actual American deaths and this Republican Congress will quickly remove him from office….bad for business. No way even a Republican Congress gives Trump an OK to attack Iran with no provocation.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 23, 2018 • 5:46:36am

Groucho Marx’s classic “Idiot” line

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 5:48:46am

re: #53 Targetpractice

So we’re about to see Trump foreign policy 101 in action again: Make a lot of grandiose threats, push the world to the brink of war, and then take credit when you “deescalate” the situation as a “peacemaker.”

And he agrees to a one on one meeting with the Ayatolla and he says the meeting went “great”.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 23, 2018 • 5:51:17am

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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2018 • 5:52:25am

Morning!

Anyone else getting real sick of waking up to Trump insane tweets?

So presidential and leadery!

Our president is an asshole.

He’s also mentally disturbed. Can the guys in the white coats come and take him away now? I think there is plenty proof it is needed for the protection of the U.S. of A.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 23, 2018 • 5:52:38am

re: #108 Rocky-in-Connecticut

….No way even a Republican Congress gives Trump an OK to attack Iran with no provocation.

I don’t know how you can say that. They gave Dumbya an OK to attack Iraq with no provocation.

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makeitstop  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:09:15am

A good thread about the particulars of a FISA warrant, from the former head of intelligence law at NSA.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:11:03am
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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:11:18am

re: #98 goddamnedfrank

All you ever do is lie. The FBI Russia investigation that Mueller inherited actually began when George Papadapolous bragged to Alexander Downer, the Australian Ambassador to the UK, about his foreknowledge that Russia had stolen DNC emails. nytimes.com

— Space Force Commodore

And that’s not even mentioning your own begging Russia to hack HRC during the campaign and how you got the GOP convention to change its platform language on Ukraine/Crimea, and how you’ve constantly denied, against all evidence and suggestions to the contrary that Russia did in fact do the hacking, etc.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:15:36am

ROFLMAO @ these incompetent dumbfucks!

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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:17:09am

re: #108 Rocky-in-Connecticut

At this point I think certainly Republican Congressional members and also most Trump supporters know they are dealing with a pure toddler in the White House. They are content in keeping an insane orangutan under control as long as they can keep their feet on the gays, blacks, Mexicans, etc etc…but watch out when the other side of Fascism starts to raise it’s head… you know… actual war. …they will turn on him.

The problem with this idea is the Trump Cult factor. “My guy right or wrong” is familiar territory. I truly hope you are right.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:17:10am

re: #117 goddamnedfrank

ROFLMAO @ these incompetent dumbfucks!

CUT HER MIC!!! CUT HER MIC!!!!

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:17:56am

re: #117 goddamnedfrank

ROFLMAO @ these incompetent dumbfucks!

It can be so hard to find a useful Dem to try to “balance” your propaganda.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:20:32am

re: #115 goddamnedfrank

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The Washington Monthly article really gets at the genesis of this being the McCarthy area where many influential right wingers got their starts I.e. Buckley.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:25:04am

re: #117 goddamnedfrank

ROFLMAO @ these incompetent dumbfucks!

Gotta cut Fox & Friends a little slack….it’s not like they know many Dems. Easy to get confused.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:28:11am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. It’s a wonderful Friday night news dump ongoing. Wait. Shit. This is Monday morning before 9:30am?

Trump’s drumming the beat of war with Iran. He’s making insane threats based on nothing more than deflecting attention from fact that his buddy - his campaign manager - is about to go on trial this week for charges that would see him spend the rest of his life in prison (and that’s not counting the charges for witness tampering while he was out on bail that got his sorry ass thrown in jail awaiting trial).

Manafort’s got a motion to try and keep his chicanery in and with Ukraine out of the trail, and if that fails, the likelihood of flipping increases dramatically.

While Trump continues deflecting and projecting, he’s got a media that helped him immensely in ways large and small (going back to when he first jumped into the race):

So many in the media needed to knock Hillary and gave Trump an undeserved boost - to say nothing of not bothering to dig deep into Trump’s links to shady characters and foreign moneymen (which in retrospect looks like a Russian nesting doll matched set of cronies and complicit/compromised thugs and sycophants.

Oh, and he’s back to attacking Amazon/WaPo (meaning more breaking news on its way):

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:36:45am

So, here’s the full statement from GOP lawmaker Jason Spencer regarding Sacha Baron Cohen.

The makers of this film fraudulently induced me in participating in bogus self-defense and anti-terrorism training after they learned of the legislation I introduced in November 2016 that provoked death threats against me and my family. They took advantage of my fears that I would be attacked by someone inspired by the vile rhetoric used against me. I was told the video was intended to be an educational aid to train elected officials who may be targeted by terrorists. Threats to public officials are real as we have seen with the assassination attempt upon Congressman Steve Scalise’s life, which occurred one month prior to my contact with the film’s makers.

They exploited my state of mind for profit and notoriety. This media company’s deceptive and fraudulent behavior is exactly why President Donald Trump was elected. Furthermore, there are sensitive parts of this training that took place under a kidnapping scenario where I was repeatedly asked to shout provocative language which I requested be removed, but I was not afforded that opportunity to have final approval over footage used that was initially extended to me by the film makers.

It is clear the makers of this film intended to deceive me in an attempt to undermine the American conservative political movement; therefore, I have sought legal counsel to challenge this illegal and unethical behavior and plan on taking action if and when any of this fraudulently obtained footage of me is used by these Hollywood liberals to line their own pockets.

ajc.com

Now I don’t know about anyone else here on LGF, but I’m not really all that convinced that “I’m was afraid someone might attack me that I was convinced to pull my pants down and chase someone with my bare ass and scream the N-word” is really the defense you want to go with.

But hey, that’s just me……

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:38:06am

re: #123 lawhawk

Yep……..betcha WaPo has something big breaking in the next 48 to 72 hours.

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Jay C  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:38:10am

re: #113 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I don’t know how you can say that. They gave Dumbya an OK to attack Iraq with no provocation.

GWB at least had the recent memories of ( and national freakout over ) 9/11 on his side back in ‘03; and a carefully-crafted - even if fraudulent- set of “rationales” to present to Congress and the public. What does Trump have? Some bitchy tweets?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:42:51am

re: #124 Dr Lizardo

In other words he’s just a typical Republican asshole!

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:44:11am

re: #124 Dr Lizardo

The makers of this film fraudulently induced me in participating in bogus self-defense and anti-terrorism training

Sad. Betcha love James OKeefer though dontcha?

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wheat-dogg  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:44:49am

re: #124 Dr Lizardo

You might say he told a bare-assed lie.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:45:22am

re: #124 Dr Lizardo

So, here’s the full statement from GOP lawmaker Jason Spencer regarding Sacha Baron Cohen.

ajc.com

Now I don’t know about anyone else here on LGF, but I’m not really all that convinced that “I’m was afraid someone might attack me that I was convinced to pull my pants down and chase someone with my bare ass and scream the N-word” is really the defense you want to go with.

But hey, that’s just me……

There is at least one wingnut who recognized “Borat” & wouldn’t participate in his drama

EXCLUSIVE: Riverside gun store confronts Sacha Baron Cohen after he comes to business in disguise

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Sufficient unto the day...  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:47:46am

re: #124 Dr Lizardo

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:49:10am

re: #130 The Vicious Babushka

He seems to be the exception to the rule. I’ve noticed that a lot of people on the right aren’t very up-to-date with current media beyond perhaps name-dropping some celeb on a posting.

Sacha Baron Cohen is pretty distinctive-looking. It’d probably take me a couple of minutes to recognize him if he was disguised, then I’d ask him for an autograph or something.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:56:14am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 23, 2018 • 6:59:08am

re: #133 lawhawk

Oh deer!

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Big Beautiful Door  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:05:32am

re: #14 Single-handed sailor

JFC

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That is just one poll. Trump is still nearly 11 points under in his approval rating.

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:05:55am
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Barefoot Grin  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:08:57am

re: #133 lawhawk

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Next they’re gonna want Obummer phones////////

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Big Beautiful Door  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:14:16am

re: #42 Joe Bacon 🌹

Trump isn’t the only one scared about this.

Remember that Mueller listed Tad Devine as a key witness in this trial.

You got to believe that Bernie Sanders is also shaking in his bed tonight!

I looked at the evidence list, and every mention of Tad Devine is from years before Sander’s campaign. So Ted should be worried, but I don’t know about Sanders.

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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:15:01am

re: #133 lawhawk

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Mr. Storekeeper…I’ll gladly pay you on Friday for some additional chocolate biscuits and chocolate for my family members today!

I’ve got the doe…

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:19:40am

re: #124 Dr Lizardo

So, here’s the full statement from GOP lawmaker Jason Spencer regarding Sacha Baron Cohen.

ajc.com

Now I don’t know about anyone else here on LGF, but I’m not really all that convinced that “I’m was afraid someone might attack me that I was convinced to pull my pants down and chase someone with my bare ass and scream the N-word” is really the defense you want to go with.

But hey, that’s just me……

I’m watching now lol. Guy is suing because he made a complete ass of himself.

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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:23:49am

I reported this account last week and got a response that yes, they did violate TOS but nothing happened. Expected, I suppose.

Read through this account. It is nothing but insanity. Assuming it is a real person, this is the kind of shit we have to try to counter, people we have to deprogram. I don’t know if it is even possible.

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:25:11am

Check this out: dailykos.com. Dan Neil, a Pulitzer prize winning automobile review writer, wrote a mostly positive review of the Tesla Model 3, and was then harassed by so many people who dislike the company - the diarist thinks they’re Tesla short-sellers - that he ended up deleting his Twitter account to stop the harassment.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:28:13am

re: #130 The Vicious Babushka

There is at least one wingnut who recognized “Borat” & wouldn’t participate in his drama

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Video

What do you know, a not totally stupid gun nut.

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sagehen  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:28:54am

re: #105 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Is that the same table that usually has birdfeeders? And today it has a cat instead? I smell a story…

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:29:28am

re: #141 MsJ

I reported this account last week and got a response that yes, they did violate TOS but nothing happened. Expected, I suppose.

Read through this account. It is nothing but insanity. Assuming it is a real person, this is the kind of shit we have to try to counter, people we have to deprogram. I don’t know if it is even possible.
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It’s a fucking cult. Trump and his supporters owe Comey big time but they instead hate him because he doesn’t totally kiss Trump’s orange asshole.

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Mike Lamb  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:31:37am

re: #123 lawhawk

The USPS is “next up”? Aside from the continuous lying about the financials of Amazon’s deal with the USPS, being the “delivery boy” is sorta their raison d’etre…

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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:31:58am

re: #117 goddamnedfrank

ROFLMAO @ these incompetent dumbfucks!

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Props for her but she should have responded to them. No, the practice has not stopped. No families have not been reunited.

This came across as a political ad for her.

Glad she did it but nowhere near as effective as she could have been.

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Stanley Sea  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:32:48am
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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:34:18am

re: #148 Stanley Sea

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We have to realize that Trump has a floor as well as a ceiling. His core supporters will be with him no matter what. Hopefully the floor is low enough that we can wipe out the GOP Congress majority and then get the WH via impeachment or election.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:34:30am

Man, this interview makes Cheney look really really bad.

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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:37:49am

re: #150 HappyWarrior

Man, this interview makes Cheney look really really bad.

With Cohen? Where did you see it? What is in it?

(I hate watching this stuff and would really rather see snippets. I want to watch Cheney as much as I want to watch trump.)

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makeitstop  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:39:02am
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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:39:04am

re: #150 HappyWarrior

Man, this interview makes Cheney look really really bad.

What interview is that??? I may have missed a mention/link.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:39:22am

re: #151 MsJ

With Cohen? Where did you see it? What is in it?

(I hate watching this stuff and would really rather see snippets. I want to watch Cheney as much as I want to watch trump.)

Showtime on demand. It’s really good. Cheney doesn’t suspect a damn thing.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:39:44am

re: #153 ObserverArt

What interview is that??? I may have missed a mention/link.

The Sasha Baron Cohen one. I missed his show last night.

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sagehen  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:40:53am

re: #155 HappyWarrior

The Sasha Baron Cohen one. I missed his show last night.

not to worry, they’ll rerun it at least a dozen times this week.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:41:27am

re: #156 sagehen

not to worry, they’ll rerun it at least a dozen times this week.

No, I got it. I’m watching on demand right now.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:41:49am

re: #1 jaunte

I was thi-i-i-is close to winding up the evening with a couple of episodes of Longmire, and I had to check Twitter.

You should know better.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:42:04am

This is even better than the pilot. Right now, he’s exposing the Muslim hatred of these “economically anxious.”

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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:42:39am

re: #155 HappyWarrior

The Sasha Baron Cohen one. I missed his show last night.

Ahhh, I don’t have Showtime currently. Gonna have to wait to see if it ever comes out in a YouTube or something.

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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:43:07am

re: #154 HappyWarrior

Showtime on demand. It’s really good. Cheney doesn’t suspect a damn thing.

Cliff Notes version?

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:43:29am

re: #160 ObserverArt

Ahhh, I don’t have Showtime currently. Gonna have to wait to see if it ever comes out in a YouTube or something.

Ahhh okay. IT definitely should be.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:45:41am

re: #161 MsJ

Cliff Notes version?

Okay, so he starts off Cheney by asking him his favorite war, Cheney says Desert Storm. He also tells him about that he used a waterboard on his wife when she was unfaithful. Cheney finds it funny. He also asks about the infamous Cheney shooting incident and “confuses” the fact that Cheney shot the man thinking he was a Quail with thinking he was Dan Quayle. He then gets him to sign a waterboard to which Cheney quips that he never signed one before. The Israeli colonel character is the best character so far IMO. Most rounded out and has gotten by far the most cringe worthy reactions thus far.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:46:27am

re: #150 HappyWarrior

Man, this interview makes Cheney look really really bad.

He’s pretty bad already but he made it worse for himself how?

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:50:26am

re: #163 HappyWarrior

I haven’t seen it, but unless Cheney’s mental capacity has gone way down, I would not be surprised if he knew and was going along with it. Now, it’s been a while and we know his health’s been deteriorating, so he could have been fooled, but that just makes him the old man in a rocking chair.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:56:13am

re: #165 Belafon

I haven’t seen it, but unless Cheney’s mental capacity has gone way down, I would not be surprised if he knew and was going along with it. Now, it’s been a while and we know his health’s been deteriorating, so he could have been fooled, but that just makes him the old man in a rocking chair.

Kind of surprised Cohen got close to Cheney. Would expect Cheney to have secret service protection as a former VP. Although I don’t know that Secret Service protection applies to former VPs.

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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 7:59:39am

re: #163 HappyWarrior

Okay, so he starts off Cheney by asking him his favorite war, Cheney says Desert Storm. He also tells him about that he used a waterboard on his wife when she was unfaithful. Cheney finds it funny. He also asks about the infamous Cheney shooting incident and “confuses” the fact that Cheney shot the man thinking he was a Quail with thinking he was Dan Quayle. He then gets him to sign a waterboard to which Cheney quips that he never signed one before. The Israeli colonel character is the best character so far IMO. Most rounded out and has gotten by far the most cringe worthy reactions thus far.

So Cheney is as stupid as one imagines and he, like trump, is all image and no substance?

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:02:07am

re: #164 Sir John Barron

He’s pretty bad already but he made it worse for himself how?

Signing a waterboard. His whole attitude about his wars.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:02:24am

re: #167 MsJ

So Cheney is as stupid as one imagines and he, like trump, is all image and no substance?

Not stupid but nonchalant

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KGxvi  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:03:05am

re: #149 HappyWarrior

We have to realize that Trump has a floor as well as a ceiling. His core supporters will be with him no matter what. Hopefully the floor is low enough that we can wipe out the GOP Congress majority and then get the WH via impeachment or election.

Trump’s floor, unfortunately, is about the same as any other modern American president, probably somewhere around 35% barring complete economic meltdown (In Bush’s case he dropped below 30% near the end due to forces mostly out of his control, Trump could drop lower if the trade war tanks the economy). What makes Trump unique is that his ceiling is also, historically, low. Most presidents have at least a chance to get into the 60’s on approval (Bush flirted with 60% a couple of times before 9/11), if not higher (again, barring national tragedy). Trump, however, seems lucky to get to 50%. That’s historically bad, and probably a result of electing one of the most disliked major party nominees in history.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:03:18am
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Interesting Times  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:03:32am

re: #148 Stanley Sea

Hey, isn’t this the same poll breathlessly pushed by Cillizza in #14? In that case, fancy what happens when you consider the opinions of everyone except GOPers:

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:04:08am

Here’s Trump’s absolute, even after starting a nuclear war, floor:

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:06:33am

re: #173 Belafon

Here’s Trump’s absolute, even after starting a nuclear war, floor:

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It’s a cult.

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KGxvi  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:07:15am

re: #173 Belafon

51% is 12 points lower among Republicans than where GWB was on election night 2008. For comparison’s sake.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:10:25am
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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:12:27am

I left my twitter page up over the weekend and it stayed at where it was three days ago. It’s amazing to look just three days back…it seems like a year.

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electrotek  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:13:14am

Can we have forced conscription for Iranians in LA and OC that support Trump still? They all want their beloved shah back so why not put their money where their mouth is and go there instead of sending US troops to die for their selfish ambitions?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:17:28am

he is nutz

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:19:10am

re: #179 Backwoods_Sleuth

….In my opinion the Washington Post is nothing more than an expensive (the paper loses a fortune) lobbyist for Amazon. Is it used as protection against antitrust claims which many feel should be brought?

We take conflicts of interest very seriously…

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:19:54am

re: #179 Backwoods_Sleuth

he is nutz

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You wouldn’t care about Amazon if the WaPo were sucking you off like FNC does.

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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:20:54am

Does anyone have election captain experience? I have a question.

There has been much talk about Russians hacking the voter rolls (state by state) and changing information which would make that person who comes to vote allowed only to cast a provisional ballot.

What happens to that ballot if it is confirmed that the roll information and the voter information doesn’t match? Is the vote discarded?

What does someone do if they go to vote and find out their voter roll is inaccurate?

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:21:54am

re: #179 Backwoods_Sleuth

he is nutz

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:22:54am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:23:13am

May need this to keep Rick Scott out of the Senate

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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:24:16am

re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth

David Cay Johnston ✔
@DavidCayJ
Hugely important Trump corruption story just posted @nytimes by @FlitterOnFraud & @JesseDrucker about little bank that made big Kushner et al loans, held Donald money, etc. nytimes.com …

10:51 AM - Jul 23, 2018

Ohhh…when David Cay Johnston says something about Trump is important it is must read. No one knows Donny and his “business” better.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:24:56am

when you play fetch with a herding dog:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:28:39am

oh, and more of the moron’s foreign policy earlier this morning:

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:29:05am

re: #179 Backwoods_Sleuth

he is nutz

“Many people are saying….”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:29:15am

re: #185 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Youth voter registration went up 41 percent in Florida after Parkland

They hate this President so much that they are even getting out to register to vote against him!!!

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:30:39am

re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They hate this President so much that they are even getting out to register to vote against him!!!

Very illegal FBI should investigate that instead of me fake news.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:31:45am

re: #183 The Vicious Babushka

In my opinion the Washington Post is nothing more than an expensive (the paper loses a fortune) lobbyist for Amazon. Is it used as protection against antitrust claims which many feel should be brought?

— Donald J. Trump

So now MAGA president is just stating opinions rather than telling us the facts. Sad.

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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:32:14am

re: #182 MsJ

Does anyone have election captain experience? I have a question.

There has been much talk about Russians hacking the voter rolls (state by state) and changing information which would make that person who comes to vote allowed only to cast a provisional ballot.

What happens to that ballot if it is confirmed that the roll information and the voter information doesn’t match? Is the vote discarded?

What does someone do if they go to vote and find out their voter roll is inaccurate?

Ohio has online lookup to see if you are currently registered and what Fed and State districts you are in. I don’t know if all states do, but they should.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:33:04am
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jaunte  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:34:50am
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jaunte  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:37:43am
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Dr. Matt  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:38:37am

If Dotard was anyone else, he would have been perma-banned from twitter by now. @Jack needs to grow a pair.

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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:39:43am

re: #195 jaunte

Well, THAT is depressing.

“As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore,” said Bezmenov. “A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures; even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him [a] concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it, until he [receives] a kick in his fan-bottom. When a military boot crashes his balls then he will understand. But not before that. That’s the [tragedy] of the situation of demoralization.”

…

Once demoralization is completed, the second stage of ideological brainwashing is “destabilization”. During this two-to-five-year period, asserted Bezmenov, what matters is the targeting of essential structural elements of a nation: economy, foreign relations, and defense systems. Basically, the subverter (Russia) would look to destabilize every one of those areas in the United States, considerably weakening it.

…

Once demoralization is completed, the second stage of ideological brainwashing is “destabilization”. During this two-to-five-year period, asserted Bezmenov, what matters is the targeting of essential structural elements of a nation: economy, foreign relations, and defense systems. Basically, the subverter (Russia) would look to destabilize every one of those areas in the United States, considerably weakening it.

…

“Most of the American politicians, media, and educational system trains another generation of people who think they are living at the peacetime,” said the former KGB agent. “False. United States is in a state of war: undeclared, total war against the basic principles and foundations of this system.”

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:40:28am

re: #196 jaunte

President Trump told me that if Iran does anything at all to the negative, they will pay a price like few countries have ever paid before

Like hack a U.S. election?

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:41:22am

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electrotek  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:41:41am

Jesus, the USD/JPY exchange rate went from 1USD/113JPY late last week to 111.1 today.

Fucking Trump is making things so much worse.

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makeitstop  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:41:55am

re: #195 jaunte

I’ve found this to be a very handy link.

The Gerasmov Doctrine

The article is considered by many to be the most useful articulation of Russia’s modern strategy, a vision of total warfare that places politics and war within the same spectrum of activities—philosophically, but also logistically. The approach is guerrilla, and waged on all fronts with a range of actors and tools—for example, hackers, media, businessmen, leaks and, yes, fake news, as well as conventional and asymmetric military means. Thanks to the internet and social media, the kinds of operations Soviet psy-ops teams once could only fantasize about—upending the domestic affairs of nations with information alone—are now plausible. The Gerasimov Doctrine builds a framework for these new tools, and declares that non-military tactics are not auxiliary to the use of force but the preferred way to win. That they are, in fact, the actual war. Chaos is the strategy the Kremlin pursues: Gerasimov specifies that the objective is to achieve an environment of permanent unrest and conflict within an enemy state.

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austin_blue  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:44:05am

re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth

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So the Cheetoh Mussolini, Vlad’s Punch, lost it in the last 24 hours.

Just. Lost. It.

That was crazy. Bullgoose, run-over-turkey, crazy.

Well, this Signature Bank story will make his RPM level increase to Shrieking Harpy status. We’ve wondered where Drumpf Inc. got its capital since no-one would float his paper, yet someone obviously did. This appears to be the source.

So, relevant side note:

Once upon a time there was a bank in DC called Riggs Bank. Its main office was on Pennsylvania Avenue, but I saw it most often because it had a branch just across the Potomac from Arlington in Georgetown where I would go to see live music when I was a mere teen and college student.

It was THE Bank in DC. Presidents from Martin Van Buren to Nixon had accounts there. It really ramped up in the world of black money starting with State Department intelligence in World War I and accelerated in WWII when the OSS used it to move money around to pay for its activities. The CIA used it. It paid for the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Osama used it to pay the bills for the 9/11 hijackers.

Eventually, after a series of money laundering schemes were uncovered, it was bought by PNC in 2005 and was absorbed. But during the 20th century, the money flow for pretty much every plot, black op, and dirty trick out of DC could be traced to it.

If it turns out that Signature Bank is New York’s equivalent to DC’s Riggs National, this story will break a lot of spines. It’s a really, really big deal.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:46:16am

re: #203 austin_blue

Upding for “Bullgoose, run-over-turkey, crazy.”

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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:46:50am

re: #197 Dr. Matt

If Dotard was anyone else, he would have been perma-banned from twitter by now. @Jack needs to grow a pair.

There is absolutely no way in this universe Twitter is going to close the account of Donny Trump as President.

And he knows it.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:48:24am
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dangerman  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:50:16am

Boys and girls i’ve been away, as you know, or maybe never noticed.

Been scanning the news the last few days and it is indeed horrifying, horrendous, bizarre, and other choice words.

in these gray and dark times we still must keep perspective. The elemental of what truly matters when things are pushed to the edge.

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Remember what’s important.

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Skip Intro  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:50:21am

re: #7 BeachDem

“The level of corruption and wealth among regime leaders shows that ______ is run by something that resembles the Mafia more than a government.”

So—a protester talking about the yam administration? Nope—Mike Pompeo talking about Iran. Hard to keep the Mafia organizations straight. Sigh.

“These hypocritical holy men have devised all kinds of crooked schemes to become some of the wealthiest men on Earth while their people suffer,” Pompeo said, accusing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of maintaining a $95 billion untaxed “slush fund.”

I thought he was talking about Frankie Graham, Jerry Fallwell, Joel Osteen, Jim Baker, and about a hundred others here. He’s not? Damn.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:51:16am

re: #196 jaunte

The White House just issued this statement from John Bolton. “I spoke to the President over the last several days, and President Trump told me that if Iran does anything at all to the negative, they will pay a price like few countries have ever paid before.”

— Kaitlan Collins

Also, Bolton said that Donald J. Trump is the warmest, kindest, most MAGA president ever in my lifetime.

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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:52:12am

re: #205 ObserverArt

There is absolutely no way in this universe Twitter is going to close the account of Donny Trump as President.

And he knows it.

None. Not a chance.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:52:33am

re: #208 Skip Intro

“These hypocritical holy men have devised all kinds of crooked schemes to become some of the wealthiest men on Earth while their people suffer,” Pompeo said, accusing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of maintaining a $95 billion untaxed “slush fund.”

Really, how do we know this?

Pompeo: Our maga Intelligence services, of course.

You mean the U.S. IC that your boss has spent two years deriding?

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:54:10am

re: #208 Skip Intro

I thought he was talking about Frankie Graham, Jerry Fallwell, Joel Osteen, Jim Baker, and about a hundred others here. He’s not? Damn.

Or perhaps Vladimir Putin?

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:55:09am

re: #208 Skip Intro

“These hypocritical holy men have devised all kinds of crooked schemes to become some of the wealthiest men on Earth while their people suffer,” Pompeo said, accusing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of maintaining a $95 billion untaxed “slush fund.”

Your boss called the ability to avoid paying taxes “really smart”.

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:56:30am
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jeffreyw  Jul 23, 2018 • 8:57:53am

re: #144 sagehen

Is that the same table that usually has birdfeeders? And today it has a cat instead? I smell a story…

Ginger Boy explained that he was holding the table for a party of six but MrsJ said it was already reserved and that if he wanted his kitteh kibble served when the clock dial pointed to kitteh din-din time he would find a way to explain it to his party when they showed.
Ginger Kitteh, of course, heard none of that but, due to the timely arrival of a squirrel elsewhere in the yard, he chose to pursue other opportunities.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:01:37am

re: #214 jaunte

To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2018

Wow, DJT really giving Putin the business here for interfering in our elections.

Oh wait…..

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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:01:44am

Rand Paul needs to be kicked in the ass. He, just like Lindsey Graham, has turned into a Trump defender par excellence. Plus, he just is so punchable. And another tie-in to the real GOP Central Committee at Fox News.

Politico - Rand Paul to ask Trump to revoke security clearance of ex-CIA chief Brennan

Sen. Rand Paul Monday said he is meeting with President Donald Trump to ask for former CIA director John Brennan to have his security clearance revoked.

“Is John Brennan monetizing his security clearance? Is John Brennan making millions of dollars divulging secrets to the mainstream media with his attacks on @realDonaldTrump,” the Kentucky Republican tweeted Monday morning. “Today I will meet with the President and I will ask him to revoke John Brennan’s security clearance.”

Brennan, who was CIA director under former President Barack Obama, now works as a senior national security and intelligence analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. Brennan has been highly critical of Trump.

Most recently, he lambasted Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, calling it “nothing short of treasonous” in a tweet.

Paul’s request comes after Fox News host Tucker Carlson said last week that Brennan still had a security clearance despite not working for the federal government anymore.

Carlson, who called Brennan an “out-of-the-closet extremist,” went on to call for his security clearance removed.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:02:49am

re: #217 ObserverArt

Wow, I’m just glad the president’s cronies in congress and the media aren’t targeting his critics or anything like that.

/

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:04:06am

re: #217 ObserverArt

Hi, my name’s Rand Paul, and I’m running to win the title of absolute worst suck up senator in congress.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:04:21am

re: #217 ObserverArt

You think taking his clearance will knock him out of the loop? LOL, Brennan has connections up the wazoo.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:04:44am

re: #217 ObserverArt

Hi, my name’s Rand Paul, and I once valued my political independence.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:04:55am

re: #219 Sir John Barron

Hi, my name’s Rand Paul, and I’m running to win the title of absolute worst suck up senator in congress.

It’s a stiff competition these days.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:05:47am
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Belafon  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:07:21am

re: #217 ObserverArt

Rand Paul needs to be kicked in the ass. He, just like Lindsey Graham, has turned into a Trump defender par excellence. Plus, he just is so punchable. And another tie-in to the real GOP Central Committee at Fox News.

Politico - Rand Paul to ask Trump to revoke security clearance of ex-CIA chief Brennan

Boogieman! No clue how they work.

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:09:01am

re: #223 Backwoods_Sleuth

“The artist got upset” is a deceptively minimalist way to describe a corporation stealing an artist’s work for their own profit.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:09:06am

Rand Paul is such a disgrace. That whole family.

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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:10:20am

re: #224 Belafon

Boogieman! No clue how they work.

I know…it’s all posturing. Which is all Rand Paul ever does.

I’ve never liked the smarmy Senator. I’ve found new space for more hate for him.

What has he done for Kentucky? I doubt he has done anything.

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:10:32am
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BeachDem  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:10:35am

Well, Sean’s new book sounds like a “must not read.”

“The Briefing” isn’t a political memoir, nor is it a work of recent history, nor a tell-all, or tell-anything. Rather, it is a bumbling effort at gaslighting Americans into doubting what they have seen with their own eyes as far back as June 2015

Yawn.

And the best comment at the WaPo:

I suppose there would be some people who wanted to read a book by Spicer. In 6th grade there was a kid who used to eat paste.

washingtonpost.com

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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:11:19am
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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:14:17am

re: #225 jaunte

“The artist got upset” is a deceptively minimalist way to describe a corporation stealing an artist’s work for their own profit.

Exactly. Musk knows how the world works. If someone used a logo of his he would sick lawyers on you fast as he could.

I know this particular issue has probably been ongoing but Musk is sure getting his image pounded in the media.

He seems to be in a transition PR-wise from boy wonder to major asshole with money.

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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:15:24am

THIS.

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freetoken  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:15:54am

re: #231 MsJ

The whole lot of corrupt Republicans and their infidelities and ties to Russian mobsters and oligarchs… if I tried to write a screenplay and sell that to Hollywood everyone would think it’s too far-fetched.

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:17:31am

re: #234 freetoken

The whole lot of corrupt Republicans and their infidelities and ties to Russian mobsters and oligarchs… if I tried to write a screenplay and sell that to Hollywood everyone would think it’s too far-fetched.

New narrative: “We don’t do horror stories this frightening.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:18:12am

re: #235 Belafon

New narrative: “We don’t do horror stories this frightening.”

“We don’t want to alienate our target audiences in Russia and China.”

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:18:52am

re: #231 MsJ

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I’m willing to bet that more than one representative had relations with this woman. My money’s on Nunes or Rohrabacher at the moment. Sanford possibly too.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:19:23am
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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:19:52am

re: #238 Backwoods_Sleuth

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How can you not like this guy? He’s awesome.

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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:20:17am

re: #231 MsJ

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Sanford just can’t help himself can he?

Go away Mark, you are finished. We know you know how to disappear. Do it for good.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:21:52am

re: #239 HappyWarrior

He’s not throwing away his shot.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:21:58am

gaaaaaahhhhhhh

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:22:34am

re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth

gaaaaaahhhhhhh

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Uh no you haven’t. Maybe you and your Dad should go to Siberia together and rot.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:22:47am
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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:22:55am

re: #240 ObserverArt

Sanford just can’t help himself can he?

Go away Mark, you are finished. We know you know how to disappear. Do it for good.

I’ll let you know if I see him on the trail. I live nearby.

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:23:23am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:24:56am

poor dog must have been beyond confused…humans are screaming at each other and then somebody breaks down the front door…

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Dr. Matt  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:26:06am

re: #246 jaunte

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They realize that putting this out will result in Wingnut welfare that will inturn pay the mortgage on their doublewide.

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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:27:20am

re: #234 freetoken

The whole lot of corrupt Republicans and their infidelities and ties to Russian mobsters and oligarchs… if I tried to write a screenplay and sell that to Hollywood everyone would think it’s too far-fetched.

Not anymore.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:28:17am
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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:28:39am

re: #239 HappyWarrior

How can you not like this guy? He’s awesome.

There was one last week of him and his son riding the bus…his son had on a Spiderman mask. It was awesome on several levels.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:29:15am

re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth

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States rights. //

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:31:17am
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Dr. Matt  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:31:33am

re: #252 HappyWarrior

States rights. //

They are all about “States Rights” if the States agree with me and not thee.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:32:09am

re: #246 jaunte

musically it is pretty darn well done…

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:33:02am

re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth

Rand Paul doesn’t define “honestly” like the rest of us.

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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:34:31am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:34:33am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:34:42am

re: #256 jaunte

Rand Paul doesn’t define “honestly” like the rest of us.

“honestly” = “the extent to which I can get away with lying about it”

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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:34:47am

Not-so-Dear Donny Trump,

You can not undo progress. The world is not going back to coal and inefficient cars. Period.

I’d ask how stupid can you be, but I fear the answer.

Piss off asshole!

Signed,
Me

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retired cynic  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:35:26am

Earlier this year I posted a pic of my feral kitty that I named Chica, because she looked like Stanley Sea’s kitteh. Well, a few months later, and there are five. Chica’s husband Boom and her three kittens, shown here on the front porch enjoying supper de jour. This is as close as I can get to them, unfortunately. Trying to get friendly, because Chica needs a bit of surgery so we can stop this burgeoning family where it stands!

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makeitstop  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:35:31am

re: #255 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

musically it is pretty darn well done…

Eh, pretty pedestrian if you ask me. It takes four of them to execute a 2-part harmony.

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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:35:49am

re: #258 Backwoods_Sleuth

Could not resist.

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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:36:47am

re: #256 jaunte

Rand Paul doesn’t define “honestly” like the rest of us.

How could he? He has no idea of the concept.

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:38:47am

re: #260 ObserverArt

Not-so-Dear Donny Trump,

You can not undo progress. The world is not going back to coal and inefficient cars. Period.

I’d ask how stupid can you be, but I fear the answer.

Piss off asshole!

Signed,
Me

I figure the car thing is there for a few reasons:
1. Coal, but I think this is the least of them.
2. Car companies.
3. Abortion. Repeal Roe v. Wade, and states get to decide, unless the administration can remove that check.

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:39:25am

re: #261 retired cynic

Earlier this year I posted a pic of my feral kitty that I named Chica, because she looked like Stanley Sea’s kitteh. Well, a few months later, and there are five. Chica’s husband Boom and her three kittens, shown here on the front porch enjoying supper de jour. This is as close as I can get to them, unfortunately. Trying to get friendly, because Chica needs a bit of surgery so we can stop this burgeoning family where it stands!

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Put out some catnip.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:39:27am

Oh, and Manafort’s trying to claim that his own bookkeepers are withholding evidence from him (a ploy to get someone else to pay for the paperwork):

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Jay C  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:42:49am

re: #227 ObserverArt

I know…it’s all posturing. Which is all Rand Paul ever does.

I’ve never liked the smarmy Senator. I’ve found new space for more hate for him.

What has he done for Kentucky? I doubt he has done anything.

My question, too. What sort of popularity does this clown have in Kentucky that he seems like such a lock for the Senate seat? Do they really admire him for all his “libertarian” bullshit? Or is it just that he’s branded with the magic mark of (R)?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:43:56am

re: #268 Jay C

My question, too. What sort of popularity does this clown have in Kentucky that he seems like such a lock for the Senate seat? Do they really admire him for all his “libertarian” bullshit? Or is it just that he’s branded with the magic mark of (R)?

I assume that he blows the right dog whistles and has a high degree of recognition.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:44:36am

re: #268 Jay C

My question, too. What sort of popularity does this clown have in Kentucky that he seems like such a lock for the Senate seat? Do they really admire him for all his “libertarian” bullshit? Or is it just that he’s branded with the magic mark of (R)?

It’s the libertarian bullshit.

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:46:17am
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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:47:33am

re: #271 jaunte

Hi, my name’s Jim Jordan, and if you thought I was a super obnoxious, rabid partisan douchecanoe last week, wait till you see how disgusting I become this week.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:48:10am

Hmm…..looking pretty good, actually. Gonna add this to my “must-see” list. I was a big fan of the manga by Yukito Kishiro.

Alita: Battle Angel | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX

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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:49:11am

re: #265 Belafon

I figure the car thing is there for a few reasons:
1. Coal, but I think this is the least of them.
2. Car companies.
3. Abortion. Repeal Roe v. Wade, and states get to decide, unless the administration can remove that check.

4. California. He got his ass kicked in the election so there must be payback.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:50:54am

re: #271 jaunte

Hi, my name’s Jim Jordan, and I’m such a dopey partisan, I think that if we can somehow clear Carter Page, the whole Russia story goes away.

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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:51:59am

I did not know she was married.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:52:46am

Has anything been debunked from the Steele dossier? Certainly some things have not been verified, but yet many things have been verified. As such, what has been debunked?

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:52:47am

re: #277 MsJ

Blasting it out on Twitter is great idea for ensuring privacy.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:53:10am

Will the last journalists at the Daily News turn off the lights?

Tronc, which bought the paper last year, pretty much eviscerated the paper by canning half the staff today.

“To capture the opportunities ahead and address the significant financial challenges we have faced for years, we are fundamentally restructuring the Daily News,” reads a memo sent to the paper’s staff from Tronc (formerly known as the Tribune Publishing), which also owns the Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, the Orlando Sentinel, and other regional newspapers.

The letter, tweeted by Daily Beast reporter Max Tani, says that editor-in-chief Jim Rich, and managing editor Kristen Lee “will be departing,” and that the cuts are aimed at “re-focusing much of our talent on breaking news—especially in areas of crime, civil justice and public responsibility.”

Robert York, the publisher and editor of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania, has been named editor-in-chief.

Reached by telephone, York told Gothamist he wasn’t ready to talk about how he intends to lead the paper with 50 percent fewer editorial staff.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:53:31am

re: #278 Dr. Matt

Has anything been debunked from the Steele dossier? Certainly some things have not been verified, but yet many things have been in verified. As such, what has been debunked?

That the GOP has any credibility. That’s been completely debunked.

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makeitstop  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:54:04am

re: #274 Dr Lizardo

Hmm…..looking pretty good, actually. Gonna add this to my “must-see” list. I was a big fan of the manga by Yukito Kishiro.

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Video

I saw a trailer for that a few months ago IIRC. Looks really good.

(I’m not familiar with the story. The extra explanation was helpful.)

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Dr. Matt  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:55:05am

Iran better be prepared for a very mean tweet from Dotard in 5….4….3….

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dangerman  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:56:26am

following up on re: #207 dangerman

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here’s some of their garden:

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:56:29am

re: #283 Dr. Matt

Iran better be prepared for a very mean tweet from Dotard in 5….4….3….

“I said to not do a negative thing or else!”

“I dare you to cross this line!”

Iran crosses line.

“OK, I dare you to cross this line.”

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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:56:44am

re: #277 MsJ

I did not know she was married.

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From Avenatti’s tweet, I have a feeling politics might be a part of the divorce contention. It would not surprise me to see her becoming a symbol of Democrats hoping to topple Trump figuring in.

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makeitstop  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:57:13am

re: #283 Dr. Matt

Top Iranian commander fires back at Trump: You “cannot do a damn thing against Iran”

He’s right. That’s a war that this country will regret ever starting. It will be every bit as much a meat-grinder as Vietnam was.

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:57:29am
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dangerman  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:58:03am

re: #284 dangerman

some close ups

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:58:08am

re: #283 Dr. Matt

Iran better be prepared for a very mean tweet from Dotard in 5….4….3….

“I mean it, don’t cross me, or I’ll send out my National Security Advisor again to make a statement!”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:58:37am

re: #276 Sir John Barron

Hi, my name’s Jim Jordan, and I’m such a dopey partisan, I think that if we can somehow clear Carter Page, the whole Russia story goes away.

he’s also hoping the wrestling scandal goes away.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 23, 2018 • 9:58:54am

BBL….unless WWIII breaks out. In that case, it’s been a real pleasure interacting with all of you over the last 6 years.

293
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:00:36am

re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:02:00am

re: #284 dangerman

oaIfhxSZVgRf+7MrXO7fUyOl3PwX+rvCTWh37NnSEfE9WlbQwb6aNhNUX8X+sox1iVwTPZcTpxl8TP/h7A1CIsOn7CmFeCLzmS3ANapEcsH0WsSxFUqglmkyp8O5BowChFh/gXN6GkrVGjiFfNlJhyixOgqFYeOeRoSb47oV1a8=

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KGxvi  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:02:41am

So, what’s happens in a couple weeks when they try to reimpose sanctions against iran? As I understand it, those sanctions were effective because our allies were on board. What happens when they keep doing business Iran?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:04:27am

re: #288 jaunte

Ari Fleischer says the US should destabilize Iran to initiate regime change: “”The more unstable we can help Iran to become, the better it is to actually secure peace”

all we need is one terror attack that they tie to Iran and we will be at war

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:04:37am

re: #288 jaunte

Wow, Ari, Russia says the same thing about us.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:08:13am
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Skip Intro  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:08:42am

re: #277 MsJ

I did not know she was married.

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IS she going to start dating Trump Jr.? Eric?

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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:09:25am

re: #285 Sir John Barron

“I said to not do a negative thing or else!”

“I dare you to cross this line!”

Iran crosses line.

“OK, I dare you to cross this line.”

I would buy that but for the fact that Bolton is there and trump has the nuc codes.

trump will do anything to make his Russia scandal go to the background. And that includes nucing a country.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:09:46am

For those who haven’t yet seen Jason Spencer making an absolute ass of himself on Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America?, well, here it is. Behind a private tag as it might be NSFW.

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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:10:41am

re: #291 Backwoods_Sleuth

he’s also hoping the wrestling scandal goes away.

Exactly.

I mean why wouldn’t you completely lie about this other thing to distract from the other complete lie? It’s totally Republican.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:10:53am
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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:11:24am

re: #295 KGxvi

So, what’s happens in a couple weeks when they try to reimpose sanctions against iran? As I understand it, those sanctions were effective because our allies were on board. What happens when they keep doing business Iran?

I don’t know if they would, honestly. I don’t think it would be in their best interests.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:11:51am
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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:11:51am

re: #299 Skip Intro

IS she going to start dating Trump Jr.? Eric?

More like Avanatti.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:12:58am
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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:13:42am
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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:13:57am

re: #305 lawhawk

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I understand that green jump suits are all the rage this summer. Especially for Republicans.

Soon, Donny. Soon.

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Interesting Times  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:14:12am

re: #283 Dr. Matt

Iran better be prepared for a very mean tweet from Dotard in 5….4….3….

[Embedded content]

Props to whatever Hill intern chose that particular pair of photos.

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wrenchwench  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:14:55am

This morning, Mr. w and I were at the table, catching the top-of-the-hour news outline, and the NPR person spoke about Toronto and said, ‘Terrorism has not been ruled out.’ Then the NPR person talked about Trump’s all-caps tweet, and Mr. w said, ‘Terrorism has not been ruled out.’

That one will stick in my head.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:15:08am
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wrenchwench  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:17:00am

re: #309 Dr Lizardo

I understand that green jump suits are all the rage this summer. Especially for Republicans.

Soon, Donny. Soon.

They’ll need an extra bolt of green fabric. I hope they’re stocking up. Tarrifs, you know…

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dangerman  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:17:34am

re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth

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01c63pBFZ3dP+IK0AAxV/qyGoycnCzs4jsKHppHN81U=

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Skip Intro  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:22:25am

re: #306 MsJ

You’re probably right.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:23:13am

re: #307 lawhawk

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:24:06am

re: #236 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“We don’t want to alienate our target audiences in Russia and China.”

Which is why they changed the invading force in the remade Red Dawn from China to North Korea.

That made the new movie even stupider than the first one. NK hasn’t the power projection to do such a thing, nor a navy strong enough to keep the US Navy from smashing such an attempt.

Why are so many ‘war movies’ aimed at people who know nothing about war? Oh yeah. There’s good money in stupid ‘war movies’.

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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:24:35am

re: #306 MsJ

More like Avanatti.

He’s married.

And I get the feeling Stormy is not his type anyway.

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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:27:41am

re: #318 ObserverArt

He’s married.

And I get the feeling Stormy is not his type anyway.

I highly doubt the two of them are together. I was just saying it would be he over any trump.

At least that was my intent.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:29:11am

re: #317 Romantic Heretic

Which is why they changed the invading force in the remade Red Dawn from China to North Korea.

And why they subjected World War Z (which is actually an outstanding novel) to rewrites that turned it into a tedious piece of shit.

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Stanley Sea  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:29:34am
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:30:37am
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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:31:05am

re: #320 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The book is great (and Max is Mel’s son).

The movie is far less so, and it omitted several major turning points, including the Battle of Harlem, and that air power was all but useless in the fight - and that indiscriminate firepower was useless. Lobos were more useful than a M-16.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:31:15am

re: #318 ObserverArt

He’s married.

And I get the feeling Stormy is not his type anyway.

he’s the punk rock drummer with all the tats, right?
eta: her husband, that i meant.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:33:18am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:33:44am

re: #323 lawhawk

The book is great (and Max is Mel’s son).

The movie is far less so, and it omitted several major turning points, including the Battle of Harlem, and that air power was all but useless in the fight - and that indiscriminate firepower was useless. Lobos were more useful than a M-16.

I am not a big fan of zombie anything, but to me, the book is not so much about zombies as it is about how humanity repeatedly fails to deal with catastrophes; first by ignoring them, then by trying to cover them up, all of which only hastens their spread and harmfulness until we are forced by dire circumstances to take extreme measures to effectively combat what we could easily have prevented had we acted reasonably and in due time…

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:33:48am

re: #320 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And why they subjected World War Z (which is actually an outstanding novel) to rewrites that turned it into a tedious piece of shit.

The best way to adapt World War Z is not as a theatrical film, but as a miniseries, and if I were gonna do it, I’d pattern it after The Civil War by Ken Burns.

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dangerman  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:33:58am

i wont be sticking around. mental health and family stuff.

I’ll leave you with this:

robert reich at salon

These 5 tactics are all designed to hide what Trump is actually doing so we don’t mobilize against him. Be aware. Don’t allow Trump’s fog to cloud the truth.

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makeitstop  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:35:16am

The Traitor’s Appentice, Season 2

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:35:23am

re: #327 Dr Lizardo

The best way to adapt World War Z is not as a theatrical film, but as a miniseries, and if were gonna do it, I’d pattern it after The Civil War by Ken Burns.

As I recall, the novel is framed that way; a series of recollections from various sources.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:35:23am

mental health break:

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Charles Johnson  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:37:05am
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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:37:50am

re: #330 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As I recall, the novel is framed that way; a series of recollections from various sources.

Exactly; it’s basically a retrospective by those who fought and participated in the war against the zombies.

Much like how Stephen King’s first novel Carrie is an epistolary, told in flashbacks, diary excerpts, a Congressional hearing transcript and news reports from the aftermath of Carrie White’s destruction of Chamberlain, Maine.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:41:18am
335
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:41:27am

When American defense industry journalists piss on Biff

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:44:07am

Lewis is still at it:

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BlueSpotinAL  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:45:13am

When zombies attack!: Mathematical modelling
of an outbreak of zombie infection

Abstract
Zombies are a popular figure in pop culture/entertainment and they are usually
portrayed as being brought about through an outbreak or epidemic. Consequently, we model a zombie attack, using biological assumptions based on popular zombie movies. We introduce a basic model for zombie infection, determine
equilibria and their stability, and illustrate the outcome with numerical solutions. We then refine the model to introduce a latent period of zombification,
whereby humans are infected, but not infectious, before becoming undead. We
then modify the model to include the effects of possible quarantine or a cure.
Finally, we examine the impact of regular, impulsive reductions in the number
of zombies and derive conditions under which eradication can occur. We show
that only quick, aggressive attacks can stave off the doomsday scenario: the
collapse of society as zombies overtake us all.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:46:06am

re: #336 Backwoods_Sleuth

Lewis is still at it:

[Embedded content]

Here we go, huh? Bundy Ranch standoff 2.0 but this time over a batshit insane Internet conspiracy theory.

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:47:49am

re: #337 BlueSpotinAL

When zombies attack!: Mathematical modelling
of an outbreak of zombie infection

Abstract
Zombies are a popular figure in pop culture/entertainment and they are usually
portrayed as being brought about through an outbreak or epidemic. Consequently, we model a zombie attack, using biological assumptions based on popular zombie movies. We introduce a basic model for zombie infection, determine
equilibria and their stability, and illustrate the outcome with numerical solutions. We then refine the model to introduce a latent period of zombification,
whereby humans are infected, but not infectious, before becoming undead. We
then modify the model to include the effects of possible quarantine or a cure.
Finally, we examine the impact of regular, impulsive reductions in the number
of zombies and derive conditions under which eradication can occur. We show
that only quick, aggressive attacks can stave off the doomsday scenario: the
collapse of society as zombies overtake us all.

[Embedded content]

Which is why the modern Republican party will be so hard to kill off.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:49:15am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:50:44am

re: #335 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

It’s #MadeinAmerica day here at the White House! We have welcomed companies from all 50 states who are proudly making products right here in America.

I assume everybody shows up in MAGA hats and Ivanka’s clothing line

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Sir John Barron  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:51:52am

re: #336 Backwoods_Sleuth

Lewis is still at it:

Remind me again of the issue here: There’s a homeless camp that some 3%’er, Oath-Keeper, wingnut with a gun thinks is housing child abusers?

343
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:52:32am
344
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:52:32am

re: #342 Sir John Barron

Remind me again of the issue here: There’s a homeless camp that some 3%’er, Oath-Keeper, wingnut with a gun thinks is housing child abusers?

yes

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:52:44am
346
Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:52:50am

There’s something in the air these days …

347
wrenchwench  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:55:36am

re: #345 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Where are the children? No, seriously, this isn’t a slogan. Where are they? They ripped these kids from their parents and only 50 out of 3000 have been reunited. This is not over just because the President is making all caps threats to Iran.]

A bunch of un-reunited kids are being labeled ‘Ineligible’, for things like their parent[s] having been deported without them.

348
Belafon  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:56:49am

re: #346 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)

There’s something in the air these days …

I would hope modern ones are self-cleaning and sharpening.

349
MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:56:54am

re: #344 Backwoods_Sleuth

yes

But they *don’t* want it closed?

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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:57:51am

re: #346 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)

There’s something in the air these days …

[Embedded content]

Donny Trump will do that for your deplorable political party.

The GOP seems to be fine and all in on their death wish for the party.

This glomming onto The Don without any resistance in the party is really unprecedented as far as I know. Anyone that is resistant is giving up and quitting politics. Something is just not right.

351
mmmirele  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:58:01am

re: #261 retired cynic

My ex-boyfriend’s mom borrowed humane traps from the local spay and release group to get a group of feral kitties spayed/neutered in her neighborhood. It worked out great and she fed those kitties until they died over time. You might have similar in your area.

352
Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jul 23, 2018 • 10:59:56am

re: #350 ObserverArt

Donny Trump will do that for your deplorable political party.

The GOP seems to be fine and all in on their death wish for the party.

This glomming onto The Don without any resistance in the party is really unprecedented as far as I know. Anyone that is resistant is giving up and quitting politics. Something is just not right.

Blackmail would explain it.

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Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)  Jul 23, 2018 • 11:00:45am

re: #348 Belafon

I would hope modern ones are self-cleaning and sharpening.

I eagerly await the Silicon Valley startup that launches a Bluetooth-enabled, self-starting guillotine that we can use Amazon’s One Click (tm) interface to send to an oligarch’s location, and then livestream the execution.

You laugh, but somewhere the guys at Sand Hill Road are rubbing their chins thoughtfully & asking to see the Series A cap table.

354
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 11:00:48am

re: #349 MsJ

But they *don’t* want it closed?

Lewis and his bunch are not veterans, they are self-styled militia wannabes. This homeless camp scenario is just a part of the conspiracy.

355
Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)  Jul 23, 2018 • 11:03:47am

The modern versions seem able to handle some pretty thick & meaty objects:

Giphy

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jul 23, 2018 • 11:05:25am

re: #355 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)

The modern versions seem able to handle some pretty thick & meaty objects:

[Embedded content]

Fear of a dick-pic stops me from clicking that.

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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 11:05:34am

re: #354 Backwoods_Sleuth

Lewis and his bunch are not veterans, they are self-styled militia wannabes. This homeless camp scenario is just a part of the conspiracy.

I get that.

But if they think this is some baby-eating, blood-lust place, and the police say they are closing it, why would these nuts want it to be kept open?

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2018 • 11:06:17am

Fucking Schumer and Sanders.

Schumer elevated Sanders, and now we get this nonstop attack on the Democratic party from Sanders.

Sanders thinks that Democrats are the ones protecting the 1%?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 11:07:00am

re: #357 MsJ

I get that.

But if they think this is some baby-eating, blood-lust place, and the police say they are closing it, why would these nuts want it to be kept open?

If it closes, they have to find a new boogieman.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 11:09:16am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2018 • 11:10:03am
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Charles Johnson  Jul 23, 2018 • 11:11:01am
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MsJ  Jul 23, 2018 • 11:11:02am

re: #359 Backwoods_Sleuth

If it closes, they have to find a new boogieman.

I literally can’t even.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 23, 2018 • 11:16:02am

re: #363 MsJ

I literally can’t even.

[Embedded content]

I even figuratively can’t.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 23, 2018 • 11:16:38am

re: #352 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Blackmail would explain it.

I’ve said all along that Putin has Kompromat on these Republicans!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jul 23, 2018 • 11:17:31am
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Single-handed sailor  Jul 23, 2018 • 11:25:55am
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jaunte  Jul 23, 2018 • 11:26:47am

Odd how nations’ borders are right next to each other.

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BeachDem  Jul 23, 2018 • 11:27:15am

re: #288 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Ari Fleischer says the US should destabilize Iran to initiate regime change: “”The more unstable we can help Iran to become, the better it is to actually secure peace”

Jesus Christ on a large everything pizza. These people are crazy.

And the yam already has Pompeo putting it all in motion:

Pompeo stopped short of calling for regime change, but he announced stepped-up U.S. government broadcasting in Farsi that is likely to foment further unrest against the government.

He said the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors is taking steps to circumvent Internet censorship in Iran and creating a round-the-clock Farsi channel across television, radio, digital and social media formats, “so that ordinary Iranians inside Iran and around the globe will know that America stands with them.”

When a member of the audience asked him whether the Iranian people might gain control of their country in the foreseeable future, Pompeo replied swiftly, “Of course.”

washingtonpost.com

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2018 • 11:36:34am
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Jay C  Jul 23, 2018 • 12:21:23pm

re: #357 MsJ

I get that.

But if they think this is some baby-eating, blood-lust place, and the police say they are closing it, why would these nuts want it to be kept open?

From what I’ve read, the “veterans on patrol” nuts 🥜 glommed onto the (abandoned) homeless camp as “evidence”of the supposed sex-trafficking ring, and have tried to milk the publicity for weeks to promote themselves - as something other than a gang of time-wasting looney-tunes. And apparently, they’re pissed at Tucson PD for not playing along with their roadshow production of Militia Theater. So occupying this cement plant seems to be their main chance to keep in the spotlight.


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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ...
Cheechako
4 days ago
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